Newly registered for classes for the fall semester, Jack devoted any time he didn't spend serving customers to reviewing his Greek and Latin in preparation for his first university-level seminar in classical languages. He hadn't used them much in the last few years; he was convinced he was rusty ( Read more... )

Jane came into the store today with her chin up and her pride completely in check. This week, there would be no dates with rodents in plastic bubbles, no unseemly thoughts about perfectly nice but admittedly attractive young women, and certainly no going to bars and doing things in back rooms that were supposed to be much more suited for the ( Read more... )

No really, the rain was getting beyond old. Maybe she needed to think of investing in a cloak. It would help the whole getting soaked thing ( Read more... )

That rat in the ball had been lucky; Jayne was about to see what would happened when he kicked it out the window of the strange apartment he'd found himself in that morning (what had he done last night? There were lots of frilly lady things in there, so he figured it was something pretty damn good), but he got away and Jayne wasn't feeling too up ( Read more... )

All of this rain had even Jane, who felt herself quite prepared for that sort of weather, feeling a little bit sopped. Mostly, though, it had her confused, as she was fairly certain that this type of weather during this time of year and with so much consistency could not be very typical of Japan, could it ( Read more... )

Gadget wasn't quite sure what had happened to her very clever apparatus for helping her get up to the counter at the store, but that didn't concern her too much. It wouldn't take much work for her at all to finagle up something new and get herself up there and ready for another day at work ( Read more... )

If the girl behind the bar was looking a whole lot cheerier her second night on the job, there were several reasons for that. Only two of them were attached to a pirate, so you can just stop smirking. At least one -- the one where she wasn't starving anymore, and in fact was barely starting to feel like she needed a re-charge, a week later -- ( Read more... )

Jane was not at all surprised to see that there had been a pile of paperwork collecting near the front counter, the sort of paperwork that Mr. Kyōraku should be attending to, but exactly the sort that Mr. Kyōraku never attended to. She gave a wilting look across the store at Mr. Nahasapeemapetilon, who just shrugged and gave her a sympathetic, ( Read more... )

Jane knew for a fact that if she did not force herself to sit down and open up a notebook and settle into her lesson plans, then they would absolutely not get done. She didn't feel it was a fault of her own; she certainly couldn't help it that a more anthropological side had taken over, what with their new location and time period, and the past ( Read more... )

"Ah," said Apu when Shunsui came stumbling in through the doors of Turtle & Canary that afternoon. "You do still work here, I see ( Read more... )