we're convenient to a wide variety of establishments

[cross_and_bow]

Ooh, Milliways. It's in her house - inside her house, in the closet where she was about to seek a change of pants - so she can't invite Sherlock along without inviting a vampire into Charlie's house without Charlie's consent. Ah well. She can still go check the Belltower. In she goes!

There's a Whistle. She can't remember this one's name, he's the one whose Bell hasn't been in. "Hey, Whistle," says Juliet.

Comments

[pythbox]

"Hey, you," he says amicably back.

[cross_and_bow]

"Juliet," supplies Juliet. "How goes? How's your Bell?"

[pythbox]

"Kidnapped," he shrugs. "Good before that, though. We negotiated peace with the buggers the other day."

[cross_and_bow]

"Kidnapped? Shit, I'm sorry. You gonna be able to fix that?"

[pythbox]

He grins. "Hope so."

[cross_and_bow]

"You got here by dreaming, right? Otherwise I'd be all over going to your world and breaking some shit to help you guys out."

[pythbox]

"Aww, that's nice," he says. "Yeah, I'm dreaming."

[cross_and_bow]

"Pity. Helpfully breaking shit is front and center of my official destined job description."

[pythbox]

Sue laughs. "Nice. What's the job?"

[cross_and_bow]

"I'm the Slayer. It's this fucked-up system where one teenage girl at any given time has super-strength and super-speed and the like and is supposed to use it to fight nasty bitey critters, a surprising fraction of whom find humans tasty."

[pythbox]

"Cool job," says Sue.

[cross_and_bow]

"I'm making it work. Pity it's not voluntary. A lot of my predecessors had a very unpleasant time of it, and none of them has lived past age twenty-six. Which I plan to fix, but I haven't run into a mint yet except Shell Bell, who was all out of big coins at the time and didn't have access to her helper."

[pythbox]

"Want me to come to your world and break some shit?" he offers half-jokingly.

[cross_and_bow]

"You good at breaking shit? I don't have any candidates lined up right now - usually I go to L.A. on weekends and make some demons very unhappy that my boyfriend found out where they live - but if you need a change of pace from being kidnapped and you can handle yourself on my level, we could wander the neighborhood and see if anything tries to eat us."

[pythbox]

"Sounds like fun," he says brightly.

[cross_and_bow]

"Okay, but since you are not a The Slayer, let's go spar in the back a bit, see how you are, I wouldn't wanna explain to your Bell why her Whistle's been folded, spindled, or mutilated and all three are unfortunately likely where I live." Juliet leads him to the backdoor. "Unless you have some form of super-strength," she adds, "you don't need to worry about hurting me. Anything breaks I can nap it off in the Belltower, and you probably can't even bruise me."

[pythbox]

...Sue laughs.

[cross_and_bow]

"What? I know I don't look it, but I'm totally very-gently-possessed by a demon that gives me superpowers, plus Amariah visited once and decked me out with all kinds of witchy blessings."

[pythbox]

"Yeah," he says, "it's not that, it's just you're reminding me of my personal combat instructor."

[cross_and_bow]

"Yeah? How so?"

[pythbox]

"He's a mutant. Heals really fast."

[cross_and_bow]

"Oh. Well, I'm hard to hurt in the first place - not least because I don't plan to just stand here like a punching bag once we get started - and I heal fast, too. I haven't picked up any injuries that weren't gone overnight so far and I tangle with stuff bigger and toothier and more venomous and scalier and whatnot than you all the time."

[pythbox]

Sue grins. "Okay!"

[cross_and_bow]

She finds a nice clear spot in the Milliways backyard, and drops into a ready position. "It won't stick if I wind up hurting you - Shell Bell shot a dreaming alt of yours once, he woke up fine - but I'll pull my punches anyway. Surprise me."

[pythbox]

Laughing, he attacks.

He is pretty damn good. Not superhuman, but nonetheless, pretty damn good.