Room 121, Sunday evening

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To: willow.rosenberg@hogwarts.ac.uk
From: xander.harris@fandomhigh.net
Subject: Newbie Saturation, and E-mail this week

Dear God I *hope* I've reached newbie saturation point.

On Friday morning I met Cedric, who gave me another solution to the me/otherXander naming issue, and Briar who's Cute Xander's roommate, plus talked to Dawn about my workshop (because I'm totally repressing the other thing we accidentally NUNS YAY NUNS) and people I already knew like Callisto and Bel and, duh, Bridge.

And I totally did not hear any conversations about vampires Buffy might have slept with OMG.

And then I stopped by Jamie's room to check to see if he was the J that left a semi-weird note in my room on Thursday, which he was, so...um. Yay? Jamie's room, BTW, is apparently Party Central. Always a good thing to remember.

It was almost a relief to go into town and hit Caritas with Bridge -- even the owner's going-away night was less crowded than the common rooms these days.

Then Other You (who I figured out the weirdness thing with, and it makes sense, don't worry about it) made Willow-cookies on Saturday morning, and everybody there I either knew or at least had met, which gave me some vague hope that that I could finally stop trying to come up with new and amusing ways of introducing myself.

But noooo, because later on Bridge and I ran across Jack, who's not *supposed* to be a newbie, but is, because he disappeared for a while and came back with his memories gone, and Max who brought free popcorn -- smart newbie. Plus Conner and Rory and Jaye who thinks you should totally come here and be 5 years old with me, which sounds pretty good, yeah, and Peter and a gazillion other people I already know, and a few I think I *still* haven't actually met.

ENOUGH PEOPLE OMG!

I guess I'll have to figure out who they all are *soon*, since my first workshop is on Tuesday. Yes, I actually have an idea what it's about. Sort of. Which brings up the e-mail part, because we're all moving out to cabins for the week (and maybe on and off for the summer; I think that's still up in the air) and I know they have power, but not sure about network. So if I'm quiet this week it's only 'cause I'm too lazy to hike I haven't had the chance to sneak back to the dorms to check mail.

love,
Xander


After sending off what felt like a really damn long e-mail to Willow, Xander checked his inbox and found one from Krycek and Jake, at which he grinned and immediately replied.

Then he went back to sitting on the foot of his bed, staring at the couple of bags he'd packed for the cabins, out of boxes that he hadn't even completely unpacked, trying to decide if there was anything else he could or should shove into them before they exploded.
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{The door is open to all like an open to all thing. Yeeah notsomuch now. ;-)}

Comments

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge snorts. "All joking aside, you're not alone with the flailiness. I mean, hell, I'd never even *kissed* anyone till the thing with the glitter. Much less, um."

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"Seriously?" Xander blinks. "Ah, the kissing, not the um, because yeah, I kinda figured. But I...wouldn't really have guessed that you hadn't done that before. When I was totally not watching during the glitter thing."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge just nods.

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"You're pretty damn good at it, for somebody who's never done it before. The kissing, not the...um." Xander facepalms again. "Because that wasn't clear from the part where we've only done one of the two options. Sometimes I shouldn't speak words."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"You're not exactly slacking in the kissing department yourself." Bridge smiles.

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"Yeah, but I had--"

Hey Xander, whydoncha try not swallowing your foot for once?

"A good partner. Teamwork always helps." He smiles a little ruefully. "So we're good at kissing, yay. God knows we do enough of it that we should be."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Go teamwork." Bridge says. And then, because he can't not... "which is also, uh, helpful. For the other thing."

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"Well, it's not strictly neces-- right. Teamwork." Someday he might lift his face from his hand. "Which you sorta have to hope makes up for experience, because despite my advanced years and all, I do not actually have all--" He coughs. "--that much."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

Bridge tilts his head at Xander. "Which is still... more than me."

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Xander coughs again. "Okay, yeah. But...once is not actually that much more. Also this would be a place where The Guy Thing? Actually does kinda make a difference. And there we would be even."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"Well, okay, yeah," Bridge says. "But we could... work on that. Maybe. If you wanted."

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