Magic Box, Thursday, 5/13

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Tara had books spread out all over the counter at the Magic Box today as Tara tried to sort out ideas for activities she could suggest for the reserves. It was a challenge to find things that might work with all the different forms of magic on the island, but she thought she had some ideas to run past Karla, Raven and Emmett.

There was a sign in the window:

New Student Discount: 15% off Good-Luck Charms

The Magic Box was open.

[OOC: It took me until just now to realize this was in the wrong journal. Sorry.]

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Talk to Tara [5/13]

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If you wanna!

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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Kennedy would've been a lot bouncier about this if she wasn't loaded down with books courtesy of the "homework" assignment Constance had dumped on her, but she was still in a really good mood when she showed up after class and headed for a place she could sit down.

"So guess who scored a sweet TA gig? Also, hi."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Um ... cutest reserve member ever?" Tara guessed, glancing up from her book with a slightly distracted smile. "Hi. Who are you TAing for?"

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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Kennedy dropped onto a corner of the floor and spread her books out in front of her with a slightly distasteful look that faded fast enough.

"Well. We seem to have a Slayer teaching self-defense, cutest reserves leader ever." That could get unwieldy as a nickname but she was going with it for now.

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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Well. That got Tara's full attention. "Seriously?" she asked, not picking up on that 'a' slayer business. "I thought she was ... y'know. Busy fighting things in other places."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Not Buffy. Faith. Different one," Kennedy replied, a little distracted by paging through one of her books to find something about a French Revolution-era Slayer, like Constance had told her to. "Like, the other one."

A beat, and she looked up. "Yeah, I know, there's two, how fair is that?" she asked in a definite whine. Because seriously.

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Like not," Tara decided. "How does that even work? I don't know a ton about it, but ... I thought the whole point was one girl."

She tilted her head thoughtfully. "What's Faith like?"

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"It is the whole point," Kennedy said, not entirely pouting as she paged through the book. "Some weird fluke thing, but I'm not sure how exactly."

She flipped through a few more pages, sighed, backtracked a page, and looked up. "What's she like? Awesome." That wasn't helpful, Kennedy. "Like, way badass."

A pause. "A little like me, actually."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Only not as badass as you are," Tara said, a mild note of chiding in her voice. She was mostly amused by the cockiness, wanting to meet this Faith. It wasn't like she ever thought she'd get to know a Slayer. "I should come find her."

And then she had to comment on the page-flipping. It wasn't that Kennedy didn't ever read, but reading while talking to her? That was new. "... okay, don't take this the wrong way? But, uh, what's that book?"

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Actually, it kinda pains me to say it but she actually is more badass than me." She was not being cocky!

Okay, she was, but she wasn't thinking about it.

"Homework. From Constance," Kennedy told her, looking almost embarrassed about it. "I'm supposed to be reading up on Slayer history stuff, since she thinks I can't get away with a completely lazy summer."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Bummer," Tara decided. She leaned forward to try to read the page. "Do you have to do that a lot? Read about -- y'know, the ones who came before?"

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Can you keep a secret?" Kennedy asked playfully, angling the book so Tara could get a better look at it. "I actually do that a lot."

Still not a geek. Really.

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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Tara screwed up her face, looking down at the page. "Doesn't it get really depressing? It'd be like me reading about Salem."

... which, admittedly, Tara did a fair amount of in certain moods.

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"...yeah. Kind of a lot," Kennedy conceded, absently reaching over to play with Tara's hair. "Given how the whole line of succession works? The depression is pretty consistent."

She tended to pay more attention where it was about Slayers who'd died doing something particularly heroic, though. It might explain a lot.

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"So why do you keep reading?" Tara asked. She wasn't trying to be depressing; she was just curious. "Is it like, this could be me?"

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Same reason you read magic books?" Kennedy tried. This was as academic as she got, and she didn't really think it was depressing. "I have to know what I'm doing."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Like, this is stuff that could happen?" Tara tried. She had to think about it for a moment, but once she did: "I get it. You have to learn from the best, right? And it's not like you can talk to them."

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"Stuff that could happen, yeah, so I know not to make that mistake." As if she could keep all of that in mind all the time.

"Talk to them? Nah. Not so much." Kennedy gave her a grateful smile, glad and yet completely unsurprised that she got it. "Except for the one, now, I guess."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Faith," Tara said, testing the name out. "And you get to TA for her! Sometimes the ways this place is weird are just awesome."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Right?" Kennedy asked, sounding far too pleased about just about everything today. "It's like the best opportunity ever. Still not knocking you out of first place in the highlight of my Thursday category, but Thursdays got way more awesome."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Oh, well, as long as it's only second-place," Tara said, laughing a bit. "No, it sounds awesome. I'm happy for you. Do you know what kind of TA stuff she needs?"

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Helping out with some of the newbies, pretty much, because some of 'em? They need it," Kennedy replied, smiling lazily up at her. "It's supposed to be a beginners' class, so I was all ready to complain about that, but hey, I can be useful. It's all good."

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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"Definitely all good," Tara said, and leaned across the counter to try to kiss Kennedy.

Re: Talk to Tara [5/13]

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Kennedy leaned in until she was almost close enough to brush her lips against Tara's. "Damn right we are," she replied warmly, then closed the distance.

Mod Your Shopping [5/13]

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Go for it!

OOC [5/13]

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No world-endy!