Harbinger on the Roof

[druci11a]

She sees them coming, and waves her snipers to stand down as they approach her from their rooftop.  She knows they could cross the gap if they were motivated enough, but she's not sure they're there yet

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[lovesbitch]

"She didn't, Dru. It was my choices that brought me to this."

Spike in Fred's body, Sped for the moment, looks around at those arrayed against them and does his best not to conjure the odds of success. It never helps anything when you do that anyway.

"You've got a lot of lackeys but you know you aren't going to win this fight."

[buffy_slayer]

"When she walks, she's like a samba,
that swings so cool and and sways so gentle..."

"Slowest... elevator... ever. Next time I'm just gonna have to take the stairs."

Buffy's not quite made it to the roof, but she's trying.

[druci11a]

"It doesn't matter if you win or lose, right Spike? It's how you play the game that really matters.." She smiles winningly.

[lovesbitch]

"You've got that much right, Dru."

Carefully, Sped closes the distance between the two of them, keeping an eye on the bruisers and snipers and other assorted bad guys on the roof along with Dru.

"It seems you've made new friends, though."

[lovesbitch]

Spike reaches up and runs a hand through Fred's hair and smiles at Dru. "We don't know but we're going to. It always ends up that way." The tone is dry as he looks around trying to see whatelse Dru might have set up.

"There should be a big fight, too. Always a good thing. You never were much of a fighter, though, Dru."

[druci11a]

"Oh, you have no idea, Spike," She says, swaying slightly back and forth. Never quite able to keep still. "You don't understand what the Juris has given me.." She sounds positively giddy. "He quieted the voices, Spike. No star song, no child's rhymes, just me, not lost, but here." She turns an electric gaze on Spike, and he feels a chill down Fred's spine. She is more focused, at least, she seems to be. "I don't want to lose it, Spike, but I also can see the future much more clearly, much more vividly. I lose this, and I don't want to, and it's simply the way of the world."

[lovesbitch]

"I wouldn't want to lose it, either. I know what it is like, y'know. To live in a blur and finally find focus." It isn't at all as long as Dru has lived in her sing-song world but he knows the pain of not quite being what you see or what you think.

"I don't know how you can do it, Dru. I could never live in a world where I knew what was going to happen."

[druci11a]

"That's why you make a better good guy," She says, wistful. "Bad guys make things happen, good guys react to the things that outrage them. You're much better at reaction than at planning." She grins widely. "Which is why you're here, cutting me off from my escape."