fandomhigh | Enjoying Those Teenage Years [period 5, Tuesday]

"Hola, tiny children," Robin said, filing her nails and looking bored from where she was perched on the edge of a desk in the perfectly normal looking classroom. "Big thank you to Brooke for covering class last week. I'm sure you guys aren't all entirely unfamiliar with the whole changing-into-an-animal thing; anyone who makes a joke about the fact that I changed into a female dog gets a detention. Not because it's not funny. It's just already been done."

She got up, stretched, and started passing out papers. "So, since I was a dog ~~and my player is still SUPREMELY out of it thanks to jetlag and all~~ and I didn't have time to work on lesson plans or whatever, we have an easy class today. I want to see what you learned about messing with authority. You're each getting in trouble for something -- each of these papers has a scenario on it. Pretend I'm the arresting officer, and tell me why you don't deserve it. For this exercise, let's all assume you were found guilty. You failed your breathalyzer, you parked in a fire zone, you really did break your curfew -- whatever. Your job is to get out of the violation, however you can. Whatever it is, it's not about whether you did it or not -- it's why. Play to my sympathies, or use what you have to your advantage. Make me want to retract it."

She cleared her throat once all the papers were out. "And um, I'm not good at this, but you guys were a really good class. Like, I hate kids, and you guys didn't make me hate Tuesdays. Well done, guys. If you come in on Thursday, your first round's on me, okay? I would've brought booze today but I'd rather not get fired when I'm so close to actually finishing my first teaching gig, you know?"

[~~wait for~~ OCD is up!]

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There was a small tremble in Turtle's jaw; clearly, this explanation wasn't helping. "Constable Fraser gave into peer pressure?"

"No no no!" Robin was so bad with kids. This was not good. She had been so close. "No, what happened was that Barney kinda led him into the sentence so that Benton finished it with the correct term. Because Benton -- I mean, Constable Fraser -- knows everything, and enjoys helping people by supplying the correct information when they have questions."

Turtle very carefully, and almost skeptically, considered this information, and then, slowly, she nodded. "So, he was just trying to help, in the grand scheme of things?"

"Yes. Exactly. But Barney, who is not a nice person like the good Constable, tricked him," Robin said, nodding seriously. "He was trying to be helpful."

Turtle quirked an eyebrow and wondered why Robin-not-a-Frog was talking to her all of a sudden like she was five year old. "I guess that's not so bad, then. I mean, well, I guess I should have figured it'd be something like that."

"He doesn't use that kind of language," Robin assured her, now that she was pretty sure she hadn't ruined Benton's reputation and probably wasn't going to make anyone cry today. "I've just been using it as leverage anyway. It hasn't really been working."

"...Leverage?" Turtle's head tilted slightly. "Like, using it as sort of a card up your sleeve for arguments and getting what you want and stuff?"

She nodded. "A non-working-thus-far card, but yeah."

"Still," Turtle shrugged a shoulder, but that almost seemed to regain her confidence in Constable Fraser. The thing with Mister Stinson seemed like a pretty dumb trap to fall into, but at least he wasn't falling for Robin-not-a-Frog's attempt at leverage, and she was left feeling overall satisfied with that whole situation, "not a bad thought, though."

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