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madimpossibledreamerNotes from the author's desk: (whoops I might have messed up the timeline don't notice me here it's fine i'll just bend it a little and it'll look good as new)
Also. Now that I think about it, they should've done something with Xander acting like an athame-like human or something, given the odd way magic works around him and the fact that blackeyed Willow couldn't kill him in the desert. #ideas
~Dreamer~
Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Bleach (I Hope Tomorrow's a Better Day)
Chapter Summary: Being in the hospital is no fun.
Word Count: 710
Rating: Gen
The downside is that he’s stuck in the hospital with nothing to do. The others come by when they can, which isn’t very often now that they’re college students with a life outside of him. The dreams of the sand flat comes more often. The words he can make out, now and then. It’s Japanese, but sometimes it’s an archaic form that he can’t really make out. It has something to do with her, the sword, but when he asks to get to know her better she just laughs at him.
Part of that might just be the natural female reaction to the Harris name, but at least he’s stubborn and determined to keep trying.
Some things she can’t hide, because they’re sharing a mind, so he catches glimpses. Glimpses like she’s never been in a situation like this and isn’t sure how Soul Society would react to a Shinigami who happens to be human and still living. She’s trying not to get him in trouble, which he appreciates, but there are other factors to consider. Factors like, maybe, staying alive is worth it. She’s used to relying on the magic, which he could have told her would have odd results given that, well, it’s him and he’s still banned from reading any of Giles’ books out loud, particularly given his rudimentary Latin, Akkadian, Greek, and Sumerian. Speaking of, maybe that was G-san’s entire worry of letting him read books unsupervised. That he’d read it out loud and accidentally summon a demon or something. He’d have a better chance, now, but it’s probably better not to have that kind of destruction in a hospital anyway. It’s fair enough, especially since it’s easy to accidentally read out loud as you’re trying to sound out words and translate a language you don’t know well, but it’s not like the Japanese she imparted is anywhere near as incomplete as his knowledge of Greek.
Still, on further analysis, she’s decided that it was harder than it should have been, even given the factors of her not having been awake in a while and using a human (and yes, even using a human around whom magic tends to get weird results). She’s particularly interested in Willow’s type of magic, about which he can tell her very little given that Willow tends to just babble a lot and not really explain much, and he’s not Magic Guy anyway so most of it tends to go over his head. He’s pretty sure it doesn’t tend to be more difficult for her to cast in Sunnydale than, say, in LA, but their current working theory is that it’s some kind of incompatibility with the specific style of magic (from the sounds of things it is completely true that Shinigami magic works differently than Willow’s magic, which probably works differently than Rayne’s magic). Hikari’s also on edge from the inability to sense things. She’s used to ambient reishi on the air (that’s ambient spiritual energy), but it’s probably just a difference between the spirit world and the real world. She’s upset that she can’t feel people around, and that everything feels normal to her senses, but he’s pretty sure that’s just the Hellmouth.
He explains what he knows about Hellmouths—the spell that makes everyone ignore the dangers, the connection to planes ‘inhospitable to human life’, the pull of the location to demons, the fact that it’s closed. She finds it interesting and certainly different from everything else she’s learned. They drift off to sleep midway through the conversation.
Also. Now that I think about it, they should've done something with Xander acting like an athame-like human or something, given the odd way magic works around him and the fact that blackeyed Willow couldn't kill him in the desert. #ideas
~Dreamer~
Main Points:
Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Bleach (I Hope Tomorrow's a Better Day)
Chapter Summary: Being in the hospital is no fun.
Word Count: 710
Rating: Gen
The upside of awakening the sword’s power is that he hasn’t been accidentally falling out of his body, especially when he’s fallen asleep. This is especially important because he’s spending a lot of his time sleeping, since nobody’s had time to swing by his apartment and pick up any comics other than Buffy’s little purchase, and he went through that pretty quickly (or by, say, the foreign films/bookstore to get him any manga he can now read). He offered to translate some of Giles’ Japanese texts for him while he was sitting here with nothing else to do, which earned a disturbed look and an abrupt exit. That hadn’t been his intention at all, and just leaves him bored.
The downside is that he’s stuck in the hospital with nothing to do. The others come by when they can, which isn’t very often now that they’re college students with a life outside of him. The dreams of the sand flat comes more often. The words he can make out, now and then. It’s Japanese, but sometimes it’s an archaic form that he can’t really make out. It has something to do with her, the sword, but when he asks to get to know her better she just laughs at him.
Part of that might just be the natural female reaction to the Harris name, but at least he’s stubborn and determined to keep trying.
Some things she can’t hide, because they’re sharing a mind, so he catches glimpses. Glimpses like she’s never been in a situation like this and isn’t sure how Soul Society would react to a Shinigami who happens to be human and still living. She’s trying not to get him in trouble, which he appreciates, but there are other factors to consider. Factors like, maybe, staying alive is worth it. She’s used to relying on the magic, which he could have told her would have odd results given that, well, it’s him and he’s still banned from reading any of Giles’ books out loud, particularly given his rudimentary Latin, Akkadian, Greek, and Sumerian. Speaking of, maybe that was G-san’s entire worry of letting him read books unsupervised. That he’d read it out loud and accidentally summon a demon or something. He’d have a better chance, now, but it’s probably better not to have that kind of destruction in a hospital anyway. It’s fair enough, especially since it’s easy to accidentally read out loud as you’re trying to sound out words and translate a language you don’t know well, but it’s not like the Japanese she imparted is anywhere near as incomplete as his knowledge of Greek.
Still, on further analysis, she’s decided that it was harder than it should have been, even given the factors of her not having been awake in a while and using a human (and yes, even using a human around whom magic tends to get weird results). She’s particularly interested in Willow’s type of magic, about which he can tell her very little given that Willow tends to just babble a lot and not really explain much, and he’s not Magic Guy anyway so most of it tends to go over his head. He’s pretty sure it doesn’t tend to be more difficult for her to cast in Sunnydale than, say, in LA, but their current working theory is that it’s some kind of incompatibility with the specific style of magic (from the sounds of things it is completely true that Shinigami magic works differently than Willow’s magic, which probably works differently than Rayne’s magic). Hikari’s also on edge from the inability to sense things. She’s used to ambient reishi on the air (that’s ambient spiritual energy), but it’s probably just a difference between the spirit world and the real world. She’s upset that she can’t feel people around, and that everything feels normal to her senses, but he’s pretty sure that’s just the Hellmouth.
He explains what he knows about Hellmouths—the spell that makes everyone ignore the dangers, the connection to planes ‘inhospitable to human life’, the pull of the location to demons, the fact that it’s closed. She finds it interesting and certainly different from everything else she’s learned. They drift off to sleep midway through the conversation.
