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Bella wakes up in a house she's never seen before that has to violate six building codes and an air quality regulation. There's furniture - abandoned, crappy furniture - but she's on the floor in the plaster dust among shards of glass that miraculously haven't cut her. She's got her cross on her neck but no crossbow, no stakes, and she feels like she's moving through gelatin. She's not sure if she could stand - she used to be able to stand! - let alone walk, let alone kick a vampire in the chin.
Oh, fuck, what happened, the last thing she remembers is -
- her birthday magic teacher clearly not being Giles's present after all, stupid, stupid -
- she doesn't seem injured. There's a tender spot in her arm but no bruise, just - is that a needle mark. Oh, powers that be fried on a stick.
She shuffles on her knees over to the door, slowly, slowly, sneezing. She tries the knob. It doesn't work - she thinks that's a lock and not her kittenish weakness. Well, of fucking course, you don't dump incapacitated girls in houses and leave the door open, but she had to try. She tries a window. It is also locked, what the fuck kind of house locks from the outside like this, and painted shut to boot. She could punch right through the glass if -
She can't punch through the glass.
Maybe among the debris on this floor is something she can improvise into a lockpick. She's acquainted with the theory, just because she keeps having to break doors down -
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cross_and_bow
"Dad said he told you to stay put, seemed even odds." She gets out of the car, a little wobbly but able to stand. "Now I just need to figure out where my bag is and whether Giles was participating, but I think first I need dinner and maybe a nap. And you need dinner too if I remember right. There is a hole in the wall of a demon bar which might do in a pinch, go that way until you hit Main, left, second right, go six blocks, it's between the pet store and the payday loan place."
eversomuchfun
"Thanks. I will probably be back to see how you're managing."
A-vanishing he goes. Since he has no money, he keeps an eye out for alternatives on the way to the demon bar. Is that a faint smell of blood from over thataway? Why yes. And lo, a butcher's. He picks the lock on the back door, raids the stored animal blood, forms a strong suspicion that this place is supplying the demon bar, and makes his way back to Bella's house.
A-vanishing he goes. Since he has no money, he keeps an eye out for alternatives on the way to the demon bar. Is that a faint smell of blood from over thataway? Why yes. And lo, a butcher's. He picks the lock on the back door, raids the stored animal blood, forms a strong suspicion that this place is supplying the demon bar, and makes his way back to Bella's house.
cross_and_bow
Bella is visible through the open curtain, enjoying a slice of pizza.
eversomuchfun
"Do I have you to thank for the tiny crosses all over bloody everything?" he calls.
eversomuchfun
"I said, do I have you to thank for the tiny crosses all over bloody everything?"
cross_and_bow
"Oh! Yes. Sorry I forgot to mention those. That is the other reason there aren't many vampires around anymore."
eversomuchfun
"Not especially. Although I have now firmly resolved not to flinch at them, as a point of stubborn pride."
eversomuchfun
"Thank you very much for that ambiguous blessing. And how goes the investigation?"
cross_and_bow
"Charlie's doing legwork - seeing if anybody knows who might have visited Giles at school and stuff. I am eating pizza. Delicious, delicious pizza. We could have this conversation without yelling if you came around to the side window."
cross_and_bow
She opens that one. "So now that you are fed what's next?"
eversomuchfun
"I'm moderately interested in helping you solve the mystery of whether or not your Watcher betrayed you to his colleagues. And the attendant puzzle of what to do about said colleagues either way."
cross_and_bow
"I'm still not a hundred percent and don't have my phone or gear, but if you want to go do legwork last time Charlie called he hadn't tried Giles's house. Giles does not have scary porch lights but he may have other anti-vamp measures, though."
cross_and_bow
Bella tells him. "Please be nice if he wasn't involved. Before today he was a fairly exemplary example."
eversomuchfun
"I will be the very model of kindness and courtesy."
He bows theatrically and vanishes into the shadows.
He bows theatrically and vanishes into the shadows.
cross_and_bow
Bella eats three more slices of pizza. And a bowl of froyo. She gets up and walks around every so often to see how she's doing; improvement is gradual.
eversomuchfun
Sherlock returns.
"Nothing interesting at the house. He was not kidnapped from it, nor did he conspire against you there in any way that left signs visible from the outside."
"Nothing interesting at the house. He was not kidnapped from it, nor did he conspire against you there in any way that left signs visible from the outside."
cross_and_bow
"Well, that's promising as far as it goes. Charlie called and says nobody signed in to visit Giles but he found my bag and he's bringing it back before he hands off bits of the case to the department."
eversomuchfun
"And on the other hand Giles is not at home, which at this hour strongly suggests that he is either conspiring against you or kidnapped..."