Bingo!
Woo! And hoo! I have my line bingo at Mundane Events bingo, and it's a mini-adventure for Faith and Giles. Bingo card below the cut as well as the story, in case you missed Lorne, Connor, Sam and Riley, or the two non-Rulesverse stories (a season 4 ensemble, and a season 5 Willow/Tara). Sharp-eyed readers will notice there's a spare story in there, but I'm hoping no one will complain...
Author Brutti ma buoni
Title Rockery
Rating PG
Pairing Faith/Giles
Words 450
Prompt For Mundane Bingo: killing the big scary bug that is in the bathroom when you're trying to take a shower. Set in the Rulesverse
“Faaaiith! Could you come in here for a moment, please?”
Now, no one had ever accused Faith Lehane of subtlety. But the sound of Giles’s voice raised hackles in an instant. That strained politeness - she’d trained him out of that years ago. Anyway, as long as he was talking to her.
Something was wrong.
Throwing axe wrong? Stake wrong? Crossbow wrong?
She left the crossbow. Too tricky at close range. And it was going to be close range, since Giles was in the bathroom. Could get messy.
But at least it’s on tile. Easy wipe. Crap. When did I get so domestic goddess?
“Faith? Are you coming?” Giles sounded more than politely enquiring.
She approached the bathroom, stealthy. He’d realise she was coming when she arrived. Whatever the problem was didn’t need too much warning.
Blam! Door lock splintered easy. You’d think an ancient castle would be sturdier, but today Faith was glad of it.
Giles was-
Oh.
Giles was standing naked in the tub, looking up at the shower head.
Ex-shower head. It seemed to have been replaced by something... bad. Kind of a snake vibe, but with more spines and fur than any snake she’d ever seen.
“I believe Andrew was working on basilisks earlier this week. I wonder if he’s lost one?” Giles’s voice was tight, yet somehow slurred.
“Basilisk. You’re certain?”
“Mmmhm. I can’t look... away and... I appear... to... be... petri..fy...ing.”
Which explained why he hadn’t run away, like a sane man. Faith tried not to notice the grey stone which was creeping up his body. She wasn’t about to show fear, though there was a nasty pulse at her temple that said You have to fix this. Now.
“I kill it, you’re okay?”
“Prob...ly.”
“Cut the head off?”
“Mhmmmm.”
Seemed to be an urgent non-researchy situation, so Faith took that as an affirmative, and went with the axe option. It did a lot of no good to her bathroom fittings on the rebound, but it sliced the basilisk satisfactorily through.
The snake splurted something green and oily over Giles, who shuddered, and shook himself free of the grey paralysis.
“Cool.”
“Yes. Thank you, Faith. I wasn’t looking forward to life as a statue.”
“You’d look okay in marble, you know. But I like you better breathing.”
“The feeling is mutual. I’m going to find a shower that isn’t snake-infested, get rid of this goo, have a strong word with Andrew about clearing up after himself, and then I’m coming back to say thank you properly. All right?”
“Totally. I’ll be waiting.” Seemed like the kind of event that needed celebrating. It wasn’t the first time she’d exterminated something nasty in the bathroom. Probably not the last. But Giles as a tub ornament?
Not while Faith had her strength.
killing the big scary bug that is in the bathroom when you're trying to take a shower
waiting at home for the delivery of a package
- being mistaken for someone else
hanging pictures
Trying to remember how to say "good evening" in another language.
someone's borrowed your car/spaceship/boat and it comes back in less than ideal condition/shape/cleanliness
star gazing
Building Something
having a cold
Start of a new season (summer/spring/harmattan/etc.)
cute fluffy dog cannot distinguish between the patio and the lawn for defecation purposes
returning a defective item to the store
FREE SPACE!
Dealing with a new pet
Bouncing a crying baby.
locked out of house/car/spaceship
you're obliged to partake of a friend of a friend's backyard marijuana crop. It kinda sucks
Eating at Applebee's
-Bats in the house
Having to find enough quarters to do laundry.
finding something you really want in an online store but they don't ship internationally or else they reject your one and only credit card for no reason and seem to think that you should just use another one (because everyone has multiple credit cards right?)
-dim sum
the cat is the alarm clock and doesn't understand weekends
-having mediocre sex with the significant other
laughing so hard your stomach starts hurting
Author Brutti ma buoni
Title Rockery
Rating PG
Pairing Faith/Giles
Words 450
Prompt For Mundane Bingo: killing the big scary bug that is in the bathroom when you're trying to take a shower. Set in the Rulesverse
“Faaaiith! Could you come in here for a moment, please?”
Now, no one had ever accused Faith Lehane of subtlety. But the sound of Giles’s voice raised hackles in an instant. That strained politeness - she’d trained him out of that years ago. Anyway, as long as he was talking to her.
Something was wrong.
Throwing axe wrong? Stake wrong? Crossbow wrong?
She left the crossbow. Too tricky at close range. And it was going to be close range, since Giles was in the bathroom. Could get messy.
But at least it’s on tile. Easy wipe. Crap. When did I get so domestic goddess?
“Faith? Are you coming?” Giles sounded more than politely enquiring.
She approached the bathroom, stealthy. He’d realise she was coming when she arrived. Whatever the problem was didn’t need too much warning.
Blam! Door lock splintered easy. You’d think an ancient castle would be sturdier, but today Faith was glad of it.
Giles was-
Oh.
Giles was standing naked in the tub, looking up at the shower head.
Ex-shower head. It seemed to have been replaced by something... bad. Kind of a snake vibe, but with more spines and fur than any snake she’d ever seen.
“I believe Andrew was working on basilisks earlier this week. I wonder if he’s lost one?” Giles’s voice was tight, yet somehow slurred.
“Basilisk. You’re certain?”
“Mmmhm. I can’t look... away and... I appear... to... be... petri..fy...ing.”
Which explained why he hadn’t run away, like a sane man. Faith tried not to notice the grey stone which was creeping up his body. She wasn’t about to show fear, though there was a nasty pulse at her temple that said You have to fix this. Now.
“I kill it, you’re okay?”
“Prob...ly.”
“Cut the head off?”
“Mhmmmm.”
Seemed to be an urgent non-researchy situation, so Faith took that as an affirmative, and went with the axe option. It did a lot of no good to her bathroom fittings on the rebound, but it sliced the basilisk satisfactorily through.
The snake splurted something green and oily over Giles, who shuddered, and shook himself free of the grey paralysis.
“Cool.”
“Yes. Thank you, Faith. I wasn’t looking forward to life as a statue.”
“You’d look okay in marble, you know. But I like you better breathing.”
“The feeling is mutual. I’m going to find a shower that isn’t snake-infested, get rid of this goo, have a strong word with Andrew about clearing up after himself, and then I’m coming back to say thank you properly. All right?”
“Totally. I’ll be waiting.” Seemed like the kind of event that needed celebrating. It wasn’t the first time she’d exterminated something nasty in the bathroom. Probably not the last. But Giles as a tub ornament?
Not while Faith had her strength.
killing the big scary bug that is in the bathroom when you're trying to take a shower
waiting at home for the delivery of a package
- being mistaken for someone else
hanging pictures
Trying to remember how to say "good evening" in another language.
someone's borrowed your car/spaceship/boat and it comes back in less than ideal condition/shape/cleanliness
star gazing
Building Something
having a cold
Start of a new season (summer/spring/harmattan/etc.)
cute fluffy dog cannot distinguish between the patio and the lawn for defecation purposes
returning a defective item to the store
FREE SPACE!
Dealing with a new pet
Bouncing a crying baby.
locked out of house/car/spaceship
you're obliged to partake of a friend of a friend's backyard marijuana crop. It kinda sucks
Eating at Applebee's
-Bats in the house
Having to find enough quarters to do laundry.
finding something you really want in an online store but they don't ship internationally or else they reject your one and only credit card for no reason and seem to think that you should just use another one (because everyone has multiple credit cards right?)
-dim sum
the cat is the alarm clock and doesn't understand weekends
-having mediocre sex with the significant other
laughing so hard your stomach starts hurting