Library [08/01]

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Rory hurried into the library and turned on the fan immediately before outfitting the desk with both a bottle of water and an iced latte.

With these fortifications, she was ready to spend the day there.

[SP from me for a little while - I have to run into work for a couple hours, and I'll answer all tags when I'm back omg.]

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Unless you're rafting in a swimming pool or something," Rory said. "Which, frankly, sounds kind of boring."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"And it might make the whitewater part a bit difficult." Jack shook his head, amused. "Greg could probably figure out some way to colour the water white, but it wouldn't be the same. What about you? What exciting things have you been up to?"

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"Well...I dyed my hair blonde because of Sam's cookies," she offered, snagging a little more of the cake. "And this past weekend I discovered that drinking games are a terrible, terrible idea."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack winced slightly. "But you know it wasn't really Sam's fault, right?" he asked, eyeing what was left of the cake and deciding to leave it for Rory. "And I saw a bit of the aftermath of the drinking game - I'm sorry I missed it. It sounded very interesting."

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"Of course it wasn't," she smiled. "No more than the mummy stuff was my fault. And it was kind of fun."

She raised a brow. "Who'd you run into on Hangover Sunday?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack beamed at her. "Exactly. I told her people wouldn't hold it against her." His smile softened. "And I ended up with a pre-Hangover Sunday Cedric after the drinking game. I don't think he'd ever been drunk before - he was very cute."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Awwwww, poor drunk Cedric," she grinned. "He didn't drink for awhile. We went like five straight rounds where he didn't get to, poor thing."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Guess that means there's lots of things he hasn't done. I'll have to work on that." Jack snickered and waved a hand at her. "I missed boykissy night, I missed the drinking game. I'm beginnning to think I'll have to hand in my Seawhorse membership."

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"I'm sure that if you lick a building, Jaye will forgive you," she said seriously.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Lick a building?" Jack started to smirk. "Dirty?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Literally," Rory said. "Jaye dared Alec to and he did. Of course, they were drunk, but still."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Do I want to know why Jaye wanted Alec to lick a building?" Jack asked. "Apart from because she could."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"I think that was the whole thing," she shrugged. "She could. And he did."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"You've got to love Jaye," Jack laughed. "When she wants something, she doesn't mess around. She just goes after it."

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"And she usually wants things that make other people laugh," Rory agreed.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"True. More in the sense of laughing at than laughing with, but I wouldn't trade her for anything." Chuckling, Jack straightened. "Well, if you're sure you don't want to go ahead with the wedding, I'll have to go and find something to distract me from my sorrow and woe."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory pressed the back of her wrist to her forehead. "Woe! You'll always have my undying love due to knowing my weaknesses, but seventeen is too young for marriage. I'm all for a long, long engagement, though."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"I'll just have to worship you from afar," Jack said, looking rather wistful. "And maybe gaze longingly in your direction occasionally? And then when you're ready you can sweep me off my feet and rescue me from my lonely bachelorhood, which I will of course spend pining away for you."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"It might be awhile," she told him seriously. "Especially as I'm pretty sure I'm never getting married. I might come around, though."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Even that faint hope will sustain me. Maybe I'll become a monk while I'm waiting," he mused. "Spend my life celibate, in a little cell in the side of a mountain somewhere. What do you think?"

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Not on the side of a mountain," she said, shaking her head sadly. "Way too easy. Try to be monk-like here. Sooo much harder. Or, um, so I would think."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"No, you're right. It's much easier to resist temptation when it's not walking around in front of you. There's no way I could be monastic at Fandom High." Jack didn't look at all distressed by this, he was in fact smiling rather happily. "I like it here."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory gave him a lopsided smile. "We do have a lot of pretty. It's hard enough to be monogamous here, let alone monastic."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"I've yet to manage the monogamous, so there's no way I could handle the monastic." Leaning forward, he whispered conspiratorially, "And I don't think I want to. Like you said, there's way too much pretty."

[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Exactly," Rory said, shaking her head. "It's really too bad I've sworn it all off. You'll have to enjoy the pretty for me."