Office Hours - Abnormal Psychology

[romanywitch]

Jenny is sitting in a bare office, and is typing happily away on her laptop, updating herself on all the new computer technology she's been missing out on.

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[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I filled in an application." Cameron clears his throat. "There might have been a squid behind me at the time..."

"I think it's the part where Angelus killed one of the students and tried to kill two other that's got everybody up in arms."

[romanywitch]

"Drusilla blackmailed you into being a TA?" asks Jenny disbelievingly. "And here I thought she'd have just killed you."

"He waited this long in the school year to start killing?" asks Jenny. "That's--unusual."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron winces. "Yeah, I think I annoyed her a bit too much. God knows why she wanted me."

"I think he was enjoying playing us all along," he pauses. "You know about him?"

[romanywitch]

"Because she's crazy?" asks Jenny, her tone matter-of-fact.

"Oh, yeah." Boy, do I. Jenny takes another drink of her coffee. "My last teaching job was at Sunnydale High."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"That would do it," Cameron agrees. He frowns. "Never heard of Sunnydale."

[romanywitch]

"No?" asks Jenny. She drops her legs onto the floor and leans forward, resting her elbows on the desk. "Lucky you. It's a small California town situated right about the Mouth of Hell." She pauses and shrugs. "Called, coincidentally enough, the Hellmouth. Angelus used to live there. I used to teach at the high school."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Cameron blinks. "Hell? As in fire and grimstone... hell?"

[romanywitch]

"I think so," says Jenny. "To be honest, I didn't investigate it too closely. Demons and creepy-crawlies that go bump in the night? They and I don't get on so well."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I don't think I can blame you, I've had my fair share after zombie weekend."

[romanywitch]

"Zombies?" Jenny wrinkles her nose in disgust. "Ew. You guys have zombies here? Gotta stock up on the salt and moly."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"There was an invasion, hundreds of them. Maybe thousands. The whole town was smelling for at least a week after. They're all gone now, though, except for the band at Caritas. Salt and moly works against them?"

[romanywitch]

"There's a zombie band?" asks Jenny disbelievingly. "Wow. Are they any good?" Maybe she doesn't want to know.

"Yeah, throw a mixture of salt and moly in the eyes and mouth of a zombie, and they go back to being all the way dead." Jenny shrugs, holding both hands clasped around her coffee mug. "Of course, first you have to get close enough to them, which is a little risky. How'd you guys take care of the problem without everyone's brains getting gobbled up?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I was too busy bellowing to notice, it's karaoke." Cameron grins.

"Everyone stuck together, people took up the weapons they're familiar with and they defended the school. One of the students apparently flooded them with hot water, I think. I kinda missed all that action as I went with coach Ash who found the source of it all and destroyed that."

[romanywitch]

"There's a zombie karaoke bar?" asks Jenny. "This I have to see."

"Wow. I'm used to most of the students being oblivious to otherworldly events." Jenny grins. "Sounds like they're an everyday occurrence around here."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I don't think the owner is a zombie, though. He's green and he's got red horns."

He scratches the back of his head and grins. "Yeah, I suppose it is. I've seen some weird things since I came here. What worries me is that I'm starting to get used to it."

[romanywitch]

"So he's a--demon?" guesses Jenny. She'd heard not all of them were evil, but living on the Hellmouth, that was mostly what she'd seen. "Okay, I really have got to go to this place."

"So why's that worry you?" asks Jenny, setting her coffee cup down on the desk and leaning back in her chair again. "The world's a pretty weird place. Wouldn't you rather know about the weirdness than not?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I suppose." Cameron agrees. "I just get the feeling that if I told my parents half of what goes on here, they'll think I'm crazy. Or they'd get my ass out of here."

[romanywitch]

"And you don't want to go?" asks Jenny. "So why did your parents send you here, anyway? I mean, 'multidimensional high school' just doesn't give off normal vibes in the first place, you know?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I like it here, I like the people I've met. I don't think they really realised what it meant," Cameron looks sheepish. "It was my idea to come here, I was hoping it'd give me good experience for when I join the Air Force."

[romanywitch]

"Maybe they just thought 'multidimensional' meant you'd get a well-rounded education," says Jenny. "So why the Air Force?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," Cameron smiles at her question, but he's not as enthusiastic as he usually is when it comes up. "F-16s, it's the only place I know where you can fly them."

[romanywitch]

"Now, see, the armed forces and I? Would really not get along." Jenny grins at him. "That whole thing with taking orders? Ick. On the other hand, I'm not the one talking about joining up. So what got you interested in flying?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Peter Pan?" He shrugs. "I don't think it's one thing, it's just the idea of flying, you know? The speed that those planes can reach, just..." he gestures with his hands, not sure how to put it into words, but his face is lighting up as he talks. "I guess it's a sense of freedom."

[romanywitch]

Jenny's loving listening to this kid. He knows what he wants, which is more than a lot of kids his age. And how can she not identify with wanting a sense of freedom? "So I guess it's the Air Force Academy for you, then?"

"So, you mind giving me a run-down on the kids in the class?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yups," Cameron says with a smile and considers her request. "I could for as far as I know them, I've only taught one class to them and not everyone was as active in it as they should have been."