http://youcantfollow.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] youcantfollow.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2010-07-10 12:08 pm
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Library | Saturday

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]

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 08:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"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?"

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 08:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"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?"

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"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?"

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"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.

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Effy twitched eyebrows, looking amused. "And what's that? Secretly make shit float or something?"

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 10:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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."

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
... "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.

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"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.

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 11:09 pm (UTC)(link)
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."

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-10 11:56 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 12:06 am (UTC)(link)
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."

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 12:26 am (UTC)(link)
"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.

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
"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.

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
"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."

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 12:59 am (UTC)(link)
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."

[identity profile] pastmewrong.livejournal.com 2010-07-11 10:12 am (UTC)(link)
"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.