BtVS Double Drabble: Pests

[badly_knitted]

 


Title: Pests
Fandom: BtVS
Author: badly_knitted
Characters: Buffy, Joyce
Rating: PG
Written Using: The dw100 prompt ‘Exterminate’.
Spoilers/Setting: Late Season One.
Summary: Slayers are basically pest control on a large scale.
Disclaimer: I don’t own BtVS, or the characters.
A/N: Double drabble.
 


 
In Buffy’s opinion, anyone who thinks being the Slayer is some great and wonderful adventure needs their head examining. Slayers are barely one step up from exterminators, and at least exterminators don’t have to worry about the pests they’re exterminating trying to kill and eat them. As far as she’s concerned, they have it easy.

 
Not that Buffy LIKES bugs and stuff, it’s just that on the whole they’re easier to get rid of than vampires and demons, plus they’re not trying to take over the world and turn humanity into slaves, or not as far as she knows. Well, maybe cockroaches are. She wouldn’t put anything past them.

 
Still, hearing her mom complain about ants in the kitchen, and that she’ll have to call the exterminator to get rid of them, makes Buffy want to laugh. How much harm can a few ants, or even a lot of ants, cause? Especially in a town where vampires are out every night looking to drain a few innocent people of blood, and maybe turn them into more vampires? Ants might be an annoyance, but they’re not that big a deal. If vamps were ant sized, Buffy’s job would be way easier.
 

 
The End
 



 
 

Comments

[apachefirecat]

Unless the Vampires had the equivalent strength of ants...

[badly_knitted]

That would not be good. Ants are immensely strong for their size.

Thank you!

[apachefirecat]

Exactly what I was thinking. I remember learning that ants were immensely strong back when reading the Animorphs. Aren't they, like, 100 times stronger than their size? Now imagine that in the relative context of Vampires...

[badly_knitted]

That would be seriously scary.

Most of what I know about ants has come from David Attenborough documentaries. He's my hero.

[apachefirecat]

Yeah! I actually hope I remember this idea in the future... I wonder if there's any more big bangs going on these days??? Especially any that don't require a beta reader...

Looking him up on Netflix now! J and I have enjoyed several good animal documentaries over the years, especially for sealife.

[badly_knitted]

There probably are still Big Bangs going somewhere, but I've never been into writing epic fics so I don't really keep track. Worth making notes of your idea and then making a post on your journal to ask if anyone knows of any Big Bangs, preferably relaxed ones that don't require betaing.

I hope you can find some. David has been doing nature documentaries for a large part of his life, I think he's in his 90s now and still narrating. He's so passionate about nature. If you like sealife, The Blue Planet is a good one, but I love all his documentaries. I think thee was an episode of... Might have been Life on Earth, it had Sea Slugs, which I adore. They're so pretty.