FF: BBQ forest style

["sam stoltz" <shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

BBQ forest style

By Sam

E-mail: shadowmage_draco@xxxxxxxxxxx
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I do not own any of the BtVS characters 
(extremely sad face), they belong to Joss the great Jimmy Buffett 
owns Margaritaville.
Archive: Gary, Bill, Quin, Stephanie, all other feel free to just e-
mail me first.
Pairing: Buffy/Willow, Alex/Faith 
Notes: OK, I've been working on this one foir a few days now so here 
it is, my answer to our listmum's challenge, time to welcome her and 
others to the woods out back.. Hopes you enjoy.
Thanks: To all the wonderful gutter dwellers and sorts who have 
allowed me to "borrow" them, (they all came voluntarily I swear, I 
didn't hijack anyone?honest). I hope I do all of you justice because 
you're all way cool. Thanks for not hunting me down and beating me 
up. Beer foamy, feedback good.
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Faith and Cordelia where laying out by the pool next to Alex's lair 
as the Badger and the escaped circus monkey where tossing veggies on 
the grill as Giles sat in a rocker drinking white lighting minus his 
WW II fighter cap.

"Hey Alex, how about you leave the grill to Xander and come over here 
and keep me," shouted the brunette rabbit.

The badger turned to the monkey, "Think you can handle it?"

"Sure thing Alex," Replied Xander as he started flipping the veggies 
on the grill.

Alex walked over and sit down next to the brunette rabbit who 
immediately hopped into his lap, "Sure you can trusted him with the 
grill,: jested Faith.

Alex thought about it a moment and yelled over to the circus 
monkey, "Xander you do know what your doing, don't you?"

"No need to fret Alex, I got everything under control," replied the 
monkey just before flames shot five feet up in the air.

The Badger leaped up, almost dropping the brunette rabbit on the 
ground and raced over to the flaming grill to put the fire out.

Faith leaned up against the badger as he stood there shaking his 
head, "I can't believe it you burnt all the veggies I had."

"Sorry Alex, Maybe some of the others will bring more," meekly 
replied the circus monkey.

They will if they're smart," piped in a rather drunk owl, "I remember 
the last BBQ we had Xander almost burnt down my bloody tree, it was 
worse than the time when me and good old snoopy where caught in a 
blazing cantina in southern France, we had only went in to get a 
couple of drinks when a rather drunk English Terror knocked over a 
candle stick, let me tell you it was a sight to behold, flames 
covered the piano, the bartender went to put out the fire but grabbed 
a pitcher of ale instead of water, the flames they went a flyin', 
then snoop had an idea, you see good old Snoopy was always coming up 
with these really great ideas, I remember once when we where on 
patrol, there was forty or so enemy aircraft patrolling the base, 
Snoopy looks at me from his plane and says??"

Alex and the others let out a collective sigh of relief when Buffy, 
Willow, and her shy cousin showed up temporally ending Gile's white 
lighting induced ramblings.

The bunny slayer smiled as she looked at Xander's burnt offering on 
the grill, "Alex, why in the world would you let Xander get anywhere 
near a grill."

"Hey, cous', lighten up, he didn't know," scolded Faith as she 
snuggled up against the badger.

"OK, but what are we going to do for food now," retorted the Bunny 
slayer.

"You guys didn't bring anything?"

"Well, actually we did," replied the red fox laying a rather large 
bag of veggies on the ground.

"Coolness," replied faith, "But I do have one question for ya wills"

"Go ahead, shoot."

"What's your cousin doing wearing Giles fighter hat," inquired Faith 
pointing towards the shy fox.

"It's hers now."

Xander walked over to the two foxes with a very puzzled look on his 
face, "Wait a second the G-man isn't just going to fes up his fighter 
cap, what's the scoop."

The shy fox smiled at the circus monkey, "I asked Sammy if I could 
have the hat and he said that sounded cool."

"Sammy? Since when can a half-insane Koala go around giving away 
Giles most prized possessions," questioned Xander.

The bunny slayer stared Xander dead in the eye, "Since Giles gave it 
to him for moving out, something about it being a small price to pay 
to get the Ska listening Koala out of his tree," retorted Buffy, "Now 
leave Shy alone or I might have to work you over."

Xander's eyes got real wide as he stared at the Bunny slayer, "You 
wouldn't would you?"

"Most likely no, but ya never no," replied a smiling Bunny slayer.

"That's right," added Willow, "Mess with my cousin and you mess with 
me and Buffy too."

"OK, point taken, sorry shy," replied Xander.

The shy fox smiled smugly at the escaped circus monkey, "Heh, thanks."

"WAZZUP," shouted Sammy as he walked into Alex and Faiths front yard 
accompanied by a forest gopher and a Grizzly.

"Not much Sammy, whose your friends," replied the Bunny slayer.

"This is Bill Gopher, and Gus the Grizzly, they just moved into the 
forest a few days ago, so I figured what better way to get to meet 
everyone than go to one of Alex's BBQs."

"Cool, pull up a seat, we're, getting ready to fire up the grill, " 
stated Alex.

"Way cool, can I help," inquired a rather eager Koala.

"NO," shouted Alex, Buffy, and Willow in unison.

"Why not?"

Alex walked over to Sammy and patted the Koala on the 
shoulder, "Because of the little bon fire indecent a few weeks back."

It was an accident, besides it wasn't that bad."

Giles staggered over towards the Kola and slurred out his 
words, "Sammy, you burnt down the bloody fire house."

Alex helped Giles back over to his rocker and turned and smiled at 
his friends, "He's right Sammy, if ya want to help how about doing 
something your good at and start mixing drinks."

"Sure thing," replied the Koala.

The Grizzly walked over to Alex and handed him a bag full of freshly 
caught salmon, "would ya mind if I toss these on the grill," inquired 
Gus.

"Sure go ahead."

Bill walked up to the badger, "Hey I'm pretty good with making 
drinks, think I should help Sammy."

"I'm not sure if anyone can help Sammy," chuckled the 
Badger, "seriously though feel free to make whatever drink you want 
to, just do me one favor."

"What's that," asked the gopher.

"Make sure he doesn't slip any of his mushrooms into the mix, it took 
us three everyone three days to recover from the last time he showed 
up with those things."

"Will do," replied Bill before making his way over to the makeshift 
bar Alex had set up in his front yard.

A few minutes later Shadow landed next to the pool. Everyone but 
Buffy, Willow, and her cousin stopped and stared at what once had 
been a fruit bat.

After a few moments Alex decided to ask the question he was sure 
everyone was dying to know, "Uh, Shadow what happened to you?"

"Whatta ya mean," replied the flying fox.

"Whatta I mean, last time I saw you, you where a fruit bat and now it 
appears you have somehow became a flying fox."

"Ask little miss magic," replied Shadow.

"Be nice," commanded the Bunny slayer as she wrapped a arm around the 
red fox.

"OK, don't get your fur in a knot Buff, I'll be good," smirked 
Shadow, "besides I'm rather fond of this new look."

Willow and Buffy walked over to Shadow then turned and faced Alex and 
the others, "Well its sorta like this, Shadow asked me if I could 
cast a spell to make her fly faster and it didn't quit work out the 
way I expected."

"I see," replied the badger, "so how long does it last."

"As far as I can tell it's a lasting spell," replied the red fox.

Before Alex could respond to Willow two figures zoomed past his 
lair, "Meep-Meep"

"What the heck was that," exclaimed the Bunny slayer.

"Not sure," replied Willow, "but her they come again."

This time instead of zooming past the group the two roadrunners came 
to a dead stop in front of the lair, "Meep-Meep."

"Hi I'm Alex," stated the badger as he approached the two roadrunners.

"I'm Kimber."

"And I'm Lisa."

"We're new her," replied the roadrunners in unison.

"Well welcome to the forest, we're having a BBQ, care to join us," 
replied the Bunny slayer as she and the others walked over to great 
the two roadrunners.

"Sure, sounds cool," replied Kimber.

Just then a Coyote pulled up in behind the two road runners, "Hey ya 
girls."

"AHHHH, scooter," shouted the escaped circus monkey as he shot up a 
nearby tree, leaving the others rolling on the ground laughing.

"Hi Rod," replied Kimber just before the two roadrunners took of 
leaving the far behind. Seconds later they zoomed up behind the 
unaware coyote, "Meep-Meep."

The Coyote leapt straight up from his scooter and joined Xander in 
the tree.

"Both of the roadrunners started wildly laughing as they pointed to 
the Rod who was clinging to one of the lower branches of the 
tree. "You guys know I hate it when you do that," shouted the Coyote.

Yeah, we know, but we can't help it. It's to much fun," replied 
Kimber

Sammy wallked over next to The Bunny slayer and Willow, " so whatta 
we do about them," inquired the sunglasses weearing Koala as he 
pointed to the tree.

"Don't know, any Ideas Alex," asked Buffy.

The badger scratched his head for a moment but before he could say 
something Gus walked over, "Allow me."

They Grizzly Stood up sand stated shaking the tree causing both 
Xander and Rod to fall from it.

Xander lands on grill, but quickly jumped of screaming as he ran over 
to the bar. The circus monkey then jumped in the rather large bull 
of jungle juice spashing it all over the forest gopher.

"Just great, "replied Bill, "I spent half a hour making this stuff 
and now I'm wearing it."

Rod Laned on top of the bunny slayer who quickly through him off.

"Sorry about that," replied the coyte.

"It's OK, guss you had to land somewhere," said the Bunny slayer as 
she helped him up off of the ground.

After everyone had finished laughing over the mayhem the two 
roadrunners had caused and Bill had wiped the last of the jungle 
juice off Faith gave Alex a big hug and hit him with the always 
relisable puppy dog eyes, ""Hey Alex luv, how about some music?" 

"Sure, replied the Badger grabbing his guitar, "Whatta ya want to 
hear."

"Don't know, pick something."

Alex looked around the yard at everyone, "Any request."

"How about some Jimmy bumblebee," shouted Bill

"Jimmy bumblebee would be good," stated Gus as he scarfed down 
another of the grilled salmon

Alex began to play the relaxing melody as Sammy, Buffy, Willow and 
her shy cousin sang, "Livin' on sponge cake, Watchin' the sun bake 
all those tourist covered with oil"

Shadow, Gus and Bill then piped in with there own voices, "Strummin' 
my six string, on my front porch swing, The smell of shrimp in 
aluminum foil."

Alex yelled at the others as he continued to strum on his 
guitar, "Come on everybody join in."

Soon the forest was filled with the sounds of the entire group 
singing, "Wastin' away again in Margaritaville, Searchin' for my lost 
shaker of salt?"




Well that's all for now hope you enjoyed