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[breakmychest]

[Spike looks his usual combination of grumpy and annoyed. Buffy's visible sitting somewhere in the background, though she doesn't initially seem to be paying that close attention. She's on babysitting him to make sure he doesn't kill everyone, but she'd probably notice if he tried to start right now. Not that he has any intention to.]All right,

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[gunslingerpoet]

Vampires are demons now?

[He's drinking a beer and acting as if we're talking about the weather. A beat; he ponders...]

I suppose in a way they are. Depends on where they come from. So, a soul huh.. that mean you used to be human, dude?

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[gunslingerpoet]

[He leans back and waves his beer about to accompany the explaining]

It's no cakewalk, but yeah. Demons and supernatural crap's usually real common. Besides the occasional human-constructed hell gate, there's natural ones... and lesser demons have a bad habit of crossin' the veil between the planes on their own. It goes in waves how bad it gets. Possible-end-of-the-world scenarios and insane wannabe priests who wants to conquer the world, aside. So yeah, once in a while it's bad enough that people get hired to deal with it. Got a friend who occasionally works for the government on commission.

[At Spike]

Thanks. I got my revenge and I'm holding the tradition alive, so I figure it could be worse.

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[slayerdom]

[ Well, of course Angel's group charges Angel's evil. But she's not saying that. ] Yeah, we're all cozy -- Or, well, I'm all cozy on the mouth of Hell back home. Standing guard, fighting back the evil, not even getting a little paid for it ... [ sigh. ] They all just like to pretend it doesn't exist even when it's slapping them in the face. Or, I guess more commonly, eating their face.

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[breakmychest]

You don't really hear about those horrible slapping demons. [...he's kidding. Probably.] Besides actual money. Sounds like you deal with about the same things we did. [Before they came here in Buffy's case. Before Buffy destroyed the seed in Spike's case. Though he's not sure how long that will stave off a new apocalypse. They'll see.]

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[gunslingerpoet]

[Knowing smirk] I guess the commonality of The legend of the dark knight Sparda; the demon who defected and two millenia ago saved humanity and the mortal plane form becoming a permanent part of Inferno.. is a contributing factor to why a lot of people get with that some superstitions are real. I mean, even if they prefer to ignore it as much as possible to conserve their sanity and ability to sleep.

[#KAYNESHRUG lol]

Sometimes mixin' in regular ol' mercenary work is needed to reach the needed money quota. But yeah, sounds about same.

[Nevermind the lack of money is usually because he sucks at keeping money, not destroying things.. and because he refuses job offers because they're BORING.]

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[slayerdom]

... Mercenary work? You kill people? As in people-people? [ she's getting uppity. ]

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[breakmychest]

[And hand back to Buffy's shoulder, though more in a calming way this time.] What sort of mercenary work?

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[gunslingerpoet]

No one said anything about killing people. Killing people, heh--Certainly don't mind roughing a few assholes if they're really asking for it, but people and demons got the whole market for murder covered without me adding to it.

[Not even flinching at your uppity although it is adorable, Buffy. He actually HAS killed people.. in his wild and less than righteous youth. But not intentionally, and never anyone you'd call 'innocent'. He's not exactly going to pledge total innocence himself though. He can sympathise with Spike for a reason.]

Body guard, courier, bounty hunter... even done a few rescue missions. I'm a professional devil-hunter and everything else is small fry, but like I said.. a guy's got to pay bills and food somehow. No one hires a guy like me for normal civil sector work. ... Sad really! I make a killer strawberry sundae.

[Subconscious nodding here, and he sips his beer.. and laments the lack of Strawberry Sundaes in space. Stupid space.. world.]

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[slayerdom]

[ Oh. The hand on her back coupled with Dante's words make her feel kinda stupid for getting uppity. It didn't occur to her that mercenaries do things other than hitman-y stuff. But they sure do. Her expression softens. ]

What kinda stuff do you, uh, coury? [ Yes, she just made courier into a verb. ]

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[breakmychest]

[He looks over at Buffy.] Mercenary's not the same thing as assassin or hit man, love. It can be, but mostly it covers a lot more. [He nods back at Dante.] Like he said.

I'd pay you for a strawberry sundae, mate. Figure out how to make one here, you could make a killing.

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[gunslingerpoet]

Not much. Rare that people got anythin' valuable enough that isn't drugs to make it worth my while. [If you knew his rates Buffy you'd be stuttering for minutes on end]

I'll keep that in mind buddy if I figure that out. Doubt it'd be something to make a business off tho' as I'd have to deal with customers.

[Ew, so socially awkward with real people in real life situations. He'll just.. be over here, thanks.]

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[slayerdom]

And this is your way of saying you don't coury drugs. Right?

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[breakmychest]

I can understand that. There's a reason I'm fighting instead of honest employment. [He glances at Buffy.] No offence.

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[gunslingerpoet]

[Buffy, you just get a looong look for that. He's trying to decide if you're just adorably charming or if he's supposed to be offended. He can't decide.]

Yes.

[Duh. Unless it's alcohol. He figure he could cury that. And take a percent off the--Hmm. That's a nice thought... Speaking of. Spike recieves a smirk and a raised beer bottle, cheers to that.]

I'll drink to that.

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[slayerdom]

What? Don't give me that look. Mercenary is a shady title. You could be doing shady things.

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[breakmychest]

[...now Spike wishes he had a beer bottle.]

I would, but the drinks are all the way across the ship.