fandomhigh | Ethics [Thursday, September 3, 1st period]

Anakin walked into his classroom precisely on time and gave the students assembled there an appraising glance as the door clicked shut behind him. If you were late, you weren't getting in. "I'm Master Skywalker," he said in a voice that was intended to carry, "this is Ethics, and we're going to skip the introductions--I'll figure out who you are--and move straight to our first discussion."

He paced around the room, cloak flaring out behind him, as he handed out the syllabus. "Today's topic," he said, pointing to the top of the page. "Self sacrifice: knowing the difference between saving people and being a pretentious twit."

"Any time I ask a a group of people what they would do to save someone they love, they all blither on about how they would set the world on fire, lie, cheat, steal, kill, die, et cetera, et cetera. I've been at this school too long to believe that half of you haven't already been put into this situation and I'm in no mood to hear adolescent ramblings about how wonderful you were or might hypothetically be. Instead I want you to give me a concrete example of a time you admitted to yourself that a problem cannot be solved, and that to sacrificing yourself wasn't a statement, but merely pointless?" His gaze swept the room. "How long does it take for you to realize you can't fix everything by yourself?"

He would hear the replies and choose his TAs from there.

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Elle just looked over at her new friend and gave her the best sympathetic smile she could manage. And Elle didn't generally do sympathy. "That's the woman you mentioned the other night, right?"

"Y-yeah," Hayley said. "Some idiot in a costume drowned her."

"Costume? Ugh." Elle wrinkled her nose. "Not cool."

"No kiddin'," Hayley said. "I would love to get my hands on that bitch."

"I'd help, if I could," Elle offered. Hayley reminded her of herself, a little bit. And she hated hurting over people.

"Maybe we can hunt her down, when I'm allowed to go back to Gotham!" Hayley said, rather too excited.

"When do you think that'd be?"

"...probably not til I graduate," Hayley admitted.

"How long's that gonna be?"

"End of the year?" Hayley said, crossing her fingers. "Hopefully I won't fail any classes."

"Oh." Her friend would be leaving her. "Well, I'm only a sophomore, but we can still study together. I'll help make sure you don't fail. That'll give us time to plan, anyway."

"Oh, yeah," Hayley said. "I'd like that."

That made Elle grin. "Cool."

"We'll make good of the time we got, right?" Hayley said, grinning back.

"Oh, totally," Elle agreed with a nod.

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