A/N: The challenge was a theme set, and that each theme must be between 100-500 words long. Here's another attempt to address my weakness-brevity! After the great honking beast that is For Granted, I figured it was appropriate. This series of ficlets is simply an exploration into the lives, quirks and growing pains of the lovely cast of Slayers over the first three seasons, Slayers, Slayers: Next and Slayers Try. This will be unlike most of my other work in that I will post these as I write them, and they are not necessarily in chronological order. Hope you enjoy!


Hold Up The World

(c) DeskRage, June 2012


#04 Wonder

He would never forget, during the entire ridiculous episode that constituted their first meeting, and then their first real life-and death encounter, she'd never once shown the slightest bit of revulsion or pity, even when she'd playfully slapped him and bruised her hand, or caught him trying to clean sand from between the stony scales on his face with a sharp twig.

"Here," she'd said, handing him a soft bristled brush, "This might help."

He'd never borrowed anything from a woman before.

"What?"

"Friends share, Zel," she'd grinned at him, and proffered the brush again, leaving him to wonder, a little dazedly at what point that had become friends, and if he could even pin it down to a specific event.