Title: Tree Pretty

tth100 theme: Witches

Crossover fandom: The OC

Characters: Willow, Summer

Prompt: 015- Fire

Word Count: 333

Rating: U

Disclaimer: Joss Whedon owns all things Buffy. Josh Schwarz owns all things OC.

--On with the story…--

"You set fire to the gym?"

"Well technically, yeah."

"And you never thought that this may be a bad idea." Willow said raising her eyebrows. Being a Giles was harder than she'd thought it'd be.

"There was a vampire in it!"

"Not an ubervamp though? They were locked in the hellmouth."

"No…" The slayer admitted. She had been called ditzy on occasion, but she knew that burning down a school building was not one of her finest moments. "Regular."

"Look Summer, you've been training here for a couple of months now and but we do not burn down school buildings-"

"Ah-hem." She was interrupted by a loud cough from the corner. Buffy had been staring out the windows until then. She taught the fighting but left most of the other stuff to the watchers/ honorary watchers.

Willow looked around to see her long time friend grinning at her. "Unless there is no other option, right Buffy?"

"Right. But a simple staking probably would have been enough this time."

"It was enough! The fire was, like, a total accident. I was helping Cohen move the props from the play for Ryan's big surprise when the vamp attacked. I staked it, but it fell back into the tiki torches before it dusted and set the hut on fire. I wouldn't have even been in the gym if it wasn't for Chino so, taking into account his past record, it's all his fault." Summer finished, totally convinced of her own innocence.

Willow blinked. Now she understood why people asked her to slow down when she babbled. She'd have to make more of an effort to do what they told her in the future.

"Was that all? I have to meet Coop at the mall. That vamp totally got ash on my clothes, and vamp dust… ew!" Summer said, but she ran off before she got an answer.

"Did you get any of that that?" Willow said.

Buffy just shrugged. "You know what I always say, Fire bad, tree pretty."

--Finis--