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[deathonnahorse]

Following the meeting fiasco, Methos has been outside the wall more often. Not that he actually believes he'll pick up any sign of Harth's trail or whereabouts. Mainly, he just needs to be away. From everyone.

They'd been arguing about the best way to keep Harth from sending someone in to sabotage us, and the little shit had been there himself

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[11th_countess]

It's very late by the time Lara returns. Her hair is mussed with strands flying free from the braid. She's barely favoring her leg at all, which she'd tied with a piece of cloth with characters on it. For looking like she's been in a firefight, covered in dirt and smelling of gunpowder, she's got a grin that will not quit and a satisfied gleam in her eyes.

And instead of guns in her shoulder holsters, she has stakes.

[deathonnahorse]

"You look like hell," he observes when she gets closer. "Must have had a good night."

[11th_countess]

"It was quite good, yes. How was your evening?"

She's trying so hard not to gloat. She had way more fun than guard duty.

[deathonnahorse]

He shrugs.

"Can't complain."

[11th_countess]

"Oh, you could if you tried," she teased, pushing her hair back from her face.

[deathonnahorse]

"Well, that's true," he says, grinning. "If there's one thing I can do, it's complain. It just wouldn't do any good."

[11th_countess]

"I believe it depends entirely on who your audience is. Complaining to me? Not likely to get you anywhere."

She begins to shimmy her pack off her back and sets it on the ground.

[deathonnahorse]

"Good to know. So, how exactly did you spend your evening?"

[11th_countess]

"Mmm, I got good and furious at that fellow you argued with last night, then I went out to explore the Hive. On my way I met Buffy and we played a little game and she educated me regarding stakes."

Lara pulls one out to toss to him.

"And then I had to fight my way home. It was fun."

[deathonnahorse]

...

It must be said, for the record, that the notion of Lara Croft "playing a game" with Buffy Summers is nothing less than the pinnacle of adolescent masturbatory fantasies. We now rejoin your narrative already in progress.

"Ah," Methos says, catching the stake. "Well, that would explain why he was in such a foul mood when he caught up with me. And fought your way home? Against what?"

Please say Harth's dead, please say Harth's dead, please say Harth's dead...

[11th_countess]

"He strikes me as always in a foul mood," she says bitterly. She tips her chin up sharply, nodding at the stake. "Vampires, I'd assume. I can't say that I'm a fan of letting them get so close before staking them, but it was quite satisfying when they just...~poof~" she blew out and made a little exploding motion with her fingers.

[deathonnahorse]

"Don't suppose one of them was a little scrawny kid in glasses?" he asks absently.

[11th_countess]

...

Scrawny kid? Glasses? Like the one she'd had such a nice chat with at the meeting?

"Um...no..." she says hesitantly.

[deathonnahorse]

Yeah, that'd be the one.

"Damn. Ah, well. Figure he's laying low after that stunt he pulled at the meeting."

[11th_countess]

"I left before it was over. What happened?"

Conveniently leaving out the 'with Jayne' portion of that story.

[deathonnahorse]

"Harth was there the whole time, apparently. He just strolled in, took a seat in the back and listened to everything. Then, when it was over, he killed some girl's pet dinosaur and ran off with the body. Now the girl's in a coma, Zuko's locked himself in his room under guard, and Harth's vanished into the mists."