Detention, Saturday

[chosehumanity]

"Hey," Mitchell called, once the handwavey detention announcement had gone out and everyone had had time to gather up by the Danger Shop. "I'm Mitchell. Some of you might've met me." He grinned. "You're here because for whatever reason, the school has chosen to recognise your trespasses. That doesn't mean it has to be horrible, just unpleasant."

Another slight grin, with only a hint of apology.

"So today, we're going to be preparing for a tea party," he continued, "Although I'd like it if you'd all go light on the tea. I'm more of a coffee person."

He shouldn't be allowed free range of children.

"Just enter through there and get your finest," he said, waving at the doorway, "And I'll see you on the other end."

Liir Thropp
Arthur Pendragon
Dinah Lance
Jack Priest
Effy Stonem
Kate Gregson
Francine Peters
Jonothon Starsmore
Azula

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Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

"Calm down."

That was a very... tiny... tone right there, and that was enough to cause him some concern. "Not on purpose?"

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

"The brownie part was on purpose. I like making brownies." Well, she had. "The other part was--" Sigh, but at least it was truthful. "Me being really, really gullible."

Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

"I'm sure you're not that gullible," he said, putting down his mug. "I'd say there's a real bastard out there taking advantage."

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine thought about it. For all of five seconds. "No, I'm that gullible." Okay, seven seconds. "Or at least I was. Maybe not anymore."

Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

He smiled for a moment. It didn't reach his eyes. "Well, Francine," Mitchell replied, "I doubt you're in detention for being gullible. Sounds like you learned enough."

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

"More than enough." Francine reached for a cup of... anything to wash down lemon bars and bitterness with, really, but tea was nearest. "But if it's not that, then I dunno what I'm here for. Unless it's just the refreshments, but I'd have made those anyway, if somebody asked me to."

Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

"You could just be here to keep us fed," Mitchell replied, ducking his head for a moment. "Which is fairly kind of the school, you'll have to give them that." He finished off his lemon bar with due gusto.

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

"Most people here are," Francine said, and perhaps she was still too generous with that assessment, but she wasn't going to let go of it yet. "I like it here most of the time."

Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

He nodded, cracking a real smile. "So how are you liking detention so far?" he asked, "I think it's cosy." Pause. "The lowlife who got you isn't in here, right?"

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine had to laugh, if a bit perplexedly, at cosy. "It's a little nicer than detention is supposed to be, I think." She tried to say it as kindly as possible, just in case he'd been trying really hard to be strict and utterly failed.

"And no, Ch--" Yeeah, no, she wasn't about to snitch on him. "He's not here."

Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

Mitchell nodded, shrugging in an unabashedly ironic way. "I know what it's like," he said, conspiratorally, "Every generation has its bullies. They think they get away with things."

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine shrugged too, in an unabashedly oblivious to irony way. "He's not a bully. He's just rich, hot, and charming."

Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

"Oh," Mitchell said, in thorough understanding, "An overprivileged bully."

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

Francine, why are you defending Chuck Bass? "He didn't make me do anything."

Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

He reached over to wrap his fingers around his cup of coffee again. "The most thorough ones never do," he said, which wasn't in any way related to his own issues. "Sometimes, they can get you to do the worst of things, and it takes you years to catch on to the fact you hate it."

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

Talk to her about that again after she's met Darcy Parker, mm'kay?

Though there were examples a bit closer to home. "I think sometimes those people don't mean any harm; they just think they know what's right for you better than you do."

Re: The Living Room

[chosehumanity]

"And that's when it gets dangerous," he said, shrugging a bit. "I mean, at the end of the day, you're the one who chooses what your life's supposed to wind up like. Sometimes it takes a while, but..."

Like about sixty to ninety years of running around killing people because Herrick said it was good for you, Mitchell.

Re: The Living Room

[thatsamilkshake]

Which just left Francine making faces into her tea. "Right, I'll get right on that one."