tthdrabbles | 8 Amnesty drabbles

Title: Kindness
Word Count: 200
Fandom: BtVS/Dogma
Challenge: #54 - Seven Virtues
Disclaimer: I didn't create the characters, I'm just playing with them.

“Ok, but here’s what I don’t get,” Xander said, eying his source warily. “From what you’re telling me, it sounds like this apocalypse is pretty much under control already. The Powers are already mobilizing their forces to deal with it. So why do we need to get involved?”

The other man- if that was the right word, which Xander suspected it wasn’t- gave him a smile that told Xander there was more to this than he’d let on yet.

“Look, we’d just prefer to have a little extra insurance on this one, ok? An ace in the hole so to speak.”

“Sure, it’s just that this ace would like to know just how deep the hole is first,” Xander replied.

“Look, you know I don’t like holding out on you, but I’m not supposed to spread it around.”

Xander shook his head.

“If you want us involved, you better spill.”

His contact sighed.

“All right. The Big Guy’s missing, ok? This isn’t an official assignment, this is me. And it’s not like I’m asking you to take this out of the kindness of your heart. There’s something in it for your organization too.”

“You’d better be right about this, Rufus.”

Title: Humility
Word Count: 100
Fandom: BtVS/Dogma
Challenge: #54 - Seven Virtues
Disclaimer: I didn't create the characters, I'm just playing with them.

“Behold the Metatron, herald of the Almighty and voice of the one true God! Behold the-“

“Yeah, you’re the Metatron, we get it,” Buffy cut him off. “Could you save the dramatic entrance for someone it might actually impress?”

“What is it with you people? Everyone’s a critic,” the angel groused.

“What is it with you angels and ratty hoodies?” Buffy retorted. “Anyway, we’re on a deadline here, could you cut to the chase?”

Metatron glared at her.

“You know, I really liked the old days, when the Chosen Ones were a little more humble.”

“Kids these days,” Willow agreed.

Title: Charity
Word Count: 100
Fandom: BtVS/Dogma
Challenge: #54 - Seven Virtues
Disclaimer: I didn't create the characters, I'm just playing with them.

Willow wrinkled her nose.

“How does that work?”

“The indulgence thing?” Dawn replied. “Turns the church door into a get out of sin free card. Basically, because the pope says so.”

“If I understood right, it’s not exactly free,” Xander added. “The church had to raise a considerable amount for various Catholic charities to be considered for the privilege.”

“So it’s really more like a ‘we bought our way out of trouble’ thing,” Willow mused. “But they’re not going to charge people to walk through it, are they?”

“Could we focus, please?” Metatron demanded in annoyance. “Apocalypse, end of existence?”

Title: Diligence
Word Count: 100
Fandom: BtVS/Dogma
Challenge: #54 - Seven Virtues
Disclaimer: I didn't create the characters, I'm just playing with them.

Buffy leaned against the bar, Serendipity next to her, and watched Jay try to work what passed for his mojo on the one other girl there who wasn’t with the Scoobies. It was a pretty sorry sight.

“Amazing, isn’t he?” Rufus said, coming over with Xander.

“Yeah,” Buffy agreed. “But not in a good way.”

Jay was easily the horniest guy she’d ever met- and also the least successful. The girl he’d been talking to was giving him a withering ‘not even in your wet dreams’ look.

“You do have to give him credit,” Xander mused. “He never gives up.”

Title: Chastity
Word Count: 100
Fandom: BtVS/Dogma
Challenge: #54 - Seven Virtues
Disclaimer: I didn't create the characters, I'm just playing with them.

Watching the ‘prophet’ try unsuccessfully to put the moves on just about anything female with a pulse, Dawn rolled her eyes.

“Are we sure our source had this right? That’s the prophet who will lead us to the scene of the apocalypse?”

Buffy looked as dubious as her sister, Willow nearly as skeptical. Xander put up his hands in self-defense.

“Maybe there’s more to him than meets the eye? Rufus was pretty clear on this, and he’s never been wrong before!”

Dawn wrinkled her nose.

“I say we get him a chastity belt. Just to be on the safe side.”

Title: Patience
Word Count: 200
Fandom: BtVS/Dogma
Challenge: #54 - Seven Virtues
Disclaimer: I didn't create the characters, I'm just playing with them.

Dawn decided this apocalypse had been designed by Lewis Carroll. It was the weirdest ever. She could get demons wanting to end the world, but angry exiled angels? Really?

Surveying the carnage, and the very drunk former angel sprawled on the ground in front of her, Dawn sighed.

“Come on, Loki, on your feet.”

Looking around, she saw Xander and Buffy were conferencing with Rufus and Bethany, hopefully working out how to find God. She glanced at Willow.

“Why couldn’t God just change her mind about these guys? I mean, if she had, the one up there dropping people from the sky might not have gone off the deep end. And this one seems pretty cool.”

As Loki grinned at the compliment, Willlow shook her head.

“Dawn now’s really not the time. We gotta take care of this one. What do you think will happen when the angry one gets done working out his mommy issues?”

Loki hiccupped as Dawn shrugged.

“Dunno. Depends on how much he likes the guy, I guess. If we wait patiently, we’ll probably find out.”

At Willow’s glare, she sighed.

“Or I could get him to safety and you could deal with Mr. Cranky Wings.”

Title: Temperance
Word Count: 200
Fandom: BtVS/Dogma
Challenge: #54 - Seven Virtues
Disclaimer: I didn't create the characters, I'm just playing with them.

Xander grimaced sympathetically as he watched Loki try to sober up. He couldn’t imagine what the after-effects of a bender several thousand years in the making felt like. Then again, considering that alcohol was what got him into trouble in the first place, the guy really should have known to take it easy.

“I am never doing that again,” Loki told him, not for the first time.

Xander wondered again why he’d gotten tagged with watching the guy until he was back to ‘normal’- whatever that word meant for a newly mortal former angel who was still banished to Wisconsin for all eternity. Willow and Buffy had managed to find other things to do. Even Dawn had abandoned him to his fate, preferring to play hopscotch with God. Then again, he couldn’t really blame her for that.

Fortunately, Loki seemed to be over the worst. He was no longer crying about the past, how bad exile was, what had happened to Bartleby, or telling Xander how much he loved him and what a great friend he was for watching him when he was like this.

“No worries, big guy,” Xander said. “Next time, just remember, all things in moderation, ok?”

Title: Powers (That Be)
Word Count: 200
Fandom: BtVS/Dogma
Challenge: #93 - Mistaken Identity
Disclaimer: I didn't create the characters, I'm just playing with them.
Note: I got on a Dogma roll...

“I don’t get it,” Buffy said suspiciously. “I thought the Slayers were Champions chosen by the Powers That Be. Now you’re saying the Powers aren’t in charge, there’s one God, who is missing, and we’re supposed to help prevent an apocalypse by keeping God from being wrong?”

“And I definitely bargained with Anubis,” Willow added. “So we know that the ancient gods do exist. How does that fit with what this source of yours is telling us?”

Xander sighed. He should have gotten Rufus to do the explaining.

“Yes, those gods exist. But capital-G God also exists, and is higher than the others. It’s all very metaphysical and I didn’t completely understand it either. But the part about the Powers is simple. They’re a choir of angels.”

Buffy frowned.

“Choirs? They sing?”

Willow sighed.

“Sometimes, Buffy, but choirs are also what the different orders of angels are called. Powers are one of them. They’re warriors, defenders of creation and humanity. They fight evil.”

“What are the other choirs?” Buffy asked, startled.

“Cherubim, Seraphim, Thrones, Dominions, Virtues, Principalities-“ Xander began. “Oh, and by the way, the first Watchers were angels, too- the gregori.”

“Seriously?” Buffy demanded.

“So Rufus says,” Xander replied.