Fandom Graveyard: Evening

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Just outside the church you can probably find Mel lurking around the graveyard on patrol.

Yes, Dawn did say that there wasn't any vampires around the island, but even slayers have ingrained habits. So Mel was there. In a graveyard.

Patrolling.

Looking at graves.

And bored.

[open]

Comments

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

Doctor Orpheus is out for a walk.

Through the graveyard.

Like ya do.

What? He's looking for grave moss (http://thottbot.com/?i=5743).

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

At the sound of someone walking through the graveyard Mel went into stalker mode. She circled round and then jumped out at the person, the scythe raised above her head until-

She sighed and let the scythe drop to her side. "Crap. You're not a lurk."

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

Doctor Orpheus turned to face her, his hands are glowing but that fades since her weapon is now at her side.

"No, I am not... Sorry to disappoint."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel noticed the blue glow and hope lit up over her face. "Wait! Are you a demon? I can kill demons."

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"...No."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Damn it. Are you even remotely evil?"

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"Who are you?"

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Why should I tell you? It's a free graveyard. I can patrol here looking for evil if I want," Mel said sullenly.

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"And asking around works for you then?"

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

...

"Shut up."

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

Ah... There's that grave moss he was looking for.

Byron fingerwiggles at it. The moss lifts off of a tombstone and floats into a basket that likewise floats up out of his hand.

"I assure you young lady, I am not evil... Well, my ex-wife might disagree but it's not like I left her for a younger man."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Okay. Not really into the whole personal backstory here," Mel huffed. "I'm just looking for evil to slay. That's my gig. And obviously there's not any evil here. Damn it."

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps you should try over by the Venture compound..."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"So there's vampires and demons over there?" Mel asked hopefully. "Or are you just messing with my head."

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"Mmmmmwelll.... Mr. Venture himself is not evil per sae, but he does posses a certain... Moral ambiguity that tends to stir up abominations! Indeed the man has a tendency to attract eeeeeevile to himself as a fresh Shooo-fly Pie sitting on a window sill doth attract... Flies. And children... And people who are particularly fond of pie."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel blinked at all the crazy talk and tried to follow it but...

"So. No demons or lurks?"

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"He draws from a large pool of evil generally. It's a crap shoot."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Okay is this like evil as in 'I'm going to perpetuate white collar crime' or 'I'm bringing back hell on earth'? Because I'm not diving into the shallow pool of evil heck."

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"World domination or general havok tend to be the Em Oh. I would be shocked to learn Mr. Venture was the victim of a white collar crime."

You would need to have money for that...

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Em-Oh? What's a Mo?"

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"Modus Opperandi... It means... The way a particular person or group of people do something."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Well then why didn't you just say that?" Mel said feeling dumb. And frustrated.

Finally she just blows up.

"This is so toy. Can't you people have at least one lurk in this town for me to stake?"

Mel continued to rant at no one in particular as she stomped out of the graveyard.

"I don't get it! They send me back here to be a slayer but there's nothing to slay! What's the ruttin' point? What do I have to do to get some action around this crazy joint? Open a portal to a hell dimension? Jesu! I can't understand why..."

And Mel's trailed off into the distance as she headed back to the dorms.

[bluewindbreaker.livejournal.com]

"... What an odd child."