Mauvaise Chance Lobby/Office, Thursday [2/1] , all day

[needsaparrot]

There's a frog-tank on the counter.

...there's also a Xander, yes, poking at the computers in between making phone calls and searching through desk drawers trying to find anything that looks like blueprints for the brand-new floors that suddenly appeared in the sub-basement. As such things do.

The office is open for tenants or anybody else who'd like to stop in.

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[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

And there was a Peter who was definitely, definitely very tentative about coming in here. He opened the door carefully. "Good afternoon?"

[needsaparrot]

Jeremiah croaked at the newcomer, and Xander looked up from a set of building plans that definitely didn't include hidden apartments in the basement.

"Peter, hey!" It'd been long enough that his first thought wasn't of the last time he'd seen Willow's boyfriend; more that they hadn't spoken yet as themselves, since he'd been back.

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

Peter grinned at Xander, happy to not talk about the last time they'd met. "Xander. Welcome back. How do you do?"

[needsaparrot]

Xander rubbed his forehead, then tapped the blueprints in front of him. "Apparently I do pretty well, since I suddenly have a hallway. Also an apartment building, but the hallway is suddener."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"It's the new thing to give for the person who has everything?" Peter asked, glancing towards the blueprints. "Where does the hallway go?"

[needsaparrot]

"Not on these blueprints, for one thing." Xander pointed towards the stairs. "It's in the basement. There was a fake wall behind the boiler."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"A fake wall blocking off a hallway?" Peter repeated. "That's...a bit strange. Any rooms back there?"

[needsaparrot]

Xander nodded. "Well, I think so. There's doors; I haven't looked in them yet. Call me crazy but in the Jeopardy category of Unexpected Things Discovered In Basements, most of the big-money answers tend to also be found under Things That Eat Your Soul And/Or Possess Tentacles."

[once-a-king.livejournal.com]

"True, but we already had the tentacle demon," Peter pointed out. "This being Fandom, it's probably some new and special unexpected thing awaiting."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

After library duty- and making sure that Anders is hanging out with Wyatt and not by himself- Bridge heads out to town and the apartments.

"Hi!" he calls out as he enters the lobby.

[needsaparrot]

Xander, on the phone after finally getting through to London, waved and beckoned him in. "So yeah, that's the deal. She's not coming in, but she does need somebody. It sounds like maybe she got sent back here because she needs training. At least that's part of it."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge waves back and sets his "Assistant Assistant" sign on the counter before going to sit down- and glancing around to see if he can spot where the temperature control is because it freezing in here or *what*? Seriously.

[needsaparrot]

Xander blinked, then grinned at the sign, then returned his attention to the phone. And Buffy, since he'd actually caught her on one of her rare moments at HQ. "I know everybody's bus--"

"Andrew's free, actually. He's been in the office for three hours and already I feel the need to give him a job that'll take at least a year. Think this would do?"

Xander stared at the phone.

"Xander?"

Nope, still staring.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

And now there's a slightly confused "Xander?" coming from somewhere that *isn't* the phone.

[needsaparrot]

"Xander? Is there somebody else there?"

".......yes?"

"Could you give them the phone?"

"..................yes?"

And now there was a phone being held out. And a Xander still staring at it.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge takes the phone. "Um, hi?" he says tentatively.

[needsaparrot]

The voice was Buffy's, if maybe a little rougher around the edges than the Buffy in Fandom. Not much less perky, though. "Hi. Could you tell Xander I'm just kidding, of course he's staying there? And then take a picture of his face? There's a little button that looks like a camera..."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

After visiting M and grabbing *two* mochas at the Perk, Parker headed over to visit Xander. Clutching yet another mocha. God, she was tired.

"Hey, Manager Man. Dry walling anyone into a wall yet?"

[needsaparrot]

Xander blinked. "...dirty?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker considered that for a moment, then blinked. "Maybe?" She took a sip of her coffee and grinned, sitting down in the swivel chair and surveying Xander's domain. "You'd know better than I would."

[needsaparrot]

"I haven't...uh... done anything with walls besides knock them down since I got to the island," Xander answered. Not that he hadn't come close, thankfully-not-dirty.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Awwww," Parker grinned. "So how goes your week, and the work of finding your new Slayer? Or the work of figuring out how the piping works around here?"

[needsaparrot]

"Found my new Slayer, got knocked through a wall by her very much not dirty. Also found a brand new floor of apartments on the other side, and an invisible Bridge in my lobby. Not all at once."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker looked thoughtful and said, "You know, metaphors die an ugly death on this island when you have pudding rain and huggy bunnies who dance the scottische in equal turns. Was that a feeling-down ex-boyfriend, a *real* invisible bridge that I didn't walk into on my way in, or some combination of the two?"

[needsaparrot]

"Really invisible. Except not completely. He got attacked by weird shadows." Xander frowned. "While he was trying to track Bel. On his own. Well, the Source of All Evil thing and by the way can I just point out how not original that name is?"