#iconic re-introduction mr gabriel

[slashingdisneypasta]

Mr. Gabriel is standing in the center of the room, facing slightly away from us. The tables have been cleared away against the bookshelves, and a giant and disturbing shape has been drawn in chalk on the floor. Its unpleasant lines and angles form a kind of frame around the librarian, who seems to have sprouted large black bat-like wings. Also, long twisty black horns of some kind are now spiralling out of the top of his head. He is bending slightly forward, looking at the floor, muttering something incomprehensible in a low, guttural voice.

He's not dancing around, at least. So there's something.

After an eternity of standing there in the doorway, trying to take this in, I hear Ryan's voice speaking from what seems a great distance.

"You were right. I was able to tell right away."

Mr. Gabriel slowly turns, raising his head. The amount of blood spattered across his light-blue button-down shirt makes me gasp. Whose blood is that? Where did it come from? There is blood on the floor, too, I realise. A lot of it. There is so much that I think there cannot be very much left at all inside whomever it came out of.

"Oops," Mr. Gabriel says. "Thought I locked those." Then grins. It is not a comforting expression. Especially with those fangs.

"You're- " Ryan appears to be trying to think of something appropriate to say.

"John Gabriel, the new Librarian," Mr. Gabriel says brightly. "Pleased to meet you!"

"But you're- you're not- " Ryan stops, shallows, starts again. "You're not human," he says. He seems to feel it is very important to point this out. Perhaps in case Mr. Gabriel was not aware.

Mr. Gabriel's terrifying grin grows even larger, stretching impossibly across his face. He begins to laugh. Then he stops laughing and winks at us.

"Strangely, the job description did not specify that as a requirement."

- Evil Librarian, Michelle Knudsen