Thirty-Third Spool of Thread-[Written/Action]

[so_shik]

[Considering that the weather's fairly decent today, Shiki's decided today is a good day to spend outside. For anybody who's known her long enough, they might recognize the crate that she's sitting on as the one she used to use before the porch around the shop was built. Today, she's facing the shop and just looking it over, sketching out some things on a piece of paper. Soon enough though, she starts writing a message to the community]

I think I know the obvious answer, but where would be the best place to get fresh flowers when I'm ready for them? And, you know, planters and dirt and stuff.

Also, the spring line's just about finished if anybody needs something for the new season.

Comments

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[herotypical]

He doesn't remember being here, Shiki.

[She had been so self-involved...she had forgotten that there were people who had known him here, before.]

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[so_shik]

...it's always a hit or miss with these guys. Sometimes people remember, sometimes they don't. He's still a vampire, right?

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[herotypical]

Yep. And I've never known him, not-vamped. But he's still souled up.

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[so_shik]

So he's like Angel, right? Didn't you tell me Angel had a soul too?

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[herotypical]

Exactly--only, don't let him hear you say that. Angel comparisons tend to drive him a little aggro.

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[so_shik]

Good to know. I'll do my best not to mention it around him. Why is that though?

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[herotypical]

Oh, you know. He's not so keen on hanging out in his grand-sire's shadow.

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[so_shik]

...'grand-sire'?

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[herotypical]

Before he switched teams, Angel sired Drusilla--y'know, that creepy ass uberevil vamp that occasionally shows her face and then skidaddles before I can turn her into dust? Well, Drusilla sired Spike. The three of them--along with Angel's sire--hung out like some kind of evil foursome before Angel got his soul.

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[so_shik]

That's kind of disturbing. I'm guessing Drusilla's one that doesn't have a soul then.

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[herotypical]

Nope. Pure evil. And totally stakeable until Spike showed up.

[Argh, Captain Peroxide. Why did you have to complicate things.] He'll probably wanna deal with her himself or something equally noble and idiotic.

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[so_shik]

But how well would that even work out?

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[herotypical]

Honestly? I have no sweet clue.

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[so_shik]

Well that's just great. Let's hope we don't have to find out.

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[herotypical]

Yeah, a vamp war? Not my idea of a picnic. At...midnight, what with the not being able to go out in the day.

[Buffy sighs.] He's been kinda wigged about it all, Shiki. I'd suggest laying low about the knowing him until he's got a bit more settled.

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[so_shik]

I don't really think that's anybody's idea of a good time, let's just be honest here. I'll keep quiet though, this place is unsettling enough as it is without random strangers coming up to you insisting they know who you are.

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[herotypical]

I haven't really told him too much about here beyond the basic wiggy stuff. He and I? Well, it's kinda in the weird territory.

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[so_shik]

How weird is weird though?

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[herotypical]

[She gives you a look, Shiki. It's a well-used look by now. The kind of look Buffy gets about all shenanigans of the heart.]

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[so_shik]

[Ohhh Shiki knows that look. She'll just have to give Buffy a look back.] ...are you serious?

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[herotypical]

It was a big time moment of weakness, okay? [Pause.] Maybe...a couple months of weakness, if I'm gonna get the big honesty gloves out.

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[so_shik]

Months? You're kidding me!

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[herotypical]

If I was, it wouldn't be much of a funny joke--would it?

[The girl sighs, rubbing the side of a loosely closed fist across her chin.]

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[so_shik]

That's just...he remembers that though, right?

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[herotypical]

Yeah--see? That? It was kinda pre-being here. As in, pre-big-bad-last-battle.

[You get the truth, Shiki, because this is a conversation road the two of you have been down before.] After I came back from--y'know, being dead? Spike was there for me. Things just escalated out of that.