DETENTION Saturday

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

ETA: Mun jst got horrible news and will be AFK for a bit. I'm sure you can tell this is a pretty loose detention. Just don't blow anything up. I'll be back later to release you. I'm back. Play this funny for me, ok? I need cheered up.

Visitors are welcome during LUNCH only.


The Danger Room has been programmed to resemble the press briefing room at the White House. On each chair is the student's name on an etched brass plaque. Make sure you only sit in the chair with your name on it.

At the ends of each rows are thick folders rubber banded to a large stack of books. Behind the lectern is a white pull down screen covering the seal of the United States of America.

CJ stands at the lectern, wearing her glasses. She looks up as the students enter the room and checks their name off the list.

Honor System, Gang. If YOU know you have detention, please serve it. Not all the teachers submitted information, or else there were late additions. Thanks.

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Ok. It's Saturday. It's detention. I'm supposed to mention about your wicked, wicked ways...yeah, not going to do that. Work harder. Quit screwing around. In some misguided attempt to keep you all sane and alive I signed up for this gig, so let's make the best of a bad situation, and make CJ happy, ok? [She smiles]

All right gang, this is going to be as painless or as painful as you choose for it to be. I want you in groups of not more than four. You each have a different stack of information. These are reports that are sent to the government so we can decide what to give money to. We had an intern, Winnie, and she's read them all and briefed me on them.

Your detention, since most of you are here for not doing your homework, is to consolidate the information, come up with a coherant presentation, and then get up here and present your findings to the rest of us. If you do it well, single moms and garbagemen get to keep on making a living. If not, you damage the environment, poison the masses, and generally create hell on Earth and destroy our noble Democracy as we know it.

But first, we're going to watch a couple films to help orient you to politics as I know and love them.

[Walks to the back, flips off the lights, and starts an old fashioned reel projector. Footage of the Kennedy-Nixon debates flashes on the screen at the front of the room and the lights dim so they can watch.]

I will post sub threads for different detention activities through the day.

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Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka holds out her hands to show she's just fine, and to let Veronica take them if she wants reassurance. "I'm fine. Really. Bel would never hurt me."

Hell. "Veronica, don't apologize. We. Scared. You. All you did was react. C'mere, baby, let me hold you.."


(OOC: and so commences another great subtext love)

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica grabs Beka's hands and looks deep into her eyes at her intently.

"I was just... surprised... by the fire... where the hell did it come from?"


[ooc: subtext love is the best kind]

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

[CJ goes back in to finish up detention]

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Veronica looked so intense, so...stricken. She couldn't help but embrace her. "I'm so sorry. We should've warned everyone. That was really stupid." Veronica felt so good in her arms. "Bel's a demon. He can summon fire I guess. If he wanted to kill me, he could, I'm sure. But it didn't even hurt. Really."

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica enjoys Beka's arms around her hugs Beka and then steps back. She remembers Angelus telling her that Bel was a demon, but it never occured to her that he could create fire out of nothing.

"It's okay, it just kind of, freaked me out."

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"I guess I never thought about it. Bel's just...Bel. You know?" She tried to smile encouragingly but it hurt that she'd scared someone she was falling for she already cared about. "The first time I saw him do it was to light a cigarette. Now I practically think of him as a human Zippo. Demon Zippo," she corrected herself hoping Bel wouldn't get mad if he heard that.

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"I know, it's not his fault. And I'm going to have to deal with it, since I'm probably going to end up interviewing him for the paper."

She smiles again. "Thanks, Beka. I barely know you and yet I find you so incredibly attractive, but I totally flipped out when I thought you were hurt and now you're consoling me after a total meltdown."

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"If you'd feel better, I can sit with you will you interview him."

Beka's lips quirked into a self-mocking grin. "I told you. It's what I do. Heroing, Angelus would say. The fire of a thousand stars couldn't have kept me from you."

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"I'll keep your offer in mind."

Veronica smiles. "Does Angelus have a problem with heroes?" she asks lightly. "I personally think he's a lot nicer than everyone here wants to believe."

poor, naive v

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka grinned at Veronica's question. "Mmm. Not sure if I should answer that directly or not. Wouldn't want to incriminate myself." Her tone contains more than a hint of innuendo. "Oh, I don't think nice is a word I'd use to describe him."

She waved a hand airily. "I like Angelus, don't get me wrong. He's smart. He makes me think. I enjoy his company. Most of the time, I trust him. His being a vampire doesn't bother me. But I wouldn't go all the way to nice."

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Veronica chuckles. "I didn't say he was nice... just nicer than most people give him credit for. He's not, like, running around sucking on people's necks without their permission."

She catches the tone in Beka's voice though and feels a little jealous. "Is there a story there?"

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Beka fought down the flush that accompanied Veronica's words. "Not without their permission, no."

She made herself look Veronica in the eye. "Story? Not exactly. Sex. But no story."

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

Beka's admissions surprise Veronica. But it also helps her realize why she felt such an instant connection to Beka - she reminds Veronica of Lilly.

"I would venture a guess that sex with Angelus would definitely constitute a story," she says. "But I won't ask you to share it yet."

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much everything about Angelus is a story." Beka shrugged, neither confirming nor denying, but in no way hostile. Then she grinned, because she'd just heard CJ dismiss everyone. "Hey, we're outta here. Want to get that drink? Maybe I'll tell you a story. Or we can make our own." With that, she gave Veronica a slow, sly wink.

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[marsheadtilt.livejournal.com]

"Lead the way to your room, Veronica says, letting the subject of Angelus drop for now.

Re: Presentation 2 - The Presentation

[valentine-tart.livejournal.com]

Buffy hung back in the doorway. She'd only come to make sure Veronica was all right after that stupid demon had hit Beka with the fireball, but she couldn't leave either.