Office Hours - Tuesday 29.11

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Charlie is in his office. There's paper everywhere, and apples.

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Angel knocked on the door. "Prof Eppes?"

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"Angelus --I mean, Angel, hi, come in." Charlie waved him inside, smiling. "How are you?"

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Angel gave a nod of appreciation at the name correction. "Pretty good," he said, which seemed to be in direct contrast to the white gauze bandage that was wrapped around his left hand. But, if it was so, Angel didn't seem to be aware of the contradiction of it.

He came in to take a seat. "I worked on that New York stuff you gave me. Oh, and I was inside the locker the other day. Dunno if that'd interest you."

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"You were? Where did you end up? What was it like? Why?" Charlie scrambled to find a blank sheet of paper, shooting off questions as he did. Obviously he found it very interesting indeed. He finally found a piece of paper, then sighed and started looking for a pen.

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Angel offered him a pen from his pocket.

"I stopped by to look at it. You know, since you said you wanted my help? And I just..." Angel made a wooshing gesture with his right hand. "Got sucked in."

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"Oh, thanks." Charlie grabbed the pen and started scribbling. "Just sucked in? How far away where you? Can you describe what happened?"

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"No idea how far," Angel said. "Not here, that's for sure. I didn't recognize any of the smells. And it was just... sucking. Like a vacuum. Oh! Then it was like falling. Then I hit the ground, which was a lot like pain."

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Charlie nodded, then glanced over at Angel's hand. "Is that how you got hurt?" Charlie added another symbol to his sheet with a question mark behind. Vacuum, falling... Everything was important.

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Angel glanced at his hand as though he'd forgotten about it. "Oh - um, kinda, yeah. There were these gusts of fire. I got burned. But that was after the really big rat-dog-things."

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"There were really big rat-dog-things? Were they friendly?" Charlie asked before he could stop himself.

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"Well, yes, if you call biting and trying to kill you friendly," Angel said. "Which for my family actually would qualify."

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Charlie blinked. "...Vampires have strange families."

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"You're not wrong," Angel agreed. "Um - we were in a forest. Lots of vines. There was this quicksandy stuff too."

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Charlie tilted his head. "Interesting. Zero went to..." he shuffled through his papers. "The dark ages?"

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"Oh," Angel nodded as though this was a perfectly acceptable alternative. "That's nice too."

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"She was almost set on fire too. Wonder if that's a theme..." Charlie scribbled something down. He looked up, fixing his gaze on Angel suddenly. "You're not that old, are you? I don't remember if you... him... you. Um. If I know."

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"250," Angel said. "Give or take. Though I'm told I don't look it."

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Charlie grinned. "Well, no. Anyway, back to the locker... How long do you think you were in it? Was it just you? Was your life... unlife...whatever in danger at any point?"

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"Me and Logan Echolls," Angel said. "We were there... I dunno. An hour? More? Didn't feel like more than a couple of hours to me, but if we were in a different dimension who knows how long it was? And yeah. He almost died a couple of times, and there was a point there were I was in trouble."

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Scribble, scribble, scribble. Charlie nodded to himself. "Thank you for the information," he said. "I'll see you tomorrow in class? We're starting the revising then."

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"Sure. Thanks, Prof. Eppes."