[Xander] Open Bar
Who: Xander, Kayla
Where: Noah & Henry's House, Spencer, IL
When: Shortly before midnight, after The Attack
Invited: Open
Status: Incomplete
"Just what the doctor ordered." Xander placed a shot glass of vodka on the table in front of Kayla and took a seat across from her, a drink of his own in hand. He plopped the bottle between them. His sympathy for Giles was growing by leaps and bounds as he once again faced the task of explaining the Truth Behind Things That Go Bump in the Night.
Kayla frowned at the drink. "Thank you, Xander but --"
"You need it. You're going to say that you don't need it, that you just need to sleep or rest or meditate and clear your head and you'll be fine in the morning. And you may be right. You might be. You might be able to just ignore it all and pretend like none of it ever happened, and that would be great. Except that tomorrow morning, you'll have to look at Jason and you'll have to check Brian's wounds and who knows what else you might see before it's over with?"
"You don't understand. I'm a doctor. I'm about science and facts and . . . it's just not possible for a man to turn into a wolf. It isn't. That's a movie with Jack Nicholson."
"And Michelle Pfieffer," Xander grinned. He picked up his glass and chinked it lightly against hers. "A little bit Hollywood, but I have great respect for Jack and great love and appreciation of Michelle. So, to Jack and Michelle and Hollywood horror."
A very faint smile made a brief appearance on the pretty doctor's face. She hesitated for a moment before lifting her cup and tossing back the shot. "I was always partial to vampire movies. I think vampires are sexy, don't you?"
Xander considered it and was poised to say no when he realized he would be lying out of his ass. Aside from Druscilla, who was just an insane scary bitch, yeah, there could be some truth in the sexiness of vampires. Darla was hot, at least. Harmony, not so much, but that was probably a personal bias leftover from high school. And plenty of women thought that Angel had some dark avenger sexy thing going on. "I guess so, if you don't mind the fact that they're looking at you like a meal on legs."
He poured another shot into both glasses after tossing his back. "So, you ready for the spiel?"
"The spiel?"
"Yeah. I haven't figured it out by rote yet, I sorta just play it by ear, but it goes like this: vampires, werewolves and demons are real. The monster that you thought was under your bed, probably was under your bed, or at least in your closet, and those horror movies get their inspiration from somewhere. The world is not the happy safe place that you think it is, but by knowing what's out there and what to avoid you can keep yourself happy and safe. Well, safe. I make no guarantees for happy."
Kayla studied him a minute. "You're not making this up, are you?"
"No, I'm not."
"You really are a monster hunter?"
"Actually, I'm kind of a Watcher, but that's a long story. I'll take monster hunter for right now."
"Jason is ... a werewolf? Complete with silver bullets and everything?"
"No, I think Jason is without the silver bullets, hence explaining why he is alive and well, but," Xander paused and smiled, "I know where you were going with this."
He watched her down the second glass and push it towards him. "I should be freaking out."
"Amazingly enough, most people don't," Xander said as he obligingly refilled her glass. He then drank his and did a refill as well. (I'm gonna feel like shit in the morning, but can't let the lady drink alone.) "That's definitely a movie thing. In real life, I think your brain just kind of shifts gears and tries to realign itself."
The third glass disappeared in a heartbeat and Kayla blinked and coughed. "Wow."
"Should you be drinking those so fast?"
"Probably not." She shook the glass meaningfully at Xander. "But this is a drinking moment."
Where: Noah & Henry's House, Spencer, IL
When: Shortly before midnight, after The Attack
Invited: Open
Status: Incomplete
"Just what the doctor ordered." Xander placed a shot glass of vodka on the table in front of Kayla and took a seat across from her, a drink of his own in hand. He plopped the bottle between them. His sympathy for Giles was growing by leaps and bounds as he once again faced the task of explaining the Truth Behind Things That Go Bump in the Night.
Kayla frowned at the drink. "Thank you, Xander but --"
"You need it. You're going to say that you don't need it, that you just need to sleep or rest or meditate and clear your head and you'll be fine in the morning. And you may be right. You might be. You might be able to just ignore it all and pretend like none of it ever happened, and that would be great. Except that tomorrow morning, you'll have to look at Jason and you'll have to check Brian's wounds and who knows what else you might see before it's over with?"
"You don't understand. I'm a doctor. I'm about science and facts and . . . it's just not possible for a man to turn into a wolf. It isn't. That's a movie with Jack Nicholson."
"And Michelle Pfieffer," Xander grinned. He picked up his glass and chinked it lightly against hers. "A little bit Hollywood, but I have great respect for Jack and great love and appreciation of Michelle. So, to Jack and Michelle and Hollywood horror."
A very faint smile made a brief appearance on the pretty doctor's face. She hesitated for a moment before lifting her cup and tossing back the shot. "I was always partial to vampire movies. I think vampires are sexy, don't you?"
Xander considered it and was poised to say no when he realized he would be lying out of his ass. Aside from Druscilla, who was just an insane scary bitch, yeah, there could be some truth in the sexiness of vampires. Darla was hot, at least. Harmony, not so much, but that was probably a personal bias leftover from high school. And plenty of women thought that Angel had some dark avenger sexy thing going on. "I guess so, if you don't mind the fact that they're looking at you like a meal on legs."
He poured another shot into both glasses after tossing his back. "So, you ready for the spiel?"
"The spiel?"
"Yeah. I haven't figured it out by rote yet, I sorta just play it by ear, but it goes like this: vampires, werewolves and demons are real. The monster that you thought was under your bed, probably was under your bed, or at least in your closet, and those horror movies get their inspiration from somewhere. The world is not the happy safe place that you think it is, but by knowing what's out there and what to avoid you can keep yourself happy and safe. Well, safe. I make no guarantees for happy."
Kayla studied him a minute. "You're not making this up, are you?"
"No, I'm not."
"You really are a monster hunter?"
"Actually, I'm kind of a Watcher, but that's a long story. I'll take monster hunter for right now."
"Jason is ... a werewolf? Complete with silver bullets and everything?"
"No, I think Jason is without the silver bullets, hence explaining why he is alive and well, but," Xander paused and smiled, "I know where you were going with this."
He watched her down the second glass and push it towards him. "I should be freaking out."
"Amazingly enough, most people don't," Xander said as he obligingly refilled her glass. He then drank his and did a refill as well. (I'm gonna feel like shit in the morning, but can't let the lady drink alone.) "That's definitely a movie thing. In real life, I think your brain just kind of shifts gears and tries to realign itself."
The third glass disappeared in a heartbeat and Kayla blinked and coughed. "Wow."
"Should you be drinking those so fast?"
"Probably not." She shook the glass meaningfully at Xander. "But this is a drinking moment."