In-Synch (Challenge)
Alrighty, so I was reading fluffybkitty's fics, and saw that she was doing a '100 mood challenge'. Basically it entails writing a story for each of the moods available on LJ. I thought it seemed like a fun challenge, so I've decided to undertake it. :)
Disclaimer: I own nothing. All characters belong to Joss Whedon.
Title: In-synch
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Characters: Faith, Buffy
Prompt: 001- Accomplished
Word Count:
Rating: PG-13
Spoilers: Set during the episode “Revelations”
Summary: Synchronized slaying.
As Buffy back-handed the vamp in front of her, her gaze flicked momentarily over to Faith. The other slayer was pounding into the vamp’s skull with a terrifying violence. Some part of her worried--hell, it always worried--that something was suppressed in her, buried, and would someday scratch its way out and turn her into something terrifying. It was the way she lost herself in the bone-cracking punches and kicks that scared her. She wasn’t near-perfect with her calling because it was instinctual. There was some part of her that truly found joy in it.
As though sensing her gaze, the brunette’s brown eyes, nearly black from blood-lust, met hers briefly before giving her full attention back to the fight. Buffy followed, focusing on dispatching the enemy. Before she knew it, they were mirroring each other’s movements beautifully.
Faith kicked.
Buffy punched.
The vamps spun.
The women staked.
When the bodies between them turned to dust, the women stared at each other, breathing hard and thrumming with something neither could identify.
And then they both grinned and high-fived, before turning to their watcher, who could only look at them with a sense of awe and pride.