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.

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[pythbox]

Laughing, he shoos.

[cross_and_bow]

She comes out wearing functionally similar jeans that she did not spill juice on during breakfast. "You're gonna attract attention on the street in that uniform. Do you care? I could loan you some old things that I don't care if they disappear when you wake up."

[pythbox]

"Ooh. Sure!" he says.

[cross_and_bow]

Juliet produces some shorts - all her jeans would be too short for him, however relaxed the fit elsewhere in the measurements - and a unisex T-shirt proclaiming affiliation with her stepfather's minor league baseball team, and she shoos herself into the hall.

[pythbox]

Sue reappears half a minute later, wearing the shorts and the T-shirt, the uniform bundled in his arms.

"So weird to be wearing real clothes again," he comments.

[cross_and_bow]

"What, you just wear uniforms all the time?" Juliet asks, showing him down the stairs. "...If we meet anyone I know, which we probably won't, you're my old friend from Phoenix and you popped up here to see me while your family's in the area to go to Disneyland. Cover story could probably do with a name that isn't 'Sue'."

[pythbox]

"Pick one, then," he shrugs.

[cross_and_bow]

"I'll call you Matt, I knew an actual Matt in Phoenix and he answered to approximately your description," shrugs Juliet. "And I'm Bella, here, not Juliet. Outside Milliways-type encounters only my boyfriend calls me Juliet." Here is the front door. She picks up her messenger bag from where it rests, puts it on, and strolls down to the sidewalk and hangs a left.

[pythbox]

Sue ambles after her. "Okay," he says agreeably. "This is a nice town, I like it."

[cross_and_bow]

Bella bursts out laughing. "This town is a hotspot for all kinds of demonic activity and even with the vampire population shrunk as small as can be it's got a ludicrous death rate. It's not even much to look at if you ignore that. Gosh, you really have been in space for a long time."

[pythbox]

"Ten years," he says, grinning.

[cross_and_bow]

"That is a long time. I'm sure it has its advantages even if it makes Sunnydale look like a nice town, though." They turn a corner. It's a hot day, but there's a breeze coming from this direction and some yards have trees and shrubs in late flower.

[pythbox]

"I got to save humanity!" he says brightly. "It was fun."

[cross_and_bow]

"I'm supposed to get a few chances to do that. Haven't yet. Slow apocalypse year, apparently. Any tips for when some nasty reaches for the destroy-Earth button?"

[pythbox]

"It's probably different," he says.

[cross_and_bow]

"Probably. How'd you do it?"

[pythbox]

"Cheated," he snorts.

[cross_and_bow]

"Ooh, that sounds like a fun story."

[pythbox]

"You know how I'm a mutie? Well, I linked up my whole command. And then when we got to the buggers' home planet, I linked them and they surrendered as soon as our side found somebody for them to surrender to."

[cross_and_bow]

"Oh, nicely done. Reminds me of how I handled the Prom Ghost, only yours is obviously much larger-scale."

[pythbox]

"What's a Prom Ghost?"

[cross_and_bow]

"Her name's Minnie. She got killed at her prom about eighty years ago, and her ghost had serious anger issues and she killed some people at proms thereafter if they met certain criteria. I found her, talked to her a bit, and used some of the square wishcoins Shell Bell made for me when she visited to fix the emotional problems and the part where she could only haunt prom, and now she's running around enjoying herself someplace. Standard procedure would have had me disperse her instead."

[pythbox]

"Good one," he approves.

[cross_and_bow]

"Thanks. Now that you've made peace with the aliens, what're you and Aegis gonna do next?"

[pythbox]

"Be admirals," he says. "If we can get ourselves unkidnapped first."