Library is Open, Wednesday 2/1

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Zero opens the Library and heads back into the stacks, returning a few minutes later with that which she sought: The Amethyst Flower, the sequel to The Jade Flower. Today, there will be silly romance novels, and it will be good.

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First Period

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Chapter 1. We meet our heroine, Amethyst Flower--Ammy to her friends. Her parents, the Dread Pirate Frykin and the Jade Flower, seem to be missing. Oh no!

Re: First Period

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"God, I thought you were kidding about there being a sequel," Parker said as she came in. She grinned. "So? Just as bad?"



[afk 1 hour]

Re: First Period

[swerval_zero]

"I think it's even worse, it's beautiful. It's about their daughter. They've been kidnapped, oh noes!"

Second Period

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Chapter 4. Ammy is kidnapped by Running Wolf MacGregor, a half-Scottish, half-Native American (or 'Indian' as the book calls him) man with some sort of mysterious past. Zero can't quite work out why she lets him kidnap her. She's half-ninja, half-pirate, after all. Surely the girl's got moves.

Re: Second Period

[chasingangela]

Angela comes in after math class and raises her eyebrows at Zero's book. "Another one?" she asks. "What's happening this time?"

Re: Second Period

[swerval_zero]

"The pirate and the ninja are missing, and their daughter dressed as a noblewoman to find out what happened to them. This got her kidnapped by the son of an Apache princess and a Highlands chieftan. Funny how these things happen, isn't it?"

Third Period

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Chapter 9. An evil sheikh comes onto the scene. Turns out he's got Ammy's parents held hostage down in Colombia with the coffee, and he wants Ammy's long, flowing black hair and sparkling violet eyes for himself.

Re: Third Period

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory came in after journalism in a fairly bad mood, but smiled at Zero's book.

"High quality reading?" she asked wryly.

Re: Third Period

[swerval_zero]

"Oh, yes, this is high-quality literature right here." Zero shows Rory the cover, in which a tall, buxom woman she assumes is meant to be slender, petite Ammy swoons in the arms of an overly muscled shirtless Native type. Funny, Ammy in the book doesn't seem the swooning sort.

Fourth Period

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Chapter 13. Though she resists, Amethyst Flower is falling in love with Running Wolf MacGregor. Then there is the overly flowery sexing.

Re: Fourth Period

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron heads into the library to look up some books on sword fighting techniques for Self-Defense class.

Re: Fourth Period

[swerval_zero]

Zero bursts into laughter at a passage in the book. "Oh...hi, Cam." Then she starts giggling some more.

Lunch

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The Library is closed so that the library aides may eat their lunch in peace. Zero munches a peanut butter sandwich while reading.

Chapter 16. The evil sheikh threatens to kill Jade Flower and the Dread Pirate Frykin unless Ammy is given over to him. Zero wonders why Jade hasn't killed this guy yet. Running Wolf MacGregor challenges him to a duel.

Re: Lunch

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

Parker brought her lunch, but was distracted by a phone call (http://mparker17.livejournal.com/2413.html?thread=577389#t577389) for a while. Now she's plotting Callisto's death.

In the mean time, she was considering her Medieval History reading, and comparing it to the amusement factor of Amethyst Flower. The romance novel was winning.

Re: Lunch

[swerval_zero]

"Oh, somebody just kill the bastard already!" Zero yells at her book.

Fifth Period

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Chapter 21. Running Wolf MacGregor fights the evil sheikh while Ammy singlehandedly holds off all his men. There are those moves Zero knew she had to have. He's stabbed in a way that Zero is pretty sure should be fatal, but Ammy doesn't seem too concerned. Huh.

Re: Fifth Period

[replicarter.livejournal.com]

Eighth strides into the library and sees the young woman intently reading. "I hate to bother you," she says smoothly. "But could you help me for a moment?"

Re: Fifth Period

[swerval_zero]

Darn. Just when she thought the big secret was going to be revealed. Zero looked up and said, "Of course, professor. How can I help you?"

Re: Fifth Period

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory's back to typing on her laptop again, though she's got a whole shifty-eyed thing going on.

Re: Fifth Period

[chasingangela]

"Working on stuff for study group?," Angela asks, when she's pretty sure Zero's out of earshot.

Sixth Period

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Chapter 25. Running Wolf MacGregor's deep secret is revealed. He's a werewolf. Amethyst Flower, being half-ninja and all, has known since chapter five. Zero still says that sword wound should've been fatal. They have more flowery sex--ewww, he's still bloody!--and get around to actually rescuing her parents.

Re: Sixth Period

[mparkerceo.livejournal.com]

"So, looks like you buzzed through that. Did they ever explain why Ammy wasn't even worried about him getting stabbed?" Parker's bored, and considering going to the gym next period, since she doesn't have a class. Or maybe the firing range.

Re: Sixth Period

[swerval_zero]

"He's a werewolf. She figured it out back in chapter five. This is the first mention of lycanthropy in the book. I'm more convinced than ever it's a send-up."

Seventh Period

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Epilogue. Jade Flower and the Dread Pirate Frykin give Running Wolf and Ammy a ship as a wedding present. And they all live happily ever after. Or something.