I Moderate (i_moderate) wrote in we_archive, @ 2006-04-02 11:06:00 |
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Entry tags: | buffy summers, challenge 1, mary-jane watson |
i_hide [Challenge #1: MJ to Buffy] Life sucks..so does death
Ok time to really take a good long look at things.
In the past day she'd found a place to stay, it wasn't the Four Seasons but it was clean and looked reasonably safe. Safe.. funny what a new concept that was for her. She'd been married to a costumed super hero for so long that she'd all but given up ever leading a normal life worrying about muggers and thieves. When one ran toe to toe with nemesis, intergalactic symbiotes and maniacal geniuses bent on world domination a mugger tends to be laughable.
But that was all before Pete....died. She hadn't thought it was possible but even he had his limits. The city lost a hero and she lost a husband, where was the fairness in that? There was none. That was why after her day full of getting appointments with agents, finding place to live and getting some more clothes, M.J. had taken a walk. If she knew she was going to the graveyard she never told herself about it. Ambling steps just lead her that way. She should have bought flowers, on the odd chance Pete was here she would have liked to have something to leave.
After twenty minutes of roaming the stones she still hadn't spotted Peter Parkers name, unsure if she should be happy or sad at lacking even that much of a connection she crumpled to a seat on a cement bench and dropped her head in her hands. Softly weeping for the first time in a long time. Not for Pete, but for herself. Fat greedy tears of her own misery fell to her feet, her distraction making it all the easier for the shambling shadow behind her to inch forward with it's nervous twitching gait.
From: [info]i_diedtwice Date: 04/05/2006 21:30:49
ooc: So sorry about not replying sooner!
"I'm not like, interrupting a date or anything, am I? Cuz really, I can think of a few places a little more romantic than a graveyard... unless you're into that kinda thing... which is pretty gross if you think about it."
The vampire, which had previously gone unnoticed, turned around with a surprised expression, his mouth open with a vaguely blank of all thought expression on his face. Buffy smacked him hard with the flat of her axe and a mixture of saliva and blood sprayed from his mouth from the blow to the side of his face.
Alright, maybe the axe was over doing it, but this place was giving her the wigs. She half expected a demon, but a vampire would do just as well.
"This is the part where you run!" Buffy explained to the redhead. BIFF! The vampire took the opening to deck Buffy with an impressive punch of his own.
From: [info]i_hide Date: 04/06/2006 21:03:43
(OOC: No worries!)
She heard the womans voice behind her, something about a date and MJ turned just in time to see the frail looking blond catch the man with a hard hit to the jaw. Uhh yeah...ok. MJ was dumbstruck watching as the man..no..not quiet..somethign was horribly wrong with his face. The ridged brow, the yellow eyes..the fangs..Fangs?
"This is the part where you run!"
"No kidding."
MJ was pretty good with self defense but neither the girl nor her brawling partner looked to be in the least bit like your average mugger. Still...she could at least offer some token of thanks as it seemed the girl was trying to save her neck. A wide circle made with her purse ending with that fine leather connecting to the base of the Vampires skull. Not anything like Buffy's maybe, but enough to have him staggering.
"Prada, never leave home without it."
Her husband must have left her some of that famous wit as she quipped before back off a safe distance ...most of the way out of the graveyard.
From: [info]i_diedtwice Date: 04/06/2006 23:45:14
It isn't a good day for a vampire when he's being beaten up by two smallish girls.
"Ooh. Nice one," Buffy appreciatively thought out loud. But the redhead was taking her advice and started to back away. That was good. That made Buffy's life a little easier. Slaying started to come back to her a little more naturally now. Take a nice dive through a hell dimension and you tend to get a bit rusty.
And like an old 60s live action super hero tv show, there were plenty of pow's and bop's to go around except that the slayer didn't get the catchy theme music.
The fight ended almost uneventfully as Buffy swung her axe and a vampire flew a few inches from its very dead body before turning to ash.
Once again Buffy had an audience during her slayage.
From: [info]i_hide Date: 04/09/2006 07:15:54
MJ had vast experience in the 'not becoming a liability' department in fights. She and Pete had tangled with enough baddie villainous well..villains to understand when the one who does the fighting says run, you run. She only stopped when she was sure she had enough distance between her and the two combatants to be able to out run them if need be.
She felt obliged to turn around and at least see if the blond was alright, but she was doing more then holding her own. a flurry of fists and feet and the one shiny sweep of a glistening metal thing and... Whoa. Normal villains do not do that.
The ash swirled in the breeze before fading away to nothing and MJ gaped. She'd seen a fair lot of things,but this was new for her. Pete would have been all over the story.. Pete.. wince there with the reminder that no. This was a story he wouldn't cover. He wasn't a reporter anymore, he was dead. She still wore her rings, not quite able to take them off just yet, some part of her refused to let go. That was the part that nearly got her killed tonight.
"Hey...uhhh... Thanks." Wow...way to be articulate Watson. "I mean thank you." She smiled to the younger blond. "Good to know heroes are still around."
From: [info]i_diedtwice Date: 04/09/2006 08:50:54
"Ain't no thing," Buffy replied. "But maybe next time you can visit the graveyard during the daytime hours, without the things that go bitey?"
Just a suggestion, because the redhead was either someone mourning over someone in the graveyard, she was a crazy person or she was actually just another vampire pretending to be-- no wait. Buffy could see MJ's reflection in the blade of her axe.
"You're okay?"
From: [info]i_hide Date: 04/09/2006 09:43:55
"I'm really not."
MJ wiped at the welling tears in her eyes and straightened her back. This was not the time for that kind of weakness. Especially when her life had just been spared.
"Physically I'm ok. Just... I lost someone. So yeah...I was here too late and not thinking. Just not used to a cemetery being such a high traffic area."
From: [info]i_diedtwice Date: 04/09/2006 15:06:32
Buffy frowned. "I'm sorry."
She looked around the cemetery, and while it seemed empty there was always the possibility of a late riser.
"I can walk you home if you want?"
From: [info]i_hide Date: 04/09/2006 17:14:07
"I look that pathetic huh?"
MJ couldn't fault her for it, she really was a mess since Pete died. At least the super girl was being nice about it.
"Look , least I can do is spring for coffee, you like Starbucks? I don't know about you but frothy mocha goodness might makes things better for me about now."
From: [info]i_diedtwice Date: 04/09/2006 23:01:56
"It's not pathetic. Trust me," Buffy did her best to offer the other a reassuring but sympathetic smile.
"Starbucks is good. Go caffeine. I didn't need to sleep tonight anyway." The Slayer offered her hand to the other, "I'm Buffy."
Who had she met that didn't know she was a vampire slayer? Oh well. Buffy was never very good at the secret identity thing, and if even Dracula knew her real name then the covert thing really wasn't working for her.
From: [info]i_hide Date: 04/11/2006 12:20:31
"Buffy, hi. I'm MJ."
MJ shook the offered hand and returned the smile somewhat sheepishly. The grip was firm and strong, more then she would have imagined for such a slight girl. Obviously she was someone along the lines of her own husband. Supers were the universal stabilizer it seemed.
"So, you do that a lot?"
MJ started walking with a thumb hooked back to indicate the small pile of ash as it blew away in the wind. No muss no fuss bad guys...something to be said for that.
From: [info]i_diedtwice Date: 04/13/2006 12:27:09
"Yeah... guess the whole secret identity thing really isn't working for me." Buffy shrugged it off.
"Not that I recommend you going to the papers or anything. The whole vampire stuff doesn't tend to go over too well."
From: [info]i_hide Date: 04/13/2006 19:46:01
"No problem, I don't hang out with news people these days."
Something unsaid in that. Buffy wouldn't know but it directly connected to that aforementioned lost loved one. Pete had been a photographer of much renown for his uncanny ability to track Spider-Man. Not so uncanny when you understood her was Spider-Man.
The Starbucks was only a few blocks ahead, already the green and white glow of the sign was coming into view.
"Secret identities rarely work well anyway. And they just lead to hassles for family." Yeah, MJ knew that.
From: [info]i_diedtwice Date: 04/13/2006 20:21:20
"I'm pretty sure hassles happen with or without the whole secret identity shitck."
Buffy thought of her sister and her late mother. She shrugged her shoulders and jammed them into her pockets. At least there was caffeination at the end of this bleak conversation topic of a tunnel.
From: [info]i_hide Date: 04/16/2006 17:09:29
"Hey look at me, pretty common everyday displaced model slash actress slash widow attacked by a..was..was that a vampire? In a graveyard...who would have guessed?"
Yes coffee, MJ might have gone for something a bit stiffer had she been given the option. This had not been her best day ever. As luck would have it there was the Starbucks up ahead, and a stiff double caf skinny mocha was calling her name.