Buffy Summers (buffy_da_slayer) wrote in btvsal, @ 2010-10-07 20:39:00 |
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Current location: | Van Warren Estate |
Current mood: | tired |
Entry tags: | buffy summers, kevin van warren, place: la |
Learning to Unwind
Who: Buffy and Kevin
Where: Van Warren Estate
When: Oct. 4th, Early Evening
Kevin was spending an exceedingly rare day just relaxing at home, no band practice, no writing sessions with Lucy... just chilling in the game room in front of the TV, stretched out on the sofa in gray jeans and an old Judas Priest t-shirt, watching some old metal videos.
Buffy had finished with her training for the day, and had wanted to see Kevin right afterward. Apparently Ash was worried about her, which made her wonder if anyone else had noticed what he was pointing out to her. Besides, she really DID need to take the night off. There would be others out tonight, right? She walked up to his house and knocked on his door.
Kevin hopped to his feet, walking to the door and smiling brightly when he saw Buffy... although that smile quickly turned to a frown of concern when he looked at her. "Buffy... you look like you haven't slept or eaten in days..."
"I haven't," she admitted, walking inside the door. "Well, I've eaten a little, and slept some, but not nearly as much as I probably should." She flopped down on his sofa, looking exhausted and half ready to fall asleep.
"Sweetie..." He sighed, running a hand through his hair worriedly. "What's been going on? I've been calling your house, you've been gone all the time, Dawn never knows where you are... I've been worried and I know I don't always handle this supernatural crap well... but I wanna know what going on."
She nodded, motioning for him to come over and sit with her. "It has to do with the earthquakes and the whole 'fire falling from the sky' stuff that's been happening in the past month," she said to him. "You know what the Horsemen of the Apocalypse are?"
"Death, War, Pestilence, and Famine?" He asked. Hey... he was a mythology nerd, ok? He knew this shit. "THEY'RE REAL?"
"Real and out and about," Buffy said with a sigh. "Well, three of them, anyway: Death, War, and Famine. I actually got into a fight with War before I realized who she was." And she was probably lucky to get away alive.
"You... you fought one of the Horsemen. And.. it was a SHE?" He asked, not really intending that to be as sexist as it sounded.
"Apparently they don't all come in male form," she added playfully. "Before you say anything, I was actually surprised, too. Actually, I have half sure she was full of it until she kicked the crap out of me. I gave a few good hits back, though."
"...I suppose I have no chance of locking you up somewhere until this is over, so you can't get hurt?" He asked, knowing the answer full-well already.
She kind of smiled at that and shook her head. "Ash keeps telling me to take it a little easier," she said to him. "I've been patrolling every night for a couple of weeks now."
"Buffy... Please. Can;t you just... take it a LITTLE easier? I already had to go through losing Lucy. I can't see it happen to you too." He asked, a little whimper to his voice there.
She nodded. "It's kind of why I came by," she admitted. "I wanted to spend the night with you...you know...if you weren't busy." Sadly, there probably wouldn't be TOO much hanky panky, since the girl needed some serious sleep, but being next to Kevin would be good for her as well.
"Of course... wanna just curl up on the sofa with me? I was just watching TV and relaxing anyway..." He gestured to the sofa, which, honestly was bigger than most people's beds anyway.
She nodded, sprawling out even more on the sofa as well. This thing literally was as good as a damn bed. Just as good as hers, anyway. "If you spend too much time fighting you can forget what you're fighting for," she muttered, waiting for him to join her.
He curled up beside her, wrapping his arms protectively around her. "Just... don't go dying on me, ok? Please?" Oh god.. it was so pathetic, yet so cute all at once.
"I have no intention of doing so," she said to him, cuddling in next to him. She really didn't, and she'd probably come back from the dead even if she did.
"So you know..." He laughed, shaking his head as he cuddled in next to her. "I think my sisters are finally 100% behind this relationship. Chloe and Lucy have BOTH asked me recently to tell you they want to get to know you better."
Buffy nodded. "I think Lucy has been wanting me, you, her, and Ash to go on some double date type thing for some time," she said to him, chuckling a little. "I'd be happy to get to know Chloe more, too."
"Well... as far as I'm concerned, you're going to be family one day anyway..." He smiled, trying to brighten her mood a bit. "May as well start now, right?"
She smiled, nodding as she snuggled even closer to him. "Of course, I think having our daughter running around probably rubs their faces in that all the more," she added playfully.
"Very true..." He admitted, laughing to himself. "I still find that... sort of awkward. And a little hard to wrap my head around."
"She's actually really sweet, you know, once you get past the face piercings," Buffy said. "She's kind of like a little Chloe and Dawn rolled into one." Which could possibly lead to all sorts of disasters, when you thought about it.
"That's... vaguely frightening." He had to admit. Still... he was loving having her here, feeling her start to relax a little. He could feel his stress fading a bit.
"A little, but she's still adorable and nice, so it works for her," Buffy added, smiling as she watched the pretty colors flicker on the television screen for a moment.
"I kinda love it how... maternal you are toward her already. It's very..." He looked for the right word, before sighing in utter defeat as he fell to the default term he USUALLY used for her. "sexy."
"So I'm a sexy momma?" Buffy asked with a giggle. OK, so maybe fatigue was making her a little loopy, but at least it was better than uber intense!Buffy.
"I believe the term I heard somewhere that I like is 'Yummy Mummy'." He said, before breaking into that girlish giggle again.
That made her laugh so hard that she started snorting. "Wow...where do you HEAR stuff like that?" she asked him.
Well, he couldn't exactly say 'from Neely's mun' now, could he? "I cant actually remember. I just know it's hilarious."
"It IS pretty funny," she agreed with him, unaware as to just how he came across such a term. She snuggled closer to him, all but sitting in his lap at this point.
"Buffy..." He said, his voice growing more serious, and... just full of a heartbreaking amount of admiration and pride. "Whoever this... this 'horseman' is... I know they aren't half the warrior, half the PERSON you are. And I know that when you're ready... you're gonna show EVERYONE what I already know: that Buffy Summers is one HELL of a slayer, and one HELL of a woman."
She smiled at him. "It's so great to have someone really believe in me." Since coming to LA, she had really finally started to come into her own. Hell, she had managed to take War on head on once and walked away to tell the tale. If that wasn't impressive, then god only knew what was.