Study Hall (12/14/2005)

[romanywitch]

After office hours, Jenny unlocked the door into Study Hall, maneuvered her containers of coffee, bagels, and cream cheese for the students, then set up her laptop and started working.

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[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Oh man. First instinct is to ask who John kissed, but he's not sure if he wants to know. "Did he explain why it happened? Was it a dare or something stupid like that?"

[can_be_more]

"He was drunk. I've done stupid things for that reason, too, but I still didn't..." She takes a breath. "And if he didn't tell me about this, what else isn't he telling me?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Drunk can be an excuse, but not telling you was a bad move." He swallows. "Could it be that he didn't want to worry you over something stupid? I mean, he can't have been serious about," he waves a hand, "whoever he kissed."

[can_be_more]

"I thought about that," she nods. "I haven't decided if not being serious about it makes it better or worse. I don't know."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

Cameron sighs. "It blows either way, but at least he had to be drunk?" He groans at himself. "Okay, that doesn't sound any better. How drunk exactly was he? Near coma?"

[can_be_more]

"I don't know," she repeats. "Sober enough to remember it. Lee and Angel were in the room, I didn't want to have the fight there."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

He winces. "No, probably a good idea. Do you want to hit something? Preferably a punching bag although this constitutes as a valid reason to punch someone, I'm sure."

[can_be_more]

Aeryn shrugs. What she really wants is for this sort of thing to stop hurting. "No point," she says. "It'll be fine."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Aeryn..." Cameron says gently, but he's not sure what he's supposed to say. Curiosity finally gets the better of him. "Who was it?"

[can_be_more]

"Lee." Which really, explained why she always thought he hated her.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Lee?" Cameron nearly chokes and is grateful he wasn't drinking at the time. "And this happened a few months ago when he was drunk?"

[can_be_more]

She nods.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Please tell me this wasn't right after that whole incident with Parker?" Cameron begs.

[can_be_more]

Aeryn looks at him strangely, saying, "Sorry. What?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"That whole thing where I thought I was John?" Cameron sighs and rubs the back of his neck. "I think I remember something liek that happening, but I was so drunk and I passed out and god... I'm sorry."

[can_be_more]

That catches her off guard, and she's not sure how exactly to respond to it. "It's okay," she says after a moment. It wasn't his responsibility to tell her, anyway. She'd still thought of him very much as just John's friend at the time.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I think I just wanted to forget about that night," Cameron explains and sighs.

"You need chocolate," he announces suddenly. "Lots and lots of chocolate."

[can_be_more]

She raises an eyebrow. "I do?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yups, it's the classic thing to eat when you're feeling blue." Cameron nods and smiles at her. "Preferably that dessert I made you guys a while back? If you remember?"

[can_be_more]

"Yeah," she says, allowing herself the littest of smiles because this just seems really absurd to her. "It doesn't exactly solve the problem, though."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"No," Cameron agrees. "It's a sort of pick me up when you don't know what else to offer, but it's one of the better ones."