Journalism Class - Friday November 18

[jerusalem-s.livejournal.com]

A sign hangs from Spider's desk and the cat is batting at it absently.

Gone fishing

Krycek is in charge until I return, which should happen on or about November 28. If he or Gavin tell you to do something, please do it. This is what Assistants are for, after all.

Krycek, Gavin, I left lesson plans in my quarters. Feel free to amuse yourselves with your classmates the lessons.

The rest of you, please write 100 words on a family member, guardian or commanding officer. Not that this excludes my Assistants from the assignment, it merely forces them to grade them as well.

In case of emergency, please see Dean Bristow.

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[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake wanders into the journalism room after chatting with Parker at the library. He's hunting for coffee, and doesn't notice the sign until he's had some. He stops dead. "Oh hell."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek looks up from Spider's desk, his mood only darker from staring at the assignment since the beginning of class. "Yeah. Would have been nice to have some notice, wouldn't it?" He sounds rather bitter - uncharacteristically showing his annoyance.

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

"Uh-huh," Jake nods, walking over to Krycek. "What'cha doing?"

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Shaking his head, he sits back, face holding an edge of that expressionlessness Jake hates. "Absolutely nothing," he says tightly. "Nothing. At. All."

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Duce looks up from putting her writing stuff away and turns her face to Krycek. Her voice holds a slight edge, "Quit it, Alex."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

"What, exactly, am I quitting, Duce?" He shoots a sneer at her - an automatic reaction, but normally he's so much better controlled. "And please, are you deigning to grace the realm of human emotions to tell me what I'm doing wrong?"

[courier-gavin.livejournal.com]

Jake shakes his head at them and goes off to drink his coffee in peace over by the stack of old issues of Fandom Hightimes.

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

"You're quitting," she says in a cold, even voice, "taking out your malfunction on Jake. That is exactly what you are quitting, and you are quitting it right now, before you say something you'll regret." Funny, that came out rather like a threat.

She regards his sneer impassively, "What you're doing wrong is dumping your shit all over someone who doesn't deserve that from you. Whatever the hell is going on inside your fucked up little head, you either keep it there or you take it out somewhere else. Not on him."

[krycek-rat.livejournal.com]

Krycek smirks humorlessly. "It's nice that you feel that you can be a friend when it suits you and shut everyone out the rest of the time, Duce." He pushes up from the desk to look down at her, his shoulders tight across the back. "Anything else or would you just like to continue being hypocritical?"

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Looking up at him as he looms over her, a muscle in her jaw tics. Other muscles tense minutely in an almost uncontrolled response to his attempt at intimidation. "Funny, we seem to recall actually telling you what our problem was without taking the bad mood out on you. But, if you insist.." There's a blur, and her hand is suddenly up, palm across the back of his neck in a gesture that, to anyone not standing under that grip, probably looks like a friendly gesture. "Alex, buddy, let's go have a chat. Outside, do you think? Yeah. We agree. So nice of you to suggest it."

Her thumb is resting just behind his earlobe, at the small juncture where the skull meets the jawbone, and it's pressing in awfully hard. Without waiting for an answer, she turns and begins walking outside. Krycek's choices at the moment are to follow or be pulled forward into what would amount to one spectacular faceplant.

(ooc: modded with permission via IM)

[medusae-x.livejournal.com]

Continued here (http://www.livejournal.com/users/medusae_x/39373.html).