snake (on the) make

Disclaimer in first chapter.

Crossing: BtVS/AB

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Two hands - one tan, the other pale - reached out and grabbed a blue suede boot at precisely the same instant. The owners of said hands looked from shoe to opponent with narrowed eyes, studying each other intently, looking for any sign of weakness.

"I saw it first."

"But we reached for it at the same time."

The tan woman scowled. "Blue isn't your color."

One dark eyebrow rose as the pale woman inspected her adversary, "Nor is it yours, dear."

Faint grinding of teeth could be heard. The knuckles of the tan hand clenched so tightly that they became almost as white as the pale woman's fingers. "I'm sure we can settle this nicely. We're both civilized, decent human beings."

"We are?" The pale woman smiled, revealing incisors just a shade too pointy to belong to a 'decent human being'. "Well, that's news to me." She leaned forward just the slightest bit and sniffed above the head of the shorter, tan woman. Her tongue flicked out as if tasting the air and she drew back, dark eyes widening the slightest bit.

Buffy smirked, "I guess neither of us belongs in the 'human' category."

"And civilized might be debatable."

The slayer looked at the blue suede boot, a perfect match for that darling little number she'd seen in Macy's, and just what she wanted to make a good impression... She sighed, "Flip for it?"

One corner of Melanie's red mouth lifted in a dismissive snarl, "Flip for - " She settled back, rocking on the heels of her red pumps thoughtfully. "Why don't we blow this joint, find another store more equal to our needs." A slow smile began to spread across the lamia's face, "It has been a long while since I found someone interesting to shop with..."

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