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Twenty Bells: [Action/Voice]

Aug 22, 2011 19:53

[He'd won her a stuffed penguin. She'd been hanging on his arm and squeezing it with a giant grin on her face. Everything felt, finally, like it was going to be okay. Like this trouble between them since sleeping together was just a little thing ( Read more... )

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[ voice ] slaying August 22 2011, 23:59:15 UTC

...Huh?

[ this barely registers. ] What? What about Dawn? Is she okay?

[ voice ] noprevaricating August 23 2011, 00:02:12 UTC

[There's a long pause. How can he reiterate this to Buffy?

Like an officer.

He clears his throat, his voice going low, but cracking a little.]

She-she went home.

[ voice ] slaying August 23 2011, 00:03:31 UTC

No.

[ instantly, her voice gets thick. ] No. She can't have. I just -- we just talked. She came by the castle and we talked, dammit. She's here. You just...you lost track of her.

[ voice ] noprevaricating August 23 2011, 00:06:35 UTC

I was holding her hand. [He sounds distant.]

[ voice ] slaying August 23 2011, 00:08:12 UTC

Then you let go and she got lost in the crowd. There's hundreds of us out here.

[ but now comes the sound of a great scuffle and of swearing and a grunt of pain as buffy tussles once again with the droids keeping her in this damned castle. ] Let me out. [ she shouts at them, pleads with them.

by now, she must be crying. ] Archie. You've gotta be wrong. You have to be wrong.

[ voice ] noprevaricating August 23 2011, 00:13:31 UTC

[That's exactly what he's been telling himself. He looked everywhere. But he can't forget the feeling of her hand vanishing in his. He rubs his fingers together slightly, but does not respond.]

Re: [ voice ] slaying August 23 2011, 00:14:52 UTC

Archie? Please tell me you haven't checked her apartment yet.

[ but she understands. sometimes? you just know. like waking up without jack. like walking in on a kirkless bed. ]

[ voice ] noprevaricating August 23 2011, 00:16:44 UTC

[Blinking rapidly, his breathing becomes audible for a second.] N-no.

[ voice ] slaying August 23 2011, 00:20:27 UTC

Then you don't know. Not for sure.

[ she clings to this tattered, wispy bit of hope. ]

[ voice ] noprevaricating August 23 2011, 00:21:55 UTC

[He knows. He knew the moment he stopped feeling her hand in his.]

Perhaps I don't.

[ voice ] slaying August 23 2011, 00:22:56 UTC

...Perhaps.

[ a hard swallow. ] You check. I'll -- I'll find you once I'm out.

[ voice ] noprevaricating August 23 2011, 00:24:13 UTC

All right. [He's not going to check. He knows. And going to her apartment and seeing it empty will only seal it.]

[ voice ] slaying August 23 2011, 00:27:45 UTC

[ hours later, a raw voice hits the journal feed: ] Where are you?

[ voice ] noprevaricating August 23 2011, 01:31:12 UTC

Home. [His voice also sounds very raw, and exhausted.]

[ voice ] slaying August 23 2011, 01:33:17 UTC

Then I'm coming over.

[ no question. no waiting for an invite. the journal's already shut. ]

[ action ] noprevaricating August 23 2011, 01:38:19 UTC

[Archie closes the journal as well, then belatedly realizes he is, by eighteenth-century terms, undressed. He starts fishing around for a waistcoat and coat, and will still be doing so when Buffy arrives.]

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