3/5 - Leicester Square

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Various members of the school trip are on a pub crawl... or rather, a hunt for the Watcher's Council, 14 Leicester Square.

They've gotten a tip from a crystal ball, and are looking for a sign.

And possibly? Tweed.


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Re: Into the HQ we go...

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Parker clutched Xander's arm, fascinated with Andrew's ability to talk and talk and manage to seem geekier than the Sir Elton impersonator from the night before. When Andrew asked if it was Xander's first time in England, swallowed a giggle in favor of deadpan. If she didn't do something, Xander was going to be having drinks with this guy out of complete neural shock.

"Xander, sweetie, I know it's impressive, but you shouldn't gape like that," she chided him, giving his arm as squeeze to warn him. Then she grinned wickedly. "Wait. I'll take care of it."

Then she leaned in and laid a Parker special on him, buried both hands in his hair, and did the tigress-claiming-territory maneuver that would be really, really difficult to misinterpret.

Plus, it was fun.

Mmmmmmmmmmmm!

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Andrew wilted. "Ah," he said weakly. "I suppose you've already got a tour arranged."

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Xander blinked at Parker. "Huh. I think I remember how to play the flugelhorn now." Then he blinked over at Andrew. "Also, was that Romeo and Juliet? With the flying monkeys?"

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[fh_jackass]

Andrew's face lit up. "Yes! That was me!" and added, "Before I turned away from the dark side forever and ever."

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Rory peered at Andrew as she wandered over with a rather heavy tome. "Dark side? You don't look like a Jedi," she remarked curiously.

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[fh_jackass]

Andrew blinked. "No, I floss daily."

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Rory sighed. "Never mind, I wouldn't understand what I just said, either, if I didn't know better. Anyway, I wanted to ask you - is there somewhere where I can get my hands on some of these books? Because I don't think our library has some of the same editions, if we have them at all. And I'd love to peruse them further when I'm not, you know, trying to save a friend's life. Or, um, unlife. Whatever."

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[fh_jackass]

"Most of these are pretty rare," Andrew said apologetically. "But there's a couple Internet sites that are good for rare books. You have to poke around, though. It's mostly like first editions of Dickens or whatever, but sometimes you find the good stuff."

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Rory nodded. "Yeah, I'm used to looking up rare books and first editions, and what have you. But I'm not that used to working with - " she consulted the spine of the book she was holding, "- Asiatic Anti-Venoms, unless I'm poking around in Special Collections."

She looked around the library admiringly. "And God knows what fascinating material you've all got around here that has nothing to do with what we're looking for."

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[fh_jackass]

"Oh, yeah, there's some great stuff here. We lost a bunch a few years back, but we're rebuilding the collection bit by bit. Maybe you could come back and visit sometime. How are you with languages?" he asked.

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"Fluent in Spanish, good with French, Italian and German, and I've got some Greek and Latin under my belt," Rory answered thoughtfully. "Both modern and archaic."

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Andrew raised his eyebrows. "Nice," he said admiringly, then added quickly, "That's an excellent start. Have you studied any non-human languages?"

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"Not yet," she said sadly. "I have a friend who showed me a little writing in Basic - which, again, is going to be meaningless if you didn't get the Jedi thing. But I could certainly look into non-human languages."

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[fh_jackass]

"We have a few books in demonic languages," Andrew said. "And we run across various artifacts, weapons, talismans and all that stuff and everyone likes to carve something on them. Oh, we've got a pamphlet on Grq'lt here," he said, pulling a thin packet of photocopied pages. "It's mostly useless for itself, but the structure is similar to a lot of more complicated languages, so it's an excellent starting point." He handed her the packet. "Here, you can have this. How long are you here for?"

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"Until Wednesday," she answered absently, looking over the pamphlet.

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[fh_jackass]

"Hm." Andrew tapped his chin with his finger. "You should speak to Giles. I suspect you could be quite an asset to our organization."

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"Your organization?" Rory asked, raising an eyebrow skeptically. "The Watchers' Council, you mean? How so?"

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"You're smart, studious, linguistically advanced, and have a sweet yet charming smile," Andrew said, ticking each off on his fingers. "The last isn't required but we could use more of that around here."

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"And I can wear tweed pretty well," Rory said, blushing bright red.

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[fh_jackass]

"See?" Andrew said. "You're a natural!"

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Rory raised an eyebrow, and shifted her book so that she could extend her right hand. "I'm Rory, by the way. So, you think I should talk to Mr. Giles when we're back home?"

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[fh_jackass]

"Wells," Andrew said. "Andrew Wells. Definitely. I bet he's got some really good books with him, back in the Colonies."

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"The...aren't you American?" Rory asked, letting go of his hand and tilting her head curiously. "But yeah, I'll be sure to do that. Our school library has a whole section of dangerous and magical books that I've taken a look at since I work there, but I'll absolutely poke around in Mr. Giles's shop."

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[fh_jackass]

"American by birth," Andrew admitted, but didn't explain further. "Your school library sounds neat."

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"It is. We have people living in Special Collections, or something," Rory replied. "And my ex-boyfriend and Xander," she pointed, just in case Andrew had somehow missed who Xander was, "got lost just before Christmas when they were looking for porn, and met a dragon. And then Zero and I had to get them out, but that's the less-fun part of that story."