This plot Bunny would not leave me alone.
Hope you all enjoy it.
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"Or
maybe Edison… how do you like that one." Xander said as the
small
creature sat on his shoulder and stared at him as if he had
just grown
a second head. "Okay… we'll stick with Sparky
for now." Xander said as
he opened the door to Giles'
apartment and stepped in to introduce the
small lizard to the
gang.
In hindsight he probably would have done better to come
by alone and
THEN bring the small lizard for a meet in
greet.
With a scream of "DEMON" his first sight of
the watchers apartment was
that of Buffy swinging an axe in the
general direction of his head.
--
Xander rested his
head on the table as he tried to will the entire
week into being
nothing more then a dream, a dream he was going to
wake from
right… now…
Now… right now… okay now….
Picking
his head up from the table he stared at the smiling face of
Sparky
while Buffy continued to twitch behind him. "No, bad Sparky,
no
electrocuting of the slayer." He reprimanded.
The small lizard cocked its head to the side in confusion.
"No
means you've done a bad thing." He explained as the lizard
looked
back at the slayer and hissed again before scuttling off to
examine
Giles' apartment leaving Xander to deal with the glares
from Giles as
he desperately tried to revive the unconscious
slayer.
"Xander where on Earth did you get that…
thing." Giles said as he
finally managed to get some smelling
salts out of the first aid kit
and grimaced as he cracked it open
and held it carefully under the
slayer's nose.
Xander
watched as the older Englishman dodged back when the
slayer
instinctively swung at the bearer of the offending odor.
"It followed
me home, can I keep it?" He asked with a
half smile as he tried to
play it off as a humorous situation.
It
fell flat, unfortunately, as Willow finally managed to hand Buffy
a
small mirror from her purse and the slayer got a look at
herself.
With an enraged scream, she grabbed a nearby
shortsword and charged
towards the small lizard. "I LOOK LIKE
HARPO MARXS YOU LITTLE DEMONSPAWN!"
Xander flinched and
closed his eyes as a high pitched whine, a short
series of pop's,
and the abrupt ending of the scream heralded the use
of his new
pet's defensive measures.
"Ummm… Giles do you think I
should remind Buffy that picking up a
metal sword and charging an
electrical powered creature is sort of…"
he trailed off as
Sparky finally climbed his leg and stood at his
shoulder, hissing
at the assembled demon hunters.
"Silly." Giles
supplied as he picked up the discarded smelling salt
capsule and
moved towards his slayer.
"Personally I was going to go
with stupid, but in hindsight, silly
would probably let you live
longer." He said as he tried to calm the
small creature
down.
"I doubt you'll have a problem with living after
Buffy get her hands
on you." Oz said as he watched the
proceedings with his usual stoic air.
"Quite, I suggest
you and the small hellion remove yourselves before I
attempt to
revive Buffy again." The Watcher said as he glared at
the
hissing creature before looking back at Xander. "I will
want a full
report on your last few days as well as an explanation
on how you came
into possession of this small reptilian fiend."
He said before nodding
towards the door. "I will contact you
when it is safe for you and your
friend' to return."
With
a resigned sigh Xander exited the apartment and started the slow
walk
back towards his home. At the small mewling sound, Xander looked
at
Sparky before rubbing the top of his head. "It's all right,
they'll
grow to love you." He said as a passing couple made a
comment about
the size of his iguana, the Sunnydale syndrome
kicking in for him for
once. With a smirk he walked into a petshop
he had once considered
getting a dog or something for Dawn the
summer Buffy ran away.
After buying a dozen small fish he left
with a grinning Sparky eyeing
the bags and making a whining sound
as he intently followed the
movement of the fish inside the
plastic. "Just look at us, making
friends and influencing
people wherever we go." Xander joked before
looking up and
down the deserted street in concern. "When did it get
so
late?" He mumbled before picking up his pace slightly.
He really hoped he didn't have to deal with Vampires tonight as well.
--
Xander stared at the twitching corpse at it
continued to curse at him
as the small lizard circled it carefully
as if confused why it was
still moving.
"Umm…
Sparky." He tried before it whined again and the
vampire
twitched as another jolt hit it sending it to cursing
again.
Finally setting the bag down Xander grabbed the stake
he usually
carried and moved to finish off the undead when Sparky
decided to take
matters into its own paws.
Climbing up on
the vampire's chest the small lizard's whine started to
climb in
pitch until Xander's teeth actually started to ache and he
had to
look away from the green glow.
With a series of pops that
sounded like firecrackers, Xander looked
back at the vampire as it
twitched and thrashed from the electricity
arching through it's
body, in a matter of seconds its power raised the
internal
temperature of the leech's body to the point of combustion.
Xander
stared in shock as the flaming vampire thrashed for a few
seconds
before crumbling to ash leaving a panting lizard and a
dumbfounded
Xander alone in the alley.
Picking up the panting creature,
Xander checked it for burns before
looking at it again. "Me
and you Sparky, we're going places." Xander
said as he opened
one of the bags and started to feed the small
creature as he
continued on his way home.
