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[healerofharms]

Jill didn't usually stay in the compound long, what with the closed in space and lack of light and all. She usually ate her lunch in the kitchen, and on tense days even took that outside, too. Staying in the rec room? Not likely. She heard singing, though, when she walked past the entrance. Jill loped the last few steps to the rec room, her brows

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[scooby_leader]

Sometimes, a girl just needed to curl up in the closest thing there was to a living room with a good chick flick. Those definitely weren't hard to find, but when the little bookshelf thingy decided what you got to watch (she begged it not to give her anyone else in drag), it was a little more on the hard side. But, it offered Ten Things I Hate About You without too much effort and she loaded the cannister happily.

In jeans and a camisole-type-shirt, she was comfortable and her legs could be easily pulled to her chest. So she sat with one foot on the couch, and her other leg curled under that one, watching one of the best chick flicks of her generation. And with Heath Ledger singing.

Buffy turned her head and smiled in this... polite sort of way at the new face. She didn't talk like she was from Buffy's time, and there was something that was still really cool about meeting people from other eras. So she nodded to the projector.

"That's Heath Ledger. He's singing 'Can't Take My Eyes Off of You,'" Buffy said, "and not nosy. I think that man could bring pretty much anyone into a room."

[healerofharms]

Jill's face blossomed into a smile. "You're Buffy, right?" She moved closer and sat on the couch - the other end so that she wasn't overly close, but close enough.

"He's...." She trailed off, blushing - saying something like really gorgeous was utterly true, but also seemed kind of skeevy. She normally wasn't this on edge or polite, it was just... Xander had told her so much about her, and Jill was almost expecting her to have a halo or for flowers to spring up from where she walked. This was Buffy, and... if Buffy didn't like her, she didn't really know what Xander would do, but she didn't really think he'd just descide that it was all completely fine and the greatest thing in the world.

"Very handsome." That seemed safe.

[scooby_leader]

Huh. Fame. Cool.

"Yeah," Buffy said, eying her a bit. It wasn't exactly suspicious, she was just trying to figure out who the hell was asking. The island population was big enough, now, that there was no way someone could really know everyone, and she really didn't look like she was from Sunnydale.

"I'm... sorry. I don't know you, do I?"

[healerofharms]

Jill blinked in surprise. "Oh! No, I'm sorry. We've not met, but I've seen you training with Tim. I'm Jill- Jill Pole? I..." She actually paused for a second, the first time she'd ever done that.

"I'm one of his Titans." It wasn't that it was silly or anything, it was just... that half of her wanted to say I'm training with the Titans, but that was wrong. She was one of them, no matter what.

"And- I mean. Xander-" Jill didn't even realise she was kind of wringing her hands in her shirt. "We're- I've heard a lot about you." Which might explain why Jill looked like she was face to face with a lion that might decide she was lunch.

[scooby_leader]

And the little dots connected in Buffy's head. Jill was Xander's Jill and the Jill that she'd seen with the Titans. Jill. Which meant that Jill was a strong girl. She hated other strong girls. Especially when they were close to someone that loved her. She wasn't a typical girl, so all she had was the fact that she was strong and blond and hard to get to. But she'd try. For Xander, she would. Not to mention she wasn't so judgey, those days.

"Oh! Jill! Hi!" Buffy said, brightening a bit. Whether she was a strong blond or not, she was dating Xander, and it was cool to put a face to the name. And a pretty face, too. Go Xander.

[healerofharms]

Jill's brows rose, and the pink that immediately suffused her face was more then obvious. "Hullo! I- do you mind if I join you?" She already had, she realised in that moment. She squinched her eyes shut for a moment, before opening one. "Ignore the fact I already did?"

[scooby_leader]

"No, it's fine," Buffy assured her mildly. Deceptively so. She had no desire to scare Xander's girlfriend off (OK, yet) and if she seemed like any other girl, the chance Xander could tell her she screwed up was less. Not that he would, but the fear was definitely still there.

"It's good to finally meet you. I've heard a lot."

[healerofharms]

"You... have?" Jill looked more like a scared doe then anything, her blue eyes wide. "I- Was- Was it good? I mean, I hope?" The last word was squeaked, and... well.

"I've heard a lot, too. From Xander. He thinks very highly of you."