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[girl_unlocking]

[Unusually subdued, or possibly just the cell she's currently sitting in affecting her mood. Cross legged on the small bed, the shadowy stripes of bars in haphazard patterns across her face as she leans into the screen (careful inspection may reveal the figure of a dark haired girl in the next cell), adjusts it, swallows and speaks.]I know you're

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[velvet_zealot]

He told me once about his mother. Maybe he returned to her.

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[girl_unlocking]

[You.

Can this get any more complicated. That's what she gets for making it public, though. So she'll lie in that metaphorical bed, just like she'll sit in this one.]

Maybe.

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W-what did he tell you?

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[divinelyhushed]

[it's a good thing she's been beat to the punch. because there wasn't any good way to announce it...]

he is really gone then .

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[girl_unlocking]

I...

...think so.

[He hated that nickname sfm. No way would he just let it sit there, public. So he's either gone, unconscious or...

...he feels gone. Just like everyone else did.]

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[divinelyhushed]

oh .

[she agrees. he feels gone, and that little place above the clinic where they had lived seemed all the bigger now, too.]

he did not come home .

[voice]

[girl_unlocking]

You were staying with him? W-what's your name?

[stakesthings]

Hey. Dawnie.

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[girl_unlocking]

Hey.

[Have a tiny smile, Buffy, before she flips the switch to private and starts to cry.]

I thought it would get easier. Instead it just hurts more.

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[stakesthings]

Remember what I told you could living in this world? Doesn't really matter which world it is.

...gonna be in there for long?

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[girl_unlocking]

I'll be here all night, unless the Mist eats me, too. [Or whatever it does.]

[trickster_treat]

I'd just met him but he was an ok guy.

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[girl_unlocking]

He's a lot better than he lets on, you know.

[Present tense. Because he's somewhere. Maybe even somewhere better.]

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[trickster_treat]

He took care of Nill.

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[girl_unlocking]

He did.

[She just found this out! SO MUCH FOR YOU BEING A JERK, HEINE. TCH.]

[private]

What's going to happen to her now?

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[atonementsucks]

Dawn...

[That's it. Just Dawn. As much as he might want to comfort, it's hard to know where to begin here.]

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[girl_unlocking]

[She sniffs, offers a sad little smile.]

Hey, Angel.

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[atonementsucks]

Guess this is kind of a weird time to ask how you're holding up, huh?

[And yet here he is, asking anyway.]

How long are you going to be...?

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[girl_unlocking]

I'm holding. [Not going to lie, Sebastian's cake helped. And the visits. And the fact that no one seems to hate her for what she's done, even if the blame is getting all shifty in her head.]

Which really isn't that weird, considering the ...you know. Jail. It'd be way weirder if it were just a random question, like - if we were all dancing and you busted out with 'how you holding up'. That would be some weirdness. Unless it were a dancing contest, because then I can see where holding up would be an issue, especially if we were all on the same team.

[And she just stops. Because the babbling is happening.]

I don't know. Things got ...unresty, I guess, and there's some kind of situation here, with other prisoners or something, so I really haven't been---

I'm sick of people just going away. It's selfish of me, because I should be happy if they get to go home. But what if home is bad, and what if they didn't---

[...]I did like Buffy said, and I talked to Spike. Well, talked at. Because he didn't answer his Forge, so I just kind of