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Library - 7/10

It was too hot for a coffee, so this morning Isabel had a frozen smoothie when she opened the library. On time.

"Uh, well..." he shifted his weight from foot to foot, looking rather embarrassed.

"Promise not to laugh?" he requested sheepishly.

She made the requisite cross my heart motions and nodded. "Yup. Library Aide honor."

"Alright, I can trust that." He grinned, and then leaned closer so as to quietly inform her what he was looking for.

"Gothic Romance novels. Do ya have any--here, I mean?"

There, it was out. Nothing wrong with a young man reading trashy romance novels that normally attract middle school girls with lots of black and too much make-up. Nothing at all.

"I'm partial to Angelica Desmesnes (http://fandomhigh.arborum.net/index.php/Angelica_Desmesnes) myself," Isabel said, not phased in the least, as she stepped from behind the counter and started heading over to the romances. "But I'm pretty sure if you root around in this section you should find something."

John let out a great sigh of relief and followed after her.

"Desmesnes is pretty good taste, but I'm lookin' for somethin' by Sara Jane Allfire. She's really popular where I'm from, and I didn't get to bring any of my books with me here." He was impressed by the selection he'd seen so far, and very grateful by Isabel's reaction.

Of course, his day would be made if they had any of ~~his~~ Allfire's old stuff. It'd get the creative juices flowing again. Maybe.

"I'm pretty sure I've seen her stuff here," she said, stopping in front of the rack of romances. "I haven't read her, but if you say she's good, maybe the next time I go to the beach I'll bring one along."

"So where are you from? And I'm Isabel by the way."

"John Allerdyce," he said with a nod in greeting.

"I'm originally from Sydney, but I got...transferred to New York. Oh, and I'm from the year 2000. I was a bit disappointed with Y2K; I had a bet on the Apocalypse." He shrugged and started scanning the rows for a familiar spine.

He let out a little "Aha!" of triumph when he pulled out an old favorite.

"'The Devil's Gamble.' A personal favorite of mine, and the author's best--so far. I heard she was working on a new, but hit a snag." A bitter look passed over his face as he thought back on his battle with the Word Cruncher this morning.
He shook the memory off and handed it to Isabel.

"I suggest this one if ya wanna dive into Allfire's work." He beamed with what could be misconstrued as pride or joy at having someone to share an interest with.

"I'm getting way too jaded," Isabel said as she took the book "Sydney and seven years in the past doesn't even rate an 'oh neat' anymore. But still, welcome to Fandom. Has your brain been broken yet?"

Looking over the cover, she nodded. "This does look interesting. I'll have to read it. If you don't want it that is."

"Hold on, lemme check." He gave his head sound rapping, and shook it back and forth. "Nope, not anymore than usual. I'm pretty used to weird things. I used to room next door to homocidal kitty-man who had a very unhealthy obsession with Cap'n Crunch."

John shook his head while snagging another Allfire book--"The Necrowombaticon," a dark comedy--as well as a Desmesnes from below.

"Nah, s'all yours, Izzy. Can I call ya 'Izzy?' I can't ever be happy unless everyone I meet has got some kinda nickname."

"You're not speaking in metaphors are you?" she asked.

Isabel laughed and tucked the book under her arm. "You can. I might even answer."

"I wish I were," he repressed a shudder at the memory of Sabertooth in the morning.

"Alrighty then, Izzy," he gave her a grin and a nod. "I'll just get these two checked out an' leave you to your work. And maybe I'll see you around sometime."

[It's cool. RL just called me in, and I gotta go too. Plus, there's that midnight showing of HP and OOTP tonight that I'm attending.]

"I'm around often enough," she smiled. "I'm sure you will."

[Have fun!!!]

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