"Hey, this is Xander Harris. Leave me a message and I solemnly swear I will not wait six years to return it. Unless I owe you money."
[This is Xander's regular number. There's just a separate thread for business requests, for the sake of no-brain-splodey. Voicemail for MCA tenants is here.]
"Xander? One hell of a welcome back, and maybe you haven't waded through the others yet, but-- We need you to meet us at the Perk. Bridge is missing. See you soon."
"Cal's about ready to be released from the hospital, if they don't hand her over to the County mental health facility. I thought we ought to step in before that happened."
"Veronica's. She's not there this weekend, but Piper is, and she said Cal can stay there for a while to get her head together." Parker sighed. "It's the best I can come up with that's a world away from Angel."
"Well, V's place is definitely that." Xander remembered her face when she'd interviewed him about Sunnydale for journalism class. "No vampires over there." He rubbed the back of his neck, already moving to feed Jeremiah and otherwise deal with the stuff he needed to before leaving for LA.
"Though I did see somebody who looked like her once, back in my dimension," he added absently." Which reminded him of things he needed to talk to Parker about, too - but not tonight. "From a distance. Didn't talk to her."
"Hunh. Seriously? Like John and Cam are twins, and Lee and Archie were?" Parker thought about that and shivered a little. "Let's hope V's dimension doesn't have a Callisto anywhere Neptune. She doesn't need one more thing to mess with her head." She sighed. "I was just about to buy some Portal-O-City tickets-- you want in?"
The thought of portals still made him a little twitchy, but he and Bridge had made it to LA and back safely enough the first time. "Yeah, I'll be there. You're taking Bridge too, right?" Xander couldn't imagine him not coming, or Parker thinking of excluding him from this.
"Of course. He's the one who's best with Cal when she gets unreasonable. And I don't want to have Hurt Puppy Bridge Eyes used on me." Parker shook her head. "Okay, so, three there; four to Veronica's dimension; three back. Ten tickets. And I'm just presenting Angel with a fait accompli-- if he had a better idea, he should have done it by now."
"Cal didn't exactly sound like he's likely to be fighting us off for her." Xander sighed. "Then again Cal didn't sound like she knew what day it was, so who knows what all's really been going down."
"He isn't, he's got other problems. Wings just feels like he owes her at this point, I think. And if Bel comes back, I want her out of the line of fire, she's in no shape to help, only get hurt." Parker shook her head. "It's time to cut ties before something drastic happens. If she'll come back here, great, but if she won't, Veronica's is a good second choice. Or as good as we've got."
"Works. Thanks for being the nominal adult, Xander." Parker grinned a little. "Well. More than in name only, but you know what I mean. I'll see you soon."
"Hey, um, Xander? Just to let you know... a bunch of us are going down to the Underworld. To vanquish the Source and get Phoebe back home. I'm... well, I'm going with them. I..." There was a pause as Bridge *almost* added a "love you" before he hung up. "I'll talk to you later, okay?"
"Hey Xander, it's me. Um. So it turns out Bel's not as dead as we thought he was. Or, he is, but- okay, you know how you guys brought Buffy back? We're doing that. Only since Bel's a demon, he got sent to some place called the Wastelands. It's um... apparently not a very nice place, so we need to *go* there to get him out. So uh... see you later?"
"Nice message. I tried to stop by to see you earlier, but you weren't there. And then things got involved. Ummm...I'm leaving tonight. To go back to Antar. I just wanted to say good-bye. And I hope everything works out. I'll miss you. So...um...bye..."
"Xander! Do boys' brains fall out their earses when they get older? Let me know, unless yours did an' you dun understand the question.
Oh! An' this is Rory. Gilmore. Not, like, Rory...other name. I dun know any other Rories, do you? I only know other Lor'lais 'cause that's my real name. Bye!"
"Hey Rory whose jus' lil and not my uncle Rory which is good 'cause he's not little and has whores and stuffs ...stuff. This's Xander. Harris an' I used to be the cuter one but then my eye fell out so not so much anymore. And ... and I couldn't get to my phone in time 'cause there was a lobotomy of rum in front of me but I wanted to say.... um. Can't remember 'cause my brains fell out too. Boys're dumb and shouldn't kiss people. K, bye."
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