Monkey Time
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maevebranTitle Monkey Time
Author:Maeve Bran
Summarry: Buffy and Daniel have a late night talk.
Notes:This a part of the New Job series set after 9.8 Babylon
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Stargate SG1. Just having a little fun.
Twisted Shorts Challenge: Storm
Raiting: FR13
Word Count:2465
Buffy walked out of the infirmary a little after 3 am, intending to head to the surface for a quick patrol before heading home. Not that a patrol was needed, Colorado Springs had almost no demons to worry about. The local demon population was basically just Clem, and he only lived there to take care of Buffy's house when she was off world for an extended time. Willow and Dawn had wanted to send either a newly trained watcher or another slayer but Buffy wouldn't hear of it. Clem as her housekeeper was as close to a compromise as Buffy would come. Buffy swung by level 18 on her way to the surface and sure enough Daniel was still in his lab. She had hoped that with Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell's return from the Sodan, Daniel would return to actually sleeping before he passed out from exhaustion but apparently Daniel liked the infirmary.
Buffy knocked on the door and the archeologist looked up, a smile lighting up his face. "Hey Buffy. What are you still doing here?" He looked at the clock, "At 3 AM? Wow. I guess I shouldn't be talking about still being here."
"I'm on my way to do a quick patrol and then home. But then I saw your light and had to come by and see if you've even left the Mountain at all in the last week." Buffy teased.
"Um. I was home for a day I think but then this storm system moved in and I lost power so I came back to base. " Daniel replied. "I guess I should go check on my apartment and make sure nothing has over grown the fridge." He joked as he marked his place and started the shutdown process on his computer. "How about you?"
"Clem will have everything under control." Buffy said smugly, knowing she had a very good deal going. For the price of some junk food with every grocery order and turning a blind eye to kitten poker, Buffy never had to worry about her utilities being shut off, mail piling up or weird stuff trying to grow out of the fridge and take over the neighborhood if she was gone more than a few days. Clem took care of everything including making sure the remaining Scoobies never worried too much about her.
"Clem? Buffy do you have a new boyfriend?" Daniel teased. He was a little hurt by the idea but thought Buffy should have some one in her life.
"Are you kidding?! No Daniel. Clem is a demon. He is a compromise with Dawn and Willow. They wanted someone here to report on me if I got in trouble and I didn't think that was necessary. Clem is mostly harmless except his penchant for playing Poker for kittens to eat." Buffy explained as they walked out of Daniel's lab.
Daniel turned and locked the door before answering. "Um ok. You do have the most unusual friends."
"Hello, who is the one friendly enough with the Asgard to have the flagship named after him?" Buffy teased back. "Not that I've met Thor but I have seen the file pictures. Trust me Clem is as unusual as Thor."
They rode up to the surface in silence. Each contemplating the strange friendship they had going. It was sort of like siblings and sort of flirty and sort of something else. What ever it was they were comfortable with it.
They step out into driving rain when they reached the surface. Buffy took one look at the rain and turned around. "So much for that idea. I think I'll just stay in my quarters on base tonight." Buffy walked back to the first elevator. Apparently Daniel had come to a similar conclusion.
"I'm not driving out in that. I couldn't see a thing." Daniel said as he joined her in the elevator. Buffy gave him an odd look. "I may have lived in Colorado for the last eight plus years but I'm still a desert dweller at heart. That much rain makes me nervous and I'm not willing to brave it at this hour of the morning only to have to face it again six hours later."
"I'm a Southern California girl, so I so totally get what you're saying." Buffy agreed as they signed back in at the 16th floor and changed elevators. "So want to grab a cup of coffee and talk for a bit? I'm too keyed up to sleep just yet."
"Sure but the commissary is closed." Daniel said.
"Don't worry Willow sent me a stash of Columbian coffee from her recent trip down there to check on the South American Slayer. I can brew us up a pot of the best coffee you've ever had in about five minutes. If you'll brave my quarters." Buffy invited.
Daniel shifted uncomfortably until they reached level 20 where he had to decide. "Sure. That sounds nice."
Daniel fallowed Buffy to her quarters and entered quickly so as to avoid catching anyone's attention. Not that he thought he was doing anything wrong, just some personnel might not let him live down the fact that he was entering the quarters of a young woman who was almost young enough to be his daughter at 3AM.
Buffy was oblivious to Daniel's discomfort and proceeded to make coffee. When the coffee maker was happily percolating she turn to face Daniel. He was still standing just inside the door apparently taking in the decor. It was part girlly girl and part Medieval armory with a prominent cross theme.
"Please make yourself comfortable." Buffy said as she gestured to the pair of comfy standard issue box like stuffed chairs that flanked a small table. They looked like rejects from a college dorm lobby. But the thing that made Daniel uncomfortable was that each was strewn with discarded clothes. One even had a bra hanging off of it. Buffy noticed the clothes and quickly gathered them up and tossed them into a pile beside the bed. "Sorry, I've only been here long enough to sleep between the last three missions."
Daniel nodded absently as he sat in one of the newly cleared chairs. He was starting to regret agreeing to have coffee with Buffy. Then he remembered their last conversation and asked the question he'd been pondering for weeks, "So Buffy, last time we talked you alluded to a sad relationship history?"
Buffy had sort of been expecting this. She knew he wouldn't beat around the bush when asking. "Yes I did." The coffee had finished so she poured herself a cup and stirred in some sugar and set it by the other chair before getting Daniel a cup too. She brought it to him and sat down before answering his question. "How much do you know about Angel/Angelus?"
"Not much. The material the Watchers sent over mentioned he was petty much out of the picture. " Daniel said slightly puzzled why Buffy was asking about his knowledge of the Vampire with a soul.
"The first week I was in Sunnydale, I met a mysterious man who silently helped me out. I thought he was just a college student or something but he turned out to be Angel. He had been one of the worst vampires until a hundred years before when he fed on the wrong Gypsy girl and had been cursed with a soul. He had the weight of all the horrible crimes he committed suddenly come crashing down on him. Just before I was called, he had finally decided to quit wallowing in guilt and help fight his brothers and sisters. He came to Sunnydale to help. By the time I knew that he was a vampire I had fallen for him and he for me. We started dating at the end of my sophomore year." Buffy paused to drink some more coffee.
"What happened? I assume that the relationship between a Slayer and Vampire, even one with a soul, could not be easy." Daniel said since he felt Buffy was waiting for some reaction.
"Well one of Angel's childe named Druscilla and her childe Spike came to town. They were assembling this uber bad guy called the Judge. The kind of bad guy with legends about no weapon forged would stop him." Buffy said ruefully.
"I think I've run into a few of those myself." Daniel agreed.
"I'll bet you have. Well anyway it was my seventeenth birthday. Let's just say Angel's curse had a codicil that he didn't know about. The Gypsies had wanted revenge so if Angel ever knew perfect happiness," Buffy made the air quotes around perfect happiness for emphasis, "He would lose his soul." Buffy drank some more of her coffee.
Daniel looked at Buffy. Her face was flaming and she wasn't meeting his gaze. That had to indicate just what she was talking about. "I take it he experienced perfect happiness?"
"Yep." She looked up. "I should be over the embarrassment about it. After all the entire demon world knows that the first time I had sex I turned my boyfriend in to the worst monster the world has known. But unfortunately telling this story never gets easier."
Daniel was stunned. He had sort of drawn some conclusions but she mad sure there were no ambiguities. "He reverted to Angelus I take it."
"Yep. Killed Willow's fish. Stalked me leaving disturbing drawings. Killed Giles's girlfriend because she was trying to re-restore his soul. Then he was starting to wake the demon Acathla, who would suck the world into Hell. About this time Willow had started to dabble in magic and she found Jenny's notes on restoring Angel's soul. I went to go stop Angelus and Willow tied to restore his soul. Only it didn't work the first time. Angelus had started the process and the portal to Hell was open and starting to expand. The only way to stop it was to run Angelus though with this specific sword and stick it into the Acathla statue. Just as I was about to skewer Angelus Willow succeeded. Angel was back. He said he loved me. I kissed him. Told him I loved him and had him close his eyes. Then I stabbed him through the heart and pinned him to the statue. Both he and the statue got sucked into Hell and the world was safe. The world almost ended because I feel in love." Buffy finished off her coffee.
"I don't know what to say. I know what it is to be facing the one you love as they try to kill you, but to have to kill them before they destroy the world? I am sorry." Daniel said as he too finished his coffee. He got up and took her mug with his over to the shelf by the coffeemaker. Daniel returned and sat on the arm of her chair. "So what happened then? The files I read said that Angel died in a fight in Los Angeles a year and a half ago."
Buffy looked up and saw the understanding in his eyes and turned to sit sideways in the chair. "He for some reason was returned from that Hell a few months later. Only the dimension had had a hundred or more years pass in that time. Angel was just a step from being an insensible beast from all the suffering. I nursed him back to health and tried to fight my love for him. He tried to fight his love too. We tried to convince everyone, including ourselves, that we were just friends. But in the words of Spike, 'You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver but you'll never be just friends.' and he was right. In the end Angel left and went to Los Angeles. He continued his fight against evil. I did see him a few more times. Most notably right after I was ripped out of Heaven and right before the final fight in Sunnydale. But Angel is just the surface of the joke that is my love life."
Daniel shook his head. "You've had a lot to bare for one so young."
"It's not the age but the mileage, Daniel." Buffy said half jokingly. "So tell me, what was your most traumatic relationship?"
Daniel moved back to his seat before starting in on his tale. "You know I married an Abydonian named Sha're?" Buffy nodded. "Well she was abducted by Apophis and made his queen, Amaunet. I joined the SGC to find her and I did. One Abydonian year to the day. That's fourteen months here on Earth. When I found her she was back on Abydos to hide because she was pregnant with Apophis's child, a Harcesis. The Harcesis carries all the knowledge of the Goa'uld parents because of genetic memory so they are hunted relentlessly by other Goa'uld."
"Hence the hiding. I get it." Buffy said to redirect his attention back to the story. "So what happened as I don't see you with a step child running around."
"Teal'c and I were going to bring Sha're back here since as long as the baby hadn't been born the Goa'uld was dormant. I had a day with my wife before she went into labor and I had to deliver her child as the Gao'uld regained control. Teal'c and I hid the child. A year later, Amaunet found the boy and hid him away herself. She had captured her father and some other Abydonians and SG1 went to rescue them. I saw Amaunet and ran towards her. She had me in the grip of the Gao'uld hand device, which has a mental component so Sha're sent me a message as to where to find the boy. We found him but he was in the care of Oma Desala. She was much better able to care for him so I left him there. He has apparently Ascended. I saw him a year later but not after that. Anyway, Amaunet was about to kill me when Teal'c entered the tent and shot her with a staff weapon to save my life but kill her." Daniel concluded.
Buffy moved to sit behind him on the back of the chair. She placed a hand on his shoulder and rubbed soothingly. Daniel had always impressed her but now hearing no animosity in his voice over Teal’c killing his wife increased the respect even more.
Daniel stood and said, “As nice as this has been, I must get some sleep or I won’t be coherent in the briefing in the morning.” Daniel quickly left and Buffy went to bed
Author:Maeve Bran
Summarry: Buffy and Daniel have a late night talk.
Notes:This a part of the New Job series set after 9.8 Babylon
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy the Vampire Slayer or Stargate SG1. Just having a little fun.
Twisted Shorts Challenge: Storm
Raiting: FR13
Word Count:2465
Buffy walked out of the infirmary a little after 3 am, intending to head to the surface for a quick patrol before heading home. Not that a patrol was needed, Colorado Springs had almost no demons to worry about. The local demon population was basically just Clem, and he only lived there to take care of Buffy's house when she was off world for an extended time. Willow and Dawn had wanted to send either a newly trained watcher or another slayer but Buffy wouldn't hear of it. Clem as her housekeeper was as close to a compromise as Buffy would come. Buffy swung by level 18 on her way to the surface and sure enough Daniel was still in his lab. She had hoped that with Lt. Col. Cameron Mitchell's return from the Sodan, Daniel would return to actually sleeping before he passed out from exhaustion but apparently Daniel liked the infirmary.
Buffy knocked on the door and the archeologist looked up, a smile lighting up his face. "Hey Buffy. What are you still doing here?" He looked at the clock, "At 3 AM? Wow. I guess I shouldn't be talking about still being here."
"I'm on my way to do a quick patrol and then home. But then I saw your light and had to come by and see if you've even left the Mountain at all in the last week." Buffy teased.
"Um. I was home for a day I think but then this storm system moved in and I lost power so I came back to base. " Daniel replied. "I guess I should go check on my apartment and make sure nothing has over grown the fridge." He joked as he marked his place and started the shutdown process on his computer. "How about you?"
"Clem will have everything under control." Buffy said smugly, knowing she had a very good deal going. For the price of some junk food with every grocery order and turning a blind eye to kitten poker, Buffy never had to worry about her utilities being shut off, mail piling up or weird stuff trying to grow out of the fridge and take over the neighborhood if she was gone more than a few days. Clem took care of everything including making sure the remaining Scoobies never worried too much about her.
"Clem? Buffy do you have a new boyfriend?" Daniel teased. He was a little hurt by the idea but thought Buffy should have some one in her life.
"Are you kidding?! No Daniel. Clem is a demon. He is a compromise with Dawn and Willow. They wanted someone here to report on me if I got in trouble and I didn't think that was necessary. Clem is mostly harmless except his penchant for playing Poker for kittens to eat." Buffy explained as they walked out of Daniel's lab.
Daniel turned and locked the door before answering. "Um ok. You do have the most unusual friends."
"Hello, who is the one friendly enough with the Asgard to have the flagship named after him?" Buffy teased back. "Not that I've met Thor but I have seen the file pictures. Trust me Clem is as unusual as Thor."
They rode up to the surface in silence. Each contemplating the strange friendship they had going. It was sort of like siblings and sort of flirty and sort of something else. What ever it was they were comfortable with it.
They step out into driving rain when they reached the surface. Buffy took one look at the rain and turned around. "So much for that idea. I think I'll just stay in my quarters on base tonight." Buffy walked back to the first elevator. Apparently Daniel had come to a similar conclusion.
"I'm not driving out in that. I couldn't see a thing." Daniel said as he joined her in the elevator. Buffy gave him an odd look. "I may have lived in Colorado for the last eight plus years but I'm still a desert dweller at heart. That much rain makes me nervous and I'm not willing to brave it at this hour of the morning only to have to face it again six hours later."
"I'm a Southern California girl, so I so totally get what you're saying." Buffy agreed as they signed back in at the 16th floor and changed elevators. "So want to grab a cup of coffee and talk for a bit? I'm too keyed up to sleep just yet."
"Sure but the commissary is closed." Daniel said.
"Don't worry Willow sent me a stash of Columbian coffee from her recent trip down there to check on the South American Slayer. I can brew us up a pot of the best coffee you've ever had in about five minutes. If you'll brave my quarters." Buffy invited.
Daniel shifted uncomfortably until they reached level 20 where he had to decide. "Sure. That sounds nice."
Daniel fallowed Buffy to her quarters and entered quickly so as to avoid catching anyone's attention. Not that he thought he was doing anything wrong, just some personnel might not let him live down the fact that he was entering the quarters of a young woman who was almost young enough to be his daughter at 3AM.
Buffy was oblivious to Daniel's discomfort and proceeded to make coffee. When the coffee maker was happily percolating she turn to face Daniel. He was still standing just inside the door apparently taking in the decor. It was part girlly girl and part Medieval armory with a prominent cross theme.
"Please make yourself comfortable." Buffy said as she gestured to the pair of comfy standard issue box like stuffed chairs that flanked a small table. They looked like rejects from a college dorm lobby. But the thing that made Daniel uncomfortable was that each was strewn with discarded clothes. One even had a bra hanging off of it. Buffy noticed the clothes and quickly gathered them up and tossed them into a pile beside the bed. "Sorry, I've only been here long enough to sleep between the last three missions."
Daniel nodded absently as he sat in one of the newly cleared chairs. He was starting to regret agreeing to have coffee with Buffy. Then he remembered their last conversation and asked the question he'd been pondering for weeks, "So Buffy, last time we talked you alluded to a sad relationship history?"
Buffy had sort of been expecting this. She knew he wouldn't beat around the bush when asking. "Yes I did." The coffee had finished so she poured herself a cup and stirred in some sugar and set it by the other chair before getting Daniel a cup too. She brought it to him and sat down before answering his question. "How much do you know about Angel/Angelus?"
"Not much. The material the Watchers sent over mentioned he was petty much out of the picture. " Daniel said slightly puzzled why Buffy was asking about his knowledge of the Vampire with a soul.
"The first week I was in Sunnydale, I met a mysterious man who silently helped me out. I thought he was just a college student or something but he turned out to be Angel. He had been one of the worst vampires until a hundred years before when he fed on the wrong Gypsy girl and had been cursed with a soul. He had the weight of all the horrible crimes he committed suddenly come crashing down on him. Just before I was called, he had finally decided to quit wallowing in guilt and help fight his brothers and sisters. He came to Sunnydale to help. By the time I knew that he was a vampire I had fallen for him and he for me. We started dating at the end of my sophomore year." Buffy paused to drink some more coffee.
"What happened? I assume that the relationship between a Slayer and Vampire, even one with a soul, could not be easy." Daniel said since he felt Buffy was waiting for some reaction.
"Well one of Angel's childe named Druscilla and her childe Spike came to town. They were assembling this uber bad guy called the Judge. The kind of bad guy with legends about no weapon forged would stop him." Buffy said ruefully.
"I think I've run into a few of those myself." Daniel agreed.
"I'll bet you have. Well anyway it was my seventeenth birthday. Let's just say Angel's curse had a codicil that he didn't know about. The Gypsies had wanted revenge so if Angel ever knew perfect happiness," Buffy made the air quotes around perfect happiness for emphasis, "He would lose his soul." Buffy drank some more of her coffee.
Daniel looked at Buffy. Her face was flaming and she wasn't meeting his gaze. That had to indicate just what she was talking about. "I take it he experienced perfect happiness?"
"Yep." She looked up. "I should be over the embarrassment about it. After all the entire demon world knows that the first time I had sex I turned my boyfriend in to the worst monster the world has known. But unfortunately telling this story never gets easier."
Daniel was stunned. He had sort of drawn some conclusions but she mad sure there were no ambiguities. "He reverted to Angelus I take it."
"Yep. Killed Willow's fish. Stalked me leaving disturbing drawings. Killed Giles's girlfriend because she was trying to re-restore his soul. Then he was starting to wake the demon Acathla, who would suck the world into Hell. About this time Willow had started to dabble in magic and she found Jenny's notes on restoring Angel's soul. I went to go stop Angelus and Willow tied to restore his soul. Only it didn't work the first time. Angelus had started the process and the portal to Hell was open and starting to expand. The only way to stop it was to run Angelus though with this specific sword and stick it into the Acathla statue. Just as I was about to skewer Angelus Willow succeeded. Angel was back. He said he loved me. I kissed him. Told him I loved him and had him close his eyes. Then I stabbed him through the heart and pinned him to the statue. Both he and the statue got sucked into Hell and the world was safe. The world almost ended because I feel in love." Buffy finished off her coffee.
"I don't know what to say. I know what it is to be facing the one you love as they try to kill you, but to have to kill them before they destroy the world? I am sorry." Daniel said as he too finished his coffee. He got up and took her mug with his over to the shelf by the coffeemaker. Daniel returned and sat on the arm of her chair. "So what happened then? The files I read said that Angel died in a fight in Los Angeles a year and a half ago."
Buffy looked up and saw the understanding in his eyes and turned to sit sideways in the chair. "He for some reason was returned from that Hell a few months later. Only the dimension had had a hundred or more years pass in that time. Angel was just a step from being an insensible beast from all the suffering. I nursed him back to health and tried to fight my love for him. He tried to fight his love too. We tried to convince everyone, including ourselves, that we were just friends. But in the words of Spike, 'You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love till it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other till it makes you quiver but you'll never be just friends.' and he was right. In the end Angel left and went to Los Angeles. He continued his fight against evil. I did see him a few more times. Most notably right after I was ripped out of Heaven and right before the final fight in Sunnydale. But Angel is just the surface of the joke that is my love life."
Daniel shook his head. "You've had a lot to bare for one so young."
"It's not the age but the mileage, Daniel." Buffy said half jokingly. "So tell me, what was your most traumatic relationship?"
Daniel moved back to his seat before starting in on his tale. "You know I married an Abydonian named Sha're?" Buffy nodded. "Well she was abducted by Apophis and made his queen, Amaunet. I joined the SGC to find her and I did. One Abydonian year to the day. That's fourteen months here on Earth. When I found her she was back on Abydos to hide because she was pregnant with Apophis's child, a Harcesis. The Harcesis carries all the knowledge of the Goa'uld parents because of genetic memory so they are hunted relentlessly by other Goa'uld."
"Hence the hiding. I get it." Buffy said to redirect his attention back to the story. "So what happened as I don't see you with a step child running around."
"Teal'c and I were going to bring Sha're back here since as long as the baby hadn't been born the Goa'uld was dormant. I had a day with my wife before she went into labor and I had to deliver her child as the Gao'uld regained control. Teal'c and I hid the child. A year later, Amaunet found the boy and hid him away herself. She had captured her father and some other Abydonians and SG1 went to rescue them. I saw Amaunet and ran towards her. She had me in the grip of the Gao'uld hand device, which has a mental component so Sha're sent me a message as to where to find the boy. We found him but he was in the care of Oma Desala. She was much better able to care for him so I left him there. He has apparently Ascended. I saw him a year later but not after that. Anyway, Amaunet was about to kill me when Teal'c entered the tent and shot her with a staff weapon to save my life but kill her." Daniel concluded.
Buffy moved to sit behind him on the back of the chair. She placed a hand on his shoulder and rubbed soothingly. Daniel had always impressed her but now hearing no animosity in his voice over Teal’c killing his wife increased the respect even more.
Daniel stood and said, “As nice as this has been, I must get some sleep or I won’t be coherent in the briefing in the morning.” Daniel quickly left and Buffy went to bed
