JA Meeting

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Outside of Dr. Carter's classroom is a sign which reads:

Junior Achievers Meeting

All are welcome

Tonight's topics include:

1) Announcement from the President

2) Veronica Mars intro & article request

3) Callisto & Fashion show planning

4) Show of gratitude for those who worked the bake sale

5) Any new business

Free food provided

Angelus is inside, looking as though there's a great deal on his mind and as though there's a high likelihood that his distraction has something to do with the travel plans that are scattered across his desk (anyone peeking would see London, Paris, and Rome listed on his notes). On Dr. Carter's desk is a box of fudge nut brownies from Deb's. The door to the classroom is wide open.

[ooc: you know the drill, hang on while I set up comment threads and then go nuts, be it with the brownies or otherwise ;) ]

[ooc: ETA: All done! Post away!]

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Re: Chit Chat

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

Faith scowled. "There'll be a riot. Not that you're wrong on your prediction, but my god, it's gonna suck. Half the school's gone missing at one point or another, you'd think this wouldn't be such a big deal. We have a curfew? Oops."

Re: Chit Chat

[psycho-barbie.livejournal.com]

What's a curfew?

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

A way for The Man to oppress us by not letting us roam free in the streets after 10pm!

Re: Chit Chat

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"She is dead," Angelus said, grimly. "I heard about it yesterday. We're supposed to keep it on the down low but considering the rumors going around already I don't see how that's going to help."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"Everyone's heard about it, but has anyone seen a body yet, or gotten a good reason why nobody has seen a body?" Duce holds up her hands, "Playing devil's advocate here. Angelus, you saw how people got when your life was threatened. How bad you think it's gonna get now that someone's gone missing?"

Re: Chit Chat

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"I know, I know," Angelus rubbed his face. "Believe me, I'm no more thrilled about it than anybody else. Not the least of which is the reason you just mentioned."

He sighed. "Not like Bristow's got me on his speed dial for updates, but last I heard there was no body. Her dragon's freaked, though. Swears she's dead. Swears some killer did it. Which I guess rules out death by banana peel, but still."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"My brain keeps pointing to motive. There's one very obvious motive.. and it's so very obvious that it's giving me the itch. The lack of body and the fact that this rumour is all over school and in print before the police have had time to even do an inquiry, much less make a statement.. Something smells in Denmark. Someone wants this public, and someone wants people pissed off. And that's probably, if she is indeed dead, who killed her."

Re: Chit Chat

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Think this could maybe be a kidnapping?" Angelus asked. "It'd be the smarter move for a power game like that. Get everybody up in arms then start mailing Bristow locks of her hair or more personal body parts."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce says seriously, "I would sincerely not want to be in the shoes of the mentally deficient motherfucker who did that. The Dean strikes me as someone who takes his responsibilities very seriously, and he's responsible for our well being while we're here."

She rubs a hand over her face, "Although.. part of me hopes that's what's going on. As horrible as it is to think of Kitty in that situation, at least it's a situation with hope and.." she sighs, "if there was any way to get her back, he'd exhaust every resource he had trying. That's the vibe I get off him. I would never want to be on his bad side and whoever did this.. no matter what the outcome.. they just became a member of his top-ten shitlist."

Re: Chit Chat

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Based on the rumblings I'm hearing around school, he's not the only one forming that list," Angelus said. "Personally I'm not too pleased about it myself. Won't go around claiming Kitty and I were best buds, but she gave me the time of day. That sadly puts her way ahead of most students at this school."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce swallows the last of her brownie and nods, grimacing. "Totally gonna suck. Have a feeling this will be the 'example set' one though. Too many people are already seething about it, and there's a bad 'us v. them' feeling attached to it."

We do actually have an IC curfew, but fucked if I can find the post about it.

Re: Chit Chat

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

"Everyone's seething, but, what, she was walking by herself? At night? In a town with zombie attacks and other sorts of funness? Some friends. I don't even know if I'm thinking of the right kid, but wasn't she youngish?"

Faith facepalmed. "Us versus them? Great. I love those sorts of fun school-wide bonding events."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"Yup. A 14 yr old kid, out after dark, in a town where it's pretty goddamn common for people to disappear without a trace, a month after a zombie invasion.. yeah. Brilliant girl, that."

Duce grimaces, "Hopefully, it won't get as bad.. "

Re: Chit Chat

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

Faith let out something between a snort and a single laugh. "Yeah, right. Here's hoping that the Keystone PD out there actually does something about it before we get to the 'accusing any student who's ever killed someone' stage."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"That," Duce answers quietly, "would probably be most of us, Faith. Those that have, those that could.. what they'll be looking for is who had the motive and who had the opportunity."

Re: Chit Chat

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"What would the motive be?" Angelus asked. "Hell, I even liked her. Far as I know she didn't have any secret hobbies of baby-stabbing or wearing white after Labor Day. She was just a normal fourteen year old. Well, besides the dragon and being a mutant part."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"All sorts of motives here. Discount the mutant part for a moment," Duce looks at Angelus levelly, "Normal 14 year old girl, small for her age, out after dark in a bad part of town. If you can't think of at least 40 different types of bad people who'd want a piece of that action, you're slipping in your old age." Duce sighs, "Add in the mutant part.. and you add a whole 'nother set of classes of bad guys. So let's start with that. She had a dragon, but strange pets only mean she's not from this earth-prime. How open was it that she was a mutant? How often did she do things openly that displayed that? How likely is it that this is a factor at all?"

Duce rubs the bridge of her nose, "I don't envy the people doing this investigation. I sincerely fucking do not."

Re: Chit Chat

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"You can see why Veronica's article can't come soon enough," Angelus met Faith's eyes. "You know what names are going to go up on the list if anybody starts looking at people's pasts to find out where a 'killer' label would apply."

Re: Chit Chat

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

Faith's eyes went cold. "Yeah, well here's hoping it doesn't get that far. The last thing I need is anyone asking around about me- especially since some of our fabulous schoolmates know my past in detail."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce shakes her head, "At least your past isn't immortalized in works currently on the English curriculum." She pushes a snake off her face absently, "The 'killer' shoe fits entirely too many feet. Without a body, they have no method, with no method, they can't narrow it down. Shit, we have a known assassin here at school. Too many places to point the finger, so they won't be doing it until they can narrow it down."

She mutters, "They'll just do stuff in the name of 'for your protection' until then and drive us all stark, raving mad."

Re: Chit Chat

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

Faith stared at Duce for a moment. "You're that... oh, things make much more sense. Just cause they shouldn't point the finger doesn't mean they won't. And I really wouldn't appreciate a thorough background check, even if it isn't done in an accusing manner."

Faith rolls her eyes. "And, of course, the stuff won't even make much of a difference, because people will either rebel or something'll fall through the cracks. Excellent."

Re: Chit Chat

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce's mouth quirks in a wry smile, "Yes." Her voice takes on an inhuman, multi-tonal timbre, sounding both hollow and choral at the same time, "We are the Medusa, gorgon scourge of Ancient Greece. Whore of the gods, slayer of men."

Her voice returns to normal as she adds, "And currently stuck reliving puberty and highschool. Fucking. Sucks."

Duce smiles slightly, "We have one thing working in our favour. The school's recording system. I'd be willing to bet a shiny that the administration is pouring over every recording for the time period surrounding Kitty's dissappearing act and noting which students were on campus. You live in the dorms, right? If you were home that night, you're golden."

She points out, "Kitty disappeared in town. Not here. They have no reason to suspect a student. None of us had any motive or reason - that I know of, anyway - to hurt Kitty. More likely, it was an adult predator. It does seem suspicious that the hotel owner and the brothel owner disappeared right around the same time, doesn't it?"

Re: Chit Chat

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

"Duce, you're pretty rules-savvy," Angelus said, looking at her curiously. "Is it even possible to kill in Fandom Town? I thought they had spells or the Townie version of Rover or some crap."

Re: Chit Chat

[notstakedyet.livejournal.com]

Angelus nodded. "This is what I'm saying. And let's face it, there's plenty amongst our friends who'd be right there with you."

Re: Chit Chat

[http://users.livejournal.com/_gottahavefaith/]

"Yeah. I can think of a few off the top of my head," she said, nodding.