ooc ↻ appointments & messages

[herotypical]

❮ buffy, when i said you could slay vampires and have a social life, i didn't mean at the same time! ❯

catch-all appointments & messages post for herotypical @ luceti; please title and date your top tag accordingly -- think of the childrentimelines! [ written ], [ voice ] & [ action ] are all viable. the addition of funky and hip song lyrics is also welcome (and maybe a little encouraged).

ATTENTION -- looking for old threads? previous appointment posts can be found here and here.

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[herotypical]

"...No thank you. I've already logged my single guardian hours."

[originaljackass]

"Whatever. I just gotta figure out a way to deal with this loser until the Malnosso send him home packing."

[herotypical]

"You could start by not calling him a loser..."

[originaljackass]

"Nobody likes a quibbler, Buffy. And you're not helping."

[herotypical]

A strange new expression touched her features. Surprise, maybe? Tangled up with a dash of seriousness and a streak of sensible concern. It was laughable, really, how she turned to putty in the hands of anyone who even gave her a whiff of feeling needed.

"You...want my help? I thought you were just looking to complain."

[originaljackass]

"I was, but if you're going to make commentary, you can at least be useful about it."

[herotypical]

"In that case, you're an idiot if you're willing to risk isolating someone she cares about."

See? So helpful.

[originaljackass]

"Figures you would take the other guy's side. And you don't even know him yet."

[herotypical]

"I'm not taking sides, Jack. I'm being the stalwart voice of reason. If you like having Clem around, you're gonna have to make sure she likes having you around too."

[originaljackass]

"Please. This isn't about Clem."

It was entirely about Clem.

[herotypical]

"C'mon. It's at least a little bit about Clem."

[originaljackass]

"She's really good with the cow."

[herotypical]

"Jack?"

Buffy's attention homed in on her co-worker. Her subordinate, really, as she'd taken to considering him. It helped soothe her oft-ruffled feathers.

"Say the girl did inspire some kind of soul-deep improvement in your very self -- would you ever even admit it?"

The to me was implied.

[originaljackass]

Jack shrugged. "If something like that was to happen, I'd gladly tell you all about it in excruciating detail."

[herotypical]

She found herself overcome by a cresting wave of honesty: "Well, I dunno about excruciating but -- yadda yadd yadda and should it ever happen? Yeah. A detail or two would be nice."

It's about as close as the Slayer could tread to saying this is what friends do can't we be friends?

[originaljackass]

He shook his head and tsked at her. "Buffy, I'm hurt. You make it sound like I'm some horrible, depraved individual in need of some moral compass to set me on the straight and narrow."

[herotypical]

Here soundeth a smug little cough. More like a throat-clearing, really. A gentle ahem.

[originaljackass]

"You know, maybe if you had a little more faith in me, we'd be much better friends."

[herotypical]

"A healthy dose of skepticism does not a faithless friend make."

[originaljackass]

"So you do have faith in me."

[herotypical]

"A scrap or two. Enough to get you hired, at least. Can we not make a thing out of it?"

[originaljackass]

"But I love things with you. It's the closest we get to having an actual thing. Only without all the wild and exploratory sex."

[herotypical]

Her gaze narrowed, and she tried to determine the best way to tell him that he was dead wrong. It was a tough kind of task when most of her bones knew that he wasn't. Not that she was looking for proxy intimacy with Horner, but she did know the surrogate value of a good thing. After all, nearly every decent tie her life had started out as one.

"Who knew you were such a masochist," she retorted -- easily disparaging herself in order to disparage him.

[originaljackass]

"Well I am a quick healer," he answered while completely oblivious to any effort to disparage anyone.

[herotypical]

"Self-repairing self-worth. How handy."