"A little water would be fine, thanks."
She insists on filling his glass for him. "I read that if you don't drink enough water, your brain actually shrinks. Can you imagine? Oh, listen to me, rattling on. Buffy! There's someone here to see you!"
This girl has the perfect nickname, he decides, for he can't imagine "Buffy" being on anyone's birth certificate. She looks like she would be happy and bouncy most of the time, but the last few weeks have been wearing. He cannot believe the fate of the world rests on such a tiny person. He's not sexist. He considers Kay at work one of the best investigators he's ever seen. But Kay is more(and he knows she would give him shit if he said this out loud) substantial. He could imagine that her reaction would include a "Substantial this, Bayliss," and a quick middle finger. But this girl looks like the wind would blow her over.
A little too much, yeah? But a lot of what's in Tim's head is a little too much...so it might work.( This isn't that false modesty stuff.I really have doubts about that.)We're just big drama queens, me and Timmy.
You have the Bayliss voice perfectly down.
(off to deal with BBQ, so hopefully more awaiting me later...)
I liked that line a lot.
I missed something though, I think. Does he know Buffy's the slayer and what that means?
That is both flattering and scary, Deb. And makes the new tag fit perfectly.Scary in the "gee, maybe therapy didn't take," sense.
ETA: Deena, Giles gave him the spiel offscreen. But he doesn't quite " get it" internally yet I would guess.
He has to see for himself a lot. Also, detectives are VERY suspicious.(So I've read, anyway.)
Speaking of, there's a whole universe of physical things that I don't know to describe. What would be a simple move that Buffy could use as "an object lesson" that would knock Tim flat, but would not incapacitate him? He's a cop, but the academy's daily workouts are kind of Of The Past. Mostly he sits at his desk, or in the car, and obsesses.ETA; ita would know. And she knows who Tim is.Or, she could "just" be too fast for him...leave him huffing and puffing(Not in a shippy way, I hasten to add.)
Joyce . . . Joyce . . . call me coward, but I'm glad I haven't killed her in the V!Giles series.
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A little thing, a mean little thing. Because I was in the mood to take something pretty and make it cry.
No, it's not Xander. Or Wesley.
I *just* read that in your LJ, Connie, and replied there.
Connie, that's evil. GOOD, but evil.
Also:
am I wrong to envision Malcolm as being Malcom in the Middle. Does that make me some kind of sick?
