beer_good_foamy

BINGO! This is for the "The Price" square and also the FREE SPACE one, so my buffyversebingo card is complete, just in time. I had a few ideas that didn't work out, but it's been ages since I wrote a Five Times fic...

Title: Five People Whose Loan Applications Were Approved At Sunnydale Securities Bank (And One Whose Wasn't)
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Rating: PG13
Word count: 750
Summary: So how does Sunnydale… work, exactly? Well, it's a long and complex story of corruption and denial, but let's check in with one of the cogs that make the wheels spin. Remember the loan officer who turned Buffy down in "Flooded"...? Here's his Sunnydale story in six installments, occasionally interacting with the main storyline.

"For some reason, Sunnydale property values have never been competitive..."
- Carl Savitsky, BtVS 6.04 "Flooded"

( It was weird though; he'd give someone a loan, they'd buy a house, and six months later they'd sell it again… or their estate would. That happens. But is it supposed to happen this often? )

Continuing to fill my buffyversebingo card. I think I'll assign this one to "Skeletons in the closet".

Title: Dental Plan!
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, roughly between s4 and s5
Characters/Pairing: Buffy, Spike
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~1500
Summary: You know how all myths are true? Well, one legendary being is running around Sunnydale attacking vampires and leaving them... less than they were. You'd think this would be more helpful than it is. But Spike isn't too keen to be a part of it, and this town may not be big enough for two vampire hunters.

( How the hell did William the Bloody come to this, he wondered, acting bait for some unknown beastie while the Slayer lay in ambush somewhere? OK, so maybe he was a little bit curious about what could be looking to make trophies of his teeth, but he was in no great hurry to be Fig. 1 in some future edition of Giles' daemonology books. )

Wait, what? I wrote fic? Oh right, that's a thing I used to do in the before-fore times. This is for my buffyversebingo card, and... let's say the "Habeas Corpses" square.

Title: Twists and Turns
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, pre-series
Characters/Pairing: Spike, Drusilla, Dalton
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~750
Summary: There are rules for how to fight the undead. Being magical (or worse, metaphorical) some of them are bound to work better than others. And sometimes, as Spike and Dru are about to learn the hard way, technological advances bring some of the old ones back into play.

Vampires were fine right up until the point where, suddenly, they weren’t.
- Terry Pratchett

( They'd learned to be wary, if not scared (it takes more than just owning a stake) of sunlight, holy water, fire, crosses and sharp bits of wood. )

Getting this in just under the deadline to complete my buffyversebingo card with the prompt "Need". BINGO!

Title: Psychosomatic
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffyverse (post-"Hole In The World")
Characters/Pairing: Spike/Angelus, Spike/Drusilla, Spike/Angel
Rating: R-ish
Word count: ~1570
Summary: Vampires, by definition, are dead. They really don't need to breathe. In fact, there's a lot of things they technically don't need to do. Funny how they still do them. Here are five vignettes about Spike through the ages, starting and ending at the end of "A Hole In The World".

"Spike drew an unnecessary breath."
- Approximately 7,491 fanfics

( Once, when William's mum was still healthy enough to travel, she took him to visit some relatives in the country.  )

Here's a fic for the spook_me challenge "plant", as well as crossing off the box "decorative when broken" on my buffyversebingo card.

Title: Excardiation
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy, post-"Becoming"
Rating: PG13
Word count: 1350
Summary: After Buffy runs away from home, Joyce finds herself bringing home a curious flowerpot from the gallery. Somehow, she starts sleeping a lot better. Maybe a little too well. In fact, wouldn't her life be a lot easier if she didn't have to think about Buffy at all…?
Written for spook_me and the challenge "Plant", and the buffyversebingo prompt "Decorative when broken".

( It was nothing special; an old earthenware pot from somewhere in Central America, not old enough to be really valuable, but it had some neat decorations of vines and leaves and stick figures. Joyce wasn't sure why she brought it home from the gallery, she wasn't really thinking straight just now. Something about it just called out to her and it looked nice on the shelf over her bed. )

OK, so here's the first instalment of my buffyversebingo card, checking off the box "Tradition".

Title: Give My Love To London
Author: Beer Good (beer_good_foamy)
Fandom: Buffy, pre-series
Pairing: Giles/Ethan
Rating: PG13
Word count: ~600
Summary: The morning after Giles drops out of Watcher school and joins Ethan in London, he thinks about what he's escaping.

"Not my circus, not my monkey."
- Polish proverb

( Ethan stirs as Rupert untangles himself from the sheets and rummages through the clothes and junk on the floor for some cigarettes. )