Library | Saturday

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Griff was being good. He was taking it easy.

Okay, so he felt like he was losing his mind to boredom, but that just meant he couldn't focus on the books he'd (very carefully) stretched to reach off the shelves. No jumping and snagging for him, thanks. So he sat on top of the circulation desk, surrounded by things he didn't feel like reading after all.

He'd put the books away later.

[Open Library is OCD-free]

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But look, entertainment was here! Not that Effy was a particularly wonderful entertainer, but she was something, and she was here wandering over to examine what he was doing, or reading, or whatever. Learned by now the day there was someone interesting to bug in the library.

Someone she'd actually been meaning to see at some point, and not got around to. But she'd asked after him! That was a lot more like a show of... something, than most people got from Effy.

"Alright, Griff?" Looking at one of his array of abandoned books rather than him when she said it, but it was a greeting all the same.

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It was really odd for anyone to show in the library on Griff's shift - like they all knew he was more interested in the books than people. Still, it was Effy so he could stand to be pleasant enough.

"Effy...looking for a little light reading? I've found more than I can manage." And none that he felt like reading.

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"So I see," she noted, idly flicking through one of them. It was an impressive amount of books, completely untouched. "Using them as desk ornaments today?"

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"You know how it is, have to find just the right one to stare at," Griff explained.

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"Got a favourite yet?" she wondered, looking up at him now as she flicked that book shut again. "Most aesthetically pleasing? Got a best colour or something?"

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"Not so much," he shrugged. "Though I might find preference in the big red one there. Looks a bit like horror. Always a good choice."

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"Mm, blood and gore. Delightful." But she was reaching for it anyway. "Surprised you're not making book castles out of them. Or is that not your kind of artistic?"

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"I'm more about spreading them out and seeing the shape they form." Griff was a fan of taking up a lot of space. "Like tangrams."

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"Fun," she commented dryly, lips twitching in a little smirk. "You must be the life of every party with that trick." Because building them into castles was so much cooler. Or something.

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"Nah, my real trick's better," he told her with a wink.

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Effy twitched eyebrows, looking amused. "And what's that? Secretly make shit float or something?"

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It had been...very nearly two weeks. Griff had been itching to jump and now he had a show-off's chance. "Better." Griff disappeared, leaving a nice blue spark in the air where he'd been and at the same instant there was a movement of air behind Effy where Griff now stood. Teleportation was awesome.

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Okay, Effy'd meant that as sarcasm. She'd been pretty sure up until that moment that he was as normal as she was (not that she was normal normal, but...)

It took a second glancing around, and a sudden spin for her to relocate him, nearly dropping that book in the process. Far more undignified than she'd have liked.

"Holy shit."

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Okay, that had felt good in the way that Griff had missed jumping like other people might miss the loss of a limb. "Yeah. I'm a freak."

But not like those spandex freaks. No suiting up for justice for Griff.

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... "Handy, though," she noted, trying to cover her surprise with a certain amount of nonchalance. Pretty good at that, usually.

"As ways to be a freak go." Better than hers, that was for sure.

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"You could say that," he agreed. "Seems more trouble than it's worth most days, but it beats get wet with rain when I go for my coffee in the morning."

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"You just... poof, anywhere?" A little curious how something like that worked, now she'd moved a little past her 'oh shit, what?' initial reaction.

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"Nah, can only go someplace I can see, remember, or visualize really solidly," he explained. "Like, I could jump to my room whenever, but I draw pictures of places I've been to help the recall in case I wanna go back." He jumped back to where he'd been on the desk, already cross-legged, elbows on his knees.

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He was really trying to make her fall over with all this zipping around he was doing, and the quick head turns needed to keep up with that.

"Can't see why you don't have girls all over you with that one to show off."

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"Probably has something to do with ralphing on their shoes, but I'm open to other reasons," Griff said, far too tired of the rest of his life to even begin to care about girls and their issues.

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Effy wrinkled her nose, but resisted the temptation to tease him and take a step back. "You'll find chucking up on anyone gives you a bad rep." If she'd ever done anything like that, she was not admitting it.

"Other that, just getting out more might help." So helpful.

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"Did Karev put you up to this?" Griff asked, eyeing her carefully. "He's some obsession with getting me laid."

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Effy rolled her eyes, slouching back against the desk near him. "Has an obsession with getting laid in general. You, him, anyone else he knows." Or so she imagined. Fairly sure that wasn't unique to Griff.

"And no."

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"Good, I'd have to send you packing in that case," Griff answered. "So your interest is more the general - really? There are people in this world not screwing? - variety?"

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"Something like that." A virgin was a rare thing around here, after all. "Rare breed."

"Anyway. Don't think you can actually send me packing from the school library..." Being a student, she was supposedly encouraged to be here.

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"I could, what with the whole teleportation thing," Griff explained. "Despite some spectacular douches in class, I'm pretty sure I still can grab and drop anyone, anywhere, anytime. Not that I make it a habit. Just when people deserve it." Usually for killing others.

Griff might have snapped a bit since this last incident.

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"Hm." Well, that was one good reason not to piss Griff off too much. "So, I'd deserve to get dumped where, for following Alex's say so?" Not that she'd do that, but... hypothetically.

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"Hmm...I'd say the beach, but it's nice weather and you might like that," Griff replied thoughtfully. "How 'bout a daycare center? That sounds brutally painful."

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"Know I'd just walk out, right?" she pointed out. Having to deal with one kid for that weekend had been hard enough. "Doubt my influence on the under fives would be appreciated."

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"You'd be awesome. You deal with Karev all the time," Griff pointed out with a wee smirk. So pleased with himself as he was.

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Effy curled a smirk in return. "So do you," she pointed out. "And if I kept a hold, you'd be stuck there too, right? Sharing my pain."

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"You catch on quick," Griff decided. "But don't forget, I know karate." So threatening.

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"Wouldn't use it on me." So she assumed. Because, you know, a somewhat helpless girl, even if she did probe endlessly about his lack of sex life.

Plus, if he did try, she suspected if Alex found out he would be pissed... Which still didn't make it a relationship.