Meerkat Common Room [late afternoon]

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Rory lounged on the couch in the Meerkat common room, the curtains carefully drawn on the windows. She had her laptop out, and was watching her Vanessa Saturn DVDs, and if possible, her sunburn looked worse than yesterday.

Vladdie was...sulking in the corner. Which was an odd look for Vladdie, really.

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"This one isn't. Trust me," Rory said, trying to stay in front of Vladdie. "I promise."

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Buffy wasn't about to take the word of a girl she barely knew over Merricks. Especially not a girl with a bite scar on her neck.. "Oh my god! You're a vampire! ...No, you're not," she contradicted herself a moment later. "What the hell?"

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"What?" Rory asked, staring. "How do you figure I'm vamped? You saw me out in the sun yesterday morning."

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"It was very early and noisy," Buffy protested. She moved her hand up to her neck. "You have a scar, like a bite. But you're not a vampire. But you have a puppy vampire. ...I'm so confused."

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"Angelus got me," Rory said, as though that should explain everything.

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"Buh?" said Buffy, confuzzled. "Who with the what?"

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"Angelus," she repeated slowly. "You know, Angel's evil twin. With the fangy?"

She mimed fangs coming from her mouth.

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"Okay... Was that, like, your boyfriend or something? Because once they're vampires they're evil fiends from hell and not the person you knew," Buffy said solemnly. "So, like, even if the vampire did that, the person still loved you and stuff."

Merrick had really explained it much better. Of course, he had explained it by putting her in a graveyard, but still. There had definitely been words afterwards.

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"No, Angel...Angelus, whoever, wasn't my boyfriend," she said, looking at Buffy strangely. "Um, Angelus was a friend. Kind of. And then he killed one of my friends, nearly killed me and tried to turn my boyfriend at the time."

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"...Very bad friend," Buffy pointed out.

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"So I noticed," Rory said seriously. "Vladdie's a different kind of vampire, though. He's a baby and he never bites and he just likes making friends."

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Buffy gave the puppy a suspicious look. The stake lowered a little. It was a very cute puppy. "You said the other guy -- hey, miss Mars mentioned someone called Angel, is that the same guy? -- that he was friendly too until he went bitey. How do you know the puppy won't go bitey?"

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"Vladdie's a baby. He was turned when he was only six weeks old," Rory said. "I don't think he has killing instincts. He's never tried to hurt anything. And yes, Angel is the same guy. He was Angelus, who was bad, and then we stuck a soul in him and he became Angel who is stoic and nice and good."

She wondered how Buffy didn't already know this, but figured that this was probably a case of time being weird."

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This didn't really help Buffy's confusion. "Vampires don't have souls."

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"They do when you put them there magically."

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"...My head hurts."

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"Understandably," Rory said with a sigh.

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"Are you really sure the little adorable puppy isn't an evil fiend from hell?"

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"...does he look like one?"

Vladdie floated up and attempted to poke Buffy's nose.

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Buffy giggled. "No..."

She put the stake back where it came from and scritched the dog between the ears again.