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What did we do all last week? Got weapons, planned, had more than a couple meetings, and then what happens? Nothing. And hey, I'm good with the nothing and the total lack of demon army. Really, not that I mind that part, but that's a whole week of my vacation, gone. Angel's officially the vampire who cried wolf. Or army of demon wolves. Whatever it was, it's not coming. Or so says some oracle they went to see.
Didn't go with them. Not much of an oracle-asking type - I mean, what's one of those ever gonna tell me? Was planning on relieving Dawn down at the hospital - she's been on guard duty down there more than the rest of us - but then Illyria, that girl from L.A. showed back up. Well, not, girl - turns out she's a seriously ancient demon-god-queen... or I think she said king... something like that. Anyway, she looks like she does because she's in the body of that girl Wil told me about when she got back from L.A. last year. Fred. And the body-switch killed her when it happened. Guess Fred was a friend of that whole group - Angel and Cordy and Wesley and non-pile-of-dust Spike and that guy in the hospital, Gunn. Having your dead friend's face talk to you when it's not them... Man, I don't know if I could deal.
Illyria, though... She's got a lot of questions. Wants to know about us. Us as in humans. Like why people act like they do and what things mean... Honestly, sometimes? It's almost like deja-vu. Last night, she showed up after everybody else took off, so I figured television might be a decent option. No go. Ended up going the DVD route, but the collection here's not so good (better than my DVD collection, which is at a big whopping zero). So I tried Lilo & Stitch, which I know Willow likes, and hey, it's about a blue alien, so it sort of fit. But then she started asking all these questions about family and home and stuff that, and then somehow, we were talking about Anya. It's like she knew. I mean knew about me and An and all the stuff I explained when she became human. She called me a guide. It's weird... I never talk about her, but she came up anyway. And what was really weird is that answering her questions... it was okay.
That's enough about me... News from the oracle-thing is that no army's on its way - which is cool - but there's some dark power rising. Or is about to rise. Something mobile. So we're still on semi-alert around here. Real fun.
I'm thinking I might stay a couple weeks longer. Until everything's okay, I mean.
Didn't go with them. Not much of an oracle-asking type - I mean, what's one of those ever gonna tell me? Was planning on relieving Dawn down at the hospital - she's been on guard duty down there more than the rest of us - but then Illyria, that girl from L.A. showed back up. Well, not, girl - turns out she's a seriously ancient demon-god-queen... or I think she said king... something like that. Anyway, she looks like she does because she's in the body of that girl Wil told me about when she got back from L.A. last year. Fred. And the body-switch killed her when it happened. Guess Fred was a friend of that whole group - Angel and Cordy and Wesley and non-pile-of-dust Spike and that guy in the hospital, Gunn. Having your dead friend's face talk to you when it's not them... Man, I don't know if I could deal.
Illyria, though... She's got a lot of questions. Wants to know about us. Us as in humans. Like why people act like they do and what things mean... Honestly, sometimes? It's almost like deja-vu. Last night, she showed up after everybody else took off, so I figured television might be a decent option. No go. Ended up going the DVD route, but the collection here's not so good (better than my DVD collection, which is at a big whopping zero). So I tried Lilo & Stitch, which I know Willow likes, and hey, it's about a blue alien, so it sort of fit. But then she started asking all these questions about family and home and stuff that, and then somehow, we were talking about Anya. It's like she knew. I mean knew about me and An and all the stuff I explained when she became human. She called me a guide. It's weird... I never talk about her, but she came up anyway. And what was really weird is that answering her questions... it was okay.
That's enough about me... News from the oracle-thing is that no army's on its way - which is cool - but there's some dark power rising. Or is about to rise. Something mobile. So we're still on semi-alert around here. Real fun.
I'm thinking I might stay a couple weeks longer. Until everything's okay, I mean.