Xander's room at the Arms, early Thursday Morning

[needsaparrot]

Right, this wouldn't be Xander pacing around, worrying about Bridge and Z and cursing the lack of new news, in between poking verrrrry carefully at the old news in his in-box in case something jumps out and bites him. Which hey, Fandom, always a possibility.

He was also hoping he might hear from somebody who'd be likely to understand how completely fraxx0red his brain was right about now.
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[OOC: For willbedone]

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"Well, they're kids, Xander pointed out. "They deserve a chance to be kids. Buffy deserved a chance to be a kid; she just didn't get it. Now there's enough of them that they can."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"That's very neat of us," Willow said. "So is that why you're in Fandom? Going to put up 'Slayer Army Wants YOU! (Assuming you're female and good at hunting vampires and demons and don't mind learning the plural of Apocalypse, ask your doctor before starting any new Slayer programs, offer not valid in Tennessee)' signs?"

[needsaparrot]

"The offer's totally valid in Tennessee," Xander answered immediately. "Also, sort of, yeah, but less with the signs. More with the 'Slayer Army knows who you are, please don't freak out, you don't have to come with me if you don't want to but we've got a really good dental plan and if you change your mind after we teach you how not to wake up dead that's fine too hi my name's Xander, wanna get in my car and take a ride not dirty?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"...you own a car now?"

[needsaparrot]

"....well, no. I mean I do, but it's somewhere under where Powell Street used to be." Xander shrugged. "I mostly rent now, since I fly so much."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"YOU CAN FLY????"

[needsaparrot]

Xander blinked slowly at her. "Yes. In a long metal tube with chairs inside it and flat things that stick out on either side."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"...you can fly if you're inside one of Sunnydale's sewer drains?"

[needsaparrot]

"...sadly despite my years of intense research and experimentation I still lack sewer-related superpowers and have to use planes like mere mortals." Which made him think of what he'd learned last night, why he was sitting around waiting for a call, and he realized he didn't even know if she knew. "Crap. Did anybody tell you about Bridge and Z?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow nodded. "I was going to ask you the same question, only with more of a Bridge emphasis for obvious reasons."

[needsaparrot]

"Parker called, and then there was a meeting last night." Xander gave her a dry laugh. "Xander Harris: Master of Timing, huh."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Maybe you came back now so you could help," Willow pointed out.

[needsaparrot]

"I thought about that," he admitted. "I mean that's not why the Council's springing for the hotel room - they sent me to find a new Slayer. But nobody was expecting her to be here."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow's mind went to the first obvious place. "But you already knew there was a new Buffy here."

[needsaparrot]

"There wasn't a here here until yesterday. Or maybe the night before." Xander shook his head. "But I don't think it's Buffy. The spell was showing her too, I think, but kind of fuzzy because it didn't know how to deal with the idea of two of her."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you mean another Slayer besides Buffy?" Willow said, starting to get it.

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He nodded. "We're not supposed to have any new Slayers; all of ours are okay. But this one's brand-spankin'."

Xander put his hands in his pockets. "That's all I know about her, though. Well, that and either there's bugs in the system again or she's running around with a scythe that there's no way she should have either."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"And her name is Mel," Willow added helpfully.

[needsaparrot]

"Right, and her name is M--" Xander turned his head to get a better full-on blink going. "Um?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"She's very nice," Willow added.

[needsaparrot]

"...You know her?"

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"We met the other day," Willow said. "She's from the future."

[needsaparrot]

Blink. Blinkblinkblink.

But also with the processing. "So maybe it's not crickets, after all."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"You have crickets from the future?"

It was Fandom. Weirder things have happened.

[needsaparrot]

"Not with me. But there were some in the server last year. Made it look like a whole platoon of Slayers had suddenly appeared in the middle of the Vatican."