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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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"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?"

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."

((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.

"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?"

[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?"

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?"

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

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?"

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

"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?"

"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."

"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."

Paige laughs, "well you have to be awake during the day now, so I can get why staying up all night would be annoying, although in fairness given finals I've been doing pretty much the same thing, only with the help of artifical stimilants, well charmed candy from Wonkas."

She bites her lip and peers inside "it doesn't look like it's been used in a while and considering this school that mean like centurys."

Paige thinks a moment, "I know a spell that'd fix it up, but well my sisters aren't too keen on me using magic for personal gain, although not so much personal really or gain for that matter considering I don't even know if I'll be TA next semester, so more just being helpful really." she turns to Angel and smiles "whaddya think?"

Angel thought about it. "Think you've got a spell that could clear the air without having to crack open a window? Because I'm all for people being able to breathe, but I'm also against anything that risks me getting a tan."

"Hmmmm, yeah there's probably something I could try, cos yeah we don't you turning into dust do we?"

Paige thinks for a moment trying to remember something she read about purifying the air, that should work.

She says the spell and watches wating to see if it'll work.

((which is completely up to you))

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?"

"Though on the up side if I did it's not like that'd be out of place," Angel joked. He watched as the air cleared enough to look suitable for breathing. "Looks like it helped. Let's check the place out, see what's in it."

Paige grins cos yay her spell worked without any backfiring, well so far anyway.

She nods and goes into the room looking around, "I'm guessing the teacher's lounge isn't like this!" she grumbles

There was a far too long pause before Angel said, "I don't think so."

He checked to make sure Sean was okay. The last thing you wanted was a puppy snatched by gremlins, or worse.

Angel looked around. "No kidding. That couch looks so old I could've sat on it when I was mortal. Also I don't think the walls were originally that color."

She smirks, "well no, who'd paint them...yellowy, green, mold and nicotine really aren't good colors are they?" she ask wrinkling her nose.

"Also I doubt it's meant to smell like this, think there's something dead in her? I mean dead dead?" she clarifies really not wanting to offend him

"Okay, so that? Was not reassuring."

She also peeked her head in. No movement so far. "So, are we going in?"

Angel smirked. "Was gonna say."

He sniffed the air. "Hmm. Um, not sure I'd want to peel the walls back, to be honest. But no dead bodies at least."

Sean snuffled around. He discovered a forgotten coffee cup on the floor and started to play with it.

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?"

"I say yes," Angel said. "I've been an assistant this whole semester and never once had a lounge for it, however crappy. Let's see what's up. For all we know there's end of year bonuses hidden in here. Either that or all the missing students."

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