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

[tothelibrary.livejournal.com]

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!

Comments

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[biverbam.livejournal.com]

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.

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[tothelibrary.livejournal.com]

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?"

[ visual ] | BONUS [ location: UNDER DAWN'S BED ]

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

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?

[ visual ] | oh dear lord [ location: ON TOP OF DAWN'S BED ]

[demonmagnetism.livejournal.com]

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?!"

[ visual ] | this is a thread of horror [ location: STILL UNDER DAWN'S BED ]

[biverbam.livejournal.com]

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.