fandomhighdorms | 2nd Floor Common Room. (Late Evening)

"Good ol' Aeryn," Angel said. He might not have been checking all of the exits in the room, including the windows on the odd chance those became necessary. "Really... really fascinating. Hey, did you meet my puppy?"

"You have a puppy?" Callisto raised an eyebrow a fraction of a millimetre. "Aren't you worried that might make you... happy?"

Angel cleared his throat. He regretted not teaching Sean the command "Create diversion." "Um, well, uh, puppies... can be a lot of work. Sometimes. That's... less than happy. Occasionally."

"I see," Callisto stood up and started stalking towards Angel. "So if something's a lot of work that reduces the happiness."

Angel immediately started retreating. Sean, ever a help, sat down to watch TV.

"Um - maybe?" Angel asked. He barked his shin against the arm of the couch and was momentarily trapped there. "Possibly?"

"So puppies don't equal perfect happiness," Callisto nodded to herself. "You want to know what else doesn't?"

"Cats?"

"No," Callisto's hand whipped towards the back of Angel's head. "Sex."

Angel dove out of the way of the hand. This upended him and made him fall down on the couch. There might have been a little scrambling to get to the other end, but there might not have been. Vampires do have their dignity ~~okay, maybe not Angel so much, but in theory...~~

"Hey!" he protested. He sadly wasn't capable of coming up with something more erudite than that.

"Typical, stupid male." Callisto lunged after Angel, still trying to smack him upside the head. "Sex and perfect happiness are not the same thing!"

Now there was scrambling. Angel tried to get away on the other side of the couch, succeeding in putting himself in the path of part of Callisto's head-smack. He still managed to climb over the other armrest, however, and put the couch in between them.

Sean, for his part, thought this was a terrific game and barked approvingly.

"The curse broke when I was with Buffy!" Angel said. "With Buffy! How was I supposed to know the loophole wasn't that specific?"

That was probably not the best thing for Angel to say at that moment.

"I don't care who you were with!" Callisto leapt across the couch in an attempt to tackle Angel. "The difference should be blatantly obvious to anyone with half a brain cell!"

"Everybody said it was sex!" Angel protested. He ducked again, this time tripping on an electric cord and landing on the floor. On his ass. Hard. "Everyone! Just ask Marty!"

"Maybe the reason eveybody said it was sex, was because you told them that!" Callisto took advantage of Angel's fall and pounced on him. "I don't know what delusions you possess, but perfect happiness? You're not that good."

"Everybody's always said it's been sex!" Angel said. He didn't try to move from underneath Callisto. Sean, for his part, watched the show with delight, tail wagging all the while.

"I had sex with Buffy and I broke the curse. How was I supposed to be with anybody else knowing that could happen?"

"Did it ever even occur to you to ask?" Callisto leant over to thwap at Angel some more. "Or would that have taken too much time away from your brooding?"

"Ow!" Angel tried to catch Callisto's wrists to stop with the hitting. "Who was I supposed to ask? The people who said it was sex or everybody else who said it was sex?"

"We have a library, and a rather large number of magic users," Callisto briefly considered headbutting Angel since she couldn't thwap him while he a a hold on her wrists. "You can't expect to believe the concept of research never entered your thick head."

"It's not like anybody wrote a book of instructions!" Angel pointed out. "Not even a helpful pamplet with maybe some bullet points and a diagram! I didn't even know I could lose the soul until Buffy!"

"You're telling me that in the...however many years you had the soul the first time around, that you never, not once, had sex until Buffy?"

"Well... no." Angel admitted slowly. He frowned. "Wait - yes. Um. Which one means that... Um. Huh."

Callisto rolled her eyes. "Did you have sex after getting the soul and before Buffy? Yes, or no?"

"Mms?" Angel mumbled.

"Excuse me?" Callisto leaned in closer to Angel. "I didn't catch that."

"Yes!" Angel shouted, right into her ear.

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