Third Floor Common Room, Tuesday Night

[dark_slippy_thing]

Valentine stood back and proudly admired the pillow fort that he had made out of the couch cushions. He wasn't half bad at making them even when he wasn't insane by way of cupcake, he decided, and he might take up designing sets for himself more often in the future.
The only thing he was really missing right now was a low-fat non-whip soy latte.

And a cast, crew, script and camera.

He'd iron out the kinks later. Nothing could stand in the way of the progress of the magic of the movies!!


(Common room open, as common rooms are! Come in and be a star? We can figure out OCD as we go. ETA: As most of us have gone to bed, slowplay is now the name of the game to finish that movie. OCD is up for the filming itself, and I think we have pretty much all the positions filled. But if you want to show up and gawk, you can totally do just that.)

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[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Um, sort of? Mostly for hating him for some stuff before he died--not that he didn't deserve it, because he did, but maybe I didn't forgive him as soon as I could have," Dawn told her, not sure she should hug Rikku or not. "But I meant whether you apologized to Tidus for the stuff you feel guilty about--about not having let him love your friend."

[the_merriest]

"Not having ..." Rikku looked at Dawn oddly. "I did! I practically hooked them up. I thought - hey, he's not gonna let her die, right? She'll have to stop this stupid pilgrimage."

She replayed the conversation in her head for a few seconds and then facepalmed. "Oh. OH! Sorry, no, I ... that's not what I meant. I mean, I don't think you could have stopped them anyway, it was just, she wandered off all 'I give up' and he's like 'let ME talk to her' and then they spend a freaking hour off in the spring and come back wet and looking all glow-y like that's not obvious or anything." There was a small smile to go with that.

"I meant, he knew. That - that if we saved the world, he'd go away. And he didn't tell us because ... I don't know. Maybe because he's a selfish jerk or maybe because he knew we would have never let that happen and ..." She shook her head. "We didn't know. It was just, oh, hey, guys? Sorry. I'm vaporizing now. Great. Thanks a lot."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Oh, geez," Dawn patted Rikku on the shoulder. "That sucks even more than what Spike did--he didn't know he was going to go out like that before it happened."

[the_merriest]

"Oh, wow," Rikku shook her head. "But that's ... I mean. It's worse for him, isn't it?"

And she sighed. "Yeah. I'm really, really ticked at him for it? And I'm also going, why wouldn't he ... say something? You know? There had to be another way. We could have found one. And Yunie just ... she had no idea and she just ..."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"For him? I don't know. I...I don't really think about it," she admitted, because the idea of Spike burning alive really didn't help her sleep at night.

"Maybe he didn't want you to stop him and he knew that you would if you knew what he was going to do? Not that makes it any better...."

[the_merriest]

Oh, wow, Rikku recognizes that look. Crap. This time it's her hand on Dawn's shoulder. "Whoa, sorry, I shouldn't have asked that. I'm sure it ... was okay, you know?"

She nodded. "Yeah. And I know why he did it. But I still feel like ... he had no right. And like I kinda failed, I guess."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You didn't fail, though, wow, I am big with the understanding," though even Dawn knew that if she'd been fighting with Spike and the slayers that things would have ended very differently (probably with more dead slayers, still-dead Spike, and dead Dawn).

"It's okay to be mad at him, y'know," Dawn said. Or at least she hoped it was true--she still got mad at Buffy occasionally.

[the_merriest]

Rikku nodded. "I know, I guess, I just ... it sure feels like it. And wow, if I saw him right now, I think I'd suckerpunch him and yell. You know, then hug him to death."

She bit her bottom lip. "Are you mad at ... Spike?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes," she admitted, "but mostly I just miss him."

[the_merriest]

Rikku thought for a minute, then nodded. She was tempted to hug Dawn but didn't want to make her feel awkward. Some people weren't the hug type.

"We should form a club or something. 'I Saved the World (And All I Got Was This Stupid T-Shirt)."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"You got a t-shirt?" Dawn was all kinds of jealous.

[the_merriest]

Rikku shook her head. "No, uh, that's what I was hoping the club would be for. We could make some."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Oh!" Dawn felt a little stupid. "That would be a good idea--if we had world saving t-shirts, I wouldn't worry about ruining all my other clothes."

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled. "Whoa, do you have to save the world a lot?!"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Me, no," Dawn grinned back, "but I know people."

[the_merriest]

That got a grin back. "Wow. You're friends with, like, superheroes? That's pretty cool!"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Sort of. Do you know Buffy?"

[the_merriest]

Rikku's eyes lit up. "Oh! Yes! The cheerleading captain, right?! I'm on the squad!" She bounced a bit. "It's all kind of fun, you get to be hyper and yell things."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"In another universe, she's my big sister," Dawn said, pretty proud finally about that fact, "and she kicks some serious butt."

[the_merriest]

"Another ... universe?" She looked at Dawn oddly. "Is that like ... what Alec was saying? Different times and timelines?"

And she smiled. "I bet she does. We cheerleaders are pretty fierce, you know." Hey, just because she didn't look fierce ....

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Yep, that's exactly what that means," she nodded, "and I know, I've seen the squad. Pretty decent fighters."

[the_merriest]

Rikku shook her head. "This fandom place ... kinda makes my head hurt."

"Hey, wait, you tried out, didn't you?" She clapped a hand over her mouth. "Oh, wow, that was rude. I didn't mean it like that. That - whoa."

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

Dawn cracked up. "Yeah, I did, but mostly because Buffy wanted me too. I didn't want to be there, so I, um, made sure I wouldn't make the team."

[the_merriest]

Rikku giggled. "Whoa, really?! I didn't actually see you try out. I just figured I wouldn't make it 'cause I kinda didn't know what I was doing. But I bounced a lot! That's good, right?"

[lilpunkinbelly.livejournal.com]

"Cheerleaders are supposed to be very bouncy," Dawn nodded, "so, yeah, that's probably why you made the team."