2nd Floor Common Room, Thursday Afternoon

[fh_jackass]

Logan was in the kitchen. Cooking. Because when you were in a kitchen, working with a blender, you could call it cooking. Even if the result was more beverage-y than food-y. It was practically summer, anyway. Perfect time for a cold iced drink. With tequila.

The television was playing "Annie".

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[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"I've never really called them monsters, to be honest," Cordy said. "Vampires and assorted demons, yes. Far too often, actually."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"Well, monsters is just easier to say than 'armies of the undead'." Xander said with a shrug.

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"Fair enough," Cordy said, returning the shrug. "Monsters just sounds too fantastical to me. Like you're denying that it's real. Not you you. The proverbial you. Saying 'demons' just affirms that it's all real."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"No, no denying here." Xander said. "Well, maybe at first... but I got over that pretty quick."

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordelia nodded, and smiled. "Definitely. Me too. Get kidnapped by vampires, and it's all a little too real."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"One of my best friends got turned in to a vampire." Xander said. After a pause, he added, "but she got better."

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

Cordelia furrowed a brow.

"Got better? There are cures for that where you're from? Where I'm from, the only cure is a pointy piece of wood. And they don't tend to like that very much."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"Well, we had to blow Necrolai up to get Vida back." Xander said. "That seemed to work all right."

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"Is that a place?" Cordy asked. "Or a person?"

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"Person- or, well, evil bat-demon-monster-thing, anyway."

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Cordy said, starting to understand. "So something that you didn't feel too bad about blowing up. That's good."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"Would've been nice if she'd *stayed* blown up," Xander grumbled under his breath.

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"Ugh," Cordy grunted sympathetically. "Gotta hate it when they don't stay dead."

She paused for a moment and sized him up. "How old are you, anyway?"

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

Xander was about to reply with "seventeen", but managed to stop himself.

"Fifteen," he said, making a face.

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"My god, I'm a pervert," Cordy said, forcing herself to distance herself from him a little.

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"What?" Xander asked, confused.

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"What?" Cordy repeated. "Nothing. It's just so weird. Everyone's so young."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's high school." Xander pointed out. "We're supposed to be young."

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"Oh. Right," Cordy said, starting to get more and more confused. "To be honest, I'm just not sure how old I am anymore. It's a little scary."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"Heh. That's... weird." Xander said, trying to look innocent. "How could you forget something like that?"

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's not really a forgetting thing. Technically I'm 24. I think. I was born in 1981, so it makes sense. Except here I am, in highschool. And I think that I'm 16. Again. I haven't ruled out the possibility that this is a hell dimension," Cordy said, getting exasperated.

"It's just weird, you know?"

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"I... actually do, sort of." Xander confessed.

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Cordelia said, a little surprised.

"That's...well, it's reassuring."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"Yes. Word of advice: never eat ham sandwiches if they've been prepared by a sorceress-in-training named Clare. It can only end in a horrible magical cloning incident."

[upforachase.livejournal.com]

"I'm never eating ham again," Cordy said, smiling. "So does that mean you're a clone then?"