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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Josuke's in hot pursuit.
Word Count: 1279
Rating: Teen
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
It’s too bad they’re in a nicer part of the city, because Wolfram & Hart just had to be the fancy lawyers with the big fancy building. It means that nobody’s left out a baseball bat or a piece of lumber or something.
But it does get him thinking. Nobody’s ever going to beat Kira or Angelo for being vicious—well. He doesn’t want to get thinking that, because that’s just asking for trouble. But he’s seen a lot, being a police officer. There’s a bunch of criminals, a bunch of assholes with Stands, but most aren’t as experienced with their Stands or are more, like, Kobayashi, which mirrors Josuke’s experience with petty criminals in general. People can be pretty thoughtless, or justify the smaller crimes, but actually killing someone or actually directly harming them? That’s rarer. Fortunately, his nephew’s awesome and doesn’t mind helping out in such instances, usually accompanied by his totally kewl artist friend, but he’d like to think he’s gotten a lot better at this investigation thing than when he was a literal teenager.
He winces, but if there’s a fine or something, he’ll pay it, and it’s better than just getting himself killed, so he pauses for a second or two to snap a branch off that tree on the sidewalk. It’s far from a great weapon, but it’s better than just not being prepared at all. The guy actually does glance back at that, but what he sees must not concern him very much because he relaxes a bit.
Josuke hears the screams on the other end of the line, because he never bothered turning it off, quickly drowned out by a rushing sound that could be the emergency sprinklers, and he’s pretty sure Jotaro-san didn’t just snap and start beating anybody up, even if he did feel kinda like that. Maybe it’s a coincidence here, why some guy under a fake identity would run away, and then suddenly something happening where he’d been supposedly repairing something in the building, but it’s pretty unlikely. Josuke doesn’t have anything, really, to say either way, but if he’s faking being a mechanic then it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say he probably was faking being a paramedic, too, and people who fake one or two identities usually have about fifteen more fake IDs somewhere.
He is grudgingly impressed, though. He’s going to call the guy Geoffrey, because it’s the only name he’s got at the moment. Geoffrey’s pretty intelligent. Sure, you can fake being a mechanic, particularly briefly, as long as you don’t plan on returning later and so you’re nowhere on the hook when the people who called for help realize nothing actually got fixed. But Josuke’s worked with paramedics pretty regularly in his work, and Geoffrey had known what he was doing when it came to the transfusion, so either he’d researched obsessively and was a pretty good actor, or, more likely, he’d had some kind of medical training. He’s pushing his brain trying to remember any other details, but it’s all kind of a blank, because he’d been kind of distracted with ‘that’s my grandkid and he might be dying’.
There’s another point: maybe Geoffrey’s actually a good guy? Despite the fact that he’s still running, and man Josuke’s going to be achey later. Sure, whatever he’s doing is probably sprinting over the line, given that Josuke had a talk with Imogen so he’s pretty sure it’s not every single person who works at the company who’s evil, and under most circumstances even the worst of people don’t deserve torture unless they’re literally Angelo. A vigilante-type, kinda like the Zeppeli guy he’d heard Buffy-chan and Giorno-kun talk about? But then, why pretend to be a paramedic? Was he even a paramedic associated with the Speedwagon Foundation? ...Actually, that’s kind of on them. Sure, there were good reasons for it, but it’s kind of sloppy that they didn’t bother checking in about the guy, even after the fact. And they really should have, if only from the ‘he was vital in saving Johan and deserves a commendation’ kind of way. That’s it, he’s putting that on his list as one of the first things to do the second they get through all this. That might be a key to all this. Without it, he wouldn’t have a clue, but also, that leads into the next point.
What was he hoping to achieve? The only common things between the two were them, the Joestars and the Council, or maybe Wolfram & Hart, and man, his head’s starting to hurt a little. From experience, he knows it’s because they don’t have enough solid data to form conclusions and he’s trying to force it anyway.
And then, thinking about all this stuff from ages ago is suddenly hitting him. Chasing this guy might not have been the greatest idea. He could end up exploded or literally anything, and without his Stand he’s in trouble. Sure, he’s got his police training to fall back on alongside the branch, so it’s not like he’s entirely defenseless, but against a Stand User or oh yeah a literal demon he’s not sure how much of a difference that really is.
His phone buzzes in his pocket, and he fishes it out of his pocket one-handed, keeping on the guy around yet another corner—he’s trying a lot of the tricks to lose a tail, but he’s notably not heading for a crowd which would work well but maybe be undesirable for some other reason Josuke doesn’t know yet. He manages to unlock it one-handed, too, even if it’s a pain and he almost runs into the side of the building because he’s not paying attention to where he’s running. It’s Jotaro-san. The email might be because it sounds even louder now that it’s in his hands, so he might not be able to hear him over the sound—which is also painfully familiar, now that Josuke thinks about it. The email’s a pretty quick one. ‘you can use your stand again’, it says, and it’s looking like Jotaro-san’s not dealing with whatever’s going on back there too well, because it’s not like Jotaro-san to be missing punctuation or capitalization. He’s careful about that kind of thing. Just as promised, Crazy Diamond bursts out of him, but the guy’s too far away to hit and he’s distracted.
And then as he’s looking at his phone he gets a text. Right, he’d gotten a foreign texting app, too, mostly for staying in touch with Josie, and Imogen wouldn’t be emailing. ‘help’ is all it says, but—
He glances up. That might be the trace of pink-purple hair disappearing into a sewer grate. He could still maybe keep up, and it’s almost certain that this guy isn’t done, good or bad. But it’s almost certain that Jotaro-san, Imogen-chan, and the others could use his help, and now that he’s got Crazy D back, he really could help out. The screams mean someone’s hurt, probably, and he’s got a bad feeling…
He growls and turns right back around, putting everything he has into running back.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Josuke's in hot pursuit.
Word Count: 1279
Rating: Teen
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
“Sorry, sir!” Josuke yells as he tears past some guy in a suit on the sidewalk. Nearly bowling a guy over is the least of his problems right now, but it doesn’t mean he’s gotta forget all his manners. He’s already another two shops away before it hits him, but no, this perp’s not Kira. Even with a head start, changing his clothes that fast is pretty unlikely, and anyway, that guy going around the corner’s obviously still the same guy, because that hair’s pretty distinctive.
It’s too bad they’re in a nicer part of the city, because Wolfram & Hart just had to be the fancy lawyers with the big fancy building. It means that nobody’s left out a baseball bat or a piece of lumber or something.
But it does get him thinking. Nobody’s ever going to beat Kira or Angelo for being vicious—well. He doesn’t want to get thinking that, because that’s just asking for trouble. But he’s seen a lot, being a police officer. There’s a bunch of criminals, a bunch of assholes with Stands, but most aren’t as experienced with their Stands or are more, like, Kobayashi, which mirrors Josuke’s experience with petty criminals in general. People can be pretty thoughtless, or justify the smaller crimes, but actually killing someone or actually directly harming them? That’s rarer. Fortunately, his nephew’s awesome and doesn’t mind helping out in such instances, usually accompanied by his totally kewl artist friend, but he’d like to think he’s gotten a lot better at this investigation thing than when he was a literal teenager.
He winces, but if there’s a fine or something, he’ll pay it, and it’s better than just getting himself killed, so he pauses for a second or two to snap a branch off that tree on the sidewalk. It’s far from a great weapon, but it’s better than just not being prepared at all. The guy actually does glance back at that, but what he sees must not concern him very much because he relaxes a bit.
Josuke hears the screams on the other end of the line, because he never bothered turning it off, quickly drowned out by a rushing sound that could be the emergency sprinklers, and he’s pretty sure Jotaro-san didn’t just snap and start beating anybody up, even if he did feel kinda like that. Maybe it’s a coincidence here, why some guy under a fake identity would run away, and then suddenly something happening where he’d been supposedly repairing something in the building, but it’s pretty unlikely. Josuke doesn’t have anything, really, to say either way, but if he’s faking being a mechanic then it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to say he probably was faking being a paramedic, too, and people who fake one or two identities usually have about fifteen more fake IDs somewhere.
He is grudgingly impressed, though. He’s going to call the guy Geoffrey, because it’s the only name he’s got at the moment. Geoffrey’s pretty intelligent. Sure, you can fake being a mechanic, particularly briefly, as long as you don’t plan on returning later and so you’re nowhere on the hook when the people who called for help realize nothing actually got fixed. But Josuke’s worked with paramedics pretty regularly in his work, and Geoffrey had known what he was doing when it came to the transfusion, so either he’d researched obsessively and was a pretty good actor, or, more likely, he’d had some kind of medical training. He’s pushing his brain trying to remember any other details, but it’s all kind of a blank, because he’d been kind of distracted with ‘that’s my grandkid and he might be dying’.
There’s another point: maybe Geoffrey’s actually a good guy? Despite the fact that he’s still running, and man Josuke’s going to be achey later. Sure, whatever he’s doing is probably sprinting over the line, given that Josuke had a talk with Imogen so he’s pretty sure it’s not every single person who works at the company who’s evil, and under most circumstances even the worst of people don’t deserve torture unless they’re literally Angelo. A vigilante-type, kinda like the Zeppeli guy he’d heard Buffy-chan and Giorno-kun talk about? But then, why pretend to be a paramedic? Was he even a paramedic associated with the Speedwagon Foundation? ...Actually, that’s kind of on them. Sure, there were good reasons for it, but it’s kind of sloppy that they didn’t bother checking in about the guy, even after the fact. And they really should have, if only from the ‘he was vital in saving Johan and deserves a commendation’ kind of way. That’s it, he’s putting that on his list as one of the first things to do the second they get through all this. That might be a key to all this. Without it, he wouldn’t have a clue, but also, that leads into the next point.
What was he hoping to achieve? The only common things between the two were them, the Joestars and the Council, or maybe Wolfram & Hart, and man, his head’s starting to hurt a little. From experience, he knows it’s because they don’t have enough solid data to form conclusions and he’s trying to force it anyway.
And then, thinking about all this stuff from ages ago is suddenly hitting him. Chasing this guy might not have been the greatest idea. He could end up exploded or literally anything, and without his Stand he’s in trouble. Sure, he’s got his police training to fall back on alongside the branch, so it’s not like he’s entirely defenseless, but against a Stand User or oh yeah a literal demon he’s not sure how much of a difference that really is.
His phone buzzes in his pocket, and he fishes it out of his pocket one-handed, keeping on the guy around yet another corner—he’s trying a lot of the tricks to lose a tail, but he’s notably not heading for a crowd which would work well but maybe be undesirable for some other reason Josuke doesn’t know yet. He manages to unlock it one-handed, too, even if it’s a pain and he almost runs into the side of the building because he’s not paying attention to where he’s running. It’s Jotaro-san. The email might be because it sounds even louder now that it’s in his hands, so he might not be able to hear him over the sound—which is also painfully familiar, now that Josuke thinks about it. The email’s a pretty quick one. ‘you can use your stand again’, it says, and it’s looking like Jotaro-san’s not dealing with whatever’s going on back there too well, because it’s not like Jotaro-san to be missing punctuation or capitalization. He’s careful about that kind of thing. Just as promised, Crazy Diamond bursts out of him, but the guy’s too far away to hit and he’s distracted.
And then as he’s looking at his phone he gets a text. Right, he’d gotten a foreign texting app, too, mostly for staying in touch with Josie, and Imogen wouldn’t be emailing. ‘help’ is all it says, but—
He glances up. That might be the trace of pink-purple hair disappearing into a sewer grate. He could still maybe keep up, and it’s almost certain that this guy isn’t done, good or bad. But it’s almost certain that Jotaro-san, Imogen-chan, and the others could use his help, and now that he’s got Crazy D back, he really could help out. The screams mean someone’s hurt, probably, and he’s got a bad feeling…
He growls and turns right back around, putting everything he has into running back.
