He's in the Jailhouse Now [Open]

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

Where's some Folsom Prison Blues by the man in black when you need it? No access to the media library so just have to improvise. Xander had been stuck in the precinct lockup for several hours now, and he was really bored. And trying to talk to Sam would be so beyond awkward on a million levels that he wasn't even about to try. No way. Better to have some music to take his mind off of things.

A very exaggerated bass voice then started to sing, "Nobody knows... the trouble I've seen. Nobody knows my sorrow. Nobody knows the trouble I've seen..."

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[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"You wish," Katara says in a cell farther back, crossing her arms.

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Not really?" Xander said as he stopped singing to glance toward her.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"We fought, whether we meant to injure or not," Katara said. "We chose to defy the common law set by the majority. The trouble we see...well, that's up to us, don't you think?"

Katara smiled. "But stop singing. You're not good at it."

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"I guess movie references would be lost on you? Just trying to liven things up."

Xander slumped against the wall.

"Seen plenty of trouble though, and hey, we were still in the right. The slug shouldn't still be sliming around. Never had a court for the threats back home. The law was too busy pretending they were gangs on PCP to do anything."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"Movies?"

Katara couldn't help but giggle. Xander was always funny, even when he didn't mean to be.

"No one is righteous in this. No one. People get hurt, just like this, and we have to remenber that. We are flawed like everyone else, not right. That's the difference we have. I'll never say we were the ones that got it correct."

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, Spaceballs. Good movie."

Xander sighed, thinking about it. It wasn't like Buff wanting to take them all in the plantation to take down Caleb. "People didn't have to get hurt. We could have been faster, and then done."

He sighed again, "If we had more people, and a real plan."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

"What is a movie?"

Katara shrugged. "In this case, it was pretty much a lost cause anyway. There was more of a security team, and more people who were thinking we were nothing but cold blooded murderers."

Katara looked at Xander. "Do you think that's really what we are, Xander?"

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Ok, after we get out of here? You. Me. Media Library, or better yet Sensoriums for the popcorn, candy and soda. Pop Culture 101 will be starting, and just call me Mr. Harris. We're gonna sit down and get familiar with the wonder that is moving pictures."

Xander then shook his head, "No, no way. It's no different from staking a vampire. That's not murder. That's stopping a threat for good."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara laughed here. "Whatever you say! I have no idea what that other stuff you just said is either. But moving pictures sounds pretty amazing to me! It'd kinda be fun to see what that looks like."

Katara looked a little bothered though. "A threat. Yeah. That's what it was."

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Deal."

Xander then firmly said, "It's not murder when it's something evil you have to stop before more people get killed. We're no more killers than Buff, the other Slayers, or any of us back home would be."

Ok... well, except for Will. That one time, even if Warren deserved something for killing Tara, and nearly killing Buffy. But that was different, and she's ok now.

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara offered the smile, but at the next thing he said she definitely had to turn away. She tried to concentrate on what Ax had told her about the Yeerk and the worlds it had taken over. Because she had to believe the Yeerk would have murdered. She HAD to believe it would have killed. Because if she didn't believe that...

But a part of her was starting to notice how strange she was feeling, how the feeling she was having was a quiet panic. Why was she suddenly feeling very sick?

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Hey, hey, what's going on?" Xander then asked with clear concern in his voice. Something about her reminded him of Dawn. "Come on, Katar-ster, what's the what?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Something clicked, and Katara was starting to remember something that happened a week ago when she went with Roxie to her temple. Something in the back of her mind was telling her there was something that was happening, something she was dangerously close to.

Katara had to close her eyes.

"It's nothing. I was just...thinking too hard."

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"I only got one eye, and even I can tell that's not nothing. What is it, Katara?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara was quiet a moment, then turned to Xander.

"I'm a killer, aren't I?"

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

Xander immediately shook his head, "Because of the Yeerk? No. Or is this from before?"

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara looked down. "But if I wanted to? How does that not make me a killer?"

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"You wanted to protect people on this ship right? That's all we wanted to do. Keep people safe so this doesn't happen again."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara looked at Xander, her eyes weary with worry. "But were we in the right? Did we look at everything and do it because it had to happen?"

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, yeah thought we did. Well other than having to fight most of the ship. Shouldn't had to do it."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara nodded at that. "All those people. I wish they hadn't gotten hut."

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

Xander sighed again, and nodded, "Yeah me too. If they just let us do our job, it would have been fine."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara shook her head. "Do you really believe it was their fault, and not ours? Are you totally sure?"

Katara sighed. "What's your history Xander?"

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Really, totally sure."

"Ok, I didn't like having to throw some of the rocks around. Used to dealing with demons, vampires, and monsters. Not people I know. That's what the Yeerk had me doing."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara sighed.

"I know what you mean. There were a few people there I really care about fighting for the Yeerk. I hope something like this never happens again."

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Hope not either, it's not the first time things got ugly between us. Going to keep happening at this rate."

[kaya-waterwave.livejournal.com]

Katara thought a moment. "Maybe it doesn't have to next time. I wonder."

[bored-admiral.livejournal.com]

"A little over dramatic, aren't you?"

Spaurh has come down to see the prisoners and maybe mock them. Or just watch them rot for a bit to entertain herself. Or maybe she genuinely sympathizes with them. Who knows?

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

He stopped singing, and shrugged, "I was bored and was going for the funny? It didn't work."

[bored-admiral.livejournal.com]

Spaurh smiled pleasantly, in a way that didn't quite reach her eyes, "Oh, you succeeded. Just not in the way you intended."

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Mission accomplished?" He gestured with his hands to the side.

[runnerwithagun.livejournal.com]

Ronon was also bored out of his mind and was trying to get some sort of sleep. Then that singing started which may or may not have reminded him of a certain colonel with black, spikey hair.

"Keep your singing to yourself," He says with a grunt. Being taken prisoner is never fun, but Ronon should be well used to it by now.

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

Xander stopped, and glanced over, "Never seen Spaceballs huh?"

[runnerwithagun.livejournal.com]

"No... What's that?" Atlantis movie night had yet to screen Spaceballs.

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Man you're missing out on some classic Mel Brooks funny in that case. Check the Media library whenever our time out's done."

[runnerwithagun.livejournal.com]

"Is there fighting?" Ronon was severely let down when he saw 'Blades of Glory.'

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah, lots of shooting with lasers, and swords." Well, probably not as much as Ronon would like, but there's action at least.

[runnerwithagun.livejournal.com]

"I'll give it a shot after we get out of here." Shooting and swords. Sounds like just his thing.

[withteethbared.livejournal.com]

Bella, in the long tradition of canines, sits up and listens attentively for a moment, then throws back her head and howls.

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

Well hey, it's a backup chorus. Maybe it was the hyena memories, but it almost sounded comforting. In a slightly terrifying way?

[tasted-death.livejournal.com]

Marcus' only response to the singing is to hurl one of the larger control-chip fragments at Xander's head. Hard. He was bored too, but he'd rather be bored than have to listen to the combination of a butchering of Johnny Cash and the werewolf howling a couple of cells away.

... and if Xander didn't get the message he still had some more pieces to throw.

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"Ow! Hey!" Xander yelped as he ducked, and threw his hands up. "Excuse me Mr. Music Critic Guy!"

[tasted-death.livejournal.com]

"Knock it off." Seriously, Xander, you've only been in jail a few hours. Learn to live with the boredom. (Marcus certainly has.)

[thexanwhosees.livejournal.com]

"What? I can't make a lame attempt at mood-lightening?"

He hasn't been locked up that much. Well, usually only when he was possessed.