“We’re fugitives, haunted by our past, tormented by a message we don’t understand.”

[hesourhostage]

High school is probably one of the last places one expects a crazy riot... Well, okay, under bad circumstances, it’s the first place one expects a crazy riot. Teenagers are freakin’ scary when they get a mind to be and when you add a hyperfocused Hellmouth to the mix... Well, then you have a problem. A big problem. And in the midst of this riot,

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[shealone_stands]

Buffy was... patrolling. Which isn't quite the same when there aren't any vampires around, but there are... things that come through the Rift. She's stumbled across them a few times, sometimes with Tay, and while they're more like demons than vampires... she's still the Slayer, and she can deal with them.

She's circled back from the construction site after one sweep, seeing if there's anything trapped there, and finds inside... not a monster. Just a kid with a camcorder. Buffy stops just outside the circle, and frowns a little.

"You're not gonna like this, but this isn't your best day ever." Looks human. Is human, as far as she can tell, and he's obviously a wanderer or he wouldn't be in the circle. Lucky him. "I'm Buffy, by the way."

[hesourhostage]

Andrew jumps when he hears Buffy's voice- having just turned around to stare vacantly at that swirling Stargate-y (although without the gate-ish parts) vortex- and freezes for a second. Sounds like Buffy, but why would Buffy introduce herself?

"Very funny, Buffy," he laughs nervously, not actually turning around. "I know you guys forget my name all the time, but now's not really the time for that, yanno? 'Cause.. 'Cause we were totally doin' stuff, weren't we? Saving the world and all that."

He pauses and then turns around slowly. Okay, definitely looks like Buffy, but that First thing could turn into Buffy, couldn't it? "Unless you're not really Buffy... In which case, I have to warn you that I'm friends with her and if you've taken me captive, you will come after you and reap... Slayer-y vengeance on you."

He looks down at the camcorder and grins a little. "And then I'll film it."

Oh yes. Have a little cocky, 'how do you like me now' grin from a guy you definitely don't know, Buffy. That'll make your night.

[shealone_stands]

Buffy was just about to step through the circle so she could grab him and let him out, but the fact that he knows her name and acts like she should know his gives her pause. Much less the fact that he knows she's the Slayer. "I am Buffy. The Slayer. I promise. The more important question right now is who are you, and how do you know that?"

She pauses, considers the fact that he said he was friends with her, and adds, "And who are you?"

[hesourhostage]

Andrew tilts his head to the side. "Buffy, is this like that time you got amnesia, because Xander told me about that once and if it is, you picked a really bad-"

Another pause, followed by another headtilt. "You're younger... And your hair's different... And, uh..."

He steps a little bit closer, trying to examine her further, because... There's something not right about this whole scenario. Buffy not knowing him, Buffy being younger... Oh, oh GOD.

"Sweet zombie Jesus," he swears under his breath. "I've gone back to the past. I don't even know how that happened... I didn't even have a DeLorean or anything. Oh... Oh God. Um. Well, I'm Andrew. I'm sorta from your future. We were totally arch-nemesis..es... Except for when I stopped being evil and became your sweet and lovable sidekick."

Yeah, sorry, Buffy. There was no way you're going to get a word in edgewise in that impressive ramble.