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text 🩸 @SPIKE

[chipped]

Bold of you to visit a dungeon with the ex, given that's half the reason your relationship imploded

Though this place is more posh than the derelict hive you got your rocks off at

text 🔫 @FINN

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( He has a response at the ready just seeing Spike in his inbox. Never has he needed or wanted Spike to even have his number, much less Buffy's or any of her friend's. Finding out how involved he was with them was a betrayal in itself and turned him around.

Learning Spike was in league with Adam and setting everyone up renewed his dislike for him, even if Spike helped get everyone who survived out.

On the one hand, they fought side by side. On the other, he screwed them over. His memories are much more fresh than Spike's he assumes.

He can only imagine what he has to say.

'Hostile 17' is at the tip of his fingertips and then he reads what Spike wrote. )

You're really overestimating how much I care about your take on mine and Buffy's relationship, Spike. A little friendly advice. Stay out of it. Past and present.

[chipped]

[ More cramped here than Sunnydale, with all the ex-boyfriends filing in. All Spike hopes is that they'll be filing back out sooner rather than later. ]

'Present' seems real presumptuous, since last I heard you'd taken off in a helicopter

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( Unlucky for Spike, it doesn't seem to be improv night at the Balfours. Fat chance any of them are making it out of here. He'd argue any kind of connection is a relationship, but he's not arguing semantics with a vampire who has a chip in his head. )

However I took off, it's between me and Buffy. Not you. Not Giles. Or Angel. Me. And Buffy.

[chipped]

Are Giles and Angel weighing in on it too? Got quite the intervention going.

Think it is my business, actually, but you won't want to hear why.

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Maybe I do

( He doesn't. He doesn't! But he needs to be one step ahead! )

📦 delivery.

[powerhungry]

[ The morning before Riley's first shift at the Hex Club, an envelope finds its way to his door. Inside is a gold pin in the shape of a hexagon, as well as a note: ]

Riley,
Welcome to the Hex Club.
I look forward to working with you.
— Silco

* For clarity's sake: The pin is merely a gift, not an expected part of your daily dress.

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( and yet, Riley, a man of boxes and boundaries and expectations does wear the hexagon. every shift. every day. )