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Monday Office Hour

She sits in her office, doodling with a smile on her face. She has her iPod on, earbuds in, and she's jamming out. Bouncing, dancing a bit, lip syncing, and at times singing along.

I, I'm driving black on black
Just got my license back
I got this feeling
in my veins this train is coming off the track
I'll ask polite if the devil
needs a ride
Because the angel on my right ain't hanging out with me
tonight
I'm driving past your house while you were sneaking out
I got the
car door opened up so you can jump in on the run
Your mom don't know that you
were missing
She'd be pissed if she could see the parts of you that I've been
kissing
Screamin'
No, we're never gonna quit
Ain't nothing wrong with it
Just acting like
we're animals
No, no matter where we go
'Cause everybody knows
We're
just a couple of animals

So come on baby, get in
Get in, just get
in
Check out the trouble we're in

You're beside me on the seat
Got
your hand between my knees
And you control how fast we go by just how hard
you wanna squeeze
It's hard to steer when you're breathing in my ear
But I
got both hands on the wheel while you got both hands on my gears
By now, no
doubt that we were heading south
I guess nobody ever taught her not to speak
with a full mouth
'Cause this was it, like flicking on a switch
It felt so
good I almost drove into the ditch
I'm
screamin'

So come on baby, get in
Get in, just
get in
Look at the trouble we're in

We were parked out by the
tracks
We're sitting in the back
And we just started getting busy
When
she whispered "what was that?"
The wind, I think 'cause no one else knows
where we are
And that was when she started screamin'
"That's my dad
outside the car!"
Oh please, the keys, they're not in the ignition
Must
have wound up on the floor while
we were switching our positions
I guess
they knew that she was missing
As I tried to tell her dad it was her mouth
that I was kissing
Screamin'

So come on baby,
get in
We're just a couple of animals
Get in, just get in
Ain't nothing
wrong with it
Check out the trouble we're in
Get in, just get in

[If you want her, you're going to have to startle her.]

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[Ten leans in her doorway, a takeaway latte in hand, smiling. He clears his throat, loudly. When she doesn't notice, he rolls his eyes and does it again, louder. When THAT doesn't work, he starts to laugh. Quietly, he sets the latte down on her desk, where she'll see it when she looks up, and tiptoes out of the room.]

[Catching movement out of the corner of her eye, she jumps back in her chair. Seeing Ten...and the coffee, she smiles and pulls the buds out of her ears.]

Hey...did you get enough rest?

[He pauses in the doorway and turns back, smiling.] Aye, I did. Took me most of the day to kick the hangover, though.

[gesturing towards the coffee] Thought I'd drop you something, seeing as I didn't see much of you yesterday.

Thank you. [She stands and walks to him, kissing him lightly] I had a great day. I don't think I drank quite as much as everyone else. Plus I stuck to whiskey...you know what they say about beer before liquor. [She smiles.]

You'll never guess what I did yesterday, after Mass.

Beka knocked on the door to CJ's office. "CJ? It's Beka."

Marty walks into CJ's office and watches her sing and dance to her iPod a while with an amused expression on his face.

He taps her on the shoulder to get her attention.

Beka. [She smiles] Come in! So...Belthazor? Cranky? Or did I wear the wrong shoes?

[She jumps at the touch. She really needs to learn to keep the volume lower so that will quit happening. Looking up at Marty, she smiles wide and stands, wrapping him in a hug.]

Marty! Where have you been? I haven't seen you anywhere...

Oh, god, don't remind me. By the way, I think we need to talk. Not you and me, that's sorted. [He kisses her forehead.] But you and I and... [He makes the vaguest gesture known to humanity.] For clarity's sake.

[He smiles at her, that sappy besotted Hopelessly In Love smile.] And what did you do after Mass?

Beka smiled, but it almost certainly didn't reach her eyes. "Hey," she said, stepping into the office and closing the door behind her. She scrubbed a hand through her bangs. "Yeah. About that. I'm sorry I didn't stop to see if you were all right."

Marty, slightly surprised by the hug, returned the embrace awkwardly.

"Yeah... well it's been a rough couple of weeks with... you know. With what happened to Kitty and... I've just been trying to deal."

[Her eyes sparkle with excitement] You know those three rough boys in town? With the motorcycles? The youngest one, Kadaj, took me for a ride. It was the most...amazing thing. I've never felt so alive. [The wonder and amazement are clear in her smile]

[His smile barely flags in concern, and then he takes in her own joy and it brightens.] Had you never been on one before?

No problem...I'm tough. He really didn't do anything, other than call me a bitch and shove me down. You know...I should press charges. But I'm willing to listen, you now that. You know what was going on with him?

It's been rough on you...[her smile fades] Kitty...yeah. Do you...want to talk? [It's clear she'd prefer not to, but she will listen if he needs her.]

Oh, yeah, lots. But never like that. Not that fast...not outrunning the police and racing magic beasts. It was a thrill and a half. [Her smile is seriously going to crack her face in half.]

Marty nods, a slight look of worry crosses his face.

"Yeah but not about that... exactly. What do you know about Professor Drusilla? I had a little... encounter with her last night..." Marty says rubbing his hands through his hair.

"Let's just say that talking with her was an enlightening experience."

[She looks supremely annoyed and her tone is cold.] Drusilla... she didn't give you a burning desire to stab me, did she? Because I've done that trick already.

Marty's eyes widen and he shakes his head emphatically.

"No. Oh no. She um... Well it's like this: The night Kitty died? I have this... block of memory missing and... a student saw me running away from the last place Kitty was seen. And last night... well let's just say that Drusilla seems to have... poked around in my head and made me think I might be responsible."

Oh, Marty...no. [She cups his face gently in her hand] She makes you think things...they aren't real. I know what you used to do, and your moral flexibility as you call it...but you aren't a murderer. You didn't do this. No matter what she ade you think...you didn't do anything to Kitty.

Marty gives CJ a haunted look.

"That doesn't explain all the dreams I've been having. It's like I was there but I wasn't. It's..." Marty takes a deep breath and steadies himself.

"It's not that simple Professor Cregg. There's some evidence I may have been gassed by that fear drug that hit some of our students a few weeks ago at that bar. And Rory Gilmore saw me running away from the alley where she was supposedly killed." Marty says in a dead tone of voice.

"I won't even tell you about being abducted (http://www.livejournal.com/users/dean_bristow/12145.html) the other night."

Oh, Marty...sweetie...[She is at a loss for what to tell him, and his eyes jut break her heart. She wraps her arms around him and hugs him tightly]

We'll figure it out, ok? I just cannot believe that you would have done anything to Kitty. Not you. [Letting him go abrubtly, his words having sunk in..] Abducted? Marty... what?

Marty shakes his head. "I've already talked to the Dean about it. Someone pulled me into a room and interrogated me for hours. Then for no reason just let me go. Dean Bristow is investigating the matter."

Marty chuckles half-heartedly.

"I swear, the weirdest things happen to me here."

Frelling surveillance. She'd have told CJ a lot more of the truth if not for that. "Something set him off. I've never seen him like that. He said things to me..." Realizing that this truth she could tell, Beka let the hurt out into her eyes and her voice.

"He's my best friend. I love him, and if he weren't with Phoebe, we'd probably be together. We've said as much. Last night, he was deliberately cruel. Trying to hurt me. He succeeded. But CJ...Bel would never do that to me. Not unless something or someone was messing with him."

Outrunning the police...racing magic beasts. Mmmmkay. [He looks slightly bewildered by the whole thing, but is still happy because she is.] Just as long as you don't get maimed or killed, because then I assure you, I'd avenge your honour.

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