Office Hour

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She's on the phone with Donna...no, not Angel or Jake...actually Donna. Grissom got her to missing Vegas and she's arranging a little vacation...


[[Bel and the Harkness thing...and anyone else who needs her.]]

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[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

"The usual, sky, clouds, that sort of thing. Eventually, the moon. Planets, stars," Ten babbles on. "You know."

Eventually he pushes him into Dr Pierson's room.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack stumbles slightly and looks around. "Wow. A classroom. Something new and different. What's going on?"

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

Unceremoniously, Jack gets pulled further into the classroom. And into an open door. A storage closet, in fact, with padded walls.

"I'msorryJackthisisforyourowngood," Ten says quickly, and then closes the door. Hard. It locks.

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

After which, the Doctor bolts off down the hallway and out of sight of the next victim...

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack bellows and pounds his fists on the doors. "What the HELL?"

Unfortunately, the storage closet was well-padded and oddly soundproof.

[ten-and-chips.livejournal.com]

A few minutes later, CJ ends up inside after him (http://community.livejournal.com/fandomhigh/533709.html?thread=25145037#t25145037).

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

The door opens suddenly and another body is shoved inside, crashing into the one already there. She shrieks and pushes back, then rushes the door just as it locks behind her.

"Geoff! Let me out!"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack was standing too near the door to get out of the way when CJ flew in, and so he stumbles back, landing on his ass. "Ooof."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Jack? Are you ok?" She holds her hand out to him, looking concerned.

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack sits up and brushes his hands together. "Yeah. Dignity bruised a bit." He looks up at her, and then away. "Um. Hi."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Yeah. Hi." She hugs her arms around herself and takes a step back. "How long do you think they'll keep us locked in here?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"They? The Doctor tossed me in here. Didn't he toss you?"

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Geoff shoved me in. Said there was a..." she sighs heavily and rolls her eyes, "he said a student and a teacher had a little verbal altercation. Guess they're sick of us not talking."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"Oh," Jack said, unable to think of anything more intelligent. "How are you?"

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"I've been better. My student got attacked by demons, my classes don't talk..Oh! And my son had a run in with a vampire right by our home and he didn't bother to tell me. How are you, Jack?"

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack groaned and dropped his head into his hand. "I'm gonna strangle Parker. Look, I wasn't really sure how to say, 'I'm sorry I'm an ass and oh, by the way, scary vampire chick just made my life pass before my eyes'."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Jack...do you know how horrible it would be if she had killed you, or worse, made you a vampire, and the last thing we said to each other had been..." she takes a deep breath, hating she'd ever uttered those words. She steps forward and rubs his arm. "I'm sorry I overreacted."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack pulls his knees in. "Overreacted? I don't see why you didn't just dump me over the side. I lied to you. And I could see how much I hurt you."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"Only because I built up such a story, Jack. I mean...I had you and Shane dressed alike on your first day of school...I had you in cub scouts and her in brownies...in my mind I had the Good Housekeeping, white picket fence model home and family. And then it got torn down and it hurt."

She sits next to him, and leans in close. "But you did the same thing, huh? Made it all up and it was nice. I don't think either of us wanted it to end."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack bent his head. "I did. I mean, don't get me wrong. Growing up wasn't bad. It was just..." He shrugged. "I liked the idea that you'd been there. That you remembered things like my first word, my first step. And then I screwed it up."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

She leans back and looks up at the faint light. "Your first word was mama. Shane's was bubba, which I thought meant brother. You never crawled, Jack. One day you just stood up against the table and took off. I could barely..." she stops and turns to look at him. "Not that I thought about any of this for hours and days at a time."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

Jack drew a shuddering breath. "And now you hate me."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

Sliding her arm around his shoulders, she pulls him to her. "If you think that, then I just didn't raise you right. I love you, sweetie. One little fight isn't going to change that. I mean, Jesus, if you could have seen how my dad and I fought when I was a teenager...this is nothing. Just normal. All in there with that gift with purchase." She rests her head against his and kisses his temple softly.

"I love you. Chip."

[anextimeagent.livejournal.com]

"But I made you angry," he said blankly. "You were mad at me."

[prof-cregg.livejournal.com]

"And you're special why? I get angry at everybody. It doesn't mean I go around hating the whole world. Name one person I got angry with that I'm still angry with. Besides Drusilla. She doesn't count because that was way more than anger."

She kisses him again softly, "I was a wreck the very next day, Jack. I don't ever want to fight with you...but it happens. We're just human. Do you...I mean...do you hate me?"