dear_mun | she's back, she's back

So you think you can just put me on some shelf so you can dust me off and play around whenever you feel like it? First of all, I'm not just some doll that waits around for you amusement. If anything, this model is limited edition and by letting me get dusty you're completely decreasing my value. Which, for the record, is totally through the roof.

Second? I need to get out more often not just for general cleanliness but, I mean, can you imagine what it's like sitting on your ass for months on end and then get asked to run a 5K? I don't even want to think about what my calves must look like right now.

Third! Third, don't get my hopes up. I don't like getting disappointed, okay?

And fourth...okay, I'm pretty sure there was a fourth. Four's a good round number, you know?

Also, ew? I've been here for four minutes and not having a paid account feels like I'm slumming it at the Goodwill. Just because I'm on a budget doesn't mean I have to sacrifice quality. Or has it really been that long?

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First of all, I don't think anyone could ever mistake you for slumming it anywhere.

[Not her style. Never has been, not even when she'd hit rock bottom, and it never will be.]

It's good to see you, Cordy.

[Apologies for his stunted vocabulary and lack of expressiveness. You know the drill, don't you, Girl Friday?]

Think maybe she'll think twice this time before overlooking you again?

I sure hope not! There's nothing wrong with getting a good deal but I am so above TJ Maxx.

[ Deals are not the same as being cheap! It's ingenuity. And a calendar with yearly sales. ]

And you don't look a day over two-hundred.

[ She means that in a non-corpsey way, of course. ]

I don't know, I'd like to think she's learned her lesson...can you imagine where she stuck me before? I was living in The Shining sans Jack Nicholson.

[He knows for a fact that the last two years haven't been kind to him; even if he doesn't look older -- kind of tough when you're immortal -- he knows he looks tired. Nice of her not to mention it. A much younger Cordelia absolutely would have.]

Yeah, well. I've been working out.

[You know how it is.]

Maybe she just figured you had plenty of experience with creepy old hotels.

[ Wrinkles of the soul? Oh yeah, she knows what that's all about. Unfortunately collagen treatments don't really help much with that, but she's pretty sure she knows what does. ]

Oh yeah? Hitting up the gym or just hitting up demons?

[ It's a pretty good workout either way. ]

Creepy? Check. Dusty? Check. But, you know, it was kind of missing that homey, I-spend-way-too-much-time-here-for-my-own-good feel. Aaaand the company's just not the same.

Mostly the latter. The occasional zombie, a werewolf or two. I like to keep it interesting.

[You know, keep it varied. He's all for diversity.]

Let me guess. Nobody there to bring in donuts or make truly terrible coffee?

[They'd gotten better at the coffee thing, eventually, but considering how awful it had been before Wes joined the team, it was probably safe to say that Wesley was the domestic among them.]

Bet it was lacking in the musty old book department, too. [Is it too smug to mention 'and certain vampires'? It probably is. Not quite his style.] You look like you pulled through it well enough. Not that I'd expect anything less.

[Cordelia is one of the strongest people he knows. Always a shame when people underestimate her.]

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"Variety is the spice of life", right? That's why I like to use as many as possible when I'm cooking.

[ Yes, reintroducing Angel to her cooking is a great way to get reacquainted ~~with the toilet~~. ]

Oh there was bad coffee, but it was more like..."just barely made it through a zombie apocalypse, way past the expiration day by about a decade" coffee. Not "left overnight and re-brewed with love and shrinking budgets" coffee. Totally different flavors.

[ Not that that's a hint or anything. (It totally is.) ]

Hey, I figured a while ago that if I can make it through demonic pregnancies? I can make it through anything. Except I did have a giant eyeball in the sky burst open and bleed all over me. That was majorly on the side of gross.

Don't remind me.

[Whoops, did he say that out loud?]

You--

[Zombies. Giant eyeballs. Blood. The hint she'd been dropping? Way over his head at the moment, thanks to the context. He sighs, wincing.]

Yeah, we have got to get you a new place.

It could be worse. Your mun could be looking to throw you into some game which puts Pylea and every slasher movie ever made to shame.

Might be a blessing in disguise to be disappointed and dusty. Not that being disappointed is a good thing, but in this case... it might be good for you. "Save your life" good for you. And dusty is kind of gross too, but hey, at least it means you're not getting attacked by endlessly spawning monsters o-or eaten by a dragon!

[Hello, Cordy; someone is happy to see you looking so alive and fleshy.]

Oh, I was there, and let me tell you? There's something on a new level of creepy at having a clown chase you around over a good, run-of-the-mill, oozing primordial slime dimension demon. And this time they didn't even make me Princess.

[ She's not sure she agrees with that, but most of the time not being eaten is a good day, right? Right! ]

Okay, that's definitely one way to look at it. Looks like you've managed to avoid being a dragon's afternoon snack too, huh?

Oh... well, then happy day that you're not still playing actually-mystic Scooby Doo! That's got to count for something, right?

[Well... no easy way to really say this without it sounding downright weird, but here goes nothing.]

Not exactly.

[Fred purses her lips and sighs through her nose, less than pleased with recent events.]

On the bright side, I'm mysteriously alive again?

It's been that long, pet. [ but it's damn good to see her, wow. ]

That long and you've done nothing with your hair.

[ he opens his mouth to take the bait but no. nope. can't harsh his buzz rn. ]

I was waiting for you to get here. I need a consult.

Well, you're definitely right about that.

[ Have a brow raise. ]

One would think living forever would give you the time to try a few new things out.

You'd be amazed how much apocalypses eat into my salon time.

Um, have you forgotten you're talking to a Sunnydale Girl? Apocalypses are kind of my thing, and somehow I miraculously find the time in my busy schedule of being alive to squeeze in a couple hours every six weeks.

Are we really going to talk about my hair this whole time. [ because spike wants a hug, pronto!!! ]

It's kind of hard to miss.

[ LET HER HARASS YOU SHE MISSED THIS ]

It's called a signature look, Chase.

she's back, she's back

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