#22 - [Video Post]

[totallyinaband]

[Failed Filter to Young Neil - open to all]

[The video starts shakily. There is a blur of trees, sky, and Stephen's usual flannel shirt. It finally steadies on a close-up of his face.]

Neil! Dude, wherever you are, you have to get back to the clearing NOW. There is no way you are missing this!

[Stephen flips the camera around, to reveal the extremely curious-looking face of brontosaurus. It is about five steps away from where Stephen is standing, alternatively munching on a tree and inspecting this strange new human intruder with mild interest.]

I'm totally going to try and pet him. Get over here, dude!

[ooc: before anyone else points it out, yes I know they're not really called brontosaurs anymore. But Stephen is a ninties kid who grew up on The Land Before Time, so that's all he knows them as.]

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[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Okay. I'll be around if you need some help, use the bat signal. Or...you know...just yell.

[totallyinaband]

Are you, like, battling dinosaurs all day?

[Because that is something Stephen would totally want to watch.]

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Only the fangy, scary ones.

[He's welcome to tag along. She's used to an entourage.]

THREADJACKING 101

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

Need a Scooby Gang for that?

[And a grin that clearly says he is volunteering!]

YOU HAVE TAUGHT BE WELL, THREADJACKING INSTRUCTER

[totallyinaband]

[Stephen elbows Neil hard in the ribs.]

Dude!

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

[Neil looks alarmed.]

Ow! What?!

[totallyinaband]

[Stephen gives Neil The Look. You know, the look of 'you're not supposed to let Buffy the Vampire Slayer know that you know intricate details about her personal life'. That look.]

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

[Buffy looks back and forth between the two of them, one eyebrow arched.]

Let me guess. You're from a world where I'm a TV show?

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

No.

...Maybe.

Why, does that happen?

[totallyinaband]

Yeah.


Sorry?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Occasionally it happens in the City. [Buffy sighs, rolls her eyes and then half grins.] Come on then. Just don't start telling me things that happened on the show.

[totallyinaband]

Yeah. Got it.

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

[Neil salutes. He looks kind of retroactively abashed, which should be enough to keep him quieter for a while.]

Yessir.

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

[She's clearly not upset with them. It's more of a 'great more people who know all about my life' thing.] So either of you have experience being 'scoobies'?

[totallyinaband]

[Short answer? No.]

Neil plays a lot of tomb raider.

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

Yeah, er, I have... theoretical knowledge?

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

Theoretical is better than nothing. Stick to the less split-y moves.

[totallyinaband]

Yeah, we can do that. Right, Neil?

[aka: we are about to go watch Buffy fighting dinosaurs. Please don't say or do anything to mess this up.]

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

[Neil nods vigorously and mimes zipping his lips, fighting back a giddy grin.]

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

[Buffy just laughs and shakes her head. She tries to stifle it behind a stern look but it's difficult with these two.] I'll take lead. Neil, with the theoretical experience, you can bring up the rear. If you see anything dangerous, say something. Preferably danger, dinosaur without any screaming.

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

Right. Roger. Okay.

[The zipped lips thing sure lasted a long time.]

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

[And here they'll go creeping along through the foliage...okay more like strolling because Buffy doesn't creep or sneak well but they're moving! In formation in.]

[totallyinaband]

[Stephen is working very hard at not screwing this up. He can totally be competent Xander!]

[illgrowoutofit.livejournal.com]

[Neil isn't really helping, because he keeps sneaking grins at Stephen and trying to get him to break so they can fanboy over this whole situation together. APPARENTLY WE HAVE TWO XANDERS. Either that or Neil is Andrew Wells.]

[whattingawhat.livejournal.com]

[Oh good. At least they're following orders and being quiet? Xander didn't often manage that.

Buffy stops in the middle of the path, head cocking.] Did you guys hear that? Like a hissing.

[And before the two Xanders have a chance to answer, she's tackled by a couple hundred pounds of raptor. She rolls with it but the scythe is knocked out of her hand while she wrestles with the dinosaur.]

Packs! [Twists to avoid snapping jaws and wretches one of the raptors clawed arms back until it makes an inhuman screeching sound] Movie said--[The tail swings around to whomp her in the ribs] Hey! So not fighting fair. [Clearly that's directed to the dinosaur.] These things hunt[Yes head butting the dinosaur is the best way to stun him.] In packs.