11444/Catching up on Things

Catching up on Things
Date of Scene:	08 May 2020
Location:	Harry Dresden's Office, Kingston Falls
Synopsis:	Buffy brings Harry up to speed on things. Dean raids his fridge.
Cast of Characters:	Buffy Summers, Harry Dresden, Dean Winchester

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Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers had promised to meet up with Harry the next day, after offering him some frozen pizza (which honestly was a lot better than the meals she usually attempts to cook herself!). Hey, he gave her a free ride and all. But it was late, soo..

Here she is, knocking at his door the next day, having brought the file with her. Because he's been out of the loop for a bit, and she could really use his abilities on this one. At least she's not super early, giving him time to sleep in, but arrives when she said she would, some time in the afternoon is when she knocks on his door.

Harry Dresden has posed:
For Harry, he is there in his office like he said he would be, sitting behind his desk and working on some tracking or location spell from the look of it. On his desk he has a circle of salt with a map in the middle, and his hand is over the map with a leather thong dangling over the map holding a crystal of some type. He looks up at the knock and waves Buffy in before looking back down to the map.

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers peeks in through the slightly open crack in the door, and arches a curious brow at what she sees. Honestly, Buffy doesn't know a whole lot about magic. Just enough to know what's what to sell it at the Magic Box, but when it comes to counselling patrons on what to use when and where and how, she usually leaves that up to the experts: Mainly Giles, or Willow or Anya.

She does know enough to know that he's probably working on a tracking spell of some sort though, and draws a breath as she pushes open the door to watch him, not wanting to speak just yet for fear of breaking his concentration.

Hopefully this doesn't take too long.

Harry Dresden has posed:
"Hey Buffy," Harry says as she walks into the room. Doesn't seem like he is worried too much about being disturbed. Tracking spells are something he does almost in his sleep. "Help yourself to some coffee if you want, I'm almost done here."

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers smiles cheerfully and nods to him. "Hey there, Harry! Whatcha doin'?" she peers down at his map and crystal, nodding to it. "Ooh, you got free coffee? Cool, always nice to keep myself awake." and she goes over to the coffee maker to pour herself a cup. "Looks like a..Tracking spell, if I'm not mistaken? Who're you looking for?" she settles into the seat opposite him and waits, both for her coffee to cool and bit and for him to finish his spell.

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden says, "Lost wedding ring." Harry explains to Buffy with a bit of a smile as he starts to sway the crystal over the map in larger concentric circles. "Someone took their kid out and about, and somehow ended up loosing her wedding ring along the way. Or that is her story anyway...I think there is more to it than that, but I'm just being paid to find the ring."

Dean Winchester has posed:
There's the rumble of a car as Dean pulls up, climbs out, locks and is up the steps within one single motion. Well then, Dean's knocking on the door too.

"Yo, yo, Buffy, You in there? I was doing some thinking, had a case down in Atlantic City the other day and on the drive back, I got to thinking about our little tattoo artist" Dean says. The sentences are, if anything, punctuated by knocks. Dean's trying to break in the door apparently. he's keen to brainstorm with Buffy and Harry. In his hand, the one not hammering on the door....chocolate fudge cake slices. One for each of them. Actually he bought one for he, Sam and Jo Harvelle. But given Harry and Buffy are closer...

Cake it is. Cake for the three trouble solving detectives.

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers arches a brow and smirks. "Wait, I thought.." oh right, not his ring. Hah! cuz that would have been funny. Really funny, and...She should really stop taunting him. Really. She clears her throat, putting on her most serious face and nods solemnly. "Oh, wow, that's too bad. That's not a good thing to lose." Buffy smiles and nods, glancing at the map. "Soooo any luck yet?"

She glances towards the door as a certain noisy troublemaker - who reminds her of another noisy troublemaker(!) - makes his apperance and smirks. "Oh heh, sounds like Dean's here. You've met Dean before, haven't you? He's as fun as a barrel of monkeys and all that. But he's good people. Been helping me work on this case actually.."

Glancing towards the door, she smirks again, raising her voice a bit. "Hey, Dean! We're in here!"

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden says, "Thought what?" Harry asks as he casts a glance over Buffy's way. He shrugs, looking back to the map as the crystal wavers and then stops, hovering over a point on the map. "No, no it isn't. Especially when it looks like she lost it at a hotel. I knew there was something fishy about her story." the wizard PI says as he jots down a note on a piece of paper. "But, it's not my job to judge, it's my job to find the ring, and find it I have. Or at least it's location."

Harry snatches up the crystal and puts it into his pocket, then starts to fold up the map. "Dean who? Did I meet him? I have no idea." the wizard says as he casts his eyes towards the door. "So, remind me, what case are we discussing again? Which files did you need?""

Dean Winchester has posed:
Oh Dean has heard of Harry. Who hassn't, huh? Who hasn't heard of Harry Dresden, Wizard P.I. hmm?

That's why Dean's here. To check in with the Slayer. Cause, c'mon. And he's itching to show off his Angel Investigations creds. Yeah. Angel got him working with them, which is kind of awesomely good. For Dean at least. Angel has a ready supply of pie and burgers, a.k.a. how to win Dean over.

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers smiles and shrugs, testing her coffee. "Oh nothing, for a moment I thought you were gonna say you lost Karrin's ring or something. Nevermind me, didn't get enough sleep last night." still that smile is pretty impish. she nods. "Right, right. Well that's..Nice." At least he's not turning himself to stone for once.

"Dean, oh, he's with a group called the hunters. A bit of a smartass, but he gets the job done. He was helping me to find those missing people." she nods, pulling out the file, handing it to him.

"This is a list of all the people who got tattoos matching the ones in the cult group, Carpe Noctem, headed by Lord armastus as he calls himself. Figured some of them might have popped up in any of your missing persons' case too. Other than that, I did scope out the area where we were recently jumped by a pack of ghouls wearing that same tattoo. And I found this." she drops a photocopy of a business card, much like the ones they had seen before, on the table.

"Interesting no? Except now it looks like the vamps are backed by ghouls, for extra muscle. I'd really appreciate your help with this one.." She glances over at Dean and smiles. "Ooh, pie and burgers? Nice. Dean, meet Harry, Harry this is Dean.."

Harry Dresden has posed:
Lifting his gloved hand up in a half-hearted wave, Harry greets Dean. "Hey."

He turns his attention to Buffy, and then looks down at the photocopy of the business card, picking it up in his hands to see if there is anything on it that might be of interest, "Right. I pulled out the missing persons folders last night. I don't have many, since most people trudge through the cops for that type of case, but what I do have is on that stack to the left. I don't recall there being any similarities between them, but they were so sporadic that I might not have been looking for a connection at the time."

The mention of ghouls makes Harry wrinkle up his nose. "At least you can smell those things a mile away."

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers nods, peering at the folder. "Alright, well that's one thing out of the way. Well, at least now we have a potential hotspot where they might be meeting. Now we just need to organize a plan. I imagine they'll be doing what they did before. Recruitment party if it's outside, info session, make things looks 'cool' and fun, lure new comers into the frey."

She frowns, "Yeah, they reek. I imagine they'll be doubling their guard this time. S o I assume you've fought them before?" she sighs, "I just cant let anymore people get hurt because of this. I need to shut it down at the root."

Dean Winchester has posed:
Dean waves back and goes for the kitchenette. "You better have bacon cheeseburgers" Dean scoffs and looks to Harry and Buffy as if they'll magically pull out said food but he's got a grin on his face. He's not serious. If he were, well, he'd demand it. And he's not doing that so...

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden says, "I'll save you the trouble," Harry says, his brow arching towards the sky as he watches this new guy start to violate he personal space. "I don't. Fozare!" The Wizard focuses his will and shoves his left hand out towards Dean in a gesture. Should the spell take hold, the winds pick up and blow Dean over towards the couch. At least he gets a soft landing, Harry must be in a decent mood."

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers blinks, glancing over at Dean as he goes to raid Harry's fridge. "Dean!? Knock that off!" she sighs, shaking her head. "Okay, I didn't expect him to go doing that. Sorry about that. Geez Dean, I think you owe Harry an apology." look at her, admonishing him like a bad little bro' or something. Even though he's older than her.

And then he goes and gently drops him on the couch and Buffy can't help but chuckle. "Wow, neat trick. Soo how's Karrin doing these days? Guess she's pretty busy with everything going on.."

Dean Winchester has posed:
Dean. Meet couch. Cake, meet couch too (still wrapped up thankfully) as the scent of cake and hot chocolate and fudge fills the air around the couch, mmm. Dean did bring dessert, but, hey, Dean also hasn't got anything for an actual main course. Which is why he was going to raid the kitchen...and then Buffy scolds him and Dean....actually hangs his head. "I'm sorry" he admits to Harry. "I'm just hungry"

Okaaay, what, Buffy got Dean to apologize. Maybe he's taking this friends and colleagues thing seriously.

Harry Dresden has posed:
"Hungry does not excuse walking into another person's apartment and just heading into their kitchen, dude," Harry scolds. "Maybe ask first next time? Before you go rummaging? All that is in the icebox are some Cokes, and maybe a half eaten steak sandwich from Mac's. If you want something else, I might be able to scrounge up some canned pasta to throw onto the woodfire stove." He cocks a brow at the hunter, "But why am I feeding you at all? Buffy? Why am I feeding him? He is your stray." Ad far Karrin, Harry shrugs a shoulder, "She's alright. Haven't seen much of her, we have been running on different schedules."

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers groans, rolling her eyes. "Well, he's not a dog, and he's not 'my stray' he's just someone whose helped me out quite a bit in the past, in spite of being...Him.." she just eyes Dean, "Really, he's not that bad once you get to know him. Although by this time you're thinking, 'why does Buffy attract all the trouble makers?' Yeah, I'd like to know too.."

Buffy just sighs and shrugs, leaning back in her chair. "Hey, at least he knows his way around a fight. But anyways, I'm gearing up to go in there in a couple of nights if you're up for it. And of course if you have any cases you need help with, I'm happy to return the favor. Heck, I'd like to scout out their meeting place today if possible, before it becomes crowded with people and hidden spaces. Probably good to get a layout of the place."

But enough of the serious talk, Buffy is feeling pretty hungry herself. "Hey, while we're here, why don't we grab a bite to eat? Maybe Dean's hunger is catching, I dunno, we could order something from Mac's? It's on me."

Dean Winchester has posed:
The sight of Dean waving the three cake slices is comical at best. Dean waving the cake slices like, well, like he's trying to get their attention without saying a word. Instead, he quits waving cake around...and smiles.

Harry Dresden has posed:
Harry Dresden shrug a shoulder, waving a hand over towards the corner where his staff rests against the wall. A waggle of his fingers and a muttered utterance of a phrase causes a gust of wind to send his staff towards his outstretched hand. "I could eat, especially if it is on someone else's dime."

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy Summers grimaces, it's not like she's super rich, although she has been pulling some major over time between her job at the Blue Lady and the Magic Box. "Sure! So you wanna order in or eat out? I guess the fresh air could do us all good. I know I'm happy for a break from all this serious talk.." she rolls her eyes at Dean, "C'mon, Dean, let's save the cake for after the main course. But thanks for bringing it. Hey, how's Sam doing lately?"

Glancing back at Harry, she ponders, climbing to her feet. "By the way, I was just wondering, I've been in so many scrapes and not all of them were scratchless. What would it take to..I dunno, enchant a piece of clothing, say my leather jacket, to make it bullet proof? Or even a bit tougher against more powerful demon claws?"