Unexpected Extraction
Dec. 26th, 2023 09:43 pmI forgot I already mentioned W&H in a future part (i.e. this one). I don't remember if this is entirely wrong or not but I got the feeling they also took on a few clients who were just scumbags when it suited their purposes and left them in the dark about the supernatural, and Abstergo would fit their portfolio perfectly. (Although they'd probably be spying on them and trying to take Isu artifacts when they could get away with it too.) If not...eh, it's a fanfic.
Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Assassin's Creed (The Meddling Gene)
Summary: Xander could take this opportunity to just slip away quietly and not deal with any of this, but he's taking responsibility for his own mistakes.
Word Count: 265
Rating: Teen
“We can’t—” Lucy’s arguing, probably because he’s weird and he’s an unknown and that makes her uncomfortable.
“He saved my life, or tried to. He’s blue, Lucy! We’re not just going to leave him here—” Desmond is arguing, and man, that’s sweet. Xander hadn’t even been trying to make a friend, just do the right thing. Although he’s trying to get his brain back from the music tangent, because he’s pretty sure that’s not what Desmond is talking about. Maybe something about that Eagle Vision thing they talked about.
“I messed up,” he interrupts them both bluntly, shutting their argument up. Because no other ways around it, these guys did work with W&H, Lawyers of Evil, but they didn’t get the package with the pamphlet about demons, and they’d been far too interested in that for it to mean anything good. “I thought they’d already known about something, turns out they didn’t, and they’re going to do something bad with it. We don’t have the time to stand around here arguing, and like hell am I going to leave you to clean up my mess. Sure, they couldn’t get much of anything useful out of my DNA, but they’re working on it, and when they do, it’s bad news bears for everyone.” Sure, he could try to fix this on his own, with his own people, and it might even be faster, but he’s worried about the immediate consequences to these people, and yes, he cares. They’d still be in danger, still, sure, but not from demons and magic and they’re not ready.