But first...

So it was decided, when school was done he was going to get a car, somehow; probably beg Cordy for a ride and get Buffy back.

He just had to wait for school to finish first.

Unless Master P.C. could speed up time? Xander looked around a bit and that seemed a bit outside the scope of the computer programs power.

So he was back to waiting.

...

Xander hated waiting.

Still he had time to kill and a reality altering computer to play around with. Lots of things that needed fixing. There were worse ways to waste time in computer class.

And he did still feel a little vengeful.

And Joyce had been lying to everyone about her involvement in driving Buffy away. So what would be the perfect reveng- erm, punishment for that failure to parent.

That deserved a little bit of 'walk a mile in another's shoes'. Xander mused. So how do you go about doing that? In a way that would let Joyce know what it was like to be Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

"Duh," Xander muttered, "make her a slayer..."

Cocking his head to the side Xander considered the idea. It wasn't to terrible. And if worded retroactively they would have had a Slayer on deck this past summer.

03 - Joyce Summers gained all the powers of the Slayer a day after her daughter Buffy ranaway from home.

Xander stared at that words he'd just written and found himself struck dumb for two reasons. One because he now had two sets of memories for the past few months, the original and his new Master P.C. changed world. Two because he could have just written a line that Buffy never ran away.

Shaking his head Xander sighed. Hind sight, twenty twenty, yaddah yaddah, he told himself. Next time he'd have to think it thru before writing a Master P.C. command line? Command code? What was he going to call this anyways?

Shaking himself to get back on track Xander considered what it was he'd actually accomplished.

He'd made Joyce the Slayer, or rather A Slayer, and it was like the Slayer never left. Only not...

Ok, ok, so it took awhile for Joyce to get up to speed and get in a slaying groove, and stop denying what was happening to her. But thankfully the summer months were the slow season for spooky stuff. And Joyce seemed to have the special Slayerness that Buffy also had.

In fact being the Slayer had really helped Joyce out. Gave her something to do, gave her an outlet for her anger, let her exercise. To his discerning eye Joyce had dropped a few pounds since she started slaying.

Typing in Joyce's name into the Master P.C. Xander decided to help her out and tweek a few things for her betterment.