cell phone post.

[atoner]

Comments

voicemail;

[1inageneration]

Can we talk? It's about Spike.

call;

[atoner]

[while it's ringing ...]

-Is that how it's supposed to be ringing?

call;

[1inageneration]

[click! she picks up on the second ring]

...What?

call;

[atoner]

[sound of a button being pushed]

Uh-it's nothing. Don't worry about it. What's up about Spike? Did we get anything for sure about him from Stark?

call;

[1inageneration]

Yeah, um. We did. He can do it, but there's a catch.

[pauuuuuuse of doom]

That part isn't so great.

call;

[atoner]

Is it money?

call;

[1inageneration]

It's his moral code. He won't do it unless Spike's volunteered for it, or he attacks someone. And they press charges.

[another pause]

I talked to Wesley.

call;

[atoner]

And there's no way Spike's going to volunteer to do that, and we don't want him attacking someone.

So-if you've talked to Wesley, you have a plan.

call;

[1inageneration]

We need him to attack someone. And we need that person to press charges. And it's probably better if that person-

Wesley's okay with it.

It's either this or voodoo.

call;

[atoner]

[there's a pause, a stretch of silence, and then-]

This was Wesley's idea, wasn't it?

call;

[1inageneration]

[Now it's her turn to pause.]

It was mine.

call;

[atoner]

You suggested Wesley as bait, but he still took you up on it.

[silence, brief silence-]

I don't like it. I don't like the idea that things might not work out. We need to talk to Stark and ask him to reconsider.