Chosen

[vitruvian23]

 

By the time his luck runs out, his eye socket barely itches at all.

 

He’s in the thick of it, like old times. Not a good sign, but the girls need him, so.

 

He pulls the pin on the Willy Pete and thumbs the lever. Dumb vamps swarm him anyway.  

 

Through the pall of ash and strangely painless fire, an armored figure approaches. Are those wings on the helmet? On the horse?

 

Her face and touch are familiar. “Well, it’s about time,” Anya, now Aud, declares. “Allfather was starting to wonder about the Twinkies.”

 

Xander goes home to his reward.

Comments

[fenriss.livejournal.com]

Oh, this is wonderful!

[vitruvian23.livejournal.com]

Thanks. It's a plot bunny that's been gnawing on my mind for a while now. Finally figured it was worth a drabble. Of course, now I'm feeling compelled to extend it with more drabbles.

[whswhs.livejournal.com]

What, Xander's not an avatar of the Allfather? I guess this isn't the Marvel Comics version.

[vitruvian23.livejournal.com]

I played with that idea a bit in my other series at Twisting the Hellmouth, but for purposes of this story, no, he's just a brave mortal warrior who earns Valhalla, with his ex as his Valkyrie. I have an explanation ready for why he gets to go to the Norse afterlife, and he might become war leader of the Einherjiar under Odin, but he's not an avatar of Odin as such.

[vitruvian23.livejournal.com]

Although if Marvel Comics Odin had decided to teach himself humility rather than Thor (and really, which of them needed it more?), it's true that Xander Harris would work perfectly as his version of Donald Blake...

[skarman.livejournal.com]

Wow!!

Nice imagery.