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Library; Monday [ 09/01 ]

Instead of a gym this morning, Cal Stephanides was in a library, opening it up, taking a slightly worried look around, and then settling behind the desk. He still wasn't sure why he went out and got this library position, but he figured it wasn't like he had anything better to do. He just hoped that the responsibilities weren't taxing and the he could go back to trying to get more reading done.

And coffee, of course, was a necessity.

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Indy looked over at the manual and picked it up to take a look. "Well you could but you'd be better off learning Chinese if you wanted to learn how to use it."

Cal looked at the man for a moment, then shifted his eyes to the manual in his hands, and then finally just threw up his own hands in a gesture of frustration that didn't surface on his face.

"Card catalogs," he said. "Perfectly fine system. Anyone with an ounce of intelligence could figure it out. Don't they say that if it isn't broken, don't fix it?"

"Won't get any argument from me," Indy said holding up his hands in agreement. "I'm just glad people are still reading books."

Cal gave a faint grin at that as his hands settled down, folding behind his head as he leaned back in his chair. "Safe to assume," he asked, "that you're the new librarian guy?"

"Indiana Jones," he said offering his hand as a greeting. "And since this Monday, you must be Cal."

"That's right," he said, taking the hand in a shake that was decidedly firm, "Cal Stephanides. Good to meet you, Mr. Jones."

He decided not to ask if that was Indiana, like the state. He'd shoot himself in the foot if his name was Michigan, and the guy probably got it all the time.

"Are you new here as well?" Indy asked. "I'm still adjusting to the fact that I'm eighty years in the future."

"Oooh, eighty!" Cal sounded impressed, and his grin grew a little. "It's only about thirty years difference for me, but it's still a trip, so I bet it's pretty odd for you, too. And I started here last summer. My mom thought I should try the summer camp thing, decide if I liked it, and then, if not, we'd try a different school."

There was a slight pause.

"Clearly, I didn't think it was too bad."

"I hear this place can grow on you," Indy said with a nod. "I'm still trying to see if that's the case with myself."

He paused for a moment and looked over at the door that was marked "Special Collections."

"You know anything about that?" he said jabbing his thumb in the direction of the door.

"Not...particularly," Cal admitted after following the jap of Jones' thumb, and giving his head a light shake. "All I know if that you need special permission from a teacher to go there."

Even if he did have something he wanted to find there, Cal was the type that was too lazy to bother getting the permission, therefor deciding that whatever it was wasn't all that important in the long run.

"Huh."

Indy turned and looked at the door with curiosity. "I probably should find some general rules and instructions about this place."

"You could always go exploring," Cal offered, trying to say it with his usual deadpan, but found he couldn't help his smirk. Exploring around here, he imagined, only guaranteed a good story out of it, but nothing else at all.

"I usually like to know what I'm getting into first," Indy said with a small smirk. "Though there's something to be said for diving in head first."

"Did the old librarian leave any notes or anything?"

Cal hadn't known the old librarian, but it sounded like something librarians would do.

"Looks like there have been a few of them," Indy said with a shrug. "Not sure who left what at this point. I'm just going by what I've found in my desk drawer."

Cal gave a glance toward the office, before his gaze shifted to the Special Collections, and then finally back to Jones. He shook his head slightly.

"Good luck with that. He's to hoping you find out the easy way that that's where they keep the constantly hungry dragon, or something."

"Dragons."

Indy scratched his chin and shook his head. This place is going to take some getting used to.

"Yeah."

He shrugged and headed back to his office. "Grab me if you have any questions and maybe we can puzzle it out together. Or if anything attacks you."

Cal nodded. "Will do."

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