heel turns to side; taking in every crease of the building as he corrects julian over the flower arrangement he was obviously screwing up and god was he. now faith was no flower girl but to see what he was trying to put together… might as well throw it in a blender and let it die.
( note to self: listen to lorne about decoration tips. skip julian and go straight to the green man. )
❝ hope i’m not interruptin’ anything, ❞ she says, the last thing she wants to do is get in anyone’s hair, especially his. he’d been by her side as her jugular bled out and her pulse was fading. of course she didn’t know he was there, the sentiment was nice. much like the hug he wrapped her into. she wasn’t a hugger but she’d swallow it down and return the favor. he was a cool dude, the little time she did know him she’d come to respect him and to faith, gaining her respect got you further. ❝ ha, you know me.. always one with the kickin’. ❞ she cracks a joke, smile emitting in his presence. ❝ same old, same old. takin’ a crack at the state lines, give some bad demon a timeout long time comin’, takin’ in strays. speakin’ of strays… do y’⸺ ❞
she’s cut off, her demon… well she wouldn’t call him friend, go with acquaintance comes stumbling in through the doors and faith shakes her head. clumsy fucker. ❝ ⸺ you take ‘em in ? ❞ she lightly jokes but the question remains. a demon in some serious need and hey she could get behind that - wasn’t that long ago when she was the one in need and here she was, helping someone else out. she could almost feel the cosmic scales tip just a bit to the right in her favor even though she isn’t doing it for a good old scale tip but because what other choice was there than to correct the power you’ve misused in the past ?
the fumbling behind her catches her attention and suddenly she feels like she’s babysitting a four year old… just her luck. ❝ alright listen up, get adjusted, make yourself at home but not too at home, someone needs to put a leash on you sometime for your own safety. no offense d dog. ❞ ⸺ dagonok, he corrects her though it’s cautiously mumbles underneath his breath as he paces around the place, surveying or hell, whatever it was he was doing as long as she got him out of her hair and to end the excessive yapping on the car ride there. she’s called him every name in the book except the right one, the spelling was always off and she sure as hell couldn’t pronounce it so she went with what came to mind which annoyed him but beggars couldn’t be choosers when it came to the ones saving their asses.
attention turns back to lorne, head tilting to the side, a genuine spark of curiosity as to his place here which it was apparent he had taken as his own, making it home. a home. ❝ so this what you been doin’ since la ? suits you, i like it. you run the joint or just a middle man ? between you and i, you totally got the whole demon boss look and rockin’ it. ❞
“Oh no, actually I gotta tell you, sugar, you’re saving me!” he let out a tired sigh followed by a little chuckle, the idea of making the place a little more welcoming was, of course his, but Julian took it a bit seirously and decide to go a little overboar with the decoations, decorations that didn’t even match and he had to go around all day removing horrible looking objects from the place and hiding them, Julian meant well, but his atempts to make the place look good were driving the old Host insane, “Julian is driving me up the hill with his bad notion of decoration,the man has the taste on an 80 year old grandma! do you see my pain?” he told her this in a almost wisper as despite everything he didn’t wan’t to hurt his friend’s feelings. “Yeah, after everything I’ve witness I’d say for sure you’re the one with the kicking...” he was listening to her next words and next thing he knows, this big clumsy demon is making his way in.
“Well, that’s what I call makin’ an entrance!” he said to the other demon and moved a bit closer to him, “Are you alright, Honey?” turning to Faith The Host nodded his head, “We do, that’s what we’re here for,” he said watcing as she talked to the other demon, a slayer helping a demon out, it wasn’t that weird to him, as well, he knew not all demons were evil being one himself and one that actually fought among the campions what it seemed a life time ago, but still, not something you see eveyday, but in this case wasn’t at all a bad thing, “Julian? sugar? can you please help out our new friend here, and---make sure he doesn’t break anything...”
“Yeah, that’s kind of a long story, sugar buns... but yeah it’s what I’ve been doing, well kinda...” he pulled a bit of a face, it was hard explain, specially the part where he was lost for a long while after having to do that last thing for Angel, that last--horrible thing that almost--well not almost it actually did drown him in guilt, “I’m not exactly the boss, but I do take the compliment, thank you, honey!” he chukcled, “Why don’t you stay for a while? have a drink, I’ll you all about it, if you’d like to hear it that is, of course.”