Magic Box, Saturday

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

Giles hadn't listened to the radio and while he had noticed there was something large in the park on his way to the shop that morning, he hadn't paid it much attention.

There were downsides with being too familiar with weird happenings for them to make much impact.

So he was at the Magic Box, doing inventory, blissfully unaware of what was happening around the island. Otherwise the door probably wouldn't have been open.

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[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

A smallish dinosaur walked into the open door and started looking around.

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

Giles lookes up as the bell over the door rang and then stared. Was that...?

He supposed it could be a new student as there seemed to be all types here. Giles cleared his throat. "Can I help you?"

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

The dinosaur tilted its head and trilled at Giles.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

There was a crisis going on and while libraries were nice and all it was just not the same if you didn't have a Giles around. So Willow went running to the Magic Box.

"Giles Fandom's under attack by - " she came to a skidding halt when she saw the dino. "Ack! You're not Mark!"

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"Fandom's under attack by 'Mark'?" Giles asked, taking his attention off the dinosaur to look at Willow.

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

The dinosaur backed up when Willow came in, positioning itself so that neither of the two people were behind it. It trilled again and watched them curiously.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Giles this is no time to talk about mammoths!" Willow replied, her tone scoldy. "There's a dinosaur in your store!"

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"Yes, I'm quite aware of that, thank you," Giles said.

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The dinosaur sniffed the air. Something had caught it's notice. Ignoring the talky people, it turned and headed toward the back of the store.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Did you stock dinonip?" Willow asked, still with the scoldy tone. "Because much as I would normally agree with the use of almost any materials for good magic spells I can't help but feel that this was a bad weekend to order some of that."

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"There's no such thing as dinonip," Giles said half absently as he followed after the dinosaur. Prehistoric or not, he didn't want customers in the back.

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

The dinosaur ignored them and ducked through the curtain blocking the back room. There was something back there that it wanted.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Hey!" Willow said. "If anybody gets to take stuff from the back room it's going to be me!"

She then remembered Giles was there. "Except not because that would be naughty."

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"Also theft," Giles said pointedly. "Which while creatures from the jurassic era may not understand but a young woman from Southern California should."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"And theft is naughty," Willow said, rolling her eyes at him. "Which is why I would never do it so far as you know. Anyway! Dino! Dino with sharp teeth and apparently a yen for magical supplies and while this might be stereotyping I cannot help but feel this won't end well."

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

The dinosaur continued to ignore them and jumped up onto the table where the tea supplies were kept.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow blinked. "Or possibly it's British."

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"Hey, that's not for sale," Giles protested, stepping towards the dinosaur.

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

The dinosaur turned and opened it's frills at Giles in warning.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I don't think it understands capitalism, Giles," Willow said.

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"It's eating my tea," Giles protested.

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"And I've fallen in love with one of you," Willow said, facepalming.

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

The dinosaur ignored them and continued eating tea. Mmmm, yummy tea.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"I have some nuts?" Willow offered the dino.

Hey, it worked with the mammoth.

[exwatcher.livejournal.com]

"I don't think you'd want to handfeed it," Giles said, still in a bit of a sulk because his tea.

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

Not his tea anymore because the dinosaur ate it all. It jumped off the table again and began to poke around for anything else interesting.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"You better not get near the books!" Willow told it.

Hey, she had her priorities.

"Giles, do you have a squirt bottle?"

And methods of dealing with things.

[wannabe-pan.livejournal.com]

Andrew came dashing into the store, turning to yell out the door, "I am NOT tasty!"

He spun around, paused, and looked utterly defeated when he saw the little dinosaur in the store.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

"Don't you start complaining about the tea now," Willow told him.

[wannabe-pan.livejournal.com]

"I've always been more of highly caffeinated soda drinker myself."

Andrew backed away from the dinosaur.

"Giles, I was just stopping in to chat. I'm thinking it might be better if I come back later. There's a lockable dorm room and a blanket to cower under with my name on it right now. They need me."

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow felt uncertain. Giles, weird kid. Giles, weird kid.

Well, theoretically Giles could take care of himself. Besides, the worst that would happen is he got yet another concussion. Andrew would probably get eaten.

"I'll come with you," Willow told him. "I'm a witch. I can keep you safe."

Remembering Giles could hear her, she added, "In a legally approved fashion."

[wannabe-pan.livejournal.com]

Andrew nodded at Willow in that stunned and detached kind of way. "Witches are cool."

He backed up towards the door, ready to run with his protector.

[willbedone.livejournal.com]

Willow got her determined face on.

She also may have been slightly influenced by how the island was overrun with dinosaurs and so far Giles was the only English person she'd run into.

Not that she was overprotective of certain knights or anything.

"Let it eat the tea!" she instructed Giles, then went to make a run for the dorms with Andrew.

[fh-fillers.livejournal.com]

The dinosaur apparently didn't find anything interesting under the table because it ran out soon after the two students. It chose another direction, however.