Gremlins and Wanted Criminal
Title: Gremlins and Wanted Criminal
Author: Indra Leigh
Rating: FR13
Crossover: BtVS and Magnificent Seven
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Magficent Seven (ATF)
Summary: JD and Dawn have an adventure at while shopping
Warnings: nope.
Timeline/Setting: Sometime after Chosen and an in an modern day AU of a western.
Author's notes(if any): It’s fanfic…. Cue hand waving for ages and dates of characters.
Over on the TTH site I have a collection of ficlets of the Slayer and Watcher’s Council International (new council) building a school, slayer refuge, whatever it ends up being and I’m planning on making all of this month’s entries in that universe.
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-13676/IndraLeigh+Another+Day+at+the+SWCI+Headquarters.htm
Dawn put a hand on JD’s elbow as she leaned over to untie and pull off her soaking wet shoes. Tangling Dawn’s hand in his sweatshirt as he pulled it off the heavy wet fabric wound up hanging off her head. Shaking free of the fabric Dawn pulled socks off one then the other by the toe, little plops as they landed on the tile floor. “I hate wet socks”
“Did you two decide to play in a sprinkler?” Jim Ellison asked, slouched against the wall in the short hallway from the side door into the kitchen.
“Garden and plant center, wanted criminal, demon plant gremlins that got all melty when wet, and they didn’t have the plant we were looking for.”
Drying off a little from the towel Jim handed her Dawn added to JD’s explanation “They said they would order it for us.”
“Sandburg accused me of writing reports that were to the short, accurate, but not really helpful. You’ve got me beat. Any chance of getting any more details?”
“I thought I was going to be done with incident report writeups after starting to work here.” JD sighed wiping his face dry on a corner of the towel Dawn was using.
“Ha. No. We were at that large plant shop by the highway looking for a certain plant when JD started acting like Buffy when she’s on patrol.”
“I saw someone on the personal most wanted list that we started not long after we started working together. As I was calling that detective that we’ve worked with in town Dawn went over and started talking to him!”
Before JD could continue a rant Dawn had heard a few times on the way home she took a turn. “He was really interested in some big leafy green vining plant and I figured I’d see if I could get him talking and occupied until the cops showed up. I recognized some dormant plant gremlins in the pots of a couple trees next to the leafy plants. A little water and you get more gremlins and a lot of water at one time means gremlins explode and look like firecrackers got stuck in the dirt.”
“So as JD was working with the police you decided to make the gremlins explode.” Chuckling Jim could guess what happened next.
“Yes. There was a garden hose with one of those multispray head things and it was dripping so I knew it was on. I grabbed it and started to drown the dormant gremlins. They started popping and sending dirt everywhere.” Dawn said handing the towel to JD then picking up her shoes and setting them along the wall of the entryway.
“He flipped out and started shouting. He was trying to squeeze into the plant shelves and hide as the police came in. The shouting startled Dawn who was still holding the hose at full spray.”
Jim watched JD’s reaction to his retelling of the event and recognizing the worry for someone important. JD felt strongly about Dawn.
“The guy was yelling and flopping around as everyone was running into the room and JD was shouting. I wasn’t sure where to go and get out of the way and forgot I was holding the hose. JD got close and I dropped the hose and somehow the handle got stuck in keep spraying and was going all around like a cartoon getting both of us soaked. I’m going to take a shower and warm up.”
When Dawn walked into the kitchen and out of hearing distance JD continued, “I was talking to the detective and arresting officers as Dawn talked to the manager about the plant she wanted. They’re going to special order it for her and will call us when it’s delivered.”
Blair found Jim in the entry way leaning against the wall. “What’s going on Jim?”
“I need to find Xander. I have a suspicion of future sweethearts.”
“Really? Who?!”
Grinning Jim was happy to see Blair bouncing. He hadn’t seen it in a while, with Blair having been stressed in Cascade before they left. “Nope not going to say.”
Author: Indra Leigh
Rating: FR13
Crossover: BtVS and Magnificent Seven
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Magficent Seven (ATF)
Summary: JD and Dawn have an adventure at while shopping
Warnings: nope.
Timeline/Setting: Sometime after Chosen and an in an modern day AU of a western.
Author's notes(if any): It’s fanfic…. Cue hand waving for ages and dates of characters.
Over on the TTH site I have a collection of ficlets of the Slayer and Watcher’s Council International (new council) building a school, slayer refuge, whatever it ends up being and I’m planning on making all of this month’s entries in that universe.
https://www.tthfanfic.org/Story-13676/IndraLeigh+Another+Day+at+the+SWCI+Headquarters.htm
Dawn put a hand on JD’s elbow as she leaned over to untie and pull off her soaking wet shoes. Tangling Dawn’s hand in his sweatshirt as he pulled it off the heavy wet fabric wound up hanging off her head. Shaking free of the fabric Dawn pulled socks off one then the other by the toe, little plops as they landed on the tile floor. “I hate wet socks”
“Did you two decide to play in a sprinkler?” Jim Ellison asked, slouched against the wall in the short hallway from the side door into the kitchen.
“Garden and plant center, wanted criminal, demon plant gremlins that got all melty when wet, and they didn’t have the plant we were looking for.”
Drying off a little from the towel Jim handed her Dawn added to JD’s explanation “They said they would order it for us.”
“Sandburg accused me of writing reports that were to the short, accurate, but not really helpful. You’ve got me beat. Any chance of getting any more details?”
“I thought I was going to be done with incident report writeups after starting to work here.” JD sighed wiping his face dry on a corner of the towel Dawn was using.
“Ha. No. We were at that large plant shop by the highway looking for a certain plant when JD started acting like Buffy when she’s on patrol.”
“I saw someone on the personal most wanted list that we started not long after we started working together. As I was calling that detective that we’ve worked with in town Dawn went over and started talking to him!”
Before JD could continue a rant Dawn had heard a few times on the way home she took a turn. “He was really interested in some big leafy green vining plant and I figured I’d see if I could get him talking and occupied until the cops showed up. I recognized some dormant plant gremlins in the pots of a couple trees next to the leafy plants. A little water and you get more gremlins and a lot of water at one time means gremlins explode and look like firecrackers got stuck in the dirt.”
“So as JD was working with the police you decided to make the gremlins explode.” Chuckling Jim could guess what happened next.
“Yes. There was a garden hose with one of those multispray head things and it was dripping so I knew it was on. I grabbed it and started to drown the dormant gremlins. They started popping and sending dirt everywhere.” Dawn said handing the towel to JD then picking up her shoes and setting them along the wall of the entryway.
“He flipped out and started shouting. He was trying to squeeze into the plant shelves and hide as the police came in. The shouting startled Dawn who was still holding the hose at full spray.”
Jim watched JD’s reaction to his retelling of the event and recognizing the worry for someone important. JD felt strongly about Dawn.
“The guy was yelling and flopping around as everyone was running into the room and JD was shouting. I wasn’t sure where to go and get out of the way and forgot I was holding the hose. JD got close and I dropped the hose and somehow the handle got stuck in keep spraying and was going all around like a cartoon getting both of us soaked. I’m going to take a shower and warm up.”
When Dawn walked into the kitchen and out of hearing distance JD continued, “I was talking to the detective and arresting officers as Dawn talked to the manager about the plant she wanted. They’re going to special order it for her and will call us when it’s delivered.”
Blair found Jim in the entry way leaning against the wall. “What’s going on Jim?”
“I need to find Xander. I have a suspicion of future sweethearts.”
“Really? Who?!”
Grinning Jim was happy to see Blair bouncing. He hadn’t seen it in a while, with Blair having been stressed in Cascade before they left. “Nope not going to say.”