A Side Room at The Bronze, Sunnydale, Friday Evening

[wwiii]

It was entirely possible that Warren didn't actually know the meaning of the word 'overkill.' At least, not when it came to organizing parties. And especially not when it came to organizing parties that people would be travelling across the multiverse to attend. He'd sprung for the rental of one of the side rooms at The Bronze, of course, and in doing so he might have gone just slightly carried away, paying to have the place decked out in garlands and icicle lights and, yes, mistletoe. Christmas carols were playing as people arrived, though thankfully they would be interspersed with less seasonal music throughout the night, and there was a spread of food that included not only sugar cookies and egg nog, but also the typical potato chips and veggie platters.

And, yeah, a fruitcake. Warren wasn't certain how the fruitcake had wound up on the table, but he wasn't really going to be terribly surprised if the thing stayed there the entire night, either.

Poor fruitcake.

[For those people who got invitations to the party, and up early for timezones and the like!]

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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

Way to shatter his chivalry, Kennedy. Mean.

Or, you know, appropriate.

That got a chuckle out of Wesley, though. "Well, are you doing well in them?"

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[brat_inslayage]

"Mmmph." That was a fairly noncommittal noise. "Actually, yeah. I got B-minuses so I'm calling it good."

Willow had been helping for a while, but then she'd put her foot down. Once Kennedy got over the shock of someone actually being able to say no to her, she'd discovered that she was better at the academic thing than she'd realized. Who knew?

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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Congratulations," Wesley said sincerely, because, well, it wasn't like he hadn't thought Kennedy was a good student, more that he'd just never really thought about it. "Odd, isn't it, that you're in university now and I'm not? And I doubt I could even have pulled off B-minuses, so..."

Nah, he was pretty sure he could've. Still, though.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[brat_inslayage]

Kennedy laughed and waved a hand vaguely in Tara's direction. "Well, I promised someone, who insisted I was smart and would do fine, that I'd look into the college thing. And then it sorta dovetailed with the chance to... you know, travel for work?" She gave him a significant look. "Kinda works out, huh? In a totally ironic, you're the brainiac and I'm not sort of way."

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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Well, I'd go to university if it meant I could spend a few years in Brazil," Wesley admitted. "And... fight demons while doing it. All right, I understand the appeal."

It was weird how they were sometimes really similar, huh?

"And she's right, of course," he added. "You are, er, quite smart."

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[brat_inslayage]

Kennedy spread her hands in a 'told you so' gesture. "I promise, you can say that and my head won't swell," she said seriously. "I mean, I'm never going to threaten you or Will or anything. I'm cool with that."

She flashed a quick, pensive smile. "Guess I'm finally getting around to realizing I had other kinds of potential to live up to."

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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"That may be the worst pun I've ever heard," Wesley teased, but he was smiling. "But yes. Essentially."

Hey, maybe one day he'd tap into that realization too! ...Nah.

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[brat_inslayage]

"Who was making a pun?" asked Kennedy, feigning hurt. "I was being serious!"

Honestly, Wes. Wordplay was too subtle for her.

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[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Well. I thought -- with the word 'potential' -- well. It would have been a terrible pun, so congratulations on, er, not making it."

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[brat_inslayage]

"The one time I'm completely and totally serious--" and completely and totally exaggerating-- "you think I'm making a joke. I'm crushed, Wes," Kennedy teased.

Re: Arrive/Mingle!

[wesleynotponcy.livejournal.com]

"Must be something to do with the 'one time' aspect of it," Wesley teased right back, dryly. "That and the fact that I'm certain I've never heard of a Slayer who could resist from quipping."

Well, there was Kendra.

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[brat_inslayage]

"Oh, I know a few," Kennedy said dryly, not at all kidding. She was starting to wonder if they should include witty banter as part of the training regimen, because that was just sad. "I'm not one of them. That's just not my style."

If puns were the rapier of Slayer banter, Kennedy was the one swinging the warhammer.