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Library [11/5]

Sam was finishing his breakfast - if a muffin from J,GOB could be called breakfast - on the way to the library, and trying not to drop the whole separate bag of books he needed to return.

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After the tiniest pause, Claire nodded.

"Well, I wasn't thinking specifically of him, but yeah."

She looked for a minute like she was going to ask something, but broke herself off, mostly out of not knowing how to ask the question.

Sam had a question that he didn't know how to ask either, but he didn't want the conversation to lapse into an awkward silence, so he did the best he could.

"Were you thinking of--I mean, you're so interested in this stuff that I've just been wondering...do you have an ability? You don't have to tell me if you don't want to."

Well, that was better than awkward silence, but Claire would have rather talked about Peter.

She looked over her shoulder again, and lowered her voice even more.

"You can't tell anyone, OK?"

"I won't," Sam said quickly. "I promise. I'm a good secret keeper, just ask Peter."

She smiled quickly at that. "I know," she said. "He told me.

"Do you have a letter opener or something?"

One day she'd explain her ability without a demonstration. Not today, apparently.

"Uh, sure." Sam rifled through the lower part of the desk for a few moments, and came up with a letter opener. "Will this do?"

"Yeah."

Claire grinned sheepishly at him, and pulled her hands away from the books, before stabbing herself through the palm, grimacing in the pain.

"What the hell?" Sam yelled, trying to grab the letter opener from her before she could do that again.

"It's OK."

Claire let him have the letter opener, and held out her palm to him, as the hole closed up quietly.

"See?"

Sam stared, and reached over to touch her palm just to be sure that what he was seeing was real.

"Oh my God," he said. "That's awesome."

She grinned again, nearly laughing with relief, as she pushed her palm towards his fingers.

"It comes in useful."

"I can imagine. Does it hurt when you do that?" he asked.

Claire nodded.

"Yeah it does. But I get over it quickly."

"You just get over it?" Sam said, laughing softly. "That's amazing. You're so lucky." Being able to heal was definitely better than visions, as far as he was concerned.

Claire shrugged.

"Rather be normal."

"Why? I mean, I understand wanting to be normal, believe me. But I don't think I'd feel that way if I could do what you can do."

"Because." Claire seemed to think that was enough. Almost.

"I'd just like to have a normal life. That's not really helped by being a freak."

"I don't think you're a freak," Sam said. "At least with your ability, you can try to have a normal life. For all outward appearances, you're normal, and that has to count for something?"

She gave him a smile when he said that, but shook her head.

"It's more complicated then that. There are - people interested in people like us."

Her and Peter.

"Interested like...bad interested?" Sam asked.

Claire nodded.

"At least one bad kind. I'd rather not find out about the others."

"No, I imagine you wouldn't. I'm sorry," he said. "I had no idea."

Claire shook her head.

"It's OK," she assured him. "Really."

"It's okay here. I mean, you're safe," he said. "Most people don't get the bad kind of interested here."

"Yeah, I know," she said.

"But I don't want you guys to get the bad kind of interest in you."

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