Detention, Danger Shop and Beyond, 8 AM till 2 PM

[chosehumanity]

"Morning," Mitchell greeted; he was starting to look less like he'd been on a bender the longer he was staying off the blood, and so this morning he actually looked fairly fit and chipper for the job. "You're all here because you've misbehaved, and the school's appointed me for your punishment. I'm Mitchell." Beat. "Don't call me professor. It makes me feel old."

He left the sign-in sheet on the desk at the front of the class.
Zack Fair
Tony Foster
Karla
Morgana
Fiona Post
John Sheppard
Jaina Solo

"Today, we're putting you all to work," he said, "We've got a lot of dead alligators out there, so I hope you know how to get out some bloodstains. Then we'll come back around to the Danger Shop for lunch and you'll hear the rest of it."

Mitchell grinned at the class. "We'll have proper detention." It was possible that, for all his heartfelt dedication to the job of being human, he wasn't, in fact, all that good at it.

"Oh, and let me know if you're squeamish."

Mitchell used to clean at a hospital. He had different ideas about disgusting.

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Coffee Circle

[chosehumanity]

Why, yes, upon return, it's obvious he's set up a fake living room, all decked out for an afternoon tea with the neighbours. Or, in this case, students. He looked far too proud of it as he sat around sipping his coffee.

Converse with your fellow students, converse with Mitchell, eat the scones, boggle--

"And I want you all to tell me one disturbing fact about yourselves!"

--He really, really shouldn't be this cheerful. And interested.

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[puppy_fair]

Coffee?

He was feeding coffee to Zack Fair?

Oh, this could only end in twitching and spasms, really.

"A disturbing fact about myself?" This was hard. "I really, really liked getting to fight those monsters yesterday? But by the end of the day, I was covered in so much monster goo and sewage, Alice had to hose me off outside of the dorms."

That was sufficiently disturbing, sure!

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[chosehumanity]

"She hosed you off?" Mitchell asked, sipping his own coffee. "You find that easier than doing dry-cleaning, then?"

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[puppy_fair]

"I didn't want to step into the building while there were meaty alligator bits hanging off of my clothes," Zack replied with a shrug as he reached for his own coffee.

He'd put entirely too much sugar in that coffee.

"And I think the janitor would have smacked me on the head if I ended up tracking raw sewage up two floors. I'll worry about dry cleaning once I get into a change of clothes."

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[chosehumanity]

"That sounds very practical, Zack," Mitchell said, encouragingly, and curved his gloved hands around his cup.

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[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

Since she couldn't eat the scones or drink the tea, Fiona settled on the couch and sunk into the cushions trying to figure out which of the disturbing things about her would be the least damaging.

Maybe the professor wouldn't notice her?

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[chosehumanity]

Not a chance.

"Come on!" said Mitchell. He was being encouraging. While grinning. "We're all sharing here. Zack knows how to hose himself off so he doesn't track alligator bits into the school!"

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[cutsthestrings.livejournal.com]

"I took a shower?" she ventured carefully. Could she piggyback off of Zack's comment?

Probably not.

"Pick a category, then."

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[chosehumanity]

"Food?" he tried, "That usually gets the best of stories."

Oh, Mitchell. "You're not touching your scones, for one." Too stereotypical?

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[glacial_queen]

Coffee. For all that he'd made them scrub alligator stains today, Karla was ready to hug this man. Oh! And scones!

Rather than say anything, Karla just held out her right hand and slipped her serpent's tooth out from under her ring-finger nail. She was too busy drinking coffee to actually participate in conversation.

[SP for the afternoon]

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[chosehumanity]

"Ew," Mitchell said, somewhat appreciatively, but also dubiously. "How's that fit?"

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[glacial_queen]

The 'Ew' earned him a baleful glare, but after swallowing her coffee, Karla replied, "There's a little pocket under the nail. Holds the tooth and the poison sac. I'm sure magic's involved, but it's a part of me."

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[chosehumanity]

"So you were born like that?" he asked, with professional curiosity, and sipped his coffee.

Three people, and so far, none of them had actually been human. The ordinary kind, at least.

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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

John was glad to see Mitchell was providing coffee as it was warm and hopefully strong. "What counts as disturbing?" People had different views on this.

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[chosehumanity]

It was strong. Strong enough to light your stomach on fire.

... On a figurative note.

"Oh, I don't know," Mitchell said, thoughtfully, "You call your exes in the middle of the night, you leave the toilet lid up, you turn into a zombie at the stroke of midnight, that sort of thing."

Mitchell's definition of disturbing was wide.

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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"So more of a bad habit," John replied, thinking of what to share. "I've had detention every week for the last semester or so."

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[solo_sword]

Jaina had plenty of stuff that was disturbing about her, but none of it was really up for discussion in a detention setting, coffee circle or not.

"This detention didn't disturb me in the slightest. Does that count?" she wondered.

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[chosehumanity]

Mitchell looked at her, then at every other person in the circle. He settled for a succinct, "After this detention, I'm hardly surprised."

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[solo_sword]

"Then that's really all I've got," she told him. But she somehow thought herself normal, since she was the one who dealt with herself all day every day.

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[wantstodirect]

"Disturbing?" Tony raised his eyebrows. "I once helped stop my world from being invaded by an evil wizard with an army of homicidal shadows," he offered.

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[chosehumanity]

"Nobody is normal around here, are they?" Mitchell asked, rhetorically. Not, mind, particularly bitterly or anything; he was upbeat.

Desperately so. "What kind of wizard?"

... This was something he did know about.

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[wantstodirect]

"A Shadowlord from another dimension," Tony said. "Are you normal?"

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[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

"There is nothing disturbing about me," Morgana said shortly. "Except perhaps that I did nothing wrong to end up here."

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[chosehumanity]

"You think someone put you in detention for nothing?" Mitchell asked, raising his eyebrows. "You really think the school's that random?"

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[nevertobequeen.livejournal.com]

"There were reptiles spitting fish yesterday," Morgana pointed out. "I would put nothing past this place."