Xander's room at the Arms Hotel, Friday morning

[needsaparrot]

You'd think after last night, Xander would be sleeping in, and he did try, but he woke sometime long before he felt really rested. Rather than stare at the ceiling until it was a decent hour to call...people, he got up, showered, and did stuff that wouldn't wake anybody up who wasn't already awake.

It was hella later in Brazil, so he did try to call there, but he was met only with Kennedy's apologetic voice. He left a message for Willow with her and a Happy Birthday one on Buffy's cell, then went back to peering at his laptop. Noting the number of truly new e-mails that had already come in, he decided the old ones could wait until he'd saved everybody some WTF.

To: Aeryn, Alanna, Anders, Angela, Bel, Blair, Bridge, Callisto, Cally, Cam, Conner, D'anna, Dawn, Hamlet, Isabel, Jake, Jaye, John Crichton, Kawalsky, Krycek, Marty, Molly, Nadia, Parker, Peter Parker, Peter Pevensie, Phoebe, Pip, Pippi, Rory, Sam Carter, Veronica, Walter, Willow, Z, Zero
From: Xander (purplefrog at yahoo dot com)

Sorry about the clogged inboxes, guys. And the five months without writing or calling. And the wacky messages about stuff that hasn't happened yet - it's been a little longer than five months for me, so I kind of... extrapolated. They're not psychic predictions or anything, so don't set up an armed guard around the Perk, Jake. Anyway, I'm in Fandom, up at the Arms, and the phone and the e-mail actually work now. It's been kind of crazy since I got here - sorry it took me this long to let people know I'm around, too. I'm just now starting to believe it myself, y'know?

~Xander

Then and only then did he let himself read through the messages he'd been sent while he was gone, with the cellphone on hands-free so he could finally listen to the rest of his voicemail while he read.

When the last 'old' message started playing, though, Xander lifted his gaze from the screen and just stared. And then made a call it was always going to be too early to make.

When three hours had passed with no response, he made another. Which was ALWAYS a link, yes.


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[OOC: Open for a call from izzyalienqueen that he's not expecting, as well.]

Comments

Re: First Period

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I don't know exactly. Timeline stuff I think. But talk to her soon."

Re: First Period

[needsaparrot]

"I was planning on it, yeah. Tomorrow if I can't get down into town today."

Which sort of happened...

Re: First Period

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Good. We've both missed you lots."

Where? Did I miss something while I was being a bitchy ho?

Re: First Period

[needsaparrot]

"Trust me, you have no idea how good it is to hear your voice." Even if he had heard it more recently than others, it wasn't the same.

In passing. He didn't exactly stop to chat.

Re: First Period

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure. The only thing that'll be better then hearing your voice is a giving you a hug. Be prepared for tackling," she smiled into the phone.

Re: First Period

[needsaparrot]

"I'll order my puffy-Xander sparring suit in, just in case," he said.

Re: First Period

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Oh come on. I won't hurt you. But for now, why don't I let you get back to doing whatever it is you doing. Call me when you want to go for food?"

Re: First Period

[needsaparrot]

"Will do," Xander replied. Not remotely still staring at the other phone except yes.

Re: First Period

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I'll do that. I'll do that. Definitely. Bye Xander."