[March 10 out of 20] BtVS: Fic: Bang-Up Job

[veronyxk84]

Title: Bang-Up Job
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Author: veronyxk84
Characters/Pairing: Spuffy, Angel
Rating: PG-13/Teen
Word count: 300 (Google Docs)
Summary: AtS crossover. Set post-series and after AtS series finale, 5x22 “Not Fade Away.” | All hell is breaking loose in L.A. Buffy swoops in with her army and deals with her fanged exes.
Notes: also for #442 - It’s My Job by drabble_zone and #381 - Bang by anythingdrabble

Prompt [#9]: Face

Also on my journal

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At Spike’s refusal to get on a military van, Buffy leveled him with a glare. “Let me set the record straight. I don’t have time for your complaints ’cause I’m here to do my job. And my job, apparently, is to clean up the ginormous mess that you and Angel have started!”
“Oi!” protested Spike. “Your ex is the one who started it. I was trying to help him stop it.”
“Of course. And you both did a bang-up job as we can see,” she said, gesturing at the destruction all around them while battle cries echoed in the distance.

“I had a plan, okay?” said Angel, rubbing the burns around his eyes. “It just—”
“Blew up in your face?” she offered.
“That was the dragon,” said Spike. “But he did have a plan and it did seem pretty solid on paper. Until it, uh… got out of hand. Big time.”
Buffy gaped at him. “Did you just defend Angel? ’Cause now I’ve seen everything.”
“Yeah, well, don’t get used to it.”
“I won’t,” she deadpanned. “To the van, both of you.”
“No. I said I’m not going!” exclaimed Spike.
“Yes, you are!”
“Make me. I dare you,” he challenged.

“You dare me?” she chuckled. “Every single time you faced me, you got your butt spectacularly kicked. The odds are not in your favor, Spike. Either get on that van or I’ll see to it.”
He shrugged. “You can try.”
“Spike, I’m not playing.”
“Neither am I. Not. Going.”
“And I’d pick a thousand years of torture in hell over having to listen to your bickering,” groaned Angel, squinting his injured eyes. “That the van? I’m going.”
Buffy sighed. “Please, take Spike.”
“By all means, keep him,” said Angel. “In fact, take him as far away as possible from me.”