poly_chromatic | ♦ 45th key

[Dawn has been busy today. She's picked up Tony's dry cleaning, ordered coffee and donuts delivered to each City Solutions department with a little note that reads 'Have a good day. -Dawn Summers'. She's moving from department to department in the City Solutions building checking on projects and progress just to see where everyone is at this point and what supplies need to be ordered. Yep, she's working through her to-do list and feeling very productive. Now if she could just find the time to get her own things done too.

The audio feature comes onto the network with a Dawn voice behind it.]

Just a reminder to the City populace that City Solutions is always looking for new employees. If your specialty is in robotics, weapons, programming, medical engineering, physics, chemistry and other cool things like that, let's have a chat. We also supply funding and necessary electronics, should they be needed, to up and coming businesses in the City that need a little help getting off the ground. So if that's your thing too, let me know.

[ Private to housemates... & Faith ]

I'm thinking about trying to cook something that isn't dessert for dinner tonight. So I'll be stopping by the store on the way home. Anything we need slash want slash desire slash have to have? I'll add it to the list!

ooc: Any City Solutions staff feel free to run into her as she's running about. And I'm gonna put a dinner thread in here too so the Warehouse people can congregate for dinner.

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[So, Dawn tried to make lasagna. The table is set with proper place settings and with the steaming caserole dish of lasagna in the middle. There is a nice caesar salad that will be so much yum. The garlic bread is a little bit burned but still okay for eating if you stay away from the crust along the edges. The lasagna? Well it might be a little bit salty but if you like salty things, it's good. Dawn wants everyone to sit down for a dinner, kay? Kay.]

...A shopping list?

Yep. Groceries and stuff. You know, for the eating and the living and the being. So you wanna come to dinner tonight? I'm cooking. And I hopefully promise that it won't suck.

Uhh-- [ There's gotta be a point where she just stops with all of the bullshit, right? They had bonding times dancing and being lushes. Maybe she could just-- accept someone being nice for once. ] --I think I have a thing...

[ Wow, Faith. Way to grow. ]

[This is Dawn trying not to take that personally. Trying... Trying...] Oh. Okay. Well if the thing falls through, you could show up for dinner and yummy wine drinking with the dinner and some conversation and some people like us time.

Yeah, right. Will do.

[ And Faith so totally knows she's screwed up, but. Disconnecting. Probably to go be manly and punch things. ]

[ Surprise, Faith shows up.

It's a little awkward but for once, she's not sporting an inordinate amount of bruises or blood. She might even be more spruced up than usual; don't get used to it, Dawn, she just feels bad about the slight case of asshole she can't seem to shake. ]

Hey, uh...dinner still on? [ And awkwardly holding up a bottle of wine, here. ]

[Wine is good and what Dawn cooked smells pretty good. Buffy is sitting at the table with a glass of wine, fiddling with her lasagna but she's smiling and laughing and having fun.]

This was a good idea, Dawnie.

[Dean has important business today. He likes Dawn. In fact it might be said he even loves Dawn like a little sister. With that in mind...well all kinds of horrors are likely to occur.]

Hey Squirt.

[Dawn is surprised when Faith does show up. But she's happy about it, and the smile that spreads over her lips is proof of that. She even bounces up and down just abit to keep her excitement internal instead of going over to get up in Faith's personal space to hug her.]

You came! Yeah, it's still on. There's lasagna and salad and bread and wine. Want me to pour you some wine? Cause I totally don't mind being the wine pourer.

[Dawn is walking around the table filling wineglasses with wine for the occasion. Even if no one likes what she cooked, the house smells all yummy like an Italian restaurant, so there's that at least.]

Thanks. I think the last time we sat down at the table to a meal was when Mom was still around. I just got a craving for it, you know? Or... less craving and more hankering. I like saying the word hankering.

[Dawn stops mid-stride across the lobby of City Solutions. she knows Dean's voice by hearing it only at this point. Not to mention he's the only one who calls her squirt. She turns and smiles, moving over to give him a hug.]

Hey! What are you doing here? Looking for a part-rime job? Cause I thought the police thing was keeping you all busy boy for the time being.

[Dean hugs her back, picking her up off her feet as he usually does before sitting her back down on them.]

Nah, even if it weren't this really isn't my schtick, y'know? Out making sure everything is what passes for normal around here.

[She leans back to look at him.]

Yeah, you don't really seem the office-y type. But it does look like we're back to city!normal now. So we kind of know what to expect now instead of the nothing that made us feel like something big was coming.

Things just got busy after she was gone. [Buffy takes a sip of her wine.] Sorry, Dawnie. I should have been more dinner around the table sister but hey, making up for lost time, right?

This is me being all initiative girl, minus the army part and more with the definition of the word. Which really makes me think the army Initiative should have been called Experiment... ive.

[She sits down at the table and pours her own glass of wine before putting the bottle down.]

Yeah. Seems like it's gotten back to normal. [Which is Dean's cue. He pulls out a strip of condoms.] My present to you. Tell him to bag it.

Well Mom would be proud with the dinner and the initiative.

[Buffy wrinkles her nose at the mention of the initiative.]

The kind of experimentive they were being was very much of the bad. We should have gotten PETA involved.

[She naturally takes whatever Dean is handing her without even thinking about it. She trusts him, okay? But once she realizes what they are, Dawn goes through a number of emotions: shock, surprise, confusion, anger, then irritation.]

My sister would so kick your butt for giving me condoms and sex advice. Do you know how lucky you are that she isn't here? And really these should be handed to the boys not the girls. Boys are the ones with the things that should be bagged.

Squirt, you can't count on boys to have those things. They're gonna give you a bullshit line how it doesn't feel as good or they'll just pull out.

Why do we only think of all the brilliant things in hindsight? PETA would have been all over that. And we know that for a fact now what with how the world has embraced Harmony's reality show.

[A thoughtful pause.] I should have my own reality show.

[She sighs and stuffs the condoms in her bag. He's probably right, but this is still so weird.]

So what are you today? The condom fairy? Cause you probably need wings for that. Fairies have wings.

I work for a similar company at home. I'm a part of its military arm, and I have a great deal of experience with weaponry and chemistry.

I've recently begun freelancing as a security consultant, but I may be interested in working with you.

I think we were still firmly stuck with Giles' plan of hush hush and public panic. That sort of thing.

[Such a doubtful look here.] As long as you don't start dressing like Anna Nicole Smith's trashy little sister and flashing everyone.

Fairies are freaky little jerks! [He has a personal vendetta with fairies thank you very much.] I'm hella sexier than a fairy.

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