15044/Crashing the BBQ

Crashing the BBQ
Date of Scene:	06 May 2023
Location:	Darlington Park, Sunnydale
Synopsis:	Frat BBQ! Despite the talking Cat, there were no Edibles.
Cast of Characters:	Faith Lehane, Spike, Willow Rosenberg, Sabrina Spellman, Buffy Summers

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Faith Lehane has posed:
Spring is finally here and parties are springing up everywhere. There is enough chill in the air still, for a nice big barbeque to not cause any fires or to be uncomfortably warm. Tonight's bbq party is hosted by a bunch of rich college teens who brought expensive liquor , fancy lawn chairs, heck some of them even brought firecrackers. Which is probably illegal but whose gonna know?

Faith is not in college and knows none of these people, but that didn't stop her from slipping in for free food and beer..Those burgers smell pretty good..Besides there are sure to be vamps around here somewhere right?

Spike has posed:
Spike hated the summer. Not the heat, and yes, it was still technically Spring, but it was warm enough that this was like Summer plus. The days were longer, and thus, the sun was more of an inconvenience than usual. But there were also barbecues, tons of barbecues, and that meant free beer, free hot dogs, free burgers, and back when he could partake, free blood.

Unlike Faith, who was an attractive young woman, and thus like Visa, accepted everywhere, he had to play it up. So, with the sun having gone down, but the last few rays sort of creating an orange glow, he had changed into clothes that would pass for summer. He had on black pants, no socks, white shoes, and a navy blue shirt, with a white tree pattern, not so garish as what Xander Harris might wear, but it suited Spike. Sunglasses and a silver watch completed the outfit. This one was stolen, no doubt, but it worked.

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane is dressed in a black leather crop top, black leather pants and scarlet lipstick..Definitely not blending in with all the preppy college students, in their fancy summer dresses and designer shirts and pants. But she sure gets a lot of head turns from the guys which she enjoys, grinning and winking at them, not really caring if she's drawing their attention away from their girlfriends.

"Hey sexy, thanks for the drink.." she winks at one guy, stealing his beer right from his hand, too shocked to respond as she pops open the can and continues on towards the burgers, totally oblivious to some familiar faces in the crowd..

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
Of course Willow arrived with cookies. Chocolate chip cookies. The one thing she could make, standing in her head, in the dark, cookies. Anything else she would have to say that the odds were 50:50 at best.

Less if they were oatmeal cookies. (She still didn't know how to add the raisins properly).

Looking around the crowd she realised that she was out of place. Again. (So what else was new?)

And everyone else had brought alcohol. Ooops? Without realising someone handed her a drink, and pushed she into the crowd, taking the cookies off of her, and putting them beside the chips and dip. "Have fun!"

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Is in more of that knows how to put together a thrift store getup kinda girl, a beige coat just in case it's cold or rains, Redshirt high collar plaid skirt, and black stockings with her red bag as always. She's got a big button on her chest marked Student GUEST. It's the pins they give young students looking for a college to stay at so people are nice to them to make them wanna come to the college.





Is just walking around trying not to get smushed! she spots willow getting shoved away and blinks! even as she holds up her cup like defense as if to say I have a drink no thanks to keep from getting more booze shoved on her.!

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane chugs down nearly the entire drink in one gulp, already reaching for another as she sways to the music, before spying a familiar face or two in the crowd. "Spike? Is that you?" dark eyes narrow on the weird cheery Hawaiian attire before a dancing couple blocks her view..And then.."Heey! Willow! Didn't think I'd see you in a place like this! Ooh, and you brought cookies!" she smirks, "How..Cute."

Then there's the crazy witch girl from the other day, but hey aren't all witches nuts? She smirks, giving Sabrina a little wave, "Yo, it's Sabrina, right? You got invited to this party too, huh?"

Spike has posed:
At the sight of Faith, Spike brought a hand up to cover his face and the Y-shaped scar over his eyebrow. He began walking in the opposite direction, not wanting to be seen in his current disguise, except that as he started going the other way, he saw Willow and her plate of cookies. And he may or may not have spotted Thomas Raith in the crowd. Probably his mind playing tricks on him. At least Buffy wasn't here. There was that much to be thankful for. But how to escape? With Faith to his left, Willow to his right, he went backwards, seeing if he could find another exit from this barbecue, and safety beyond.

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
Willow waved her beer to Faith. "See?"

As it was, her ideas of a 'beach party' and the others' ideas were not quite the same.

"I didn't expect you?" Then again party and Faith seemed to go hand and hand. Looking around she spotted Spike. And someone who she thought was Sabrina.. Sabrina.. something. It would come to her, eventually!

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman The only issue with avoiding ex's or friends or people you wanna avoid in a crowded place like this is well a big tall man like Spike gonna miss a tiny blond like Sabrina, and well " Ouuuffff " Is all she gets out as she smashes her nose into that chest and she steps back grabbing her face.. Thankfully she ne jerks like her aunts taught her to. "I'm sorry! "

she's trying to apologize, but she can't see who it is because she's holding her nose and her eyes are squinted shut from the pain those you know smashed your nose tears!

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane smirks at Willow, "Really? Where else would I be except at the heart of a good party? Well, I ain't never going to college so the only way I'm gettin ' in is by crashing the place..I'm sure those kids will thank me for it later, besides, I'm sure I saw a vamp--"

Thats when she sees Sabrina crash into.."Spike? What the hell are you wearin' man? You look like a total Pansy idiot!" and then she just has to burst out laughing at the usually badass Gith looking vamp..

Spike has posed:
Clearly, Spike needed to work on his disguises. No one has recognized him as a party crasher, but a few of the Scoobies have picked him out. The platinum blond hair was often a dead give away, and the drop dead good looks too... or at least that's how he might describe it himself. With a roll of his eyes, he looked to the heavens, seeing the light blue sky, still lit by the horizon, but the sun clearly out of view. And he headed back, embarrassed by his attire, but if he was caught, he might as well get a beer and a burger to go with it. In his haste to get the burger, he would brush up against Sabrina Spellman, though this was accidental, so it didn't trigger the chip. "Sorry 'bout that, luv. You all right?" He asked, looking and sounding sincere in his concern for the tiny blond.

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
Oooo ..ouch! That was going to hurt.

Poor Sabrina!

Poor Spike?

Holding onto her beer (Molson's light. How did they know?! All things being held equal Willow kind of wished she had a full alcohol beer, just to smack it in their faces. Giving me a light beer! ha!)

In fact.. Unfortunately, Faith was talking to her. "Well, out of the group of us, I'm the only one who is." And by that notion, lots of the beach goers weren't students either! "This is my first beach party. Are they all like this?"

This to anyone who is listening.

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Nods and blinks away the tears " Yeah, sorry about that. I zigged when I shoulda zagged " She wiggles her nose as the only other platinum blond in the joint.. This party is really crowded," She says brightly as she looks Around. When he hears the girl making fun of Spike, she looks him over, but since she doesn't know him, she can't judge his outfit though he looks fine, if a little old for this crowd. The accent is nice, though but she also recognizes faith from that other bar they ran into each other at. She gives the nod towards willow, "I have no idea.. this is my first college party, I was invited to check out the after-class life " .

Faith Lehane has posed:
Faith Lehane laughs, "Well I always knew you were the brain of the outfit, Wils, By the way, you gonna share those cookies or what? They look to die for.." she rolls her eyes at Spike, smirking all the more, "So what, that some kinda disguise? You look like a doofus. Were you hopin' to run into B out here or something, catch her off guard?" she laughs all the harder, clearly a jerk through and through. Probably a bit drink now too..How many beers has she had by now? She's already reaching for another..

Spike has posed:
Spike was only 27 when he became a vampire, and still looked 27. Older for a college student, but not that old. Plus, he was in great shape, and didn't look his age. Plus, he was dressed the part. He was blending in so well that at one point, a frat boy would come over, placing an unwanted arm over Spike's shoulder, and proceed to drunkenly talk about how great Spike was at volleyball. No doubt, he mistook Spike for someone else. As much as Spike wanted to deck the man, he put up with it, as it was gone soon. "Well, you're in for a drunken time, perhaps you'll be picked up by one of these nice young blokes who will no doubt disappoint you, owing to the effects of sunburn and alcohol poisoning." His joke finished, Faith would make one out of him. And as much as he wanted to fight that one back, she had him, dead to rights. He seethed, but kept his gob shut. He was not drunk.

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
Ohhh?

Willow looks at Sabrina more carefully. "Where do you go?"

When Faith's question hits her, she looks around. "Someone took them away. I tried not to look too hard in case they were put into the garbage. " Willow wasn't sure that they weren't in the garbage. "I guess I should have looked up more carefully what to bring?"

And Spike. Always the cool dude. Willow couldn't help but giggle at him.

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Shrugs her shoulds " not sure I think the cookies were a good idea.. I woulda went with cookies too " She sniggers at spikes joke and smirks " I'm okay I don't need disappointment, I'm full up " She looks back " I went to Westbridge High School it's next to Riverdale, But i Took a year off after highschool now I'm checking out colleges ".

Spike has posed:
Jon and Fareed, two of the fraternity brothers, were getting into a heated argument of whether Wonder Woman or Black Widow was the better looking superhero. A plate of freshly baked cookies were being passed around, with many people picking one up, before sharing with the next person. Miles would pass the plate to Willow, speaking while chewing, "you gotta try these, they are so good," clearly having no idea that Willow had been the one to bake them in the first place.

Spike had by now managed to get himself a beer, a Molson Light like Willow's, much to his chagrin. Nothing against a Molson's, but light beer? Oh well, it at least went with his burger, that he had fetched, and was holding in red and white checkered paper. Between chews and swallows, he noticed that Faith seemed to have headed into the house with one of the frat boys, either a vampire she was going to privately stake, or maybe he wanted to show her his action figure collection. Who could tell with a girl like that. "So, how do you two know each other?"

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
That's where Willow knew Sabrina from. Riverdale. Not that she *knew* knew her. But of her? Yes. "My friend Kara went there. You probably are used to the actual ocean! Where are you looking for undergraduate schools?"

Of course, Willow was taking her Master's now.

Seeing Buffy arrive (finally!) Willow waves. "Over here!"

Of course, the complement of the cookies made Willow blush. Thank goodness for the low lighting. She took, and passed the plate on, with a mumbled 'thanks'. He thought she had thanked him for passing the plate, but really she was tickled pink for baking them!

"I met her at something at her school. I mean not met her, but almost met her?"

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy did not go to this school. In fact, she didn't go to any school. Apparently that had gone the way of the dodo at some point. Though she was considering trying again. Though thoughts back to career day when she was in high school had her wondering if that was even necessary.

At the time in high school, she'd been more worried about living to reach 18. Then 21. Now she was shooting for 25. But she was a realist. Slayers didn't live that long so one needed to LIVE while they could.

Thus when she learned Willow was going to a party by the presence of fresh backed cookies in their shared aparment, that Buffy was Not Allowed to eat any of, she opted to come by the party after her patrol.

It was Cinco de Mayo after all. She deserved a beer. Or three. Not that they had the effect on her they might some other people unless she drank them super fast.

Thus Buffy arrived at the party wearing a pair of black jeans and a lovely blue blouse that went well with her eyes. As soon as she arrived, she had a beer and a cookie shoved in her hand by someone but they were gone before she could see who. "Finally!" she muttered, hoping they were Willow-baked. She started to mix in the crowd, looking for her bestie.

Hearing the call, she looked up with her cookie still in mouth and waved frantically then rushed over to join Willow and company. Which had her seeing Sabrina, who she didn't know And Spike, who she most definitely did.

"Hey, Will. Sorry I'm late. A little business over in the..." A glance to Sabrina. "You know." And that was all she said as she smiled. "Hi, I'm Buffy," was offered to Sabrina. Then she did a double take as Spike. "Spike. You look nice tonight. Are you feeling well?"

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Nods her head " Yeah, i think we've seen each other here and there, " she beams a smile " I don't think we had a chance to talk all that much.. I did see you at the shop I go too all the time well, I think I saw ya " She shrugs " You know about a place called the magic box? " she asks

    . Then Buffy was there and she blinked and smiled " Nice to meet you I'm Sabrina " She actually put her hand out in that old-fashioned let's have a hello handshake.

Spike has posed:
Turning his head to see where and whom Willow was waving her hand to, and calling out, "over here." He immediately sank his shoulders, his face grimaced, he was so embarrassed to be seen like this. Willow, and earlier Faith, seeing him like this was one thing. But Buffy? All he needed now was for Angel to show up and his humiliation would be complete. But, he manned up, raised his shoulders, sorted out the resignation in his face, and put his game face on. No, not that game face, his trying to be the Big Bad of the Scooby Gang, even if he was now the Big Good, or whatever the hell that was.

Turning briefly to Willow, he smiled, "how do you almost meet someone?" He already knew Willow and Buffy, but wasn't sure about Sabrina, so when he heard her name branded about, he took note. Buffy had seen to introducing him, and her compliment, albeit after the double take, helped put him at ease. The fact that their outfits kind of matched wasn't lost on him either. It saved him some embarrassment. "I've got to admit, it looks a lot better on you than I."

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
"Then you must have seen Buffy! She works more than me!" After all, Willow was at school. And her other jobs! "I'll be in there more in the summer though. There isn't a course I need to take until August."

Of course she meant the Magic Box!

*blink blink*

"You don't know, Spike? I was in the same room as Sabrina and Kara. Kara was pointing out different people. Something about Sabrina stuck in my brain. And now she's here! And I've finally met her."

Oh!

"Sabrina, meet my bestest and oldest friend Buffy! There, now you know everyone that I know!"

Buffy Summers has posed:
That had her looking at her outfit then his then hers again. "How the hell did we end up as fashion twinsies?" Because that should never ever happen. Though, she had gotten into that whole leather thing when working. It was so much easier for clean up after slaying things! Not that she was going to tell him he had good ideas. At least not that one.

At the offered hand, Buffy took it and gave a firm handshake. No strength things of squeezing too hard but neither was she a dainty flower. Just a firm handshake, two pumps, then release. "Nice to meet you, Sabrina. Oh! That's why you look familiar. I work at the Magic Box. But I don't think I've helped you, just maybe seen you in passing when changing shifts."

And she grinned over at Willow who had completed introductions. Then she quickly finished the cookie she was still holding and went to work on the beer. Which was indeed a light beer. Not that she could honestly tell the difference. They were all just sort of this weird hoppy thing that she wasn't sure she liked yet still drank. After all, everyone else drank them. Though she did glance at Willow. "Tasted like one of your cookies and hoping it was cause I just realized there might be edibles being passed around out here."

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Admit Spike is right Buffy looks better than he does in the outfit, but it's kinda funny. She gives a nice handshake back and nods, "Yeah, it's my new favorite place to get wicca supplies, and my aunts love the incense you guys sell " . She looks at her bag for a second " Also, my cat has a crush on a kitty that hangs around the store, so " She grins.

She sips her own famous at every red party cup she went for the punch. Maybe that was a mistake. She's not sure, but she cast a spell on it before, so it should be ok?

She nods at buffy, " Yeah I remember happy to see you again. Looks like we just missed each other, I guess, witch is a shame wait did you say edibles.. that's not ok "

Willow Rosenberg has posed:
"Edibles?"

Now Buffy gets a confused furrow of Willow's brow.

Wait for it.. Wait..

"Buffy! I can't believe you would think that I.. Ew.." Though now she had that of it, the better it was sounding. But what edibles would she put in them? To be frank a whole lot of things were crowding her brainspace - and most of them weren't ones that people eat at a party..

"Excuse me.."

And just like that, she disappeared into the crowd.

Spike has posed:
"Great minds think alike?" He said, feeling a certain amount of relief that the ywere fashion twinsies, as She put it. "Not like it's the first time, Buffy," he might have said Slayer, but was being careful with Sabrina within earshot. "You do tend to favour black." Just like his favorite outfit. It was practically a uniform for him at this point. But then, he generally didn't perspire, which saved on laundry so much.

Picking up that Sabrina may be more of a real witch than a pop culture wannabe witch, especially if Willow knows her, he listened as they talked about the Magic Box. Then he paused, "they have edibles here?" They all waited for it, Spike looking like the cat that caught the canary... and there it is. "Oh, Will," but she was already disappearing, "I hope that girl never changes." And he sounded genuine, that he loved her as a friend.

Buffy Summers has posed:
"No, no! I know you didn't put edibles in. Just if these were someone else's cooki..." Buffy's voice trailed away to silence as Willow rushed off to check on the status of her cookies presumably. If there were any left at this point. They were yummy in a crowd of college students.

"I don't think she ever will. And that's the best thing in the world," Buffy said to Spike's words. Then she looked back to Sabrina. "You dabble or are you...you know...full on Harry Potter?" Which was a safe way to ask the question when others might overhear. Well, safe depending on how she answered. She might be dubbed a nerd if she did say she was a witch like in the Potterverse.

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Blinks as she looks at the two for a moment. Maybe they see, maybe they don't. She wiggles a finger towards her own eyes and looks before she blinks " Woah.. uhhh yeah to be honest harry potter wishes he could do what I do " She says simply. "But my aunts thought the whole book series was a wonderful comedy," she girns.

She looks " You I get " She points at Spike " Not sure what clan, house, group, brand you are, but I get you " . She points to Buffy' What are you though .. cause you are, wow .. " yep, she turns on magic vision, and wow, Buffy glows like it's wild " Wait, you look like Faith " . She cocks her head. "You like her? "

Spike has posed:
Whispering to Buffy, loud enough that Sabrina could hear, this wasn't surreptitious, just, he was lowering his voice in the crowded place, "that girl could melt the unbeating heart of the most terrible demon." He does get an odd look from Sabrina though, and is told that she gets him, "oh, you do, do you?" He wasn't sure what she meant by clan, house, group, or band. He never really fell in with any of that, unless the Whirlwind were considered a group. He spent a long time travelling the world with Angelus, Darla, and Drusilla, but that was the past. Now, he was a Scooby. And yes, he rolled his eyes even at the thought. It was likely lost on the others. And yet, when Sabrina suggests that Buffy looks like Faith, he felt honor bound to correct that record, "Faith can be a bit rough around the edges, and they do share a certain... bond... but no, you two," this part was said more to Buffy, "are not alike." And the implied addition was that Buffy was a cut above.

Buffy Summers has posed:
"Like?" Buffy was confused and it showed on her face. Then when Spike cleared it up, the proverbial lightbulb went off and she added, "Ohhh! Not like, like-like. Like, friend or crush like. But alike like."

Being it was Buffy-speak, it was understandable if no one really got it except for Willow. Who was off making sure no one was blaming her for any possible edibles at the party, most likely.

"So that answers that question. You are not a dabbling muggle." Yes. Willow had made her watch the movies. Okay, maybe not /made/ her but that was her story and she was sticking to it.

"Yes, Faith and I are...two sides of the same coin. Do you ...know about that?" she asked carefully, not sure how much this young woman knew about Slayers.

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Shrugs " She told me a bit we had a bit of trouble at the bronze, I think the bar was called ". She thinks Oh wait " Ran into a guy, Alexander he said to tell you hello if I run into you " . She thinks " Faith said something about you guys I didn't get alot of detail so I couldn't check my books or ask around about it " She thinks, " I know you guys are diffrent, to be sure not sure how " She looks to spike, " Just not sure what breed of the species you are no offense is all there a lot of you Red wine drinker types " . She sighs " Oh fudge.. heck with this " She snaps and boom it's like there's a dome around the 3 " There now, anybody who hears us will hear a perfectly reasonable conversation but won't remember what we said and won't hear anything.. "You're a vampire.. I'm a witch .. I'm not sure what you are. Nice to meet you," She grins.

Spike has posed:
Somewhere along the line, Spike had begun studying Buffyspeak. He hadn't really practiced, it wasn't deliberate, it just sort of happened. Spending as much time around her, even with her beating him up much of that time, he just kind of picked it up. He could understand it, but wasn't ready yet to speak that way himself. At best, he had conversational Buffyspeak when speaking, but he had an ear to fully comprehend that which the originator spoke.

He also got the Harry Potter references. Who didn't know Harry Potter? It was practically a crime against humanity to be oblivious. Angel probably didn't know Harry Potter.

At the mention of 'fudge', Spike smiled. 'Heck' made his smile grow three times its size. And then there was the demonstration of power. Vampires could sense magic, even if they couldn't necessarily perform it. "So, are you Willow's long lost twin sister?"

Buffy Summers has posed:
Spike wasn't the only one to be wondering that. Fudge. That was a Willow choice of word. While Buffy did not use the F-word herself, she did sometimes swear. Little swears, not the big ones. Cause her Mother taught her not to and she had to be a good influence around her little sister. Or something. But Willow? She didn't even say what wasn't really a bad word for things if she felt they were too far off the Propriety Scale.

Not that there was a Propriety Scale in reality, it was just how Buffy's mind defined that trait.

She glanced around though there was nothing to actually see but there was definitely something there. "That's impressive." But then she looked back to Sabrina, taking a moment to gauge. She didn't know this woman. But that 'fudge' thing had her comparing the woman to her bestie and thus she opted to trust her. "I'm the Slayer." Then she made a little face. "Well, I was The Slayer," stressing The. "Now I'm one of two Slayers. Faith is the other one. Which isn't supposed to happen but I tend to bend a lot of the rules that were established for Slayers through the centuries."

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Looks to spike " Not sure I mean, she could be human Magi.. I've run into a few of them, but I'm not like that I was born a witch. They were human a long time ago but split away. I've run into a few human magi already that could do some pretty awesome stuff ". She frowns " Wait were you saying that for another reason? ". It's at that moment Salem pops his head out of her purse " I believe it's your colorful uses of the word fudge followed by that scathing Heck" black cat and full of smarmy sass. Sabrina growls, " Sussh you " She pushes the smarmy cat back into the back " Sorry, he can be sassy .. Sorry for that. I just get tired of that double speech.. I didn't intend to offend " .

She frowns " Oh wait, I think I heard about you in history class one of the things the old witches put in place to keep the balance, right? Two? " . She frowns and blinks " I feel like there is a story there ".

Spike has posed:
This story really wasn't Spike's to tell, and as much as he would love to add, and absolutely will add a few choice comments, he elected to remain on the proverbial sidelines, allowing Buffy and Sabrina to work this out. In some ways, he fulfilled a similar role to Sabrina's cat, though it would be quite a debate on which one had the most smarm.

Buffy Summers has posed:
Buffy was staring at the bag. Then she looked at Sabrina. Then over to Spike. "Maybe that wasn't one of Willow's cookies. I could swear that I just saw a cat talk." Now she is thinking she's high. Because cats did not talk in her experience. And she'd experienced a lot of weirdness in the last nine years of her life.

But she focused on the question at hand and gave a little nod, focusing on Sabrina again. "Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer." It was obvious she was quoting something that had been drilled into her by rote.

"Blah blah blah, yadda yadda," she added for good measure with a roll of the eyes.

"Not sure how the first Slayer came to be but it was a really long time ago. I have them all in my head, sort of. Not like consciously but their memories and skills are there. And the first one was like back in primitive times. Y'know, like before the internet." Because that was Really primitive for someone her age!

"But if a Slayer dies, then another Slayer is activated and suddenly boom, they have the powers and the responsibilities. So when I died, Faith became the Slayer. But as you can see, I got better. And now there are two of us."

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Thanks and nods. "Yeah, sounds like one of the old-style magic before they went to Elseworlds, and yeah, he did talk," she sighs ' He's my familiar. Forgive him. He has the soul of a warlock that was punished, but it seems it got put into my familiar, so yeah, ".

" Well, I'm glad your back. I been to hell. Not a fun place at all, exactly. No internet is terrible ". She shudders.

" Sounds like you got the bad rap from one of those fantasy books. Almost sounds like something my uncle Luci would do as a punishment ".

Spike has posed:
Spike knew all that too, though he hadn't lived it until recently. Helpfully, he did decide to add, "I met two of her predecessors," which was just about the nicest way he could possibly say that. "Magical incantations and rituals don't generally account for modern medicine, or CPR." He also added, since, dying and get better proved to be much easier than the ancients foresaw. "I guess magical sight only goes so far."

Looking to Salem, he had to ask, "what are you in for," as if talking prisoner to prisoner. "They put a bloody chip in my head," and then to Sabrina, "means I can't hurt people with a soul. Electronics are a bit murky on aliens, mutants, and other creatures. Techno geeks are about as good at trouble shooting that as the ancients."

Buffy Summers has posed:
"Didn't go to Hell. Or Heaven," Buffy added. "I don't remember going anywhere. I drowned and it went dark then I woke up cause a friend, Xander, brought me back. So there's that." She shrugged again, trying not to dwell too long on that whole dead thing. It was too creepy.

Though mentioning having been to hell had Buffy looking at Sabrina curiously. "You've died too? And your Uncle Luci would do stuff like the Slayer thing to people as a punishment?"

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Salem looks over " Tried to take over the world" He Licks his paw. "Plotted for 100 years, almost had it " She shakes that paw and sighs, " Now I'm a cat ". Droops. "Though I do love a good Tuna fish. As for that chip, if I had my magic, I could yank that out with no issues. I had many vampires on my side! ," .

Sabrina blinks. "Yeeeah.. I have a crazy family. Some are on the side of good, some are not " She says and shrugs " I'm a good one if that helps, and going to hell was kinda a really long complicated story with my mum and dad so I didn't die my mum just kinda tricked me into going and I recently got out with some help" She seems to understand the whole was dead but isn't now though as spike explained it

She twists her fingers "My uncle is also a recent thing still figuring that one out and his boyfriend.'

Spike has posed:
Were the physics more accepting, Spike would have given a little fist bump to the black cat right now, but instead, he gave a supportive nod of his head, "don't let it get you down, it might take you another hundred years, but don't give up." He would no doubt be on the receiving end of some kind of chiding by Buffy not to encourage the would be conqueror cat. And as for the offer, "let me know if you do get it back." Though in truth, Spike isn't entirely sure that he would want to be evil anymore. Still, he had appearances to keep up. Looking down at himself, and his current attire, "this would feel more natural if I were wearing my regular clothes."

Buffy Summers has posed:
"Sounds like." Buffy wasn't going to dig too much. Everyone had the right to privacy. It was something she recognized more than many would considering she had so many secrets herself.

She did look at the cat again. Then at Spike. Maybe not high after all. World conquering Cat. That had NOT been on her Bingo card for weird things to encounter tonight. Or any night for that matter.

Something caught her attention as she put a hand to her stomach, glancing off to the right in a pseudo-casual way. A little rub of her hand then she dropped it back to her side. "I think I need to go deal with something." She looked back to Sabrina and her feline companion. "Nice to meet you both. Spike, catch you later?" Since she didn't know if he intended to patrol or party tonight.

Sabrina Spellman has posed:
Sabrina Spellman Salem sighs and looks " Oh you should ask Sabrina to make you a change ring .. they were all the rage 300 years ago.. load two or three outfits, wiggle a finger " he's waving his paw " And boom, instant hotness cha cha " he shakes his head like a human would. " But the moment I'm back I'll contact you as a general " He doesn't get to finish as Sabrina is pushing him back into the purse " yeah, i gotta run too. My aunts are gonna worry.. it was nice to meet you. I'm happy Salem made a friend. Nice to meet you, spike and buffy ' She waves and takes off!

Spike has posed:
"Good to meet you, Salem, and Sabrina," Spike said, behaving, despite encouraging the kitty conqueror. The real question is, was he doing that to get a rise out of people, or did he genuinely want a cat to rule. Most likely it was the absurdity of the situation, but the fact taht Buffy had left the comment go without much of a reaction had him regarding her. Was she finally beginning to thaw to him? Or was it just that they had company, and she didn't want to make a scene in front of them? It was hard to read that part of her. He understood most of her moods, but that one, it was lost on him.

Having by now finished his beer and burger, and eager to get out of these ridiculous clothes, Spike said, "definitely, though, I plan to stop by my... home... first."