Spider Guardian

Main Points:
Buffy/Yakuza AU, follow-up to Finding Their Feet (because really, the order after the introduction doesn't matter as much)
Chapter Summary: faster to read
Word Count: 175
Rating: Teen

        Wendell Sears shows up, explaining that he’s sick of security guard pay oh and also he’d heard about the Sunnydale Survivor t-shirts and could he please get one?  He is very good at his job and when he and Kate are tag-teaming it’s a really bad time for any of the customers to get grabby.  They become a pretty great team, joking around when it’s appropriate and professional on the job.  He doesn’t go on any of the missions, preferring to ‘protect the fort’, but he’s also on-call for any of the Slayer trainees in the housing.  He also may or may not be training magical sea spiders to protect their island, but Xander has decided that he doesn’t want to know about that.  So if Willow ever asks him if someone’s misbehaving, he doesn’t have to answer honestly.

        Even then, he does go for a tattoo—a spider and a spiderweb, and he’s completely willing to fight with the others for training purposes.  Over the years, smaller spiders appear over his back, sides, shoulders…