The Library Is Open (11/3/05)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet dragged herself from Criminal Justice to the library, unlocked it, and tried to decide if she felt like working today sat down behind the Collections Desk. She started checking in books very, very slowly.

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[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker hands him a coffee while she listens to Fraiser give him a hard time, then chimes in, "It would kill you to send us a postcard?"

Sitting down behind the counter, she spins on one of the revolving stools. "Also, we had to clean the place up while you were gone again. Fraiser did most of it. And the Library likes Zero. Possibly in a special way."

[janet_fraiser]

"Preferably a pretty one," said Janet, grinning at Parker. "With tropical scenery. And tell your friend to time his crisis for a day when Parker isn't giving Wilson a hard time and Zero's not in Locker 327."

"And what's up with the Library and Zero? Can it like me in a non-special way, please?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"I think it already likes both of us in a non-special way, at least Zero thinks so. Hey, did that one professor ever come out of the stacks? Or did the books eat him?"

Parker grinned. "I had fun in the clinic, once the burning pain was dealt with. Reminds me. How *is* Vomiting Victor? He still owes me shoes."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"He's sleeping, last I heard." Sam came in and threw her bag on one of the library tables, catching the last part of Parker's question. "And you probably want to pick the shoes out yourself and send him the bill...you wouldn't believe what he could come up with on his own."

She grinned and took a bite of an apple. "Or maybe you would, having seen his side of the room."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker shuddered. "So noted. Maybe I'll pick 'em out, order them, and then go by to freak him out with the bill later." She spins around and says, "How's your day, Carter?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Sounds good. Oh, I went for a long run, wrote an essay about Swiss army knives in shop class...so, calmer than usual, so far, I guess. You?"

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Quiet. Everyone's freaked out, even people who didn't know Kitty Pryde. I'm just glad it's out in the open now." Parker grimaces. "Can't say I'm grieving, I didn't know her, but it seems half the people I know are effected by this, so it's very.... weird."

[janet_fraiser]

"Oh, good," says Janet, unaccountably pleased. She's actually grown fond of the Library. "You know, I don't think I've ever seen him again I think he vanished in The Great Journal Deletion Of Parents Weekend. Maybe Special Collections turned him into a newt and he never got better?"

Janet snickered. "Jack is slowly getting better. Sam and I keep checking up on him. So does Charlie, but we don't tell him we know that." She frowned. "I'm reading his sorry ass the riot act when he gets out."

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

"So we chalk up one missing person as having wandered into Special Collections and never wandered out again? Yes, yes he did."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much." Parker doesn't look too disturbed. "Maybe it turned him into a happy newt? Or sent him to Narnia?" She stops spinning, looking caught by the idea. "I would *love* that."

[janet_fraiser]

"What era?" asked Janet. "Anything but book seven. Good, but depressing right up until the end."

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

"Gracious, Parker. I don't think I've ever seen you this... perky. I may have to go away for another week if it puts you in this good of a mood."

[janet_fraiser]

"I think so," said Janet. "It was his own fault for going in without a library card, though. Oops. Sucks to be him, then."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"For being an idiot and getting pneumonia, or aiming for my shoes? Jerk." Parker twirls again, then hops off the spinning stool to pick up some books and begin organizing them. "But hey, I get new shoes out of it. Possibly more than one pair. I can't believe his 'dad' hasn't caught on about that credit card yet."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Be glad he didn't aim higher, Parker. Besides, I think he was really trying to get the floor. Poor guy."

Sam grinned at Parker, amazed she wasn't dizzy from the spinning, "Oh, he knows. Jack just caught pneumonia and his Uncle forgot to ask for it back."

[janet_fraiser]

Janet choked. She was not claiming that General Not-A-Clone was her uncle. No way.

"Pneumonia," she said, when she recovered. "Given that he wouldn't have been there to puke on your shoes if he'd just stayed in bed when he first started feeling sick. And I think Uncle George is still sticking around until he can swipe the credit card back for--" Janet cleared her throat and mentally cursed Parker. "Uncle Jonathan."

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

Methos takes the coffee and leans against the collections desk, watching the chaos of the library swirl around him. "Would you believe me if I said that, where I was, there were no postcards? And I'm quite... disturbed to discover that about the library. Although I cannot fault... his? her? its? taste."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"You really can't. But if it can get Zero to accidentally sign a contract in blood, I guess it can get a crush on her. Although what it wants aside from regular shelving and compliments, I can't begin to imagine."

[janet_fraiser]

"It doesn't eat chocolate, does it?" asked Janet warily, eyeing the box she'd left on the Collections Desk. "Because once I left a candy bar in here over night, and--" She frowned. "I thought it was the gremlins."

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker looked intrigued. "What would it *do* with it?"

[janet_fraiser]

"I don't know, but let's try leaving a plate of chocolate and a mug of coffee overnight and see what happens in the morning," said Janet, looking excited. "It's an experiment now. Maybe Zero will have suggestions for the Independent Study?"

[swerval_zero]

Professor! You're back!

[prof-methos.livejournal.com]

Methos grins at her. "So are you, Zero. Last I heard, you were investigating Locker 327 for science. What was the eventual result?"

[swerval_zero]

I can't decide whether it's got squallin' awful or truly swerval timin'. It brought me back or whatever right before I went up in flames.

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"And you're not doing *that* again. Right?" Parker passes her a book as she comes in.