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Bella slips into the school by a side door; she just saw a thing and she thinks she's seen it in a book before and thinks it's supposed to be mostly harmless but before she wakes Giles up over probably nothing or kills a likely neutral demon she wants to check.
And she pushes into the library.
Slayer Bella and vampire Miles
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cross_and_bow
thisvorlunatic
"A quick look around can't hurt."
He has a quick look around.
He has a quick look around.
cross_and_bow
There is a little loot but none of it readily exchangeable for US dollars, the principal currency in which plane tickets are sold.
thisvorlunatic
Eh, you can always find somebody. Miles pockets some likely-looking objects. "Okay, let's go."
cross_and_bow
So she drives him back to Sunnydale and drops him off by the butcher shop.
thisvorlunatic
And he hangs out with Zeke and commits petty theft and decides to scrap the whole idea of buying a plane ticket because faking the necessary identity documentation would require too much human contact and stowing away in a luggage compartment is safer. This still requires him to acquaint himself with flight schedules and pick up supplies, though. And he'll need some means of transporting himself to an airport...
thisvorlunatic
That's true!
He loiters by the butcher's shop around sundown; when Bella doesn't happen by, he tries the school.
He loiters by the butcher's shop around sundown; when Bella doesn't happen by, he tries the school.
cross_and_bow
Not in the library, or anywhere else in evidence on campus.
cross_and_bow
Bella, meanwhile, is waking up on a truly unpleasant floor, even as floors go.
Gosh, it's so unpleasant!
cross_and_bow
It's not really improved by the headache or the fact that she can barely lever herself up from prone, either.
She manages it eventually.
She manages it eventually.
The unpleasant floor belongs to an unpleasant house, and the unpleasant house is perfectly still and silent, quite as though unoccupied.
cross_and_bow
She tries the door. Locked. She tries to stand. No such luck. She tries a window. Painted shut.
unmarred
A familiar figure emerges from the shadows. Although he's wearing different clothes, blander and less crisply military than the grey-and-white Dendarii uniform.
cross_and_bow
"Miles," she says in relieved confusion. "Where the fuck are we?"
unmarred
"You've got to be kidding me," says the familiar figure in a decidedly un-Miles-like accent and cadence.
unmarred
"Sorry. Mark," he says, with an ironic little bow. "Miles's twin. He may not have mentioned me. I represent a particularly awkward and private chapter in the family history."
unmarred
"Yeah, I'm not surprised. So, who are you and why are you sitting on the floor of this horrible little house drugged into near-paralysis?"
cross_and_bow
"Uh, my name's Bella and I am not entirely sure but I don't like it. Why are you lurking in this horrible little house?"
