Aziraphale's Rare Books, Tuesday Morning

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki is there, kneeling on the floor, sorting a stack of volumes by subject and alphabetizing them. She's mumbling under her breath to keep her place as she sets each one aside.

"Llamas... Legends of Kaleria...that would be mysticism and medieval lore... Alchemical Transfigurations Primer 1... The Glee of Cooking, with Blark and Snark... Lewd and Lacivious Limericks and Ladies who Love Them - oh my!"

Kiki blushes and quickly buries that one in another pile.


[ooc: Crowley and Aziraphale may or may not be there as well...]

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[flash-serpent.livejournal.com]

[He wakes late, and comes downstairs, bare from the waist up, carrying a black silk shirt. His black scales shimmer across his shoulders and down his spine to the waistband of his trousers, but his wings aren't visible. Ignoring Kiki altogether, he walks in the kitchen, picks a bottle of scotch from the cupboard, and drinks the whole thing. He walks to the reading lounge and lays on the couch, staring at the ceiling. He holds his glasses in the other hand.]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki decides not to harrass Mr. Crowley while she's supposed to be working. Business before pleasure and all.

[flash-serpent.livejournal.com]

[He tosses and turns as he sleeps, sweating and moaning. He snaps awake and sits up, his gaze falling on her behind the counter. Sharply, he calls her.]

Kiki! Bring me some paper and a pen. Now.

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki jumps, startled, but snatches up a pad of paper and an old-fashioned pen - just the sort of think Mr. Aziraphale would have about the shop - and quickly brings it to him.

After a moment's hesitation, Kiki askes, "Do you need anything else?"

[flash-serpent.livejournal.com]

[He looks at her, his glasses abandoned on the floor. His eyes are crystaline blue]

An envelope.

[He looks down and begins to write.]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

"Right. Yes, sir," Kiki answers, and she hurries back to the counter and comes back a few seconds later with a white envelope.

She holds it out to him, and then stoops and picks up his glasses, and holds those out to him as well.

[positive-angel.livejournal.com]

With a rush, Chihaya races to Mr. Phale's bookstore. He almost didn't catch the door before it bangs open and it does shut with a little more force than necessary, but only out of exhuberence.

He is drawn up short to look at Kiki with a grin. "Kiki!" he chirped cheerfully. "Hey!"

((ooc: eeeeee! can't let this chance pass. haven't talked to kiki in forever.))

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki looks up happily. "Chihaya!" she greets him eagerly, "I haven't seen you in ages! How have you been?"

[positive-angel.livejournal.com]

He breathes out rather exasperatedly. "Busy but not getting anything done?" Chihaya giggles and grins at her. "How about you? You work here now?"

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I do! Mr. Aziraphale gave me a job - probably because I'm underfoot here so often, I might as well be useful! What are you up to these days?"

[positive-angel.livejournal.com]

"Trying to stay caught up in classes...oh and writing for the newspaper now!" He drops his backpack and rummages around in it to look for his list. "Did you see my interview with the mayor?"

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

"I did, it was fantastic!" Kiki grins. "It really was very well-written, and those were some good questions. Good for you! Was it a volunteer job, or were you specifically selected to interview him?"

[harried-potter.livejournal.com]

Harry spots her through the window and walks in to say hi. "Everytime i see you here you're working...Aziraphale could almost hire you, i guess" He says with a grin

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

"Harry!" Kiki grins. "How are you - and guess what? Mr. Aziraphale actually did hire me." Kiki laughs. "I've got a key to the shop and everything."

[harried-potter.livejournal.com]

"Oh really? That's cool" Harry says, and smiles. "I guess now i have a reason to hang out here more often" He looks around him to see if anyone can overhear them, lowers his voice and asks "did you meet the Crawler-whatshisname-person, allready?"

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki grins and blushes a little, and she rushes on to answer his question. "Yes, yes I did," she answers, her eyes involuntarily flicking down the rows of books to the couch in the back of the shop where Mr. Crowley is sprawled half-naked with a whole bottle of scotch in him. Her voice drops. "Mr. Crowley is a good friend of Mr. Aziraphale's and - well, he's my friend, too. I think." She pauses a moment then closes her mouth and shakes her head slightly with a small smile.

[harried-potter.livejournal.com]

((OOC: Oh, he's half naked too? didn't catch that but it's definately a good thing *fangirls crowly* :D ))

Harry sees her looking to the lounge area, and looks too. He doesn't see Crowley, though. "So, is he nice? I heard he's feeding on ducks? Or is that just a rumour? It sounds kinda gross" Harry says, and frowns.

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

The bat is made of wood and it's heavy but the weight is reassuring in her hand, along her arm, against the side of her leg as she walks. Kate had handed it over to her without a single question and, for that, she was impossibly grateful - because she knew that Shane wouldn't ask unless she felt she needed it.

And she did. Need it. For her own sanity's sake.

For Tara...

She pulls the door open and steps inside. She's dressed in black cargo pants, a white wifebeater and her steel-toed boots. She'd thrown her gray hoodie on over that in some feeble, half-minded effort to keep out the morning chill, but never even bothered to zip it, the fingerless gloves on her hands giving her a better grip on the grooved and dented wood.

[flash-serpent.livejournal.com]

[His legs are just disappearing up the stairs.]

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

"Mr. Crowley," Shane says, raising her voice so that he's sure to hear her. Her tone is perfectly even and calm. "I have to talk to you."

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

[Since all this action is happening close together, Kiki is actually at the back of the store near the lounge and stairs when Shane comes in.]

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

[ooc: Gotcha. :)]

[flash-serpent.livejournal.com]

[He hears her just fine...and slams the bedroom door in response.]

[kikidelivers.livejournal.com]

Kiki is standing there looking more or less petrified. Some part of her is yelling, Go find Aziraphale, stupid!, while another is obsessing about leaving the shop un-attended, and Aziraphale was trusting her with this place and oh-great-cats what if the books ended up with blood on them? And then there's this letter in her hand. What did he mean, "after I'm gone?"

[shane-mcc.livejournal.com]

Looking over at Kiki, Shane's expression is apologetic. "I'm sorry if I scared you," she murmurs quietly. "I just need to talk to him."

Glancing in the direction of the stairs, she purses her lips, fingers tightening their grip around the bat.

With that, she walks across the shop to the staircase, boots making heavy, hollow-sounding footfalls as she takes them one at a time.

Once she reaches the top of the stairs, she opens the door and pushes it so that it sits far back on its hinges. Standing there, she holds the bat along her leg. Not a threat so much as a crutch.

"You know why I'm here," she says quietly.