party ♔ ding-dong the dick's dead

[recruited]

WHO || Everyone. Everyone come if you're not on a mission.
WHAT || A party to celebrate Dimitris Sarandis sleeping with the fishes.
WHERE || Knights HQ. The fancy ballroom.
WHEN || Mid-March 2016.
HOW || Prose or actionspam welcome.

Cordelia and Steve have gotten together to plan a rather fun party to celebrate Sarandis being taken down. Abbie even managed to grab them a rather awesome band to entertain the guests and everything else was hand picked and decided on by Cordy and Steve. It's not as fancy as a squiring after party, but it's just as fun. The ballroom has been "dressed down" a little to match the relaxed atmosphere. Enjoy yourselves!

Comments

[slay]

Wow. Yeah, can we just rewind the "no offense" part of my not remembering you?

[allaboutme]

Hey, it's a good thing, right? I mean, you're here, so that says something.

[ a beat ] I mean, so are Spike and Faith and they're psychotic, but maybe the Veil toned down the crazy in both of them since they haven't been kicked out yet.

[slay]

Spike and Faith are here because they save lives. And it's a good thing too, because I get the feeling Wynn can count the number of people here who can see the demons we have to fight on one hand.

[allaboutme]

Wow, Faith wasn't kidding about that whole 'you thinking you're a Slayer' thing, huh?

[slay]

... Excuse me?

[allaboutme]

You know, a vampire slayer or whatever.

[slay]

I don't think I'm the Slayer. I am. —And what do you mean Faith said I only "think" that I am? [ WHAT THE HELL FAITH ]

[allaboutme]

Hey, you didn't hear it from me. [ mostly b/c that is a misinterpretation of the text but w/e ] And trust me, while demons and vampires and whatever were infiltrating our High School and all the best nightlife spots in Sunnydale? Spike and Faith weren't exactly helping.

[slay]

[ With all the dubious patience tempered with condescension that she might have for Andrew, Buffy folds her arms over her chest and arches her eyebrows, tongue pressed to the inside of her cheek. This all might be more jarring if she didn't ... hear it from a goddess, demonstrate demigod-tier super powers, meet Robin out of the fucking blue, and then already have her existential crisis over Faith replacing her. As it stands, this is just ... kind of funny. ]

Oh really?

[allaboutme]

Really. I thought Faith was in a coma anyway, but whatever.

So you're on that million year old mission, right?

[slay]

Four, but yeah. [ She still doesn't even know this girl's name like ? ? ?? ok. ]

[allaboutme]

That's not like, going to take another four years, right? Because my boyfriend's on that mission now and I kind of like seeing him more than once a year.

[slay]

... Your boyfriend? [ She's like ok not Archer because he got kicked off. Not Spike, based on the way Cordelia was talking about him. Not Mark for sure. Des is married, and everyone else is a woman, so. ] ... Steve?

[allaboutme]

Well, yeah. [ OBVIOUSLY. somehow?? ? ]

[slay]

Yeah, no offense, but you can count on it getting worse before it gets better. This isn't a walk in the park, pull a kitten out of a tree mission, but Wynn's not exactly enlisting the unwilling into it either. If Steve doesn't want to keep helping us—and honestly, after what I saw in the round table room, that's entirely possible—he doesn't have to.

[allaboutme]

Excuse you? Wasn't this one of the only times your little team even came back with a win? Because I'm betting not a coincidence.

[slay]

[ It's a good thing it's so easy not to take whoever this person is seriously, because Buffy just ... tightens her forced smile and lets that one wash off her back. ]

You're misunderstanding me. It's not that I don't think Wynn will invite him back on the team. It's that I don't think Steve does well with the team. He didn't seem to like the way we do things.

[allaboutme]

You mean the part where you had a guy just setting police on fire?

[slay]

Wow. Your brain doesn't even slow down a little before it pushes words out your mouth, does it?

[allaboutme]

So you're saying that didn't happen? [ she folds her arms across her chest, raising her eyebrows like yeah go ahead and deny it ]

[slay]

I'm saying Wynn handled it, and beyond that, it's none of your business.

[allaboutme]

Pretty sure that's everyone's business when any one of us could wind up in the field with someone like that. And it's definitely my business when someone I care about is.

[slay]

Archer's not on the field with anyone anymore. Like I said. Wynn handled it.

[allaboutme]

Well, good. So Steve shouldn't have a reason to leave. He's not a quitter.

[slay]

I thought you didn't want him on this mission?

[ do u even know what u want ? ? ?? ? because at this point buffy is sure it's limited to "being a contrary bitch." ]