Title: huddled close beside a log

Fandom: Supernatural/NCIS

Disclaimer: not my characters; title from Allison Krauss

Warnings: preseries for both shows

Pairings: none stated

Rating: PG

Wordcount: 145

Point of view: third

Prompt: foil


"Oh, fuck," Tony whispered, ducking back behind the stump. "Seriously, what the hell?"

"Dude, shut up," the far-too-pretty stranger hissed from behind his own stump. "Do you want the fugly to find and eviscerate us? Those claws aren't just for show, you know."

"You shut up!" Tony shot back. "This is your fault."

"My fault?" pretty!stranger demanded. "No, it's your fault."

Tony rolled his eyes, but he flinched back when the toothy monster roared. Glancing at the gun in his hand, he looked over at pretty!stranger's sawed-off shotgun. "Got another one of those?" he asked hopefully.

Pretty!stranger pulled a second shotgun from somewhere, so Tony reholstered his own piece. "Aim for the head or the heart," pretty!stranger whispered, crawling to Tony's side. "Kill shots are the only thing that'll slow it down."

Tony took a breath; the monster roared again and pretty!stranger said, "Now."