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slaying

[ action & voice & written ]

Apr 08, 2011 21:47

[ it is late friday morning and buffy summers is attempting some tricky meditation techniques in an unoccupied corner of the barracks. a small (carefully arranged) pile of crystals sits a few feet away from her. without her ex-watcher's help, buffy is trying to sort out a little mystical inner peace and, without his help, it isn't going very well. ( Read more... )

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[action] noprevaricating April 9 2011, 02:22:17 UTC

[Actually collecting and measuring loss has taken its toll on Archie today. He's at a corner table of Good Spirits tonight instead of his usual spot at the bar, looking unusually blank.]

[action] slaying April 9 2011, 02:35:32 UTC

[ eventually, she brings him a drink. ]

Hey.

[action] noprevaricating April 9 2011, 02:38:10 UTC

Hello. [The blankness breaks when he looks at her and accepts the drink and takes a sip.] Thank you.

[action] slaying April 9 2011, 02:40:14 UTC

Don't thank me. Just remember to tip generously at the end of the night.

[ the joke rolls easily off the tongue. ]

[action] noprevaricating April 9 2011, 02:42:44 UTC

[And it gets a chuckle. After a moment, he pulls a piece of paper out of one pocket, unfolds it, and hands it to her. It's a long, long list of names.]

[action] slaying April 9 2011, 02:51:16 UTC

Y-yeah.

[ a long exhale and she sits heavily down across from him. ] Wow.

[action] noprevaricating April 9 2011, 02:56:18 UTC

And these are just from today. Who knows how many others may crop up.

[A hesitation.]

I was doing just fine until this one. [His finger taps on the name "Gracia Hughes."]

[action] slaying April 9 2011, 02:59:20 UTC

[ she doesn't recognize the name, but won't question it. ]

I recognize a lot of them. I mean -- I knew...know. [ she has a hard time finishing. ]

[action] noprevaricating April 9 2011, 03:06:13 UTC

[Nodding, he folds up the paper and pockets it again.] Well, I won't trouble you any further with it. I need to get it off my mind, anyway. [He sips his drink.] Did you return Jack's clothes to him?

[action] slaying April 9 2011, 03:07:30 UTC

Hm? Oh, n-- [ no. but it wouldn't to to explain the why involved in keeping jack's spare clothing at her place. ] Naturally. Of course.

[action] noprevaricating April 9 2011, 03:08:51 UTC

Has he stopped being angry about the milk, I wonder?

[action] slaying April 9 2011, 13:18:33 UTC

I'm pretty sure he's moved on to bigger and better peeves.

[action] noprevaricating April 9 2011, 17:04:54 UTC

[The smile he gives isn't quite sincere.] I'm beginning to think he knows who it was. When I told him I could move today after all the practice he's had me doing, he gave me more repetitions to do. In case he asks, I've done them already.

[action] slaying April 9 2011, 17:05:50 UTC

There's no way he could know.

[ GUILTY CONSCIENCE. ] And he's just a rough teacher, that's all.

[action] noprevaricating April 9 2011, 17:16:05 UTC

I'm not--I'm not complaining, you understand. I'll do them later, after I've had a drink.

[And apparently, he's taking his time with said drink.]

At least with this ceremony business, or whatever it's called, I can do it sitting down.

[action] slaying April 9 2011, 17:24:51 UTC

It's really that rough?

[ she hasn't ever quite felt that kind of training ache. ]

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