406: Post-JA meeting

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After the JA meeting Angelus went back to his room. He shrugged off his coat, unbuttoned a few more buttons from the top of his shirt, then settled down on his bed to get comfortable.

His notebook was in his lap. He wrote in it, frowning intently. After a while he sat up, leaned over to rummage in a desk drawer, and pulled out a pair of glasses.

He flicked the glasses open, put them on, then sat back against his pillows to resume working.

His frown turned into a smile, as though change of accessories had in any way made a difference to his efforts.

The door was closed, but obviously his roommate or, alternatively, someone Angelus gave a rat's ass about could interrupt him.

(locked to Logan and Angelus, and Xander if he's around tonight)

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Logan knocked on the door.

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"Come in," Angelus said, starting to recognize the signs of Logan when he heard them.

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Logan opened the door. He was carrying a beat-up green notebook with a gnawed pen thrust through the spiral binding. "You're a civic-minded student," he said. "Wanna help me with a couple of things for a journalism project?"

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Angelus quirked an eyebrow at that. He folded his notebook shut and gave Logan his full attention. "Okay. Take a seat, make yourself comfortable. Help yourself to anything in the fridge that isn't red."

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Logan helped himself to a soda and sat down on the roommate's bed. "Here's the deal," he said, popping open the soda. "We have to do a propaganda campaign on the theme of 'Just Say Yes', so we decided to go with 'Just Say Yes to Vampires.'"

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Angelus stared.

He stared some more.

Finally he managed, "I'm sorry, can you repeat that?"

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Logan scratched the back of his head. "The teacher came up with it?"

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Angelus nodded solemnly. "And she's taking my suggestions on what the rules should be, and who should be in each pairing."

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Logan blinked, and a slow smile spread across his face. "Damn," he said. "How did you manage that?"

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"My theory is that I'm having a very good week."

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"I'll say," Logan said. "So, are you going to be a Master? Or a slave?" He grinned.

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Logan raised his eyebrows. "I thought that's what you kept Faith around for." He took a drink of his soda. "Sounds like it could be cool, though." He flipped open his notebook and pried the pen out of the spiral binding. "But now? Journalism. What can Fandom High do to encourage vampires to attend? Oh, and do you know of any stats on the ratio of humans to vampires in your world? We should really make sure your people are represented here."

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"Humans: six billion, plus or minus at least one," Angelus smirked. "Vamps? Good guess. We don't exactly take a census. Plus you get more newbies born than can survive the night. If it numbered anything past the thousands I'd be surprised. Hundred thousands possibly, but all the way up to a million? No way. The cities couldn't support it."

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Logan nodded, scratching a few notes on the page. "Okay, so representation is probably not a strong point to argue. What about special needs? Are your needs being accommodated?

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"The windows are a nice touch," Angelus acknowledged. "Gotta love the magic of necrotempering. And the caf does keep blood in stock. Not saying I trust it, but then you can't trust any of the other food around here either."

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Logan nodded. "One of the many nice things about living off-campus. Much less opportunity for the chef to poison you," he said.

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"Ah, yes, that'd be handy," Logan said. He waved a hand at Angelus as if to say No big. "Ok, gotta ask - how do you smoke if you can't breathe?"

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Angelus lit his cigarette, then sat back again, exhaling a long plume of smoke. "Magic? I don't understand how I bleed when my heart doesn't beat either, but there you go."

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"Can you get stoned?" Logan asked. "Or would the smoke just circulate?"

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"Far as I know it just circulates," Angelus said, "but that doesn't mean we can't get stoned. Just works differently from mortals. Spike swears he got high feeding off a flower child, but then it's not like his brain works well when it's sober either.

"There's also drugs just for us," Angelus tapped ashes into his tray. "By demons, for demons. And some genius figured out how to make drugs that give one high to a mortal that takes them, another to the same mortal and the vamp who's drinking from them as they're drinking from them. Never let it be said chem class is useless."

enter Xander, stage left

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Xander heard the low hum of voices as he approached his dorm room door, and winced; he'd been pretty lucky so far about avoiding Angelus most evenings. He considered turning around and heading for the computer lab; there was always the joy of Googling for naked people the stats on vamp population in this dimension.

Screw it; it was his room too, and even if he did take right off again he at least wanted to dump his books off. He opened the door and walked in.

Re: enter Xander, stage left

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Something - maybe a book, by the sound of it, and certainly the prissy fanged un-wonder would never do anything like use one of his fancy-pants shoes - thudded against the door and slammed it shut.

Re: enter Xander, stage left

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Logan laughed. "At least I don't have to share a room with anyone. Freak-boy's got his own space."

Re: enter Xander, stage left

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"Oh, nice," Xander whined bitched. "My room too, asshole." He turned the knob again, and stuck his foot in as soon as the door opened - though not his head. "Incoming. And I mean me, not whatever you're planning to throw at my head and don't think I'm above whining to Connor if you give me a concussion. In fact, please do; it'd do wonders for my room reassignment request."

Re: enter Xander, stage left

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"You are never here when I'm here," Angelus said. "I like that arrangement. It makes me happy. Shoo. Be elsewhere. Traffic suggests itself as a location."