feellikeibelong | Warehouse PSL: Devi and Helena

[For continuity's sake, let's say this is set in season 4, after the Astrolabe business, but instead of the whole Evil Giles and his family arc and Helena leaving the Warehouse completely, she came back and BAM there's Devi. Sound good?]

The Warehouse had a new recruit. Another woman was being added to the current line-up of Agents. The new Agent was going to be Helena's partner, which was rather relieved about. She'd been feeling like the third wheel given Pete and Myka were partners and Claudia and Steve were partners. As much as she had grown to love the four of them, going out on pings tended to get a bit tiresome when the other two were better in-tune with how they worked. Helena had managed well enough, but she didn't like feeling like the third wheel. So hopefully her new partner and her would get along well.

Helena had been wondering if she'd do well at having a recruit to teach about the Warehouse and the Artifacts, especially since it had been a very long time since she'd been in such a position. She missed Wolcott dearly, but hopefully she could do him proud once again.

Helena had been on the floor of the Warehouse doing some inventory when she got the call to meet Artie in the control room. Of course, getting to the blasted control room took a while when the Warehouse was, well, gigantic. But finally, she came into the control room where Artie and the new recruit were waiting.

"Took you long enough," Artie grumped. "This is Devi, our new recruit. Now give her the tour."

Helena shook her head at him, and smiled, extending her hand to Devi in greeting. "I'm Helena Wells, it's a pleasure to meet you." As they made introductions, Artie headed off to attend to his own business, leaving them alone.

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The smile Devi wore wasn't so rusty under the light of the passion that came with undetering curiosity and she fell in step behind HG, listening to the warning as best she could while still eyeballing the shelves that they were approaching. When HG looked at her, Devi glanced over and nodded but a keen mind might gleen that it went in one ear and out the other.

Just like with everyone.

As HG gets to the whole 'Warehouse is sentient' thing, Devi looks over properly, frowning slightly in confusion both to the statement and it's following question.

"W-what do I smell?" Devi sniffed and glanced both ways as though looking for a joke sign or cue that she wasn't getting before studying HG again carefully. Maybe this woman wasn't... all there.

"Do I get points for not saying sawdust and dirty gym socks?"

Oh Helena recognized that it went in one ear and out the other. Many had the same reaction upon first arriving at the Warehouse and experiencing what lay within it. Helena would reiterate it later once Devi was able to retain information beyond the wonder that she was presented with.

Though Helena was hoping that Devi, once she was past the initial rush of everything, would not be like Pete who saw fit to not only touch everything, but also play with the Artifacts in the Warehouse. Seriously. Helena did wonder how the man hand't whammied himself into an early grave by this point.

At the response, Helena smiled, showing Devi that she was pleased by it. "Oh you definitely get points for not saying sawdust and dirty gym socks. Do you smell apples at all?" Not everyone smelled them, and sometimes one would smell them later on in service after doing something to help the Warehouse. Even if Devi didn't smell them, she wanted her to know what the scent meant if she ever found herself smelling them.

Once Devi got the initial 'Wow shiny' out of her system and learned what the consequences of playing in the Warehouse was, she would settle down nicely. There would still be rough times ahead as she learned that one.

She shook her head. "No, not apples. Why? What does apple smelling mean?"

Sometimes it did take time to properly learn that, Helena understood it. Though most Agents did tend to learn not to touch Artifacts willy-nilly after the first time one tried to kill them. Near-death experience tended to break one of the touch everything habit. Unless you were Pete Lattimer. It didn't seem to matter to him how many Artifacts ended up nearly killing him, he still played with them.

"Smelling apples is the Warehouse's way of saying it likes you, or it is thanking you for something you have done. Not everyone smells apples, but if you ever are in the Warehouse and smell them, that would be why." Helena explained. She was not above explaining that given Artie liked to keep such information to himself.

"Now, this way. I'll start with the basic tour." Helena said as she began heading down one of the aisles. She did keep an eye on Devi in the event she decided to touch something. "First, when you are handling Artifacts, you must wear these special gloves." Helena pulled a pair of purple latex gloves out of her pocket. "They keep the Artifact from affecting us. Second, as we walk through some aisles here, you will notice large vats at the end of aisles. These contain neutralizer, which we douse the Artifacts in to put them into a dormant state. If you are ever around an Artifact that is currently affecting someone, you take it and put it in neutralizer. Or when we are out in the world tracking Artifacts, we have bags with the neutralizer in them we put the Artifacts in." And again, she was sort of expecting that to go in one ear and out the other, but it was the most important thing to get said at the moment.

Warehouse PSL: Devi and Helena

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