hunter's chance

[crossfortune]

Name: Mischa
Story: A Chant of Exorcists
Colors: spark (I have a hiding place when spring marches in)
Supplies and Styles: (graffiti - dead time, prompt here)
Word Count: 170
Rating: PG-13
Warnings: N/A
Summary: Two exorcists and the Wild Hunt.
Notes: another in the same universe as dancing without malice or mercy, which didn't end up being a one-shot after all. Needs a story tag.


If Jamie had a dollar for every perilous situation he’d found himself in since becoming an exorcist, he’d have more than enough money to pay off his student loans. Unfortunately, he still had a lifetime’s worth of debt and a shitty life insurance policy that, as far as he was aware, didn’t pay out on deaths caused by the Wild Hunt.

“I’m an exorcist!” he hisses at Sophia, as he straightens up from drawing the wards, not sure if they’ll hold. He doesn’t have enough iron - it wasn’t like he was expecting to deal with more than one faerie, much less the entire Wild Hunt bearing down on them.“Aren’t I supposed to deal with ghosts? Demons? Not Herne the Hunter and his entire Hunt!”

His part-time apprentice tosses him a lopsided grin. “Forget what you’re supposed to deal with,” Sophia advises him, much too calmly for his nerves. “It never works out the way it’s supposed to.”

Comments

[kay_brooke]

Well, she's right about that! Hopefully they'll find a way out of this mess.

[crossfortune]

Hopefully - at least Jamie's reasonably good at improv, even if he's screaming while doing so.

[bookblather]

Sophia is correct, and oh man I feel you Jamie about the debts. Yeesh. I wish them luck getting out of this. The Wild Hunt is nothing to fuck around with.

Your tag has been added!

[crossfortune]

Thank you for reading (and for the tag).

Yeah, they definitely need all the luck they can get.

[shipwreck_light]

No. No, it never does. It still made me smile, though. Thank you for posting!

[crossfortune]

I'm glad you enjoyed reading it.

[novel_machinist]

I wonder if you have to get a masters in exorcism... this was fun!

[crossfortune]

That is a good question. Jamie has his master's in English, at least (oddly conducive to him becoming an exorcist in the first place).