fandomhigh | Forensic Science, 5th period, 4/18

Abby was standing at the door of the danger shop, handing out hardhats along with the usual labcoats. "Welcome to the last class. I'm really sad that this class is ending, I've had a fun time killing off your fellow teachers and classmates."

"Today we're going to be focusing on one last aspect of forensic science." Abby said, donning her own hard hat. "Figuring out the differences between an accident and a homicide."

"Not everyone that dies has been killed." Abby lectured. "And sometimes murders can be set up to look like accidents. You need to be smarter than the cops, smarter than the doctors, smarter than the criminals to solve these type of crimes."

She flashed up two scenes on the plasma screen, both of drowning victims. "These scenes are similar, but one was an accidental drowning and the other was a homicide. There are a few obvious clues and some not-so-obvious ones."

Waiting until the class had finished talking about the scenes, Abby herded them to the door that led to the crime scene. It opened into a large warehouse, complete with piles of wood pallets and flickering lights.

In the center of the room was a puddle of water and an electrical wire surrounding the body of Jake Gavin. "You're job is to figure out if Jake died as a result of an accident or somebody killed him. Oh, the wire isn't live so none of you are in danger. I just think hard hats are fun to wear."

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"It's awful, isn't it?" Rikku folded her arms indignantly. "You're different, so clearly, we should be afraid of you and blow up your stuff. Gosh, that's great! Good way to be sure we all get along! Except how it totally isn't! ... You're a mutant? Like, what do you do?"

"That's ... kinda cool. Are they like hidden in corners?"

Jake grinned at her indignation, but only a little. "You've been there too, huh?"

His eyes turned into a copy of Rikku's while the skin on his face darkened. "I can do that. I'm a shapeshifter. Sort of."

Rikku nodded, recognizing the 'oh, you too?' look. "With us it's a ... religious kinda thing. Their government says we're all heathens and everything that's wrong with the world? Our fault. Kinda convenient. Means they don't ever have to question anything. People love that." She shook her head. "Is it bad, here? For Mutants?"

"Oh, that's neat!" She grinned. "Do you do fun things with it? I'd just ... change my hair color every day. Have a huge mole on my face for no reason and see how many people stare at it."

"It depends a little on who happens to be in charge and what the supervillains and superheroes do." Jake rolled his eyes. "People can be so stupid."

He grinned back at her again as his face returned to normal. "I did when I was little. But I don't so much now. I like being me, you know?"

"They'd rather be told what to do, what to believe, then have to think for themselves." Rikku shook her head. "I don't know why that's so scary, for people."

"Ha. There's that, I didn't think of that. I like being me, too. I mean, we Al Bhed, we look so different, everyone can tell ... if we looked different, maybe they wouldn't pick us out so quickly ... but we wouldn't be us."

Jake nodded. He was silent for a moment, then he gave her a wicked grin. "Sometimes it's fun to fool people though! Just not all the time."

Rikku giggled. "I'd use it to get away with stuff. Make sure you look totally different when you're out causing mischief ..."

Jake gave her a very innocent look indeed. "Oh, I'd never do that. Nope. Neeeever."

Rikku grinned. "You should have joined the clothing mutiny. You might have avoided detention."

"I'm not quite that much of an exhibitionist, thanks," Jake snickered.

"Hey, not all of us were naked!" she giggled. "Besides, if you went as someone else, does that even count as exhibition?"

"Yes," Jake said firmly. "Besides, I don't know what that many people look like naked, so I'd have to guess and that's... weird."

Rikku snickered. "You could always have gotten an ex that you're not fond of in trouble."

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