All and Sundries, 6/2

[blackadder-nth.livejournal.com]

Baldrick is once more behind the counter. Mr. Blackadder had left a message on the store's answering machine that had scared the wits out of the poor dogsbody. Something about the future being a nightmare and leather bikinis.

Baldrick was highly disturbed.

But turnips help everything.

All and Sundries is open.

[ooc: Once more with feeling. I'm packing today, moving this weekend. Baldrick is freely moddable, he'll undercharge, fob turnips off on you, and smell bad. Have a loverly day.]

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[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy really, really wanted a new pretty mobile and she wanted it now. "C'mon Alec! My new high tech mobile is waiting!"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"If it's smart, it's finding a good hiding place," he muttered, following her into the store.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"Huh? Did you say something?" Buffy threw him a puzzled look, before continuing onwards. She was on the hunt. No cute little mobiles could hide from her, oh no.

"Damn, it's the turnip guy."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"The what?" He wasn't at all disappointed to have Buffy distracted all of a sudden.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy nodded towards Baldrick. "He tried to make me buy turnips last time I was here. I don't know why."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec frowned at the man, who was not a good model of hygiene as well as having dubious taste in vegetables. "Great. Can we avoid him and look at phones instead?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"A world of yes," Buffy said. She looked around, squinting until she spotted the electronics. She headed thataway with a little squeal of joy. "Phones!"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec followed in her wake, rubbing at the back of his neck as he eyed the displays. "So what all did you want in a phone again?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"It should be little, have music and camera and be cute," Buffy informed him. She stopped in front of the display and looked distinctly lost.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Smirking faintly at her deer in the headlights look, he started pointing some out. "Okay, so you want it to play music and have a built-in camera. And small, right," he amended at her look. "That one (http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/motorola/v360.html) is a good start, pretty simple. Or this one (http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/lg/vx8300.html)? Black's kind of nice."

He spotted one on a slightly higher shelf and pointed it out with a grin. "I could be wrong, but that one (http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/motorola/razr-v3c-pink.html) just screams 'Buffy-phone' to me."

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy followed his look and squeed. "It's pink! But it's so little. Are you sure it has everything?" She looked down herself, then up towards the shelf hiiiigh up there, then she turned to Alec with a pleading look. Sometimes being tiny sucked.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec reached up for her so she could play with the model phone a bit. "Yeah, it says it does. Built in already and everything," he grinned. "What year are you from, anyway? I don't think you said."

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"1997," Buffy said distractedly as she happily played with the phone, flipping it open and poking it carefully. "What about you? If you've told me, I've forgotten."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He watched her, grinning a little; she was still cute, besides being insane. "2015. Not all that long from now."

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

"Cool," Buffy nodded, still focused on the phone. "What are you then? 'Cause you're not human, I can tell." She pointed the phone at him. "You give me weird vibes. Not vampire vibes, though." Not that she was particularly good at picking up that either. She wasn't quite sure what told her that Alec wasn't human - or at least not entirely - but it was a feeling that had grown the more time she'd spent with him.

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec blinked at her. "How can you tell?" Because telling her wasn't the weird thing, it was the fact that she could tell he wasn't.

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy shrugged. "Don't know. I just can. It's like... I don't know. Your sound is louder than normal people's. It sounds stupid, I know. But it's like normal people are background static and you stand out. Vampire kind of fade in the other direction. This isn't making any sense, is it?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Part of that Slayer thing?" He smirked. "I'm not human, but I'm not anything... supernatural, either. Genetically modified super-soldier."

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy blinked at him. "...Huh?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec grinned. "So they take a bunch of different DNA - some human, some cat, some other things, and then put them all together in a test tube. They grow babies from it and train them to be the perfect soldier."

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy smiled slowly and dangled the mobile in front of Alec's face. "...So you're like a really big kitty?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

He half-glared at her, ignoring the phone. "Why, with everything else, does everyone focus on that part?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy gave him an exasperated look. "Would you rather I called you a big Some Other Things? Anyway, kitties are cute. ...Unless they're Faithful, then they're not so much."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Does that mean I'm cute?" He asked. "And what's a Faithful, besides a cat?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy rolled her eyes at him. "Of course you're cute. And Faithful is Alanna's cat. It's very rude."

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"So you think I'm cute," he said, focusing on the important part. "Are you buying that phone, by the way? That guy is edging over here with a turnip and I'd rather not hang around."

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy gave the turnip guy a wary look. "Yeah, I think so, if you're sure it has everything?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"It does. We get out of here?"

[1ordinarygirl.livejournal.com]

Buffy nodded, and went to see the turnip guy to pay for the mobile, while trying to avoid buying turnips.