CHICAGO ♔ Against my will I stand beside my own reflection

[notaroundme]

WHO || Elena + Failboat
WHAT || Elena comes back with some news.
WHERE || Their hotel room | Chicago, IL
WHEN || July 11th/12th Late Night
HOW || Actionspammy~

[Elena isn't sure she could be more nervous if she tried. She's done something that, no doubt, at least one or two people will be upset or angry about. Given the fact that she didn't ask for permission isn't going to look good, but her reasons are her own, and what's done is done.

And now that she knows the truth, there's nothing left to do but tell them. Keeping secrets will only make it worse, and she's not going to lie about where she goes.

They'll have to let her. She won't take no for an answer. And if they don't like it, well...that's a bridge she'll cross when she gets to it.

She comes in the door, Spike and Archer in tow. She has to wonder if they ever noticed she was gone before she mass texted them in the night, alerting them that she had something she had to talk to everyone about. Mentally, as the door closes behind them, she prepares herself for the confession that she's about to make, and the fallout she hopes to avoid.

She can only hope she they're as understanding as Spike has been.]

Comments

[romanticidal]

Bella... [ rafael calls after her, half in an obvious attempt to calm her down, and half in resigned frustration. he rises to go after her, but pauses in the doorway, looking back at them before saying hesitantly. ] She is... not entirely without an argument, about sending Vi. I do not like the idea of keeping her confined here, but it seems an unnecessary danger to place her where they could so easily take her. Or assume her face and replace her, for that matter.

[notaroundme]

[Elena nods tiredly.]

She offered, but that doesn't mean she should go. I don't think you're the only one who will be against it.

[bigbad]

[Spike's sense motive of 23 means that Buffy's excuse works on him. He stands up to go anyway because he's on a human people schedule.]

I can go. Wanker's already got my face.

[rationalizes]

It's true that Spike's had some, er, experience with the doppelganger already.

[notaroundme]

That's fine with me. I feel safe with Spike there.