The garage - Monday morning

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Early Monday morning a helmeted figure wearing a black leather racing jacket rode into the garage on a swoop bike that might be familiar to some. After parking the bike and climbing off, Molly removed her helmet and gloves and went to go stand by the still open garage door.

It had been winter before she crossed the causeway. The ground further north had been covered by snow from two December storms. Here though, it was obviously still fall. Unzipping her jacket, Molly gazed out at the campus and tried to judge how much time had passed here since she left. The grass was still green and the leaves had barely begun to change so it couldn't have been too long since she'd left. Certainly not the three months she'd spent in her own time.

This made Molly even more certain that her inability to get back to the island the first time she'd tried was more because of her than whatever magic Fandom used to decide who could enter. Why refuse her entrance once only to let her return to a time just shortly after she'd left? She shook her head and turned to deal with her swoop bike. Whatever the reason, she was just glad to be back.

Finding a rag in one of the cupboards, Molly first cleaned off her helmet and then began cleaning the worst of the road dirt off of the bike.

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[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

Alec walked into the garage, figuring there'd be no one there both early and on a Monday - so he was, of course, surprised to see someone already present, and among the swoop bikes. The bike they were working on was familiar, but the last person he'd known to actually ride it wasn't around anymore.

Moving towards his own bike, he glanced over at the figure in leather. "Hey, you got a license for that vehicle?"

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Molly looked over her shoulder then stood up when she saw who it was. "Alec!" She walked over and gave him a big hug before stepping back and giving him a thoughtful look. "Come to think of it, I don't have a license. Good thing I never got stopped, huh?" Her grin was bright and mischievous.

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"Molly!" Alec returned the hug and grinned back at her, equally as mischievous. "How irresponsible of you! I certainly don't know what it's like to ride around the country without a license, and if I did I know I wouldn't tell you I'm glad to hear you got by okay." He clapped her on the shoulder, looking her over. "So, how are you? You look a lot happier than the last time I saw you."

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Molly chuckled at his 'lecture'. "I'm good," she told him. "I got a bunch of stuff sorted out. Decided that this is where I want to be now. And speaking of 'now', what is the date today? It was January before I crossed the causeway."

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He whistled, eyes widening a little. "January? It's October 2nd today." Alec smiled. "Nice of Fandom to decide we only needed to lose you a couple weeks. Would've missed seeing your face around."

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"Awwww, I bet you say that to all the girls," Molly said, batting her eyelashes at him and pretending to blush before continuing normally. "Only October 2nd? Just about exactly two weeks then." She shook her head. "So, tell me what I've missed? Any monsters? Is Buffy still a puppy? How's cheer practice going?"

[x5-alec.livejournal.com]

"Only the cute ones," he assured her with a grin.

"And Buffy's not only not a puppy," he began, rolling his eyes. "She's also wrangled me into a school dance thing. Cheer practice needs to start up again - I was kind of hoping Buffy'd take over now that she's back, but I guess she's had other things on her mind." He thought a moment. "Haven't had any attacks or anything, so I guess it's been pretty quiet for Fandom otherwise.

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"Oh, Homecoming! I haven't missed people coming back, yay! This weekend, right? I think I'll skip the dance though."

Molly gave Alec a stern look at the news about cheer practices. "If I'm still a student here, I'm going to need the cheer squad for my extracurricular. I didn't sign up for anything else. If it gets dropped, I'm going to be very annoyed," she said, crossing her arms over her chest.

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He sighed, smirking somewhat. "This Wednesday good? Either I'll get Buffy to remember she's got a team to run or I guess I'll just have everyone meet in the gym anyway."

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Molly dropped her arms and smiled. "Wednesday works for me," she said. "Thanks. I'll bug Buffy about it when I see her too."

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"Sure," he said, grinning again. "It's her thing, you'd think she'd be eager to get back to making sure we're all jumping when she says so."

[bruiser-in-pink.livejournal.com]

"Very true. I hope she's not bored with it or anything."

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"Like I said, she's had a lot going on." Alec shrugged. "Don't know what we'll be doing without the basketball team to cheer for though."

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"She talked before about doing the really fancy competition level stuff," Molly said. "I'm hoping that is what she'd like us to do. I don't think we really have anything else we could cheer for." She grinned. "Except maybe the fencing club, but I don't think they'd appreciate it very much."