crack_van | A Little Death and Destruction by Flurblewig (R)

Fandom: BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
Pairing: Buffy/Xander
Author on LJ:

flurblewig
Author Website: Flurblefic
Why this must be read:

Because it's dark, angsty and disturbing. Because it's a great look at what could happen if the First Evil wasn't destroyed at the end of Chosen, and it brings back an old villian to great effect.

Giles. Rona. Vi. Faith.

The names ran obsessively through Xander's head like an obscene roll call.

One that wouldn't end.

Robin, injured and caught too easily by Glory's fire, screaming as his body burned.

Wherever they stumbled to, wherever they tried to hide, she was there. Waiting. Laughing.

Willow, collapsing like a broken doll as Glory's hand connected with her chin, pushing her head back and snapping her neck.

And even when she wasn't, it didn't seem to be much better.

Kennedy, half her face blown away by a bullet when she tried to intervene in a gang rape taking place on a street corner.

They were attacked repeatedly as they fled through the streets, by would-be rapists and thieves and crazy-eyed people who lashed out at anything and anyone they could reach.

Andrew, pulled into the middle of what looked like a looting party and left lying in the road, the knife still embedded in his chest.

And when the sun went down, by vamps who treated the whole thing as an extended visit to Disneyland.

A Little Death and Destruction