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Kennedy

The thing was, even with everything they'd managed to track down so far, the new Council library consisted of about half a Billy bookshelf's worth of tomes and the occasional photocopy. Aside from being a problem whenever they needed to do research (because no, Willow, you still couldn't find absolutely everything on the Internet) it was... a constant source of sadface-wibble for Willow. And Kennedy was a complete sucker for that sadface. Big surprise. It made her shake her head at herself as she checked over the crumpled list she'd been carrying around in her pocket and compared it to the stack of books Wesley had supplied. "I think that covers all the big ones for now," she told him, gratefully. "I know Giles'll be happy to have that thirteenth-century demon encyclopedia." It wasn't an encyclopedia, Kennedy, god. "And this one?" She tapped a particular spellbook she'd set aside from the main stack. "I know someone who's gonna make all kinds of happy squeaky noises when she sees this."

( So apparently trouble didn't only come on Tuesdays. )

So. There were seventy-two library branches within Los Angeles city limits. Of those seventy-two, Cordelia was able to rule out about half due to being in the wrong sorts of neighborhoods (the library from her vision had a "cozy" sort of vibe, she explained), and another third or so for being either too large or too small. Still, that left them more than twenty branches to go through, and Cordelia seemed to be determined to take the slowest and most traffic-ridden route possible. So by the time Wesley, Lorne and Cordelia reached the sixteenth library on their list, the Stewart Branch, the project was no longer the blast that one might have expected.

( Well. Unless you happened to be Lorne. )

( So then some fighty happened, and then... )

[[adapted from angel 2x19, "belonging," and preplayed with wesleynotponcy. ooc okay, nfb for distance, obviously, and to be continued elsewhere, dun dun dun.]]