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dragonyphoenix) wrote2015-01-25 05:35 pm
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Fic: Shanshu 14 - Gives Me the Willies
Fandom: BtVS
Prompt: 445 - Firebrand
Rating: PG
Summary: Part 14 of Shanshu
Word Count: 840
“So, the new and improved dive, looking not that different from the old dive.”
“Look everyone, it's the Slayer or, uh, a Slayer. No wait, my bad, two Slayers.”
“Hey,” Angel growled.
“And a terrifyingly souled vampire. Oh God, I'm scared.”
The bar was dark with little circular round tables instead of the booths of the old bar. The walls were green instead of red but the smell was the same, that slightly sweet stink of decay that seemed to cling to certain types of demons. The neon sign was there too, the brightest thing in the place actually, spelling out the name of the bar in yellow neon: Willy's Place.
Angel rounded on Buffy. “Do we have to be here?”
“Willy? You can't handle Willy?”
Angel glanced around the bar. “I don't like him. He's creepy.”
“You're a big, scary vampire. Suck it up.”
“He disrespects me. You heard him. 'Oh, God. I'm so scared.'”
“Don't be a baby. We need intel.”
“We do not,” Angel insisted. Geez, he'd been whining ever since they'd left the catacombs. “We already know what the ritual was for.”
“Hey, Slayer,” Willy called out. “I'd listen to him. That Angel, he's a smart guy.”
“Shut up, Willy. A bunch of demons, living down in the center of the catacombs …”
“It's not the center,” Angel said.
Buffy rounded on him. “What?”
“I'm just saying, the catacombs don't have a center.”
“He's right,” Willy added. “Do you know how extensive …”
Buffy slammed her hand on the counter. “Intel. We need. Now. Crypt loving demons decided to make Angel their new chew toy. Why?”
“I,” Willy stammered. “I really couldn't say.”
Janet, who'd snuck up round the bar while Willy wasn't looking, arm-locked him. “Hey, and aren't you the little firebrand.” He jumped to his toes as she twisted his arm. “Hey, stop that.”
“Tell us what we need and she won't break it.”
“Okay, okay.”
At Buffy's nod, Janet released Willy but stayed close. He gave her a look as he brushed at his clothes.
“Info,” Buffy said. “Now.”
“Give a man a chance to catch his breath why don't you?” Janet move in, stepping closer to him. “Shanshu,” Willy spouted out. “They needed a shansued vampire. Something about ending the world.”
“And you decided not to tell me because?”
“Hey, you're the Slayer. I figured you were already on it.”
Buffy held her fists still. You don't choke him until you know all he knows. “What else?”
“What? What do you mean, what else? That's it.”
Angel jumped in. “Why didn't they grab Spike if he's already shanshued?”
Buffy suppressed a sigh. Angel was going to be whining about that all the way to L.A. She just knew it.
“Hey, Spike's back? When you see him, there's this little matter of about a dozen kittens he owes me. Of course, with interest, it's probably up to, oh, let's see, five, no, almost six years at … what percentage did we agree on?”
“He doesn't know anything,” Angel said. “Can we go now.”
“Okay,” Buffy replied. “Wes'll kill us if we miss our plane.”
“Hey,” Willy said. “Have fun in L.A., and if you stop by the crater …”
Buffy leaned over the counter, grabbing Willy by his collar, and dragging his face close in toward hers. “L.A.? We never said anything about L.A. Angel, did you hear me mention L.A.?”
“Hey, hey,” Willy shouted.
“Spill.”
“Okay, okay,” he added. Buffy let him go. “There these demons, the Three Who Speak As One they're called. Sisters maybe.”
“Not really interested in genealogy.”
“Look, there's three of them but they're said to be one. Sometimes it's said they're sisters, sometimes that they're three bodies with one mind. I'm not sure how that's supposed to work. Telepathy or something. But these local demons, the guys here that grabbed Angel? They aren't even on the map next to the Three.”
“And they want to end the world,” Angel said.
“Open up some sort of dimensional portal I think. Bad juju, maybe more than you can take on.”
“You've told me that before,” Buffy replied.
“Yeah,” Willy said, “but that was … maybe not so different.”
When Janet spoke, asking where they could find the Andrew sisters, Willy half jumped out of his skin.
“Andrew has sisters?” Buffy asked. The image of a longer haired Andrew wearing girl's clothes was seriously disturbing.
“The Andrew sisters,” Angel said. “Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.”
“Say what?”
“It's a song from World War II, a classic. Unfortunately, my jukebox, it doesn't carry the older tunes.”
“Not related to Andrew?”
“No, why would you think,” Angel started.
“Moving on,” Buffy interrupted. “Where can we find these Three?”
“I don't know.” Janet grabbed Willy's arm. “No, no, I really don't know. They don't live in this dimension.”
“But they'll have to come back to do the ritual, right?” Buffy asked.
“And to grab Spike,” Angel added.
Buffy thought back to Xander's words: He kind of ran off. “If they don't have Spike already.”
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I LOVE THIS STORY!!!!!
Gabrielle
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Um, you do get that we already knew Spike's in peril, right? Cage. Chains. Demons. Not going so well for our blue-eyed boy.
I'm glad you're enjoying it so much. I wrote two chapters for this prompt so they'll be another one this week, after I've had a chance to edit it.
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Gabrielle
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You write amazing buffy-style dialogue, you know?)
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You write amazing buffy-style dialogue. Thank you. That's always awesome to hear.