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]

Sam lifted a shelf on one of the bookshelves which was currently listing awkwardly to the side. "Ick."

Something gooey and phosphorescent was on her fingers when she pulled her hand away. She quickly wiped her hand off on her jeans. "If it's me, make sure all my stuff goes someplace worthy."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Hey, at least you helped clear the air," Angel said. He took the paper and started to write up a flyer alerting people to the room. "That'll be a big help as is. Here, lemme go post these. I'll be back soon."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"Okay cool, glad to help! Catch you later than Angel,"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"C'mere boy," Angel said. He pointed towards the discarded coffee cup. "Go play with that. Assuming it's not covered in poison."

A thought occured to Angel. "If students randomly turn into animals around here, what are the odds one day Sean's going to turn into a student?"

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I don't care much about the TV viewing public, if it means I don't have to touch that sink." Sam eyed it warily. "I'm sure one of those coffee cups just slithered."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angel came back after posting the flyers and caught the tail end of the conversation. "Hell, are we sure this place isn't some wacky Reality TV experiment to begin with?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Same here," Angel said. "Bye Paige."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"I saw he put up a flyer about an event in the shop for Christmas," Angel said. "Might still be around then."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

Paige shuddered and wrinkles her nose again, "are we sure we even want this lounge?" she asks, "cos despite what Angel said I'm pretty sure there's something decaying in here!"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"They aren't bad, but how would you tell a puppy-turned-student apart from any other teenage male, besides a preoccupation with tennis balls?" Krycek looked at the table and ran his finger over the surface, grimacing. "This isn't just dust. I'm well and truly disgusted. But at least now there's something to do today."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

"good point, kinda like challenge on Survivor!?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"It's definitely a challenge to survive in here," Angel replied. "Though mold doesn't seem to be having a problem. We should douse the place with bleach and then set it on fire."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"It'd be a useful place to have," Angel said. "Not that I've got any plans about being a TA next year because talking to my mun about that would break the fourth wall but I got conscripted into more Ethics work. I say as long as I'm on call for the slave labor, I deserve a bonus of some kind."

[the4thsister.livejournal.com]

She nods, "sounds like a plan to me! and yes we should totally set it on fire!"

"Or we get all the magic students together and we...I dunno create some sorta mega cleaning spell!"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"Well, it's not like we have a crazy bear keeping people from getting in here," Krycek noted. "So anyone who was a TA this semester should be able to have access, if only to make up for the time we didn't get." He smirked, arching an eyebrow suggestively. "Unless you'd rather Jake and I took the bonus-giving onto ourselves?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

But a bear would be cool! Besides, we haven't looked in the closets yet... Angel covered his face with his hand. "Okay. So. Now we're at the bribery for silence portion of the day, huh?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Where's a pocket dimension when you need one?" Angel said. "We could shove all this dirt in there and not have to worry about it."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam looked up from where she'd been making sure the blue stuff didn't eat through the fabric. "What's a pocket dimension? And, er, wouldn't the people, beings, things, whatever that live there get upset about that?"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

A bear! Is he, by chance, French? "I'm not above bribery," Krycek said with amusement. "But for what, exactly? It's not like the school doesn't already know you fell all over yourself propositioning most of the student body." He looked around the room again and made a face. "You know, we really need cleaning supplies if we're going to get anything done. There has to be a janitor's closet somewhere in this school, despite the fact that I've never actually seen a janitor at any point."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Maybe the gremlins do all the cleaning?" Angel suggested. "Or maybe they zap the place with a cleaning spell while we're all sleeping. Consider everything that could break, ooze, leak, or othewise muck up the place I'm thinking they don't sell that kind of solvent at Home Depot."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Possibly," Angel said. "But that's why you hope the door's one way."

He looked around for something to help sop up the blue goo. Finding nothing that suggested itself, he took a pillow from the couch and placed it on top.

"Okay. If that starts to smoke, I say we run."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

Sam made a mental note to quiz Angel about pocket dimensions sometime.

"If that starts to smoke, I've got bigger problems," she said, gesturing to the smear on her jeans, "that may or may not include me running to the clinic in my underwear."

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"You can borrow my coat if you need," Angel said. "Huh, don't they have gloves in the library to handle the volitle stuff? Maybe we should borrow some of them."

[carter-i-am.livejournal.com]

"I appreciate that," Sam said. "And yeah, I think they do. Want me to head over there and see if they can let us borrow them?"

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Maybe some industrial cleaners too, if we can find some," Angel said.