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by Red Wolf

"That's it. It's got to go."

Spike caught her arm. "We're on a job. You go charging out there and we'll blow the surveillance."

Glaring up into the darkened canopy above them, Dawn settled back reluctantly.

The call sounded above her head again and, before Spike could stop her, Dawn had fired her crossbow into the air. The cuckoo cut off mid-call and the bird, bolt through its chest, dropped at her feet.

Spike sighed. It was fortunate he'd remembered to fit silencers to the crossbow string. It would have been embarrassing to lose their quarry to a noisy bird.

Jossverse Drabbles — challenge #156: birdsong

Published Babble Horde — 20.03.2006
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Published The Slayer's Fanfic Archive — 24.08.2006
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Published fanfiction.net — 25.08.2006

Comments

Poor Spike. He always has to still his own inner child to accommodate Dawn's. Of course, hers is much more practical than his so it works.

I love this relationship — via LiveJournal — posted by myfeetshowit at 28.09.2007 20:08 AEST |

It's a big pod! He is adorable.

A little balance is a wonderful thing — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:09 AEST |

Yay! More London!verse!

But, is it wrong that I almost feel sorry for the bird? :) — via LiveJournal — posted by tinpanalley at 28.09.2007 20:09 AEST |

Where I come from the bird in question is a Common Koel. It's a cuckoo. Very pretty and a lovely call, until the fucking thing camps out in earshot of your house and calls every minute, on the minute, all night long.

It's a bird that tends to encourage violence in the most passive of people. It has similiarly uncouth relatives all over the world. You wouldn't feel for the bird if you lived near one, you'd be fighting Dawn for the crossbow — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:10 AEST |

hee and ouch. poor birdie — via LiveJournal — posted by a2zmom at 28.09.2007 20:11 AEST |

You would soon lose sympathy for the bird if it lived near you and called all night long for months on end. They don't make for good neighbours — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:12 AEST |

Got my own idea who the noisy bird it! He He! Good one — via LiveJournal — posted by woman_of_ at 28.09.2007 20:12 AEST |

Perhaps you're right — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:13 AEST |

There was the Summers coming out of the girl...

Can you fit silencers on a crossbow? — via LiveJournal — posted by Mark Hunter at 28.09.2007 20:13 AEST |

You can on bows. They don't silence the weapon completely, but they do help. They aren't interesting tubes you screw on the front either, those are stabilisers with bows, they're a strip of rubber you tie near each end of the string that separates out and looks like cat's whiskers — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:14 AEST |

See, this is what's so great about LJ and the fanfiction community. You just don't learn this kind of stuff in school... — via LiveJournal — posted by Mark Hunter at 28.09.2007 20:16 AEST |

And that's just type I've used.

The stuff available in the US can get a hell of a lot more high tech, but basicly it's all just vibration dampening — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:17 AEST |

America, land of high tech, that's us. Oh, wait — I forgot about Japan — via LiveJournal — posted by Mark Hunter at 28.09.2007 20:17 AEST |

I did say available to, rather than made in. It just seems the market is much bigger in the US, so that's where the shiny toys migrate. Well, for hunting, anyway. The best of the shiny electronic toys, on the other hand, often never leave Japan — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:18 AEST |

True enough. Two things Americans are good at is adapting the inventions of others for our own use, and buying everything that's made anywhere. We can get the Japanese toys, too, but for some reason there's not much interest here in the more exotic items. Maybe we just don't have the imagination we used to — via LiveJournal — posted by Mark Hunter at 28.09.2007 20:18 AEST |

Wow that was unexpected. But if the bird was going to be annoying...

I am a bad person. LOL — via LiveJournal — posted by scarlettlily at 28.09.2007 20:19 AEST |

It sounds more like you've had to suffer through living near a bird like this — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:20 AEST |

That's delightful! — via LiveJournal — posted by Jan at 28.09.2007 20:20 AEST |

And then they suddenly found themselves surrounded by armed officers from the RSPCA...

Many thanks! — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:21 AEST |

::laughs:: And we always thought that Spike was the trigger-happy one of the couple. Lol! — via LiveJournal — posted by leni_ba at 28.09.2007 20:22 AEST |

You can only push people so far before they snap — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:22 AEST |

Damn, now I wish I had a crossbow to aim out my window at early morning birds...

Spike sighed, it was fortunate he'd remembered to fit silencers to the crossbow string. This is a run-on — via LiveJournal — posted by Elizabeth Culmer at 28.09.2007 20:23 AEST |

Thanks for the catch. Sounds like you have a local variant of the Common Koel nearby. Horrible bloody birds, they are — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:23 AEST |

I like! Quite the irony, given that Dawn was a cuckoo in the nest — via LiveJournal — posted by spuffyduds at 28.09.2007 20:24 AEST |

Many thanks! — via LiveJournal — posted by Red Wolf at 28.09.2007 20:25 AEST |

There is absolutely no point in me alluding to the advert for Strongbow cider here ::sigh::

I, too, had no idea that silencers for crossbows existed. Learn something new everyday :-) — via LiveJournal — posted by mad_jaks at 28.09.2007 20:25 AEST |

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