central_librarylogs | Event 1 - New Friends for the Holidays

Henry wanted a dog so very badly, but he was very particular about what kind of dog he wanted. He had a very determined look on his face as he wandered through the aisles. He spotted the dog before he spotted Henry, so he just stood a little ways off from him, shifting from foot to foot.

The dog finally noticed him, and cocked his head looking at him curiously before makng his way over with that cute little doggy face. He bounded into Henry's arms knocking him on the floor, licking his face.

**[After Henry has Pongo 2.0]**

Henry can be found a little while later, sitting on the floor playing with Pongo. He is new to the library, so he would love to meet the other patrons. He is very excited to be here, especially now that he has a puppy.

Neal's here because Henry is here. He's not looking for anything in particular, but when Henry had asked him to let him come, he had agreed.

Then Henry finds the dog, or the dog finds Henry. Either way, it's obvious that their family has a new member.

"I see you've made a new friend."

Isabelle had just arrived in this strange place and suddenly was faced with Church, which was not a wholly unwelcome site, given what she had been feeling as of late. She had gotten to the desk too late, and Chairman Meow was already gone. This did not make Isabelle happy, because now she didn't know how to find Alec or Jace.

She couldn't handle the crowds so she found a secluded spot on the outside of the fray, sitting down looking around trying to figure out her next move.

"Isabelle Lightwood?" Sebastian approached the girl a little hesitantly. He hadn't had a chance to meet Alec's sister and, to be honest, he'd been a little nervous about doing so until this moment.

He wasn't holding Church the way he had held Chairman Meow. But Church had been agreeable to following him when he'd explained he could take him to his family.

"I'm Sebastian."

Isabelle looked up, her eyes narrowing that is until she noticed Church. "Church!" She exclaimed, as she kneeled on the floor.

"Have we met? Are you a demon?"

As Alec entered the main reception room, he scanned the area, spotting Izzy, Sebastian, and Church almost immediately. Remembering how she had reacted to him, he mentally cringed at what reaction a 'mundie boy' would get from Isabelle. Especially one that might be seen as a catnapper.

Moving quickly through the crowd, he caught the comment about a demon. Dodging a group of puppies that saw the leather of his pants as a potential chew toy, he managed to get to Sebastian before the conversation went too far.

For a moment, he considered what option would be best then decided between two extremes. Taking Sebastian's hand, Alec smiled at Izzy. "Hi, Iz. Sebastian's not a demon. He's a friend of mine." He used the emphasis on the word that he'd used the first time he'd stumbled through his explanation that he 'liked liked' Magnus and they were kind of dating. "Please don't hurt him."

Sebastian opened his mouth to explain he was not a demon and that he was a friend of Alec's. But then Alec was there and holding his hand and he was asking Isabelle not to hurt Sebastian. For a moment all he could do was stare at them both and blush like a foo

"I'm not dangerous." Sebastian said finally, hiding slightly behind Alec's arm and shoulder, uncertain what else he could say.

"Stating the obvious doesn't win you points." Jace commented, joining the group after having been assaulted by dogs. He crouched down to pet Church, but his gaze was on Izzy. "What is the last thing you remember?"

Natasha hadn't planned on finding anything. Well, that's not totally true. She wanted to find a cat for Bruce, which she had. She did not however count on finding a dog for herself, but she had. The dog was trotting next to her, as she had the cat netstled in her arms. She let herself into Bruce's room.

"Bruce?"

**[OTA]**

Natasha couldn't help but smile at all the animals around her. She always wanted a lot of animals when she was a child, so this made her happy that so many people would get what she never had. She wandered around for a while just watching. The cat she found for Bruce, resting on the back of her dog. She needed a name, but she couldn't think of one right now, so she would mull it over while she wandered.

Bruce is meditating and opens his eyes when he hears Nat's voice."Hey there looks like you have friends there. Something new going on in the Library?" The kitten in Nat's arms starts mewing. "My human, you found my human," he seemed to be saying.

Bruce got up and walked over to grin at the kitten. "Hey there pretty guy. Are you looking for me?"

Felicity was milling around looking all the animals. She was feeling a little overwhelmed. There were a lot of animals that flocked around Felicity. Maybe it was a vibe she gave off she didn't know, but she wasn't looking to be the center of attention.

She spotted a kitten a little ways off scuffing it's foot on the floor. She smiled and made her way over, kneeling on the floor, the kitten looking up at her.

Barry zipped into the room a pack of happy puppies tumbling after him. "Look guys more humans time to go play with them for a while okay. One puppy, a black and white collie trotted up to the kitten Felicity was looking at and nosed it happily. "Okay Eddie be careful with the kitten we don't bite it okay."

Clara couldn't help herself. Hearing there were animals around she took interest in looking around at what was here. There was a curiosity to WHY they were here too, but she didn't question it openly, at least not yet. She might ask Cat, if she saw him.

For the most part Clara was wandering around, looking at creatures or helping keep things off the books for the most part. Offering a bit of help to Cat in small ways. When she first came into the area she held two escapee kittens that she brought back and sat down with a few others.

"This is insane..." She said simply, but Clara was more than amused to pet or scratch the ears of a few of the creatures.

At one point, as came to the counter to find Cat she waved at him, coming over, only to stop suddenly, a few feet away, hand going into her sweater with a quizical look on her face. As she pulled her hand out she was surprised to find a very tiny Harvest Mouse about the size of her thumb. She stared at it for a moment, then smiled, raising it up carefully to look at it. "When did you get in there?" She asked it, moving to the counter to hopefully say hello to Cat.

She moved the small creature into the palm of her hand and leaned on the counter, reaching a hand out to rub the top of a kittens head and look at Cat. "What in all of time and space is going on, and can I help you some how?" Holding a small mouse in her palm while talking to cats? Is that smart?

To anyone else looking around, you might find Clara talking to animals or sitting with a few, not at all intending to KEEP any of them, though one might find that she still have a small mouse hidden in her shirt or up her sleeve or in her hair, save so not to be squished or eaten (or to let it eat books).

Bucky was not looking for a pet. He's pretty sure he has no idea how to take care of one anyhow (well, he could as he would need too, but that is beside the point). He's not an animal person, is he? Maybe he once was, but he's not sure. Memories are coming back but it's all kind of slow. Situations make them come back faster, but he has yet to see himself with any form of pet.

So why he is bothering to check in on what is going on? Who knows. Creatures, animals of all kinds, looking for homes? This isn't the place for him, yet here he is, wandering around a bit, looking at dogs and cats. He wasn't cruel or anything, and pet them as he passed them or not.

So yes, here was someone, not at all interested, at the moment, looking around at the mess the place is. A mess of fluff and critters. There were even things he didn't recognize. Interesting.

For a brief moment... he wondered if Steve was going to take in a dog. For some reason he felt like he was a dog type. that made the old Assassin snort, like it was a ridiculous idea.

You can catch the metal armed man crouched down before a dog or something, or walking around with a cat in hand just because it climbed up his leg. He's easy to put it down again though. He's not going to keep any of them, he says.

Kara was another one of those people who didn't intend to come out of here with a creature at all, but couldn't help but go looking. She was... maybe looking to see if there was a Buddy here. Something either like it, or Buddy himself. Sadly she only knows how grant had spoke about the dog, and not the dog itself. Still, she looked, hoping to find something that maybe Grant would love.

Others might find her searching around, playing with dogs mostly, though the occasional strange creature caught her attention as well. Like the little octopus like kitten. At first it just looked like a strange off color pinkish kitten with blue eyes, but then it waddled out of where it was sitting, and started up Kara's arm, startling her to freeze completely.

Kara froze in place feeling it's small arms wrap around her and basically climb up her arm to her shoulder, wrapping around it and leaning in to mew, snuggling the side of her face, as if it expected for her to find it. Perhaps you find her like this, eyes wide and startled, or perhaps later you find her with out it, though if you look very carefully, as she crouches down to look at dogs, do you find that there are small pink and black tentacles wiggling in the back of her hoodie, a happy bubby sound coming from it.

[FOR GRANT WARD]
She had sent Grant a message on the bookmarks, for him to come to the main hall to look at the animals. That she was trying to find if there was a dog like Buddy here, and maybe... maybe he was interested?

She had hoped to find one on her own, as a surprise, but since finding her strange pink and black little friend, to which she kept in her hoodie, well, she realized the animals pick their own humans. So, calling Grant, she crouched near some puppies, and waited, playing tug with one. The assassin and agent sitting there around dogs and pets and animals, looking completely content with it.

Ward hasn't had it easy.

He's kept the most - the worst of it from Kara. the things he did before coming here and he's - it's catching up to him. He sometimes finds himself fingering his chest, rubbing at his body. He will tell her soon, his wife to be, but after the trauma of his wounds, the zealotry...it burns inside him. It writhes inside him like...

He forgets every time he sees her. No point in sitting by yourself. Kara is sitting with puppies and it's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen.

He settles, smiling, unwrapping his arms.

"I woke up and figured I'd let you wander. Then this happens." It's almost too adorable. He sits across from her, only to be assaulted by animals, at least three puppies at once before he picks up one and rolls him onto his back.

"I haven't been feeling well baby. and I'm sorry." Let the past stay in the past. that's what he'd been told.

It could be here. It could last here. But Hydra, but-

The puppy bites his hand the moment he thinks of HYDRA, "Ow! You-" The dog barks at him and licks the spot before the two other puppies come over for attention.

"What happened? Does the cat know?"

She's noticed.

She always notices when he's brooding too much, or thinking too deeply.

She's very sure when his thoughts go to a darker place, but she doesn't push or poke. Not yet. Not until she feels like she has to.

For now, she knows he's been off color, and thus the text to come look at the animals. Because who can feel bad around animals?

So, seated on the floor, legs crossed and a puppy sitting in her lap as she played tug with her sweater sleeve with this other puppy, she couldn't help smiling at him as he came and took a seat, scarred face pulling a bit, but for a chance she wasn't hiding it.

Her hood down, the small kitten hiding in the back, out of sight for now.

"I know, Love. It's all right. I figured you needed a bit of time to rest, but then this happened. What ever thoughts are clouding your mind, let these creatures push them away a bit." She said with a smile, watching puppies come to Grant swiftly to play.

"Cat knows. He mentioned it on the network. They are all looking for someone. A friend maybe." She smirked at that. "I might have been adopted already, but I thought... maybe you can find someone here for you."

He really did love Buddy. Buddy was one in a million. Watching him die had been the worst thing in the world.

"You're the only person for me."

But at that moment there's a smaller sadder looking chocolate lab who noses into his knee with a baleful look. The other puppies attempt to bark and play but the sadder puppy, with a chubby little stomach whines before nosing at his knee, then padding over to Kara and licking her jeans.

Then back to him.

"The only thing for me."

He pushes a pair of puppies away as sad puppy stares at him, tail tentatively wagging.

"What do you mean - you've been adopted?"

"I might be the only person, but maybe a puppy can't hurt. That one's pretty cute." She said, as it came and licked her jeans then moved back to Grant. It seemed okay with her too.

She rubbed a puppies head softly, and others came and went with her. Full dogs and puppies both. None of them stayed, they just came to play with her. Where that lab was keeping close to him.

"Mmhmm." She hummed and moved to reach back to her hood, a finger rubbing at a small pink and black looking thing. The fuzzy ball unrolled and popped it's head up, meowing over her shoulder. Just the head can be seen at the moment. "She found me and climbed up, hasn't left my hood yet."

The puppy is having nothing of Grant's behavior. Climbing into his lap the puppy rolls over into his lap and curls up, nose thrust against his groin. Moving him gently so that his nose pointed in another direction, he held it gently in his arms.

Until she sees the kitten which makes him smile, "Look at that. What a clever little kitten. not really a cat person personally but -" he stops, "no. I love animals period. This guy..."

"Are we pet people Kara?"

"I'm not really a cat person either. Not like I could keep pets while being an Agent though." She reached back to let the fuzzy little pinkish tentacles wrap around her hand and fingers, pulling it from her hood while she spoke. "But I think here, maybe I might have the time for it. And maybe you might find you can be a pet person."

She held the kitten out, it's small enough to fit in her hand, it's tiny arms wrapping around her wrist and fingers. There was a bubbled kind of purr for a moment, as it wrapped around and hung upside down, nosing the puppy in Grants arms.

"Also, I don't think it's a cat. And that dog looks like it might need you."

The tentacles make him stop - and he smiles.

For a moment it's not a pleasant smile, it's a tentative, trembling, scared smile. It's adorable. It's beautiful. It's...

Put HYDRA aside he wants to scream. It's a miracle and marvel of nature, Put it aside, put it aside.

He leans into touch the creature but the puppy wriggles in his arms and he looks between the two of them and sniffs, tears running down his face.

"They're both adorable." He picks up the puppy, "Adorable."

She was mildly worried about that, about that look across his face as he sees it. Wondering if it was a sign at all. HYDRA... but cute. She said nothing at first, just watching him.

When he says they are adorable, she wonders for a moment if that was the honest truth, or if he was just saying it for her. Putting on a mask, like she did. She drew her hand back, letting the small thing climb up her arm and snuggle into her hair, at her neck. It was warm and soft and not at all cold like she would have thought.

he's snuggling the dog though, so it's a good sign.

"They are fairly adorable. Are you... all right? With them, I mean."

He remembers a distant planet and stars, he remembers - not a sense of peace but a sense of understanding and...

It's a sign. In it's own way. Haunted by those fucking octopi. Something noble yet...yet...There's a cat's head on it and as he watches it scuttle and nest in her hair he laughs.

It's a genuine warm laugh, "It's so us. Both of them." He will bury the feelings that HYDRA is good and this is a sign, for her, because she is his reason now. That's what this sign means. Let it go.

Let the statue that haunts his dreams begone.

The haunted look leaves his eyes at that and he offers the puppy, sleepy and wriggling his paws in the air despite being supported, to the kitten to sniff, "...What do you want to call it?"

He wants to hold Kara suddenly, desperately, with their animals in their arms. A lifeline made of flesh.

Event 1 - New Friends for the Holidays

Henry (part closed to Emma and Neal) + OTA

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Isabelle, (closed to Alec, Jace, and Sebastian)

Re: Isabelle, (closed to Alec, Jace, and Sebastian)

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[first part locked to Bruce] Second part OTA

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Felicity OTA

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Clara Oswald - Open to All + Request for Cat?

Bucky Barnes + Open to all

Kara Palamas + OTA - Partly Closed to Grant

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Event 1 - New Friends for the Holidays

Henry (part closed to Emma and Neal) + OTA

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Isabelle, (closed to Alec, Jace, and Sebastian)

Re: Isabelle, (closed to Alec, Jace, and Sebastian)

Re: Isabelle, (closed to Alec, Jace, and Sebastian)

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**[first part locked to Bruce]** Second part OTA

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Felicity OTA

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Clara Oswald - Open to All + Request for Cat?

Bucky Barnes + Open to all

Kara Palamas + OTA - Partly Closed to Grant

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[first part locked to Bruce] Second part OTA

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