Third floor common room- Monday afternoon

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Buffy had seen the posters for the matchmaking thing, and pretty quickly decided against it. When you had to send the boyfriend who'd stalked you and killed your friends to hell, it kind of made the thought of getting a date for the dance a little less important. Not that she wouldn't go. And not that she wouldn't look fantastic, dammit.

So instead, she was sitting in the common room in front of What Not to Wear and suddenly wondering if Stacy and Clinton would say her homecoming dress made her look hippy.


[Open as CR's are.]

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[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy nodded like it was no big deal. "You kinda get used to it."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"You get used to cosmic entities and planet-eating?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, pretty much." When it happened more than once, there was little else you could do. "It's not like it happens all the time or anything."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Either way, you totally win," she decided. Planet-eating was comparable to world-destroying until you thought about it again and remembered it meant eating a planet.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"My home's kinda weird," Teddy admitted sheepishly.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"At least it doesn't sound boring? Silver lining..."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy nodded. "Sorry. I'm Teddy. Have we met before?" She looked oddly familiar.

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Not that I know of?" she said. "I'm Buffy." And then she waited to see if that rang any bells.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

It did. "Did you leave here for a while or something?"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

Buffy sighed, getting sort of used to this. "Two different other mes went to this school before the present me. You want an identity crisis, I'm your girl."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Oh, man. That's gotta suck." Teddy gave her a small smile he hoped was encouraging. "At least you don't have to worry about people not knowing you?"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"I kind of wish I did," she admitted. "I think it's probably sort of like having amnesia, where you get people on the street calling you and you're have to do the deer in the headlights thing wondering if you're supposed to know them."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"I only met one of them in passing so we can pretend it's for the first time with you," Teddy suggested. And then added sheepishly, "If that helps."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"We can say you had sort of heard of this girl Muffy, who looks a lot like me," she decided. "But I have better hair."

No, she didn't.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Totally!" Teddy agreed. "That happens here a lot."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"Anything weird like that ever happen to you?" she wondered.

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Well... like that? Not really. I've turned into a girl a few times, but that's about it for other me's."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"...A few times? Like, more than once?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Well, twice now. I was actually kinda pretty!"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

She studied him and said, "I can see that. But doesn't it freak you out?"

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"Not after the first time," Teddy replied. "You kinda start to get desensitized to the stuff here after so long. This is my third year here."

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"And you haven't had a double yet in all that time?" she asked, smiling a little. "Weirdo."

[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

Teddy snorted. "I know, what's my problem?"

[iruinenglish.livejournal.com]

"You still have some time to go in the semester, you know," Buffy said. "All hope is not lost."

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[notthehulk.livejournal.com]

"We could call my double Tad!"