Chilly Boulder, Monday afternoon

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Let's see, Buffy had had some bad mornings before, but waking up on the bank of a duck pond had to be up there in the top five. She'd gone back to the dorms, cleaned up by way of like three showers (despite having beat up the Willow lookalike in a body of water, she still felt sort of dirty), and then decided she wasn't doing anything today. Okay, later she'd patrol. But right now, she was going to sit here with a sundae and pretend she'd never had any caffeine pill-induced breakdowns.

At one point while thinking the weekend over she said aloud, "What the hell?" only for the clerk to replay with "YEAH I KNOW."

[Ooooopen. Yes I modded.]

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It was very nice having the day off from teaching classes so that Minsc could making things up to Boo for all the transgressions of the weekend. One of the first stops, of course, was treating him to ice cream, and so the two strolled into Chilly Boulder to do just that. Holding Boo out in the palm of his hand so that he could see all the flavurs, he said, "You may choose whatever you wish, Boo, but choose wisely! Choice is one of the finest privileges we have, and we must never take it for granted!"

Boo didn't seem much interested in anything other than putting his paws up on the glass and sniffing it.

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Buffy watched from her table, tilting her head as she watched. Was that a hamster? Who got ice cream?

"Lucky hamster," she muttered.

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Boo's paws were sliding all over the glass case, as the hamster seemed to fail to understand that the surface was curved and therefor not something he could easily put his weight on, but Minsc mistook the dancing paws as a clear conclusion.

"Rocky road! A fine choice, Boo! The hamster will have a bowl of rocky road and I will take a double-scoop of bubblegum banana bonanza in a sprinkled chocolate waffle cone!"

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"Going all out, huh?" Buffy commented. Okay, what she really wanted to ask was how hamsters ate ice cream, and if it was healthy or if they were like dogs that way. She hoped they weren't.

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"Going all out," Minsc commented with triumphant pride, "is the only way to go at all!" He gave the girl a nod. "Good afternoon, my lady; I hope it finds you well. It is good to see that Boo and I are not the only ones who felt that delicious ice cream was a good idea today!"

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"I'm kind of surprised the whole island's not going the comfort food route," she admitted. "But they may still be hiding."

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"Hiding?" Minsc's head tilted as Boo made a jump for his bowl of ice cream. Minsc let him have at it. "What for?"

And to think, he actually was over his amnesia.

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"Uh," she said, eyebrows raising, "you didn't notice anything weird this weekend?"

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

"Well," Minsc said thoughtfully, "Boo and I did have a bit of a...erm...scuffle," if one could call being absolutely terrified of your companion as such, "and I sort of forgot who I was, but that's happened, oh...."

He paused.

"Well, I can't remember."

It happened a lot to Minsc, though.

Head wounds, you see.

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"Huh," Buffy said slowly. "Then you probably didn't miss anything good. ...You had a scuffle with Boo?"

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Minsc gave a glance toward the ice cream covered hamster. "I said some...not nice things about hamsters."

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Somehow she didn't think the hamster would care. But still! Ice cream covered hamster! "Awww. I'm sure everything'll be okay now, though."

[berserkerminsc.livejournal.com]

Buffy would be absolutely correct in that thought.

"I certainly hope so!" Minsc agreed. "But, just in case, there shall be ice cream!"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"You're a good... hamster friend," Buffy told him, smiling.

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"Did you hear that, Boo?" Minsc asked as the hamster complacently started lapping up melting ice cream. "The nice lady says it is true! That was not me this weekend, for I am a good hamster friend!"

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"Does he believe me?" Buffy wondered after a moment. On one hand, she couldn't believe she was encouraging this. On the other, she'd spent the weekend as a caffeine junkie.

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"Well," Minsc considered, "he is eating the ice cream."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"He could just like the ic-" She thought better of it, and nodded. "Very good point. Good Boo."