B-Squad Common Room, SPD HQ [Evening, 11/23/2026]

[needsaparrot]

The last time Xander missed a really important call, he'd had no other excuse than not hearing the ringtone over his hometown falling into a sinkhole around his ears.

This time, at least he could say it wasn't his fault. The thing hadn't given so much as a buzz in the last two days -- which was actually kind of ridiculous, like half his construction clients had decided to go on vacation or something -- and then all of a sudden the message light was blinking at him from atop the pizza box he hadn't even opened yet.

Funny how, once he'd let it play, Xander really didn't give a crap that it wasn't his fault (or even entirely believe that, because... because there should've been something.)

He wasn't much in the mood for pizza anymore, either.
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[Open for texts/calls/people who live in THE FUTURE. Mmm, pizza.]

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[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

"As in there's no record of them having been there in the first place," Jen clarified. "Or even having existed."

Which was how Mel's message said things had started, wasn't it?

[needsaparrot]

"She said people and places were gone." A few more moments and he might stop looking for a wall to punch that wouldn't break his hand, and apply that to-- "You think it might be happening here too?"

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

"It might be," Jen said slowly. "Anything you haven't heard lately?"

[needsaparrot]

"Haven't heard?" Dumbass... "Well, I haven't heard from any of my construction clients this week. I know it's Thanksgiving and all, but the little green guy with the coffee fetish was calling me every damn day to check on one detail or another, before."

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

You could argue that Jen just naturally erred on the side of pessimistic. You could.

"Doesn't make sense for him to suddenly stop. Any more than it does for Wes and Eric to just stop existing in the past, without affecting now."

[needsaparrot]

"Maybe that just hasn't caught up with us yet?" Blame a couple Galaxy Quest episodes and Issue 294 of Bitterwoman Unlimited that he could even try to fake a guess about temporal physics. "There's your uplifting thought for the day..."

[time-flyer-5.livejournal.com]

"Twenty-five years later it hasn't caught up to us?" Jen did look kind of sorry to be pointing that out, at least. "This is more than a little bit crazy."