2 drabbles

[beer_good_foamy]

Woah, two drabbles in two days. Must be summer.

Here's a BtVS drabble for open_on_sunday's challenge "Technical difficulties", and a BtVS/Dr Who crossover for tthdrabbles's challenge "Under the stars".

Title: Teacher's Edition
Word Count: 100
Fandom: BtVS
Characters: Jenny, Willow
Note: Set in early s2

Teacher's Edition

"Um, Miss Calendar? This can't be right...?"

It happens in almost every computer class. No matter how quickly Willow learns, there's always one task she can't solve. Jenny comes over to look over her shoulder, Willow tenses up and stammers and before Jenny can explain she'll babble herself into the perfect solution and grin like a dope at "Very nice, Willow." If she were a guy, Jenny might think Willow was hot for ...

Oh.

That would be a big one.

So she tells Willow that as long as it works, it's right. And waits for the code to compile.

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Title: Vindication
Word Count: 100
Fandom: BtVS/Doctor Who
Characters: Drusilla, Daleks
Note: Set during nu!Doctor Who 4.12, "The Stolen Earth"

Vindication

The stars always sang such beautiful songs, full of pain and flickering clarity. Little suns too distant to burn, windows from one world to another punched through the night like fangs through a white neck.

So Drusilla isn't surprised when the stars finally come down to Earth, bright and deadly (and all with the same name). While people flee and tremble like children before them, she takes up their starsong. The earth shakes and the big mean sun disappears as she sweeps through London for the last time, all fangs and claws and eyes that promise escape and rest. Exterminating.

Comments

[ladyjane]

*sits stunned*

I think I love you. That opening line of Drusilla's is pure poetry -- and pure Drusilla.

[beer_good_foamy]

And I love getting comments like this. *preens* :) Thanks!

[rebcake]

Oh, neat little dab of foreshadow on the first one. Even Willow is probably not aware, but Jenny was pretty perceptive (except when she wasn't, alas).

What a tremendous day for Dru! I'd never have thought of it. Excellent Dru thoughts, too! It all makes perfect Dru sense!

[beer_good_foamy]

Thank you!

Even Willow is probably not aware

She's definitely not aware. She probably didn't (allow herself to) put two and two together until around mid-s4.

It all makes perfect Dru sense!

Yay! I love Dru!logic. Getting inside Dru's head is always interesting, but I prefer to do it in short bursts... it gets dark in there.

[local-max.livejournal.com]

Great, great. Willow having a crush on Jenny makes a lot of sense. Though I could see the exact same thing happening for just looking for a mother figure. And one who will actually pay attention to her. (Of course, they aren't mutually exclusive: surely her 'crush' on Giles is that she doesn't know how to express that she wants a surrogate father. And then they get together and it's like surrogate parents!)

Dru/Daleks 4eva!

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

That's a good point. I agree, it's probably a little from column A, a little from column B. Sheila really did a number on Willow...

[slaymesoftly.livejournal.com]

I have raspberry/blueberry pie instead of cookies this week. :)

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

That's my OTP. :) Thanks!

[notarealverb.livejournal.com]

... Did you just make a big O pun or am I just an overjealous compsci student?

Love the drabble either way. :D

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Heh. That never actually struck me. Makes it a bit dirtier than I'd intended - which is never a bad thing. :)

[shapinglight]

Dru and Daleks is made of win. I'm sure she'd love them (though uncertain they would return the compliment).

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Can't you just see her now, clasping her hands together and beaming at them, reaching out to pet them while cooing and singing to them? Thanks!