Rediscovery

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Being a vampire and having an energetic puppy meant that you did a lot of walking indoors in order to make sure the puppy got its exercise.

Fortunately the school was more than big to satisfy, and that was even without including the basement since Angel had a gut instinct that Sean and Sunshine wouldn't get along (assuming Sunshine was still down there, and Angel wasn't going to be the one to check.)

This morning found Angel and a still Santa-hatted Sean wandering around the admin areas. Not really awake yet, Angel let Sean lead. The puppy snuffled his way through one hallway and another until he finally came up to a door that was in what appeared to be a much neglected corridor.

Normally Angel wouldn't have cared, but something on the door caught his eye.

"'Assistants Lounge'?" he read aloud. He frowned. "I didn't know we had an assistants' lounge."

He tested the door. The knob felt rusted, but it opened when he applied a little pressure or possibly it was locked and he just had vamp strength to open it, la la la.

The room was dark, but Angel could make out a table, some chairs, and a faded couch. He could also make out a very strong sent of mold, mildew, and dust.

Sean, for his part, thought this was fascinating. He darted into the room, leapt onto the couch, and immediately set off a dust cloud strong enough that it billowed out into the hall. Sean barked, pleased with his accomplishment.

"Oh yeah," Angel said. "That can't be good."

He decided to investigate.

[ooc: C'mon in! Let's re-open this baby and get it ready for the new year!]

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[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I can't believe I got lost." Sam, whose sense of direction had served her well on over one hundred foreign planets, had decided to go exploring after her morning spent harassing Daniel and found herself in a part of the school she'd never seen before. She looked around the corridor. "Where the heck am I?"

At the loud crash, she ran towards the noise. She stopped when she saw Angel and the puppy. "Angel? Is everything okay?"

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Angel patted himself down, trying to get the dust off of his clothing. "What? Oh, hey, Sam. Yeah, Sean just found where the school's been keeping all that dust it's been collecting. Good thing too. You wouldn't want to misplace dust."

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"Yeah, I hate when I lose my dust. Usually because then I think it's getting together with the dust bunnies and planning a revolt, but anyway..." Sam grinned down at the puppy and reached her hand out for him to sniff. "He's adorable. A little dusty, but very cute. His name is Sean?"

"What is this place?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Sean sniffed Sam's hand and licked it. He was covered in patches of dust and his Santa hat was now at a very jaunty angle.

"Yeah, Sean the dust bunny doggie," Angel said. "Which actually at this school wouldn't be too freaky."

Angel tapped his hand on the sign on the door. "It says Assistants Lounge. Did you know we had an assistants lounge?"

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"No, it really wouldn't, would it?" Sam giggled at the feel of the puppy's tongue and scratched behind his ears, then adjusted his hat so it didn't fall off.

"No, I had no idea. I haven't been a TA that long, though. Maybe this was a beginning of the year announcement that I missed." Sam poked her head in curiously. "Wow, that's a lot of dust and, ew," she said, getting a better whiff of the room. "Doesn't the smell bother you?"

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"Like you would not believe," Angel said. "On the other hand I don't need to breathe, so maybe I should check it first?"

Angel took a few cautious steps inside. He spied more chairs, another table, some cabinets, and a sink. He made a face when he looked in the sink's direction.

"Okay, I've been to hell and believe me that?" He pointed towards the sink. "Is much worse."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam thought about that. "Yeah, you're the almost invulnerable vampire and I'm the blonde human girl. You can definitely go first."

She was all for women's lib, but if he wanted to brave the wreckage, she was okay with letting him.

"Yeah, that's certainly something unholy, right there." She stared at the sink. It was worse than the hell she'd been to, as well. "Nothing moved in there, right?"

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((dunno if comments are screened but Paige is a TA))

Paige was looking for someone so that she could say goodbye before they left for Seattle.

"what the.... Well this is new." she said as she noticed the cloud of dust and headed towards it.

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[ooc: Turned off screening for this post so people could jump in. So thanks to you I now know that it worked. Woot! =) ]

Inside the room Sean was running around in circles. This made interesting patterns on the floor, but wasn't helping with the cloud problem. On the plus side Angel didn't need to breathe.

"Sean, c'mere," he patted his thigh to encourage the dog over. "Keep this up and you're going to turn into a poodle. Oh, hey, Paige. How's it going?"

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige watches the puppy and starts to cough, "good thanks" cough
"i'm going away for the holidays, should be fun" cough

"what's this?" cough

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Angel waved his hand to help disperse some of the cloud. "Sign on the door says Assistants Lounge. But I'm an assistant and I've never heard of it. You?"

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Paige frowns "yeah me too and erm no, I had no idea there were actually perks to the job. Damn it! Right when the semesters ended too! So think we should try to do something with it?" she asks coughing much less now

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"Tell me about it," Angel said in no way pouting like a grumpy child. "Where was this when I was dealing with all the garbage from Ethics class? Hell, when I was staying up late last night to help with the final paperwork?"

Angel paused. He looked at Paige. "I realize that as a vampire I probably won't get much sympathy for the staying up late thing. Still. Annoying."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek didn't have much to do now that classes were done and he'd wandered past the Journalism class already without going in. Now, wandering some more, he saw a door open that he hadn't noticed with a cloud of dust hanging around in the hall around it.

He poked his head in and caught the lettering on the door with some bemusement. "Assistant's Lounge? We have a lounge?"

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"You didn't know that either?" Angel said automatically. Then he saw who he was talking to: Krycek, who he hadn't spoken to since the love spell.

Angel did not blush. "Oh. Kry. Hey."

Sean thankfully stepped forward to greet the newcomer. Angel leapt on that as a safe topic choice. "Meet my dog? His name's Sean."

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Krycek didn't bother to hide his smirk, but he didn't broach the topic of holiday orgies either, thankfully. "Sean? Hey boy," he said, putting out a hand for him to sniff and recieving a lick across his fingers for his trouble. "Wonder if anyone knows about this place." Krycek looked around as he ruffled Sean's ears distractedly.

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"Based on the dust which smells like it dates back to when Istanbul was Constantinople, I'm guessing not," Angel said, glad Krycek wasn't bringing up anything about threesomes no matter how pretty that might be. "Say, you worked for Spider. That's like ultra-assistant. You telling me he never told you about this place?"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"No." Krycek frowned, walking fully into the room as he dusted dog hair off his hands. "He didn't. Then again, the journalism classroom was pretty well outfitted, so maybe he thought we didn't need to be anywhere else. ...Or maybe he thought we needn't bother cleaning out a place that might need an acid wash to get it up to standard."

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"Acid wash or fire," Angel said. He frowned as he looked at a dark pile in the far corner. "Okay, I really don't want to know what that is."

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

Callisto was bored. This was never a good thing. She wandering the school looking for something to do when she stumbled into the dust cloud in the hallway.

"The frell?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Angel said, "that was my reaction too. Only not word for word."

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

"Assistant's lounge?" Callisto facepalmed. "Of course we have a lounge. They just didn't bother to tell us when it could have done us some good."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Seriously," Angel said. "Hell, where was this last night when I needed it?"

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

"The entire term, I had to put up with that jackass and they were withholding the per-" Callisto stopped mid-rant. "What were doing last night that required a lounge?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Stay up late going over Tara's crappy paperwork for Ethics," Angel said. "Which, okay: vampire. Not a real hardship on the late bedtime I suppose. But if I'd known we had a lounge I could've come here and not worried about bothering John."