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Journalism Class - Friday September 23

Spider is sprawled atop his desk, cat draped over his feet, staring up at a holo feed that is playing on the celing. He has a large mug of something that is steaming gently beside him and a pack of cigarettes with a lighter atop it by his elbow. The rest of the newsfeeds are also on, but muted.

The one above him seems to be going on at some length about prisoner riots.

On a large board propped up in front of the class is a sign that reads:

Attention students:

Today is gossip day. I want you to spend the class period discussing the strangest and most vicious rumors you've heard regarding the school, your schoolmates, the townies and your professors. Go nuts. At the end of class, I will go back and review and whoever came up with the best (ie most fascinating, funny or repeatable) rumor will win a prize.

Also? Homework assignments for next week, coming to a notice board near you.

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Duce contemplates just which of the rumours she's recently heard would be appropriate, and finally says, "We heard a teacher recently had an abortion because she was pregnant by an underage student and didn't want to get caught." She pauses, "We've also heard Professor Jackson is gay, but that's not so much rumour as attention to detail."

Jake looked up from his coffee. "Which one's that? That Jackson guy, I mean?"

Duce peered at the tussle-headed boy, trying to place where she'd seen him before. "You're.. Jake, right? Professor Jackson teaches archaeology and anthropology.. and we think he teaches dead languages or something too."

Her willpower a known marvel, she does not question why Jake was showing interest in a homosexual teacher. She most definitely doesn't offer to introduce them.

"So... Not the guy with two heads, then?" Jake ignored Snake-hair's slight smirk. She lived in the haunted house. She was weird. "Or the dude with the sidekick try-outs?"

Duce shakes her head, causing the snakes to writhe into a new position where they could see who she was speaking to. Or smell him. Whichever.

"Don't think so? Unless either of them is Prof. Jackson's.. ah.. hm.. can't say 'bitch' since we don't know which one's the top.. hm... Partner?"

She speculates aloud, "We'd imagine two heads would be a bonus.."

Jake tilted his head as he pondered on that. "Would be interesting, for sure."

Her smirk broadened, "It would, indeed. We heard he had to pay..or bribe, the rumours differ on that point.. a female student to get pictures of him kissing another female student, so noone would suspect."

Jake looked blank. This conversation might require more coffee than he had. "So no one would suspect what?"

Duce tilted her head at the obviously half-awake Jake. Her hand delved into the depths of the knapsack of doom, bringing forth a small can of ~~liquid life~~ something suspected to be coffee. There was a cartoon coffee bean prancing across the front and some sort of Asian hieroglyphs all over it.

An eyebrow raised over her glasses in inquiry, she waggled the can in offering before answering.

"So noone would suspect he's homosexual. Classic closet coverstory."

Ohh, coffee smell! Jake grabbed the can happily. Snake-hair or no, at least it wasn't the professor's coffee. After taking a gulp, his eyebrows raised as well. "Weird cover story," he decided. "And anyway, who'd care? I mean, around here the only thing that might raise eyebrows would be child porn, I'm thinking." He had more coffee. "And maybe lifestock, but I'm not at all sure of that."

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Beka comes in in time to hear Duce saying Jackson's gay. "Nah, Duce. He's not gay. At least, if he is, he's very very bi. I saw him...react...when Janet kissed him yesterday."

Beka smiles. "Now, I did hear that Lee Adama waxes his chest and uses 7 hair products."

Duce shrugs, "Didn't say he was, just said we'd heard he was."

Snorting back a laugh at the commentary on Lee, she quips, "From the look of it, the hair product part is sheer fact."

"No issues. We hear a lot of people are gay around here." Beka shrugs. "Many of them are."

"Yeah. Though, he does have rather lovely arms. So, I'll forgive him. Did you hear Vala flashed the ~~Angsty Teen Virgins~~ boys?"

Duce guffaws, impressed, "Did she really? Pllleeeease tell me there are pictures of the resulting cranial explosions?"

((er.. "tell us"..Duce speaks in plural. The player? Not so much.))

((*laughs* I wrote a story about the Furies in their merged form. The "me" and "us" thing about killed me.))

((*g* Exactly.))

With a chuckle, Beka points to Crichton. "That one did a lovely little doodle. No pictures, but Cameron has a date with her this evening. That ought to be fun. Sure hope someone's taking pictures!"

"Wait.. so the flashing resulted in one of the ~~AngstyMaleVirgins~~ boys getting a date?" Duce tries very, very hard not to laugh. "That's one way to get their membership numbers down.."

Beka bites the inside of her lip. "Yeah. Amusing, no? Funnier is that she calls him YoYo." Then she gives in smirks, goodnaturedly.

Duce busts out laughing, "Because he's wrapped around her little finger already, or because he's up and down that frequent?"

It's obvious that she's not indicating the direction of his moodswing.

or because he's up and down that frequent?"

[OOC: Oh, I'm dead now. *laughs hysterically*]

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At this Beka gets a pained expression. "There's some story about her and a yoyo."

She shrugs and sighs.

"I should explain. Cam's my ex. And Vala's a very good friend. It's one thing for me to tell you what everyone knows because it's funny. It's another to take personal shots, no matter how much the jest. I know that's not cool, but I made a mistake before, not watching the backs of the people I care about. Not. Gonna. Do it. Again. Sorry."

Duce peers at the boy, "So.. you're not YoYo? You really do look like him. If you're attached, why are you a member of.."

She stops there, deciding she really does not want the answer.