Shoe on the Other Foot (SotOF)
By Penmom
As you well know, the usual things apply. This is a short work that has been rolling around in my head for weeks. Place this in mid Season 6. Whether I continue is up in the air. Premise - Xander and Spike switch bodies Feedback! I love it - I can't wait to see what you make of this!
Prologue - Wiggy Purple Lightning
The bolt that the demon let loose on them was wicked. A second later and Buffy manages to decapitate the thing but not before it hits Spike and Xander with some kind of wiggy purple lightning.
Not so worried about Spike - 'Hello, dead already!' She kneels down to check out Xander first. As she's checking his pulse, his eyes fly open and immediately wrinkle in an odd way. Propping himself up onto his elbows, he maintains eye contact with her as he speaks, his voice seeming an octave lower than usual.
His words stun her so that she feels like she's the one who just got hit with demon lightning. "What the hell, Pet?"
He shakes his shaggy head as if to clear it. "Something's bloody not right!" he declares with more force as he makes to stand only to wobble and sit - unceremoniously, back on the ground.
It is then that he notices the body lying not two feet away. "What the bloody hell, what AM I DOING there if I'm here." He seems to come to his own answer between looking at himself, the body on the ground and at Buffy's incredulous face.
Seeking to stand again - successfully this time - he declares a firm, "No. There is no way. No. This is not happening. Bloody thing stunned me, that's all. I'll wake up and I'll be fine." Decision made, he awkwardly kneels beside his own body and shakes it none too gently.
Spike's eyes open almost immediately, "Christ, what was that?" The flat accent sounds strange curling off the tongue of its owner.
When Spike looks up and sees Xander looking back at him, he curses.
"Not again, not two of me! This is so not good." He looks around and his eyes catch on Buffy.
Something in her stance and the Zeppo's expression cause him to take a closer inspection of himself. His eyes widen at the prospect but his mind fights to expel the thought. It's can't be. There is no way in hell that this can be right.
He's isn't split in two. This is much, much worse. This is like Freaky Friday from Hell. He inhabits Spike's body and if he takes this to it's logical conclusion --- then, the evil undead is in his!
By Penmom
As you well know, the usual things apply. This is a short work that has been rolling around in my head for weeks. Place this in mid Season 6. Whether I continue is up in the air. Premise - Xander and Spike switch bodies Feedback! I love it - I can't wait to see what you make of this!
Prologue - Wiggy Purple Lightning
The bolt that the demon let loose on them was wicked. A second later and Buffy manages to decapitate the thing but not before it hits Spike and Xander with some kind of wiggy purple lightning.
Not so worried about Spike - 'Hello, dead already!' She kneels down to check out Xander first. As she's checking his pulse, his eyes fly open and immediately wrinkle in an odd way. Propping himself up onto his elbows, he maintains eye contact with her as he speaks, his voice seeming an octave lower than usual.
His words stun her so that she feels like she's the one who just got hit with demon lightning. "What the hell, Pet?"
He shakes his shaggy head as if to clear it. "Something's bloody not right!" he declares with more force as he makes to stand only to wobble and sit - unceremoniously, back on the ground.
It is then that he notices the body lying not two feet away. "What the bloody hell, what AM I DOING there if I'm here." He seems to come to his own answer between looking at himself, the body on the ground and at Buffy's incredulous face.
Seeking to stand again - successfully this time - he declares a firm, "No. There is no way. No. This is not happening. Bloody thing stunned me, that's all. I'll wake up and I'll be fine." Decision made, he awkwardly kneels beside his own body and shakes it none too gently.
Spike's eyes open almost immediately, "Christ, what was that?" The flat accent sounds strange curling off the tongue of its owner.
When Spike looks up and sees Xander looking back at him, he curses.
"Not again, not two of me! This is so not good." He looks around and his eyes catch on Buffy.
Something in her stance and the Zeppo's expression cause him to take a closer inspection of himself. His eyes widen at the prospect but his mind fights to expel the thought. It's can't be. There is no way in hell that this can be right.
He's isn't split in two. This is much, much worse. This is like Freaky Friday from Hell. He inhabits Spike's body and if he takes this to it's logical conclusion --- then, the evil undead is in his!