Xander’s driving. A stick. On two hours of sleep. Who thought that was a good idea? He wipes his cartoonishly-wide, tired eyes and tries to keep on top of this whole ‘not crashing’ thing. Mouth hanging open. God, he wants to sleep.
Or kill Kennedy because, hello! Who needs a mom lecture from a know-it-all slayer he doesn’t even have a chance with?
He doesn’t dare take his eyes off the road but he groans and slumps in his seat, “Spare me the pseudo-hunter logic, OK? She’s fine. Is she shaken up? Sure. Anxiety city? Check. Being in any way helped by your constant need to bring up the very good point that she might be evil and just waiting to ambush us in our sleep? Not likely. Look, I get it. OK? Just… be kind. That wasn’t exactly Disneyland we pulled her out of. We’ll figure this out when we get to Lebanon. Strength in numbers.”
She can hear them tailing about them. Even over the noise of the car’s engine. It’s just the thing that woke her up. That and the music coming from the radio. She doesn’t know the song though, but it sounds nice. She listens as she hears one of them shifting. The female. Naturally, she’s going to be suspicious. Not Xander though. He knows the truth. He knows she doesn’t want to hurt anyone anymore.
She eventually opens her eyes. She yawns as loudly as she can, making some noise to alert them that she’s awake so they won’t startle when she sits up in the middle of the rear seats.
“What’s Disneyland?” Jedi asks quietly, her voice soft, appearing as none threatening as she possibly can. Because she knows Kennedy will blow her head off if given half the chance. She looks between the two of them, taking in the signals from both of them. “Xander?” she asks. “Maybe Kennedy should drive. You’re tired.” It’s radiating off him in waves.
Kennedy turns in her seat, rests her arm over it's back. She's fully ignoring the question about Disneyland, can't fathom how to explain this or anything else because she's not sure what Jedi can handle. Unbelievably sheltered past, and all. So she just moves past it, tries her hardest to stick to shop talk, "I already offered, he doesn't trust me with his precious rental car."
The truth is, she doesn't know if she believes any of this. Jedi's story checks out only back to the moment she hitched her star to Xander's wagon, nothing she's said about her life before her rescue can be verified. Plus, the 'I'm-so-innocent' act never did carry any weight with Kennedy. She's nine-hundred percent sure it won't with the other Slayers, not that she's dying to see either one of them.
Something about this stinks. Bad.
When they pass the sign welcoming them to Lebanon, Kansas, Kennedy turns her attention back to the road, "Are you sure they know we're coming?"
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