fandomhigh | The Library (2/24/2006)

Janet was awake. Barely. And she was a little cranky about it too.

The crankiness had abated slightly, but Janet was a little distracted now. She could be composing a couple of long and slightly irritable e-mails to people back home.

Janet was off at Journalistic Integrity. One of the other library aides is likely to be around.

Janet is back. She can be interrupted from her studying. And trust me, she won't mind.

Mmm, food.

Pippi flounces in with a big bag of caramel candies from All and Sundries.

"Hello again... Janet!" she grinned. She's getting the hang of this whole, "remembering a person's name correctly" thing.

Janet's in a better mood now that she's eaten.

Janet's got a fluffy romance novel open behind the Collections Desk and can't stop giggling at it.

Janet's left for her TA meeting with Dr. Pierson. Someone else should be able to help you if you couldn't make it in before now.

"Hey, Pippi," said Janet, looking up and smiling. "How's it going?"

"It's going very well thank you." she said.

"I've come to pay you back for my fine!" She presented Janet with a bag of assorted caramels. Regular caramels, chocolate covered, mixed with nuts, wrapped around nougat, the whole nine yards.

"Thank you again."

"Wow," said Janet. "Thank you so much, Pippi." She unwrapped a chocolate-covered caramel and popped it in her mouth. "You went overboard, you realize. Have a caramel or ten."

"Well I wasn't sure what everybody liked so I figured assortments tend to cover most people." she said, "Thanks."

She took a handful and put them in her pocket, retrieving a chocolate covered one and eating it.

"So... How do you like working here?"

"That's true," said Janet. "Though I don't think that I've ever seen any of the library aides turn down chocolate." She grabbed a plain caramel next before putting the rest of them in a bowl behind the Collections Desk.

"It's a pretty good job." Janet shrugged. "Though Special Collections can be a handful."

Daniel? Was still telling himself that he was a calm, mature and responsible adult.

Hopefully if he said it enough times, it'd actually sink in.

"Hi, Janet," he said, his voice managing to sound vaguely normal.

Janet, who was totally clueless about anything Daniel might have been worried about, smiled widely when he came in.

Then she remembered the whole student/teacher dynamic and tried to look serious. She failed miserably, of course.

"Hey," said Janet. "How's it going?"

Angela is around and shooting slightly suspicious glances at Janet.

Daniel found that he couldn't look her in the eyes. Because that wasn't suspicious or anything.

"It's, um, been, um, interesting." Yes. Interesting was a good word.

Janet is ignoring the suspicious glances. She's very good at ignoring things when she doesn't want to deal with them.

"Hey, Angela," she says cheerfully. After all, she's furious with Marty, not with Angela.

"Hey," Angela replied, leaning against the counter. "So ..." She paused. She had no desire to get in the middle of a roommate squabble, really.

"How are the caramels?" she asked instead.

Janet frowned, confused. "Did Marty talk to you?" she asked quietly.

"Really good," said Janet, pushing the bowl towards Angela. Oh, good. Candy was something she could always talk about. And Angela wasn't looking at her any differently, which was also a relief. Because, 'Hi, you've known me for ten months now and just today you're finding out I'm the clone of a dead woman' is a little too awkward for a Friday morning.

"Pippi overdid it, but she did take a bunch back for herself. It was nice of her to bring so many in."

Finding out Janet was the clone of a dead woman would probably be significantly less weird for Angela than watching Rory remove and replace her limbs, or learning Angel was a 240-year-old vampire. But she won't find out, so they won't have to have that discussion anyhow.

Anyhow. Candy. Angela takes a chocolate-covered caramel and slowly unwraps it.

"It was," she said. "Did she say if they came from Wonka's?"

"She didn't say where they came from," said Janet. She stared at the candy speculatively. "I should have thought to ask. I've had two so far and nothing's happened." She picked out a caramel with nougat and unwrapped it.

Angela stared at the candy for a second, then shrugged and put it in her mouth. "It's good, anyhow," she said. "And as long as my limbs don't start falling off, I'm happy."

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