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Post by Buri Merchant on Jun 9, 2008 15:43:20 GMT 1
Buri’s eyes flashed open. Another vision. They were coming more and more often now. She had one what seemed like at most every two days, at least once a week. This was her first time having two in a row though. Buri just assumed a lot of people had crappy lives. Buri picked herself up off the ground and walked over to the counter were there was an open bottle of Tylenol. She quickly downed a few with some water. They helped get rid of her headaches that were near constant now. It was three weeks since her first vision. Most of them she just ignored, mainly for the fact she lost Xander’s number, but she had found it this morning, so she figured she might as well call him. Buri walked over to the phone and dialed his number. She got his machine.
“Hey Xander it’s Buri. Uh, I had another vision, I also have a favor to ask you. So if you get this message meet me at two at star bucks, bye.”
Buri hung up the rather smelly motel phone. She had only stayed in the motel one night because she knew it would not be wise to spend the night in the streets after getting in that fight with the demon gang. She was sure they would forget about it in a week or so but till then she thought it would be best to avoid dark dank, oh wait the motel was both those things. Mostly she just felt better being inside a building. Buri shoved her few belongings in her bag and the proceeded to exit the non existent door. Buri tossed some money on the floor as she left.
Buri walked down the cool streets. It was rather sunny out but not hot in the least. Buri walked quickly as it was already ten till two. Once at starbuck Buri ordered black coffee and then sat down at one of the little tabled outside. She supposed Xander might not show, but she had nothing better to do.
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Post by xandfan on Jun 9, 2008 21:36:26 GMT 1
Xander walked into his apartment and heard the machine beep. "Dang, missed it by that much" he said to himself as he went over and pressed the button
“Hey Xander it’s Buri. Uh, I had another vision, I also have a favor to ask you. So if you get this message meet me at two at star bucks, bye.”
Xander stared at the machine, Buri? He thought she had forgotten his offer, but obviously she hadn't. Well he had promised her so he turned around and headed back out the door.
All the way to the starbucks he wondered what this favor would be? Maybe she had heard about his carpentry skills and wanted him to build her a... something woody. Or maybe she wanted more info on Cordy, not that he'd be much help there, when you break someones heart and witness their impalement you don't really talk anymore. His mind was full of ideas, none of them making sense as he walked around the corner and spotted Buri sitting at the table outside. He quickly made his way to the table and sat down "Hey, I got your message, so what's the up?" he said with a smile, wanting to know if she was OK was Xander's top priority at the moment.
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Post by Buri Merchant on Jun 10, 2008 17:56:08 GMT 1
Buri looked up when she heard Xander’s voice.
“Look I will get right to the point because the vision I had concerns you to an extent. This woman,” Buri slid a photo his way, it was Faith.
“Is here in Misery. I also saw flashes of Miss Summers, The Red head witch, a brunette teenager, and you. I couldn’t make sense of any of it, I just have a feeling something bad is about to happen, maybe it already has.” Buri finished with a shrug.
Buri had a few idea’s what it could mean but she did not want to tell Xander her hunch. After all she might be wrong. Buri didn’t know how to ask for her favor mainly because of what she just told him and partly because she was not one for asking favors. Buri laced her fingers together and put them on her lap, waiting for Xander to say something.
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Post by xandfan on Jun 11, 2008 0:11:01 GMT 1
Xander's smile faded as the picture was pressed in front of him, right to business.
He looked at the picture as she talked, so her vision had involved him, Faith, Willow, Dawn and B...Buffy. "OK so Faith, that's this womans name by the way" he said showing her the picture "Is here, in town. And somethings gonna happen involving me and my friends. And I thought Faith had reformed" he muttered, a little stunned that that was the first thing he thought.
Then he realized, he knew Faith had reformed. Faith had really changed and turned from bad to good, something was off "OK, so what exactly can I look forward too, cos I know how scary an evil Faith can be, some kinda warning wouldn't go amiss" he said, trying to be glib but sounding just nervous.
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Post by Buri Merchant on Jun 11, 2008 17:19:12 GMT 1
Buri looked at the cars zooming on the streets as Xander talked. He wasn’t getting it, and Buri was not looking forward to telling him. Buri sighed and looked back at Xander.
“I hate to be the bearer of bad news but it is kind of in my job description. In my vision…I don’t know for sure but I don’t think Faith is the slayer you should be afraid of.” Buri said.
Buri was considering asking him the favor but she decided against it. Wimp, you can’t even ask for help when you know you need it. If you would just do what I tell you you would never have gotten yourself into this mess. It doesn’t matter, with his friend insane I doubt Xander will last more than a week. That pissed Buri off. She hated it when the voice said things like that.
“Shut up! Just shut up, shut up, shut up!”
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Post by xandfan on Jun 13, 2008 2:32:57 GMT 1
Xander sat open mouthed, if it wasn't Faith he had to worry about then that could only mean...Buffy. he still couldn't believe in his heart that it was Buffy that had caused so many problems, that Buffy had gone all evil. He still believed that it had to be someone pretending to be Buffy or a very very messed up demon, but he sometimes could see parts of the old Buffy, it wasn't something he wanted to believe but eventually he'd have no choice.
"I didn't say anything" he said when Buri yelled Shut up. "What happed Buri, was it a vision?" he said, trying to be as helpful as possible. He grabbed her hand to try and keep her calm "Just tell me what you saw and we'll go fix it" he said, hoping everything would be OK.
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Post by Buri Merchant on Jun 13, 2008 18:47:43 GMT 1
Buri calmed down once the voice stopped talking. She looked at Xander.
“I’m fine, its just the voice in my head saying you were going to die. Don’t worry, it lies, it plays off my fears and insecurities.” Buri looked away before continuing.
“The favor I have to ask is…well…I don’t have anyplace to stay right now, and I just got in a fight with a demon gang so its not safe for me to stay on the streets like usual…what I’m trying to ask is if I can stay at you’r place. Just for a few days…I think.” Buri said and ran her fingers through her hair, how she hated asking favors.
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Post by xandfan on Jun 13, 2008 23:58:15 GMT 1
Voices, it had to be voices. Well Xander was gonna have to help her, mainly cos he wanted to but also cos no Voices were gonna harm anyone he knew, he'd seen how badly head voices had affected Buffy all those years ago.
"Well you tell those voices that I've been fighting vamps and demons for roughly a decade, and I've seen more than my fair share of apocalypses in that time and hey, apart from the eye thing I'm still kicking" he said smiling, trying his best to put Buri's mind at ease.
Xander nodded "Of course, I got a spare room I never use, well I do keep my carpenters stuff in there but I can move that to my room. Don't worry Buri" he said, grabbing her hand in a comforting friend sort of way "You'll be safe there, and besides, there's weapons there so if these demon things turn up I'll just beat them to death with whatever's handy" he said smiling, sure the first time he'd met Buri she'd been crazy, but now he knew why. "And don't even think about leaving the house until we're sure you're safe, I never have anyone stay the night so that spare room's been spare for ages, You stay as long as you like"
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Post by Buri Merchant on Jun 14, 2008 19:32:27 GMT 1
Buri smirked at the thought of beating a demon to death with a two by four. Buri was relived Xander had said yes, cause if he had said no, it just would have been awkward. Buri removed her hand from Xander and took a sip of her coffee. It didn’t matter who it was but Buri didn’t care for being touched. Even by her own father.
“Thanks, I guess I will just come by later and hope your home. First I have something I need to take care of.” Buri said the last sentence with a flash of evil Buri. Buri smiled and looked back at Xander. “So I guess I’ll make like my personality and split.”
It could be said that Buri had a split personality; it would change depending on who she was with. When she was with Max she was evil, but when she was with Xander she was not. It was so confusing. Buri got up out of her chair and, with a final glance to Xander, walked off.
((Haha ‘make like my personality and split’ is from the Scooby Doo movie. Which happens to have Sara Michel Geller and Seth Green in it. Heh, I need a life.))
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Post by xandfan on Jun 15, 2008 1:40:17 GMT 1
When Buri moved her hand away Xander knew he'd made a mistake in trying the comforting gesture. He thought that's what people did when they needed to comfort others, he'd done it with Willow and Anya and... and Buffy. Maybe there was a different reason why the hand had been moved, well he could figure that out later.
He smiled back to Buri "I'll be there, I should have the room all made up and everything. I'll see you then" he said, silently agreeing with thw split personality bit. but that was probably due to some other force that Buri couldn't control, it may be another thing Xander would have to look into.
As Buri walked off Xander got up and started to walk back to his apartment, he had to make sure that the room was tidy, and that all his tools were out of the way, that way if he needed them while she was sleeping then he wouldn't disturb her. It wouldn't be a really big job, the spare room had been unused since he moved in (Mainly cos it had been something else that he didn't need, so he turned it into a spare room as a way to make it feel like his old place) so all he needed to do was make the bed up and get his crap out of there, simple enough.
((We both do, I know that line well))
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