BtVS Quadruple Drabble: Xander Possessed
Title: Xander Possessed
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Giles, Xander.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400
Spoilers: The Pack.
Summary: Xander isn’t acting like Xander; something is very wrong.
Written For: Challenge 333: Amnesty at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 300: Switch.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.
According to Giles, Xander’s behaving like a typical sixteen-year-old boy, which, given that he is one, should be perfectly fine. Only it’s not, because teenage boy with raging hormones he may be, but until now he’s never been deliberately cruel.
Xander has always been… Xander. Dorky, funny, good-natured, addicted to sugary snacks; the kind of friend a girl can count on, no matter what. And yet practically overnight he’s turned into someone Buffy doesn’t recognise.
It’s just not natural, in fact it’s mega-unnatural, supernatural even, so why won’t Giles take her concerns seriously? Okay, so the evidence may be a bit on the sketchy side, but right now it’s all she’s got. This Xander isn’t HER Xander. Not that she thinks of Xander as hers, not in that way, but she knows her friend, and that boy saying mean things to Willow, who’s been his best bud forever, is not the Xander she’s grown accustomed to.
If it were night-time, she might think he was a vampire; Xander’s body inhabited by a demon. But vampires can’t handle sunlight, it makes them go extra crispy, and whatever else might be wrong with Xander, he’s not bursting into flames, so scratch that idea.
Then Giles says something about preying on the weak, and it hits her like a ton of bricks; this all started after he went into the quarantined hyena cage at the zoo… Okay, now that’s something Giles can maybe look up in his books, possession by hyenas, because if Xander’s been affected then Kyle and his followers probably have as well. That is SO not good! They were bad enough in the first place, but now there’s no telling what they might do.
Up to, and including, eating the school principal, apparently.
Just thinking about that is… Ewwww! Flutie was kind of okay, in his own way; he didn’t deserve to become lunch any more than poor Herbert did. At least Xander couldn’t have participated in the feast since he’d been otherwise occupied at the time. Hyenas and teenage boys are alike in some ways, although even the most testosterone-fuelled boy is usually a little more romantic when it comes to seduction attempts.
All they can do now is figure out how to reverse the switch and put the hyena spirits back in the hyenas, where they belong, preferably before anyone else gets killed. How hard can that be?
The End
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Giles, Xander.
Rating: PG
Word Count: 400
Spoilers: The Pack.
Summary: Xander isn’t acting like Xander; something is very wrong.
Written For: Challenge 333: Amnesty at fan_flashworks, using Challenge 300: Switch.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Quadruple drabble.
According to Giles, Xander’s behaving like a typical sixteen-year-old boy, which, given that he is one, should be perfectly fine. Only it’s not, because teenage boy with raging hormones he may be, but until now he’s never been deliberately cruel.
Xander has always been… Xander. Dorky, funny, good-natured, addicted to sugary snacks; the kind of friend a girl can count on, no matter what. And yet practically overnight he’s turned into someone Buffy doesn’t recognise.
It’s just not natural, in fact it’s mega-unnatural, supernatural even, so why won’t Giles take her concerns seriously? Okay, so the evidence may be a bit on the sketchy side, but right now it’s all she’s got. This Xander isn’t HER Xander. Not that she thinks of Xander as hers, not in that way, but she knows her friend, and that boy saying mean things to Willow, who’s been his best bud forever, is not the Xander she’s grown accustomed to.
If it were night-time, she might think he was a vampire; Xander’s body inhabited by a demon. But vampires can’t handle sunlight, it makes them go extra crispy, and whatever else might be wrong with Xander, he’s not bursting into flames, so scratch that idea.
Then Giles says something about preying on the weak, and it hits her like a ton of bricks; this all started after he went into the quarantined hyena cage at the zoo… Okay, now that’s something Giles can maybe look up in his books, possession by hyenas, because if Xander’s been affected then Kyle and his followers probably have as well. That is SO not good! They were bad enough in the first place, but now there’s no telling what they might do.
Up to, and including, eating the school principal, apparently.
Just thinking about that is… Ewwww! Flutie was kind of okay, in his own way; he didn’t deserve to become lunch any more than poor Herbert did. At least Xander couldn’t have participated in the feast since he’d been otherwise occupied at the time. Hyenas and teenage boys are alike in some ways, although even the most testosterone-fuelled boy is usually a little more romantic when it comes to seduction attempts.
All they can do now is figure out how to reverse the switch and put the hyena spirits back in the hyenas, where they belong, preferably before anyone else gets killed. How hard can that be?
The End