Title: House Arrest 5/20 + Epilogue
Author: Forsaken2003
Pairing: William/Xander
Rating: R
Disclaimer: I own none, all belong to Joss Whedon
Comments: Always welcomed!
Summary: William is under house arrest after assaulting his teacher. When he starts people watching he notices something strange about his neighbour.
Warnings/Spoilers: Human Verse. Out of Character.
Note: (An S/X adaptation if the movie 'Disturbia'.) Uses actual dialogue from the movie Please don't sue!
Beta'd by: Whichclothes
Part Five
William raced back down the street, his shit-stained feet leaving tracks as he went. He raced by the Harrises and leapt back into his own yard. "Turn green, turn green, turn green..." he yelled at the bracelet all the way.
William looked at the bracelet and it continued to flash red. He hopped up and down hoping that would help. "No, c'mon, I'm way inside, turn green." When that didn't work he began to hop in a circle, and promptly fell on his ass. He then saw the ankle bracelet's light had turned green. "Yes! That's what I'm talking about!"
He gazed over; the Harris's each had a moving box in their hands and stood there, jaws dropped. Each took a nervous step backward. Just than the tanned God that William had been trying to get a look at stepped out the front door. He froze at the sight of the shit-and-grass-stained William. William locked eyes with him. Then William did the only he could think of; he smiled and waved. "It's cool, I'm all green."
Just then sirens wailed that made William turn to the street. A police car screeched to a stop. William lost his smile. "No, no, no. Sir? Listen. Officer, listen to me. I wasn't trying to go anywhere." One of the officers got out of the car. William recognized him right away. Officer Gutierrez, William groaned inwardly. "I wasn't trying to leave. There's a bag of shit on my stairs. Two kids just… Honestly, they put a bag of shit on my stairs and they lit it on fire."
"Face down on the ground and put your hands behind your head," Officer Gutierrez ordered. He didn't give William the chance to do as he was told and he pushed William onto his stomach and cuffed his hands behind his back.
"Xander, get in the house." Mrs. Harris ordered and pushed her son back through the door.
William's mind shifted back to his neighbors. He had a name!
Jenny was on the phone with William trying to calm the situation. "William, calm down, the officers were probably in the neighborhood already."
William paced as he held the cell phone up to his ear. He had just got out of the shower and was towel drying his hair. "Yeah, but the cop that came, he's my teacher's cousin. They're related. Isn't that a conflict of interest? Are there no other cops that can..."
"William, first times happen. The officers knew that. But next time they will take you to jail," Jenny explained. It wasn't unusual for people who that were under house arrest to step out of bounds. Like she told William the first day, people went stir crazy.
William flipped the phone shut and collapsed to the bed.
The next day William made his way around the yard in bare feet. He took a step and the green light suddenly went out and the red one began to flash. Quickly he pulled back and the green light came back on. With a smile he slammed a garden gnome onto the grass.
William tied a kite string around the gnome's hat, and then un-spooled it across the yard to a waiting croquet mallet that was hammered into the ground. He pulled the string taut and tied it off.
He formed a crude semi-circular arc around the yard tied off at different points using makeshift 'stakes' such as gnomes, mallets, garden shears, screwdrivers.
A short time later William shoved a screwdriver into the ground a few feet shy of his mailbox. He tied some string to it as he glanced over to the other neighbors' (the
Pilches) yard across the street and saw their black Labra-doodle watching him. "Hey pooch, come here..."
The dog trotted toward William. It almost reached the sidewalk when it suddenly got zapped by an underground electric fence. It yelped, spun back around, sat and stared.
William looked down at his ankle bracelet... His own prison. "Yeah, you and me both."
Over William's shoulder Xander lifted more boxes from the back of their station wagon. He set them on the drive and slammed the lift-gate. William turned around and Xander threw him a quick glance and a small smile, and then headed around the back of his house. William stared after him.