MCA0, Monday Night

[needsaparrot]

Xander is doing something that... well, some people might call it cooking. Probably not people who actually know how to operate a stove, though. There's chicken, or something that started out as chicken, but then he got distracted by the pasta boiling over, and now it's the artist formerly known as chicken. And the superglue formerly known as pasta.

So... pretty much Xander's doing something that's more properly described as 'staring at his kitchen and wondering if it'd be cheating to dump the whole thing and start pressing random buttons on the food replicator.'

It's been... a day.
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[OOC: For the boyfriend.]

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[needsaparrot]

"Mmm, delicious like burning," Xander answers, not flinching from the fingers so close to his eye. Deliberately not flinching, but that's a step up, really.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge just gives Xander a look. "I *know* you," he points out. "You actually *can* cook, so if there's burning that means you were distracted and since I wasn't here it wasn't *that* kind of distracted so what's up?"

[needsaparrot]

"I can't just randomly burn things for the fun of it?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"No," Bridge says firmly. "At least, not *indoors*. That's what throwing random things into campfires is for."

[needsaparrot]

"We could go start one of those," Xander suggests. "...or okay yeah, maybe letting me around open flames right now wouldn't be the hottest idea ever."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Well, possibly in a literal sense, but definitely not a good idea and... you still haven't told me what it is that's got you all food-burny."

[needsaparrot]

Xander turns to move the scorched pan off the burner. "I rented a new apartment today. To Faith."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"...Faith?" Bridge repeats weakly. "But she... but. *Your* Faith? Or..." he trails off, suddenly uncertain.

[needsaparrot]

"Huh? Oh, no. God, no," Xander assures him, not having realized that would be Bridge's first thought. "Dawn's."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Are you okay?" Bridge asks, concerned. "Okay, stupid, stupid, question, you're obviously, there was food-burning, so..." he trails off, going over to the food replicator.

[needsaparrot]

Xander shakes his head. "I'm fine. Just a little..." He shrugs. "Thrown? I've met people who were supposed to be dead before."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but none that you..." Bridge says, pressing a few buttons and ending up with... well, with spaghetti and meatballs, which he brings over to the table. "You want anything to drink?"

[needsaparrot]

"Uh." Xander blinks. "Water's fine, thanks."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I can do water," Bridge says, setting two glasses down on the table with a flourish. "And I didn't mean drink-drink like... I just meant, with dinner, sometimes, something to drink is good because with food and... I'm going to stop talking now."

[needsaparrot]

Xander laughs a tired, scattered laugh. "Are you okay?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I- mostly, I think, yeah?" Bridge says.

[needsaparrot]

"It's just...weird," Xander says, staring a little dumbly at his spaghetti. "I mean, it's not the same person, you know."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Bridge says, idly prodding at his plate with a fork. "Did, um. Do you know- did you and she, in her timeline, were you, uh? Well, not you-you, the Xander from her reality, were they-"

[needsaparrot]

Xander shakes his head. "Don't think so. Not from what Dawn said."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Huh," Bridge says. "Well, that's. She missed out on something great, then," he says awkwardly. "...This whole alternate reality stuff is weird and I'm not even directly involved, here."

[needsaparrot]

"You're pretty directly involved with me," Xander points out.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Bridge looks over at Xander and grins. "Wouldn't have it any other way."

[needsaparrot]

"Me neither." Xander looks down and twirls spaghetti around his fork. "I, uh, didn't say anything to her about us. I mean, the other her and me us. Not the you and me us either but that was just because it didn't come up. The other thing... that's a lot to dump on somebody, y'know?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Totally understandable," Bridge says with a nod. "But the you and me us, that part- it is going to come up eventually, right?"

[needsaparrot]

Xander looks up. "Sure. Can't see why it wouldn't."