Library [05/31]

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Rory, whose hair was already starting to frizz and curl due to humidity, opened up the library Wednesday and plunked herself behind the desk with a book.

She made a mental note to see about getting a fan in there, too. Because gah.

['Tis summer, so no OCD, yays!]

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"Sure, Dawn," Rory replied, reaching for the application forms. "Okay, we need name, year, dorm room - not cabin, I guess, just dorm - and if you want to put whether you're a Chosen One or not, you're allowed but it's not mandatory. We just used to have a dumb rule about not letting people put that on there."

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Dawn quickly filled out the application and handed it back. "Not a Chosen One, so it's not an issue. Weird rule, though."

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"There were people putting it on there and it made one of the aides annoyed," Rory explained, quickly processing the form. "Said aide doesn't work here anymore, and I'm a good friend with one of the actual Chosen Ones, and it was really helpful for when someone got sick this past spring. So I'm not keeping the rule."

She smiled as she finished with the card. "Okay, what are we checking out today?"

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"Someone got sick and needed Chosen Ones?" Dawn asked. "Does that happen a lot? And what did he or she need them for?"

She displayed the book to Rory. "This is the newest step in the how to annoy the Stickbugs program," she said proudly, opening to the page she'd marked when researching with Molly and Isabel. "Ta da!"

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Rory bit her lip to keep from laughing. "I like. When are we doing this?"

"As for the Chosen One thing, it was a friend of ours of the undead variety who got poisoned by a not-so-friendly person of the same non-living capacity, and he needed blood of Chosen Ones to live," she explained. "It acted as an antidote, I believe."

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"Today, I think," Dawn said, snickering.

It took Dawn a minute to interpret, but she'd read a lot of Giles's old Watchers' Diaries when no one was paying attention she'd done her homework at the Magic Box after school. "Someone used the Killer of the Dead? Here?"

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Rory nodded. "That might've been what it was called, yeah. It was this evil vampire Darla who did it to my friend Angel. But he lived and he's fine and all is well."

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Dawn didn't slam her head into the desk, but it was close. There was a lot of eyerolling, though. "Darla sucks. And you really found a way to save Angel without draining a slayer? That's impressive."

Not to mention something she'd have to tell her Giles for future reference, since people seemed to like shooting Angel.

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"You don't have to tell me twice that Darla sucks," Rory sighed. "She grabbed me, drugged me, threw me in a closet and threatenet to kill or turn me last year. And I wasn't so much involved in the cure - mostly I was sneaking around a Watcher library in London finding absolutely useless information."

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Dawn smiled slightly at Rory, sensing a kindred victim type. "If it makes you feel any better? Back home I used to get kidnapped all the time. Almost weekly."

"The Watcher library?" Dawn made another note about important things to tell Giles. "How useless are we talking?"

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"Ick," Rory winced in sympathy. "Yeah, I've been nabbed once, almost twice, and there was a whole...thing," she waved her hand vaguely in the direction of her neck, "last year. So you have my sympathies."

"Um, useless inasmuch as a lot of it was in demon languages that I can't read," she continued. "Xander read Latin aloud and set a book on fire by accident. But they didn't have much of anything to help us."

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"Demon languages? Oooh." Dawn didn't know many, or much of those that she did, and Giles said her pronunciation was 'horrid,' but it was still a relief to hear that the sources of information hadn't been permanently and completely lost. "So who came up with the cure for Angel? Which was what, by the way?"

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"I want to say Janet might have," Rory said thoughtfully. "I know it was a group effort, since Bridgey had to detect who was a Chosen One, but we were all scared he wasn't going to make it."

She shook her head. "He looked awful. And I have no idea what the cure itself was, since I wasn't in there when they gave it to him. But I'm pretty sure it was the combined blood of the Chosen people."

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Dawn blinked a lot. "Wow. That's...wow. I'm glad it worked."

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"Me too," Rory agreed. "He's in LA now and doing really well, and actually managing to stay in contact and away from people who'll poison him. So yay."

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"Yay," Dawn agreed.