Study Hall -- Wednesday, November 16th

[principalconnor.livejournal.com]

Pool table. Puppies. Kittens.

Also, in a bout of badly needed early practice strangely timed holiday cheer, Sarah has made a huge amount of Christmas cookies that are laid out on the front desk for taking.

(OOC: I love my new Christmastime icon. Wheeee! :))

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[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

Han gives her a look that's somewhere close to sympathetic. "It's hardest the first time. Especially when you're sheltered, like you girls are. I keep trying to remember a lot of people have nice, quiet lives, but it's not easy, you know?" His glance strays to the empty holster he habitually wears.

He looks around. "I understand the whole 'what if I'm next' fear. I don't get most of the rest of free-floating anxiety."

[mycanonhatesme]

"Well, I've never killed anybody, and I don't plan to any time soon. I don't know if that makes me sheltered though," Chloe says, frowning lightly.

"I think the rest of the anxiety is knowing that someone a lot of us interacted with on a regular basis might be the kind of person who could kill us," she adds. "I mean, you might have killed people, but I'd like to think that you wouldn't kill any of us, unless there were seriously extinuating circumstances. Especially someone innocent, like Kitty."

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

He tugs the empty knife-sheath from his boot. "Jayne came real close to being number four," he says, tapping a set of three shallow notches.

"We're all the kind of person who can kill someone, Chloe, honey. It's always just a matter of circumstances. But I can't think of any good reason for anyone to kill Kitty."

[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe sighs softly. She thinks about the first conversation she had with Tara, about what would constitute ethical murder. "I guess you have a point. Everyone has the potential to kill. But there are a lot of people who don't deserve to be killed."

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

He smiles, gently. "Now that I will agree with. Most people don't deserve to be killed."

He frowns. "I'm hearing a lot of folks trying to make this a human-non-human prejudice thing. I don't like that. Makes me worry for Hank and Chewie."

[chasingangela]

"I don't think it is, though," Angela says. "I mean, I hear non-humans worrying about that, but I've never heard a human who actually said they had problems with nonhuman students in general. Specific students, yeah, but that's different."

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"You know, funny thing about that. The one they have the most trouble with always seems to be Angelus..."

He thinks about this a minute. "You're right. It's never the ones like Hank who are obviously not human that seem to be under discussion. It's the ones who look human but aren't quite. And I hear it coming from a group that's had trouble with this kind of thing before."

"I do what I can. I mean, I know safe walk is silly, but I also know there are little bits on campus like you two who aren't big and mean--or little and magical, or bad-tempered gunbunnies--and are scared. And I worry about the ones like you two, like Bagoas, who are small and are potential targets."

[chasingangela]

"You're right," Angela says. "I mean, the whole thing with Cole Turner and the elections? It wouldn't have happened if he was all red and grrr and fireball-y all the time. He looks normal, most of the time, and I think people get nervous about the ... I guess, unpredictability?"

She shifts in her chair, thinking. "I don't think I'm a target. Mr. Phale at the bookstore did something to my necklace, and Angelus really doesn't like it. I've never had any problems with anyone else."

[mycanonhatesme]

Fighting the urge to flail at Han for the "small" remark, Chloe ends up giving him a genuine smile. "I'm not a target for anything either. And you don't need to worry about me. Just because I don't have a gun or a bad temper doesn't mean I can't take care of myself."