fandomhigh | Detention, The Danger Shop, 10/07/06

Upon entering the danger shop, students were greeted with an ordinary looking room, empty except for an area in one corner that was set up with a table of breakfasty-type foods and some chairs. Once all of the students were on hand, however, the room's appearance changed, until it resembled the countryside of central Europe. Germany perhaps, or Austria.

Aziraphale smiled and nodded at each student, checking off their names from his list, and waited until everyone was assembled before beginning.

~~Belthazor~~
D'anna Biers
~~Billy Kessler~~
Maia Rutledge
~~Blair Sandburg~~
~~Schrodinger~~

"Welcome to detention. Since I've been given to understand that this is meant to be a learning experience as much as it is a punishment, I've arranged a couple of scenarios for you today. This morning, you'll each face an...enemy, of a sort, in a different setting. How you deal with the encounter, how you ultimately defeat your enemy, is entirely up to you. I expect you each to draw upon the strengths and knowledge you possess.

After lunch, you'll be working together to overcome one additional challenge. Are there any questions?"

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Blair nodded and walked over to the rocks. There was only a little bit of nervous bouncing going on.

The room shifted until Blair was standing in a city square near a fountain. At first it was quiet, and then soft music could be heard, and a strange voice singing. When Blair turned to look, he saw a huge ~~red~~ gray fruit wearing a Zorro mask.

It grinned, then began to waddle toward Blair, singing.

Let's start at the very beginning
A very good place to start
When you read you begin with - A - B - C
When you sing you begin with DO - RE - MI

The singing was funny enough but when Blair caught sight of the thing in the mask he pretty much collasped on the floor giggling. "Awesome, man. Totally awesome."

The laughing didn't seem to make the giant tomato very happy. It stopped walking for a moment, the grin turning into a scowl, and then started a sort of lurching run in Blair's direction.

Still singing, of course.

DO - a deer, a female deer
RE - a drop of golden sun
MI - a name, I call myself
FA - a long long way to run
SO - a needle pulling thread

"Whoa there, big fella." Blair waved his hands and stopped laughing. "Sorry about that, man. Inside joke that had nothing to do with you or your signing abilities. Mostly."

The run slowed to more of a sort of speed-waddle, but the tomato was still scowling and looking extremely unhappy. And, of course, it was still singing.

FA - a long long way to run
SO - a needle pulling thread
LA - a note to follow SO
TI - a drink with jam and bread
That will bring us back to do oh oh oh

"That's a really nice song, Mr. um...Masked Tomato." Blair nodded. "Does it hold any special significance or do you just like singing it?"

Blair's question seemed to confuse the tomato, and it slowed to a stop. Now it wasn't scowling in anger so much as befuddlement. As if it wasn't sure how to proceed.

Doe! - a deer, a female deer
Ray! - a drop of golden sun
Me! - a name I call myself
Far! - a long long way to run
So! - a needle pulling thread
La! - a note to follow SO
Tea - a drink with jam and bread

"Have you thought about the lyrics to that song. I mean there's lots of other things that they could have used to describe the notes." Blair shrugged and sang back at the tomato.

"D'oh! - what you say when you've done something stupid.
Ray! - plays a piano really well for being blind.
Me! - Uh...I don't have anything for me!
Far! - The code for Fargo's Amtrak station!
So! - Peter Gabriel's 7th album and I really liked Sledgehammer!
La! - Half of an Ashlee Simpson song, not that I'm a fan.
Tee - What the rich use to hold up their golf balls!"

The tomato stared. Its huge tomato eyes blinked, its tomato mouth opened and closed but nothing came out. It was quite possible that Blair's lyrics were better.

DO - RE - MI - FA - SO - LA - TI - DO?

Then it shuddered, and there was a sort of a POP! sound. And sitting in front of Blair was a perfectly ordinary, if somewhat oversized, tomato.

Blair bent over and patted the tomato gently. "Awww, poor guy."

He looked around for Aziraphale. "I didn't hurt it, did I?"

As the scenery reverted to the pleasant country setting of earlier, Aziraphale stepped into view. "No my dear, think of it as a regular tomato that was possessed. You've done exactly what you were supposed to do."

He chuckled, as the tomato faded away. "That a creative way to go about things."

"That's good." Blair smiled and gave a bounce. "I think your activity was misleading though."

Aziraphale cocked his head. "Why is that?"

"He didn't seem very enemy-like at all, man." Blair shrugged.

"Mr Sandburg, I have a feeling it would be very difficult to find an opponent for you that truly would seem like an enemy. And maybe that was the point. You were supposed to exercise your own abilities, and perhaps that includes the ability to see a friend where others would see an enemy."

"That's very wise, man." Blair nodded. "If I could just get the hunting class people to see that, I'd be set."

"Everyone has the right to their opinions, including the hunting class people. And I don't want you to take what I said to mean there's never any real danger. But it's heartening that there are still people in the world who don't have to assume the worst right off at the beginning."

Aziraphale smiled ruefully, thinking how people spent too much time worrying about what the 'other' things were going to do to them, and not enough time worrying about what they were doing to one another.

Detention, The Danger Shop, 10/07/06

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