but oh what a year

[patrols]

Comments

[recrudesce]

Watcher. Like a trainer. But, also a record-keeper.

( He turns toward one of the boards with their different projects on it. )

Who else came to town when she did? The librarian moved here right around the same time, right?

[geminated]

Right. Irish guy. Not at he exact same time, but maybe within the month. Not a bad bet.

[She drums her fingers.]

Watchers have to have their own resources, right? Maybe his books have something ours don't.

[recrudesce]

You think you could pay the town library a visit while I check our resources here?

( Divide and conquer. )

[geminated]

On it. Feels far more useful than continuing to try and scry on Dorian.

[Especially when Dorian doesn't want to be found. She places the phone down on Tyler's desk and puts it on speaker.]

Damon, if you're still with the Sheriff, put me on speaker.

[unforgivably]

( Finally, she's back. He taps the speaker button before holding out the phone. )

Liv, you're on with the sheriff, me, and my maudlin brother.

[geminated]

If you're a Slayer did you happen to come with a Watcher in tow?

[Lindsay briefly looks surprised at being called out, then uncomfortable. She doesn't mind being out and about, but Beck is more fragile than she is. She protects him just as much as he has her back. But she shouldn't have assumed that Damon's lack of knowledge of Slayers would be true for the whole town.

"Yeah, I did. He's currently looking for your intern. Why?"]

This is a book problem, therefore we need a book expert. Tyler is going to get a head start on finding the Maxwell journal but if you have any information on Cade in your Slayer archives, I want a look.

[Lindsay sighs. "Before or after he saves your friend's life?"]

Why quibble. Tell me where he is looking and I'll meet him.

[unforgivably]

( Damon looks to her for her answer and clocks how she wasn't ready to be asked about her "watcher." He'll be sure to grill Liv on that later on if they're on any sorts of terms then. )

We still haven't confirmed his life needs saving. Also, let's all remember Dorian did this to himself. It's a teachable moment.

( Say Dorian is alive. Please. Stefan doesn't need any more blood on his hands. )

[patrols]

[Lindsay sighs, before nodding.]

I'll call him and then drop you a pin. But I picked up Stefan out near the cemetery.

[Liv nods slowly because she knows that cemetery well enough. "Then I know where to start. Tyler will reach out if he finds the other journal."

And with that, Liv will hang up, leaving Lindsay with Damon, and she sighs as she reaches for her phone.]

I'll go make a call.

[unforgivably]

... Bye.

( Rude. )

Then we will be right here and I'll try in vain to get Stefan out of this cell. ( Or procure him some blood. )

[patrols]

Have fun with that.

[Lindsay steps away, putting some distance between herself and the vampires, though probably not enough. She scrolls through, finding Beck's number in her phone and placing it to her ear.]

[telegraphs]

Lindsay?

( A watcher is currently in a graveyard, but, sans slayer. )

[patrols]

Hey. Have you found Dorian yet?

[Maybe he's already found him and they're off to the hospital, and it'll give Beck a little more time before he's ambushed by the Armory.]

[telegraphs]

Oy. Stay awake.

( And as he helps Dorian, one-armed. )

Aye. He was in an open grave. Said something about how it wasn't meant for him, but you know what they say about revenge, don't you, Dor? Stay with me. Took a mite minute to get him up and out.

[patrols]

Okay. You have incoming. Damon reached out to one of the workers at the Armory and while Damon didn't know what a Slayer was, they sure did. She wants to see if we have anything on a guy named Arcadius.

[She can't come out there to help him but maybe Liv will be able to help with Dorian.]

Calls himself the Devil, theoretically made his own hell dimension with the power of his mind. Her name is Liv, I don't know what she is beyond her working for the Armory.

[telegraphs]

I'll have to check my books.

( He heaves Dorian over onto the back of his truck bed with a thunk. )

And beyond her knowing what a slayer's about. And, guessing, a watcher. Liv. Right. Should I stay put then. Do you know if she's a strong lass?

[patrols]

Will Dorian be okay if you stay put?

[It sounds like he needs a hospital.]

I could tell her to meet you at the hospital.

[telegraphs]

He's concussed, but walking. Whatever the vampire did, it wasn't anything fatal. 'You ask me, it reads like just desserts but nothing past. Wouldn't be a wrong idea to get him checked out. You can send Liv to the hospital.

( He rolls Dorian over a smidge so he can close the black of his truck bed. )

Ah'm fifteen out.

[patrols]

Okay, I'll let her know. Be careful.

[She doesn't know what he's walking into.

She will, however, head back to Damon and get him to send Liv the information, and Liv will stroll into the emergency room, scanning around for the librarian and making her way over.

"Liv Parker. How's Dorian?"]

[telegraphs]

( He's in his best brown suit, standing, scrolling through his digitized archives before he looks up. )

He's being looked at. May just have a concussion. Beck Ford. So, you're Armory.

[geminated]

And you're a Watcher. You know, I thought the Slayers were something these old guys made up because they couldn't handle lady hunters, but I guess I was wrong.

[She takes a deep breath.]

I really hope you have something, because we've been beating our head against a wall and Cade needs to go.

[telegraphs]

A Slayer is something the old guys made up. They made the first slayer. But, we are not ran the same, not like they did.

( Technically. He says this in close proximity, though, so there are no prying ears. )

I was just looking at everything I digitized, but we'll have to get back to my books to be sure. Do you have to be anywhere?

[geminated]

[She shakes her head.]

Nope. Dorian's found, and that was the only other job I had today.

[So she's good to go wherever you want her to.]

Where are we heading?

[telegraphs]

Oh, Dorian's one of yours. Sorry for the state he's in.

( Not that it's his fault. )

You ever sit foot inside the Mystic Falls library?

[geminated]

Not your fault.

[Dorian brought it on himself and she has a feeling Stefan had a thing or two to do with this too.]

I have, though it's been a minute. Armory's got a library of it's own.

[telegraphs]

Well, there are all the classics, along with my own personal collection.

( Also his collection on loan. )