December Library Catch-All [ OPEN ]

[aimsforknees]

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!

Comments

[fortitudosalutis]

Carver tilts his head. He doesn’t want to think about the kids, so he doesn’t. “I know what I’m doing.”

He doesn’t posture for the fun of it.

[heavensnight]

"Do you?" She still has on a tight dress that shows there's nothing on her and she pats at it her body, showing no weapon. Certainly no pockets to hide one in. "I have nothing on me. Unless you want to pat me down yourself?"

In another situation, that would be her flirting. Here she just sounds exasperated.

[fortitudosalutis]

"It doesn't take a weapon to be dangerous."

That's a simple fact of life. And underestimating women never ends well in the field.

He just watches her. "Why're you here, anyway?"

[heavensnight]

"I'm an exotic dancer. What do you think I'll do, toss my bra and blind you so I can choke you?" She was glaring at him but finally breaks their eye contact.

"Browsing the books. Like anybody else here."

[fortitudosalutis]

You'd be surprised what you can do with underwire, Carver doesn't say. He just watches her, eyes narrowed.

Ultimately, he doesn't close the distance.

"Don't come up in the corners," he says finally.

[heavensnight]

It was good he didn't because she'd never thought he was someone she could be comfortable with but that had just been dialed up by a thousand.

"You act like I was crawling around on the ground, taking people by surprise. Maybe you need to get used to it because whatever the hell you had going on in your world? It isn't here."

[fortitudosalutis]

Carver just stares at her. No grin or gesture with his hands to cut the tension, no joke or distraction. He just stares, and calculates the distance between them.

“Uh huh,” he agrees. He doesn’t warn people often.

[heavensnight]

There is so much tension and he's clearly not going to do anything about it. Hasn't even apologized. She doesn't think he will either.

"Okay, pretty boy, I could put up with your staring back when we first met but after you tried to impale me, it isn't so endearing. Just creepy." She pins him with her own stare. "What are you hoping for here because it isn't my number."

[fortitudosalutis]

"You gotta watch people," he explains, because apparently this is surprising to people. "Otherwise, bad shit happens."

[heavensnight]

"And bad shit is going to happen with me? You're paranoid."

It's not going to. Or it should be said, she doesn't want to start anything. She'd had enough trouble back home and she didn't want trouble here. Maria assumes it's better he views her as weak and defenseless. Probably wouldn't want to kill her for no reason though with the way he stares, it isn't creating a cozy situation for her.

"But if you keep acting like this when people who can react better to you will. Ever think of that?"