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[ man, buffy summers does a lot of door knocking. :| ]

[ action, june 2nd ] this post: OFFICIALLY BROKEN IN

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[ and dawn does a lot of door answering, sup big sister? ]

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[ ...she has that face. you know the face, dawn. the slayer-face. the one where things are a little more dire than they should be and behind those eyes are instinctual little plans that buffy doesn't even realize she's making. consideration upon consideration.

she doesn't wait to be asked in. ] Dawn? We have a bit of a problem. Or -- I have a bit of a problem. I'm kind of hoping that it won't spread to the we. [ because this is about a psycho-bitch goddess and the two of them have no good history surrounding that sort of thing. ]

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[ buffy, why do you make that face? that face never ever ends well. dawn's face twists into a frown, the welcoming smile dropping in favor of narrowing her eyes. ] What did you do? [ not so much accusing as ready to help. ]

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Nothing. I did nothing. [ which is the problem, really. she wants to be doing more. sigh. she's supposed to be no longer mixing the business and the pleasure but then jack got himself into trouble, and... ]

You haven't talked to a Victoriana-happy lunatic named Grell Sutcliffe, have you?

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You always do something. [ but that's the teasing in the face of badness voice. ] Even when you don't do anything, you're doing something. It's a Summers thing.

...No? I don't think. Why?

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[ why? well, because she's a death goddess out to terrorize jack sparrow and all his loved ones -- as soon as she finds out who they are.

but that would be too logical to say, so instead: ] Think Angelus only in Glory's dress size. [ actually don't try and visualize that too much. that's creepy. ]

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...I'm just going to take a second to mentally delete that image of Angelus in drag, because I really would rather skip the years and years of needed therapy.

[ seriously, buffy. what. ] All attempts to spur on my mental breakdown aside, is this a vendetta thing?

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[ she crosses her arms and regrets nothing; those name-drops were needed to solidify the kind of associative heebees involved in this mess. ]

Majorly. Against everyone's favourite swashbuckler -- which puts we-have-no-idea-how-many of us at risk. And the most of the us are going a-drafting tomorrow which means I need you to be extra-Sunnydale smart.

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I'm not happy about that. I just want to make it clear, I should be coming too.

[ because it needs to be said. ] Okay, so. Am I in... immediate battening down of hatches mode, or just on high alert?

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High alert. The popular theory at the moment is that Grell doesn't realize I'm...[ some vague hand gestures. you get what she means. involved with jack. ] The downside to this is that she thinks someone else. And that someone else is hiding out at seven -- Giles has knocked up a pretty decent warding spell over the place so if anything starts running in the direction of amok then you should high-tail it over there. Pronto.

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Having lots of illicit smoochies with said pirate? [ what. there is ALWAYS time to needle her big sister. ] Okay, so noted.

...So, how's that going? [ because dawn knows buffy, and that has to rankle. ] The mistaken girlfriend identity, I mean.

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[ oh it rankles. it rankles so bad. ]

It's -- god, Dawn? It's Jilly. Jack's partner in the Valentine's shenanigans. [ and the woman whose name is tattooed on his arm. ] But she's vanilla-human so...

[ so buffy has been playing bodyguard and she doesn't need to explain how awkward and weird that would be, for her. ]

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[ dawn THOUGHT so. ]

Oh, Archie's friend? [ she's spoken to jilly a few times, but nothing in-depth so the various nuances are somewhat lost. ] ...So you have to play Kevin Costner to her Whitney Houston, and meanwhile the psycho-lady assumes she's dating the guy you're actually dating.

[ pause. ] Have you considered Jerry Springer guest as a life choice?

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...Only for like the third time today.

[ but, important: ] If it looks like Archie's about to do something stupidly heroic once we're all back from fighting the not-our fight? Knock him out. Please.

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The first step is acknowledging you have a problem.

[ hbvdhbdfshbjdsfhbjfsd. ] Okay, what am I watching for, and in your 'let's sign Dawn up for nundom' capacity is flashing him an appropriate distraction technique.