[ Buffy comes up on the video - thanks for the generous donation of your mad science and tech skills, Abby! - demonstrating a few of her training techniques, before she turns her attention completely to the camera. There's a smile on her face. ]

Hey, El Dorado. [ And she's smiling a little wider now. ] So, I've been teaching classes and doing ( Read more... )

filtered; private to Abby Sciuto;

Um -... So I know we've never actually talked before, but I saw you had a video stream, that one time? And I was just wondering... How willing are you to share that? I have this idea, but it might not really work that well if there isn't video to go with it. And I have no idea how to work that in.

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Nothing. There'd been nothing. No Heaven, no Hell, no -- anything. She was just dead. She remembered Didi, walking her toward her destination. It was an empty, blinding whiteness that seemed to overtake everything. Buffy wasn't afraid. She wasn't upset, or worried about experiencing loss. She was... Well? She was getting used to dying. It was a ( Read more... )

As the evening went on, Rush only grew more crowded ( Read more... )

Rush tended to be much busier on the weekends.

There was something about the atmosphere that attracted people to it. They had many regulars who came in with their friends for drinks, businesses that threw their parties in the dining rooms, and curious newcomers who stepped in to get a look at the place and left several hours later. The bar always ( Read more... )

Comas were a real bitch. They were a hell of a lot more fun when they had a tour of ye olden days of Angelus, but even then they had their screwed up way of slamming you into brick walls and jacking with your organs. She had to pee. She was damn sure no one in their right mind was going to mess with that at the Hyperion, but here - in the darkness ( Read more... )

( Cut for spoilers, language and ... god only knows what else. Apologies for Dean in advance. Keep him out of the reach of small children. )

Hello?

[Her voice is filled with uncertainty and sounds cloudy.]

I know the lady at the desk said they were expecting me, but... I'm pretty sure I'm not supposed to be here.

No, I know I'm not supposed to be here. I really need to get back home. I don't even remember how I got here. Xander had me looking in his car for my... math book, and-- ( Read more... )

( Spoiler cut for True Blood 3x03, 'It Hurts Me Too'. )

One minute Cordelia Chase had been sitting on her couch talking on the phone while she was doing her nails (and occassionally angrily whispering at Dennis, her poltergeist roommate, to behave himself) and the next she was standing on some sort of walkway in front of a group of totally unattractive buildings. What the ( Read more... )