32nd Slay [Video]

[whattingawhat]

[There's a very cranky slayer trying to pick off the tiny mic planted on the strap of her tank. She looks ready to smash it into pieces, if she can just get it off]

Are the citizens of the City safer with you around?

I don't know. I try to make them safer. [Clearly she's not comfortable with this line of questioning]

And yet people are being injured by carousel animals and the Underground is shifting. Most people would say things in the City have gotten worse.

[She shoots the camera a glare but underneath that is something hurt and guilty. This line of thought isn't foreign to Buffy. She feels responsible, like she should be able to make things safer here.]

Excuse me? Did I miss a memo where this place made me a deity? Because that'd be sort of cool. [She's trying to cover up any evidence of guilt that she feels with snark.]

So you're saying you think you could do a better job?

[Buffy drops her face into her hands. Her words are muffled.]

Can't we talk about my lack of love life now?

Comments

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

Do you want help getting rid of them, Buffy?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

I considered punching them but it's not good PR.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I'm not opposed to punching them for you.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Oooh I could act shocked and dismayed.

...I'm not even sure what dismayed looks like. Shocked I can do though.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they'll add that to their footage.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

I might come out looking like the hero after all.

Of course that makes you the...morally grey, possibly crazy vigilante.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

Oddly enough, that's a portrayal I'm rather used to.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Heroism gets misunderstood.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

That's something we just have to live with.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

I totally feel like a movie hero now. You know the kind that brood on the tops of buildings as the sun goes down in a black trench coat slash cape with a soulful look at the City they're supposed to be protecting.

Or maybe I'm projecting. [Because that does sort of sound like someone she knows. Rhymes with Tangle.]

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I don't really know anything about that.

[This coming from the guy who wears dark trench coats when working.]

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

we seriously need to watch more of the right movies.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

According to some, I need to actually watch movies.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

So many yeses there.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

So you agree on that account.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Hello? I'm part of the enabling crew.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

Am I really that bad?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Regarding movies, yes.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I've always been more of a reader than one to go see a movie.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

You'd love Giles.

Or Angel.

...Oh God...my little sister is dating Angel. [Is that panic in her voice? Possibly]

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

Angel?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Long story.

Very short, vampire, brooded a lot, wore a leather jacket even in the summer, hadn't seen a movie since Charlie Chaplin. He gave me a book of poetry for my birthday.

This is not good.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

...I'm human.

/apologizing forever

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Aya...that is so not the point here.

lol

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I think the point flew over my head a long time ago.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Which is another way you're like Angel! [There is horror in her voice. She neglects to realize that at least 75% of the people ever don't get her points.]

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

Buffy, I don't think it's possible for me to get the point if I don't have the back story.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

You totally have backstory. The brooding, the jacket, the not getting my points, the reading and the lack of pop culture knowledge.

[She's totally avoiding giving you real back story here, Aya]

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

And I think we missed the backstory entirely there.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

What more do you need to know, seriously? [Only like all of it ever, Buffy.

Insert a dramatic, long-suffering sigh here]

Okay. Fine. Angel is my ex. He broke up with me in the sewer before prom and then showed up at prom and then he was dying and I saved his life and we saved the world and he still left but he kept coming around and it's a big old thing okay?

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

So that is where the "oh God he's Angel" thing is coming from.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Pretty much. [This is where she buries her face in her hands]

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry that things ended badly between you and Angel. And I don't know why things ended that way.

But I want you to know that I want things to be different for Dawn and I.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

It better be.

...Just don't go evil, 'kay?

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

If I do...do me a favor and take me out before I can hurt Dawn.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

As long as you don't take offense when I say that won't be a problem.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I am not offended by that in the slightest.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

So on a scale from one to ten, how likely are you to hurt her?

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

As long as it is within my power the likelihood is below one.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Don't jerk me around, Aya. Angel...he went evil and killed half my class because of me. How likely is it not to be within your power?

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

Buffy, in this place that is the best promise I can give you. I will fight with everything I have to protect her first. That is why I want people to take me down if I curse causes me to do otherwise.

What would you want me to do if a curse caused you to be the one to want to hurt Dawn?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Stop me. I'm more of a chains and cages then a kill me girl. I've done the dead thing. It's not all it's cracked up to be.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I usually don't trust things like that anymore since I'm trained to find all possible escape routes. And, I couldn't live with myself if anything happened.

Buffy, your sister is more precious to me than anyone has been in a very long time. You don't have to trust me, I'm not asking that. I'm only telling you that the last thing I would ever want to do is hurt her.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Okay. That'll have to do then. Especially in the City.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry about Angel.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Don't be. It was a long time ago. I'm very over it. [She wishes. In general, Buffy's love life--Angel, Riley and Spike--have scarred her]

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

If you ever need anything, Buffy, just know I'm here.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Thanks Aya.

For the record, I think you're good for Dawn.

[onceaweiss.livejournal.com]

I try to be. She deserves that.