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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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[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.]

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I guess the power of love really does make everything better. [She taps a fingernail against her mug. And, then, as if the cliche was too sickening even for her:] Things happened. He got inspired to become more man than monster. Good thing, too. He was kinda the key soldier in the last battle over Sunnydale.