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Library, Sunday

It was Sunday which meant Lee was behind the desk today, scribbling ideas down for his newspaper article. He had some good ideas but the creativity just wasn't flowing right now. He figured he could, if anything, draw a giant doodle and turn it in but he kind of wanted to do better than that.

Maybe he'd write an article on doodling in class. It could be an epidemic.

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The notes on his article have turned into doodling. Such an attention span, this one.

The library's closed save for other aides and the librarian.

He's back to actually writing now though the words are just groups of gibberish strung together.

Should be around for the entire day!

So, okay. Lee had a girlfriend. So what. She still needed to do research on medieval society, it seemed like. And he was easier to talk to than certain other people would be right now.

And always pretty to look at!

"Hey, Lee. Which way to the medieval history?"

"Hey, Dinah," Lee said, looking up. "And uh, not sure. Never been to that section. I can find out though! Anything specific you're looking for?"

"Ummm," Dinah smiled back while she thought, then finally said, "Day-to-day life? My friend Merlin's from back then. He was telling me stuff about how they farmed and managed things that I didn't expect. And anything on legal stuff?" Maybe if she could figure out which rule she'd broken from Arthur's point of view, she'd know how to handle him.

"There's gotta be something on that around here," Lee said, punching up a few things on the computer to get a general idea of where things were. "Legal stuff, I'm not so sure because it's really specific. It might be included in some bigger books. Want me to show you or just point it out to you?"

"Could you show me? I won't take too long," Dinah promised, but sending the stacks a rather wary look. "Once I have the right place. None of it's in that Special Collections I've heard about, right?"

There were things on the Radio that she just didn't know whether to take seriously or not about that.

"No, Special Collections is for...the more out there books," he said, coming out from behind the desk and gesturing her to follow him. "You need special permission to get in there anyway."

"You do? Hunh." Dinah bounced along after him, mood lightening at the thought of getting answers. Hesitantly, she asked, "Any books you'd recommend on history besides these? You said you were reading up on it, at the pool party." And she *really* wanted to ask about the girlfriend he hadn't mentioned, but there didn't seem any way to ask about that at all.

"Yeah, it's gotta come from a teacher," he said. "And they have to give a reason. So, if you've got research in there, the teacher you're researching for will have to let us know."

He watched the aisles as he walked, making sure they didn't go somewhere wrong.

"And it depends on what sort of history, really. Wars? Poets? General history? I've read a lot of that stuff lately."

"Wars," Dinah decided, following through the longer and longer stacks. "Is it just me, or has half our school been in a war? Either on Earth, or out in space?" After a minute, she couldn't help asking, "Who's your favorite poet?"

"It's not just you," he said and laughed. "Seems a lot of places thrive on conflict out there. To live you gotta fight."

Lee didn't know that. Yet.

"Me? I like Poe but I think I have a bias for liking him. One of my girlfriend's favorites."

"Yeah, definitely a lot of fighters here, even if there's no wars where they're from," Dinah said, thinking Tony, in his way, and Angry, who was fighting who knew what. "Poe, hunh? Goth stuff? Your girlfriend's into that? Somebody told me she was already at college..." Dinah was dying for details.

"She's into literature," he said, nodding. "And she is. Who told you, if I can ask? I don't mind, it's not a secret but maybe my ears were burning and I can find out why."

And he was curious.

Caught off-balance, Dinah laughed, feeling herself blush a little. Hoped it wasn't too obvious. "Um. Francine Peters, do you know her? Dark hair, junior, lives up on Fifth?" She looked very studiously at the books they were passing by. "I might have mentioned meeting you, on Tuesday. To her."

And gotten so disappointed.

"I don't think so but that doesn't mean she doesn't know me," Lee said, peeking down an aisle to check and then walking again. "Her name's Adah. She goes to school down in Georgia. Studying to be a doctor."

Okay, now? Officially depressed. And impressed. "Wow. Smart then, hunh? Literature and science." Couldn't just be a science geek, could she. Probably as smart as Barbara. "Which school in Georgia?"

"Emory," he said and smiled a little. "Literature, science, just about anything that interests her. Way smarter than I am and I don't think I'm that dumb."

Just lacking in common sense sometimes.

"She's big into infectious diseases. The small stuff you see under microscopes."

Super-genius. Well. Okay, she'd known there was a girlfriend, at least it was someone Lee really liked, that he bragged on. That was good. "Is she going to go into research?" Dinah asked, checking their location in the library. "And no, you're way not dumb." Oh. Intelligent way to put it, Lance. "I mean, she must be impressive, if you think she's smart."

"You know, I'm not sure what she's specifically going into," he said thoughtfully. "She works in their clinic down there so she does deal with patients and stuff but I think she's happier in a lab. I keep teasing that I'm gonna show up there and get her nice, clean environment all messy and stuff. But, I'd bring flowers!"

A bouquet, even.

"And she's impressive for more than just that but yeah."

"Yeah? In what way?" Masochism, curiosity, or just genuine interest, Dinah wasn't sure which. Maybe all three? "And definitely. Always take flowers and cookies if you're going to mess up someone's life."

Hunh. Maybe she should tell Leto that.

"Well, she's honest and blunt and open and strong," he said, stopping in another aisle and finally going down it. "She's interesting, challenging and completely infuriating sometimes but it's more because she doesn't take my crap."

Ever.

"She's just different from anyone else I've ever met and I love that."

"Awwwww!" Jealousy got left behind by latent rampant romanticism. "That is so sweet." Dinah followed him down the aisle, feeling both worse and better, asking about this. This kind of relationship she understood, even if it wasn't hers. "How long have you two been together?"

He pointed out a few of the books on the subject she'd asked him about before answering, "Just about two years come this summer. It's been a...wow, long frakking time."

Dinah took down Daily Life in Medieval Times (http://www.amazon.com/Daily-Life-Medieval-Times-Detailed/dp/1579120695, just for), just to start, with a sense of hopefulness, and grinned at him. "That's so awesome. I can't help being jealous." Not of him, exactly. Okay, of him too, because Lee rocked. But. "And you're still together even though she graduated and all? And you're from another planet?"

"Yep, we've been doing the long distance thing for about...seven months or so," he said. "We see each other when we can. I go down there, she comes up. And I'm probably going to stay around this planet when I graduate. I'm looking into it, at least."

"You said that, about the military versus the law career..." He hadn't mentioned there was someone he was staying for too, but, how would you bring that up? "I guess Georgia has law schools, doesn't it? You'd be a lot closer that way." Dinah frowned a little, pulling down a book on feudal law. "Can you do that? I mean. Get paperwork to just stay?"

"Well, I'm not officially in the military yet," he replied. "It'd just be a matter of me deciding to stay. And I don't know if I'd go to school in Georgia but being here on this planet makes it easier than if I go back to Caprica."

Dinah nodded reluctantly. And again, reminded of Leto. "That would be one heckuva commute. You've still got a month or so, right? Have you been accepted anywhere already?" She grinned at him, then blinked, finding a book on Camelot on the shelf. "Hunh." To check out, or not to check out?

"Some, yeah," he said, shrugging. "Nothing huge and nothing I'm thinking about till I have to. Haven't given anyone a definitive answer."

Dinah nodded. "A lot to think about." She had her main goal and location decided already, but the details and career were something else.She'd be putting it off for a while too. She looked at the books in her arms, then impulsively said, "Add in a book of Poe, and I think I'm set."

"Poe, huh?" Lee asked, heading to another, more familiar aisle. "Biography or book of his works?"

"Works. You've got me curious about what Adah likes now." At the last second, she put the book about Camelot on top of the pile so far, not even looking to see if it was a history or legends or about one of those movies or what. "The only poetry I know much of is Shakespeare, for the play this term."

"She'll be happy to hear I'm spreading the knowledge she imparted to me to others," he laughed, heading down another aisle and picking up a thicker book of works he'd read. "This look good?"

"Looks good," Dinah agreed, sighing just a little. Informative library visit, in more than one way. "Thanks for all your help with this. I'm more Action Girl than Book Girl."

"I've only become a book guy because I've been here so long," he laughed. "Before that, I was an 'I Don't Care' guy. But, glad it helps. Hope they're good reads."

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