Characters: Ciaran and Rowan
Setting: The library
Content: SFW for now?
Summary: Ciaran helps himself to a book. Rowan catches him.

Well, wasn’t this a riot?

Ciaran had gone to the library straight after his class had finished. Or rather, after he’d completed the hour’s detention he owed after his class had finished. It...wasn’t his favourite place to visit, but then he didn’t plan on staying long. All he had to do was find the book he needed for his Potions assignment, check it out and then go. All in all, it was a pretty easy task.

Except that in the hour he’d spent in detention, every wizard on campus and their familiar had gone into the library and checked out every single copy of the book he needed.

Well, almost every single copy. There was one copy left on the shelf, one with a PLEASE DO NOT REMOVE FROM LIBRARY sticker on the front of it. Fuck.

At first he tried to casually remove it, but it was stuck fast and threatened to ruin the front of the book if he continued. The warning was also stamped across the front page, so he couldn’t just tear the cover off and blame some thoughtless nobody for damaging the book; he still wouldn’t be able to check it out of the library even if the redhead woman bought his story.

Ciaran looked around at the other students quietly poring over their books. Nobody was paying attention to him and the librarian had her back facing his way. Maybe...he could just borrow it without checking it out? It wasn’t as though he wanted to steal it, he just needed it for a while. And books probably went missing all of the time...

He walked a little further up one of the aisles and pretended to look for something else and casually slipped the book into his back. Pretending not to find what he was looking for, Ciaran huffed and wandered out from between the bookshelves.

And nobody was the wiser. Excellent.

Tags: !incomplete, rowan cabot