Board Games Can be Scary...

[__cordelia]

((Continued from here"You have no idea," I said under my breath, before smiling brightly at Fred. "And no, sitting isn't really exercise..." She really was good at that babbling thing, wasn't she? Not that it was a bad thing, because sometimes I could babble with the best of them, but Fred had a real knack for it, like a hobby or something

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[stoic_angel_]

I held up my hands as Cordelia stood with her hands on her hips, trying to get her to not be so angry.

"I... was going to tell you," I said slowly. "It's just... that I don't want to make a big deal about this, because it's temporary, and we don't even know what happened yet."

I didn't want to attention on me. I could still remember what had happened last time I had become human for a day... This time was going to be different. First, Buffy wasn't here, so I couldn't focus all of my attention on her, while my friends thought that I was leaving them for her. Which, to be honest, I kind of had... but this time, I wouldn't be deserting them. I wouldn't put my friends in danger this time; last time, I had tried to fight, but since I was human...

I was just as much a danger to my friends as any demon, because they would try to protect me... and I couldn't have that. We needed to fix this, and soon. We didn't know what was going on, and we needed to know, and when we did... I needed to be able to fight whatever kind of demon it was that had done this.

I turned away from Cordelia, looking across the lobby at the other two, who were still debating pizza. Suddenly, I was aware of an ampty feeling in my stomach, and smiling wryly. I was hungry...

"So what kind of pizza are they ordering?" I asked Cordelia curiously.

[loaded_gunn_]

I raised my eyebrows in mock-horror, looking at Fred. "Pepperoni and pineapple? Now that's just plain wrong." I glanced at the other two, and sighed. Yeah, looked like Cordy was giving him a hard time, with her hands propped on her hips... no wonder he had been so reluctant to come back into the hotel.

I wondered what would have happened if we had actually gotten around to calling, then shrugged. It was Angel's problem at the moment, not mine... although from the way he was perking up at the mention of pizza, we might have a problem...

"Huh. Maybe we shoulda ordered more pizza," I observed. "Angel's lookin' hungry, and not for blood for once..." I glanced at the phone, then sighed. "Damn. He's probably gonna eat most of it, isn't he?" 'Cause only he knew how long it had been since he had last eaten, not to mention, if he could eat human food? I was willing to bet that it would taste better than that blood he was so fond of.

[__cordelia]

I put my hands on my hips, stidying him. I wasn't sure why, but now I felt like the stupid... Angel was hiding something from me, something different now. Pfft, like I cared that he was human now, which meant he couldn't fight the big bad demons. What did he think that meant, that they would all come gunning for us now, 'cause the big bad Angel was out of commission.

I raised an eyebrow incredulously, and asked, "Okay, so this is the first food you can taste in... ever, and you want pizza? You're going to get fat so fast on that, now that you're human and all." He gave me a wounded, alarmed look, and I smirked. "You knew that, remember? And besides, there are things out there that taste tons better than pizza anyway. But we can work on that..."

I looked at Gunn, and sighed. They were all hopeless... "Angel's not going to eat that much, Gunn, so don't worry."