'So… how was LA?' 'Oh, you know. Crazy Slayer. Former allies working for a sinister corporation. Suppressed homoerotic tension between certain of them…' 'You should really stop doing that.' 'No, it's cool. If Angel and Spike are secretly passionately in love…' 'They deserve each other.' 'The two Dark Avengers, seeking to save humanity from the… uh… darkness which they represent. Literally, now that they're actually Evil Lawyers.' 'They didn't stop you taking Dana away.' 'Yeah, well. I faced them down. I was seriously cool. I was all, you're not one of us, Angel. And he totally backed down…' 'You had fifteen Slayers standing right behind you.' 'I was still cool. Normal people can be cool too, you know.' 'Yeah. I guess.' '… I think you're cool.' 'Andrew, you used to own the complete run of Gambit's solo comic.' 'Gambit is cool.' 'You think Cabaret is better than Rocky Horror.' 'Liza Minelli is cooler than Tim Curry.' 'And the Gods of Chaos delight in yet another impossible concept being expressed out loud.' 'She is cool.' '…' She is!' '…' 'You know what would be cool?' 'What?' 'You should spell your name differently.' 'How many ways are there to spell my name?' 'I mean, with a Z. Like Liza. So you'd, like, be 'Zander'. With a Z. And you could sign your name as just, you know, Z.' 'You think I should sign my name 'Z'?' 'It would be cool.' 'No, it would be like Liza Minelli.' 'You really don't think Liza Minelli is cool?' '…' 'Right.'
First draft.
Date: 2004-05-02 03:26 pm (UTC)'Oh, you know. Crazy Slayer. Former allies working for a sinister corporation. Suppressed homoerotic tension between certain of them…'
'You should really stop doing that.'
'No, it's cool. If Angel and Spike are secretly passionately in love…'
'They deserve each other.'
'The two Dark Avengers, seeking to save humanity from the… uh… darkness which they represent. Literally, now that they're actually Evil Lawyers.'
'They didn't stop you taking Dana away.'
'Yeah, well. I faced them down. I was seriously cool. I was all, you're not one of us, Angel. And he totally backed down…'
'You had fifteen Slayers standing right behind you.'
'I was still cool. Normal people can be cool too, you know.'
'Yeah. I guess.'
'… I think you're cool.'
'Andrew, you used to own the complete run of Gambit's solo comic.'
'Gambit is cool.'
'You think Cabaret is better than Rocky Horror.'
'Liza Minelli is cooler than Tim Curry.'
'And the Gods of Chaos delight in yet another impossible concept being expressed out loud.'
'She is cool.'
'…'
She is!'
'…'
'You know what would be cool?'
'What?'
'You should spell your name differently.'
'How many ways are there to spell my name?'
'I mean, with a Z. Like Liza. So you'd, like, be 'Zander'. With a Z. And you could sign your name as just, you know, Z.'
'You think I should sign my name 'Z'?'
'It would be cool.'
'No, it would be like Liza Minelli.'
'You really don't think Liza Minelli is cool?'
'…'
'Right.'