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(second stake) video ✧ open to both courts

[ and so the slayer cracks open her locket once again. not, as some might anticipate, to comment aloud about the woeful state of animal welfare in these lands (as others already have. instead, she has a far more personal bone to pick. some domestic fat to chew. ]

Uhm. Pop quiz: where's the best place in the Drabwurld to raise a...teenager? [ she almost says 'kid', but corrects herself at the last moment. last thing she needs is yet another i'm not a kid argument with dawn. ] You know. Temporarily. Until we find a way outta this Ren-Faire disaster. Until then, I wanna know it all. Crime stats; outlet malls; hip-but-age-appropriate dance clubs. Preferably the kind where they definitely don't serve minors. [ each item is ticked off on her fingers. ]

O-oh! And schools. Please tell me there's at least one rinky-dink town that includes whatever counts as high school's wacky medieval cousin. [ because dawn summers is not dropping out by default. or so buffy vainly believes. she just hopes there are no hellmouths lurking about to interfere with math class. ] Knowledge is power, right?

[ funny. she never cared that much about the plight of kidnapped teenagers before now. but with the sudden arrival of the little sister, everything's changed. time to settle down and find herself a dependable chore chart, figure out a good curfew, and start disapproving of all of dawn's new friends. ]

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You'll know when I'm joking, on account of me actually being funny.

[ or really not. it's kinda hit and miss. ]

[her brow furrows in disapproval.]

Who are you trying to "take care of"?

My...[ uhm. ] My little sister.

Think this is going to have her trust you more?

[because you are so wrong, buffy.]

That's not going to be an issue.

[ she earns her sister's trust in other ways -- or so she likes to think. dying in her place, for one. ]

Sure?

[she isn't buying that for a second, buffy.]

One hundred percent. One hundred and ten.

Take her to the Station, then. Loads of stuff to do there.

[pretty much checks off all of the above without the school part.]

Oh, is it finally all patched up?

No, but it's tolerable.

[actually, she hasn't been yet, but she's confident from what she's heard from others that it's safe to go.]

I can tolerate tolerable.

I think.

[her tone is mischievous,] Should've seen it when it was really bad. Hear the story of it, yet?

Mmhm. Wacky shadow-monster hijinks, am I right?

Right. [she smiles, more out of approval than pleasantness.] Be careful on your way there.

Careful's my middle name. [ ... ] Well. Actually, it's Anne.

[ and there's very little actually careful about her, so-- ]

[that's nice. she doesn't care what your middle name is, buffy.]

What's your first?

Buffy.

[oh, uh. this is weird.]

I'm Effy.

-- Really?

[ seriously you're not just mocking her somehow? ]

[she needs to find something else to call you, buffy.]

I know.

Goddammit. It sounds like we deserve our own kids' show. There'd be muppets. I'd be the cute one and you'd be the...frowny one.

[ yep. ]

[she's not going to argue.]

Don't think it'd be much of a kids show.

They probably said that about Sesame Street at first, too.

Sesame Street? What's that?

[what are you talking about, buffy.]

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