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Horror 101, Monday

"We're going to be talking about zombies," Mitchell started. Why, yes, he'd thrown his lesson plan out the window again. "I was going to bring up succubi, but that might be a bit too NC-17 for you lot." Actually, the original topic had been vampires, but see again re: lesson plan out the window.

"The bodies of our dead come back to life with only a fraction of their brains left, if any," he started, "Mindless creatures milling about trying to take a bite out of you. In film, it depends on what you watch, the old ones had the regular shambling kind you could outrun, but we've developed this obsession with fast zombies as well."

He scraped his throat. "It started with Vodou in Haiti, in the way we know it today. They'd say a dead man could be revived by a Bokor to do his bidding, because he was mindless. A bit appropriate to more than just the living dead these days," he cracked, then quickly moved on to the next bit before that could fall, you know, badly. "Although they say that a lot of these so-called zombies were actually based off of mental patients."

He clapped his hands together. "They can be used as a metaphor for the mindless crowds, and for the fear of people with which we can no longer communicate. They are outside of us as much as they're of us."

He rattled off a few classic zombie films while he was at it. "...although I hear you had some sort of thing with them here last year," he hedged, "So if you don't want to sit around for the film or the discussion, feel free to leave."

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"All right, fine," Alex said, reaching down and scooping up the ermine before settling her on his desk in front of him. It hadn't been difficult to figure out who this was once he'd done process of elimination. "Better? Anything else I can get you, darling?"

See? He totally figured it out.

Much better, actually. Now Emma could sit on his notebook, and try to bat around that pen he was twirling earlier. Although ear-scratches would not be remiss.

"You know I'm going to take a picture of this, right?" Alex asked, not expecting an answer but already digging for his phone. "It's your own fault for getting yourself turned into something so fuzzy."

He did use his free hand to give her some scritches though.

Well, yeah, Emma had sort of figured he would, but she was pretty and cute, so she didn't mind too much. Besides, she'd get him back whenever the inevitable happened to him.

So instead she'd preen a little, and pose, and possibly lean into those scritches. Because she was an ermine, and could totally deny most of this later.

Alex snickered and took a few quick shots with his phone before putting it away. He'd pull those out whenever he wanted to make her blush.

"You having fun?" Alex asked, smirking. "Sure you're getting all kinds of attention when you're the size of a thimble."

That earned him an attempted nip at his fingers, because she was not thimble-sized. And she was lacking her powers, so no, this was not fun.

Except when she was being adored, of course, but Emma liked being spoiled even when she was human-shaped.

Alex managed to pull his fingers away at the last second and glared. "If you're going to bite me, I'm gonna put you back down on the floor and stick gum in your fur."

Emma flashed her sharp little ermine teeth at him in a snarl. Alex would so go around biting people if he was small and furry, and he knew it.

Still, she'd settle down and chew on his pen while giving him Significant Looks. See? She wasn't some completely unreasonable monster or anything like that.

"The hell are you looking at me like that for?" Alex asked, making a face right back at her. "I'm not scared of you, animal or human and I wouldn't have any qualms about picking up and hanging you upside down."

She gave him the best raspberry she could manage as an ermine. He wouldn't dare. She was little and cute and fluffy, and he wouldn't be willing to make a scene in class. Or risk the severely maimed wrists. DEADLY PREDATOR!

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Oh, he'd make a scene in class, no problem. Wasn't like he cared that much and if she was going to give him looks? He was going to flick her nose.

Emma couldn't help it; the animal part of her saw the poking and the challenge and just pounced, intent to wrestle those fingers TO THE DEATH.

Alex couldn't help the snort of laughter at the intended ferocity and let her wrestle his fingers for the time being. He could ignore the teeth and claws pretty well. It wasn't like it hurt.

She was small enough that he could even tug her around with his fingers, getting even more amusement out of this.

Well, it wasn't like Alex ever objected to a little rough play when she was a person, and Emma's nails were so much smaller right now (although still sharp), and he was a lot bigger, so she wasn't really worried about hurting him.

Except she was not a doll to be moved around! Which meant she had to redouble her attack against his fingers, going after him enthusiastically. Death! Death to fingers!

...she would never in a million years admit to this when she was herself again.

"Are you really doing this?" Alex asked, raising an eyebrow, still sliding her around but actually wincing at some of the biting now. "If you don't lay off the biting, you're going to end up upside down, Emma."

Emma backed off, slightly, but still kept chewing on him lightly. Did he not want to play? He was getting boooooooooooooooooooring, with all his 'being good' and stuff. She was little and cute and furry and going to look at him with big, innocent eyes. He totally couldn't be mad at her!

She'd get bitchfaced at quite mightily if she called him boring and brought up his being good promise in conjunction. After all, it wasn't like she had room to talk.

Instead, Alex was going to reach behind him for his jacket and drop it on top of her. Oops.

Emma had made no such corresponding promise, thank you. Although she still needed to talk about that with Alex when she was human again. They were a wonderfully avoiding pair.

The jacket caused mad scrambling as she ran around under it frantically for a moment, before she spitefully started trying to chew her way out. Jerk.

Jerk was a compliment, Emma. Stay that out when you were human and he'd grin smugly at you. Instead, he picked up his jacket to avoid having it eaten before dropping it right back on her.

Biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch. Bitch bitch bitch. Emma was going to wriggle into a sleeve so she could pop out the end and get at him.

She was going to find that hard to do when he turned the jacket around enough that she'd end up in a sleeve that popped out near the edge of his desk.

Emma felt the movement, and stuck her head out the end to glare at him. Meaaaaaaaaaan! Cruelty to animals, that's what this was!

She scampered out anyway, darting towards him over the coat. He was going to get an annoyed ermine climbing his arm to chitter in his ear; a song his ego would normally love, if it was in English. Jerky jerk jerk....

"Emma, I know you're attracted to me but I think you're going to have to calm down because we're in class," he chided, trying to keep her balanced on his arm.

"And besides, I wouldn't want anyone to get jealous," he said, glancing at Jack.

Pish. Jack was just happy she wasn't chewing on his hands anymore.

But the view up here was fantastic -- Jack was short, sorry, Jack, -- so Emma was going to just perch on Alex's shoulder, much like a parrot.

Alex glanced at her and shook his head but didn't try to move her. She could stay there. She owed him for allowing it.

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