040 - Want It All Back

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

[It's Monday morning, time for all the good children of the city to be going to school. There is a very enthusiastic redhead skipping down the sidewalk with her backpack balanced on her head. She's dressed very much like your typical 13(ish) year old... but her bare feet slap the sidewalk as she dances her way through the crowd singing at the top of her lungs.]

Schooo~oool, schooo~oool, gooooiiiing to schoooo~ooool! Edward is going to leaaaarn something today yes oh yes!

[She's not entiiiiirely watching where she's going, if she's not careful she might run into someone]

((OOC: Open for action on the street.))

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[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[Now he's crossing over into stalker territory. What is this anyway? Of all the people to hallucinate about, why Ed? It doesn't compute with him, and he finds himself drifting closer out of purely ambivalent curiosity.

Maybe everyone really does have a twin out there.]

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

[She sees the odd stranger creeping closer out of the corner of her eye. She turns and smiles brightly at him. Fear? WHAT IS THAT?]

Bonjooo~uuur!

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[Spike doesn't know what to do with this, so it takes him some time to react after she noticed him. It isn't the first time he never expected to see her again.]

... Bonjour.

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

[Abandoning her friends, she hops over in his direction]

Are you lost? Edward can help!

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[THIS IS SO STRANGE... but she doesn't really seem to recognize him, so he tries... to pretend this is not strange.]

You know your way around, huh?

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. Edward's always lived here.

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[...]

On Earth?

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

[Blink blink. What a silly question.]

In Paris, silly!

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[Still staring.]

So you go to school here?

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh! Edward's in Quatrième.

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

Quatrième? [Is that code for something?]

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. It's Edward's year in school.

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[Can't... picture this.]

You're serious.

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

Huh? [She blinks, cockig her head to one side.]

Serious. Serious!

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[He scratches at his head -- then decides it's best not think too deeply about.]

You like it there?

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

Uh-huh. And Abel told Edward that Edward haaaaaaaas to go to school.

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

. . . Abel?

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

He lives next door to Edward.

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[Couldn't be.]

Is he a priest?

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

A priest? Noooo. He's married!

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[Well, Abel was a loose definition of a priest to begin with. Still... this is giving him a headache.]

Funny. I used to know a guy by that name.

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

You did? [She peers at him] What's yoouuuuur name, oh mysterious stranger?

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[... Who is he to remind her of things that weren't that important to begin with? If she's happy here, he's not going to mess that up.]

You had it right. Just some stranger.

Awww, Spike

[jammin-with-ed.livejournal.com]

[She looks at him for a moment, frowning. There's something about him... She opens her mouth to say something more, but the school bell rings. She grins, waving.]

Farewell, mysteeeeeeerioooooooous straaaaaaaaaaaaaangerrrrr!

[With that, she races inside with her friends to begin another tedious day at school.

;;

[gottaknockhard.livejournal.com]

[Spike stands there as she leaves, unsure if any of that really happened. Part of him is at least okay with it. Even if he doesn't understand.

Sometime after, he turns back the way he came. That's going to be on his mind for a while now. Pretty soon they're going to run out of ways to surprise him.]