4th Spell [voice] / [action]

[slayersidekick]

[locked to Giles, and Buffy]

[ She fiddles with her journal pages for a moment.]

I've been working with the Filial magic for a few weeks, ever since the teleportation event when I was stuck up on the roof. [ Which Giles would know but Buffy might not. ] A-and I think it's going pretty well.

[ More fiddling. ] But, uh, Dr. McCoy and I were talking

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action; | post-sundown work?

[univalent]

[ one of the problems with vampires is their nasty habit of showing up without warning. no sound, just sudden vampire in your presence. good thing this one isn't interested in hunting the living anymore. ]

Nice little trick.

action; | totally fine! \o\

[slayersidekick]

[ They all tend to do that a lot and that whole not shedding a reflection thing isn't helping. Willow jumps at the sound of Spike's voice and the stick goes flying off in a random direction. ]

O-oh... Spike! You startled me.

[ pause as she gets up to retrieve the stick. ] I was just practicing. A little.

action;

[univalent]

[ spike jumps back himself, because flying pieces of wood = potential for badness. thankfully, he's not hit by it. ]

We'll call it even for that almost near death experience.

[ he hesitates, then: ] Not that it's any of my business, but are you sure that's wise?

action;

[slayersidekick]

[ She glances at the stick in her hand and winces. ]

Sorry. I-I just...

[ It's okay, because y'know, he's the only person who isn't outright encouraging her and he's voicing her own fears. ] I don't know, Spike. Buffy and Xander and Giles a-and even Doctor McCoy seem to think I can do this magic stuff again, but I don't know. I-it's so powerful and the last time I used it, back at home, I hurt Dawnie. It was really bad and I don't... I don't want that to happen here.

[ She pauses, too, turning the stick over in her hands. ] But I want to help. I-I want to do something and sitting around here... it's not doing it for me.

[ But she is afraid. Very, very afraid. ]

action;

[univalent]

[ he waves that apology off. no big, especially since he was the one to startle her, after all. ]

That was a few years ago for me, you know - what happened with Dawn. You got better with the whole control thing. Actually pulled off somethin' pretty miraculous last I was in Sunnydale. [ he shrugs. ] Not sayin' it'll be easy, but it's doable. If you think you can do it.

action;

[slayersidekick]

[ She looks at him nervously, taking in what he's saying as she continues turning the stick over in her hands. ]

I-I don't know. I mean, the whole Dawn thing and the me making a fool of myself and hurting people thing. It's just so powerful. But things are toned down here. I-I can tell there's... less of it here.

[ But that's not helping the whole fear thing. ]

...What did I do? Back home.

action;

[univalent]

Sort of an expert in the hurting people field. Having the power and knowin' how to use it. The temptation's so easy to give into and hey, you did. Who hasn't given into something tempting? We're not saints. So you slipped. Means you're human.

[ shockingly, sometimes he is capable of saying the right thing. and he probably should not be doing this, but if buffy won't tell her, who else is she going to hear it from? ]

Activated the Slayer line. Every girl in the world who could be a Slayer now is one. No longer the weight of the world resting on one girl's shoulders. Whole army of them out there, now.

action;

[slayersidekick]

[ She listens carefully, chewing the inside of her bottom lip a little. Yeah, he's helping more than anyone else so far, but she's still a little worried. More than a little.

But... hang on... ]

I activated the Slayer line? [ Her brain... it is blown. Buffy said there were things she shouldn't know about the future, but this... this is actually... kinda cool. ] I didn't know that was possible!

action;

[univalent]

Neither did we, but Buffy figured out a way to make that possible. Probably best if she tells you the rest of that.

action;

[slayersidekick]

Right... I guess so... What little she'll tell me about the future.

action;

[univalent]

What all has she bothered to tell you?

action;

[slayersidekick]

Nothing, really. Just the game-changing spell I did, which is probably the Slayer-activation thing you just mentioned. She said if she told me anything else, I'm to hit her upside the head and change the subject.

[ She sounds a little grouchy and kinda looks a little annoyed at this, but she really does understand why Buffy won't tell her things. ]

I get why, but I still feel... kinda left out.