Construction Site: Tuesday, 6/12, all day

[needsaparrot]

The usual tools and safety equipment are laid out, including Conner's pink hardhat, and a shiny new one that's... not really any less flaming than the pink one.

There's also a new safety poster up. Because at least Xander's learned to print out pdfs, even if he can't manage to save the flash videos.

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[OOC: Poster is full of graphic cartoon injury and is a slight tweak of a real work-safety poster from youngworker.ca. (ETA: which as connernotconnor points out, has a flash-animated severed hand as a loading indicator. And only gets worse from there.) Oh Canada. OCD is up and post is open!]

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Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

"That's gre--" Xander started before he turned around and got a good look at her. And stared.

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"What?" Mel said looking confused. "Something wrong? I swear I didn't even say the d-word before coming over here."

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

He was still staring at the coat. "What did you do?"

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Went to Scotland?" Mel said, still with the confused expression on her face but shrugged and tried to defuse the situation by modeling for Xander in her new jacket. "Like my new coat?"

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

"Oh god, Buffy's gonna kill me. Well, Dawn's Buffy's gonna kill me but I think she's pretty close to my Buffy and anyway death by Buffy is death by Buffy, you're still just as dead." Xander ran a hand distractedly through his hair as he babbled.

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Because I went to Scotland?" Mel asked now thinking that Xander had just lost it.

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

"Because you killed Spike!" He stabbed a finger at the coat.

"Who okay already dead but there's dead and then there's dead-dead and--" Xander scratched his head, babble deflating for a second. "Wait, I thought Dawn's Spike was dead-dead. How did you manage to kill him a third time? I don't know whether to say Best. Slayer. Ever. or keep flipping out."

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"You mean the guy with the bad dye-job?" Mel asked. "Nah. He's back. I just.. Um. Liberated his coat? He didn't seem that attached to it."

Technically Spike had hung the coat up in a closet so there literally wasn't any attachment to it. Physically anyway.

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

Xander let the he's back wash over him, puzzled but not all that surprised, then filed it away to think about later.

"...So you stole Spike's leather jacket of alleged badassitude?"

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"I didn't steal anything!" Mel protested. "I-"

Borrowed? Got it as a gift? Performed services of a certain nature that would break Xander's brain and tick off Zuko for it?

Nah.

"Yeah. Okay. I grabbed it."

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

"Best. Slayer. Ever." As long as Buffy wasn't in hearing distance, anyway. This at least tied.

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel beamed.

"So stealing from Spike is okay? Because I got his lighter too."

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

Xander might be laughing too hard to answer that.

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"See, you keep this up and I might have to think about starting up my career as a grabber," Mel joked.

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

"As long as we're limiting it to grabbing from Spike?" Xander said. "Also maybe an exception for Angel's hair stuff. Because that would be funny."

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Why does everyone keep bringing his hair up?" Mel asked. "Is it like that flock of seagulls guy in whatever the meta of Pulp Fiction?

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

"It kinda does a straight-up thing." Xander made a motion with his fingers over the top of his own head, then shrugged. "Honestly and you never heard me say this there's nothing wrong with his hair - it's just how much product he puts in it to get it that way."

Spoken like a guy who frequently wakes up next to somebody whose hair does the same thing the second he rolls out of bed, yes.

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

Mel shrugged. "I guess I have to see him in action to believe him. Is there anything more to him than being another vampire with a soul and cool hair?"

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

"Hey, I didn't say cool. 'Not hideous' would be more accurate. More to him than that? Well..." Xander thought for a bit. "He's got a really big.... forehead?"

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"Does he fight evil with his hair and giant forehead?"

Mel was now picturing a vampire who would smush evil with his forehead and stab them with his spiky hair.

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

".....Yes." Xander nodded. Then sighed and added, "And sometimes a sword," because it's not nice to lie to your Slayer.

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"But mostly hair and forehead, right?"

Do not crush a girl's dream of a giant forehead hero!

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

"The monsters of Los Angeles tremble before the might of his follicles."

Re: Talk to Xander

[cantjossme.livejournal.com]

"See? Now I want to go to Los Angeles to watch that happen."

Re: Talk to Xander

[needsaparrot]

Xander snorted. "The day I voluntarily visit Angel--" He stopped. "With a Slayer who's not dating him. And who's wearing Spike's coat. Actually, that could be the Best. Trip. Ever."