4: voice/action

[steadfastest]

I'm tossing this frisbee around, if anyone wants to join me. OR--there's a hacky sack, too. It's Thursday. Let's go nuts.

[Xander might be found in the meadow beside House 19, either kicking the hacky sack around or tossing the disc into the wind and trying to catch it as it flies back. He is determined to be HAPPY AND HAVE FUN, damn it, and to

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[action]

[slayersidekick]

[ HERE have a best friend. Willow shows up not long after to catch the frisbee in mid-air. ]

Want another hand there?

[ And she tosses it back. ]

[steadfastest]

That teleporty day---I didn't get zapped anywhere, but I had kind of a weird experience. Do you know Rachel?

[slayersidekick]

Rachel? I don't think so? What happened?

[steadfastest]

She's this vampire I sort of talk to. A lot. Anyway, she teleported into my kitchen, bleeding to death.

[slayersidekick]

Bleeding? I hope you helped her out! [ Not that she expected anything less of Xander usually, but, well... she has to ask. ]

[steadfastest]

Okay, so, I TOTALLY helped her out--even though she bled all over my waffles. And this is my question: why do I feel sort of guilty about doing that? And my other question: why did I do it? She's a vampire. It's not....[He struggles to find the right words.]

[slayersidekick]

[ She shrugs. ]

She needed your help and she wasn't trying to drain you? We've spent a lot of time around Buffy, Xander. She would have helped.

[steadfastest]

THAT'S just it. I was a jackass with the whole...nevermind. Let me put it this way: I am a jackass.

[OOC: let's ignore the part where I totally failed with continuity in this post. LET US NEVER SPEAK OF IT.]

[slayersidekick]

[ She looks at him fondly. ] But you're still Xander, my best friend since kindergarten at least. And you did help her out, that's the important thing.

[ooc; WHAT CONTINUITY ISSUES. I SEE NOTHING.]

[steadfastest]

[Best friends, but he's felt almost removed from all of his "future" friends here.]

Yeah. I know. I'm the good guy without the cape.

[And he will NOT reveal the Buffy/Xander situation because CONTINUITY MUST HAPPEN FURTHER DOWN THE LINE.]

[slayersidekick]

[ Funny how she gets that feeling, too, only from the higher ups like Buffy and Spike... even Andrew, whom she doesn't even remember. ]

Hey, there's nothing wrong with being the good guy without the cape. Unless you want a cape and then we can probably find or make one.

[ I WAS JUST ABOUT TO MENTION THAT, THANK YOU. Sob, you can probably attest that to my tag speed fail. ]

[steadfastest]

Yeah, well, if I get a cape then Andrew's gonna want a cape and then Batman is going to mock us. But not like an ordinary man such as myself would mock, oh no. He will mock us with the humor of grim silence.

[OOC: YES IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT AND I MEANT TO TYPE Buffy/Spike SITUATION BUT BECAUSE ALL I COULD THINK OF WAS EATING MY PEANUT BUTTER PUFFIN CEREAL I FAILED AT THAT.]

[slayersidekick]

Grim silence, huh? Somehow I don't think Batman can mock us... is he even here?

[ooc: MAY OUR FAIL UNITE INTO ONE GLORIOUS FAILTASTIC BLOB?]

[steadfastest]

Oh, yeah. He's here. [No, Xander hasn't been secretly stalking the guy. Much.]

I still haven't met Buffy's housemate. McCoy. Bones. From Star Trek!

[OOC: IT UNITES SO HARD I HAD TO ACTUALLY EDIT THE POST TO INCLUDE THIS STATEMENT ABOUT HOW OUR FAIL UNITES. THAT IS WHAT WE CALL "META-FAIL."]

[slayersidekick]

Kinda surprised I haven't run into him and then kinda not. There's a lot of people here.

[ There's a bit of a smirk. ]

You should. I could introduce you if she doesn't.

[OOC: MAYBE I SHOULD JUST GO TO SLEEP NOW BEFORE OUR UNITED FAIL LIKE... CAPITALIZES ON ME/US OR SOMETHING.]

[steadfastest]

I just don't want things to be awkward. I need to play it cool with the guy.

[OOC: I think I'm going to bed now anyway, before I fall over.

ETA: Did you just slash ME with US???? :O]