The Doorway: a panfandom game

I need a vacation. Somewhere warm where the men run around in next to nothing.

If you could have a week or two off to go anywhere in the world, where would you go?

You don't like me much (don't deny it, you really don't, and that is all right). But happy birthday, all the same. I would send you a gift but the only way I know to safely get it to you is to leave it on the porch at the townhome.

Hello.

I had a thought the other day, Howard, regarding the best way to keep my w live. And you know, it was very simple. "Live well," I told myself. And bristle with purpose.

But the problem is, I suppose, how we best define "well" and "purpose" ...

Have you got any thoughts for me?

I told you, didn't I? We have the support of MI-6. Er, well. The agent stationed in New York City. As much as any spy organisation provides one with agency.

I've got a sort of weird question for you. What can you tell me about souls?

I got back late last night from a meeting with my editor and her immediate supervisors. They want me to break my article up into several small articles to be published monthly starting in July and featuring a few different refugees each month. And by featuring, I actually mean take their biography from Wikipedia, and publish it with a photograph that they've bought the rights for that may or may not be an actual picture of the refugee, say that they're a refugee, and leave it at that. Published under my byline.

I hope you see the problems that I have with this, and I really hope you share them, as this goes against the very nature of the job I willingly undertook and brought to Pepper and have presented to the refugees. There will be nothing about how the refugees themselves are coping with their new surroundings, how they are helping this community and this city. Only a blurb about the character they are in their book, television show, and whether they're what the Rising Tide calls a threat to this world.

I would like to discuss any sort of option with you, including the one where I don't talk to anyone and distance myself from this farce.

Unfortunately, I need to indefinitely postpone our discussion. I've had the rules changed on me concerning this assignment, which is about as much fun as you think it is. I'm really sorry about this, I really was looking forward to visiting Fangtasia and meeting you.

Of course, if you still want to give me a grand tour, I'm happy to. It would be completely off the record.

I'm afraid we're going to have to postpone our interview on Wednesday. I've been unexpectedly called out of town, and I won't return until late Wednesday, at the latest. If you don't mind, I'll be in touch when I'm back and we can set a new day and time?

Pepper,
Happy birthday, and here's to many more.

Thank you for allowing me this opportunity with the refugees; I can't tell you how much it means that you are willing to put your trust in me.

-- Christine Everhart

I think the worst of the vampire drama is behind us. I just want to get some alcohol - not from the bar - and sit around watching some romcoms and braiding each others hair. Girls night.

How's Operation Re-Ensoulment going? I can totally spend some time on guard duty, make sure people can keep sleeping well at night. At least Angelus was consistent in going for Buffy, no matter how many times that doesn't work out how he wants. And you know, there's more to talk about, if we're in the clear.