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fandomhigh2011-04-08 07:48 am
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Library [04/08]
Wesley was going to spend his library shift (surprise, surprise) reading today! Reading about what, you ask? Oh, who even cares. There were books and he was reading them. And occasionally laughing, though they were nonfiction and pretty dull.
[[open library, no OCD today]]
[[open library, no OCD today]]
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"Hey, Wesley," she said at the desk, twirling slowly to take in the space. "So ... nice library you have here."
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"Hello, Tara. Er, thank you," he said, looking up from his book. "How are you?"
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"I'm good," she said, twisting her sleeves a bit in her hands. "Looks like things are a little weird outside, but ... I'm not exactly sure what that is so I'll figure it out later. Um, can I ask you something Watcher-y?"
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"Certainly," he said, shifting forward a bit out of interest. "Ask away."
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"So hypothetically," she said, realizing that not keeping this question hypothetical would make her feel like she was betraying Kennedy in a weird way (even though it wasn't exactly subtle why she was asking), "how old can you be and still be called as a slayer? Like, um, say you're going to be 18 in a few months. I was ... reading about it."
Lamest lie ever.
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"Er," he said, wanting to avoid dashing any hopes since he really quite liked Tara and Kennedy and didn't want to reveal anything too disappointing, "it's difficult to say. I've heard of slayers being called as young as eleven and as old as eighteen, but both extremes are, ah, particularly rare. There were more younger slayers several centuries ago, when the anticipated lifespan was a good deal shorter. But now that people are living longer, older ones are becoming a bit more common, so... it's possible, I suppose," he concluded dubiously.
So... unlikely. Sorry, Tara.
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"Thanks. I just ...wondered," she said. "So what happens if you age out? D-do you just, um, lose your watcher and kind of try to be normal?"
That part, she didn't like. She couldn't imagine Kennedy without Constance.
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That was a trickier one. He knew that the Watchers whose Potentials never got Called usually retreated to quiet life after that. But on the Slayer end of it... well, in his studies, they'd only ever focused on the assumption that they were, in fact, dealing with active Slayers. Those who were assigned to Potentials generally trained separately.
"My impression of it is that they try to be normal," he guessed. "I imagine -- er, certain particular Potentials might shy away from normalcy, though."
Hint, hint.
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"It's the only thing she wants," she said. "It'll be like ... like chopping off her arms or something, you know? It makes me worry about what she'll do if she never gets it. Um. In totally hypothetical terms."
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"I understand," Wesley said, and he really did. Hey, he knew all about missing out on your dream job, okay? Only in his case it was "fired" instead of "never picked." He sighed, and finally drew from his own personal experience on the subject. "I... I have confidence that she'll find a way to get what she wants anyway," he said, shrugging. "She's rather good at that. Even without the superpowers, I think she'll still find a way to, ah, get involved."
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"I... I suppose the difficult part is trusting her to know what she's doing in battle," he guessed. "Because she's quite skilled, obviously, but it's hard to remember that amidst the, er, nervousness about whether or not she'll be alright."
Kennedy. Not Katniss. Ahem.
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That wasn't awkward at all.
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