Cooling Off [Open] [R for profanity]

[ravaged_rose]

She's wandered through a few others' creations by now so at this point Rose is ready to try something of her own in the Sensoriums. She goes for the familiar, albeit with a few tweaks. She'd always thought the Titan's Tower would have been better without that pesky roof over the top-floor pool

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[thexanwhosees]

Xander was going to do some training when he stepped in. They briefly stopped in San Francisco before heading overseas. Just to get away from Sunnydale as far as possible, and Buffy was dealing with major mocha jonesing.

He paused to glance at the skyline with his eye and his own limited eyesight kept him from noticing the very naked woman in the pool.

...Wait a second.

"Whoa, hi, uh nice boobs... view! Nice view!" Yeah he's just going to turn around now.

Any time now.

[ravaged_rose]

Rose just LAUGHS at him, loudly, swimming over closer to the edge of the pool that he's standing by and grinning because that frantic stammer is the funniest thing she's heard since she got here (short of that story Leela told her about the time she drank Cyclops under the table).

"Thanks, I made them both myself." She hooks her arms up on the edge of the pool and leans a little. Less outright exposure, WAY more cleavage.

"You coming swimming too?"

[thexanwhosees]

Yay cleavage! Cleavage is of the good.

He just hoped she wasn't secretly a demon since he's had mixed luck with that.

"I am coming... Uh swimming. Yeah, uh you know I was once on my school's swim team?" Not that it was that hard to sign on by the time they lost a few players to a case of turning Black Lagoony.

He started to turn, but then well a touch of suave Xander showed up. At least enough to do a little show with the stripping.

Thank you the Fabulous Ladies Nights in Oxnard.

[ravaged_rose]

A demon? Rose? Well, not in the supernatural sense...

"Swim team? Sounds charming." Swim team? Seriously?

Rose is a little thrown if she's honest. He looks like the normalest dude that ever normalled and he can barely look her in the eye just because she's not dressed... but he's HERE which means he's probably got something crazy under his belt. Everyone she's encountered seems to have history even if they don't have powers.

And, well, his body language isn't adjusted. He still moves like he's not quite used to having only one eye. (It took her months to really compensate properly so it's not like she can hold it against him or something.)

She pushes off the wall and strokes back into the water a few feet, waiting on him to climb in, smiling just a little at the flare which which he tosses his shirt aside.

"Before we end up naked together maybe I should know your name?"

[thexanwhosees]

And he's had his injury for no more than a year. Xander had started some therapy to compensate for the lack of depth perception but that didn't get very before the town was well... sucked into the giant crater that was the Hellmouth.

He was currently trying to be cool and shimmy out of his pants, but then paused in mid-hip shake.

"Me? Oh, I'm Xander, how's it going?" He waddled closer to shake her hand, and then his pants slid to his ankles at once.

"..."
He totally meant to do it just like that.

Really.

[ravaged_rose]

She swims up to shake his hand, and probably gives him an eyeful in the process, so she can't do anything but just laugh when his pants drop around his feet.

"I'm Ravager. It's... going better for me than you I think."

[thexanwhosees]

Xander's hands immediately went down to cover the uh 'not so little guy', and he sheepishly grinned.

"Yeah usually does, uh so excuse me while I pick my dignity. Oh look there it is." He then carefully got into the pool, and will deny any shrinkage.

[ravaged_rose]

Rose let him climb in with a minimum of any more giggling, and gave them both a minute to settle before bringing out the first of a few questions pinging in her brain.

"You seem way too normal for this boat." she said simply. "Probably means you're far from it, huh?"

[thexanwhosees]

"Nah, about as normal as they come. I just get tossed into some really weird sitchs, and all of my buds are not so normal."

[ravaged_rose]

"Oooh, normie got sorted into the weird pile." Rose swims over a little closer, just treading at the edges of his personal space. "So what's your local brand of crazy then? Super villians? Aliens?"

[thexanwhosees]

Well there are no boobies in the face so it's not land of the awkward juuuust yet.

He shrugged, "There was something with an alien once... no I think that was demony too. It's mostly vampires, werewolves, ghosts, and demons demons demons all the time."

[ravaged_rose]

"First three are out of my league but demons I've had a bit of experience with. Some of them aren't so bad."

She thinks of Eddie on that one and it makes her smile a bit.

"Are your friends any of the above, or are they more the versus to that list?"

[thexanwhosees]

"Yeah I almost married one, but she wasn't one at the time we were seeing each other. Well and then later we kind of were."

Xander waved his hand since it was a long story, and Anya was still a painful subject. Especially recently.

"It's more the versus, though one of my friends is something of an uber witch. We knew a guy who was a werewolf. Some are Slayers, and Watchers."

[ravaged_rose]

"Slayers and Watchers?" She tilts her head aside, curious. "And you're secretly what? A pirate?"

That's not offensive if the person saying it to you has their own eyepatch, right? Right.

[thexanwhosees]

And since she had her own eyepatch, he didn't give the Nick Fury line. Also never know when HE might show up on here.

Xander shifted closer to her, and then lifted the patch to show the gouged out socket.

"More of a battle scar. First Evil's BF thought I needed to see less and took one out. Buffy split the guy with an ax." And boy was he happy to hear about that.

[ravaged_rose]

Rose hissed on an inhale of breath when he lifted the patch, nipping her lower lip between her teeth automatically.

"Shit... Well, good on Buffy and her axe at least."

She hesitated a second then flipped her own patch up. Her wound hadn't been so well taken care of. An emergency extraction of her destroyed eyeball, cauterized blood vessels. Her eye lid was mostly intact but scarred shut.

"I see your battle scar and raise you a self-inflicted maiming. Deathstroke Serum is a bitch. Nice helping of psychoactive shit in there."