Main Points:
Buffy/Blake's 7 (Place in the Universe)
Chapter Summary: Buffy, Xander, and Jesse have the first of many everyday conversations, with Willow watching.
Word Count: 234
Rating: Teen
It’s weird having vaguely normal conversations now, but Xander’s pushed so hard for them to just hang out that Buffy’s finally starting to get the hang of it. “So, how’s school going for you now?”
Xander actually perks up. “There’s so much material banned by the Federation for being seditious or not furthering their plot to erase individuality, particularly the history.” At a look, he fidgets in his seat. “If I concentrate on the enthusiasm, I can forget the tedium. This is all fascinating—incidentally, I’ve worked out that ‘primitive’ is exactly as rude as I’d suspected, because it’s not as if we’re much more than less technologically advanced, which hardly means much—consider the Decimas…”
“Whereas I,” Jesse interrupts in a way that Buffy has worked out suggests that what’s left of Avon has decided that what Xander is about too say is highly embarrassing, “...am extremely bored.”
“You could always snag that computer science elective,” Xander mentions contemplatively, running his thumb over his lip. He doesn’t even notice he’s doing it; Jesse and Willow, on the other hand, have. He doesn’t even flinch at the withering look Jesse sends, smiling amusedly. “It would be a challenge for you. You’ve barely worked with non-tarriel cell computers, you have none of your usual tools with you, and with the beginnings of the internet you don’t even need ORAC to perform basic computer networking functions.”
