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Willow Rosenberg ([info]not_glinda) wrote in [info]prescott_valley,
@ 2009-04-03 23:20:00

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WHO: Willow Rosenberg & Alex Roivas
WHAT: meetin at The Bronze Firefly (the town's only club)
WHERE: ... Firefly. The town's only club.
WHEN: Friday night
WARNINGS/RATING/STATUS: Lots o' hot lesbian action :O /PG for now/started via AIM, unfinished




Sitting alone at the end of the bar, Alex watched the roadies setting gear up on-stage, prepping for the night's head liners, as the bartender moved in and out of her line of sight. All around her people were starting to pack into Firefly, the club the boy at the front desk had recommended as the must go to hot spot in town. She had to admit, the vibe was nice, a sort of disney dingy art house hipster. Cool in a way that tries, but not hard enough to be annoying, yet. Though, she considered as she sipped her vodka and cranberry, the fact the place was decently priced made up for a lot of sins.

She was on her second drink of the night and had been pleased with the DJ selections that had played. But it was hitting the hot hours of the night which meant it was time for Firefly to break out the big guns and throw up the live action for the night. It also meant that the comfortable crowd she'd been surrounded by was starting to grow, get louder and, of course, drunker. Florence and the Machine was announced on paper posters plastered all over but it meant little to Alex. But she had nothing against listening to new music and ordered another drink as the roadies rushed to finish their task.

Slipping into the club, Willow manouvered through the crowd, mentally comparing Firefly to The Bronze. It was odd how things seemed to fall back into old patterns. The new Magic Box wasn't in the exact same place as the old one had been, but it was a few streets over, the high school was familiar, the whole town dripped with deja vu. Ducking around a couple who had decided that the middle of the floor was the perfect place to get handsy with each other, Willow supposed that most of the residents of the Valley wouldn't even be familiar with Sunnydale, so the familiarity probably wasn't intentional.

She shook her head, glancing over at the stage where a band she'd never heard of was getting set up. Enough thinking about Sunnydale. She was determined to have a good time tonight. Heading towards the bar, she spotted a familiar head of blonde hair and smiled to herself. She didn't think Buffy would be here until later. Coming up beside her friend, she gave a little pounce, grabbing the woman's shoulders, playfully. "Buffy!"

Taking a sip of her drink, Alex nearly snorted vodka through her noise when she was shaken by her shoulders. "Buffy?" She repeated, turning around to see who had assaulted her. Normally she went for 'hi' as a greeting but she supposed everyone had their own slang. She fixed the familiar red head with a bemused expression and spun the rest of her body on the stool, facing Willow full on, trying to place her. "Magic Box?"

"Oh! I'm sorry! You from the back looks like Buffy from the back and I was supposed to meet -- " Willow took a half step back, her words tumbling out and over the blonde's question. She managed to reign herself in quickly and nodded in response. "Yes! Uh... Alex, right?"

"Yeah," she nodded, leaning back against the bar counter. "Sorry to disappoint. Alexandra, not...Buffy?" Okay, it wasn't normal but she'd heard worse. She came from Seattle and Portland, the grungy and the hippie folks rarely went for names like Tim or Jane. Silence fell between them as Alex watched the red head and wondered if she was supposed to invite her to sit down while she waited for her friend. She was cute and seemed nice so she raised her eyebrows and indicated the stool beside her. "There's a good view of the place from here, maybe you'll see your friend."

"Alexandra," Willow echoed, apologetically. The night was off to a brilliant start so far, she winced to herself. Twisting her lips to the side, she offered up a smile. "I'm not usually with the assault on people I've just met." Settling on the stool that the other woman indicated, she gave a little twirl and smiled again. "I'll buy you another drink?" She promised, unable to resist skating her eyes along the blonde's body.

"Only sometimes?" she joked, downing her glass and pushing it forward to signal the bartender to come around for them. Alex watched her twirl and cracked a small smile. "Vodka and cranberry," she said to accept Willow's offer. Alex cast about for something to say that didn't sound lame or trying to hard, despite the fact she was. "...Thanks."

Ordering her own drink, a lemon drop, Willow twisted towards Alex on the stool, accidentally on purpose momentarily brushing her knee against the other woman's. "Well, sometimes strangers deserve a little assaultage." She managed. "It's a great ice breaker." She paused, smiling her thanks as the bartender delivered their drinks. "Provided you don't, you know, end up in jail afterwards."


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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-04 07:29 pm UTC (link)
"Hey, I don't know," Alex joked while twirling the black straw in her drink, sending the ice in her glass a-clinking. "That would at least break the ice. Nothing says well-acquainted like assault charges?" She chuckled softly and wondered if it really did sound that lame or if it was just her. Though, to be fair, she thought, she had every right to over think and get nervous when a random, cute girl started talking to her in a bar.

Trying to think of appropriate small talk, Alex sipped from her straw and wondered if she should compile an index of topics for moments like this. "How did the rest of the grand opening go?"

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[info]not_glinda
2009-04-04 07:48 pm UTC (link)
Grinning her thanks at the bartender, Willow took a sip from her drink. "True." She mused, twisting on her stool again. "Plus, it guarantees a continuage of the relationship... what with all the court dates and all."

She took another sip of her drink and stretched. "Exhaustingly. I'm just so glad that I was able to guilt all of my friends into helping. I didn't think it'd be so busy!" Turning towards the other woman, she smiled. "Have you decided to stay longer?"

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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-04 08:15 pm UTC (link)
"Relationships have been built on worse," agreeing, Alex turned to face Willow, resting against the bar. At the question, scenes from last night's horror popped into her head. She still had a kink in her back that all her healing attempts hadn't managed to erase. "Yeah," there was something going on in town that she was now determined to get to the bottom of, "I think I am, actually. Indefinitely it seems."

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[info]not_glinda
2009-04-04 08:23 pm UTC (link)
"Oh really?" Willow couldn't keep the smile off her face, but that didn't stop her from noticing the stiff way Alexandra moved. She'd known Buffy long enough to recognize the careful movements, and furrowed her brow. Maybe it wasn't what she thought. Alex seemed pretty blasé for someone who had potentially recently met up with a vamp. And surprisingly alive for that matter. "Indefinitely? What about back home? Do you have anything... or anyone to get back to?"

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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-04 08:31 pm UTC (link)
"Not really," she shrugged. "I have a lot of vacation time saved up," she admitted, well-adjusted with the fact she had little life. Or, more exactly, that her life was her job. "And I can do a lot of it from here anyway. Though I should call someone about my house plants. It'd be a shame to have managed to keep them alive this long only to die of neglect while I live it up...in Prescott Valley." If she was going to let them die it could at least be for something that sounded more exciting.

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[info]not_glinda
2009-04-04 09:06 pm UTC (link)
Willow took a long sip of her drink and mentally tried the starts of several sentences before deciding on one. "What brought you to this lovely town?" She asked, signalling to the bartender for another drink. She didn't drink much, the second lemon drop would probably be it for her for the night, but she didn't want to leave the other woman's side yet. "And what do you do back home?" She caught herself and smiled, sheepishly, waving her hand in the air. "Sorry for the nosiness, but you know all about me." Not quite all, she added to herself.

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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-04 09:39 pm UTC (link)
"I don't know all about you," Alex countered, nodding at the bartender's inquiry about her drink. "It's okay though." She pushed back a strand of hair and thought about how to best describe her job, leaving out the technical and confusing bits. Then again, confusing bits allowed her to skip over the first question.

"I work for a development firm as a quantitative Modeller," she explained. "Constructing models and hypotheses from the analysis of our researchers. It's a lot of manipulation of variables and refining." The look the other woman gave her made Alex wonder if she needed to work on refining her simple explanation. "Really I just like the theory work. But people don't always pay you to do just as you like. Oddly enough."

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[info]not_glinda
2009-04-05 01:28 pm UTC (link)
Willow shrugged and smiled, shyly. "You could know all about me," she offered, hopefully, pressing her lips together as Alex started to talk again, silently berating herself. She wasn't exactly the Flirt Queen of Flirtonia to begin with and it had been quite a while, but she thought all Willow signs were pointing towards interested. Alex wasn't taking the bait however, which meant... well, it could mean a lot of things. Willow suddenly realised that Alexandra had been talking this whole time and she mentally rewound the conversation.

"A quantitative modeller?" She repeated, pulling an interested face. "You don't look like most mathematicians," she giggled at herself and gestured towards Alex's shirt. "No pocket protector or - or thick glasses and crazy hair..."

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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-05 02:01 pm UTC (link)
Alex raised an eyebrow at the flirtatious response, surprised at the attention she was getting. The realisation brought on a fresh round of nerves and she tentatively returned a smile and shrugged. "You're catching me on an off day. Bad hair day. Usually it sticks out all over but it just keeps staying down tonight." An actual joke, what was the world coming to. "I'm a bit of a black sheep like that. A numerical rebel. Choosing bars over proofs."

"Okay. It's not exactly exciting to anyone that isn't, say, a huge nerd, which I am, so it all works." She wrapped her hands around her glass and gave it a swirl, listening to the ice clink. Alex looked up at Willow and smiled. What she really wanted to know was what sort of person ran a magic shop in a town like this. "Well, what about you?" She asked, switching the topic from herself to the redhead. "Why'd you decide to open up a magic shop? Personally? I think retail is just too scary."

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[info]not_glinda
2009-04-05 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Fluttering her hand against her chest, Willow feigned a swoon. "Oh, you rebel you," she grinned. "Be still, my beating heart." She opened her mouth to tell Alex that she liked her hair the way it was, but managed to stop herself by taking a sip of her drink.

At Alexandra's question, she allowed her mind to run through several possible answers as she pondered how truthful to be with the other girl. "Well," she shrugged and smiled and took another sip of her drink. "I'm a witch, and the Valley had a distinct lackage of magical type shops, so..."

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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-05 03:04 pm UTC (link)
"Go figure that," Alex snorted before she could help it. Prescott Valley had proven, in just a couple short weeks, to be a veritable breeding ground of all things other-worldly, supernatural and/or demonic. The fact there weren't magic shops outnumbering the regular stores was fairly amazing. Softly, she cleared her throat and responded with interest to the woman's other statement.

"A witch? Not like the crunchy, candle-burning, empowery Wicca type?" There had been plenty of those and other Granolas running around Portland. Obviously she knew real magic existed, she was proof enough, but she'd never met anyone else that used it. She couldn't help giving into her obvious curiosity.

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[info]not_glinda
2009-04-05 03:23 pm UTC (link)
Willow took Alex's question and lack of laughter as encouragement and leaned towards the other woman, eagerly. "Well, I do like candles..." she smiled, then shook her head. "I'm more of the... well, real kind." She glanced around them for a moment, then twitched her nose and, giggling inwardly, levitated Alex's glass several inches off the bar.

Carefully watching Alex's face, she allowed the glass to settle down to the wood and beamed. She knew she shouldn't show off, but she just couldn't help it. Besides, she reasoned with herself, the power she'd sensed from Alex earlier had to come from somewhere.

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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-05 03:43 pm UTC (link)
"Impressive," Alex pulled her hands away from the glass as it rose and watched it until it was set back down, smiling appreciatively. There was a slight temptation to open up to Willow and show her they had magic in common, she even felt the impulse twitch through her hand. The impromptu urge passed quickly though and Alex remembered that she did not really know or trust this woman yet.

She was nice and had a good vibe but Alex had already seen enough of this town to know not to give into trust too easily. "I've never met a real witch before," she admitted instead. Her lips perked up in a smirk and she made her second joke of the night (possibly a new record) as she remembered the red head's earlier comment. "You don't look like most witches...Not green or warty."

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[info]not_glinda
2009-04-05 04:29 pm UTC (link)
Leaning close, Willow lowered her voice conspiratorially. "Make-up does wonders," she joked, hiding her disappointment at Alex's response. Maybe she didn't know how much power she had. Willow made a mental note to google her when she got home, then immediately felt creepsome about it.

She cast her gaze about the room, trying to figure out how to broach the subject when her eyes lit on a definitely familiar figure across the room. Buffy caught her stare and raised her hand in greeting. Willow waved back and motioned to Alex, earning her a thumbs up from her friend. "My friends are here!" Willow turned back to Alex, intending to introduce them.

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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-05 04:37 pm UTC (link)
Downing the last dregs of her drink, Alex stood up from her stool. All in all the encounter hadn't been so bad. It was short enough that she'd been able to get in a decent conversation but hadn't managed to inadvertently insult or alienate Willow, which was a plus. Usually talking to relative strangers ended in uncomfortable awkwardness or long stretches of silence.

Placing cash down on the counter, Alex also extracted a slip of paper from her wallet and passed it over. "I should pack it in here. Numbers to crunch," or demons to fight, "But...I'm glad we talked. That's my card, my cell phone number. If you don't have to be at your shop tomorrow and maybe want to get coffee?" Now that the conversation had left the casual flow they'd had and she was forced to say actual proactive things, Alex found her nerves return. "Uh, nice to meet you. Again."

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[info]not_glinda
2009-04-05 04:55 pm UTC (link)
Furrowing her brows, Willow opened her mouth to assure Alex that she wasn't just dumping her now that her friends had shown up when the blonde slipped her card into Willow's hand. "Uh," she started, then pressed her lips together when she realised that she'd just been asked out. "Tomorrow?" She echoed, unable to keep the smile from her face.

"How does ten sound? At Deja Brew? Do you know where that is?" She asked, wishing she had a card to give out. "Unless," she added quickly, her brow furrowing again. "You're a late sleeper. We can push it back. How about one?"

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[info]slice_of_pi
2009-04-05 05:16 pm UTC (link)
She missed waking up before ten, sorely missed it. "One is great, actually. I'm sure I'll be dying for a coffee break around then." Alex smiled at Willow once more before taking a step away. "Tomorrow." Stepping backward, Alex bumped into another club goer and muttered her apology before departing into the crowd. Despite her fumbled exit she still felt that the encounter had been a success. Definitely above par for her normal course.

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