Aug. 02 - Blast From the Past
Title: Blast From the Past
Author: 3am_moonlight
Crossover: BtVS/NCIS: Los Angeles
Rating: Het. (Kensi/Deeks, past Buffy/OMC, past-ish Buffy/Angel)
Word Count: 1,211.
Timeline: Post-Chosen / NCIS: LA - anytime after K/D moved in together.
Disclaimer: Both BtVS and NCIS: LA belongs to someone who definitely isn't yours truly.
Summary: Buffy meets an old classmate while in LA.
Author's Note: *waves hands* Let's say Buffy and Kensi are the same age. It's canon that both of them had life-changing events happening at the age of 15; Buffy was Chosen and Kensi's father was murdered. Let's also say they attended Hemery High together for a time and those life-changing events more or less happened at the same time.
"You live in Los Angeles now, right? And you're a federal agent?"
The brunette in front of Buffy started and blinked, "Excuse me?"
"A friend of mine told me you're a special agent now, and you and your team police the marines and their dependents."
Buffy was in LA on a short working vacation and had run into her old classmate Kensi Blye from her days at Hemery High School. Back in the day, she'd simply vanished from school one day after they'd gone to see Titanic at the movies. Being a spoiled cheerleader at the time, Buffy hadn't really put much thought into why a new acquaintance of hers fell off the map. Particularly since the girl had already told her she was a military brat. The general consensus in their clique was her father had been reassigned somewhere and there hadn't been time to inform anyone. The teachers had citied confidently and refused to tell them anything.
Less than a month after Kensi's abrupt disappearance act Buffy had been Chosen, and any thoughts of her so-called friends had taken a backseat. Then the Council of Watcher's had sent her first Watcher; Merrick Jamison-Smythe. Then there had been her friendship and later relationship with Pike. Her life had become a rollercoaster after that, or maybe a haunted house. A rollercoaster in a haunted house? Whichever.
Kensi was still looking at her, kinda speechless. "Um, was that supposed to be super secret information?" Was it? Being a federal agent wasn't a classified profession last she'd heard, and Angel hadn't said anything about it either. Several members of Angel's team had seen her flash her badge and identify herself as an NCIS Special Agent. He'd only mentioned it in passing because he remembered seeing them together while Whistler showed him who he was supposed to help so he could become a champion in his own right. Apparently, Team Angel had had to dodge Kensi and her team a few times and make sure they didn't clue into what goes bump in the night and who bumps right back.
"Who told you I'm a special agent? What's the name of this friend? I need to talk to him or her." Kensi had grown serious and even leaned forward slightly to further indicate the importance of the questions. It was Buffy's turn to blink. That reaction was out of character for someone who spent their life chasing criminals. It was just an innocent question; asking about peoples work was normally a safe topic. After visiting her ex she'd googled 'NCIS' and it turned out to be a small and legit, but fairly unknown little brother of the FBI. Buffy's quick research hadn't said anything about it being classified. Their area of expertise were crimes committed by or against the Marines, the Navy, and their families. The NCIS headquarters was in DC.
They'd had a comfortable conversation up until Buffy's unfortunate question. Kensi had told her the reason she dropped out of high school was her father's murder and that she'd lived on the streets for a while. She was currently living with her boyfriend, an LAPD detective who apparently looked more like a stereotypical surfer than a police officer. Buffy had told Kensi about being a part of a private, but worldwide security firm. Essentially true, except for the part where they were defending everyone from the demonic population instead of bad people. Okay, to be fair they sometimes had to take out bad people, but most of them had some kind of magical abilities or were trying to get them.
Buffy gave a disarming smile. "I don't want to get anyone into trouble. No one did anything illegal, they just saw you show your badge to someone. One of them recognized you as a friend of mine and told me. They thought it was cool that an old school friend of mine has a federal badge." It was close enough to the truth so it wouldn't be obvious she was lying, and Angel had been mildly impressed. Probably because he knew what kind of airheaded crowd she'd been hanging with back at Hemery. The admission hurt a little, but in all honesty, she'd been headed towards a future as someone's trophy wife if she hadn't been sidetracked by her mystical calling.
Kensi relaxed again and gave her an apologetic smile. "Sorry, didn't mean to freak you out. It's just I'm a part of a covert unit, so don't go spreading that around. We need to stay as inconspicuous as possible. Tell your friends to keep the info to themselves, okay?"
She could do that, being secret identity girl was old hat by now. Her lying skills had even improved over the years, so keeping Kensi's job title confidential shouldn't be too difficult. Very few people knew they'd ever met, and so they had no reason to ask Buffy about Kensi. So, a piece of cake.
"No problem. I deal with secrecy all the time in my own job, so I know how it is." She mimicked zipping her lips shut and smiled. Changing the subject, she asked. "So, tell me more about this shaggy-haired beau of yours. Is he a pack rat like you? Does he take you anywhere fun? Has he popped the question yet? I'm single again, so let me live vicariously through your romance." Buffy's smile reached all the way up to her hazel-green eyes. Her latest doomed relationship had turned out to be with a con artist. He hadn't tried to trick her or her organization, not directly, but she'd been the pretty distraction on his arm to aid in his crimes.
The Scoobies were still ribbing her about that, but Xander's latest run-in with a sexy female demon had taken most of the attention away now. It hadn't stopped Angel from mildly teasing her about it when she arrived in Los Angeles, but at least she'd gotten a toe-curling make-out session for her efforts. They'd each gone their separate ways after to take care of the resulting effects being that close to each other had caused. The lonely shower had reminded her of why she'd agreed to date the con artist in the first place.
Across the table, Kensi had mostly lost the tension, but her eyes were more guarded than they'd been earlier. She did, however, answer Buffy's questions. Which turned out to be, no, he was not a pack rat. He was very clean and organized, something that occasionally caused friction. Yes, he took her some great places. Weekend getaways were a favorite thing of theirs when they both had time off. And no, he hadn't proposed yet. They hadn't been a couple long enough to take that step.
The two of them spent a comfortable hour getting to know each other again before they exchanged phone numbers and agreed to meet up the next time Buffy was in town. Buffy suspected there would be a background check on her within the hour, but that was okay, she had her own geek to protect their information against people who didn't need to know what they were up to. Willow would also get a request to do her own background check on Kensi and her unit.