Practical Weaponry [Wednesday, Period Four]

[doubleohblonde]

Bond waited outside of the Danger Shop until all of his class had arrived. When they went inside, the room had taken on the appearance of a city devoid of life and eerily silent.

"I do hope you all remembered your zombie plans from our first class," Bond said from the doorway, checking his watch. "Since the zombie apocalypse and your final are both scheduled to start in about five minutes. Anyone who's still alive at the end of the class passes. That is unless you managed to cause the undeath of a classmate in the process, in which case you fail. Have fun."

With that he locked the door of the Danger Shop behind them. A faint groaning could be heard in the distance.

[ooc: wait for ocd up and craving spicy brains.]

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Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 7]

[bitchprince]

"All right," he said. "I will face detention."

Think of politics, Arthur. You can always destroy dummies in the salle later.

"However," he continued, "I have to claim ignorance of your policies on the subject, and again, trusted Francine to do as was required. I do not have your 'phone number', so even if I had been aware, I would not have been able to contact you."

And then there was the fact that in many ways Arthur expected everyone to be his personal secretary, but he was a) not aware of this and b) it was not much of an argument. "I acted as I saw necessary to preserve the existence of Vancouver."

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 7]

[doubleohblonde]

Bond's pause before replying stretched out due to a sudden attack of RL.

"If you are going to use ignorance of school attendance policy, which after the amount of time you've been at this school could only be classed as wilful, as a defence," he said. "As well as a need to be spoon-fed freely available information, I would suggest that claiming in the same breath that your presence was absolutely necessary to save a city mightn't be the best way to convince someone of the verity of either."

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 7]

[bitchprince]

"It has never been an issue previously," he said, simply. "I am of age. As far as I'm aware of, I may come and go as I please. The situation in Vancouver has nothing to do with that particular argument; I just felt it was necessary to be mentioned."

He left it to sit there as a period, seeming about ready to leave it to end there.

Finally, he added, "As a last and entirely unrelated thing, you do realise that several of these students have already lived through a zombie invasion."

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 7]

[doubleohblonde]

"How other teachers enforce rules on attendance is their concern, not mine," Bond said. "And trust me, there are far worse punishments for being away without leave than losing one Saturday, regardless of whether you're saving a city or even a country in the process."

"It must have completely slipped my mind that something to that effect was mentioned at the start of the session when I asked," Bond replied blandly. "I expect the experience served them quite well for the final."

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 7]

[bitchprince]

"Then the rules of attendance I've failed would be a matter of 'no one rule to fit them all'," Arthur replied, just as blandly, making a valiant attempt to slant his voice as if that wasn't a criticism. "So be it."

On that last part, however, his eyes betrayed a slight spark of anger. "They faced their friends and family as lumbering monsters and thought that they were lost," he said, and tried - very unsuccesfully - not to picture Dojima's face as she banged his head against the wall until it cracked. "And you felt it necessary to confront them with that again."

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 7]

[doubleohblonde]

Bond very briefly entertained the idea of tying Arthur up and forcing him to read the Magna Carta, along with every single revision completel with its whys and wherefores thereof since 1215. However he had sincere doubts that Arthur would actually get the point of the exercise.

"Yes, I did," Bond replied. "Life is often cruel and unfair, and people who fight for a living will most likely see the worst and ugliest of side of humankind, and see it repeatedly. Far better to learn if a person can handle that kind of stress in a controlled environment that can be easily stopped and the stressor removed, than in one where they might get themselves or others killed."

He leant forward, not a trace of mockery in his eyes. "Despite what you may believe, there's no shame in having a post-traumatic stress disorder," he said gently. "And there are many trained professionals who not only specialise in treating them but are incredibly discreet."

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 7]

[bitchprince]

Well, this was clearly getting him nowhere.

...Therapy might have actually been very, very good for Arthur on many levels. Unfortunately, repression and denial kind of got into the way of that.

"I will keep that in mind," he said, despite the fact that he had no clue what post-traumatic stress disorder meant (although if he was inclined to do things like 'not sit around and wait for problems to simply stop being problems because that always worked', he might have actually been able to assume its meaning), "But I felt it was necessary to speak up. Do you have any further issue yourself, or shall I remove myself?"

Re: Talk to Bond - PW [Week 7]

[doubleohblonde]

"I think we're done here," Bond said. "But if you ever happen to be in one of my classes again, I really would prefer not to have a repeat of this behaviour."

Whether he meant that last in the specific or the general sense would remain a mystery.