These Little Conversations - Geonosis
Title: These Little Conversations - Geonosis.
Rating: PG
Summary: Sometimes, it's the little conversations that mean the most. Five moments between Buffy and Obi-Wan.
Prompt: "Sunshine" for 5_times , "sunlight" for tth100 , and "big bang" for xoverland .
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and all related characters; George Lucas owns "Star Wars" and all related characters; I own nothing.
Note: Written as a Secret Santa present for musesinspire at THE ROOFTOP.
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Of all the hellholes she'd ever been to that she could do without seeing again, Geonosis was near the top of the list for Buffy. There was something about monsters trying to eat her for sport that really turned her off from this planet. Plus, giant bugs. Totally not of the good. Of course, here she was, back again as the Republic forces tried to reconquer the planet in hopes of cutting off the Separatists from the droid factories. And she had finally gotten that damn red dust out of her boots. No rest for the wicked, that's what it was.
"Wait, let me get this straight," Buffy asked Obi-Wan as they waited for Anakin and Luminara to join them. "There were zombie bugs? Zombie bugs?" Obi-Wan and Anakin had just returned from a rescue mission, and returned not only with Luminara but also the Geonosian leader, Poggle the Lesser. Anakin and Luminara were talking with their respective Padawans, who had just returned to the front lines after being in the med station, leaving Obi-Wan to fill Buffy in on what had just happened.
"What's a zombie?" Obi-Wan asked, looking at her with a raised eyebrow. He had become used to her references to things he didn't recognize, but he did require some clarification to put what she was talking about into context.
"The undead, want to eat your brains, tend to speak through 'grrs' and 'arghs' rather than real words," Buffy explained, squinting in the harsh Geonosian sunlight and wishing she had a pair of sunglasses with her. She was a fan of the sunshine, especially after her last couple of missions, but this was a little too intense for her.
"Under that definition, yes, there were 'zombie bugs' as you put it," Obi-Wan answered, crossing his arms and looking off into the distance. "Although, they weren't so much undead as controlled by a type of parasitic worm that responded to the Geonosian Queen's demands."
"So there were brain worms then?" Buffy replied with a shudder. Ugh. Ever since those assassins Spike had hired to kill her all those years ago, she had a dislike of bugs bordering on the extreme. "Yuck."
"Well, hopefully we've seen the last of them," Obi-Wan said, stroking his beard thoughtfully. "We collapsed the temple where the Queen was... What was that for?" he demanded, turning to look at Buffy, who had just hit his arm.
"Murphy's Law? Hello!" Buffy responded, like it was obvious. Which, given the Jedi's track record of invoking it, should have been. "How many times do we have to go through this? Somebody says that nothing bad is going to happen, and then 'poof!', it does."
"I sincerely doubt that anything is going to occur that will prove your theory in this instance," Obi-Wan answered with a shake of his head and a hint of teasing in his voice.
"It's not a theory, it's true!" Buffy protested, wondering why everybody in this universe was so quick to dismiss Murphy's Law. Was there not some sort of equivalent to it out here, or was it just another Earth thing? "Just don't look at me when all of a sudden you start acting particularly bug-like."
"Oh, trust me, I won't," he muttered under his breath as Luminara, Anakin, and the Padawans finally started walking over to join them.
"Good," Buffy replied with a smirk on her face. "Just remember that when things go wrong like they always seem to do when you say things like that."
Rating: PG
Summary: Sometimes, it's the little conversations that mean the most. Five moments between Buffy and Obi-Wan.
Prompt: "Sunshine" for 5_times , "sunlight" for tth100 , and "big bang" for xoverland .
Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" and all related characters; George Lucas owns "Star Wars" and all related characters; I own nothing.
Note: Written as a Secret Santa present for musesinspire at THE ROOFTOP.
Claims Table
Of all the hellholes she'd ever been to that she could do without seeing again, Geonosis was near the top of the list for Buffy. There was something about monsters trying to eat her for sport that really turned her off from this planet. Plus, giant bugs. Totally not of the good. Of course, here she was, back again as the Republic forces tried to reconquer the planet in hopes of cutting off the Separatists from the droid factories. And she had finally gotten that damn red dust out of her boots. No rest for the wicked, that's what it was.
"Wait, let me get this straight," Buffy asked Obi-Wan as they waited for Anakin and Luminara to join them. "There were zombie bugs? Zombie bugs?" Obi-Wan and Anakin had just returned from a rescue mission, and returned not only with Luminara but also the Geonosian leader, Poggle the Lesser. Anakin and Luminara were talking with their respective Padawans, who had just returned to the front lines after being in the med station, leaving Obi-Wan to fill Buffy in on what had just happened.
"What's a zombie?" Obi-Wan asked, looking at her with a raised eyebrow. He had become used to her references to things he didn't recognize, but he did require some clarification to put what she was talking about into context.
"The undead, want to eat your brains, tend to speak through 'grrs' and 'arghs' rather than real words," Buffy explained, squinting in the harsh Geonosian sunlight and wishing she had a pair of sunglasses with her. She was a fan of the sunshine, especially after her last couple of missions, but this was a little too intense for her.
"Under that definition, yes, there were 'zombie bugs' as you put it," Obi-Wan answered, crossing his arms and looking off into the distance. "Although, they weren't so much undead as controlled by a type of parasitic worm that responded to the Geonosian Queen's demands."
"So there were brain worms then?" Buffy replied with a shudder. Ugh. Ever since those assassins Spike had hired to kill her all those years ago, she had a dislike of bugs bordering on the extreme. "Yuck."
"Well, hopefully we've seen the last of them," Obi-Wan said, stroking his beard thoughtfully. "We collapsed the temple where the Queen was... What was that for?" he demanded, turning to look at Buffy, who had just hit his arm.
"Murphy's Law? Hello!" Buffy responded, like it was obvious. Which, given the Jedi's track record of invoking it, should have been. "How many times do we have to go through this? Somebody says that nothing bad is going to happen, and then 'poof!', it does."
"I sincerely doubt that anything is going to occur that will prove your theory in this instance," Obi-Wan answered with a shake of his head and a hint of teasing in his voice.
"It's not a theory, it's true!" Buffy protested, wondering why everybody in this universe was so quick to dismiss Murphy's Law. Was there not some sort of equivalent to it out here, or was it just another Earth thing? "Just don't look at me when all of a sudden you start acting particularly bug-like."
"Oh, trust me, I won't," he muttered under his breath as Luminara, Anakin, and the Padawans finally started walking over to join them.
"Good," Buffy replied with a smirk on her face. "Just remember that when things go wrong like they always seem to do when you say things like that."