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50 Minotaur Lane, Wednesday Afternoon

Dec 27, 2006 14:23

She could have gone home for Christmas, but Mel would have been spending it with her family in South Carolina, and well -- to put it mildly they'd never liked Janice's company very much. So she had stayed here, and had spent the past couple of days hauling trunkloads of artifacts off to her contact on the mainland, netting a nice price for them ( Read more... )

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l1ttle_billy December 27 2006, 22:55:33 UTC

Billy was out for a run, the exercise keeping him warm despite the chill. He spotted Dr. Covington and decided to risk the possible damage to his sanity by talking to her.

"Morning!" he called.

drjcovington December 27 2006, 23:06:48 UTC

"Hey, kid," Janice called back, waving her cigar at him. With the prospect of a dig coming up very soon, she was in a pretty friendly mood. Might as well enjoy that while she could -- it was going to be back to the backstabbing and suspicion of her real line of work as soon as she stepped through that portal. "Enjoying your break?"

l1ttle_billy December 27 2006, 23:31:01 UTC

"Yeah I am." Billy replied, coming to as stop the better to speak to her. "How's life treating you?"

drjcovington December 27 2006, 23:39:04 UTC

Janice blew a pair of smoke rings into the air. "Pretty damn good at the moment, kid. Pretty damn good."

l1ttle_billy December 28 2006, 01:58:52 UTC

"Glad to hear it. So I hear you're leaving us?"

drjcovington December 28 2006, 02:04:54 UTC

Janice nodded and took a pull from the bottle. "Had an offer come up, a chance to go to India. We've been trying to get this opening for years, since there's supposed to be a Xena Scroll there. Now that I've got it, no way in hell am I turning it down."

l1ttle_billy December 28 2006, 02:29:24 UTC

"Oh yeah no way you can pass that up. If you find it maybe you could come back and tell us what Xena invented did next."

drjcovington December 28 2006, 02:34:35 UTC

"Hell, kid, if this goes well I could have a year's worth of teaching out of it," Janice grinned. "So wish me luck."

l1ttle_billy December 28 2006, 02:38:31 UTC

"Good luck. Oh, and, at the beginning of the semester, you told us to speculate on how Xena and Gabrielle got around so fast. It's fairly simple I think. Gabby just didn't write about the travel, so it just seemed like they were getting there really quickly."

drjcovington December 28 2006, 02:45:08 UTC

Janice stared at him for a moment, wondering why this never occurred to fandom looking gobsmacked. "You know, you could be right about that. I usually think she would have gone on for unnecessary pages and pages about the travel, but maybe it wasn't interesting enough for her."

l1ttle_billy December 28 2006, 02:54:24 UTC

"You think she had time to write about the adventures while they were happening? All that travel time I bet gave her plenty of composong time."

drjcovington December 28 2006, 03:03:44 UTC

Double take time.

". . . kid, you given any thought to what you want to do after school?"

l1ttle_billy December 28 2006, 03:11:51 UTC

"Anything but the military."

drjcovington December 28 2006, 03:43:40 UTC

Janice grinned. "I'll remember that, kid."

l1ttle_billy December 28 2006, 03:51:10 UTC

"Preciate it. It was a pleasure taking your class Doc. Good thing for Gabrielle though, otherwise, maybe no one would ever have heard of Xena."

drjcovington December 28 2006, 03:59:01 UTC

"Yeah," Janice said slowly. She still had a hard time softening up toward her ancestor, but somehow when one of your students pointed out something like this, it was maybe even more effective than having Xena herself say it. "I guess we really owe her that."

She puffed on the cigar a few more times, then looked at him and nodded. "Look out for the archaeology club for me, will ya?"

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