Innocent Game

Title: Innocent Game
Author: Perry
E-mail: icemulder@hotmail.com
Characters: Oz, Buffy, Willow, Xander
Rating: PG, PG-13 if you get the ending *smirk*
Disclaimer: I do not own Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Joss Whedon and Mutant Enemy Productions do.
Summary: This is what happens when you leave me alone to my own devices. I learn about a game, and I use my powers of imagination for evil and dirty instead of goodness and clean. PG, but PG-13 if you get the ending
Author's notes: God, I'm sorry. It's late and I have no idea where in the dark dank recesses of my imagination this story came from. My friend explained the game to me, then I stumbled on a website focusing on a certain pairing that will remain nameless, and then out came this story.


Buffy, Willow, Oz and Xander were all gathered in Buffy and Willow's dorm room. Buffy and Willow on one bed, discussing slaying and lip gloss, while Xander and Oz were on the other, trying to watch the mini-TV and talk, but Buffy and Willow's constant giggling kept interrupting them.
"Girls, what do you say we play a little game," Xander sat up, awkwardly setting a hand on Oz's knee to balance himself.
Willow and Buffy turned to Xander, waiting for his game.
"It's called stop giggling so damn loud so Oz and I can hear the TV!" Xander motioned to the little TV that was sitting on the dresser across the room.
"Yeah, this is very important programming," Oz agreed.
Buffy scoffed, "You guys are watching The Antiques Road show!"
"Yeah well, it is very important. I mean, this girl had a painting of a friggin' bridge that was valued for like 15,000 bucks! It's insane!" Xander pointed at the TV, "What do you think Oz?"
Oz shrugged, "This looks like a very interesting sword, but the gold inscribing looks a little too plastic, maybe a couple hundred."
Xander and Oz cheered when the old valuing guy said the sword was only worth 150 dollars.

"Oz, would you hand me the remote?" Buffy asked.
Oz leaned across Xander and handed the small remote to Buffy, brushing her hand.
No one noticed anything.
"That's it, this is a dumb game," Willow grabbed the remote from Buffy and clicked off the TV, "Buffy, I think we should play 'I Never.' "
Buffy squealed and Xander groaned, "I am NOT playing 'I Never' again with you people!"
"What's 'I Never?' " Oz was curious now, to say the least.
"It's a stupid game that these two play all the time, and I stopped playing a long time ago, and I will never play again, so there is no use explaining it," Xander had his pouty face on.
But, Willow had her resolve face on, "We're playing."

Buffy ran to her closet, coming back with a crumpled bag.
Willow grabbed a table and set it in between the two beds, "Here, Xander and Buffy on one side, Oz and I on another."
Everyone switched beds, and once they were all settled on either side of the table, Buffy opened the bag, revealing Strawberry Schnapps and shot glasses.
"Ok," Buffy set the four shot glasses on the table, and began filling them with schnapps, "We each take turns, saying something that they never did. Anyone who has done that, has to take a shot. And you have to be perfectly honest, or you will suffer my wrath."
The others smirked, it was a teasing threat, but it didn't help to lighten the 'no secrets, all truths out in the open' tension.

"Let's see, easy stuff first," Willow began the game, "I have never gone ice skating before."
Buffy and Oz each took a shot, as they had been ice skating.
The glasses were refilled, and it was Oz's turn, "I've never had a crush on a teacher."
Everyone took a shot.
"Willow, our teacher's have been mostly female," Xander was a little confused.
Willow didn't say anything, just quickly changed the subject, "Buffy, you're turn? or is it Xander's?"

The game went on merrily, the topic going from toothpaste to food, then to hacking into different government databases (during which Willow consumed a rather unhealthy amount of alcoholic beverage).

"Hmm," it was Buffy's turn, "I have never um, kissed Cordelia."
Xander and Oz grabbed shot glasses.
"When have you kissed Cordelia?" Xander asked, suddenly defensive.
"Long, long time ago, like 3rd grade," Oz said, following up with a belch.

"My turn," Xander announced, as the shots were replenished, "Seems like the topic has turned innocently sexual, so fun."
The girls giggled, Oz smiled a bit.
"Okay, I have never made out with Angel in the middle of a fight with vampires."
Buffy took a shot, and Willow teasingly reached for a glass, causing Buffy to call out, and Oz and Xander to crack up laughing.
"My turn!" Willow yelped, "I have never ---"
"Watch out for lying Wills, remember how much Xander and I know about your and Oz's after dark--"
"Don't finish the sentence Buffy, and I'm trying to think," Willow giggled at Oz's reddening, thinking it was due to  Buffy's comment.
It wasn't however. There was some heavy Footsie action going on under the small table.
The game continued, getting more and more sexual. The law of being entirely honest was causing Willow and Oz to consume a lot of schnapps, Willow more than Oz, as most of the I Never's were of the 'I Never did it with Oz on the staircase during the blackout,' sort. If Oz said he had sex with himself, serious dot dot dots were to follow…
The law of being completely honest was causing some tension too. Soon someone was going to ask the wrong question, and somebody else was going to give their truthful answer.

It was Buffy's turn. Tension was high, and the game of Footsies stopped abruptly.
"I have never," Buffy grinned at Willow. Oz and Xander exchanged fearful looks.
"I have never had sex with Oz in the back of his van in between classes." Buffy finished.

Willow turned red.

Oz was redder.

Xander was reddest.

Willow reached for the shot glass, and drank it all, smiling sweetly.
Oz looked at Xander, as if telling him something. Xander nodded.
"Xander, you're tur--" Buffy and Willow watched in horror.

Xander reached into the middle of the table, took a shot glass in between his fingers, and raised it to his lips, downing it in one long gulp.


The End