You'd think after
last night, Xander would be sleeping in, and he did try, but he woke sometime long before he felt really rested. Rather than stare at the ceiling until it was a decent hour to call...people, he got up, showered, and did stuff that wouldn't wake anybody up who wasn't already awake.
It was hella later in Brazil, so he did try to call there, but he was met only with Kennedy's apologetic voice. He left a message for Willow with her and a Happy Birthday one on Buffy's cell, then went back to peering at his laptop. Noting the
number of truly new e-mails that had already come in, he decided the old ones could wait until he'd saved everybody some WTF.
To:
Aeryn, Alanna, Anders, Angela, Bel, Blair, Bridge, Callisto, Cally, Cam, Conner, D'anna, Dawn, Hamlet, Isabel, Jake, Jaye, John Crichton, Kawalsky, Krycek, Marty, Molly, Nadia, Parker, Peter Parker, Peter Pevensie, Phoebe, Pip, Pippi, Rory, Sam Carter, Veronica, Walter, Willow, Z, Zero
From: Xander (purplefrog at yahoo dot com)
Sorry about the clogged inboxes, guys. And the five months without writing or calling. And the wacky messages about stuff that hasn't happened yet - it's been a little longer than five months for me, so I kind of... extrapolated. They're not psychic predictions or anything, so don't set up an armed guard around the Perk, Jake. Anyway, I'm in Fandom, up at the Arms, and the phone and the e-mail actually work now. It's been kind of crazy since I got here - sorry it took me this long to let people know I'm around, too. I'm just now starting to believe it myself, y'know?
~Xander
Then and only then did he let himself read through the messages he'd been
sent while he was gone, with the cellphone on hands-free so he could finally listen to the rest of his
voicemail while he read.
When the
last 'old' message started playing, though, Xander lifted his gaze from the screen and just stared. And then made a
call it was always going to be too early to make.
When three hours had passed with no response, he made
another. Which was ALWAYS a link, yes.
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[OOC: Open for a call from
izzyalienqueen that he's not expecting, as well.]