Aug. 31st - Trial By Fire (BtVS/Jumper)
Title: Trial By Fire
Author: 3am_moonlight
Rating: Gen, implied het.
Crossover: Jumper (movie)
Timeline: Anytime post-Chosen, post-movie.
Characters: Buffy, David, implied David/Millie.
Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to Joss Whedon. The Jumper 'verse belongs to Steven Gould and probably someone else who isn't me.
Summary: The New Council decide to give David a six month trial period.
Word Count: 1,022.
Note: Follows ' A Jump To the Left' and ' A Jumper History Lesson'.
Note 2: This is definitely meh, but my brain is fried.
The meeting a month after Buffy presented her proposal had been interesting, not because it had been informative but because of the lack of it. David hadn't been able to tell her much outside of his own experiences and then what he'd been told by the few Jumpers he had met and actually had a chance to talk with. The Old Council's observations and few facts had been lacking, to say the least. The records mostly consisted of H.D.'s Watcher's diary, and those books had been drier than the Sahara. The subsequent Slayers on record who had had contact with Jumpers were spare on anything informative. The interviews and observations the Watchers had of the captured Jumpers didn't reveal anything new. It was, for the most part, a record of all the kinds of demons they weren't and exactly how human they were if you ignored their ability to Jump.
Giles had proven to be a little prejudiced against this group of people, mainly because he'd been raised to believe they were abominations akin to demons and therefore needed to be killed. He did, however, admit that having a Jumper on the teams with the most dangerous assignments would be exceptionally beneficial. The number of lives it could save was... It could save so many; it could extend the lives of the Slayers just by being able to get them to a hospital or infirmary quickly. The only thing that would've been better was someone with the ability to heal.
In the end, they had agreed to a trial period of six months. David would be on call for Buffy and Faith's teams and would join them on the more dangerous ones, so he could Jump them out of there if it was needed. Or simply get them inside without being discovered. Because of this those teams never consisted of more than four people total. Not because David couldn't Jump any more people, but because the more people involved the easier someone would be left behind accidentally. They still had a problem believing he'd managed to Jump an entire floor when he was desperate a few years back.
But, now it was time to test the theory in a trial by fire, and it was a literal fire. A group of some kind of fire demons was planning to take out the world by setting all the oil reserves on fire along with any other flammable liquids and related material. They needed an effective way to get past the various fire-related traps and other barriers. Their Intel was a little shaky, demon informants were notoriously unreliable after all, but there had been over a dozen unrelated demons who had literally walked up to various Slayers and given them bits of information on the upcoming apocalypse. Because, as they had found out before, most demons and vampires actually wanted the world to keep spinning and disliked that someone was trying to wreck their home - and in many cases their bountiful food source.
"Ready?"
"You know, my life was relatively peaceful before I met you. Except for the Paladins, but aside from a few dust-ups and a major blow-out, it hasn't really been that bad. Then you come along with your vampires and your demons and your witches. Now I'm standing outside the deliberately burning hideout of a demon clan, preparing to help you kill them." David wasn't really upset, but Buffy was certain that he didn't entirely approve of the deviation from his pleasant lifestyle of stolen money and living the high life with the love of his life.
She'd taken him on some patrols in various cemeteries and graveyards, just to get him used to the idea of vampires being the real thing. In return, he had Jumped her around the world to see the sights so she could get used to the sensation of Jumping and how to react to it. Then she's taken him along to slay demons, and even introduced him to some of the neutral and friendlier ones. His reaction to the latter ones had been entertaining, to say the least.
"Smile, you're about to take part in world saveage!" Buffy grinned at him and gave him her arm so he could Jump her inside the HQ. It had been decided that only Buffy and David would enter the headquarters, while several other teams would intercept and kill anyone who tried to escape.
The actual fight wasn't all it could've been; Buffy fought and Slayed her way inside while David used his ability to great effect and beheaded a number of demons with a sword he'd borrowed, his targets were mostly demons who tried to sneak up on the Slayer while she was busy introducing some other demons to her shiny Scythe. Both of them 'allowed' quite a few of them to escape out of the HQ and right into the waiting arms of their backup teams.
It wasn't a major apocalypse, it was the wrong time of year for one thing, but it could still have destroyed everything, including their entire planet. And when the two of them Jumped back to the other side of the barrier after a nearly anti-climactic battle inside, it was nearly a relief to see the horde of demonic back-up the fire demons had gathered there and Buffy cheerfully threw herself into the fight along side Faith.
It was a good while before all the demons were either dead or fleeing into the night, but all the Slayers got a proper workout and in some cases their debut in averting an apocalypse. The ones who managed to escape was a minority, but by experience, it was the weaker ones. The ones who wouldn't pose a problem on their own, but instead acted as muscle for some big cheese who was dominant enough to get their 'loyalty'.
When they came back to their own headquarters and debriefed Giles and the other Watchers it was decided the mission was a success and the experiment would run its course, but it had tentatively been given the go-ahead unless something unexpected happened to change their minds.
Author: 3am_moonlight
Rating: Gen, implied het.
Crossover: Jumper (movie)
Timeline: Anytime post-Chosen, post-movie.
Characters: Buffy, David, implied David/Millie.
Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to Joss Whedon. The Jumper 'verse belongs to Steven Gould and probably someone else who isn't me.
Summary: The New Council decide to give David a six month trial period.
Word Count: 1,022.
Note: Follows ' A Jump To the Left' and ' A Jumper History Lesson'.
Note 2: This is definitely meh, but my brain is fried.
The meeting a month after Buffy presented her proposal had been interesting, not because it had been informative but because of the lack of it. David hadn't been able to tell her much outside of his own experiences and then what he'd been told by the few Jumpers he had met and actually had a chance to talk with. The Old Council's observations and few facts had been lacking, to say the least. The records mostly consisted of H.D.'s Watcher's diary, and those books had been drier than the Sahara. The subsequent Slayers on record who had had contact with Jumpers were spare on anything informative. The interviews and observations the Watchers had of the captured Jumpers didn't reveal anything new. It was, for the most part, a record of all the kinds of demons they weren't and exactly how human they were if you ignored their ability to Jump.
Giles had proven to be a little prejudiced against this group of people, mainly because he'd been raised to believe they were abominations akin to demons and therefore needed to be killed. He did, however, admit that having a Jumper on the teams with the most dangerous assignments would be exceptionally beneficial. The number of lives it could save was... It could save so many; it could extend the lives of the Slayers just by being able to get them to a hospital or infirmary quickly. The only thing that would've been better was someone with the ability to heal.
In the end, they had agreed to a trial period of six months. David would be on call for Buffy and Faith's teams and would join them on the more dangerous ones, so he could Jump them out of there if it was needed. Or simply get them inside without being discovered. Because of this those teams never consisted of more than four people total. Not because David couldn't Jump any more people, but because the more people involved the easier someone would be left behind accidentally. They still had a problem believing he'd managed to Jump an entire floor when he was desperate a few years back.
But, now it was time to test the theory in a trial by fire, and it was a literal fire. A group of some kind of fire demons was planning to take out the world by setting all the oil reserves on fire along with any other flammable liquids and related material. They needed an effective way to get past the various fire-related traps and other barriers. Their Intel was a little shaky, demon informants were notoriously unreliable after all, but there had been over a dozen unrelated demons who had literally walked up to various Slayers and given them bits of information on the upcoming apocalypse. Because, as they had found out before, most demons and vampires actually wanted the world to keep spinning and disliked that someone was trying to wreck their home - and in many cases their bountiful food source.
"Ready?"
"You know, my life was relatively peaceful before I met you. Except for the Paladins, but aside from a few dust-ups and a major blow-out, it hasn't really been that bad. Then you come along with your vampires and your demons and your witches. Now I'm standing outside the deliberately burning hideout of a demon clan, preparing to help you kill them." David wasn't really upset, but Buffy was certain that he didn't entirely approve of the deviation from his pleasant lifestyle of stolen money and living the high life with the love of his life.
She'd taken him on some patrols in various cemeteries and graveyards, just to get him used to the idea of vampires being the real thing. In return, he had Jumped her around the world to see the sights so she could get used to the sensation of Jumping and how to react to it. Then she's taken him along to slay demons, and even introduced him to some of the neutral and friendlier ones. His reaction to the latter ones had been entertaining, to say the least.
"Smile, you're about to take part in world saveage!" Buffy grinned at him and gave him her arm so he could Jump her inside the HQ. It had been decided that only Buffy and David would enter the headquarters, while several other teams would intercept and kill anyone who tried to escape.
The actual fight wasn't all it could've been; Buffy fought and Slayed her way inside while David used his ability to great effect and beheaded a number of demons with a sword he'd borrowed, his targets were mostly demons who tried to sneak up on the Slayer while she was busy introducing some other demons to her shiny Scythe. Both of them 'allowed' quite a few of them to escape out of the HQ and right into the waiting arms of their backup teams.
It wasn't a major apocalypse, it was the wrong time of year for one thing, but it could still have destroyed everything, including their entire planet. And when the two of them Jumped back to the other side of the barrier after a nearly anti-climactic battle inside, it was nearly a relief to see the horde of demonic back-up the fire demons had gathered there and Buffy cheerfully threw herself into the fight along side Faith.
It was a good while before all the demons were either dead or fleeing into the night, but all the Slayers got a proper workout and in some cases their debut in averting an apocalypse. The ones who managed to escape was a minority, but by experience, it was the weaker ones. The ones who wouldn't pose a problem on their own, but instead acted as muscle for some big cheese who was dominant enough to get their 'loyalty'.
When they came back to their own headquarters and debriefed Giles and the other Watchers it was decided the mission was a success and the experiment would run its course, but it had tentatively been given the go-ahead unless something unexpected happened to change their minds.