CATCH ALL FOR FEBRUARY // ALL OPEN

[bifroster]

A // UNIVERSITY // OPEN

Being transported to that other world delayed classes … once more … but at least the university understood it was against her will and let her have her job back.

Feel free to find Jane in her classroom, pop in on a class, catch her on a lunch or coffee break, or find her in her office working on lesson plans and grading. She might even be working on some live demonstrations with gravity! If you get trapped in the gravitational pull, she apologizes and will work on refining the equations a little more next time.


B // STUDYING MAGIC // OPEN

At the library (pick any one, she can use the porter without restriction once more), Jane has selected a number of books on magic. Anything from mythology to the literature of magic to some actual serious scholarly research into it. There is one particular book, though, that is just out of reach on a top shelf … across from where she currently is … on a ladder.

We all know where this is going.


C // TAKING A WALK // OPEN

Sometimes, Jane just really needed to clear her head.

Sometimes, that meant walking around her neighborhood in the middle of the night without any real purpose. Where she ended up didn’t matter. It was what she thought along the way. Of course, sometimes, that might include some ranting about the universe and paperwork or students being lazy after all her efforts to help or stupid songs getting stuck in her head.

She really needs to apologize to her neighbors.


D // WILD CARD

I probably forgot a plot somewhere, so feel free to put that here! Feel free to do that even if we didn’t plot anything!

Comments

B

[governorkang]

[Kang just happens to be passing by on his way to the History section when he sees Jane on the ladder, clearly in a bit of a dilemma. Luckily, he's tall enough at seven feet to reach where she's eyeing, and he heads over to help.]

Which one, ma'am?

[bifroster]

[Jane huffs to herself. Even with a ladder and she can't get what she needs.]

Oh, the one by Newton. It's the thick brown one with the gold lettering.

[But he probably saved her from destroying the library.]

[governorkang]

[He pulls it out and holds it out for her.]

Here you go. [A pause, after noticing the title of the book.] Magic? That's a far cry from physics, isn't it?

[bifroster]

Thank you!

[Jane takes it and puts it under her arm where a few other books are.]

Typically, yes, but Newton was deep into the occult. A lot less was understood back then, but now I am wondering if maybe modern thinking is wrong about that.

[governorkang]

Was he? I didn't learn that in any of my classes.

A

[iminthebook]

"You know, dropping in on your lectures seems to be becoming a habit."

Harry grins as he walks through departing students, and heads for her at the front of the room. He was dressed in a casual suit, with his duster on over it.

"I heard you got lunch soon. Got time to head across the street again?" Its been a while, not counting alternate universe shenanigans, but he has a question to ask her.

[bifroster]

Jane smiles at him, having just finished gathering up papers to grade later. She is looking forward to get back into a sense of routine and find her footing in this world once more.

"I always have time to head over there," she replied. It had been a while and yeah, they needed to catch up and figure some things out likely.

[iminthebook]

"Awesome. Its been a while and I have things to share and a question to ask."

He is almost bouncy, grinning at her.

[bifroster]

Jane is so, so glad to see him this way. The grimmer version of himself she met and worked with in that other world was a stark contrast, even though she understood why he was like that.

“Awesome, but feel free to start asking now,” she said, locking her desk. Everything was put away and she really only carried her wallet on her most days.

[iminthebook]

"I asked Wanda to marry me, and she said yes, and I am not sure if we are doing a wedding or a run away and get it done, but would you like to be my best woman?"

He grins as he asks her, eyes dancing, smiling.

A

[fireandhoney]

Finn is a man who keeps his word, and he's assuming Jane is still interested in studying his magic and the Thu'um. Therefor, he finds out where her classroom is from another doctor at the university and invites himself in with a knock at her door.

"Dr. Foster?" He holds up an offering of coffee from a nearby coffee shop.

[bifroster]

"Finn!"

Jane was wiping down her chalkboard when he knocks. The classroom is in a bit of a state, but she'll get to that eventually. She was definitely interested in learning more about magic and science, and how they related, even though cosmic forces seemed to keep forcing her to deal with more immediate problems.

"Come on in! Sorry it's been so long!"

[fireandhoney]

"Not a problem, seeing as things got a bit weird last month," Finn sets the coffee down on a nearby desk, along with his artist satchel, because he never goes anywhere without that.

[bifroster]

She brushes her hands off on her jeans, leaving chalk behind, and takes the offered coffee.

"Thank you. Things were weird last month. How have you been?"

[fireandhoney]

"Once I got back, things have gone back to normal. You know, as normal as it gets in this reality." Yet sometimes Finn catches himself looking at Jonathan and making sure he no longer has the scars he got in that other reality.

B

[cantgetanyworse]

She almost walks by at first, completely missing the woman at the top of the ladder. Jane is not tall enough to be of much assistance, but she's seen enough to have a very good idea of what's going to happen if she doesn't step in and say something.

"Oh, Jane! You're going to fall, do come down."

And move the ladder, perhaps.

[bifroster]

Jane isn't very tall either, which means a pitiful reach as well.

At Jane's plea, Jane stops and lets out a frustrated sigh. It's a hassle, but she's right.

"Oh, alright," she sighs, coming down.

[cantgetanyworse]

"Ah-- good."

In truth, she hadn't thought it would be so easy. But it serves Jane's purpose well enough, as the moment the other woman steps securely to the floor she puts her arms around her in a tight hug.

"I'm so glad to see you."

[bifroster]

Jane is caught by surprise for a moment, but then hugs her back tightly.

"It's good to see you too."

[cantgetanyworse]

"Mm." She gives the woman a small squeeze, then steps back with her hands resting on Jane's shoulders. A glance goes up to the bookcase, and she lifts both eyebrows quizzically.

"Are you doing research?"

b

[frankensteinian]

He's spending a lot of time in libraries too, because he knows that's where the information is. While he knows that whoever's behind all of this isn't going to make that information obvious and put it in a library for anyone to find, there are some things he can find there, and they may prove useful one day.

Which is why he's on his way to the history section when he notices a disaster waiting to happen. Before the ladder can fall and make the situation worse, he reaches out a hand and the ladder stops wobbling (or, more accurately, she stops wobbling while holding the ladder).

"Which shelf?" So he can help her reach it.

[bifroster]

That's the reason why Jane's stack of books seem to be so eclectic: there are answers, somewhere. They just have to find the right path, the right piece of information to really get them going. Despite careful plans, she can't go running into the Porters again. The stakes were too high and she has seen the consequences of a government pushed and pushed.

No, books are safer. For now.

"Ah!" Jane is surprised when she stops wobbling and looks down. "Uh. The shelf below the top one? Copernicus, and The Alchemical Notebooks of Newton, if you can get it."

[frankensteinian]

He's learned the hard way not to just sit there and let things happen as they will. That's the way bad things happen, and he's not living through those again.

He figures out which shelf she means and turns the ladder until he can tilt and let it come to rest against the correct shelf so she can grab the book. "Will that work?"

[bifroster]

Jane isn't either, not as long as she could help it (though, she probably could have realized earlier that her powers could have solved this problem of not being able to reach).

"Yes, thank you!"

Grabbing the books, she heads down the ladder, done with this section of the library.

"Long time no see. Thanks again for the help."

[frankensteinian]

"I try to be helpful when I can." Or when it will be appreciated. Either one. "And thought it best to avoid a bigger mess." Of books or injured person, either one.