@nightmareed 
                  she’ll kill it.  i mean,  steven taught her well ..   /enough/.

@nightmareed 
            
            you didn’t mess things up.  i mean,  now you guys are like magnets whenever we visit her and buf.  [  her attention is on nick now,  smiling at him reassuringly,  ]   it’s nice.  my two loves being so close,  & i guess the husband club thing you’ve got going on helps you get along with buf.

            
            they seemed too calm about their only daughter being missing. [  he agrees,  sighing  ]  i messed things up with vivienne, maybe this time could be different. 

@nightmareed 
            
            
            my gut instinct ..   i don’t know.  the parents?  this just feels so similar to what vivienne went through,  maybe  ..  maybe we can help them.

@visionpassed 
                   huh?  ..  see what,  nick?

[   buffy laughs,  hand covering her mouth since nick and vivienne were just in the room over,  ]  mr. bingham really thinks that?  [  she smiles,  surprised  ]  i’m honored,  regardless.  and hope to one day … maybe make it true? 

@gethemgory 
                 of course,  [  then claudia whispers to the other,  with a small laugh,  ]   nick practically thinks of you as our daughter in law already  —-  oh!  gosh.  maybe i shouldn’t say that.

… yeah?  [  she grins,  hands tapping on the back of a kitchen chair  ]  thank you. 

/    !

@visionpassed 
                   done deal.

more distractions? 

@visionpassed 
                    depends,  what’s upstairs?

@visionpassed 
                   right.  will do..  but if i /am/ free,  what’s the theme?  

[  he watches her squirm a bit at the proposal,  a grin on his lips  ]  i’ll let you check that busy schedule of yours.  get back to me about it. 

@visionpassed 
                   ..   oh.  well,  [  she looks back to the paper she just scribbled on,  grabbing at her pen to begin anxiously tapping on her reception desk with,  ]   you know,  it looks like i have to deliver stuff soon so ..  so i don’t know,  [  it’s not a straight up refusal but rather a ploy at trying to avoid the whole thing,  flustered from her neck to her cheeks,  ]  —-  ..   maybbeee?

@vampstudy 
                    if nothing jumps up on our supernatural murder radar then it sounds terrific.

[   he smiles,  letting her walk out the doors of the campus building first  ]   how does saturday sound? 

@vampstudy 
                      uh,  right.  dinner,  [  a small smile,  laughing at his description of how they went about it,  ]   i’d love to.