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Raleigh hasn't had a lot of practice in the dating department over the last several years and he's more than a little rusty but he thinks there's no way that he could go wrong with a trip to Disneyland. It's the happiest place on earth, right? He thinks that he and Buffy can have a good time being kids and eventually come back to the hotel when they're sick of carnival rides and bad food.

So when he shows up at her door, he's dressed casually and there is absolutely no stopping the grin on his face; he thinks that possibly he's going to get smacked for being too cheerful but it's a risk he's definitely willing to take. He knocks quickly and calls out for her, eager to go.

"Hey, Buffy? Are you ready for the most exciting date this side of Godzilla wrangling?" He's nothing if not in possession of a fine sense of humor.

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"Well, if it's projecting, we've got the same damage," Raleigh assures her. "Because that sounds pretty much accurate. Having that one thing you can control when the whole world is going insane around you - it's sometimes the only thing you need."

"So I'm in good company," Buffy smiles at him, nodding a little. "I can kind of be a control freak."

Kind of is an understatement, but to be fair, she's had to be a leader, taking charge and saving the world since she was sixteen. It tends to make a girl a little OCD about control. To add to that, there's so much of her life that is out of control because she's the slayer, that she clings tightly to the things she can control.

"Well, today, we are not thinking about it. No decisions other than what color mouse ears you want," Raleigh says with a grin.

"Relaxation starts now."

Oh, he gets a smile out of her at that. "Now as in...you're ready to get on one of the rides now?"

She looks over to the ride closest at hand and lifts her eyebrows in a 'well?' sort of gesture.

"Yeah, I'm game," Raleigh says, following her over to what looks like spinning teacups. It's probably going to make him nauseated, sure, but it will hopefully be fun and a chance to let go for a little while.

"Think we can hack it?"

"Are you kidding? I totally bet we can hack it. I mean, it's not like a car which I don't usually drive because Buffy and cars are non-mixy things, but I have you making up the difference with the driving skills. Anyway, yes. I think we'll be okay."

She's so pleased by the idea of the tea cups. Her brow furrows after a moment. "You don't get motion sick right? I mean...I don't. At least I never have."

"Nope. Pretty sure you wash out of the Ranger program on first go if you can't hold your stomach on the teacups," Raleigh says. Being in a Jaeger is pretty damn disorienting and he's always been able to keep his head when it comes to things like that.

"Figures you would have an iron stomach, though. Do you have any weaknesses at all?"

"Sort of what I figured," Buffy grins as they approach the teacups.

Her eyes go wide at Raleigh's question and there's something like panic and an almost overwhelming desire to protest. "OH wow. Yeah...so many. Uhm...I sort of tend to hit first and ask questions later. I swear, I don't handle everything with violence, but it seems like sometimes. I'm kind of a control freak and if you ask my friends, I can get bitchy fast. I'm...bratty about some things and I want my cake and I want to eat too. I..." she stops and shrugs. "Physically, I'm supposed to be a weapon all by myself...and I am. Everything else about me is a mess."

Which is why sometimes she goes slaying to clear her head. At least it's one thing she gets right.

"Seems like we've got a lot in common," Raleigh says. "I tend to shoot first and ask questions later and I never really take orders as something that are set in stone. I figure you can just...bend the rules and ask for forgiveness later, right?"

Buffy grins at that. "I think we've got a lot in common." Which is nice. There aren't many people back home that she shares those things in common with, at least no one that doesn't want her dead. "I mean, that's kind of my motto and if the bending the rules thing works the way you want it to, you don't usually even have to ask forgiveness."

At least that's her experience. Once they're let through the gate, Buffy makes her way to one of the empty tea cups and sits down, hands going to the steering wheel thing.

"Now, how fast are we going to get this thing spinning?" Raleigh's like a kid when it comes to this stuff and everything about him says that he's going to have it going just as fast as humanly possible if he can help it.

That grin on Buffy's face? It's pretty wicked. "Oh, just how fast do you think you can handle, Robot Boy?" she asks him teasingly. Because one of them isn't human here and she can kind of lift a car and move faster than a human so....how does faster than inhumanly possible sound?

"I'm pretty sure I can take whatever you want to dish out," he challenges back. Buffy is the kind of fun that Raleigh hasn't had in a long time and it's nice to be able to just pursue that instead of feeling guilty about it.

"Show me what you've got, Blondie, and I'll see what I can give you back."

Nope, no guilt having here. There's nothing to feel guilty about, because they are just having fun and it's something that neither of them have done in a while so it's sorely needed. She laughs at the challenge.

"Deal." She's betting he can give back just about as good as he gets, human or otherwise.

"I'm going to regret this, aren't I?"

Raleigh thinks it might still be worth it even if he gets sick because he hasn't cut loose like this in so long that he can't even remember.

"Nah, making you hurl would end the date and I like this date," she smiles at him brightly. Yeah, she just said she liked him in a round about way.

"However, getting you close to hurling will just mean we have soda and go shopping until you're ready to try another ride on the Buffy train." Her eyes go wide as she realizes a moment later what she said. "I mean...a ride Buffy--a ride with Buff--You know, with me. A ride. Not a ride. Do you think they make tea cups that eat you? Alice in Wonderland style. I'm just gonna--" she points to the steering wheel and starts spinning it with a good deal of enthusiasm.

Raleigh laughs. "You get one. Next time, though, I've got to call you on it." He doubts that he will. In Buffy's words, he likes this date and he's not really interested in ending it over a little foot in mouth. He's pretty bad about doing that himself.

She laughs at that. "Just one, huh? I'm glad you're keeping score," she tells him, a smile still on her face.

She spins the wheel hard, the tea cup immediately picking up speed as she does. They're probably, already, going a little faster than the other teacups.

Oh yeah, they're definitely going faster than everyone else and there's a little weird feeling in the pit of Raleigh's stomach that's either nausea (because, really, it's a lot of spinning) or it's nerves because he's with a girl he likes and he hasn't been able to do much of that since before Yancy passed.

"We're not going to be able to walk straight afterwards," he says, laughing as the teacup spins around and around.

Nerves would be better than nausea. Nausea is over rated. However, Buffy won't judge him too harshly if he ends up nauseous (because, really, it's a lot of spinning). If it helps, her foot in mouth earlier had been due to nerves because this is new to her, this normal sort of date uninterrupted by vampires or other oogly booglies.

"We'll have to lean on each other," she giggles, head thrown back as she lets go of the wheel and just lets it spin. Without the wheel to anchor her, centrifugal force shoves her around toward Raleigh. She squeals and grabs the wheel again just before she slams into him.

Raleigh slides his arm around her when she slams into him, just taking the opportunity to be close for a moment while it isn't awkward. God, he hopes it never gets awkward because Buffy is fun and understands weird while embracing normal. He needs that.

"Shit, we're going to end up walking in circles when we get out of here."

Well, if he's going to do that, she'll just let go of the wheel and let herself lean against him. There's a grin on her face and a blush in her cheeks as she does lean against him. The tea cup is still spinning fast, but it is losing a bit of speed as it's no longer being Buffy-powered.

"I like circles. Circles are good, though sitting down in a place that doesn't spin after this might also be good."

She's got her fingers cross that it doesn't get awkward either. Raleigh makes the butterflies in her belly go crazy so that she feels like she's tingling all over in the best of ways.

"Circles are perfect," Raleigh says, well aware that it's stupid and just not caring. Not when he has his arm around someone beautiful and fun like Buffy.

"But possibly not the best when followed up with food, am I right?"

Yeah, Buffy doesn't care that it's stupid either. "Yeah, I think we ought to wait on that funnel cake."

The teacups eventually slow down, coming to a full stop. Buffy arches an eyebrow up at him. "Ready to attempt this walking thing?"

"After you," he says gallantly, thinking that he's probably not going to be all that steady on his feet. This is probably the most disorienting thing he's done in forever and he's not entirely sure he isn't going to tip over into a bush somewhere.