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[Cloud sounds more resigned than anything.]

For those of you who know Tifa, she was sent back home.

Walter, don't worry about the expansion to Seventh Heaven now.



[Locked to Zack and Aerith//70% Unhackable]

Tell me when's a good time to move my stuff down.

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[He gives her a Look.]

...I'm from a small, country town in the mountains and you're gonna hold the door for me?

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It's just a door. [She sweeps a hand at him. Here cracks the very, very superficial facade of the Valley Girl. She's a doing sort of person and clearly felt a kind of protective call to the mission at hand, since she had been the one to suggest coffee from the get go. Perhaps it isn't the most important quest she has ever been on--but it ranks highly enough within this week.

Besides:] In my world? Most of them open themselves.

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[Quest, what. Buffy, take a vacation. He holds up his hands and walks inside when she insists; Mama taught him to open doors for ladies, but if a lady insists then a lady insists.]

My bad. I'll try to reign in my obnoxious male pride next time.

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[With a laugh, she follows.]

Good. Maybe then there'll be enough room for my pride and my obnoxiousness. They need every last square inch they can get.

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Good thing I can't offer to buy your coffee. Can I at least bring it to our table?

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Knock yourself out. [She concedes rather easily and displays her momentary defeat by grabbing a spot at an empty table.]

Just make mine a two-milk-and-two-sugar affair.

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[He'll just nod and return after some time with their coffees; though didn't she want some kind of fluffy frilly cappuccino thing?]

I thought you wanted something a little more extravagant.

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[She smiles.]

Believe me, it's easier this way. [Unless Cloud really wants to receive a spiel worthy of a Starbucks barista.]

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If you say so.

[He sits down and sips his own coffee. ...wait, is this his cue to change the conversational topic? Oh crap, what to change it to, uhhhh...]

...so, did you get a chance to talk with Tifa again? [Almost immediately after it comes out of his mouth he presses a hand to his face. WRONG TOPIC.]

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[Her friendly-everyday-coping smile drops off the face of the planet. Buffy is more shocked than offended--and perhaps more concerned for him than for her.

But she nods.] A bit. It...it went well. So, thanks for the advice.

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Sorry.

Didn't mean to bring it up. [Stupid.]

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[She smiles, reassuringly.]

Surprisingly? This isn't the worlds largest social faux-pas that I've ever lived through. Don't sweat it.

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Let's talk about something else.

I don't know what, but...something else.

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[Clawing around her brain for topics--while staring at that hair. Huh.

The question comes out before she can think any better of it:] Are you a natural blond?

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[He raises his eyebrows; well, it definitely was different.] Yeah. ...You?

i may have been waiting this whole time just to name-drop 'Spike' for the lulz

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Of course--but you never can be too sure. Except with Spike. Spike's roots are totally showing and it's kind of a travesty that he can't look in a mirror to see it.

...i need to tell akai to have zack yell "SPIKE WHERE ARE YOU" or something over the journals.

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[Whoa, weird. Someone's REAL name is Spike, eh?] Why can't he look in the mirror?

yes this must happen.

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[Not so much real name, but certainly chosen.]

He doesn't have a reflection. That's why.

/suggests it

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Oh.

Oh. Uh...why are you friends with him? [Because y'know, from what you've said and what he's read, you supposedly...y'know, SLAY vampires.]

brilliant.

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I wouldn't really go near the word friends. [Of course, it's much more complicated than that.] But, in this case? Spike's one of the oh-so-very-rare non-evil vamps. He's got a soul.

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That must be uncomfortable. [Maybe Vincent is a souled-up vamp. It would make so, so much sense.]

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Why, do you find your soul particularly uncomfy? [She sips and gives him a look over the mug. Then puts the quip way out of its misery.]

Less than a year in, I met the only other vampire with a soul. I adapted.

[Adapting apparently means getting jiggy with it.]

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Uh...well, I meant for him.

Since vampires...y'know, eat people and stuff. Drink their blood. Must suck if you can feel bad over it.

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I get that there's piles of guilt--but, Spike and Angel? They drink pig's blood, instead.

[She can't perfectly empathize with the burden of a soul--Buffy has always lived with one. ] When I met him, though...he didn't have one. Spike, I mean. He was all bad.

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Oh. Well, I guess that makes sense. [Wow, nasty.]

How'd he end up with a soul, then? [Sipping coffee, doo dde doo doo.]