fandomhigh | Newspaper Crew Meeting: 16:00 FHS-20:00 FHS

Angelus came into the room with a bookbag slung over one shoulder and both hands carefully carrying two trays of coffee with four paper coffee cups each.

He played one tray in the middle of the room, clearly open for anyone who wanted to take from it. The other he kept by him protectively.

He took a seat at one of the desks and began writing notes in one of his notebooks.

Dressed in a crisp white blouse, minimally buttoned, a short black and white schoolgirl plaid skirt, Beka enters the classroom looking exactly like she's been dealing with the entire world's emodrama's overnight. Which is to say, piqued.

Her gaze lights on Angelus, and the coffee. She winks at one and covets the other, and barely manages to set her bag next to a row of desks before she's got a cup of coffee in her hands.

"Hey, Beks," Angelus looked up at her. "How'd it go last night?"

[ooc: So why was she winking at the coffee? ;) ]

"Oh. Swell. Our Emodemon pal is still emo. Only I have a splitting headache."

She sipped the coffee gratefully, but it quickly became obvious to her she'd need to sleep. Especially if she was to have a late night ~~a busy night~~.

"And this would be why I'm giving Bel a wide berth for the time being," Angelus said. "I want to be there for him but can't say I'm much liking being the punching bag. You know me: not without consent and at least a blowjob by the time we're done. ~~Could nap on my lap if you wanted.~~"

Beka sighed. "I don't mind being target practice. It's good for me. ~~Would be better if he'd figure out that fireplay is foreplay, but hey, can't have everything.~~. There is a certain irony in people asking me about relationships, you have to grant.

~~Consent granted. Blowjob we'll discuss later. Sleep now... Want to kiss me goodnight?~~

"I've got to sleep. Wake me in an hour and a half or so?" Beka started pulling desks together.

"You got it," Angelus noted the time so he'd know when to wake her.

Without ceremony, Beka sprawled on top of the desks. "Great."

Careful for Jake's sake to pull her top knee over the bottom, she drifted into sleep hoping she'd neither fall nor expose herself too dramatically for the next little while.

[OOC: Is that all it takes?]

[ooc: For the wide berth, the giving of a blowjob, or the use of the lap? ;) ]

[OOC: I actually meant for being a punching bag, but hey, if you're in a blowjob-giving mood....]

[ooc: You have to give him at least a blowjob if you want to use him as a punching bag. Either that or just fight sexy enough. He's a cheap whore. Occasionally. ~~Still not as cheap as Frank though~~]

[ooc: Be one with food. I need to eat and grab a shower m'self, plus Angelus needs to make an appearance at Spike's and House's.]

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valentine-tart.livejournal.com - 2005-10-19 23:13 (UTC) - Expand

Parker would clearly like to be elsewhere, but Angelus hadn't been in study hall, so....

"Are we ever going to prepare for this debate, or are we going to let the other side just walk with it?"

"Pheebs is going to come in a bit," Angelus said. "We could compare notes, figure out a plan of attack."

Parker nods shortly, and sits down, organizing her notes. "You realize that Professor Maclay gave us the hardest part. Not only do we have to prepare our case, we have to be able to anticipate the anti-murder side, and counter their definitions and opening statements."

Angelus nodded, not disputing her point in the slightest.

"Okay," he made himself comfortable in his chair. "I'm guessing some variation on the theme of 'Because it's wrong.' Maybe a couple of bars about it being against life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."

"Depends. Do we expect them to define murder by the legal definition, or the moral definition?" Parker asks, tapping her pen on her notebooks. "Because if we're stuck with just the moral definition, this gets harder because *yes*, what do we use to counter life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness? Except maybe higher moral code." She lifted her eyes from her books and cocked an eyebrow at him coldly.

"Easy," Angelus said. "Point out you can't legislate on morality alone. There's always going to be somebody else out there who disagrees. Take abortion. Take euthanasia. You can get medical experts to agree what those terms mean, but not moral experts. Laws demand precision."

"All right," Parker said guardedly. "We can at least counter that definition, and, since we're nominally in the U.S., use the American legal definitions." She checked the defined debate topic. "'It is not the case that murder is never acceptable, regardless of circumstance.' That leaves us some more maneuvering room as well. Define acceptable. Define 'regardless of circumstance.' etcetera.

She took a look at the list of debate positions. "Do you have a preference about the speech order? First, second, conclusion?" Reluctantly, she added, "I'd think you'd be best at the conclusion, since we need one of our stronger speakers there, but I'll take it if you don't want to."

"I can go last if you'd like," Angelus shrugged to indicate he was fine with whatever made his debate partners happy. "I think you're right about the regardless of circumstance being a good one. So we're not supposed to fight back if someone has a knife to our throat? Were we supposed to call the anti-zombie defamation league a few weeks back?"

Parker checks her notes on that. "Actually no, that's just killing someone. I'd think you'd *know* that. 'In law, murder is the crime of a human being causing the death of another human being, without lawful excuse, and with intent to kill or with an intent to cause grievous bodily harm.'

And then the excuses are explained: killing a person who poses an immediate threat to the lives of oneself or others, killing a non-surrendered enemy combatant in time of war, executing a person in accordance with a legally imposed sentence of death. Morally, you could argue any of those, but legally, they're all allowed. If they stick with the moral definition, we can get them on those technicalities, as well as abortion and euthanasia, which are still up for legal debate."