Training Day

[bratty_dawn]

Who: Dawn and Buffy
Where: Training Room of the Mansion
When: Mid-morning
What: Buffy and Dawn hanging, working on some training techniques
Status: Complete :)

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[theslayer_buffy]

Buffy laughed at Dawn's sheer confusion at her contradictory sisterly advice. "I'm definitely your sister. And no, obviously I don't want you to go around and get drunk and do drugs and boink a bunch of boys," she said, "But, I mean, having the boyfriend thing is a good experience."

She stood up straight and folded her arms, reverting back to her commanding sister demeanor, "But, as long as the boy is not evil or a vampire or any kind of demon because that is so totally bad news. Then again, regular boys can be just as bad, maybe worse. And obviously, sex is totally forbidden. I mean, come on, the first time I had sex? My boyfriend turned evil and started killing people. And the second time? Well, he was just a stereotypical boy, so he turned evil in the normal boy way by not calling and going after his next conquest right away," she paused, "I'm over-sharing, aren't I?"

She shook her head, "Either way, I just want you to have some kind of normal life. I know you're little watcher junior and that's all fabulous and good, but you're still young. You shouldn't be cooped up with books and slayers and vampires all day," Buffy told her, a little earnestly, "When I was your age, I would have given anything to have some kind of normal life. And you're not a slayer, so you're free to be a teenager."

[bratty_dawn]

Dawn actually giggled when Buffy said 'boink.' Such a weird word for sex, honestly. Not like she'd ever, you know, experienced it or anything, but it was still a weird word for something that was so intimate. "I'm sure having a boyfriend *is* a good experience if you can get out and meet a normal one, you know," she said.

"No, I don't want a boy that's evil or a vampire or anything like that. I'd like to meet and date a nice, normal guy for sure, but who has the time? Or the ability to go and meet normal people." And then her sister got way with the over-sharing. "Wow...someone still holds a tiny bit of a grudge, don't they?" Dawn asked with a grin. "Well, you can assume that he's at least caught something nasty and pus filled now, at least?" Trying to look on the bright side, OK?

"I'm working on the whole 'trying to be normal' now," Dawn said. "I'm thinking that I'm going to be able to conquer the whole 'being a Watcher with a Slayer' thing, so now I need to work on the 'having a little bit of a normal life' thing. Which is harder than it sounds."

"Maybe a part time job? I don't know, Giles held down both the high school library and the Magic Box, maybe I can at least work in a bookstore? Good way to meet people." Hey, it was a start, anyway.

[theslayer_buffy]

"True," she agreed, "It is hard to manage the crazy life schedule, complete with a boy, schedule. But, somehow you find a way. With me, it was usually easy since I sort of combined the two. But, I so don't recommend it. It just leads to badness and well, more badness."

Buffy laughed lightly at Dawn's teasing, "Hey, Parker was an ass, he totally deserves the grudge holding and I suggested to Willow long ago that if I brought him to a cave that vampires just happened to inhabit, it wouldn't really be like I killed him. I could just, you know, not save him," she said innocently. "I'm sure he has some disease by now. Or maybe he impregnated half the freshmen class, I wouldn't be surprised. I mean, I already got all vindicated from dating Scott Hope in high school with him telling everyone I was a big lesbian since he's gay now. So, there's gotta be something big and karmic that hit Parker."

She nodded, "Part-time job would be good. I recommend staying away from anything fast-food related. Just gets a little too hairy and creepy," she said. Not to mention the smell, which she somedays swore she could still pick up in her hair and older clothes. "Bookstore seems to definitely be your cup of tea. Plus, there's always that fancy discount you can get. Either that or a clothing store," she suggested. "Especially a really fancy clothing store so you can share you fabulous employee discount with your loving and caring sister," she smiled brightly at her.

[bratty_dawn]

"So not wanting to combine the two," Dawn said quickly. "I'd rather have to work harder at balancing the two than try to have a boyfriend that was somehow involved in all of this." It sounded kind of bad, but, after seeing how *not* well it had worked out for her sister time and time again, Dawn really had no interest in finding someone who worked in their field. OK, maybe another junior Watcher such as herself wouldn't be *too* bad of an idea, but she'd have to FIND a suitable one first.

"He probably either caught something gross or is the baby daddy of seven different girls," Dawn said with a giggle. OK, obviously she had been watching a lot of daytime talk shows to catch a phrase like that. She wouldn't be surprised to end up seeing Parker on one of those shows any day now.

"OK, no fast food. I'd rather be broke and bored," Dawn admitted. Seeing her sister work one of those jobs was bad enough. "Ooh, a clothing store would be awesome as well. Discounts are always nice." Either a bookstore or some sort of clothing store would be great, actually. She'd be happy at either.

[theslayer_buffy]

Buffy didn't blame her at all for wanting a normal boyfriend. She used to crave that so much, but found that trying to hide her identity was an even more exhausting job than being the slayer. Luckily for Dawn, she wasn't the slayer, so it was probably easier for her to try out the normal life thing. Plus, she so didn't want her sister dating vampires.

She laughed along with her sister, "God, I hope so. He totally deserved whatever he got. Of course, giving him a pretty serious concussion when I was all cave slayer was some nice closure. And Riley told me he punched him in the face once," she said, smiling slightly to herself, wishing she could have seen it.

"Well, you should totally start filling out applications to places, then," she said, "Plus, I bet a lot of kids are going back out-of-town for classes after their winter break, so there's probably a lot of openings."

(OOC: Sorry! This one kind of got buried in the inbox!)

[bratty_dawn]

Dawn had only gotten the description of what it had been like to see cave!Buffy, since it had happened at the college while Buffy was off mooning over Parker and drinking her sorrows away. The story had been pretty funny. Of course, the other cave people had caused some trouble and apparently started a fire, and Buffy, still feeling her Slayer instincts, had managed to rescue them. Showed that Buffy would save people no matter what was going on in her head, even drunk on cave woman beer.

"Riley punched him in the face? Goody two shoes Riley?" She had actually liked Riley, and wished that it had worked out between him and her sister, since he had kind of been a good stabilizing force, plus normal and not vampire-y. "Wow, score one for him then, huh?" That was neat to hear. She kind of wondered what he was up to lately, for that matter.

"I'll do that," Dawn said with a smile. "I'm sure I can find something around here that's not too scary or icky." She really didn't want to work fast food or anything like that. In all honesty, she'd rather be broke.

Re: (OOC: Sorry! This one kind of got buried in the inbox!)

[theslayer_buffy]

"So he told me," Buffy said, "But, his friends backed him up on that. Plus, Parker always looked kinda terrified whenever we spotted him when we were together. I guess since we both hit him in the head, he didn't want to be anywhere near us. It was definitely a nice form of closure for both of us," she mused.

Her thoughts turned momentarily to wondering where he was. What corner of the world was he and his (stupid, but way too nice to actually hate her) wife were demon hunting? But, she didn't want to dwell on that. Not when she had plenty of things to dwell on here.

She nodded to her sister, "Good. I hope you can find something normal for your normal teenage life's sake."

(OOC: No problem. I think this one is pretty much closed anyway!)