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madimpossibledreamerUNBETA'D BECAUSE ERRANDS. DON'T ASK.
~Dreamer~
now beta'd still don't ask
Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Buffy listens to some advice.
Word Count: 1081
Rating: Gen
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
It would be nice, sometime, to visit Italy or practically anywhere else without it being on Slayer business. Still, Buffy can totally appreciate acting for once, as opposed to just sitting around like little trapped mice in a hole. Severin suggests they go check on the local Wolfram & Hart Special Projects office, as that’s where the book was delivered. It’s unlikely it’s still there, but they might get a clue. Among other things, he did suggest that, as a rule, they tended to be organized in their brand of evil, which meant some kind of documents somewhere they might be able to discover. It’d probably be in some sort of code, and of course who knows how much they wrote down, or how much they still have in the way of documents. Francis and Sawyer had hinted that Giorno’s gang had practically laid siege to their offices in Italy, and despite the idea that Giorno would ensure discipline, he’d probably be interested in information and a repurposing of funds. He just seems the type.
If she needs to, she’ll ask Giorno if his people found anything like that, but that’s a last resort. She said she wanted to handle this on her own, after all. He wouldn’t stay out of it, but his opinion of her would change. Her opinion of herself, too. She’d used the help of the Scoobies most of the time, yes, but she’d still managed to act on her own when she’d been in Los Angeles. Mostly, they’d all fallen into bad habits—yeah, even her, with the idea she has to handle everything herself—and gotten complacent.
He understands the need to act for her own interests, and he probably wouldn’t have waited this long to act himself. In fact…
In fact, knowing him, he would have a complicated, reckless, bold, and clever plan to lure his enemies out in the open and turn the tables on them. She hadn’t missed Jotaro’s statement about a zoo and an elephant. Maybe the story he told wasn’t so far-fetched after all. If nothing else, it matched his personality perfectly. He said he hadn’t acted against them directly, but that doesn’t mean he did nothing, waiting for W&H to make a move.
Jotaro…Jotaro would have been more straightforward, but he wouldn’t have held back, either.
And Josephine might sit still. Maybe. She seems like the most unpredictable of the ones she’s met. But it’s likely she’d be out there, too, thinking on her feet and popping out of the most unexpected places.
In all likelihood, it isn’t that stupid chalice, or whatever spell, alone. It’s entirely possible that Giles had just wanted her to retire from the field, keep her out of harm’s way, now that she’d “done enough” or whatever stupid criteria he had. Only he was too much of a coward to say that to her, actually. Never mind what she wanted. She’d tried out that old dream of hers, to live a pretty normal life even if it was in Britain and she was more of a teacher than anything, and…
Well, maybe her childhood had broken her or something, but she hated it. She remembered griping to Xander, because he hadn’t heard her whine about it a hundred times and wouldn’t scold her for it, but she was bored out of her mind. Faith got to teach and go out in the field, for Slayer Training Purposes, and that sounded better. Plus special apocalypse duty, of course, because no matter how passé it’s become, it’s no more welcome no matter how often it happens.
As for Giorno, he’d believed in her leadership abilities, with only the advice to be brutally honest…
And something breaks, a dam inside her. She can act on this alone—well, relatively so—but that doesn’t mean she can’t use the resources at her disposal. She’s still mad, but if someone’s going to be reasonable in this situation it’s definitely not going to be Giles. She’s going to have to be the adult in this situation. Is this that resolve Giorno mentioned? Even if it isn’t, she feels a lot more powerful and settled than she did ten minutes ago. She excuses herself to the restroom when they get through customs and texts Giles. ‘hey since you want to just sit there and research and not act is there a way to discover what book on Ascension W&H got their hands on? Also ask Giorno if his people found one’
She’s not going to just take his word for it, since she’s going to double check at least these two things on her own, but it’s worth asking.
‘ASCENSION’ she gets in response, and imagines several rows of question marks after the response. At least he realizes the gravity of the situation. And, another thing that gives her hope, he must have been staying near his phones, just in case she got in touch. Her Watcher has yet, however, to find the punctuation on his phone. Texting isn’t Giles’ favorite method of communication, but she’s not going to make a call with Severin waiting on her.
‘;) yes I’m good at my job when you let me do it which I guess I should say about you too’
The next reply takes a while, probably because he’s trying to type a perfect response. She’s taking longer, too. She’d use textspeak, given that some of the younger Slayers had taught her and she finds it hilarious, but Giles would never decipher it.
‘There were only a few books on Ascension Most rituals were passed down verbally I believe Ive seen a list of possibilities somewhere perhaps in previous Watchers diaries though I wouldnt get up your hopes most of those were lost with the First ill try to find what I can there might be a spell willow or Andrew can help with and at the least I can write down what I remembr’
A few minutes. ‘im glad youre all right please stay that way’
And another minute. ‘also im sorry. And hate this new devil invention more than computers’
She stifles a laugh at that. But this is more the kind of thing she’d envisioned following the victory over the First, and maybe they can actually work as a team that doesn’t resent each other or their current assignments.
As for some stupid spell, she’ll show it how much it can actually dictate how she acts or doesn’t act.
~Dreamer~
now beta'd still don't ask
Main Points:
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Buffy listens to some advice.
Word Count: 1081
Rating: Gen
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
It would be nice, sometime, to visit Italy or practically anywhere else without it being on Slayer business. Still, Buffy can totally appreciate acting for once, as opposed to just sitting around like little trapped mice in a hole. Severin suggests they go check on the local Wolfram & Hart Special Projects office, as that’s where the book was delivered. It’s unlikely it’s still there, but they might get a clue. Among other things, he did suggest that, as a rule, they tended to be organized in their brand of evil, which meant some kind of documents somewhere they might be able to discover. It’d probably be in some sort of code, and of course who knows how much they wrote down, or how much they still have in the way of documents. Francis and Sawyer had hinted that Giorno’s gang had practically laid siege to their offices in Italy, and despite the idea that Giorno would ensure discipline, he’d probably be interested in information and a repurposing of funds. He just seems the type.
If she needs to, she’ll ask Giorno if his people found anything like that, but that’s a last resort. She said she wanted to handle this on her own, after all. He wouldn’t stay out of it, but his opinion of her would change. Her opinion of herself, too. She’d used the help of the Scoobies most of the time, yes, but she’d still managed to act on her own when she’d been in Los Angeles. Mostly, they’d all fallen into bad habits—yeah, even her, with the idea she has to handle everything herself—and gotten complacent.
He understands the need to act for her own interests, and he probably wouldn’t have waited this long to act himself. In fact…
In fact, knowing him, he would have a complicated, reckless, bold, and clever plan to lure his enemies out in the open and turn the tables on them. She hadn’t missed Jotaro’s statement about a zoo and an elephant. Maybe the story he told wasn’t so far-fetched after all. If nothing else, it matched his personality perfectly. He said he hadn’t acted against them directly, but that doesn’t mean he did nothing, waiting for W&H to make a move.
Jotaro…Jotaro would have been more straightforward, but he wouldn’t have held back, either.
And Josephine might sit still. Maybe. She seems like the most unpredictable of the ones she’s met. But it’s likely she’d be out there, too, thinking on her feet and popping out of the most unexpected places.
In all likelihood, it isn’t that stupid chalice, or whatever spell, alone. It’s entirely possible that Giles had just wanted her to retire from the field, keep her out of harm’s way, now that she’d “done enough” or whatever stupid criteria he had. Only he was too much of a coward to say that to her, actually. Never mind what she wanted. She’d tried out that old dream of hers, to live a pretty normal life even if it was in Britain and she was more of a teacher than anything, and…
Well, maybe her childhood had broken her or something, but she hated it. She remembered griping to Xander, because he hadn’t heard her whine about it a hundred times and wouldn’t scold her for it, but she was bored out of her mind. Faith got to teach and go out in the field, for Slayer Training Purposes, and that sounded better. Plus special apocalypse duty, of course, because no matter how passé it’s become, it’s no more welcome no matter how often it happens.
As for Giorno, he’d believed in her leadership abilities, with only the advice to be brutally honest…
And something breaks, a dam inside her. She can act on this alone—well, relatively so—but that doesn’t mean she can’t use the resources at her disposal. She’s still mad, but if someone’s going to be reasonable in this situation it’s definitely not going to be Giles. She’s going to have to be the adult in this situation. Is this that resolve Giorno mentioned? Even if it isn’t, she feels a lot more powerful and settled than she did ten minutes ago. She excuses herself to the restroom when they get through customs and texts Giles. ‘hey since you want to just sit there and research and not act is there a way to discover what book on Ascension W&H got their hands on? Also ask Giorno if his people found one’
She’s not going to just take his word for it, since she’s going to double check at least these two things on her own, but it’s worth asking.
‘ASCENSION’ she gets in response, and imagines several rows of question marks after the response. At least he realizes the gravity of the situation. And, another thing that gives her hope, he must have been staying near his phones, just in case she got in touch. Her Watcher has yet, however, to find the punctuation on his phone. Texting isn’t Giles’ favorite method of communication, but she’s not going to make a call with Severin waiting on her.
‘;) yes I’m good at my job when you let me do it which I guess I should say about you too’
The next reply takes a while, probably because he’s trying to type a perfect response. She’s taking longer, too. She’d use textspeak, given that some of the younger Slayers had taught her and she finds it hilarious, but Giles would never decipher it.
‘There were only a few books on Ascension Most rituals were passed down verbally I believe Ive seen a list of possibilities somewhere perhaps in previous Watchers diaries though I wouldnt get up your hopes most of those were lost with the First ill try to find what I can there might be a spell willow or Andrew can help with and at the least I can write down what I remembr’
A few minutes. ‘im glad youre all right please stay that way’
And another minute. ‘also im sorry. And hate this new devil invention more than computers’
She stifles a laugh at that. But this is more the kind of thing she’d envisioned following the victory over the First, and maybe they can actually work as a team that doesn’t resent each other or their current assignments.
As for some stupid spell, she’ll show it how much it can actually dictate how she acts or doesn’t act.
