Nice handling of the merged personalities. I like the fact that you used Laura Kent, or Laura Clark as the name for her cover.

Are you going to give them all slayer powers, or are you going to blend who gets what?

Raf

Awesome! They can split into three separate people still! As long as they don't all look identical Sunnydale Syndrome should cover any changes from the previous appearance of Buffy, Willow and Cordelia. Interesting that the girls have some serious issues between themselves. I guess having access to the entire memory of one of your friends could bring up any number of issues. I hope none of them attack one of the others once they are separate! If Laura is recommending time apart there must certainly be some strong feelings!

This should really confuse her. :)
Nice.

As the three girls are in their single body currently, Joyce may be looking for her daughter for a few seconds before demanding to see her. I would guess, that is would be about that time that they awake and split into three in front of her eyes. If finding out that your daughter is the Slayer is not shock enough, that should be enough to leave Joyce believing in magic and wanting to kill a certain chaos mage.

Killing would be too merciful.

Well Joyce has been pretty calm so far, I hope that continues now that she has found Buffy. I also hope that she has not just arrived in time to watch her daughter suffer a painful death from spontaneous human combustion or anything :(

Joyce is the only one in danger of doing something spontaneous. THough I think it might be more of an explosikon than bursting into flame. The fall out wouldn't be pretty either way.

Great chapter. Keep up the good work.

I'm caught up on your chapters and caught up in anticipation. Thanks for continuing!

Nice to see this is still alive and kicking, in thanks ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bfn61keiMVw

Yeah, this is just the perfect time for Joyce to get concerned about Buffy's welfare isn't it? But she did seem to be the most involved of the parents on the show. I hope Xander finds her!

Let's hope the spell does not work and we get a real Triplicate Girl which looks like a combination of Buffy, Willow and Cordy, has a personality which is also a combination of their original personalities and has the powers of the Slayer.

If it takes even a few days for them to learn to stay separate for a whole day then Buffy and Willow will be missing from school for that time. Probably not a problem for Willow with her parents being away so much but Joyce will be worrying already. Will they come out of the coma already adjusted to their new personalities because they have "lived" 16 years of each others memories or will there be a period of mental adjustment to their new feelings on certain topics when they wake up too?

It's not just Angel who'll run into problems. Each of the 3 initially had different 'preferences'. If each of the 3 sub personalities still does, could get weird & awkward. Will 'she' regard herself as 3 separate people forced together (like Captain Marvel/Rick Jones were) or gradually fuse into a single one, and all that stuff.
They'll have to spend the rest of their lives together even if it's only to re-integrate once per day for a short while.... Imagine later on that Cordelia gets Doyle's vision power--would all of them have it or just her? Etc...

Intriguing, (Yoda Voice) Much Promise this has, hmm. Forward to More I look (End Yoda voice) ... anyway a great story which hits the 10 rating easily and so in thanks for this a song which I believes fits the story - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2I76_fqrQ7U

I'll give the song some consideration. Thanks.

Interesting story! Lt's hope thatGiles's spell does not work and their personalities merge into one.
And it would be great if the new girl gains Buffy's slayer-ness and Willow's sexuality.

This is a novel concept. I like that you used all three of them. I'm looking forward to seeing how the conflict between them develops. How's Willow's emerging sexuality going to impact the three of them, for example? How would it sit if Cordy still ended up necking with Xander, given Willow's feelings for him? Cordy's hopes of being an actress now seem pretty shot. All sorts of little questions that are just quite interesting. I look forward to reading more.