012 [ accidental video | location: hyperion hotel ] a kick in the teeth is good for some

[bigbad]

Spike is sitting on the floor in the Hyperion lobby hunched over and concentrating hard. He's holding a deck of cards, and several other piles are in front of him on a foot stool in the solitaire set-up. He moves an ace up and stares at the cards for a little while before flipping three down. Then he moves the cards around again. This continues for a while until finally, he shifts into his vampire face. His forehead wrinkles up and his eyes turn yellow, teeth lengthening.

He growls and knocks over the table, sending cards flying. He smiles for a minute. It's vaguely satisfying, but it doesn't really help anything.

Spike sighs and lets his features go back to being human, then turns to the tablet. He notices it's already recording, but at this point it's really too late to do anything about it. He picks it up and speaks into it.

"Anyone want to fight? I'm this close to seeing if I can hatch a demon to kill, I am so bloody bored."

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"Upsides?" He asks. "What kind of upsides? Seems like a big mess to me and those hardly ever have any ups unless it involves someone else taking the blame."

Like Damon doing that when they were kids. Upside to a point, with Stefan scowling at him for claiming it was better to take the blame, because their father would never believe he didn't do it, anyway.

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[bigbad]

"Sometimes people you'd lost back home show up. I'd get out of here in a heartbeat if I could, but... can't deny it's nice to see them again."

Nice enough that he knows Angel and Cordelia don't want to leave. And if Buffy were dead instead of just on the other side of the world, Spike might feel the same.

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Stefan indulges, for a moment, in the possibility of seeing Lexi again. But, the younger Salvatore knows better than to get his hopes up and immediately banishes the thought.

"Being abducted by aliens aside, yeah. Guess that would be."