Our Lady of Fandom; Tuesday [ 11/14 ]

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette was bored and thinking that she didn't particularly like any of the holidays for today, not enough to try to think of something to celebrate, anyway, so she started planning an excursion throughout the town when she remembered her conversation with John last week. It was Tuesday! Training! She remembered because it was allitrative.

TUESDAY:
Tuesday Training!
How to become a Warrior of God. Or Gods.

Of course, she had no idea what that meant or what sort of training that would entail, but she'd cross that bridge if she came to it.

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[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Aziraphale actually had absolutely nothing to keep him occupied while Wilson was in class. Okay, that wasn't entirely true. He could have graded the essays his class turned in on Monday, or worked on preparing Friday's lab activities. But he felt more like being out and about, and his wandering feet led him to the church.

Remembering that he'd promised Rosette to try and stop in more often, he stepped inside and looked around, a little curious about the sign out front.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette turned when she heard someone coming in, leaning on the back of the pew she was sitting in, and grinned. "You gotta be kiddin' me," she said. "If you tell me you're here for the sign, I won't believe you."

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

"Well, I must admit it did make me a little curious," Aziraphale replied, smiling. "How exactly are you going about training these...holy warriors?"

Because really? The last thing Fandom needed was to get started on some sort of Crusade.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Well, there was the bridge, and Rosette had to cross it, but those ropes looked miiiighty thin. She'd have to tred carefully.

She shrugged. "Oh, I dunno. Start out light, go over important stuff like the Bible and then maybe history, of important previous Warriors, and then, y'know, we get into the guns."

That was how they did it at the convent, anyway. It seemed like a good model. Worked well enough for her, anyway.

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Well, seeing as how current thinking was still favoring guns as a form of enforcing one's opinion -- in the right hands, of course -- Aziraphale didn't have objection on that front. Although it did seem as though Rosette's planning up to that point was a little shakey.

"Er...quite. Well, certainly...starting with a biblical history of famous warriors would be an excellent idea. Do you have a particular enemy in mind, or is this just...a 'being prepared' sort of endeavor?"

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Rosette thought for a moment before deciding. "Being prepared. With the diversity of the religious affilitations," she said, adding silently 'or lack thereof' "on the island, it's best to just leave things as open-ended as possible."

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Aziraphale nodded. "I...do agree with that. Never hurts to be prepared. Well...er, do let me know if there's something I can do to help," he added, a little hesitantly.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette nodded, giving him a thumbs-up. "Will do. Heh, you're probably better equipped at knowing how to be a God warrior than I am. Last I knew, angels definately beat out nuns on the military heirarchy."

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Chuckling, Aziraphale shook his head. "I'm afraid I don't recall very many sects of Warrior Nuns where I'm from," he agreed. "But I haven't exactly done much in the way of battle myself lately."

Not since the almost-Apocolypse, anyway. And there wasn't even any actual fighting then.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, well, I know the Magdalene Order's warrior tendencies are technically mostly secret," Rosette explained. "To most people, we're just regular old boring nuns." She sighed at the mention of battles, slumping her chin on the back of the pew. "I miss having missions..."

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Considering the nature of Aziraphale's last mission, he couldn't say he felt the same. But he patted Rosette's shoulder reassuringly and smiled.

"Think of this as a vacation. I'm certain you'll get back to having missions soon, and when you do, you'll be rested and ready to put even more energy into them. Plus, you'll have an advantage over the other nuns in your order, because I'll bet not many of them have met the sorts of people you're getting to know here."

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette smirked a little at that. "Most of those girls? Yeah. They're all ninnies, anyway. But you'd be surprised what some of the guys back home have been through. You don't come to have a top position in a demon-hunting order of nuns without having been interesting places, y'know?"

"S'far as missions go, though, just got one left. One big one. After that, I'm retirin'..." Her slump seemed to become more exhausted. Probably best not to mention that she meant retiring in a very perminent sense of the word.

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

Aziraphale didn't know the details of what Rosette meant by her retirement, but it was obvious she wasn't happy about the idea. He tilted his head, and frowned thoughtfully.

"Perhaps...you could just take a semi-retirement. Like me, for instance. I mean, not that I'm retired, but...I mostly do quiet things like teach and thwart, with the occasional mission added in."

Aside from the times that demons decided to take on personal vendettas, that was. Really, a pissy demon could put a major kink in one's vacation.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette gave him a lazy grin. "Can I skip the teaching part, and just do the twarting?"

[a-phale.livejournal.com]

"Aren't you teaching right now?" Aziraphale countered, smiling. "You teach by offering information about the holidays you've been advertising. And your sign today is offering even a traditional sort of lesson, how to be a warrior for HIM."

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette chuckled. "Hey, I guess you're right. I knew it was a good idea finding those letters for that sign."

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John wandered in, wondering if this would have anything to do with warrior nun sex sects.

[nun-better.livejournal.com]

Rosette tilted her head back to see who was coming into the church now.

"John!" she grinned brightly and scrambled out of the pews to meet him in the aisle. "Did'ya see? I'm implimenting training, like we talked about last week!" She's looking quite proud of herself.

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

"Sweetness!" JOhn grinned back at her.