FIC: Discordance Part One

[bustyandfurious]

Title: Discordance

Rating: PG-13 (for now)

Disclaimer: Most characters belong to Joss Whedon.

Summary: Season four with a whole bunch of wrentches thrown into it.



PART ONE

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There were easier ways for her to travel than by bus. She could shake the clouds and blow like the wind. She could ride on the back of an eagle. Or, when time was of the essence, she could simply disappear in a shimmer and reappear wherever and whenever she chose. However, there was plenty of time to get to her destination and she enjoyed the bus. There was just something about cramming thirty or so strangers into a cramped vehicle that

really inspired the worst in humanity. This appealed to her greatly, and she enjoyed playing with them.



So she sat, leaning foreword slightly, her eyes focused intently on an argument taking place between the driver and a passenger.



"What the hell are you trying to do? Freeze all of us? It's not like its summer anymore!" the normally soft-spoken young man bellowed out again.



"Look I already told you if you don't sit down Im gonna have to stop the damn bus," returned the annoyed bus driver, a grandfatherly looking man in his late fifties, "besides the air-conditioning is NOT even on. Some people must have their windows open and we are driving

pretty fast!"



"Not fast enough," belted out the angry passenger.



"Just sit the hell down."



She shook with silent laughter from her aisle seat at the back as the bus swerved slightly. The passengers all attributed the convulsive movements of the vehicle to the argument that was distracting the driver. No one would even think that the young women at the back in the gray University of Sunnydale sweatshirt, with smiling eyes and a hand over her mouth to cover her giggles, was actually to blame.



The young man at the front of the bus, forgetting why he had started the fight with the driver in the first place, began to return to his seat until his glance caught a pair of

friendly brown eyes that shined yellow for an instant, and he made his way back up to the front even angrier then before.



Oh yeah... plenty of time, she thought running her hands through her medium length brown hair. The Gentlemen won't even be in Sunnydale for another couple of days.



She snuggled down further into her chair and simply enjoyed herself as her fellow passengers began to fidget in annoyance for reasons they couldn't even comprehend.



Plenty of time.

Edited by: xita  at: 12/16/02 8:21:54 pm

[Grimlock72]

Huh???



That kinda was my first response



I would guess thats Amy in the bus or someone we don't know yet. Amy can't really do the simmer/re-appear stuff though.... and she didn't have partly yellow eyes last time I checked Behaviour matches Amy sure enough.



So we have a VampWitch with brown hair and eyes on her way to Sunnydale who knows about the Gentlemen coming.... Interesting that we were never told WHY or HOW the gentlemen came to Sunnydale in the first place.



Ah well, we'll just have to wait and see I guess



Grimmy

"You hurt Tara," Willow said too calmly. "The last one who tried that was a god. I made her regret it." -- Unexpected Consequences by Lisa of Nine

[bustyandfurious]

Grimlock72: All I can say, it that something old and powerful is messing with Sunnydale. Something Amy (and her mother for that matter) would froth at the mouth to be



Title: Discordance

Rating: PG-13 (for now)

Disclaimer: Most characters belong to Joss Whedon.

Summary: Season four with a whole bunch of wrentches thrown into it.



PART ONE (Continued)

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Willow sat on her bed, flipping through some flyers she had picked up at University of Sunnydale's clubs recruitment fair the previous night. Two of the flyers interested her the most, but only one sat on her bed. Willow was still far too uncomfortable to even attempt to take the crumpled up University of Sunnydale Lesbian Alliance flyer out of her backpack. She was just not ready to look at it yet, nor was she ready to have Buffy accidentally look at it either.



Her blonde roommate chose that moment to come bouncing into the room. Not that Buffy ever really bounced; she was more prone to the kind of pouncing movement that a cat did when a mouse was near. A mouse, or a demon. Willow amused herself picturing Buffy with bunny ears and a fluffy tail bouncing around while Anya shrieked in horror.



"Whatcha up to Wills?" asked Buffy trying to steal a peek at the papers Willow was studying, but guessing it was probably homework - which Buffy certainly was not interested in - she raised her gaze and looked her best friend in the face.



"Just the stuff I got at Clubs Night."



"Anything deemed Willow-Worthy?"



"Well there is a Wicca Group that meets weekly." Willow replied hesitantly, holding up the flyer.



Buffy looked at the flyer and said, "Hey, they are meeting tomorrow, after Psychology. That's great Wills. A bunch of witches spinning pencils in the air. You should go!"



"Yeah, maybe we can do some synchronized pencil levitating."



"To music!" Buffy threw in with a giggle.



"Yeah a pencil levitating ballet", Willow trailed off. The change in her voice telling Buffy she was still a bit reluctant.



"What's the matter Will, I thought you would jump at a chance of meeting other witches, learning more spells, and possibly dancing naked in the moonlight," Buffy listed off, ducking the pillow that got tossed in her direction at her last comment.



"I just don't want to be disappointed. I mean what if they are all better than I am at magicks? What if I don't fit in? What if..."



"Will," Buffy interrupted what she was sure would be a long, complicated babble from her friend, "you're not gonna know until you try it. University is full of new experiences, try it once and if you don't like it, you don't have to go back."



She's right, Willow thought, in her mind applying Buffy?s advice and seize the day attitude to something other than the Wicca group.



Willow offered Buffy a slight nod, and the two decided that mochas at the espresso pump would be a good idea.



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The bus pulled to a halt at the Sunnydale bus station just as the sun began to make its descent. The passengers rushed to exit the bus all with sour, tired expressions on their faces. They were followed by a young woman in a gray University of Sunnydale sweatshirt who, unlike the other passengers, looked quite happy, as she casually shouldered her back pack and strolled out of the bus and away from the station whistling The Wheels on the Bus.



The Wicca Meeting is tomorrow afternoon, no need to do anything before then, the woman thought to herself as she scanned the less-than-bustling metropolis of Sunnydale for accommodations.



She watched as an elderly woman dragged her garbage to the curb, and a vicious smile graced her face. "Grandma" she called out.



The confused looking woman was about to respond when her eyes caught a flash of yellow.



Whistling the tune If ever so humble, there?s no place like home, she followed the old woman into the small house, but a couple of blocks walk from University of Sunnydale.



Perfect, she thought as she closed the door behind her.

[WiccansIllusion]

It wouldn't be Amy on the bus because Amy was a rat from season three, gingerbreadmen up untill season six actually.

Tara nodded in agreement "She has magic fingers." TheWisdom of War, Chris Golden



You dont really think this is like, Psycho Buffy Cheer Squad central, do you?-Xita ala Julia "Lessons Parody"

[deixs]

Interesting start.

I hope Tara is not the perso on the bus.



Stef

[Grimlock72]

Damn, I forgot Amy is supposed to be still a rat during season 4. (she should have stayed like that forever)



It can't be Tara, Tara has blue eyes not brown... unless she's wearing contacts... and lets not forget the yellow part either. Yellow is a very strange eye-color I would dare say. Even in Sunnydale



Interesting that Willow has already a flyer for the Gay support group (can't remember their name, GLBT ?) at the start of the season. Understandable that she's nervous about though...



Thinking she'll be not good enough for that Wicca group, hehe... as if. That bus-girl will also be attending, that is kinda worrying me at the moment.



Will just have to wait and see



Grimmy

"You hurt Tara," Willow said too calmly. "The last one who tried that was a god. I made her regret it." -- Unexpected Consequences by Lisa of Nine

[maudmac]

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