lirazel | choco_cherries: Blood Will Tell

I couldn't resist.

Title: Blood Will Tell
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The Black Donnellys
Characters/Pairing: Buffy Summers/Tommy Donnelly
Challenge entry:

choco_cherries Round 21 - Free-for-all
Rating: PG-13
Word count: 298
Dedication: For

ineffort . Look, May! It's BUFFYTOMMY TOMMYBUFFY!
A/N: Inspired by the adorable cuddling in the Veronika Decides to Die trailer.
Summary: "We just keep running. And it's always blood."

The first time he sees her, she has blood on her hands, and he thinks maybe she’d understand.

Turns out, it’s her own blood, but she fights anyway, her sword sending the guys who look like extras from a Mel Gibson blockbuster falling to the ground (blood everywhere). A sword? He knows guns and knives, gets axes and bombs, but swords? He starts to question his gut reaction to her.

Only it turns out that she does understand. Swaying on her feet, blood gushing from a gut wound, and it’s her love for her sister that keeps her upright. Yeah, he gets that, that ingrained need to protect your family, written in the DNA in your blood. Yeah, he gets that.

He also knows how to patch her up again, and he isn’t really surprised (knights and swords?) that she starts to heal way quicker than she should.

She’s on the run, protecting her sister not only from the Knights That Say Key, as she flippantly calls them (half the time he has no clue what she’s saying), but a skanky-hellbitch-god, whatever that means. He doesn’t ask, just makes his brothers scoot over so the girls can fit in the back of the van (there’s room enough, now that Mom’s gone). They’re on the run, too—might as well run together. When their pasts catch up with them, they fight: knights and Dokey’s men and other things he doesn’t even want to know the names of. Their lives mesh easily.

One night, late, Sean’s driving, everyone else sleeping, and Tommy slips into the back where she’s watching over her sleeping sister, fierce and weary. She whispers her past: destiny, desire, death.

“We just keep running,” she murmurs right before she falls asleep against his shoulder. “And it’s always blood.”

Yeah. He gets that.

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I've been waiting for this! :) It was great! :)

anyway I was wondering if you watched, Wonderfalls or Felicity? I just found them myself, almost done with Wonderfalls but I only just finished the pilot of Felicity and love it.

Plus finally started watching The O.C season four.

Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!

No, I haven't seen either one of them, but they're both on my list to watch, and I very much like forward to seeing them. I'm glad you enjoyed them--that makes me even more anxious to see them.

This is excellent. I've never seen The Black Donnellys but I like the idea that there is somewhere for Buffy to rest.

Also, great Monty Python reference. So Buffy. :)

I'm so glad you enjoyed it despite being unfamiliar with one of the fandoms--that means a lot.

I like the idea that there is somewhere for Buffy to rest. That's exactly what I was going for. Girl deserves it.

Ha! You know that Giles or Spike totally made her watch it at one point or another.

!!! LAUREN. THIS IS SO GORGEOUS, YO. As expected, but really. These two have so much in common and I am so wanting to quote things right now, but the entire thing is my favourite. Your Tommy voice is amazing and the fact that there's room in the van because Ma Donnelly isn't with them anymore and the boys just scooting over because they're all kind of in the same boat and then her confessing to Tommy and him always getting it because of course he would and the layer of traagic just tinted through this whole piece. It's brilliant, babe. Absolutely brilliant. And though I said it's all my favourite, these two lines made me lose coherent thought.

One night, late, Sean’s driving, everyone else sleeping, and Tommy slips into the back where she’s watching over her sleeping sister, fierce and weary. She whispers her past: destiny, desire, death.

“We just keep running,” she murmurs right before she falls asleep against his shoulder. “And it’s always blood.” Because I could so clearly picture that and the summation of her past is so true and concise.

And this: The first time he sees her, she has blood on her hands, and he thinks maybe she’d understand. Because OH TOMMY. You are so doomed and sad and strong and doomed. That is a wonderful line and so true to the both of them and of course, he'd see the blood and think that.

THANK YOU, LOVELY.

I'M SO GLAD YOU LIKED IT, YO!!!!

These two have so much in common They really do, don't they? With both of them, I just get the feeling that they're never going to be able to really rest--the fight keeps going on.

I was a bit worried about my Tommy voice, so now I can breathe a sigh of relief.

OH TOMMY. You are so doomed and sad and strong and doomed. I KNOW! Poor boy!

Again, thanks sooooo much, and I'm so glad you enjoyed it. I had fun with it. And thought of you while writing it.

I think it's a mark of a good story when I read the fandoms involved and go "WTF?", and then read the first line, and it all falls into place so perfectly.

I really, really liked this.

(Oh, hai, I'm not a stalker. Followed you here from your ff.net profile because I liked "Inertia".)

I think it's a mark of a good story when I read the fandoms involved and go "WTF?", and then read the first line, and it all falls into place so perfectly. Ha! That's a great compliment, I think.

And thank you so much! I'm so glad you enjoyed it. And no worries about the stalker thing; I really didn't think that. I'm just giddy that you enjoyed Inertia enough to come over here. Thanks!

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