The Compass in the Lab
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Title: The Compass in the Lab
Author: Maeve Bran
Summary: Willow has Captain Jack Sparrow's compass.
Disclaimer:I don't own Buffy or Angel or Bones or Pirates of the Caribbean
Notes:This is for the August fic a day. This takes place durring the Bones episode "The Woman at the Airport".
Word Count:470
The main lab area was strangely silent as Dr. Temperance Brennan was out in Los Angeles with Special Agent Seeley Booth on a case, so Zack Addy and Dr. Jack Hodgins were bored and racing beetles. But the area assigned to Angela Montenegro and her student Willow Rosenberg was humming with activity. They were working on an assignment from Dr. Goodman for another part of the museum. The Jeffersonian Institute wasn't just a forensic lab but had a museum too. The assignment was to create an interactive computer display on pirate navigation. The assortment of maps, sextons, compasses and other paraphernalia was taking up much of the available horizontal surfaces of the room.
Angela was at the controls of the display unit commonly referred to as the Angelator, since she had designed and built it and its programming. Willow was handling the scanning duties of each item. Their program had a fictional pirate ship called the "Jefferson" for visitors to try to plot a course to sail from Port Royal to Tortuga using the various interments. This program has a feature that would scan the person who wanted to try out the navigational instruments and project them into the simulation appropriately attired then using a joy stick they'd pick up a tool and a little window would pop up telling about the tool and how to use it. Then the person would maneuver the tool into position and plot the course. For the program to work there needed to be accurate information on what the tool looked like thus the reason for the scans.
Willow picked up a small square case with the corners rounded. It was to small to be anything but a compass so she opened it, and sure enough it was a compass but the needle wasn't pointing north.
"Angela, we need a different compass. This one is broken. It doesn't point north." Willow said.
"Let me see it." Angela put down the controls and came over and took the compass that Willow handed her. She examined it for a few minutes before speaking again. "I know what this is. When I was in Jamaica a few years ago, I heard of a legend of a compass that didn't point North but to the thing you most desire in all the world." She and Willow watched as the needle swung crazily around and didn't stop.
"I guess that confirms that I don't know what I want. You give it try." Angela said as she handed it back to Willow.
Willow took the compass and watched as the needle pointed toward the door. As Willow was trying to decided what that might mean, Toni Wood, dressed in her courier's uniform, stepped into the doorway. Willow smiled. The compass had confirmed what Willow had been thinking about for weeks.
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twistedshorts and tth100)
Title: The Compass in the Lab
Author: Maeve Bran
Summary: Willow has Captain Jack Sparrow's compass.
Disclaimer:I don't own Buffy or Angel or Bones or Pirates of the Caribbean
Notes:This is for the August fic a day. This takes place durring the Bones episode "The Woman at the Airport".
Word Count:470
The main lab area was strangely silent as Dr. Temperance Brennan was out in Los Angeles with Special Agent Seeley Booth on a case, so Zack Addy and Dr. Jack Hodgins were bored and racing beetles. But the area assigned to Angela Montenegro and her student Willow Rosenberg was humming with activity. They were working on an assignment from Dr. Goodman for another part of the museum. The Jeffersonian Institute wasn't just a forensic lab but had a museum too. The assignment was to create an interactive computer display on pirate navigation. The assortment of maps, sextons, compasses and other paraphernalia was taking up much of the available horizontal surfaces of the room.
Angela was at the controls of the display unit commonly referred to as the Angelator, since she had designed and built it and its programming. Willow was handling the scanning duties of each item. Their program had a fictional pirate ship called the "Jefferson" for visitors to try to plot a course to sail from Port Royal to Tortuga using the various interments. This program has a feature that would scan the person who wanted to try out the navigational instruments and project them into the simulation appropriately attired then using a joy stick they'd pick up a tool and a little window would pop up telling about the tool and how to use it. Then the person would maneuver the tool into position and plot the course. For the program to work there needed to be accurate information on what the tool looked like thus the reason for the scans.
Willow picked up a small square case with the corners rounded. It was to small to be anything but a compass so she opened it, and sure enough it was a compass but the needle wasn't pointing north.
"Angela, we need a different compass. This one is broken. It doesn't point north." Willow said.
"Let me see it." Angela put down the controls and came over and took the compass that Willow handed her. She examined it for a few minutes before speaking again. "I know what this is. When I was in Jamaica a few years ago, I heard of a legend of a compass that didn't point North but to the thing you most desire in all the world." She and Willow watched as the needle swung crazily around and didn't stop.
"I guess that confirms that I don't know what I want. You give it try." Angela said as she handed it back to Willow.
Willow took the compass and watched as the needle pointed toward the door. As Willow was trying to decided what that might mean, Toni Wood, dressed in her courier's uniform, stepped into the doorway. Willow smiled. The compass had confirmed what Willow had been thinking about for weeks.
(x-posted to
twistedshorts and tth100)
