FTEC, Saturday night

[ladder62.livejournal.com]

Tommy came in for his usual shift.

Sick of the look on statue-Faithful's face, he put an FDNY baseball cap over him.

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[soldtoarmenians]

Big sucking swirly things? Suck even more when they blow. Especially when they blow you out two days later and nowhere near where you expected to get...um. Blown.

Therefore Xander wasn't in the greatest of moods when he tumbled out of a big sucky swirly thing into the FTEC lobby, his clothes dirty, covered with some sort of purple slime down the left side, and smelling strongly of something that most closely resembled artificial banana flavoring.

He thudded against the counter, then stood up, muttering several not-ready-for-primetime words.

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Shortly after, two more slime-covered figures come careening out of the portal.

For a few seconds, both of them lay sprawled on the floor, silent. And then...

"Would you remove your elbow from my side?" snaps Xander.

"I dunno, wanna remove your side from my elbow?" Bridge rolls his eyes.

[ladder62.livejournal.com]

Tommy stared at all of them.

"You girls wanna tell me what in the flaming shit is going on?"

[soldtoarmenians]

"He--" Xander pointed at... the other Xander, and glared. "--threw the calculations off."

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"Me?" Xander glares back. "You're the one throwing portal spells around all willy-nilly! How was I supposed to know what I was walking in to? I just wanted coffee!"

[ladder62.livejournal.com]

"Uh huh," Tommy said. "And the part where you're interrupting my day?"

[soldtoarmenians]

"Sorry; we were aiming for the Perk. I guess; I didn't do the aiming, thus not so much with the willy or the nilly." Xander shot a glance at Xander that was half apologetic, half annoyed. "Extra bodies tend to screw up portal spells; he's lucky he's not purple. Also--" Apparently it took this long to filter into his brain, but in his defense, the banana smell was really strong. "I'm not a girl."

[ladder62.livejournal.com]

"Says you," Tommy replied. "Come in in a god-damn gerbil pile talking about your broomsticks or whatever the crap. Sounds pretty damn girly to me."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Actually, he's," Bridge points at the Australian Xander, "the only one with a broomsticknotdirty."

[ladder62.livejournal.com]

"So wouldn't that actually make you and him," Tommy pointed at non-Australian Xander, "the girls?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I *said* not dirty," Bridge frowns.

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"Didn't care," Tommy assured him.

[soldtoarmenians]

"He was nicer when we were five," Xander pointed out, wrinkling his nose. Mostly at himself. "Then again we smelled better."

[ladder62.livejournal.com]

"I hope you don't think I'm cleaning this shit up," Tommy said, indicating the slime that was dripping on the floor.

[soldtoarmenians]

"If we stick around to clean it up, we'll just drip more," Xander pointed out. "And you'll have to smell us for longer."

[ladder62.livejournal.com]

"Good point," Tommy admitted. "I'll get the nurse to do it. You kids get outta my clinic. Unless one of you is dying. In which case definitely go away. I can't be bothered."

[soldtoarmenians]

"Nobody dying except the demon we ran into before the portal opened, but it's a little late for him," Xander confirmed. "Unless we count dying for a shower," he added, heading for the door.

[thenamesxander.livejournal.com]

"First good idea I've heard today," Xander agrees. "Though, I feel the need to clarify that there will be *seperate* showers. Far away from each other. Possibly on different floors."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Well," Bridge smirks a little. "At least two seperate showers, yes," he says as they leave the clinic.