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[bolstafir]

welp
looks like we found the new october

[Immediate kill bill sirens at the lack of sunrise tbh.]

if you're not stocked up on supplies do it sooner rather than later
before the other shoe drops and it gets too dangerous to go outside
last time the sun didn't come up it it came with everyone's running water all turning to blood and nobody could sleep while monsters were prowling around anywhere you could get food and attacking your place if you ran out of incense
just because it's quiet now doesn't mean it's gonna stay that way
be careful

[About ten minutes later, the post gets edited with an addendum:]

also i guess if you can't fight and end up needing shit, lemme know

[Look he can't just offer help publicly and not act at least a little grouchy about it. Who do you take him for, Ruby?]

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[slayerskiss]

[Faith considers this, and it takes her a while to respond.

She wanted that. From Buffy, from Wesley, from Giles. Even from Willow. Someone to believe in her even after she's done everything in her power to prove them wrong. She's not sure if she's jealous or glad that Qrow found that.

But Faith also found that. Not in someone on a pedestal, kind and soothing, but in someone who was even worse than she was, once upon a time. Angel never gave up on her. He was willing to shelter her from the police, the government, the Watcher's Council, even Buffy. Even Buffy refused that, when her bodycount was a whopping one person, because of a stupid mistake. She wanted to turn Faith in, because she was scared, and she needed Faith to admit that it was all her own fault so she could rest easily with none of the blame. But Angel's not here, and now she's been finding her way on her own.

But she'd rather die than go begging Ozpin for scraps. So she's shifting the focus back to Tara.]

Look... I appreciate it, man. But it's not me you have to convince. I've been trying to talk Tara into getting some help from people who can actually help her since I got here.

Girl's stubborn in her self hatred. It's hard enough for her to open up to me. But I think I can sell her on staying at the house for the month, at least.

Probably best to ask Ozpin and Willow about it first, though.

[bolstafir]

[Honestly, he relates to that, too. Qrow still regularly finds himself feeling like a burden at best even now that he can more readily convince himself that people legitimately care about him.]

You've got a better shot at convincing her than me. Just thought some context might help, since all you guys really know about us is the vampire incident.

[Which was not anyone's finest hour, really.]

And Oz wouldn't turn either of you out under these circumstances, but what do you mean about Willow? I thought you guys were friends.

[An uncomfortable beat passes]

Or is it more an awkward breakup thing?

[slayerskiss]

[She genuinely doesn't think Ozpin particularly likes her, which is fair, considering she doesn't particularly like him either. Even if she can understand why Qrow was so loyal (blindly, in her opinion), and why Willow cared so much.

But still, he probably (?) wouldn't.] Me and Willow are complicated.

We're alright now. Kinda. I mean, her girlfriend feels better confiding in me than she is with her, so I think there's some... obvious tension there. [Especially because she did take her long time comphet crush's virginity.]

We never got along back home, and that was before I betrayed her. Them. Which, y'know, naturally turned passive dislike into active hatred. But we were figuring it out before she died, and now we're... figuring it out again. [It helps, now that she knows they have common ground, and doesn't feel like Willow's looking down her nose at her.]

[bolstafir]

[She wouldn't have been wrong even two years ago. Qrow's had that pedestal well and truly broken by now, but he and Ozpin found their way to rebuilding that trust, and Qrow isn't someone who does loyalty in half-measures. It's always been all or nothing, with him.]

Makes sense. That kind of thing takes time to sort out. But she'd still understand, I think. Dunno if she was there for October, but she was around last time we had to hole up for weeks because it got too dangerous to go out.

[And in his opinion if she did have a problem with it she should just deal? He and Oz weren't even on speaking terms that first October, and he invited his sister to their safehouse too, just for protection in numbers, making a truce even after having tried to kill each other the last they'd met.]

[slayerskiss]

[She waves a hand. Of course she'll deal. The Willow and Faith of two or three years ago might not have been that mature but they're both fully grown adults now, and the thing that Willow held over Faith's head has well and truly fallen out of her grasp.

She was never even holding it, though, was she?]

She won't kick me out and feed me to the wolves over something petty. She just might be a little uncomfortable if I suddenly burst into her home and kick my feet up. [Like Buffy did. Or like Buffy was with her general existence as another girl in all the world.] So it's probably best she gets a heads up.

[bolstafir]

[Hmm...fair enough.]

I can let her know I invited you.

[If she's annoyed about it, at least it'll fall on him and not the others.]