The Hack residence had been more than adequate as a hideout, but Eric wasn't just going to sit on his hands and wait. Since relocating, he had gone back periodically, checking up on the nest from a distance. But something was off today
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Really. Well, since you're obviously an omnipotent, impartial party to all this, I'll just take your word for it.
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Assuming the Slayer did it today. I've not seen my second since the club burned. Am I to assume this is just a nasty coincidence, given your side's decided predilection for vampire slaying?
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So, what. Buffy slayed... snarky fabulous shoe vampire lady, didn't even bother to gloat, isn't beat up, and you think I'm what, her alibi?
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She does have flashes of great stupidity. Perhaps this time she managed to find more help, or managed a better plan. I wouldn't know, as Pam. Isn't. Here.
As for your part in this, I neither know, nor do I particularly care.
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That's my sister, Eric. Watch it. Only I get to say stuff like that.
[Understanding clicks on, and her voice softens. Because Eric totes wants her sympathy, right?]
They took-- well, I don't know if they took so much as returned-- anyway. Xander went home. The Bronze disappeared, we couldn't reach his tablet... it happens, sometimes. It wasn't Buffy.
...I'm sorry?
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You have this rather annoying habit of handing me orders.
[There's a pause, and Eric is definitely pulling up the map right now. Not that he believes her.]
So I'm supposed to be impressed that you and your sister have the same excuse at the ready.
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And you keep not following them. Looks like we're both not getting what we want.
[Dawn sighs in frustration, and her eyeroll is nearly audible.]
Ooooooor maybe it's the truth. Just a thought.
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Don't mistake me for one of your tamed vampires.
[He snorts at that. He ttly believes you, Dawnie! Only not.]
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Right, because vampires listen to me.
[She snorts right back, then sighs.] Look, if something happened to your childe, it wasn't us.
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They listen well enough to your sister. Why would they prefer one Summers over another.
Forgive my language, but bullshit.
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Because Buffy can kick their butts and I can't?
It wasn't us.
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Is that the only difference?
Repetition won't make me believe it.
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Between a Slayer and a [Pause here, no she wasn't about to say 'key'] Watcher? No. I have better taste in shoes.
[She huffs out a small, frustrated sigh.] Then what will?
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Something tells me you weren't going to say 'Watcher' there.
Nothing you could possibly provide me.
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