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When; June 6
Rating; PG
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prof_wordsworth
Summary; Professor Wordsworth has Charlotte over for tea. Charlotte gets her first real social interaction with someone from another world.
Log;

Charlotte hesitated a moment before knocking on the door of number 190. D's warnings and the events of the past two days made her wary of strangers in this city. But Professor Wordsworth had seemed nice enough. And after avoiding any liquids yesterday, a nice cup of tea would be a welcome treat.

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Charlotte looked up with a nervous smile. She had no doubt she could trust him, but for now some things were better left unsaid.

"Thank you," she said.

"That sounds like a lot of complicated work. Does your roommate help you with all this research? It seems like a lot for one person to attempt."

William gave a small laugh, "Abel would only get in the way, so he doesn't help me."

He looked at Charlotte for a moment, the poor girl was lonely, that was clear and he could use some help with all the paper work.

"You could help me if you like, it's only a matter of time before I lose track of all my work."

Charlotte smiled pleasantly at the offer. Professor Wordsworth really was a sweet man. And his concern was becoming increasingly obvious.

"I would be glad of the distraction," she said. "But I'm afraid you will have to give me a few lessons in your work before I am able to help. As I said, technology isn't terribly common where I come from."

William waved a hand, "Don't worry about that, you can work with whatever you feel at ease with."

William got up and and showed her to a bookcase, "I'm buying books all the time, so help with sorting them will be nice and any note taking you can do would be good as well, so nothing for you to stress yourself about."

Next he showed her the pool table, which was covered in papers, "Mostly, just keeping my papers in order and you are free to tell me off." He said with a grin.

Charlotte examined the bookcase and piles of papers. There was so much, but perhaps that would be a good thing. She needed something to keep her mind on in this strange city.

She thought back to the systems her father had used to organize the family library and saw a way to easily recreate it here. Filing the papers would be another issue entirely.

"Of course, Professor," she said and gave him a happy smile. "How soon would you like me to start?"

William rubbed his hands together, "Wonderful. And you can start whenever your ready."

They sat back down and William poured some more tea, "It will be nice to have voices filling the flat, it's felt a little lonely since I came to the City." William said thoughtfully.

Charlotte gratefully accepted the second cup. She had a feeling working with the Professor would be quite relaxing.

"I'm sorry to hear that," she said. "What did you do back home, Professor?"

"When I'm not a prist, I teach and when I don't do that, I'm an inventor." William said with a grin.

"I work for the Vatican, I hope that's not going to be a worry on your part." He said with a small frown.

"I see," Charlotte said. "Inventing must be an interesting profession. YOu truly are a man of many talents. But I'm afraid I've never heard of the Vatican before, so I'm afraid I don't see why it should present a problem."

"A-ah," William nodded, "Well, it's the religious organization in my world and a very powerful fighting force, it's been at war with the vampires in my world for a long time. But just before I was transported to the City, a back door for negotiation had been opened."

"I see. You must have worked hard to achieve the negotioations," Charlotte said, a note of admiration in her tone.

"Negotiations between vampires and humans in my world is virtually impossible. Humans see vampires as monsters, and we are little more than cattle to the majority of vampires," she added sadly.

William nodded, "For 900 years it was much like your world but the person I work for, Cardinal Caterina Sforza, she fought to start peace negotiations between the humans and the Empire."

William sighed, "But we have an enemy, who would like nothing better then to see the Vatican and the Empire go to war. They are the Rosencreutz Orden and some members are here in the City. Once they find out you work for me they might try to turn you into a spy, so be on your guard."

Charlotte smiled at his first remark. "It seems our worlds are not all that different, Professor."

However, his next remark caught her off guard. A secret organization? Wanting her to be a spy? How did she always find herself in dangerous positions?

"O-of course. But tell me, are these people particularly dangerous? So far I haven't met anyone to worry about here, but D has warned me dangerous people do exist."

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