Cupcake War Crimes, Take 2, Thursday [8/4]

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The Home Ec room was, thankfully, free of any and all creepy alien rocks. The teachers were still aliens but whether or not they were creepy was probably debatable.

Anders wasn't creepy! He'd argue as much, at least. He did, however, look a lot more serious than normal today. (Not to say cupcakes weren't serious business, but . . .)

"I hope to gods you guys are staying safe out there," he began, looking around the classroom to take stock of who was there and who wasn't, and wondering how in the hells he'd turned into a responsible guy. (Also: note how he wasn't admonishing them to stay inside and out of the thick of things.) "Seems like a good day to have a pretty stress-free sort of bake-what-you-want session. Long as it fits in a cupcake tray, I'm not gonna judge today."

Stark (who would readily admit to the occasional bout of creepiness) would probably still judge pretty harshly if you did something foolish like putting fish in your cupcakes, but he'd do it silently. No reason to add to the stress, but fish were really kind of unforgivable. Unless you were somehow not in your right mind. "So, go ahead and make something. Anything."

"Unless you have somewhere else you need to be," Anders added with a knowing look. "We've been there, we get it. Just take it easy, okay, guys?"

"Try not to get hurt," Stark said softly. He was planning on heading over to the clinic at some point to see if he could be of any help, but he'd rather not have to see any of you there. He'd rather not see anyone there, but he knew better than to hope for that.

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Re: Bake [CWC, 8/4]

[stykera]

"You don't have to stay," Stark said. "If you want to leave, it's all right. Or, maybe I could help?" With the cupcakes or with the general 'this island is insane' feelings. Or both.

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/4]

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"Fantasma de la ópera!" Freddie said, out of mild frustration. "I don't want to leave class early. I also don't... I feel like leaving when there's danger might make people think I'm a quitter."

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/4]

[stykera]

The Spanish outburst earned Freddie a quizzical look. It sounded familiar, and Stark had definitely been called worse. If he was even being called anything now. "Sometimes staying out of the way is best," Stark offered. "Staying safe isn't quitting."

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/4]

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"I hope you're right," Freddie said. "It's all freaking me out and I really don't bring anything to the heroic table."

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/4]

[stykera]

"You don't have to be heroic," Stark replied. "I'm not. Never was." Sure, that one time he'd sort of helped end a galactic war, but he'd been forced into that at the beginning. Hardly heroic. "There are enough heroes, here, I think, to cover for everyone else."

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/4]

[randomspanish.livejournal.com]

"I hope so," Freddie said. "Because I'm pretty sure I just used baking soda instead of sugar. I have just made poison. I shouldn't be allowed to help people."

Re: Bake [CWC, 8/4]

[stykera]

"You didn't feed it to anyone," Stark pointed out. "No one was hurt. And I'm sure I've eaten worse." He had. Really. "Cupcakes are not the only way to help. I promise."