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Title The Swarm
Author Brutti ma buoni
Rating PG
Word Count 300
Prompt 198 Free for all: lunch, snack, breakfast
Characters/Pairing (if any) Angel, and a lot of Slayers
A/N: after Chosen and Home, Angel's world is changing fast. He's a little fuddled by this.


The foyer of the Hyperion looked unusual. Gone was that blissful sense of gloomy solitude that Angel so enjoyed when life got busy. No space to wander his hallways, thinking of what he had sacrificed for Connor's sake, and wondering how the Wolfram and Hart deal would go bad.

Not just Gunn and Fred chatting today, nor Wes researching as though he'd never been gone. (Angel had whiplash from doing double takes on that one). Not even Lorne in full diva mode. Today, there were dozens of girls in his hotel. Strong girls, born to slay his kind. Wounded, blood-oozing girls, padded with gauze, splinted with whatever could be found. Being, in some cases, revived with packs of human blood got from who knew where. Tasty blood, wasted on these human girls. But he wasn't going to think about that.

Buffy, Giles and a bunch of other ex-Sunnydale faces were spread on the couch, conferring. Sunnydale gone, they needed a new base, fast. (Angel was really hoping it wouldn't be here.) Strategic positioning was discussed. Resource deployment. Squad patterns. This wasn't the Scooby gang he remembered. Buffy had brought an army to his home.

An army requiring feeding. The hotel kitchens would cater for a thousand, but no one was volunteering to take kitchen duty.

Angel crossed the foyer, to the first of the very confused pizza delivery guys. He had practiced on the burger guys earlier. He tried to look reassuring. "Not a prank. Thank you!"

One hundred and twenty six pizzas made their way into the hotel that night. None remained for the morning. The next day was taco day. Also pancakes.

Angel had been wrong. Buffy hadn't brought an army; she'd brought a plague of locusts.

He felt a little sorry for Scotland, when the Slayers chose it as their base.

*

Date: 2010-12-02 06:02 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] rebcake.livejournal.com
Buffy hadn't brought an army; she'd brought a plague of locusts.

Tee! So true! I always thought that whoever got stuck with the supply officer gig would be the busiest Slayer that ever lived.

Have you seen the fic about the number of batteries the Scotland Slayer base goes through in a couple of weeks? Choice.

Date: 2010-12-02 07:52 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] gigi-tastic.livejournal.com
poor angel! HE HAS NO WHERE TO BROOD!!!1 WHAT IS THIS WORLD COMING TO?!?!!?! in other words you just made my day.XD

Date: 2010-12-02 11:18 pm (UTC)
gillo: (Broody)
From: [personal profile] gillo
He felt a little sorry for Scotland, when the Slayers chose it as their base.

Hee! Poor Angel. Though he asked for it really.

Nice one.

Date: 2010-12-03 12:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] slaymesoftly.livejournal.com
*giggles* Oh, yeah. Look out Scotland. The Slayers are coming... and they're hungry!

Date: 2010-12-03 09:25 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] beer-good-foamy.livejournal.com
Oh, the poor haggis delivery guys...

Hee!

Date: 2010-12-03 10:16 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] zanthinegirl.livejournal.com
Hee! I love Angel like pancakes, but I love him best when he's out of his element. Angel is the most fun when he's being a little petty.

Strong girls, born to slay his kind. Wounded, blood-oozing girls, padded with gauze, splinted with whatever could be found. Being, in some cases, revived with packs of human blood got from who knew where. Tasty blood, wasted on these human girls. But he wasn't going to think about that.

Hee!

Date: 2010-12-03 09:01 pm (UTC)
angelus2hot: (Angel not fade away)
From: [personal profile] angelus2hot
Poor Angel *pets him* and I'm not using that as an excuse to touch him either *innocent eyes*


Great ficlet!

Date: 2010-12-04 01:41 am (UTC)
snowpuppies: (Default)
From: [personal profile] snowpuppies
Hee! How cute!

Date: 2010-12-10 01:51 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dulcedeusex.livejournal.com
This was short and sweet. I always wondered where they stopped for RnR after Sunnydale went 'bye, bye'.

Today, there were dozens of girls in his hotel. Strong girls, born to slay his kind. Wounded, blood-oozing girls, padded with gauze, splinted with whatever could be found. Being, in some cases, revived with packs of human blood got from who knew where. Tasty blood, wasted on these human girls. But he wasn't going to think about that.

- Oh Angel!

Date: 2011-04-06 05:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] smells_corrupt.livejournal.com
This made me laugh. I can see this happening so well! The scoobies and slayers blowing in, and Angel just being completely blindsided/confused. :)

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