herotypical: [ social ; intimacy ; angel ] (✝ he offers me protection)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-09 11:58 pm (UTC)(link)
A shallow shake of her head. She wasn't a part of that all of us. Not anymore.

"...S-sorry."
herotypical: [ angry ; sad ; neutral ] (✝  the men cry out)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 12:02 am (UTC)(link)
Nope. She couldn't live with that. This was, after all, the more important apology. For many reasons.

"I w-wasn't Shifted. Not then. And I know I should've just asked and I--"

Forget words. She held her arms open; pleading, practically, for some acceptance beyond eh and well.
all7seas: (must be 1000 things you would die for)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
"That's not myself anymore, savvy? That's not me. That's not mine," he found himself telling her before taking her up on that offer. This time there would be snuggling, and lifting. Lifting her up and settling her on the countertop and not caring that she hated that sort of thing.
herotypical: [ social ; intimacy ; spike ] (✝ i go to sleep and keep grinning)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
At this point? Buffy equally did not care that she hated that sort of thing. Instead, she hooked her heels behind his knees and drew him nearer.

"...Noted, Captain."
all7seas: (reshuffling one's priorities)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 12:51 am (UTC)(link)
"Far, far in the past. Long ago. So long ago now that I barely recall any of it." Lies. "Like it never happened, eh? So we can all forget that page. Forever, maybe. Forever and ever."

He rested his forehead on her shoulder for a moment.
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herotypical: [ intmacy ; xander ] (✝ if this is just the beginning)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 12:54 am (UTC)(link)
Fingers on his back. Light, at first. And then committed.

"If you want me to? I will. Forget it."
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[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
"Why would you want to remember? Why would anyone?"
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herotypical: [ neutral ; sad ; angry ; crossed arms ] (✝ no antibiotic can save us now)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Because..." Oh, she breathed deep and hugged him close. "Because none of us can really pretend our pasts are any different than what they're supposed to be. Believe me, I tried it last week. Remember?" A dry smudge of humour as she kissed his temple.

"None of us can. Not even here. Not really. Not even Captain Jack Sparrow."
all7seas: (crimes against the crown)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
"....You don't think less of him for it?" It was with a very careful, circumspect, almost cool tone with which he asked the question. Jack didn't dare accept this tender comfort yet. He had to make certain that she would not scorn him for the contents of that forbidden page.

He could never bear scorn of any flavor; not when it was because of that.
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herotypical: [ social ; snarky ; spike ] (✝ to be indefinitely decadent)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd have some choice words for the rest of your family." You shouldn't try too hard to imagine that, Jack; it was probably a painfully easy sight to visualize. "But you? Jeez. How could I? What does that have to do with what I think about you, huh?"
all7seas: (biting your own neck)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
Because one of these days, Buffy Summers, you are going to realize that he is far beneath what you deserve.

"Dunno. Just. Thought it might."

It was hard not to feel defensive of his family at her words. Teague had raised him to be such. You didn't speak ill of family to those outside it. You had to protect it, with a smile and a pleasantry if possible. And you ran through or shot any man who impeached the family name. That was Teague's way. That was grandmama's way. Her pride was legendary.
herotypical: (✝the girls cry out)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
She sat back. "If I was ever gonna think less of you for something, it wouldn't be your family tree. You'd understand this if you'd ever witnessed a Very Harris Family Christmas."

Xander's family was a wholly reprehensible lot and she loved him regardless. "Anything I might've said or not said or almost said -- last week? So very not representative of my real-me's actual feelings on the matter. Savvy?"

She could say that at least. Thank goodness 'Annie' had never appropriated it.
all7seas: (I will fly I will swim I will die)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 01:28 am (UTC)(link)
He would have to take her word for it. He'd never NOT taken her word, Jack realized with the tiniest dose of misgiving.

"Not real-you's feelings. I savvy, Annie."
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[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 01:32 am (UTC)(link)
"And hey. It isn't like we're not both products of broken homes here, am I right?"

She twined a dread through and around and between her fingers. Counting beads and remembering the most important feather in her hair. Today, of course, her hair didn't have a single ornament or braid -- straight, hardly styled. Consciously au naturel.

"So what if yours in a little more broken? I don't care. I mean I care. In a caring and loving way. I just don't...care in the other sorta way."
all7seas: (not a cry you can hear at night)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
Her father's abandonment -- Jack knew that had hurt her. He didn't feel hurt for the most part over his own misfortunes, or not in the usual way. He'd grown adept at shielding himself from it and would deny anything of the like til the day he died, just as he would deny that his was the most broken of their homes. His father, after all, had stayed.

He turned his head just enough to kiss the side of her neck.

"'S not broken. Look around, eh?" he joked. "Norry didn't knock it down last week."
herotypical: [ neutral ; sad ] (✝ beat me up on the beach)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 01:45 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, sure. But having Hank not show for her mother's funeral was nothing in comparison to seeing Teague's signature on his mother's death warrant. She shivered.

"James. I have to apologize to him, too. He...wait. Oh. My God."
all7seas: (reshuffling one's priorities)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
"What. Was he shifted out of his barnacle-encrusted shell?" Another kiss and Jack drew back slightly and let his palms settle at her waist.
herotypical: [ angry ] (✝ in these love drowned eyes)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"Well. Me and him spent the worst part of an hour arguing over whether I was the Slayer or not. His Slayer, really. He thought he was a Watcher, which means he must've..."

Was that how the Shift worked? Wherever you went, you then thought you were from there? Oh. That poor man. Living a Sunnydale life; seeing all that happened to them and to...her.

Her shoulders squared. "Huh."
all7seas: (black pearl)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 01:57 am (UTC)(link)
Jack had arrived at the same conclusion almost simultaneously. "...Well THIS should be interesting."
herotypical: [ snarky ; happy ] (✝ prepare for ascension)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"And he was buddy-buddy with Willow which means he must've gone back to...oh."

A slight frown. "He's not home right now, is he? Maybe we should -- hmm. Stroll on the beach?"
all7seas: (upward glances)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm game if you are." He (needlessly) lifted her down from the counter.
herotypical: [ neutral ; angry ; spike ] (✝ sugar water)

[personal profile] herotypical 2012-04-10 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
And she (needlessly) allowed this -- but left her hands on his arms. Now that things were slowly righting themselves, she hardly wanted to let go.

"I'm...very game. All kinds of game."
all7seas: (sunsets)

[personal profile] all7seas 2012-04-10 02:21 am (UTC)(link)