A few from the archive...
Title Beginnings
Author blueanddollsome
Rating G
Word Count 100
Prompt 011 - Sunnydale High
Characters/Pairing (if any) Buffy
Buffy took a moment to take in her surroundings. It was a nice school: wide front lawn, Spanish tile, kinda 90210-ish. Bright, sunny campus. Which made sense in a town called “Sunnydale”.
She started up the steps towards the school.
It seemed like a good place. People seemed happy, normal. No one with scales or horns, no screaming or running in horror, no violence and death. Nope, just regular, ordinary kids getting ready to start a regular, ordinary day at their regular, ordinary school.
If the day could just keep up like this, things might actually work out alright.
Title Black
Author blueanddollsome
Rating G
Word Count 199
Prompt 011 - The Sunset Club
Characters/Pairing (if any) Angel
Angel would have been shaking his head in disgust, but he was trying to blend in. These kids, they read Anne Rice and watch movies and think they know all about vampires. They tempt death, thinking they'll get to hang out with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise for the next hundred years or so. Angel couldn't think of a single vampire he knew who would want to turn Tom Cruise. Not even the crazy ones.
They didn't know what being undead would do, that it meant you were giving yourself over to a demon. To these kids, all it meant was listening to depressing music, swearing off electric lighting and wearing lots of black and silk, way more over the top than --
... okay, so maybe some of them do know how vampires dress. But it wasn't like Angel tried to look all dark and moody. It's just that when you don't have a reflection there's only so much you're willing to try with your look. Wear something that clashes and you're the laughing stock of the underworld. It's not that Angel thinks about his image, it's just that he knows that everyone looks good in black. Really.
Title Orange
Author blueanddollsome
Rating G
Word Count 100
Prompt 011 - The Espresso Pump
Characters/Pairing (if any) Willow/Giles
“Does he do this a lot?”
“Sure. Every day the earth rotates backward and the skies turn orange.”
Of course, the sky turns orange every evening when the sun sets, but Willow wasn’t going to start bickering over something like that with Xander, not at a time like this. Anyways, she was busy thinking of sunsets and Giles singing, and Giles singing to her, at sunset, and vaguely hoping that Tara wouldn’t be jealous - after all, Giles was a man (funny how she'd stopped noticing that for a while) and Willow wasn’t into that kind of thing anymore, not mostly anyways.
Title Years
Author blueanddollsome
Rating PG
Word Count 371
Prompt 011 - Oxford
Characters/Pairing (if any) Giles
For the first time in months, Giles relaxed. He was back at Oxford again, and at last he felt like he was truly at home.
When he was at Council Headquarters, Giles worked hard to suppress the urge to lash out against the Watchers’ scrutiny and veiled derision, to question their methods and practices. That could only lead to more scrutiny and derision, and a greater urge lash out, and he had no right to feel that way, not after what he’d done. Whatever else they were, the Council was on the side of good, and Giles had to make himself a part of that. It was simply going to take a lot of effort. As for his family home, that was the same as ever, only… colder.
The university was where Giles felt he belonged. It was old, and solid, constant. He could lose himself in the world of academia, in the lecture halls and libraries. At first he had been afraid that he had forgotten too much to be able to complete his degree. After all, so much had happened in the intervening years. But soon after he stepped onto campus, Giles felt it all coming back to him.1688, the Glorious Revolution makes William of Orange Britain's constitutional monarch; 1713-1714, the Peace of Utrcht-Rastadt ends the Nine Years War.The more he remembered, the better able he was to immerse himself in his studies, so that he was almost able to forget the other life he had at the Council, forget the other world he belonged to, with its demons and slayers and darkness. Almost.
1455-1485, Wars of the Roses (In the Balkans, several towns are wiped out by an order of vampires, which concurrently increases the numbers of the order and its reach. Twenty-three Slayers are Called in rapid succession before the order is defeated)
1588, British defeat the Spanish Armada (A demonic cult in Ankara nearly succeeds in raining hellfire down on earth. The Slayer who stopped them is found by the cult’s survivors. She is tortured, and killed, and her body is desecrated)
1648, the Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War (After four years and seven months in action, the longest lived Slayer to date is killed)
Author blueanddollsome
Rating G
Word Count 100
Prompt 011 - Sunnydale High
Characters/Pairing (if any) Buffy
Buffy took a moment to take in her surroundings. It was a nice school: wide front lawn, Spanish tile, kinda 90210-ish. Bright, sunny campus. Which made sense in a town called “Sunnydale”.
She started up the steps towards the school.
It seemed like a good place. People seemed happy, normal. No one with scales or horns, no screaming or running in horror, no violence and death. Nope, just regular, ordinary kids getting ready to start a regular, ordinary day at their regular, ordinary school.
If the day could just keep up like this, things might actually work out alright.
Title Black
Author blueanddollsome
Rating G
Word Count 199
Prompt 011 - The Sunset Club
Characters/Pairing (if any) Angel
Angel would have been shaking his head in disgust, but he was trying to blend in. These kids, they read Anne Rice and watch movies and think they know all about vampires. They tempt death, thinking they'll get to hang out with Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise for the next hundred years or so. Angel couldn't think of a single vampire he knew who would want to turn Tom Cruise. Not even the crazy ones.
They didn't know what being undead would do, that it meant you were giving yourself over to a demon. To these kids, all it meant was listening to depressing music, swearing off electric lighting and wearing lots of black and silk, way more over the top than --
... okay, so maybe some of them do know how vampires dress. But it wasn't like Angel tried to look all dark and moody. It's just that when you don't have a reflection there's only so much you're willing to try with your look. Wear something that clashes and you're the laughing stock of the underworld. It's not that Angel thinks about his image, it's just that he knows that everyone looks good in black. Really.
Title Orange
Author blueanddollsome
Rating G
Word Count 100
Prompt 011 - The Espresso Pump
Characters/Pairing (if any) Willow/Giles
“Does he do this a lot?”
“Sure. Every day the earth rotates backward and the skies turn orange.”
Of course, the sky turns orange every evening when the sun sets, but Willow wasn’t going to start bickering over something like that with Xander, not at a time like this. Anyways, she was busy thinking of sunsets and Giles singing, and Giles singing to her, at sunset, and vaguely hoping that Tara wouldn’t be jealous - after all, Giles was a man (funny how she'd stopped noticing that for a while) and Willow wasn’t into that kind of thing anymore, not mostly anyways.
Title Years
Author blueanddollsome
Rating PG
Word Count 371
Prompt 011 - Oxford
Characters/Pairing (if any) Giles
For the first time in months, Giles relaxed. He was back at Oxford again, and at last he felt like he was truly at home.
When he was at Council Headquarters, Giles worked hard to suppress the urge to lash out against the Watchers’ scrutiny and veiled derision, to question their methods and practices. That could only lead to more scrutiny and derision, and a greater urge lash out, and he had no right to feel that way, not after what he’d done. Whatever else they were, the Council was on the side of good, and Giles had to make himself a part of that. It was simply going to take a lot of effort. As for his family home, that was the same as ever, only… colder.
The university was where Giles felt he belonged. It was old, and solid, constant. He could lose himself in the world of academia, in the lecture halls and libraries. At first he had been afraid that he had forgotten too much to be able to complete his degree. After all, so much had happened in the intervening years. But soon after he stepped onto campus, Giles felt it all coming back to him.1688, the Glorious Revolution makes William of Orange Britain's constitutional monarch; 1713-1714, the Peace of Utrcht-Rastadt ends the Nine Years War.The more he remembered, the better able he was to immerse himself in his studies, so that he was almost able to forget the other life he had at the Council, forget the other world he belonged to, with its demons and slayers and darkness. Almost.
1455-1485, Wars of the Roses (In the Balkans, several towns are wiped out by an order of vampires, which concurrently increases the numbers of the order and its reach. Twenty-three Slayers are Called in rapid succession before the order is defeated)
1588, British defeat the Spanish Armada (A demonic cult in Ankara nearly succeeds in raining hellfire down on earth. The Slayer who stopped them is found by the cult’s survivors. She is tortured, and killed, and her body is desecrated)
1648, the Treaty of Westphalia ends the Thirty Years War (After four years and seven months in action, the longest lived Slayer to date is killed)