Fic: Evacuation Plan (B:tVS/DOOM) 19/?
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jedibuttercupPG-15; B:tVS, DOOM. 400 words. (Part of the Handle ID Slayer series).
Buffy looked up into Duke's earnest face, and regretted for a second what she was about to do.
Title: Evacuation Plan
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-15
TtH Prompt: #01, Moon
Summary: Buffy looked up into Duke's earnest face, and regretted for a second what she was about to do. 400 words.
Spoilers: B:tVS post-"Chosen"; "DOOM" (2005)
Notes: Movieverse. Nineteenth in the Handle ID Slayer flashfic sequence.
Buffy's official, Council-blessed evac plan only called for one passenger. According to the current Board, all that mattered was the survival of the so-called "Lost" Potential-- it had really chapped Robin's hide twenty years ago when the Council had realized just why their detection rituals kept pointing somewhere out past the moon, and Mrs. Grimm had told them where to shove it-- and the recovery of the research material regarding C24. They'd been pleasantly surprised to uncover Xander's son in their investigation of RRTS squads for Buffy's mission, but had been satisfied to leave him with his unit when the mission was done.
Buffy, of course, had given that idea all the respect she thought it deserved: namely, none. She'd gone over the board's heads and arranged for an extra medallion, just in case the juxtaposition of Summers plus Harris plus apocalypse-level event equaled the usual messy fallout. So what if it wasn't either simple or inexpensive to bind a triggerable teleportation spell to a physical object? There were benefits to being the best friend of the current head of the Devon coven... especially where anything concerning the Xander-shaped hole in their lives was involved.
"Put these in one of John's hands," she told Sam, handing her two of the medallions, "and wrap your hands around them."
Sam did as she asked, swallowing hard as she clasped her brother's slack fingers, then looked back at Buffy, wearing a determined, trusting expression that made her parentage painfully obvious. "Now what?" she asked.
"Wait, wait, what are you doing?" Duke objected, looming over them, clearly upset.
Buffy looked up into his earnest face, and regretted for a second what she was about to do. She was pretty sure he and Destroyer between them could take care of Pinky and keep Sarge from turning into a total whack-job in the absence of additional provocation; they'd all be better off if Buffy and the Grimms weren't still here with them. She hoped. Still, the dark Marine had kind of grown on her, and she hated to stick him with the onus of being responsible for losing the valuable UAC property she was stealing.
"Tell them the demony-thing turned us and you had to shoot us with Sarge's gun," she said, smiling sadly at him as she palmed the third medallion. Then she turned back to Sam.
"Repeat after me: there's no place like home."
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Buffy looked up into Duke's earnest face, and regretted for a second what she was about to do.
Title: Evacuation Plan
Author: Jedi Buttercup
Disclaimer: The words are mine; the worlds are not. I claim nothing but the plot.
Rating: PG-15
TtH Prompt: #01, Moon
Summary: Buffy looked up into Duke's earnest face, and regretted for a second what she was about to do. 400 words.
Spoilers: B:tVS post-"Chosen"; "DOOM" (2005)
Notes: Movieverse. Nineteenth in the Handle ID Slayer flashfic sequence.
Buffy's official, Council-blessed evac plan only called for one passenger. According to the current Board, all that mattered was the survival of the so-called "Lost" Potential-- it had really chapped Robin's hide twenty years ago when the Council had realized just why their detection rituals kept pointing somewhere out past the moon, and Mrs. Grimm had told them where to shove it-- and the recovery of the research material regarding C24. They'd been pleasantly surprised to uncover Xander's son in their investigation of RRTS squads for Buffy's mission, but had been satisfied to leave him with his unit when the mission was done.
Buffy, of course, had given that idea all the respect she thought it deserved: namely, none. She'd gone over the board's heads and arranged for an extra medallion, just in case the juxtaposition of Summers plus Harris plus apocalypse-level event equaled the usual messy fallout. So what if it wasn't either simple or inexpensive to bind a triggerable teleportation spell to a physical object? There were benefits to being the best friend of the current head of the Devon coven... especially where anything concerning the Xander-shaped hole in their lives was involved.
"Put these in one of John's hands," she told Sam, handing her two of the medallions, "and wrap your hands around them."
Sam did as she asked, swallowing hard as she clasped her brother's slack fingers, then looked back at Buffy, wearing a determined, trusting expression that made her parentage painfully obvious. "Now what?" she asked.
"Wait, wait, what are you doing?" Duke objected, looming over them, clearly upset.
Buffy looked up into his earnest face, and regretted for a second what she was about to do. She was pretty sure he and Destroyer between them could take care of Pinky and keep Sarge from turning into a total whack-job in the absence of additional provocation; they'd all be better off if Buffy and the Grimms weren't still here with them. She hoped. Still, the dark Marine had kind of grown on her, and she hated to stick him with the onus of being responsible for losing the valuable UAC property she was stealing.
"Tell them the demony-thing turned us and you had to shoot us with Sarge's gun," she said, smiling sadly at him as she palmed the third medallion. Then she turned back to Sam.
"Repeat after me: there's no place like home."
---
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twistedshorts & tth100)
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Date: 2006-08-23 09:18 pm (UTC)Cheers!
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Date: 2006-08-24 12:50 am (UTC)Nice! This has been a pretty low-response story for me, so I'm always glad to see someone new review it. Sure, the plot was kind of ... yeah ... but hey, great mindless action with The Rock and Karl Urban. It's a fun movie on that level. =)
> I'm actually writing two DOOM crossovers myself so I'll definitely be keeping track of this!
Where are you or will you be posting them at? (For that matter, how'd you find mine? *grin*) I'd be interested in reading them, and I'd be happy to link them at
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Date: 2006-11-25 08:10 pm (UTC)