[ phone call to rafael giovanni ]

[slay]

[ how does 10 pm greenwich time translate to chicago? buffy's not really sure, but she does know that it's the weekend and that means it's time for a regularly scheduled call to rafael. you'd think after a certain amount of time, she'd have this time zone thing sorted. she doesn't.

~ring ring.~ ]

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[slay]

[ bless his italian heart. ]

They're same old. Kat's doing the whole avoid-y emotionally unavailable thing with Fred. Finnick's ... well, I haven't really seen him, but he's probably still drinking. Des is hanging out at the castle with us and reaffirming every chance he gets that he's not all "part of the ship, part of the crew." Spike's as fickle as always, and I think the others are all just happy for a chance to be home for a while.

[romanticidal]

Have you spoken much to Myri?

[slay]

Uh ... No. No, I -- You know, with the way things ended, and her reasons for leaving, I just don't think ... I don't think she wants us heaping that back on her when she'd just gotten away from it.

[romanticidal]

Are you sure she would not want to know you all still are concerned with her? It cannot have been easy, walking away.

[slay]

She was trying to get away from us. The best thing I can do to make it easier on her is to not come crashing back into her life once she did finally make that choice.

[romanticidal]

Perhaps. [ he does not sound convinced. ] What about Finnick?

[slay]

We weren't exactly friendly even when he was dating Myri. I'm pretty sure he thinks I'm the closest thing he's ever seen to Hitler. Probably because he's never met Sir Hellsing.

[romanticidal]

[ apparently in all that time he was spending with buffy, raf to failed to notice all that time buffy was spending with him - instead of other people on her team. he falls quiet, his tone almost apologetic. ] Things were very difficult all the time, were they not? Strange that I still have so many good memories of my time with you. [ in between the suicide attempts i guess ]

[slay]

[ yeah well he wasn't winning any awards for observiness anyway. ]

I guess it just goes to show: it's not about what you're going through, but who you have to go through it with.

[romanticidal]

If the answer is not Burt, I think you are doing better than I.

[slay]

[ that gets her to laugh outright. ]

Fair enough. Although, Des has been more irritating than usual.

[romanticidal]

Des? How so?

[slay]

Just his usual perceptive cynicism. You know how it is.

[romanticidal]

Si, that I do...

I imagine it is not easy for him, being there.