Library (12/15/05)

[janet_fraiser]

Janet opens up the library after the omg, posted late, noes! Criminal Justice final. She flips on the lights, goes behind the Collections Desk, and starts silently cursing the stupid little gray aliens that sent her back to high school, finals, the whole concept of papers and the grading system in place in the United States today.

She scrawls out a sign on a piece of paper and posts it on the door:

PLEASE TURN IN YOUR OVERDUE LIBRARY BOOKS
BEFORE THE END OF THE TERM

(OR WE'LL SEND ZERO AFTER YOU
WITH HER MALLET)

Comments

After Shop Class

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"Morning, Janet," Sam said. "Sorry I missed you yesterday, but I was up most of Tuesday night working on the wormhole stuff and just crashed after that."

She checked to make sure Liz wasn't anywhere around, then took a bite of the banana she pulled out of her bookbag. "What'd I miss?"

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee comes in looking tired and cranky. He sits in a corner and reads sullenly although is thoroughly sans banthabell

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John sneaks into the library and tries to hide behind some shelves. Hiding is good today because he has no idea if Aeryn told anyone anything about what he'd done.

So, hiding.

[demonbelthazor]

Since study hall wasn't open yet, Bel wandered into the library to go over his biology notes and to work on Plan B for desouling Angel. He took note of the sign about overdue books and remembered he still had the book from Special Collections. Originally he'd held on to it so it couldn't be used against Angelus. No point in that now, but there were some useful passages about soul binding he'd have to copy before he brought it back.

Re: After Shop Class

[janet_fraiser]

"I managed to talk Aeryn into painting her nails," said Janet. "Vala brought cookies and chocolate cake, and Bridge stopped by to confuse Aeryn with the concept of Jell-O. You never know, you might get her liking the blue stuff if you bring her some." She frowned. "Angel was acting weird yesterday. Can he even be hypnotized by Crazy Squid Lady? Other than that, not much."

[janet_fraiser]

"Hey, Lee," says Janet. "Are you okay?"

[janet_fraiser]

Janet gave John a confused look, but then shrugged. She had at least twenty biology books that she'd dragged back to the library this morning, and she wanted to check them all in and get them reshelved. He'd come and talk if he wanted to.

[janet_fraiser]

Janet really wished there was a way to keep the evil people out of the library. Or maybe just Belthazor. On the other hand, he'd gone searching for his girlfriend's missing kittens, so maybe there was hope for him yet.

Re: After Shop Class

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam blinked and stopped chewing mid-banana as she tried to wrap her brain around the first part of Janet's sentence. "I'm sorry...did you say you got Aeryn to paint her nails? Was she bitten by a gremlin or something?"

"Ooh." She mentally rubbed her hands together. "I hate being the jell-o minority. At least if I had Aeryn on my side, people wouldn't harass me about it as much, right?"

"Weird? How?" Sam frowned--she actually liked Angel now. It'd be a shame to have to stake him. "'I'm all evil again' weird, or 'I'm going to dance the pas de deux from Swan Lake with Anakin' weird? And is Crazy Squid Lady still around? Not that I want to see her," she said, making warding off hand gestures, "but it would be good to know where she is, if nothing else."

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

"Not really," he answers honestly, "but I'll be alright."

[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John continues ducking and hiding, not noticing that he's knocking over books during his attempted hiding.

Re: After Shop Class

[janet_fraiser]

"She was in a bad mood," said Janet. "I was trying to cheer her up." She shrugged. "Not that I have a clue about how to do that. Or even what was wrong. You could see if she'll try Jell-O. It might work."

"No, Angel was trying to flirt with me. I think. But he wasn't acting evil, just weird, and kind of clueless which, now that I think about it, isn't all that different from normal." Janet started checking in books while she talked. "I try not to think about Crazy Squid Lady. Didn't Parker tell us that Marty may have taken care of her?"

[janet_fraiser]

"You want to talk about it?" asked Janet.

[leeadama.livejournal.com]

Lee shakes his head and attempts to look more cheerful. "I'd rather hear about what's new and exciting in your life, Janet."

[janet_fraiser]

"John!" Janet stalks over and starts picking up books. "I don't know, I don't want to know, and right now, I really don't care. But do me a favor and try not to make extra work for me while you're busy avoiding the world?"

She sighs. "Sorry. I'm having a bad day."

Re: After Shop Class

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"You're a good friend, Janet. Did it work?"

Sam had to consider that for a minute as she watched Janet check in books. "Weird, clueless, and flirty vampire. Huh. Sorry I missed that, too." She grinned. "How'd you handle it?"

"Oh, that's right. I'd forgotten. Still, better to know for sure, I think. Especially around here."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Sometime after John had finally set him free, Angel managed to scrape together enough stupidity dignity to come by the library.

He did a very good imitation of trying to be invisible. Or at least as good as an over six-foot, broad-shouldered, wearing nothing but black vampire could do. Which is to say not at all.

[demonbelthazor]

Bel saw Angel enter the library and sank down in his seat a little.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angel saw Bel. His face did that uber-stoic thing that only happened when he was truly pissed. He stalked over in Bel's direction.

"You're that desperate now you've got to hit me with love spells in order to get any action?"

[demonbelthazor]

Bel blinked. "I have no idea what you're talking about," he said coldly. "You're the one who jumped all over me in sociology."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Love. Spell." Angel repeated. "Cast by you, on me. And lemme tell you, if the aftereffects is that you get to lose your memory of everything that happened, we really need to kick the crap out of whoever came up with it in the first place."

Re: After Shop Class

[janet_fraiser]

"I really have no idea," said Janet. She shrugged. "But what else was I going to do?"

"It's kind of funny in retrospect," said Janet. "I tried being oblivious, in denial, then being enough of a geek to throw him off. Then I panicked, blurted out I had a boyfriend, and he said he thought we were talking about books." She shook her head. "I'm not asking any more. You know why? Because I just don't want to know."

"We do need to know for sure. Maybe we should bring that up for I-Club?"

[demonbelthazor]

"I'll never forget that. I'm a demon, not a witch," Bel said. "You're barking up the wrong tree here."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Vampire, moron," Angel said. "If I can do some magic, so can you."

Re: After Shop Class

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"With Aeryn?" Sam thought. Aeryn was tough and very seldom girly. "Um, point her towards a target and get out of her way? Yeah, I got nothing," she shrugged.

Sam started laughing. "Yep. Suave and cool under pressure, that's you." She reached out to pat Janet's arm. "Hey, you okay?"

"Maybe we should. After the gremlins, though, so Zero's head doesn't explode. Or yours."