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John Reese ([personal profile] aimsforknees) wrote in [community profile] etrayalogs2024-12-04 03:46 pm

December Library Catch-All [ OPEN ]

WHO: John, Harold, and anyone who might find themselves at the Library
WHEN: December
WHERE: The Library!
WHAT: The Library is here and open to all! Come borrow books, find a comfy chair to relax in, or snoop around.
NOTES\WARNINGS: Will be added as they come up

The Library is a five-story neoclassical building of terra cotta, brick, and stone. And the inside is, in fact, a library! And rather clean and organized too. There's no dust, no muddy footprints (apart from your own), and all the shelves are organized by Dewey Decimal, subject, and author. All literature is something you might find in a 2010 New York City library: various forms of fiction, children's and teens' sections, history, science, cooking, gardening, the list goes on. There's even small sections of audiobooks on compact disks and of DVDs ranging from old classics to history shows. The first floor has a reading/study room, a comfortable space with deep armchairs and tables with chairs; the fifth floor has some smaller tables clustered under a skylight. Part of the second floor is abruptly closed off by a door with a biometric scanner that denies entry to anyone who isn't John Reese or Harold Finch; the walls surrounding this section are soundproofed, so even a keen listener won't hear anything from inside. Otherwise, it's a perfectly normal library!
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[personal profile] stresstokens 2025-05-08 08:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, [ Riz says first, just staring at Gorgug for a moment. He'd still climbed on Gorgug occasionally, but he'd stopped doing it as often even before this whole mess happened. After they sort of talked around it, he'd just assumed --

Well, apparently assuming is the problem here, and he's a worse detective than he thought. But if being a worse detective means that sometimes he's wrong about how his friends want him around, or why, he can definitely live with that. ]


Okay. I thought maybe you didn't like it anymore, [ Riz says, but chooses not to elaborate. They've already cleared the air, after all. ] I've missed it too.

[ And he has. Despite everything that happened in their fateful encounter, Gorgug's always been the person Riz feels safest around, and there's something delightful about being able to see the whole world from his perspective. It doesn't take long for Riz to scurry behind Gorgug, arms wrapped loosely around his neck, their hug replaced with the contact of Riz's chest to Gorgug's back, slotted in just where he belongs.

(It does include a little of clawing up Gorgug's back and shoulders and his sweaters may never be the same, but sometimes sacrifices just have to be made.) ]