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!]

Comments

Re: Chit Chat

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"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

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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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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"No kidding," Angelus said. "About the only guess I could make is maybe the people she hung out with made her a target. She was close friends with Phoebe. Hell, maybe somebody saw her hanging around me once too often. We all know how many good friends I've got around here."

Re: Chit Chat

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Duce smiles tiredly, "No offense, bubeleh, but if hanging around with you too often is enough to make someone a target, there are other people who hang around you more often - why hit Kitty?" She adds quietly, "And if they wanted to get to you.. they couldn't possibly have known you'd care."

She changes the subject, trying to eliminate the time in which Angelus could either think about that last statement or get defensive about it. "Phoebe? Why the fuck would being friends with Phebes make someone a target? She's so.. nice."

Re: Chit Chat

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Angelus gave a grimace, glancing in Bel's direction to subtly indicate to Duce who was tying his hands, communication-wise. "I'm not at full liberty to say. But suffice it to say for a while there it looked like some folks weren't thrilled about having a witch for SC President."

Re: Chit Chat

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Duce doesn't glance in Bel's direction, but then again, she really doesn't need to. Inclining her chin slightly to indicate she understood, she comments lightly, "Christ. In this day of feel-good neo-hippy pinklighter Wiccan new age crap, you think there'd be a whole movement to get her elected based on that. She's fucking Glinda the goddamn Good." Exhaling through her nose sharply, she adds, "I know she upset Alex and Jake by being all .. aloof .. for a few weeks, because they really could've used her help dealing with all the Journalism project crap and she wasn't around, but that had to do with her slacking, not with her.. mystical magic shit."

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"Plus you heard her at the second debate," Angelus said. "She didn't even know she was a witch until recently. Not like she's been making with the eye of newt her whole life."

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Duce winces, "Please tell me that doesn't mean she's ever likely to turn into an emowhore like Paige did? Paige claimed it was tied to her powers, and something about being new at it."

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"No idea," Angelus said. "Bel's the one who knows more about Phoebe than I do. I just know she was stand-up enough to embrace the non-human thing even before she fully had her footing with it. Far as I'm concerned that counts for something."