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Strawberry Social - The Park, all day

Jun 03, 2011 08:05

Vida had gotten an early start in the park to set things up for the Strawberry Social. It had been chilly and damp when she arrived, but a stern glare at the clouds had sent them fleeing, and the sun was shining over the park now, making for a bright and sunny day. There was danceable music playing and plenty of places to stretch out and enjoy ( Read more... )

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Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] needsaparrot June 3 2011, 21:27:33 UTC

Sure, maaaaaaybe he wouldn't get tossed out for not wearing red, but Xander wasn't going to take that chance.

Especially if he ended up having to argue that Bridge should get a green card for his uniform due to being married to somebody in red.

Okay, fine, he was just dying for the chance to make that joke. Shut up.

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] brat_inslayage June 4 2011, 00:42:43 UTC

Oh, hey, it was the guy from the homecoming dance; Kennedy took a moment out of raiding the food tables to raise a hand in a half-distracted greeting. "Hey."

What was his name again? "Xander, right?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] needsaparrot June 4 2011, 02:41:50 UTC

Oh, hey, it was that girl from sleeping with his best friend -- no, the other one -- on and off for the last seven years or so. Mostly -- and he was pretty sure currently -- on.

Only, you know, younger and more not attached to Willow at the tongue.

Not awkward at all. "That's me. Hi, Kennedy."

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] brat_inslayage June 4 2011, 02:49:48 UTC

Awkward? It couldn't be awkward if Kennedy didn't know it was supposed to be awkward. Because she said so. Yes.

"Hey, you remembered," she drawled-- totally a joke, because she expected people to remember these things. She waved a strawberry-holding hand in the general direction of the causeway. "Cool. Check out the new and not necessarily improved view, huh? When I left it was in, like, ancient Viking-land."

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] needsaparrot June 4 2011, 03:10:17 UTC

Xander was more the strawberry-shortcake-holding type. Well, a plate of that. He wasn't just holding the cake in his hand. That tended to get sticky. Not that he knew from personal okay he totally knew from personal experience.

"This place went bopping around a few years ago too," he said, not elaborating on why he remembered her name. "The summer I got married, actually. The weather was better, though."

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] brat_inslayage June 4 2011, 03:36:27 UTC

Eh, she wasn't asking anyway. She figured it was worth remembering. Oh, and might know something about sticky cake from personal experience too.

"See, now I feel ripped off," Kennedy replied. "Also tripped out. There was the thing with the space Vikings at graduation, and then hello, cold and ancient Viking-land. 'course then I went home and surprise, time went all wacky, and now this."

That was annoying, okay?

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] needsaparrot June 4 2011, 04:21:43 UTC

"Space Vikings?" If Xander sounded a little bit jealous, well... "My graduation had a giant inflatable gremlin." Waaaaait. "Wait, time went wacky on you?"

He might be a little oversensitive to hearing that out of the mouths of people from Sunnydale. Or people who at some point in their lives had set foot in Sunnydale, whatever.

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] brat_inslayage June 4 2011, 04:34:59 UTC

"Well... Vikings. The flying saucer coughed them up," Kennedy clarified, like that made it any better.

"And yeah? September just started for me. 2001. Not a big deal; it just makes coordinating phone calls and stuff a pain in the ass."

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] needsaparrot June 4 2011, 20:30:22 UTC

Oh God, sure, make him try to remember what happened which year ten years ago. Sort of.

"So you didn't get stuck in Sunnydale or anything?" Sometimes the 'Screw it, just blurt' approach was easier than figuring out whether he was going to break time.

Most times, actually.

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] brat_inslayage June 4 2011, 21:20:34 UTC

...time was just weird and confusing. As was the question, which earned Xander the kind of really, WTF? look she had no idea she was good at giving him.

"Stuck in--" She snorted a laugh. "Yeah, I wish. Never been there in my life yet."

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] needsaparrot June 4 2011, 21:36:07 UTC

"I'd say 'Lucky you,' but in this case I should probably go with 'enjoy that while you can.'" Which should be... what, another year, maybe? A little less? Soon enough that Xander felt a little more sure it wouldn't break anything to mention it.

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] brat_inslayage June 4 2011, 22:06:09 UTC

Let's just say that for reasons she was chalking up to desperately needing a hobby, her Watcher had taken to keeping an eye on weird eBay auctions lately.

But anyway. Kennedy stared at him like a troupe of dancing purple elephants had just put on an impromptu performance on top of his head. "What, enjoy being bored out of my mind not getting to do anything? Yeah, that's exactly my definition of a good time. Hell, I just want to know what's going on over there these days but that's not happening either."

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] needsaparrot June 4 2011, 23:58:23 UTC

"Buffy's dead, Faith's still occasionally forgetting she shouldn't offer to trade me things for cigarettes, and Andrew and Jonathan haven't decided to not be douchebags yet." That should about sum it up. Except for the part where only one of those was accurate for any universe besides his own.

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] brat_inslayage June 5 2011, 00:25:56 UTC

"Yeah, don't know those guys, met Faith, and--"

That summed it up in a way that went nicely over Kennedy's head, except for the part where she was blinking at him.

"Buffy's dead? How the hell did that happen?"

How come nobody told her these things? God.

"And wait. You know both of them?"

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] needsaparrot June 5 2011, 00:55:55 UTC

"You met Faith?" If she hadn't been to Sunnydale yet... "Oh, the one here. Yeah, I know both of them." Or knew, and know, and the tenses were all screwed up, but if she was already this confused, telling her that his Faith was dead and his Buffy was alive again probably wouldn't help.

"I'm from Sunnydale, which is why you should actually believe my ratings of its shitholiness. Though your version would be less of a literal hole, at this point."

Re: Arrive and Mingle [SS 6/3] brat_inslayage June 5 2011, 01:14:06 UTC

Kennedy was half convinced he was crazy already.

"Wouldn't know about that," she said, all with the raised-eyebrow skepticism. "Just what I hear from the news and my Watcher, which is a whole--no pun intended-- hell of a lot of nothing these days."

She took a moment to vent that annoyance with a little huff.

"Besides, maybe it's not your thing so much but personally? Shithole or not, I wanna be where it's all going down. Help kick evil's ass and all that."

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