Cemetery: Saturday Morning

[cantjossme]

She had been leaping across rooftops, as you do. She was chasing a particular nasty lurk who had been trying to assemble some artifact of Olos Nah and put it on the shrine of Accabwhec causing the demon of Aiel Reklawyks to rise and destroy Haddyn on even of the appearance of the comet of Ekul. Or at least he had until Mel had grabbed one of the

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[lilpunkinbelly]

Unfortunately, Dawn had broken her last three phones in tragic apocalypse-related incidents and had her phone on silent because she was annoyed with both Buffy and Xander.

She was, however, taking a leisurely stroll through the cemetery for old times' sake.

No. WAY. "Mel?"

[cantjossme]

"Summers?! Holy shit!"

And that would be an astonished slayer running in for a bone crushing hug. Prepare yourself Summers.

"You're here too? I just fell on my face through a portal while I was chasing a lurk."

[lilpunkinbelly]

There would also be a very loud, happy squeal. Followed by so much hugging. "You're not dead!"

"A lu--" She reached for the backpack she'd abandoned during the hugging. "Did he follow you? Do you need help? What's going on? How are you?"

[cantjossme]

"Nah, the portal just got me, not the pointy toothed guy," Mel said with a smirk. "As usual this place is as dead as a doornail. Rutting hell, Summers! What have you been up to? Saving the world? Teaching slayers the right end of a stake to stab with?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku was checking into her hotel room and on her way to go pester people when her phone beeped. Oh! Just one of the people she was meaning to pester!!!

There was a high-volume tackleglomp headed straight for ...

"MEL!!!!"

(I DID NOT READ THIS WAS AM? I FIXED. I AM DUMB.)

[cantjossme]

Oh she was going to be tackled right back. You know it.

"RIKKU!"

There was a uncharacteristic slayer laugh as she hugged her friend. "If I had known I was coming there would have been chimichangas."

[the_merriest]

"I bet we can get some!" Rikku chirped. "The mainland, or Turtle and Canary. Or we can hotwire a car and go steal some."

It was going to be a miracle if Rikku got through this weekend without ending up in jail. No big. Jails around here were super easy to bust out of.

"What have you been up to?" she asked. "I am so bad at, like, keeping up with people? I keep going to Spira and Gaia and back again and I just, like, boom, it's been six months, or two years, and how does that happen, you know!??"

[cantjossme]

"Timey wimey wibbledy stuff," Mel said with a shrug. "Beats the fuck out of me. I'm just a long for the ride for the most part. I've been in Haddyn doing the slayer thing for a while. Lurks. The occasional apocalypse. That kind of thing. I was chasing a lurk when I fell through the portal here. Had no rutting clue there was some event going on at the island."

[sarcasm_guy]

Well, this was slightly awkward...

And Sokka certainly hadn't run to the graveyard after his aging cell phone sprung to life with her text. That would have been undignified. Of course. He checked his reflection in his boomerang and smoothed down his beard before stepping forward to lean nonchalantly against a tree.

"Do we have to worry about lurks in the daytime, now?"

[the_merriest]

Dignity was for people who were not friends with people like Rikku.

"PONYTAIL!" she chirped, flinging herself excitedly at him. "Whoa, you grew up!"

[sarcasm_guy]

Sokka wrapped his arms around her and chuckled. "Orangey! How have you been?" He gave her a grin. "I may have gotten older, sure, but there are those who maintain that I never grew up."

[the_merriest]

"I'm good!" Rikku chirped. "We've been, like, going to Spira for a bit and then Gaia and then back here and then Spira and Gaia again and around and around. Maybe I'm just not good at staying in one place! Are you like way older than me now? How did you get older? Did the time just move superfast? Oh! What happened with your war and everything??? Are you here with Mel?"

One question at a time, Rikku. One at a time.