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MCA #0. Tuesday Night.

Jan 23, 2007 23:46

Xander was expecting to have to deal with all kinds of fallout from this weekend; he knew minor property damage was likely to be the least of his worries. What he wasn't expecting was that it would somehow end up being his broken door he was currently fixing. Diligently. With every tool in his travel case, now moved out of his former room at the ( Read more... )

ellen, harper, willow, rory, cassie, cally, bridge, mca0, seely

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bridge_carson January 26 2007, 02:55:57 UTC

"I'm sure he'd want to see her!" Bridge protests, smiling just a little. "Which reminds me. I kept my promise."

needsaparrot January 26 2007, 03:03:16 UTC

"...Narrow that down for me a little? You tend to keep most of them."

bridge_carson January 26 2007, 03:08:13 UTC

"The one about the frogsitting," Bridge clarifies.

needsaparrot January 26 2007, 03:34:43 UTC

".....Jeremiah."

And yes, he had honestly - despite everybody's age, despite knowing it had only been months since he left them, despite talking about Callisto's pet - not realized what that meant until just now.

"I guess I had it in my head for a long time that... Well, frogs don't live all that long."

bridge_carson January 26 2007, 03:44:48 UTC

"Yeah," Bridge says. "I've still got him. And he's still purple, in case you were wondering."

needsaparrot January 26 2007, 03:55:23 UTC

"Wow."

He started to admit that he still had the other frog, then realized what else he still had. Xander paused longer than he really ought to have before saying, "Which reminds me, I, ah, guess I should give you--"

Then he stopped entirely, staring at Bridge, because he hadn't noticed until now.

bridge_carson January 26 2007, 04:32:50 UTC

"What?" Bridge asks, confused.

needsaparrot January 26 2007, 04:38:59 UTC

"You got a new badge." He was so used to the image in his head of Bridge wearing it that - despite having had it for the past six years - Xander hadn't thought anything of the fact that Bridge was, well. Wearing it.

bridge_carson January 26 2007, 04:48:13 UTC

"Z got me one, for my birthday last month," Bridge explains. "I would've been fine without it, but there was this whole big thing with Cruger yelling at me."

needsaparrot January 26 2007, 05:03:20 UTC

"Sorry I missed that," Xander said on auto-pilot. "The birthday, not the yelling." And by that he meant sorry he'd missed the last seven, except he hadn't, except he had, except he found himself not saying what he'd started to say, because...

Because there was Bridge with a badge, looking like he always had, and he was okay without the one he'd pressed into Xander's hand six years and five months ago.

"Glad she thought of it, though," he said instead.

bridge_carson January 26 2007, 05:08:02 UTC

"She's a great teammate, and an even better friend," Bridge says, and he *wants* to add that he was okay with not having a badge because *that* one belonged to Xander, except it's been almost seven years and he doesn't even know if Xander would have even kept it this long.

needsaparrot January 26 2007, 05:16:20 UTC

"I lost... a lot, when we had to leave Sunnydale," Xander said, which wasn't a real lie, except that it sounded like he was explaining, and he wasn't. Bridge didn't even know about that part yet, Xander realized just after that, if he hadn't checked his e-mail. "I don't mean when they sent us off to school; about three years ago we really had to leave. The Hellmouth collapsed. No more town."

bridge_carson January 26 2007, 05:42:14 UTC

"I'm sorry," Bridge says. Because even though he's always got the impression that Xander's only real attachment to Sunnydale is a particular handful of people who lived in it, and not the fact that he'd grown up there, what *else* does one say to something like that?

needsaparrot January 26 2007, 06:01:20 UTC

"No more Hellmouth is a good, though. Well, no more Hellmouth there. Still one in Cleveland."

Xander stood up. "I do have something for you, though." Because he did. And not at all because he was covering in case Bridge remembered that he'd mentioned giving, a while back.

bridge_carson January 26 2007, 06:04:02 UTC

"Yeah?" Bridge says curiously, to cover the disappointment over the sudden lack of a Xander next to him.

needsaparrot January 26 2007, 06:34:19 UTC

"Bunch of stuff, really, that I picked up for people over the years. Most of it's in storage, though." This one he'd kept with him, for some reason; it was small, easy to carry. Sort of felt like a good luck charm.

"Be right back." Xander walked back to the master bedroom, where he'd stowed his luggage, though he'd not really unpacked much of it into the closets and shelves in the room. He spared a glance for the stuffed frog sitting on the bed, but ... yeah. No. Instead, he went to his carry-on bag and pulled something from the pocket, then returned to the den.

"Saw this in a little shop in Kenya, thought of you." He dropped a small wooden figure, about an inch-and-a-half tall, into Bridge's gloved hand.

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