[TWP] Henry Kissinger quote

[deep_red_bells]

There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.

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"No."

"Bee--"

"No!"

"But--"

"NO! No no no, I forbid it, I forbid it!! Do you hear me?!" The shout was directed not into the mouthpiece of her phone but upwards, in the direction of the ever elusive Powers That Be. "There cannot be a crisis next week! My schedule is already full! Do you see it?! Do you see the schedule on Adam's fridge?!! That's the schedule and 'Prevent Apocalypse' is not on it!!"

"...Okay! So glad I have another ear."

"...Sorry." Baileigh exhaled a breath and sank down onto the bed. "It's Christmas."

"I know."

"There cannot be an apocalypse on Christmas."

"Mmmmmmmm, don't think the demons celebrate Christmas, Chosimba." She heard a creak over the phone and could only assume Annie had flopped back onto her bed as well. "In fact I'm pretty sure they're all anti-warm squishies and Jesus and...ssssstuff. Besides, if you'd chill with the Powers-ranting and the blowing my right eardrum for a good five seconds, I could tell you we're not at full scale apocalypse proportions."

"Yet."

"Yeah, okay, yet. Doc thinks we could be looking at some kind of parasite. Infects the human host, kind of hollows out the insides before it takes over, and it moves fast. We're talking wicked scary fast, and the hosts are wicked scary incarnate. Strong. Fast. Really, really fast, Church."

"Isn't it Hellmouth activity?"

"More around the Hellmouths, but only cause they're so drawn to the evil Hellmouthy mojo. It's not Hellmouth related. That's why I'm calling, cause some cases have been reported up in your--what'd you and the blonde homewrecker in L.A. call it?"

"Uh...'stupid miserable frozen tundra of a state'?"

"Yeah, the stupid miserable frozen tundra of a state. Doc thinks so, anyway. Says the reports fit in with the intel he's got."

And he was probably dead-on right. Cain was an asshole through and through, but when it came to his job--both his jobs, both the one that paid the bills and the Watcher duties--he didn't mess around. "Okay. I'll be careful."

"Nuh-uh, Church, not good enough. Be better than careful. Be Supergirl. Be bulletproof. You got no Shelia and no Booky Bookworm up there and it scares us. How come that doesn't sink in with you?"

"Hey." Her voice took on an edge of resentment, but she couldn't help it and didn't try. "I have support. My back is covered."

The pause is lengthy, longer than what she'd expect from Annie. "...But not by us."

A knot of stress and tension was forming--or maybe just worsening--at the base of her neck. She sighed heavily, lifted a hand to rub at it futiley. "I'll be fine. I promise. I'll be bulletproof."

"You better be, Church. Imma cutchoo if you die on me."

She laughed. Not much of a laugh, but a laugh nonetheless. "Right. We'll pretend that made sense."