MCA Office/Lobby, Tuesday [10/23]

[needsaparrot]

Xander behind the counter? Check.

Guy With Tools And Glitter signs on the lobby doors? Check.

Sighing sound every time a new textmessage buzzes in to the phone on the countertop? Check, check, check.

bsummers@watcherscouncil.co.uk: Hey did you know you're Gay Now?
purplefrog@yahoo.com: STFU. How did she even FIND you?
bsummers@watcherscouncil.co.uk: Larry
purplefrog@yahoo.com: .....
bsummers@watcherscouncil.co.uk: He laughed for 5 min str8 when he called me.
purplefrog@yahoo.com: .....
bsummers@watcherscouncil.co.uk: She told him be nice to you and gave him PFLAG number.

*headcounter*
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[OOC: Open! Subject to unexpected bouts of SP due to work, comma, last day of before vacation, period.]

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[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

Isabel had made a stop at JGoB and picked up the finest jelly filled treats they had to offer.

"I think I might owe you an apology."

[needsaparrot]

Xander raised his head from the counter and eyed the doughnut box with somewhat frazzled enthusiasm. "Whyfor?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"You had a visitor this weekend?" she said sheepishly. "I met her on Friday afternoon. I was going to call and warn you, just in case it was a surprise, which, talking to Parker it sounds like it was. But I got distracted and never did."

[needsaparrot]

"Ahhhh." Xander snorted. "I was at the meet & greet thing too, anyway. I just got lucky enough not to run into her there."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"She found here instead?" Isabel asked, holding out the bag of baked goods. "I heard about the towels. How'd it go otherwise?"

[needsaparrot]

Xander accepted them gratefully, and pulled out a jelly doughnut. "Not... awful? Maybe we didn't reach the minimum number of Harrises in the same room for things to go nuclear." Except for where that requirement tended to get waived if his dad was in the room.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Well that's good," she nodded, glancing at the bag a bit mournfully. "I think she was surprised we were friends given the age difference. Obviously I didn't mention the roomie thing."

[needsaparrot]

Xander passed the doughnuts back, and nodded. "Yeah, I'm not sure what she thinks is going on with Bridge - we kind of crossed wires about how long we dated and when, and trying to explain time-travel to her might make my brain explode."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"And we don't want that to happen. I like my Xander brains unexploded, thank you very much," Isabel grinned.

She looked around the lobby and shook her head. "I'm so glad everything went back to normal after the game ended. It would have been hard to explain an alligator in your office."

[needsaparrot]

"I'm still trying to wrap my head around the idea that she knows what vampires are."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"She does?" Isabel was surprised. "I thought that everyone in Sunnydale had a massive case of denial."

[needsaparrot]

"Everyone in Sunnydale does have a massive case of denial." Xander shook his head. "She said 'everybody knew' but I think that was Harris-by-marriage for 'Nobody said anything and I assume they weren't saying anything about the same thing I wasn't saying anything about.' When, uh, no. Sunnydale's like an Eskimo town. We got a thousand different words for not talking."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

It took Isabel a moment or two to figure out exactly what Xander said, then she shook her head. "Denial, it's not just a river. I'm telling you, we should run rafting trips."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel slunk into the office in a sheepish type fashion. "Hey," she called in a sheepish wave.

[needsaparrot]

Xander looked up and smiled, glad to see her after this weekend. "Doughnut?" he asked, offering her the bag that Isabel had left.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Jelly?" Mel asked looking carefully into the bag.

[needsaparrot]

"Should be one left," he answered, nodding.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel took it and shot Xander a grateful look.

"Thanks."

She's not talking about the donut.

[needsaparrot]

"You okay?" He was not talking about the doughnut either. Exacept that was more obvious because it wasn't, like, a slayer-eating doughnut that had just attacked her with its evil globulous jelly of doom.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel shrugged a little as she contemplated her doughnut. "I guess. As well as could be expected."

[needsaparrot]

"Wish I had the book of Ancient Watcher Wisdom for what to do when stuff like this happens, but I got a feeling if you waded through the prepositions, it'd boil down to saying 'Wow, that sucks,' with a British accent. And maybe kippers would be involved."

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Kippers? I just had to deal with vampires. Now we have to deal with kipper demons?"

[needsaparrot]

"They're fish," Xander explained.

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Demon fish?"

[needsaparrot]

"No, just really salty. And not my idea of breakfast food." Xander waved at the doughnut that was.