fandomhigh | The Library Is Open (11-28-05)

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Parker perches on the edge of the desk, trying not to vibrate. "I see Neiman Marcus labels!" she sings.

"Yup. CJ dragged me there. Totally unwilling, mind you. Who wants to go first?"

"Me!"

Let Parker go first. It'll make her happy.

"All right." Methos takes two boxes wrapped in shiny black paper and tied with gold silk bows and hands them across to Parker.

"Thank you, Dr. Pierson," she says, grinning hugely.

She rips into the boxes, being careful not to actually tear the nice paper, and finds these. (http://www.bergdorfgoodman.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod1080014&parentId=cat80020&masterId=cat20088&index=5&cmCat=)

"Ohhhhhhhhhhh."

Parker smirks at Zero. "It really will."

"Okay, I think that makes it Zero's turn next." Methos pulls two more packages out, this time wrapped in shiny silver holographic paper. "You are hard to shop for, Zero. I hope you like these."

*gleefully rips into the paper like a five-year-old on Christmas morning*

Ooh, cream swerval. *dons her new sunglasses and hat* How do I look?

"Very... swerval. See, the sunglasses store MP3s, so you can really confuse people as to whether you're listening to music or not."

*laughing* Professor, you do realize you just gave me a whole new way to ignore people, right?

"That's really freakin' clever."

Parker shakes her head, and toes off the shoes she's wearing to don her new ones. "You did *good*, Dr. Pierson. These are gorgeous. I love them. Thank you again!"

Aren't they, though? I'm goin' to be a busy girl, puttin' music on my new sunglasses. *giggle*

Squall, I'd break my ankle in those.

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Janet finally pulls herself away and slips into the back office. "So you have souvenirs?" she asks.

Methos laughs. "You won't call it a souvenier when you see what it is." He pulls out a small, flat box (http://www.neimanmarcus.com/store/catalog/prod.jhtml?itemId=prod15920191&parentId=cat4870741&masterId=cat4870734&index=25&cmCat=) wrapped in burgandy watered silk-looking paper, tied with a silver bow. "This is, in part, for being the first one to step up to take control of the library at the beginning of school." His gaze is steady on her, and reminds her of what the larger part of the gift is for -- the day she came in and found him in a destroyed library and helped him, regardless.

Janet opens the paper carefully and can't control a small gasp when she sees the necklace. "It's beautiful," she says softly, glancing up at Methos. She's amazed enough that most of her defenses are down. She knows what it's mostly meant for, and she'd do it again if the situation came up. "Thank you." She fastens it around her neck for a minute and admires it, but then takes it off and puts it back in the box. "It's too nice to wear around the school every day."

Then a wry twinkle of amusement slips into her eyes. "Don't think this means you get out of reviewing the applications we collected," she said teasingly. "I put the two most promising ones on top."

"I wouldn't dream of trying to wiggle out of it," Methos assures her. He takes the stack of applications. "So by 'most promising' we mean, 'we'll make your life hell if you don't pick them'?"

Oh, wow. That's just...wow.

Of course you have free will, Dr. Pierson, and we're sure you can be trusted to make the right choices.

"Still. Keep in mind. All choices have consequences. If we don't like our new co-workers... there could be friction."

"Friction. Right. As in screaming matches in the library? That would be bad. Worse than punk music. Not that punk music is bad," he said hastily. "Just punk music in the library. Which is supposed to be a quiet place."

Methos picks up the top application and scans it. "I've got no problem with hiring Angela. She was one of the front-runners in the beginning of the semester when she had to drop out because of other commitments."

Parker smirks. "Yay. Any problem with me showing her around Special Collections sometime this week? Wednesday, maybe? We have to see if it likes her."

"Just make sure I'm around. If she disappears, I really don't want to have to face Dean Bristow with, 'Well, sir, I had no idea what was going on'."

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Janet's look was entirely innocent. "That might be the case," she admitted. "But seriously, they're the best applications. You can interview them if you want to."

"Wow," Parker says, smiling. "Very nice. Good choice, Dr. Pierson."