Drabble

[beer_good_foamy]

Here's a drabble that popped into my head and seemed to fit today's open_on_sunday challenge ("Twist/Plot")

Survival

Once when she was 12, Sam Zabuto lost Kendra in a crowd.

He found her staring at a group of dancers in front of a flatbed truck with an old-fashioned sound system blasting bass-heavy music; Marley, Tosh, Burning Spear. A boy, maybe 14, took her hand with a smile and pulled her into the throng. She danced for a few moments; when she saw Zabuto, she obediently returned to him.

All the way home there was a twist in her step, a backbeat of her own.

It took an extra week of training to get her defensive stance right again.

Comments

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

I just read the story you linked to and like it quite a lot - I'm surprised you haven't explored that already because these two stories seem so rich with possibilities. The contrast of the old man and Faith was very well-done. Faith's got as many daddy/parent issues as Buffy does. I think it works better than if it had been Buffy in that circumstance, as you've written it. And I'm still fascinated by the "Slayer lineage", and the idea that Buffy is Kendra's "sire" and Faith's "Grandsire", to use the terms used to refer to the Fanged Four, although that isn't spoken of as such on the show. (And of course, the new Slayers have two mommies (plus a lesbian midwife)...but I digress.)

Zabuto basically being an OC is probably a good thing because it gives you plenty of room to play. So yes, consider this a request to write more about Zabuto's world, if your brain takes requests.

[beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com]

Heh. Funny you should say that, since this is actually a spiritual spinoff of a longer fic I'm working on that's pretty close to the lineage theme. It should hopefully be done in a day or so. Have you been hacking into my computer or something? :)

[red-satin-doll.livejournal.com]

Silly, I used my incredible powers of mental telepathy.