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[stakes]

Anybody else ever wake up with a crazy headache and a whole yikesitude of shiny, new memories? 'Cause I just got mega-slammed with like a year and a half of my life. And I feel --... Different. I feel different. Stronger. And? Totally commandery. Army of Teenage Girls, ahoy.

Seriously, though -- do the Gods think it's funny to just randomly grasp at straws and shove stuff into our brains while we're sleeping? Thor, I'm talking to you. Is this your idea of fun?

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[usandthedead]

They gave you new memories? You sure they're yours?

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[stakes]

They aren't all new. They tie together with my old ones. I'm pretty sure they're not fake. It's kind of happened like this before, just not... This much. And I mean like mucho-grandeness much.

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[usandthedead]

Sounds like a gift, knowin' what's comin', knowin' what's happened to those you love.

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[caduuceus]

"YoU know, I haven't the foggiest idea myself."

[Suddenly, green skull girl! Calliope nervously averts the strangers eyes for a moment, before continuing with a thoughtful frown.]

"I had been Under the assUmption, oUr comings goings were more of accidents in the god's ability to maintain oUr being here, more than anything. ThoUgh I will confess, ever since Thor chose to hoUse my brother, I have Understood them less and less. I sUppose it is possible they are occasionally deliberate? Becoming stronger is one way of having more emotion, after all."

[Video]

[stakes]

If you wanna look at it that way, fine, but I'm pretty sure they at least have some modicum of control in all of this. Maybe it's not an exact science or anything like that, but...

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[shinybaldhead]

[ -- uh-huh. He was skimming over the bracelet, still unused to the system as a whole, and then - wow, that was a name that he recognized. Not that he'd ever met her, really, but Cordy had filled him in ages and ages ago. ]

Buffy Summers. Not from California, are you?

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[stakes]

[ Oh look it's a face she's never seen before in her life. An eyebrow raises. ]

Heard of me, have you?

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[shinybaldhead]

Yeah. Cordelia's mentioned you, once or twice.

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[likethetragedy]

No. [She hasn't woken up with a crazy headache and shiny new memories. Also she doesn't have the people skills to specify what exactly she's no-ing to.] Why do you have an army of teenage girls?

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[stakes]

Long story short? World's ending.

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[likethetragedy]

[There's a definite pause here because that has to be some terrible luck being in the same situation twice over.] And they can do something special?

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[swedge]

[ hey gurl where you at they're due for some major drinks and talks right about now. ]

Did you say army of teenaged girls?

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[stakes]

Yep. All potential Slayers. Ones that might be next in line once I kick it for good.

[beforethewar]

No, I can't say that such a thing has happened to me. Then again, I've never had the most reliable memory to begin with...

[stakes]

Well, they say too much alcohol can do that to a person. [ She's joking. Really. ] I think it's just a thing that happens here.

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[visiongirl]

You get an army of teenage girls?

[Hi Buffy, guess who arrived recently?]

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[stakes]

[ Cordy just keeps comin' back. ]

Hello to you, too, Cordy.

[advocacy]

How do you know they're your memories and not something the gods aren't just... I don't know, making up?

[stakes]

Let's just call it instinct? Gut feeling, prickly-on-the-back-of-your-neck levels of knowing.

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[childofthewickedday]

Arthur went away before...and he returned as a king.

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[stakes]

I remember. [ That was a really tough time for him. Buffy recalls every moment she spent near him afterwards quite vividly. ] But I didn't leave. I just... slept. Really hard.

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[mulletrock]

Sounds kinky. So what're you a cheerleader? [The army of teenage girls part.] Gettin' slammed with years of your life's nothin' new. Happened to me too. Except it was a lot more than a year and a half.

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[stakes]

How many times do I have to explain this Slayer thing to you, shotgun-boy? [ Seriously. ] They're all girls who might be the next Slayer when I die for good. There's a big battle coming, and we need all the help we can get. So I'm training them to the best of my ability now. Before they all get devoured.

action; latest late late

[watchher]

Buffy?

[ One of the benefits of living together: Giles can knock on her door, nudge it a little further open and look Britishly concerned, only a few minutes after she announces something. ]

I... heard you on the network. Are you all right? [ He's still back where she'd been, in terms of memory. Canon updates aren't something he's encountered, yet. ]

action; never late bro never late

[stakes]

[ Buffy swings her legs over the edge of the bed and raises her eyebrows at him, face still showing obvious jetlag from the year-and-some-change of her life she just dreamed through. She scrubs her hands over her face and her hair, and forces a little smile. ]

Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay. Just... Really tired. Really tired. And really unprepared for everything I just had to find out. I wish they'd figure out some better way for me to live my future out.

[ She looks older, too. Not much, but slightly. Not aged in a weird way so much as in a way that makes her more commanding. More regal, almost. ]

It happens to people here all the time.