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canonical_insanityA break from BR II fics, for the moment. Although not a break from crack pairings.
Story Name: Technobabble
Story Genre: Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Story Rating: PG
Pairing: Warren/Willow
Summary: (Season 1, somewhere in between ‘The Puppet Show’ and ‘Nightmares‘, AU) After messing up with Moloch, Willow really wants to be the first in the Scoobies to have a fairly normal relationship.
He was probably a demon of some sort, Willow mused on the new guy in front of her. He’d been expelled from a high school in El Suerte due to hitting one of the teachers with a fire extinguisher.
Or at least that was what she had heard, anyway. But her theory had merit. After all, most newbies to Sunnydale were demons so why not him?
"Miss Rosenberg? Willow?" Jenny Calendar’s voice broke through her chain of thought and she looked up, startled.
"I’m sorry, Miss Calendar. Could you repeat yourself please?"
"I asked you if you could give Mr Mears a basic overview of what we’re currently working on."
She nodded, switching seats with Jonathan, so that she could talk to him. She expected to have to simplify her explanation for him to be able to understand her.
She was wrong. He was obviously skilled at using computers as, instead of managing to confuse him with her technical wording, he simply nodded and made a suggestion of his own. She was quite surprised at his intellect and from the looks he was giving her when he thought she wasn’t looking, the feeling was mutual.
"So did you really get expelled for hitting a teacher with a fire extinguisher?"
He laughed and shook his head.
"No. Parents divorced, Mom got custody and moved here. Good thing too." He stopped. Apparently the subject of his family bothered him, so he changed the subject to something a bit less personal.
"So, is the principal always such a bright ray of sunshine?" She smiled at the amount of sarcasm that he managed to fit into that sentence and shrugged.
"You’ll get used to him eventually." Seeing his incredulous look, she smirked, admitting.
"Ok, so I still hope that he gets eaten like Flutie."
"Your last principal got eaten? I didn’t hear about that. What did he get eaten by?"
Oops, wasn’t supposed to say that. Time to try and cover it up.
"Did I say he got eaten? I meant beaten. There are some really bad gangs in this town and one of them beat Flutie so badly that he decided to leave and not come near this town again. It’s why you shouldn’t go out alone after sunset, because you know, with the beatingness and...I’m rambling again, aren’t I?"
She didn’t think her quick cover-up has quite convinced him, but he’s obviously at least partially convinced that she believes that she’s telling the truth as he raised his eyebrows and asked her.
"Are you sure it’s just gangs? I mean, when I looked over some of the history of this place, it seemed almost like a real-life Derry. Um, that’s from..." She knew that reference, although most people in her school wouldn’t. She cut him off as he started to explain it.
"...Stephen King’s IT, right?"
And it’s a great comparison. Only the evil’s a bit more regular than 20-28 years. And the turtle won’t help us. We have to make do with Buffy.
He smiled, obviously not expecting her to have read any Stephen King books and she felt slightly sad for him. He obviously hadn’t known many people that could keep up with him in intelligence and he’d been unable to discuss anything with the rest of his classmates.
She knew the feeling.
"So?"
"Huh?"
"I was asking if you could show me around Sunnydale. I would have gone on my own, but since I probably shouldn’t do that after dark, maybe you would like to come with me?"
"Warren, are you asking me to go on a date?" She is amazed at his bluntness.
He blinked, attempting innocence.
"Am I? Do you want to make it a date? Because I was just thinking wandering around talking in technobabble, but hey, date works too. Unless you don’t want to...?"
"Sure, date’ll be nice."
Oh yeah, definitely a demon.
Story Name: Technobabble
Story Genre: Buffy The Vampire Slayer.
Story Rating: PG
Pairing: Warren/Willow
Summary: (Season 1, somewhere in between ‘The Puppet Show’ and ‘Nightmares‘, AU) After messing up with Moloch, Willow really wants to be the first in the Scoobies to have a fairly normal relationship.
He was probably a demon of some sort, Willow mused on the new guy in front of her. He’d been expelled from a high school in El Suerte due to hitting one of the teachers with a fire extinguisher.
Or at least that was what she had heard, anyway. But her theory had merit. After all, most newbies to Sunnydale were demons so why not him?
"Miss Rosenberg? Willow?" Jenny Calendar’s voice broke through her chain of thought and she looked up, startled.
"I’m sorry, Miss Calendar. Could you repeat yourself please?"
"I asked you if you could give Mr Mears a basic overview of what we’re currently working on."
She nodded, switching seats with Jonathan, so that she could talk to him. She expected to have to simplify her explanation for him to be able to understand her.
She was wrong. He was obviously skilled at using computers as, instead of managing to confuse him with her technical wording, he simply nodded and made a suggestion of his own. She was quite surprised at his intellect and from the looks he was giving her when he thought she wasn’t looking, the feeling was mutual.
"So did you really get expelled for hitting a teacher with a fire extinguisher?"
He laughed and shook his head.
"No. Parents divorced, Mom got custody and moved here. Good thing too." He stopped. Apparently the subject of his family bothered him, so he changed the subject to something a bit less personal.
"So, is the principal always such a bright ray of sunshine?" She smiled at the amount of sarcasm that he managed to fit into that sentence and shrugged.
"You’ll get used to him eventually." Seeing his incredulous look, she smirked, admitting.
"Ok, so I still hope that he gets eaten like Flutie."
"Your last principal got eaten? I didn’t hear about that. What did he get eaten by?"
Oops, wasn’t supposed to say that. Time to try and cover it up.
"Did I say he got eaten? I meant beaten. There are some really bad gangs in this town and one of them beat Flutie so badly that he decided to leave and not come near this town again. It’s why you shouldn’t go out alone after sunset, because you know, with the beatingness and...I’m rambling again, aren’t I?"
She didn’t think her quick cover-up has quite convinced him, but he’s obviously at least partially convinced that she believes that she’s telling the truth as he raised his eyebrows and asked her.
"Are you sure it’s just gangs? I mean, when I looked over some of the history of this place, it seemed almost like a real-life Derry. Um, that’s from..." She knew that reference, although most people in her school wouldn’t. She cut him off as he started to explain it.
"...Stephen King’s IT, right?"
And it’s a great comparison. Only the evil’s a bit more regular than 20-28 years. And the turtle won’t help us. We have to make do with Buffy.
He smiled, obviously not expecting her to have read any Stephen King books and she felt slightly sad for him. He obviously hadn’t known many people that could keep up with him in intelligence and he’d been unable to discuss anything with the rest of his classmates.
She knew the feeling.
"So?"
"Huh?"
"I was asking if you could show me around Sunnydale. I would have gone on my own, but since I probably shouldn’t do that after dark, maybe you would like to come with me?"
"Warren, are you asking me to go on a date?" She is amazed at his bluntness.
He blinked, attempting innocence.
"Am I? Do you want to make it a date? Because I was just thinking wandering around talking in technobabble, but hey, date works too. Unless you don’t want to...?"
"Sure, date’ll be nice."
Oh yeah, definitely a demon.
