Study Hall: 12/1

[manofthemullet.livejournal.com]

Mac opens the study hall. Instead of food or animals there are several remote control cars for everyone to play with along with free mullet wigs for everyone to wear.

Mac kick backs at the desk and pulls out the most recent issue of Popular Mechanics.

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[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

Bagoas steps right into that bump and is ricocheted backward, hitting a desk.

"Stop crowd me! Han, I not move without you there!"

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry." Han looks very upset and sets the books down on the nearby table. "Are you all right?"

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

"I fine. I not made of glass. I not need rescuing again. At least not from locker."

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"Hank. Zero. Archie. Angelus, every one of them thought the same. Besides, you got detention this weekend and I don't want you having it next because you missed this one being eaten by a psycho locker."

Han sighs. "I can probably arrange to blemish my record and get one with you."

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

"No. Detention one time I not hovered over."

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"Who's hovering?"

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

"You. Are."

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"I'm not hovering." Han is oblivious to the growing chill. "I'm just keeping an I on you, like I promised. Not going to fail you again. Anywhere."

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

"I not girl. You treat me like girl."

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"What? When? I mean, other than halloween."

Han is thoroughly confused at this point.

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

"Halloween was *costume*. Mean I dress up like what I not."

"But no, I "beautiful" and too weak and stupid to walk down hallway without being eaten by locker. Not able find my way from class to class. Need an escort."

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

Han's mouth falls open and he just stares a little.

"I never said that. Hells, if HANK can get eaten by it, what chance do you have? And I'm just making sure you GET to your classes. You cut too many of the Crazy Doll Lady's."

Much quieter, he says, "Besides, I promised I'd take care of you. That means making sure you do well with school as much as it does making sure you have a roof and food."

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

"Who this promise to?"

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

"Promised you when you came with me. Renewed it when I gave you the gral."

Han looks a little ashamed. "Promised Frank a long time before either of those that I would always be good to you and take care of you."

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

"How much you pay him to take me off his hands? Or was I gift? That why I Captain's Prize?"

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

Han looks absolutely striken at this. His temper gets the better of him. By now, anyone within three tables can hear him.

"Last i checked, you came to me of your own free will. I got slammed into a brick wall over that choice. If business hadn'ty called him out, I expect I'd have gotten pounded. And you were worth it."

He's really lost his temper now.
"You want to know what I paid for you? I paid my safety on zombie night. I paid out my pride half a dozen times over. I took crap from the Tentacle. I got my ribs broken, my nose broken and my fingers broken for you. I faced down the most dangerous man I know and lied to him."

"And you are worth it. All of it, every pain and humiliation I've endured since I've been here."

[persian-eunuch.livejournal.com]

"I just ask you not hover."

Bagoas gets up and hurries out of the room.

[12parseckessel.livejournal.com]

Knowing that following him would be a bad idea right now, Han sinks into his seat.

He looks like he wants to hit something or cry, one of the two.

He can't sit still. In less trhan five minutes, he's gone too.