Aereopagitica, Thursday

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles has opened the store.

Additionally, there is a small card in the window:

"Help wanted. Call 555-AREO to make an interview appointment."

Giles is thoroughly sick of the Latin. He's going for some lighter reading: Hollinshed's.

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty stumbles into the book store with a glazed over expression on his face.

And a small baby pine tree in one hand.

He looks over at Giles and with a very serious look on his face says "I NEED TO KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT PINE TREE SEX!"

He may not realize he's shouting.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles stumbled backwards. He was shcoked by Martin's behavior. He had seemed like such a well spoken young man.

Giles straightened his glasses and took a closer look.

He hadn't lived through the seventies with the nickname 'Ripper' for nothing.

By Thisbe, I do believe he's stoned out of his gourd.

Giles took Martin by the arm, intending to lead him to one of the comfy chairs in the side room of the store.

"Pine tree sex? Oh, dear. I'll have to do some checking. Why don't you wait over here?"

[superartie]

Artie bounded in sometime shortly after Marty arrived and dramatically looked around the store.

"Bookstore, eh, Pine Tree Boy? Good choice. Gooooood choice!"

He poses by the door, keeping one eye on Marty and his pine tree, the other roving cheerfully about the shop.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"HI ARTIE! WOULD YOU LIKE TO SMELL MY PINE TREE?" Marty said waving the small tree around.

[superartie]

It's unknown as to whether or not super-smell is part of Artie's amazing set of powers. The fact that he sniffed at the air without ever actually going over to where Marty was could have been an indicator. Or he might just have been humoring the boy.

"Ah yes!" he said. "Delightfully aromatic and piney!"

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty then began to wander after Giles through the store. "Do pine trees even have sex? Or was Nadia just making that up?"

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles tugged at Martin's arm. "Well, I'm not entirely sure. Let's look it up. How about a nice cup of tea, Martin?"

He looked over Martin's shoulder to Artie.

"Er, Artie, is it? I just recieved some more comic books if you're interested..."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty looked down where Giles was grabbing his arm like Giles's hand was from another planet.

"You want to smell my tree? It's very piney."

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Certainly, Martin, I'd be happy to smell your tree."

Giles leaned over and took a deep sniff. Yes. Definitely pine-like.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"I don't think you ssmelled it enough."

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"All right."

Giles leaned over and smelled it again.

Still pine.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Well?" Marty asked with an impatient tone.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Er, may I say," Giles shifted to his plummiest, tweediest Oxford accent, "that this may be--nay, it is--the most beautiful, pine-filled scent that I have ever smelled.

"It rivals the pines of Oregon. It outdoes the fabled forests of the Black...er, Forest. It is truly a tree among, ah, trees."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty suddenly found himself impulsively hugging the man.

"I *LOVE* YOU, MAN!"

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles awkwardly hugged him back, patting him stiffly on the back.

"Yes, Martin, I'm, er...extremely fond of you, too."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"You don't know anything about pine trees do you?" Marty asked.

Yes he was still hugging Giles.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Well, I know what they look like. And that pinecones come from them.

"And thanks to your lovely little tree, I know exactly what they smell like."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Do they have sex?"

Still hugging.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Never. Totally asexual."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty suddenly realized that he was holding on to Gile pretty tightly.

"This is a little awkward isn't it?"

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps a bit."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty lets go finally and looks at Giles curiously.

"You wear a lot of tweed."

And with that Marty exits the shop, still carrying his pine tree.

[superartie]

"More?" Artie looks delighted. "Mortimer and I would surely enjoy more books!"

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Giles couldn't help himself.

"Mortimer?"

[superartie]

Giles would probably wish he could.

"My little buggy friend!" Artie presented one fist. On it, indeed, sat a rather large beetle.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Ah. Well. He's a very.... handsome. Bug. Quite."

[superartie]

Artie smirked and rolled his eyes up. "He is!"

Mortimer, however, took off into the air and started buzzing about the book store excitedly.

Artie jerked into a nearly normal standing position. "Mortimer! What are you doing? That's very impolite!"

He started chasing the bug.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Lana decided she should check out the new bookstore. Especially since with midterms almost over and spring break starting, she could use some new fun reading material.

She notices the help wanted sign in the window and wonders if she should ask the owner about it.

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

Shaking off the encounter with Martin, and deciding he wasn't yet ready to handle Artie and his little Kafka-eque sidekick, Giles turned to the young lady who'd entered the store.

"Yes, miss? How may I help you?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Hi." Lana smiled at him. "I was actually just looking for some non-school related reading material for spring break. You have a really nice store here."

She hesitated. "And I was wondering about the help wanted sign in the window."

[rup-giles.livejournal.com]

"Why thank you. Well, feel free to browse. You should be able to find something to hold your interest.

"Oh, yes. I'll be conducting interviews tomorrow afternoon (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomtownies/672564.html). Please stop by then." Giles smiled. It would be nice to have company in the shop.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Wonderful," Lana says. "I'll make sure to come in tomorrow, then." She browses through the store until she finds a couple of interesting books then pays for them and heads back to the dorms.