[Open] The only thing that you absolutely have to know...

[fromfryingpantofire]

Who: Sam Winchester and you!
What: Sam's found his home away from home
Where: The library at the North Pole
When: Relatively soon after arrival, probably post-Branch
Warnings/Notes: Winchester mouth. Updated as needed.


Once Dean was back on his feet, Sam started exploring the North Pole. And, honestly, nobody who knew him would be surprised to find that once he found the library, he kept drifting back there.

Not that it was that easy to find things there. That North has a filing system is undeniable. What's also undeniable, though, is that whatever filing system he has is archaic and likely all in his own head. Which doesn't mean that Sam doesn't enjoy the looking.

Which is why he can be found at one of the tables near the middle of the room, piles of books and scrolls around him and a leather-bound notebook open to his right, pen set in the crease between pages as he bends over another book, head bowed and hand on cheek as he reads.

He glances up as somebody approaches, then leans back with a stretch. "Hey. Any idea how long I've been here?"

Comments

[fromfryingpantofire]

This is the face of a man who has seen far too much, Crowley.

The skeptical face stays through the 'it's fine' as well, but he lets it go at the end with a huffed laugh. He also lets go of his left hand, finally relaxing a bit again. "Anyway. It mostly seems to be a case of learning the new rules for here at the moment. Which is what the books are all about."

[demonicmiracle]

It's official: Sam is the worst. It's almost like he has a brother who does a lot of stupid posturing and pretends to be tougher and scarier than he actual is. It's so wild that he was able to see through Crowley so quickly.

"Learning the rules is for suckers." Says the demon. Who was kicked out of Heaven. "Just figure it out as you go."

[fromfryingpantofire]

"Learning the rules is how you figure out the best ways to break them," Sam replies, picking up one of the books to fiddle with. "Though, in my case, it's partly because I know that the things I know from MY world won't entirely work here. I used to have conversations back on the Rig with Bunny and Dan, figuring out the differences in how our various monsters work. But, obviously, we couldn't get to everything. And with us being back in a world that's so similar to Bunny's, he's going to be busy trying to do his actual job again. But I'm really good at research and there's an entire library here to weaponize."

[demonicmiracle]

That's a very Aziraphale take on rules, which tracks for someone who's studying in a library. Everything that Sam says continues to be very Aziraphale, and he also wonders about Bunny and Dan and the rig.

"Have you met Aziraphale? White hair, kind of fussy? He was somewhere else, before this." Not that he's snooping or anything. He might address the rest of what Sam said in a minute, once he's less distracted by his current thought.

[fromfryingpantofire]

Sam shakes his head. "The name doesn't sound familiar, thought I'm familiar enough with the -el/-le endings of names." He has dealt with far, far too many of the angels back home not to know those. Not to mention his own given name. "He wasn't on the Rig, I don't think. Not that I knew everybody there, but I knew most people by sight and he doesn't sound familiar."