http://el-escarabajo.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] el-escarabajo.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] trans_92009-10-08 09:44 pm

The Call

Jaime Reyes voice sounds over the comm-rings--all of them--and it sounds very urgent.

« Everyone on the ship, listen up! This is Jaime Reyes, your local 'Blowing this pop stand' coordinator and escape facilitation engineer. I need everyone on the ship to come to the City, in front of the Precinct, immediately. Grab people who don't have their comm rings with them--and tell them to grab their comm rings, people who are sleeping, whoever you find, and try to make sure everyone on the ship knows to come. This is very important. This is "getting the heck out of here" important. »

When they arrive, they arrive to find the Command Staff waiting, and a tiny, tiny young man standing on stone ledge from a fountain, waiting for them.

Here goes nothing.

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] i-died-twice.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Buffy furrowed her brow at that. "You mean this gathering is...a rebellion?" Actually, that made sense, considering the kid who was standing there, facing all of them. "I'd certainly say that it'd be nice to be unChosen." Mostly because, uh, she just unChose herself back home, and she was in no rush to get back into another grandiose mission.

No.

Really.

Face it, Summers. Three weeks of no-slayage and you'd miss it more than you'd wanna admit. You were born for this. Literally.

"Think we'll get off the ship and find a way back home?"

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] bluerose-knight.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 03:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Sparhawk considers this. "Not exactly a rebellion, but some of those chosen are just children. They should have the choice of staying, or leaving. I have too much experience with being chosen with no real choice, and that choice should be given back."

His voice is quiet as he states his firm beliefs. "The cynical side of me tells me that getting home will not be as easy as we may think, but I'm hopeful it will be otherwise."

He won't return until he's sure that everyone else is back, and safe.

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] i-died-twice.livejournal.com 2009-10-09 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Buffy's eyes darken at Sir Sparhawk's words. "A choice would be nice, but if you got to be all choosy, you'd get, y'know, be the Chooser not the Chosen. Which necessarily isn't a bad thing. I mean, I know I would've liked that choice, y'know? The choice to be a normal teenage girl who's biggest worry was messing up the cheerleader pyramid at Friday night's game or, hey, massive zit on my forehead, oh the tragedy, oh the horror, it's the end of the world as opposed to actually...having to deal with the actual end of the world." Buffy freezes and tucks back a lock of her hair. "Sorry, that was...yeah. Something I needed to not rant about. I know what it's like too. The Chosen thing." And the fact that she could free some people from a choice they hadn't made...

Buffy furrows her brow, feeling distinctly uncomfortable. But didn't she do the same thing recently? Choose girls who didn't have a choice? Gift them with Slayer powers? Didn't that make her a hypocrite?

No. It couldn't. Not possibly. Buffy hadn't recruited all of them into...no. They were looking for them. They were all looking for them. The new Slayers. They were recruiting them. Not given them a choice.

....when did I change?

"Even still. If we don't get home now, at least we'll be able to give some people a choice to get home. And really, that matters."

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] bluerose-knight.livejournal.com 2009-10-12 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Sparhawk guesses that he touched a nerve with the discussion he started, so he simply stands and listens to the woman rant, letting her get it out. He can understand all to well, the feelings that overwhelmed him when he discovered that he was the man without destiny and probably born to fix the world, are still lurking within him.

"Your world was under the threat of ending as well?" he asks. "That's a large burden for anyone to carry."

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] i-died-twice.livejournal.com 2009-10-13 06:23 pm (UTC)(link)
"Only always," Buffy replies with an apologetic expression. "I'm sorry. I'm still trying to deal with...this. It was pretty much always just me and a couple of my friends against the next big apocalypse."

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] bluerose-knight.livejournal.com 2009-10-14 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
Sparhawk tries to think of something that wouldn't be taken as insulting or degrading. He's still finding it hard to accept that women warriors are more commonplace on other worlds, and that often they are better than the men. So he settles for not saying anything, and instead looking at the scythe.

"An impressive weapon. Mostly men trying to bring about the end of the world?" he queries. He noticed the stake, and he knows his legends, but since the only vampires that he's encountered turned out to be illusions...

Re: Gathering

[identity profile] i-died-twice.livejournal.com 2009-10-14 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Thank you," Buffy says with a smile. She loves the scythe, she does. In so many ways, it feels like it was made for her.

Which it was.

Technically.

"Actually, no. It's very evenly-mixy," she answers. "I mean, there was this one time with this exiled hell goddess, this other time with my ex-boyfriend's crazy ex-girlfriend, and the time that my best friend went a little...rawry...and tried to destroy the world. Really, I've learned that evil kinda tends to be non-gender specific. It's an equal opportunity seducer, really." Plus, y'know, the First was the beginning of all evil, and more often than not, it liked taking the shape of women.

Usually - for some sick, sad reason - Buffy.