canon point: end of s4! really new muse sorry |D

[tostake]

 So, what, you think you can just pick me up all willy-nilly and say 'oh, hey, why not forget about half your life?'

That's no fun for the Buffy. Really.

At least you're trying, I guess. And I still get to do the whole 'stabby stabby, save the world' thing.

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[retrieverchef]

It could be a lot worse. You could end up being told that you're life didn't happen the way it did. [glares at mun.]

[tostake]

Oh. Well, yeah, that kind wins the suckage contest.

[retrieverchef]

Hey, could be worse. She could've... Ah, damn it! If I say that, she'll probably do it!

[tostake]

... Do what, exactly?

[retrieverchef]

Anything I say I don't want her to do.

[tostake]

Then maybe we need a subject change or we'll both be in serious trouble.

[retrieverchef]

I'd definitely suggest that. So do you have any idea why your mun decided to ignore half of your life?

[tostake]

Because she's lazy and doesn't want to watch it. Better things to do than learn about the Buffy.

[retrieverchef]

[He rolls his eyes.]

Seriously? At least my mun hasn't put me through that. Despite her propensity for making things up.

[tostake]

At least she's good at actually paying attention - and she's really mad at making stuff up, so I think I'm safe.

[retrieverchef]

My mun pays attention. She just likes to play with what she calls "alternate universes."

[agodintheopen]

Oh, you poor, poor thing.

[tostake]

I know. It's hard. Slay this, slay that, get taken out of my home and forget half my life, dinner. It's almost like a movie.

[agodintheopen]

Yes, the life of a hero isn't very fun, is it? Not unless the masses worship you for it.

[tostake]

See, I'm not big on the whole 'mass celebration of heroism' thing. I'd be fine with a thank you cake once in a while. Or cookies. Cookies are good.

[agodintheopen]

Well, I suppose that's one way to feel rewarded.

[tostake]

It's better than people don't really know about what I do.

[agodintheopen]

Now, why would you want to hide it?

I feel it is better to live in the open, regardless of millenia-old secrets and arbitrary codes of silence. Do you know how much money I've made selling my own nature?

[tostake]

I think it goes against the Slayer code to write biographies.

[agodintheopen]

I know all about breaking codes. Several vampires tried to kill me for it. All in all, I think it was worth it in the end. The money, Akasha's blood, the devil himself falling in love with me. It's only a shame my kind don't have more secrets to sell.

[tostake]

See, I always thought it was Dracula that ruined all the vampy secrets.

[agodintheopen]

Dracula? I thought he was just a myth. Vlad Tepes was just a very unpleasant man, according to Marius.

No... I turned vampire secrets into books and musical lyrics. And I'd do it again, if it meant my face on more magazines.

[tostake]

Nope, he's real. Kind of a coward once you wave a stake around, though.

... So, you're one of those high and mighty up yourself vamps?

[agodintheopen]

He's afraid of stakes? [ That typical Lestat smirk. ] Now I'm fully convinced you're making this up.

[ And then he grins a fangy grin. ]

I think I've earned that right so far. Haven't you read any of my books?

[tostake]

Well, stake plus vampire slayer normally means vampires running away, so he's not alone.

[ Uh. ]

No?

[agodintheopen]

I sincerely wish mortals would stop perpetuating that myth.

[ He almost looks insulted. ]

Then tell me that you have at least heard the name 'Lestat de Lioncourt' before.

[tostake]

I thought myths were thinks that weren't true. I've staked enough vampires to know that that's all it takes.

[ She just smiles a little. ]

Nope, sorry.

[agodintheopen]

Every vampire I've ever known says that the worst a stake has done to them was get caught in their teeth.

[ Puns. Lestat likes those. And then his frown deepens. ]

Oh, I think I'm hurt.

[tostake]

That's funny, because most vampires I've staked are too dusty to complain.

[ Ew, bad pun. Bad vampire. ]

Sorry. I'm not big on the study thing.

[agodintheopen]

I've heard that all it does is hurt for a while.

[ Study? Come on, hasn't she ever turned on a television or looked at tabloids? ]

Well, if I've never heard of Dracula and you've never heard of me... [ a shrug. ] Perhaps you'd like to tell me what you do know of vampires?

[moontothetide]

It's...it's not like it makes a difference, where they take you from.

It's, um, all going to happen. Eventually. Um, unless she sends you to a place where it doesn't.

[tostake]

I guess you're right. It's the future so it has to happen! Unless there's some kind of demon that goes all future crazy and changes everything.

[moontothetide]

Muns can, can s-sometimes do that. Be some kind of demon that can go all, all future crazy and change everything. I mean, um...I'm in a place where I, I'm kind of...different. And one place where I'm the Tara I think I'm supposed to be.

It's, um...kind of a weird feeling.

[tostake]

But I can't slay a mun.

[ Sad Buffster is sad :( ]

But are you happy? Because I think all of this is okay as long as you're a happy Tara.

[moontothetide]

You do?

[...maybe so. She wasn't often a happy Tara, by the end. And so Tara musters up a smile.] Yeah. Um, I, I think I am. Okay, I miss Willow, and, and I've died a lot, but...you always wake up at the end okay, and, and I've met some really great people. I'm learning how to fight, and I've got a garden...oh! And I think my mun gave me your little stuffed pig. S-Sorry.