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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[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"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."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Making a face, Krycek glanced at it then away. "Maybe it's a former assistant; you might want to keep Sean from chewing on it anyway." Then, seeing Paige (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandomassistant/1232.html?thread=31440#t31440), he nods to her in greeting.

[ooc: ...I hate lj.]

[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?"

[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."

[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."

[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?"

[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."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"Well, they haven't cleaned here, anyway," he said with another look around the room. "I have a feeling Spider's pet name for us is going to be really appropriate by the end of this. He used to call us his 'filthy assistants'," Krycek explained with a vague shrug.

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"I'd say that's OMGdirty but, well," Angel swiped a finger across the counter, leaving a trail where he touched. He went ahead and scribbled the obligatory "Wash me" note.