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[ visual ] | [ location: castle summers ] and i need you now tonight and i need you more than ever

Did somebody ask for public humiliation? Because if they did, here it is.

Dawn and Xander are laying on her bed-- up against the headboard, Xander's arm around her and Dawn cuddled close to his side-- watching an out of view TV, if their rapt attention and the sound of tinny explosions are anything to go by. There's a bowl of popcorn laying next to them, and every so often one or both shift to grab a bite.

"You know, this movie kind of sucks." Dawn sounds oddly pleased with this. "I didn't think that stripping naked to the waist and running around showing off your chest rendered people invincible. Oh, hey, thought! Maybe that's why Faith is still alive."

She sighs and wiggles out from under Xander's arm, yawning a little. "I think this requires a Diet Coke break. You want?"

But before Xander can answer, there it is. Those sounds. Bouncy eighties synth pop, filling the room. And while Dawn's fuzzy pjs and ponytail aren't quite a too short wedding dress and eighties hair, she's making do. Standing with her back to the tablet-- and a few feet from the foot of the bed-- Dawn begins to sing.

"I made it through the wilderness
Somehow I made it through
Didn't know how lost I was
Until I found you."

The next voice to chime in is considerably deeper. Equal opportunity singing, everyone!

"I was beat incomplete
I'd been had, I was sad and blue
But you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
Shiny and new--"

Moving closer to the edge of the bed, Dawn chimes in, and they do the chorus together.

"Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine."

Dawn takes the next verse, getting up on the bed on her knees, still keeping that last bit of distance between them.

"Gonna give you all my love, boy
My fear is fading fast
Been saving it all for you
'Cause only love can last

You're so fine and you're mine
Make me strong, yeah you make me bold
Oh your love thawed out
Yeah, your love thawed out
What was scared and cold--"

Kneewalking forward until she bumps his feet, again it's time for the chorus.

"Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine."

Xander takes the next verse, extending a hand out. Dawn takes it, moving forward until she's straddling his lap, knees on either side of his hips.

"You're so fine and you're mine
I'll be yours 'till the end of time
'Cause you made me feel
Yeah, you made me feel
I've nothing to hide."

Face to face now, it's time to end the song with a bang and on a high note. (One is literal, the other is not.)

"Like a virgin
Touched for the very first time
Like a virgin
When your heart beats
Next to mine."

And now for the making out. Sorry, Taxon!

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Godric is not laughing. He won't. He'll save them some embarrassment.

"Dawn." Hello you two, you have an audience.

Dawn did not just squeak. Honest. But she does break off the making out in favor of... apparently attempting to see if she can burrow into Xander and disappear.

"Hi Godric."

"Your tablet is recording." He's so helpful.

"Dawn, why does this keep happening to us? Are we cursed?" Xander isn't all that terribly burrow-able but he's trying to be as accomodating as possible, even though he would quite like to hide himself.

"Hi, uh... Godric."

Wave? Remember that one time at band camp when we tried to burn down your kid's bar? :D?

"Maybe. At least we weren't naked?" Not that they... do that, be naked in the together way-- although okay, the song might have revealed Dawn has been thinking about it, more than a little; moving their solo naked time to shared but she's not bringing it up, thanks-- but it could always be worse.

"And thanks, we got that one, Godric."

Aww. That's so cute.

[ this declaration may have been followed by a snort, because... yes, yes she's laughing at you two. ]

"Shut up, I hate you."

Those half muffled words are brought to you by Dawn's face, buried in Xander's shoulder.

No, no, see, the two of you singing together like that? Priceless. I think you should win, like, Couple of The Year Award, or something.

"Hey Cordelia, does this mean you're not mad at me anymore?"

Look, Xander might as well make the most out of a horribly humiliating situation. Also, he is rubbing Dawn's arm in a comforting sort of way.

I don't know. I mean, not like you groveled and begged for my forgiveness now, did you?

[ for the record, she's... well, still annoyed, but not nearly as much. ]

[ here you guys, have some exaggerated gagging noises. ]

Dawn unburrows for a moment to glare at Buffy. "Consider it revenge for all the times I had to watch you and Angel be gross."

And now burrowing again. The embarrassment is fading, slightly, but... she just likes it. Shut up.

Well consider this revenge for all the times you killed the mood.

[Not really, she's kind of grinning happily over here. They really are cute.]

And Xander, I want her home by midnight.

[...yes she knows they're in Dawn's room, ssh.]

Now Dawn gets to make her own gagging noise. (She might still have lingering Angel issues, okay?) And once more, with enunciation: "Ewwwwwwwwwww."

Sigh. Buffy, they're in her room.

"Buffy, we're in my room."

"Seconding the eww and submitting a motion for TMI." Xander adds, raising a hand. His issues aren't even lingering, they just are.

He is, however, amused by Buffy. "Yes ma'am. And we won't play with matches either or take candy from strangers."

Confusion, disapproval, awkward amusement. It's really uncanny the kind of range Spock has with one stoic expression. Normally he would have ignored the random song and accidental broadcast, but this one was intimate and perhaps an ounce of him sympathized with sharing such a moment with the entire city.

"It would appear that your Tablet is broadcasting."

"Caught that one." Her voice is still muffled, and the tips of her ears go slightly red. Cordy and Godric are bad enough, but total strangers seeing this is pretty up there on the embarrassment scale.

"Thank you though."

Spike has on an expression of complete disgust. He's also slightly pink from his sunburn still, though a little extra blood combined with some aloe vera and vampire healing means it's a lot better than it was earlier.

"Somebody stake me."

"Um. Hi?"

Dawn is really hoping this will be one of those situations where if she hopes for it hard enough, the tablet will turn off on its own. Before Spike and Xander can resume the manly dance of 'my metaphorical penis is bigger than yours, let's yell a lot and growl'.

"Spiiiiiike, I thought you'd never ask!"

Yeah, Xander just looks unashamedly gleeful. Well, that and slightly irritated by the interruption.

Spike gives Xander a toothy grin, just daring him to try something. Seriously, Xander, make a move.

"I'm just saying, I really didn't need to see that."

"Spike." She's lifting up her head now, to glare more effectively. "Be nice."

"Xander!"

And now the whack on the shoulder.

"What?" Xander protests, with an emphatic gesture. "And also ow." Yes, he's absolutely going to rub his shoulder in a wounded fashion.

You're a wimp, Xander. At least when the girl Spike loves hits him, there's a reason to say ow.

He shakes his head. "Bit, you're a big girl, you can do who and what you want. But I really don't want to see you sing about it."

[ hey, check it out, he got a lock right on the first try! ]

You stake me, I'll stake you?

[Good job, Angel. Spike's proud.]

Sounds like a plan. That's just bloody disturbing.

Tell me about it. It's like one of those ill-advised soap opera pairings purposely thrown into the plot to wig everyone out.

Yeah, like Julian and Theresa.

...who?

Why do I even bother?

I'm confused. Should I be confused? ...do I know a Julian and Theresa?

They're characters, you buffoon. Don't you ever watch the telly?

Yes! Sports, usually. Mainly hockey. Nothing with characters, not in a few [ ~cough~ ] decades [ ~cough~ ].

[A pause. Spike has no idea what to do with you sometimes.]

Look, it's from a show called Passions. You'd probably like it. Watch it some time.

Someone else get hopped all up on the love juice? Seriously, who spiked the water supply?

Or is everyone just chronically stupid when it comes to making sure their damned tablets are turned off.

This isn't a commune. Privacy. It's a cool word. Learn to respect it. Unless, of course you're sanctioned by a government agency to violate it for the safety of the country.

[There's a slight pause in which Casey realizes he's perhaps gone a touch TMI with that.]

Never was much of a Madonna fan.

That voice is nigglingly familiar, but Dawn can't quite place it. She can, however, go even more red with the introduction of another stranger to the post.

"It's a glitch, and sometimes they turn on by themselves, thank you very much." Some of the aimed for snippiness is DOA thanks to the way her voice is muffled by Xander's shirt.

"...yes, thank you, Oddly Intense Mystery Voice Guy." Look, this is embarrassing enough with half of their acquaintances getting a glimpse of his and Dawn's private time, but people they don't even know? New levels.

"I'm guessing you probably haven't been here all that long, or you'd know that these things have a unique and kind of disturbingly 'I, Robot' way of turning themselves on."

It's okay Dawn, Xander will make up the snippiness for you.

"Alright then, duly noted. I'll just let you get back to your fornicating."

River is a creature of great grace and skill. She's an adult (kind of) and a friend and obviously a true paragon of maturity.

Which is why she has turned her tablet on to make a face at the couple. It's somewhere between 'mild and mostly feigned disgust' and 'shades of genuine albeit confused jealousy.'

It's followed by a very classy phhhhhbt.

Blushing harder, Dawn twists to stare at the tablet.

"River! That's not funn-- is that my sock in your hair? Where are you, the washing machine?"

She hadn't noticed the sock, so after a moment of looking up and around her head, River picks it up and tosses it to the side.

Any observant parties in the room might notice said sock flying out from under the bed.

They might also notice a hand reaching out to pull it back, as if once it's back under the bed they will forget that she's just revealed her location.

Oops?

Xander has mostly just been quietly observing these shenanigans, but he is alarmed by the sock, alarmed enough to shriek like a girly-man in fact, and abruptly scramble upright.

"Dawn, you keep River under your bed?!"

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He should get ready to be more alarmed, because River is kicking up, and with her head at the foot of the bed the kick should land somewhere Xander can definitely feel it.

"Not kept."

It's comfortable under there. Really. That is most assuredly the only reason River would be down there ever. Honest.

[ max figures that by now, dawn and xander have had enough of people going "btw you're broadcasting" at them, so: ]

Well, I know I can't wait 'til this glitch is over.

"And to that a hearty amen, sister." Xander agrees, shaking his head disapprovingly, before giving Dawn a conspiratorial smile. "I liked our song, though."

It's not so much the singing that bothered him, as the accidental tablet recording.

Just this face. This face forever. Also, let's be glad Angelus isn't still around, because he would have a field day with the theme of that song. Just saying.

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