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Library, Thursday 11/18

Of course Belle had taken a job in the library when she realized they were available. She got to spend more time surrounded by books and be paid for her time. She couldn't ask for much more than that.

She was settled at the desk for the moment with a book on astronomy that had leapt off a shelf into her hands and opened itself up to a section on eclipses. A little additional research had revealed there was meant to be a lunar eclipse very early tomorrow morning.

A few other books had followed her to the desk, just in case she might need to know more about the moon or the sun or eclipses or various other astronomical things.

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Had Five been in and out if the library, researching how to speed things up to retrieve his siblings? Yes. Was this also the first time he'd stopped to notice anyone working there? Very much yes.

"Why am I unsurprised to see you here?"

"I'm surprised to see you here," Belle countered.

She was a bit surprised to see him anywhere, really, he had been a little scarce of late.

Look, his whiteboard of crazy wouldn't make itself.

"Why would that be?" He was well read! You know, all the books he found in the apocalypse.

Around here a whiteboard might just make itself though. It could happen.

"I just don't usually see you in here. I haven't seen you anywhere lately."

What, was he avoiding her after being unexpectedly naked in her room or something?

...noooo. But also yes.

"I had work to catch up on after being stuck as a cat," he said primly.

"You stopped being a cat quite a while back," Belle pointed out.

They were not going to address the details of that situation. Ever.

"What sort of work?"

Ever.

"If you must know," he said with an annoyed sigh, even as he shared the information. Progress. "I'm trying to find my siblings."

"Are they lost?"

Very careless of you, Five, misplacing that many people.

"They're... misplaced." Look, these things happened sometimes.

"All of them?"

Well. Better than being crushed by bits of the moon. Probably.

"Diego's here," Five said like that made up for it. "And Ben was apparently a ghost the whole time."

Welcome to his crazy family, Belle.

"A ghost?"

Five. You said the strangest things.

"He died while I was in the future," Five confirmed. "And it turns out that my other brother, Klaus, has been seeing him since then."

"You have the oddest family I've ever heard of," Belle told him. "Including fictional ones."

And she read a lot, Five. A lot.

"More dysfunctional than odd." But it was a fair assessment.

"It could be both," Belle pointed out. "Odd and dysfunctional."

Five rolled his eyes, but allowed for that. "I'm working my way through the books on time travel here."

"Have you found anything useful yet? Perhaps I could help?"

She didn't know anything about time travel but Belle was pretty good at books.

"You want to help?" But wasn't his stand-offish nature working to push her away despite desperately needing friendship?

"I like research," Belle said quickly.

This was not at all because she loved grumpy old men who pushed her away, how dare you imply such a thing.

He would never.

"Well." He did a little sniff as he looked back at the stacks. "Are you able to order books?"

"I can request them," Belle said. "Do you know what you need?"

"Anything you can find about time travel or--" He made a deeply annoyed little noise that was covered with a sigh. "--anything about symbiotic abilities."

Ugh. The power of family.

"What happens if they turn out to be books on magic?" Belle asked because how could she let that opportunity pass her by.

"I'll see what I can find. Time travel I'm sure there's something. I'm not so certain about the other."

Maybe you needed to explain about the power of familial love, Five.

Uuuuugh, don't make him say it out loud.

"As in powers," he said, trying to talk around it because Annie. All because of Annie. "It appears that my siblings and I are able to...access more of our abilities when in proximity to each other."

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