Behind the Meerkat Cabin, late morning through lunch

[izzyalienqueen]

Isabel didn't get to bed till late and didn't get to sleep until even later. She was too busy replaying the evening in her mind and smiling at the memory. Thursdays were workshop free, so she slept in late and then brought her blanket out to lie in shade of the trees behind the Meerkat cabin. The jug of iced tea is cold, her book is incredibly entertaining in that cheesy, this is entirely not plausible way and overall, life is good.

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn started giggling. "I do have Dean. But he's not so strange or goofy, really." Actually, Sam was much more her usual type...and she was going to stop that thought right there, thanks very much. "How'd he take being hit by a girl? I swordfought with Peter yesterday and I think he took it easy on me, which, okay, nice, but not so much with the actual learning."

"Maybe we can see who breaks more bones? Or which bone breaks first?" Dawn wondered if she should have been making a list.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"There's no rule that says you always have to date the same type of guy," Isabel laughed. "We're young, we should enjoy the buffet. He was fine with it. He's better then I am, definitely because he's been doing it longer and he might have pulled some punches because we really we're looking to hurt one another. But it was good practice for me."

"That could be the secondary pool," she grinned. "The first pool is exactly how many minutes, or possibly even seconds, he's going to last before the hurting starts."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm," Dawn considered, "Do you think he'd spar with me, if I asked? And I think it's good that he pulled punches, maybe? I'm used to dealing with slayers, and they're all stronger than me."

"I like this pool. Oh," she glanced around for stray Stickbugs, "How long do you think we should make them suffer?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I can't see why he wouldn't," Isabel said. "I bet it would be fun. I know I had a good time. Considering I didn't want to go on my date black and blue and sore? I think it's great that he pulled his punches. Slayers? Plural?"

"Not too long. Only because they might get cranky. And I only had one date with Greg."

[ooc: I might have to vanish shortly for a few hours. But I'll be back this evening.]

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I'll have to ask Dean," she decided, then paled as she realized what she'd let slip. "I didn't mean anything by it. Must be one of those dimensional differences--like Xander not dating girls where I'm from."

"How do we let them know they can ask us, without giving away that we did it?" Dawn pondered, tying her hair into a knot behind her head. "There may be a flaw in the plan."

[ooc: NP.]

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"You should. And if you have Slayers to spare you should consider exporting them. I'm sure Xander's Buffy could use some help."

Isabel had been wondering about this herself. "Maybe we can just drop some pie off?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," she sighed. "Okay, so I got my planning skills from Spike. I can overcome that."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Spike? As in vampire Spike?" Isabel's heard enough stories from Xander and in her time in Fandom to recognize the name. "No offense but you come from a weird universe Dawn."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"None taken," Dawn replied, "I mean, it's not like I can argue with you."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"But it's home right?" Isabel asked with a smile. "I'd think in the end, that's all that matters."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, but it's not like this place is bad. I really like it a lot here, though I'm starting to think you're exaggerating some of it."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It's been unusaully quiet for Fandom these last few weeks. Honestly? I'm starting to get worried."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Does it run in cycles here? Maybe we're just in a natural slow period?" Dawn suggested.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I don't know," Isabel sighed. "I've only been here since January. At the end of the semester we had acorn flinging trees, striking washing machines, random slime attacks and dancing lemurs. We haven't had anything unusual happen since then. It's too quiet."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn stared at Isabel.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

More shrugging. "The sad thing is, that's only the little stuff. More petty annoyances then anything else. Attacks by things that leave you dead seem to only happen once a semester. Well occasionally more if you count random vampire or demon attacks but we really haven't had a problem with them since February's study group. Even Phoebe being kidnapped technically falls under family disturbance since it was Bel's mom that kidnapped her."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I count random vampire or demon attacks," she nodded emphatically. "I especially count the non-random ones. And Bel's mom kidnapped Phoebe?" She winced, glad Spike's mother hadn't been around. "What did Bel do?"

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"He organized a bunch of us to go on a rescue mission. And when he found his mom, he killed her," she said quietly.

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn closed her eyes. "God."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I know. But she didn't give him a choice. She wanted him back, wanted him evil. He wouldn't do it." Isabel sighed, "He knows he did the right thing, but still..."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"It's still his mom," Dawn said quietly. "But good for him, I guess."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, not really something you can run up and pat him on the back for. Even if you'd want to," she said. "Have you talked to him much?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"I've had a few conversations with him, and I got in the middle of a testosterone poisoned argument he was having with Dean on like our second day."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I saw that," Isabel said. "I was getting ready to step in when you did. He's a good guy. We've talked a lot. He was one of the first people that called me after the radio told everyone the truth about me. He offered to kick ass if anyone gave me a hard time. You have to appreciate that."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You do," Dawn smiled. "I know he worries Sam and Dean, but I didn't go wrong trusting Spike minus the one time I had to threaten to set him on fire but I don't like to think about that, and I'm willing to take the chance on Bel."