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Nighttime, outside the dorms

A trip into town had resulted in Sean getting everything a puppy could need to be happy, and many many things that he didn't need per se, but which were too damned cute to resist.

There had also been Christmas presents for the pooch, but those were safely hidden in the back of Angel's closet ~~since lord knows he isn't hiding there~~ where Sean couldn't find them.

Sean himself was currently sporting a red and green collar with, appropriately enough, a dog tag. On the tag it said "My name is SEAN. My dad's name is ANGEL."

Sean's new possessions were back in the room. In the meanwhile Angel could tell the signs of a puppy who wasn't yet ready to settle in for the night.

So they were outside, playing with a new ball, snow, and generally having more fun than you ever thought a broody vampire could have.

Behold the power of puppy.

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Rory bounced outside, carrying Vladdie in the new, hot-pink bag Anakin had gotten her precisely for that purpose.

"Hey, Angel! Hi Sean!"

Vladdie stuck his head out from inside the bag and barked happily.

"Hey, Rory," Angel called back. "Love the bag."

Sean, hearing the bark, stopped his attempt to eat snow. He looked around, his legs spread wide, ready to dart in the direction of a possible new playmate.

Rory grinned. "Thanks. Christmas present. How are you?"

She pulled Vladdie from the bag and gently set him on the ground. The puppy tilted his head curiously at the other dog, and cautiously approached him.

"Doing good," Angel said. "Went shopping for everything Sean needs. Plus stuff for C-h-r-i-s-t-m-a-s."

Sean, seeing the other dog, came bounding up. He yipped, then leapt away, bowing down on his two front legs while wagging his tail into a blur.

Rory arched a brow. "I take it that S-E-A-N can't S-P-E-L-L?" she asked, trying not to smirk. "But he understands English?"

Vladdie tilted his head in the other direction and, never being one to not show off his cool tricks, bounced up to hover about a foot in the air.

"He's young," Angel replied. "I'm hoping not to, you know, spoil the whole thing for him." Angel put his hands into his pockets and beamed. "It's his first."

Sean found Vladdie's cool trick to be amazing. His tail wagged even harder. He jumped, trying to see if he would stick in the air like Vladdie did.

"Vladdie's too," Rory smiled. "He was only six weeks old or so when he was vamped in October. But Vladdie can't understand English, as far as I know. He's just not that clever."

Vladdie thought Sean was very silly. So he decided to show off more, and did a midair somersault.

"Sean and I are still getting acquainted," Angel said. "But I think he gets it. He's just too excited to remember."

Sean yipped. He crouched down on the ground and jumped. He did it again. For some reason he couldn't do the mid-air somersault.

Then he tried it one last time. As he leapt Angel, who'd been watching, grinned and vamp-speeded a catch and assist, flipping Sean over and putting him back down before he could land on his own.

Angel looked at Rory innocently. Sean, for his part, was thrilled and convinced he'd just learned a new trick.

Rory giggled. "Cheater," she said softly, so that Sean couldn't hear. (Not that she actually believed that the puppies could understand them.)

Vladdie blinked, and looked from Sean, to Angel, and back to Sean again. He then flew over to Angel, zoomed up so he was at eye level, and poked him on the nose with his paw.

Angel chuckled. "Hey, little guy." He reached out to give Vladdie a scritch behind the ears.

Vladdie looked confused, but happily so. He wagged his tail.

"Hey, cool, he still likes you," Rory noted. "I wasn't sure if he would. Not that you're unlikeable like this - quite the contrary - but I didn't know how he'd react." Rory shrugged.

On the ground, Sean attempted to do the somersault again. When it didn't work he began to chase his tail.

"Thanks," Angel said. Rory's words reminded him of the conversation he'd had with Parker earlier in the day. "Hey, mind if I ask you something?"

"Sure. You can even ask me two things, since you used up one already," Rory smiled.

Vladdie became distracted by a snowflake on the tip of his nose.

Angel gave a chuckle. He reached down to make a snowball, then threw it for the dogs to chase.

"Um - I was talking with Parker today. About the curse." Angel put his hands into his pockets. "She said it wasn't about sex."

Vladdie, for his part, zoomed after the ball and crashed into a snowbank headfirst.

"Oh?" Rory looked surprise. "That's good to hear. I kind of suspected that, but it's nice to know that it's official and all."

Sean scampered after Vladdie. He barked at the Vladdie-shaped hole in the snow.

"Well - maybe. I dunno." Angel hunched his shoulders. "Not like Parker would make something like that up, but - I dunno. It's just... I'm not used to this."

((On the tag it said "My name is SEAN. My dad's name is ANGEL."

Oh my god. SOCUTE.))

Vladdie poked his head out of the snow and shook the snow off. He looked around for the ball Angel had thrown, not realizing it was, woe, gone forever.

"Yeah, Parker wouldn't make that up," Rory agreed. "But that's good, then. Now you can, y'know, have relationships!"

((*tail wag*))

Sean tried to lick Vladdie's face to help ease his snowball woe.

"Heh," Angel looked nervous. "Yeah, that's the thing. Let's say it's true, and sex isn't what breaks the curse. There is a whole stack of reasons why I shouldn't be in a relationship."

There was a pause.

"I think."

Vladdie bounced out of the snow and blinked at Sean. Then he pounced.

Rory sighed. "Like what? You're dysfunctional? We all are, in varying ways. There's no reason, if the curse doesn't break because of that, that you shouldn't be allowed."

Sean yipped and rolled onto his back so that he and Vladdie could wrestle.

"There's also atonement," Angel said. He looked at Rory. "I've hurt a lot of people, including you. Some might say I don't have a right to ask for the happiness I tried to deny others."

Logan pulled up in his Hummer golf cart and headed for the dorms.

Out of the corner of his eye, Angel spotted movement. He turned and saw Logan some distance away.

Normally that would be Angel's cue to turn right back, but this time he didn't.

Maybe it was the relaxation of having gotten a good chunk of his grades. Maybe it was because Logan hadn't killed him for what happened during the love spell. Maybe it was a touch of the Christmas spirit.

Or maybe puppies make you do the wacky.

Angel made a snowball. He held it up for Sean to see, silently encouraging the puppy to be very excited about this development. Once Sean was wagging and bouncing with glee, Angel threw the snowball in Logan's direction.

It landed, as Angel had aimed, just past Logan's feet.

Which meant that there was a black furry ball of pure glee making a beeline for Logan's sneakers.

Vladdie yipped gleefully and rolled around with Sean, entirely unbothered by the coldness.

"Yeah, well...I'm not one of those people, Angel," Rory said softly. "You aren't the person who hurt me and Logan. You look like him, sure, but you aren't the same. And you deserve happiness as much as anyone else."

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