The Pavlov Experiment: Stalking

[moonbeamsfanfic]

As part of mine and leni_ba's attempts to coerce redwolfoz into writing a full-length story for her Spike & Dawn drabble, here's a nice juicy slab of meat for my pet Wolf to sink her teeth into.

Here, doggie, doggie, doggie!

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The Pavlov Experiment: Stalking -- A Spike & Dawn snippet
by Moonbeam


They stuck to the shadows, sneaking in as silently as they could. Which, really, was no easy task. For despite all his natural skills and decades of experience at stalking through darkness, it was just awfully hard to skulk with an over-excited teenager at his back.

"Will you be quiet, pet?" he hissed, his voice almost inaudible compared to her barely stifled giggles.

"Sorry, sorry," she stage-whispered back, and Spike rolled his eyes as her voice carried on the wind.

"Just try to keep it down, eh, luv? We've got to get this done tonight, and I'd rather not run into Big Sis while we're at it."

He felt Dawn nod against his back, and her grip on his t-shirt tightened. Taking that as his cue to start moving again, he rose from his crouch and stepped further into the concealing shrubbery. Dawn followed complacently in his steps, blindly trusting the vampire to lead her safely through the darkness. For the next few minutes, nothing but a few rustling leaves marked their passage as the unlikely pair stealthily approached their target.

Spike finally drew them to halt when they were within range. The target sat calmly on a bench less than ten feet away from them, completely unaware of the predators sneaking up behind him. The vampire quickly cast his senses out, searching for any threat that may lead to them aborting their plan. He found nothing, and signalled his assurance to his partner in crime with a wicked grin.

The girl, all assumptions to the contrary, could pull off a pretty evil look of her own. Matching his expression, she reached into the bag over her shoulder and pulled out the props for tonight's little jaunt. Spike's grin widened when he fingered his weapon of choice.

With a shared smirk and silent accord, both hidden figures carefully positioned themselves, sighted down the barrels of their guns, and pulled the triggers. Two powerful streams of blood red fluid blasted out of the Super-Soakers(tm), drenching the target in seconds.

"Aaaahhh!" Xander shot to his feet, screaming like a girl. Soaking wet and dripping sticky red droplets, he frantically shook himself like a dog while yelling bloody murder.

Running away as fast as their stumbling legs could carry them, heedless of staying silent with the racket behind them, the perpetrators were laughing uproariously and leaning on each other to keep their balance.

Spike wrapped an arm around his cohort's waist, squeezing for a quick congratulatory hug. "Nice touch with the red, Niblet. Food colouring?"

Dawn blinked widely innocent eyes at him. "Raspberry Kool-Aid," she corrected, and giggled madly.

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How's that for incentive? *eg*

Comments

[redwolf]

Eew, red and sticky!

I would have added a little glucose or corn syrup to the mix as well, if you're going to suffer for it later, you may as well get your money's worth. I'm trying to think of a fast drying two-part epoxy that's runny enough to get pumped through a SuperSoaker, but I'm coming up blank.

Loved it. You're still evil.

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[moonbeamsfanfic.livejournal.com]

> Loved it. You're still evil.

Yeah... but did it work?

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[moonbeamsfanfic.livejournal.com]

Also, what's with the obsession with corn? ;P

[redwolf]

It's a coincidence. Corn syrup is a component of stage blood.

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[moonbeamsfanfic.livejournal.com]

Damn, and I'd thought I picked up on a theme: cream corn, corn syrup, corn on the cob? ::snicker::

[redwolf]

I don't think I want to know what you have planned for the corn on the cob.

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[moonbeamsfanfic.livejournal.com]

**Moonbeam breaks down laughing so hard she almost coughs up a hairball, then picks herself up to respond**

How right you are! You really don't want to know. *eg* The things my nasty little slasher's heart could do with this... ::snort:: Oh god, I need a scrub-brush for my brain! LOL! :P

(Let's face it, folks, there's just no hope for some people -- and I'm one of them. ::snigger::)

[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Loooooooooooool... you've had me laughing here, girl. I'm SO happy to have met you. Expect my part a little later.... I've been trying to find a Dawn/Spike idea the whole morning and the closest was: 'Dawn and Spike/ sitting on a tree...'

Well, gotta pimp it.

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[moonbeamsfanfic.livejournal.com]

Hey, Leni! What say we call this joint effort The Pavlov Experiment, and name our snippets accordingly? Like, for me, I'm thinking of calling this sucker The Pavlov Experiment: Stalking? Then we can link it all together, and maybe even get more people involved? Whaddya say?

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[leni-ba.livejournal.com]

Oh. My. I'm so sorry I'm only seeing this now. of course I agree, it'a fabulous idea. I have the plot for my part of the deal already, I so wish I had the time to write it. I promise it'll be up by the weekend and the title... hm. I'll think of something according to 'stalking' (lol)

Linking is good. I don't see how to link my idea to yours, but we'll find a way. ;-)

[dawnofaurora.livejournal.com]

Are you sure we're related?! You are so wierd sometimes...

[redwolf]

I've archived this to my site, along with your other stuff that already lives there.

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[moonbeamsfanfic.livejournal.com]

Aww... thanks! Brings back memories of the good old days, when I was a total techno-dunce instead of just a partial one (*snerk*) and you were there to bail me out. :)

But speaking of archiving, I'm putting this snippet up on my website as well as FF.Net. Hope leni_ba doesn't mind, but I made a unilateral decision to call this project The Pavlov Experiment (see above), and finally named my snippet "Stalking".

[but_can_i_be_trusted]

I agree with Wolf; you're evil! ;-D Great job.

[moonbeamsfanfic.livejournal.com]

I agree with Wolf; you're evil!

But, but... she started it! (Besides, it worked, didn't it? :P)

Thanks!

Thanks!