open | one of those nights that started off so damn good.

[saget]

[ there's a tiny, five foot tall redhead (vibrant redhead) creeping down the corridors of the ship tonight. she's not exactly sneaky, and she's armed with a stake. that's right, a wooden stake that's clasped tightly in her right hand, looking more the picture of sheer nervousness than the lethal threat she has the very real potential to be. ]

Please be vampire weirdness, please be vampire weirdness. [ one might hear her chanting under her breath in the most hopeful voice she can muster through her fear and uncertainty.

careful, though! she may scream, run, or lunge if approached suddenly... or approached in general. possibly d) all of the above. ]

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[saget]

[ it's hard to have an opinion when you don't have a name to go along with the face. sure, lottie's heard about buffy. everyone who winds up this way hears about buffy, whether they come into their powers in a way that didn't get them five minutes of mortifying fame on amercia's funniest home videos or not. but she's never seen the woman. she has no idea that she's yelping and about to make a run from it from one of the original slayers herself. ]

...hi.

[ she tries not to look scared, but that's kind of hard when she's really, really new to this and she quit karate freshman year, because it interfered with marching band practice. her strength is all over the place, unrefined and lacking precision. she can hit hard, but she doesn't know how to hit right.

and if this woman is a vampire, she is seriously done for. ]

Please don't eat me. ...god, I really just said that, didn't I? When did I start living the don't-eat-me life? I didn't sign up for this.

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

Whoa, whoa, easy. I am not the eating people type, trust me.

[She gives her a small smile, before taking a step back.]

That's for a vampire, right? Vampires aren't really big fans of all this sunshine. They're not going to make a snack out of you right now.

[Her tone is kind and gentle - this girl is obviously scared and she's not going to be making it worse by teasing her. She knows how being a baby slayer is - sometimes you forget the basics.]

[saget]

[ lottie looks between the stake and the blonde. she nods slowly, in the sense that that much ought to be obvious. duh. why else would someone carry around a stake? ]

...oh. Right. The sun and the burning and... You're not a vampire. [ she lowers the stake. ] Sorry.

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

It's okay. I totally remember my early new Slayer jitters. I even missed the heart on my first go.

[It seems like ... forever ago, but she definitely staked her first vamp in the stomach. She takes a bit of a step back before holding out her hand.]

I'm Buffy.

[Maybe she won't have a ... really strong reaction.]

[saget]

[ pause. squint. ]

Buffy... The Buffy?

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

[Oh. So she has heard of her. Okay.]

If you're going with Buffy Summers, then yes. I am that Buffy.

[saget]

Oh my god.

[ and just like that, lottie drops her face into her hand. ]

I pointed a stake at Buffy Summers. I pointed a stake at one of the original Slayers. I suck at this. I suck, I suck.

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You do not suck. You were panicking and you were scared - if I were you, I would have definitely run into things stake-first.

[She gives her a small smile, before placing her hand on her shoulder.]

You didn't know who I was. It's not like there's an organizational newsletter with my picture on the front.

[saget]

There should be. It would at least help us keep up with everything. Or, you know, a mass e-mail every once in a while, thought it would probably wind up in the spam folder...

[ she's rambling. she does that sometimes when she's nervous and she is most definitely nervous right now. ]

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

[She laughs a bit before nodding.]

If I ever get back home, I'll have Willow get on that. Promise.

[saget]

Who's Willow?

[ lottie's experienced slayer informant obviously doesn't know much. while she's shared buffy and faith's names with her, shelley hasn't exactly spilled on other stuff -- if she even knows other stuff. there's times when shelley seems as lost as she is when it comes to navigating the newbie slayer life. ]

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

[Not a question she's used to answering, but considering she didn't know that Buffy was Buffy, she fields it without very much surprise.]

Willow is one of my best friends - she's a witch and also our resident tech expert.

[saget]

Witches? There are witches?

[ news to her. sure, there were the goth kids at school who wore pentagrams and were probably into the fake, wannabe kind of witchcraft for the sheer shock value of it, but actual witchcraft? she didn't know such a thing was really real outside of whatever was going on with the ancient druids. ]

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

There are witches.

[Definite conformation there.]

Has a lot of your experience mostly been with vampires?

[saget]

I've, uh, [ she laughs nervously, tucking a stand of bright red hair behind her ear ] actually never seen one.

About the only thing I've accomplished with my Slayer powers is sending a tuba and the guy playing it flying across the football field and getting my five minutes of mortifying fame on America's Funniest Home Videos. My eternal thanks to the guy in the stands who did me the favor of sending it in.

[ /sarcasm ]

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

[She winces a bit at that.]

Yikes. If it makes you feel any better, a vampified Mean Girl that I went to high school with has her own reality TV show, and will probably eventually use it to slander my good name. Not that I have much of a name in the entertainment industry but what little I have? Totally going down the tubes.

[saget]

Harmony? You went to school with her?

[ her mother wouldn't let her watch that show, but charlotte was in touch enough to be aware of it. ]

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

[SIGH.]

Yep. We graduated the same year.

[saget]

I don't know whether to be sympathetic or jealous.

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

Don't be jealous. Really. There's ... not really all that much to her.

[saget]

She sounds like a pretty big deal to me.

[kiss_evilgoodbye]

On TV, sure. She can act like that. But actually knowing her in real life? She leaves a little something to be desired.