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Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Ghosts make difficult interviewees.
Word Count: 1177
Rating: Teen
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
“H-hi. Miss Love, right?” It has been some years since Buffy’s heard Willow stammer like this. But then, it’s a situation that calls for it, to some extent; she’s breaking her own promises to herself and everyone else, and sure, there’s a good reason for it, but it’d be too easy to fall into that trap, to just keep saying, over and over, that there’s a good reason for it so it’s perfectly fine if she does it this time, it’s just an exception to the general rule, not a pattern. Buffy’ll step in—if she can, since Dark Willow was, as much as it hurt to admit it, stronger—if it starts going off the rails again. The issue is that it’s really hard to pin that down. Because you could argue it’s already started going off the rails back when Giles and Willow decided to act on their own without consulting anybody else.
“’Least you aren’t using one of those damned ouija boards. Thought I’d escaped all that after I got out.” She looks like the entire concept is distasteful, and she’s maybe got a bit of a point. It’s not like these are the preferred methods or anything. But they’re desperate and need answers soon, and this was the best they got.
“Frau Love. Did you sell a large wolf statue to a pink-haired man or the firm Wolfram & Hart?” Beefheart’s tone is harsh and impatient. Willow gasps, since that’s nowhere close to what they’d talked about in terms of approaching this. Sure, she’s probably getting fed up with all this, and Buffy can relate; she’s always been more of a hands-on kinda gal anyway. Even then, she’s learned when to just step back and let someone else handle it, given her idea of negotiation. The silence is louder than a scream. Buffy adjusts her grip on the sword, getting ready to break the circle and spring over to help.
And then she smiles, a twisted smile that just doesn’t look right on Giles’ face. Apparently Courtney’s the type to really appreciate the blunt, honest approach.
Maybe she’ll get to meet Cordy in the afterlife. It’d be nice if Buffy could confirm that one way or another, but like every cliché near-death experience ever she’s only got impressions, not specifics.
“The one of Fenrir, you mean? Broken chains at his feet and all? Sounds familiar, yeah.” ‘Course, she also reminds Buffy a little of Willy. The weasel made it out of Sunnydale, last Buffy heard, unfortunately, but given that they have yet to run into him he’s somebody else’s problem and she prefers it that way. Like she’s not answering their question not because she doesn’t get why any of this is important, or anything. She’s doing this specifically because she’s bored and might be a bit of a weasel herself.
“If you can remember, it’s really important! He’s killed a lot of people,” Willow explains, painfully earnest, and—given her attitude, Buffy suddenly knows that Courtney isn’t going to care. Well, that and the whole statue thing putting the entirety of London in danger in the first place.
Just as Buffy’s instincts suggested, Courtney looks bored and uncaring, a far cry from Giles’ stern ‘why do I even bother’ looks. “I basically only care about death, and until you woke me up I was enjoying it.”
Buffy shifts again. Is she going to have to step in, or—
“What about revenge?” Darling responds, voice shaking a little and—oh, yep, that’s a good play. Buffy wasn’t supposed to step in, but it doesn’t look like anyone else is going to back her up immediately, and it’s a really good point.
Dawn, for once, is really quiet, just boring holes into Courtney with her eyes.
“The thing with your Stand? That wasn’t an attack, was it? It was a defense.” Darling flashes a grateful smile in the Slayer’s direction, relaxing a little, but—huh. That’s weird. Giles, or rather Courtney driving Giles’ body, doesn’t even glance in her direction. It’s like she can’t hear her at all. Maybe the circle thing is actually working.
Yukako nods too, though, like she’s following along, and follows up. “Were you using your Stand to protect yourself from this bastard, though? Sure, he doesn’t bother you anymore, but you didn’t manage to actually take him out with your Stand. Sounds like unfinished business to me.” It’s a bit of a leap, maybe—from what Darling had said before they’d even started any of this it’s not like Courtney had time to explain anything, and she’d thrown herself off a roof herself. But Buffy’s Slayer instincts are saying that this is right.
Courtney’s smile is sharp, with no trace of amusement, only a sense of glee at the thought of someone suffering. “Guess you’ve got a point, but it sure as hell isn’t my fault you didn’t follow up on that lead the blond brat got. He’s your friend, isn’t he?”
Buffy tries to work out which blond brat that could be, because that describes more than a few people she knows, but apparently it means the guy Xander was crushing on because Darling stifles a sob and that’s probably the only blond who would’ve gotten involved (well, other than Beefheart, and while Courtney seems like the type of woman who would call someone a blond brat to their face, she’d actually call them that to their face and not just talk about them in third person, probably).
“Sarde?” Darling pushes past the pain to ask the name, and oof he’s involved? Pretty much everybody had been really upset just talking about him, way back when Josephine had talked about her past. He’d sounded like an ass, but maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that he’s coming up now, of all times. If there’s one thing Buffy has seen time and time again as a Vampire Slayer, it’s that the past doesn’t tend to stay buried.
Courtney shrugs. “Sure, that ass was involved, but he wasn’t the bastard behind everything.”
Complete silence. Buffy is pretty sure nobody knows what Courtney's on about—maybe that's part of it. The sense of superiority, of knowing something nobody else knows.
“You’re all a bunch of bloody idiots. Don’t tell me you thought he was working alone.” She’s trying for smug—okay, she is smug, but there’s still something residual in there she’s hiding. Probably fear. Buffy hasn’t had too much experience reading possessed people, but she talks to vampires all the time, and no matter how superior she tries to look she’s not pulling it off.
Well, not completely, anyway. She is succeeding at being a jerk wasting their time, which is probably most of what she’s trying for. She is probably going to tell them, but she can have her revenge and mess with them at the same time.
Jojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Ghosts make difficult interviewees.
Word Count: 1177
Rating: Teen
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS
The others clue in as Giles examines his own body, clear distaste in his expression, and then asks out loud, accent slightly different from his usual, “What fresh hell is this?”
“H-hi. Miss Love, right?” It has been some years since Buffy’s heard Willow stammer like this. But then, it’s a situation that calls for it, to some extent; she’s breaking her own promises to herself and everyone else, and sure, there’s a good reason for it, but it’d be too easy to fall into that trap, to just keep saying, over and over, that there’s a good reason for it so it’s perfectly fine if she does it this time, it’s just an exception to the general rule, not a pattern. Buffy’ll step in—if she can, since Dark Willow was, as much as it hurt to admit it, stronger—if it starts going off the rails again. The issue is that it’s really hard to pin that down. Because you could argue it’s already started going off the rails back when Giles and Willow decided to act on their own without consulting anybody else.
“’Least you aren’t using one of those damned ouija boards. Thought I’d escaped all that after I got out.” She looks like the entire concept is distasteful, and she’s maybe got a bit of a point. It’s not like these are the preferred methods or anything. But they’re desperate and need answers soon, and this was the best they got.
“Frau Love. Did you sell a large wolf statue to a pink-haired man or the firm Wolfram & Hart?” Beefheart’s tone is harsh and impatient. Willow gasps, since that’s nowhere close to what they’d talked about in terms of approaching this. Sure, she’s probably getting fed up with all this, and Buffy can relate; she’s always been more of a hands-on kinda gal anyway. Even then, she’s learned when to just step back and let someone else handle it, given her idea of negotiation. The silence is louder than a scream. Buffy adjusts her grip on the sword, getting ready to break the circle and spring over to help.
And then she smiles, a twisted smile that just doesn’t look right on Giles’ face. Apparently Courtney’s the type to really appreciate the blunt, honest approach.
Maybe she’ll get to meet Cordy in the afterlife. It’d be nice if Buffy could confirm that one way or another, but like every cliché near-death experience ever she’s only got impressions, not specifics.
“The one of Fenrir, you mean? Broken chains at his feet and all? Sounds familiar, yeah.” ‘Course, she also reminds Buffy a little of Willy. The weasel made it out of Sunnydale, last Buffy heard, unfortunately, but given that they have yet to run into him he’s somebody else’s problem and she prefers it that way. Like she’s not answering their question not because she doesn’t get why any of this is important, or anything. She’s doing this specifically because she’s bored and might be a bit of a weasel herself.
“If you can remember, it’s really important! He’s killed a lot of people,” Willow explains, painfully earnest, and—given her attitude, Buffy suddenly knows that Courtney isn’t going to care. Well, that and the whole statue thing putting the entirety of London in danger in the first place.
Just as Buffy’s instincts suggested, Courtney looks bored and uncaring, a far cry from Giles’ stern ‘why do I even bother’ looks. “I basically only care about death, and until you woke me up I was enjoying it.”
Buffy shifts again. Is she going to have to step in, or—
“What about revenge?” Darling responds, voice shaking a little and—oh, yep, that’s a good play. Buffy wasn’t supposed to step in, but it doesn’t look like anyone else is going to back her up immediately, and it’s a really good point.
Dawn, for once, is really quiet, just boring holes into Courtney with her eyes.
“The thing with your Stand? That wasn’t an attack, was it? It was a defense.” Darling flashes a grateful smile in the Slayer’s direction, relaxing a little, but—huh. That’s weird. Giles, or rather Courtney driving Giles’ body, doesn’t even glance in her direction. It’s like she can’t hear her at all. Maybe the circle thing is actually working.
Yukako nods too, though, like she’s following along, and follows up. “Were you using your Stand to protect yourself from this bastard, though? Sure, he doesn’t bother you anymore, but you didn’t manage to actually take him out with your Stand. Sounds like unfinished business to me.” It’s a bit of a leap, maybe—from what Darling had said before they’d even started any of this it’s not like Courtney had time to explain anything, and she’d thrown herself off a roof herself. But Buffy’s Slayer instincts are saying that this is right.
Courtney’s smile is sharp, with no trace of amusement, only a sense of glee at the thought of someone suffering. “Guess you’ve got a point, but it sure as hell isn’t my fault you didn’t follow up on that lead the blond brat got. He’s your friend, isn’t he?”
Buffy tries to work out which blond brat that could be, because that describes more than a few people she knows, but apparently it means the guy Xander was crushing on because Darling stifles a sob and that’s probably the only blond who would’ve gotten involved (well, other than Beefheart, and while Courtney seems like the type of woman who would call someone a blond brat to their face, she’d actually call them that to their face and not just talk about them in third person, probably).
“Sarde?” Darling pushes past the pain to ask the name, and oof he’s involved? Pretty much everybody had been really upset just talking about him, way back when Josephine had talked about her past. He’d sounded like an ass, but maybe it shouldn’t be a surprise that he’s coming up now, of all times. If there’s one thing Buffy has seen time and time again as a Vampire Slayer, it’s that the past doesn’t tend to stay buried.
Courtney shrugs. “Sure, that ass was involved, but he wasn’t the bastard behind everything.”
Complete silence. Buffy is pretty sure nobody knows what Courtney's on about—maybe that's part of it. The sense of superiority, of knowing something nobody else knows.
“You’re all a bunch of bloody idiots. Don’t tell me you thought he was working alone.” She’s trying for smug—okay, she is smug, but there’s still something residual in there she’s hiding. Probably fear. Buffy hasn’t had too much experience reading possessed people, but she talks to vampires all the time, and no matter how superior she tries to look she’s not pulling it off.
Well, not completely, anyway. She is succeeding at being a jerk wasting their time, which is probably most of what she’s trying for. She is probably going to tell them, but she can have her revenge and mess with them at the same time.
