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Magic Box, Thursday, 1/13

After talking to Karla yesterday during Reserves, Tara decided to make today a study day. She pulled all the demonology texts in stock from the shelves and set up a little research station at the front counter.

Not that anything she'd read had entries on Trigon or anyone like him, but hey. Maybe she'd get lucky and find "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Demon Spawn (But Were Afraid to Ask)."

It was that semi-optimistic spirit, and a sincere wish she could read ancient Sumatran, that carried her through the workday.

[OOC: Open shop! OCD is hiding from the determined Wiccan.]

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"Yeah, what she is makes the idea of a bad day for her a lot scarier than a bad day for somebody like you," Tara had to agree. But she was smiling by now. "You think I'm cute when I worry, hmmm?"

"Is that unfair of us?" Kennedy had to ask in a rare moment of self-awareness as she helped herself to a bite of lasagna, so through a mouthful of food. Which she swallowed before continuing, "Duh. I always think you're cute; this is just a special variety of it."

"I don't think it's unfair?" Tara said tenuously. She'd poked in the bag for garlic bread and was gobbling down a slice. "But I can't think of why it's fair. We trust Maladicta, right?"

"Yeah. And Dru," Kennedy added. "Which is all still really weird if I think about it, but. Far as I know, neither of them has crazy-evil relatives."

"At least nobody who wants to come to the island and mess with us," Tara offered. "But ... I wouldn't exactly rush out to their family reunions. Is that awful?"

"Not really, 'cause hi, awkward." Kennedy chuckled ruefully. Not that, if she thought about it, a family reunion thing would be happening for either of those two, huh? "Gotta love complicated friendships."

Eh, it wasn't like either Tara or Kennedy could expect huge, friendly family reunions anytime soon, so it was more of a metaphor anyhow.

"It's that or, like, lock ourselves in our rooms," Tara said, cheerfully as she could manage. "... oh, hey, I saw Wesley's back. I wonder if they taught him any of this stuff in watcher school."

"What, how to win vampire friends and influence demons?" Kennedy quipped. "I dunno if that's so much their thing. You know, what with the extensive lectures on how to make with the stabbing and all."

"I was thinking more like, cooperation with friendly demons," Tara said, "... maybe they learn it in between the stabbing and the killing."

Yeah. She didn't believe that.

That made skeptics out of both of them, then.

"I could ask," Kennedy offered, though the look on her face made it pretty clear she doubted anything would come of that inquiry at all. "I could risk getting lectured at for it. Good cause, huh?"

"Good cause," Tara agreed, looking equally dubious. "And if you don't want to bug Wesley? Constance has to have gotten some pretty weird questions from you. Maybe she'd skip the lecture bit."

"I'm not so much getting answers out of her lately, basically at all," Kennedy noted, scowling a bit. "But it's cool, nothing major anyway, just curiosity. This is totally different from work gossip; I can give it a shot."

A pause, and then: "But I might bug Wesley anyway. 'cause it's fun."

"Don't be too mean," Tara said lightly; she didn't think Kennedy had it in her to be really mean. Then some trepidation crept into her tone. "And is there a reason Constance isn't answering stuff? Are you guys fighting or something?"

"What? No! So not," Kennedy blurted out. "There's no fighting, I promise. She just goes quiet every time I ask her about what's happening on the Hellmouth. I'm working on the theory that she's worried I'm gonna decide I should just take off and head there to help."

"It's not that weird a question!" Tara protested, relieved. "And ... um. Is it bad if I say that might be right? If she'll usually talk about it and now she won't...."

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Kennedy shook her head. "No, not bad. You're probably both onto something there, but I wouldn't just take off. I've got stuff to do here, and my reserves kids to look out for, and besides." Thinking about leaving was not cool; she moved over to pull Tara into a hug. "You're here, y'know? Not there. So I kinda have good reasons to stay."

Tara snuggled easily into the hug. "I didn't think you would just take off," she said comfortably. "Besides, if you did I'd follow you or something, so there."

"I don't think I'd have a problem with that," Kennedy decided, and it really was a rather emphatic hug. "You're stuck being stuck with me. Hope you don't mind."

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