Chateau Grief 16

Grant: You've got to do something about Shane. Heal him, send him away, kill him, or just be patient with him. And you know which option I'm voting for.

Xander: Forgive me if I'm repeating myself. Shane is a moron. He'll never recover from that brain injury...

Xander:...beyond the intelligence of a child.

Grant: That you caused!

Xander: Everyone is entitled to make mistakes.

Grant: You're not. You're different.

Xander: Her name, by the way, is Kore. Coreyanglicized, but she plays up on the foreign sound...something about sales and marketing in southern Europe...I thought it was poetic. Fit the situation well.

Grant: I've got to call the requisitions in.

Xander: You're always late!

Grant: I'm thorough. And you would have eaten potatoes and mutton tonight like everyone else if I hadn't spent time thinking through your menu. Anything else you can think of for my list?

Xander: Were you not listening?

Grant: Oh for the love of mike! A thousand sheep. Fine! You have no imagination when it comes to shopping!

Narration(Grant): He'll drink for hours after this. But he'll never find a rest from his telepathy. And I'm going home to watch television. And I don't have to set eyes on that insufferable harpy for another eight whole hours. I'll get him a birthday present. That oughta fix him.

Author Notes:

Xander, no one listens to you. Since when is this surprising?

Episode Recap:

Grant’s back on the case, advocating for Shane. Xander completely brushes Grant’s concerns off with flippant, harsh language that should be suspicious by now. In fact Xander’s so enamored with Kore that he can’t even stay on topic with the conversation and rhapsodically tells Grant her name and that it’s ‘poetic’. Kore, if you don’t know, is another name for the goddess Persephone. It means ‘girl’. Xander drops the quip that he thinks it fits the situation well, referencing the legendary abduction of Persephone by Hades the god of the underworld. Xander does look a bit demonic doesn’t he? But he’s god of 1000 sheep so I’m not seeing the similarity. Those thousand sheep look super angry though. Look at him, with his army of angry sheep that he can send out to make you sorry for your crimes. Evil Overlord. Baaa. He is sitting in his personal copy of the George Peabody Library at John’s Hopkins University in Baltimore, if it’s still standing. Grant leaves with the grim thought that Xander will drink himself into a stupor tonight. Maybe he does, maybe he doesn’t, but it’s highly probable that Xander falls asleep in his chair because we see the library the next morning from the same angle.