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A young girl with red hair and a black suit sits cross legged on the table in front of the class. She's eating doughnuts and drinking a coke.

301--InterComm 3rd period

"Hey! So today we're gonna talk about senders, and how the ethos of the sender can chage the message. Ethos is the credibility of the speaker, as opposed to Logos which is the logic of the argument or Pathos which is an appeal to the emotions of the receiver. Got it? Cool.

Kay, so...I'm not looking like myself and that might have maybe caused a problem or two over the weekend. So you're all smart and stuff, especially Shep there, whatcha think? Tell me all you know aout senders and how they craft the message".

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401--Advanced 5th period

She's nearly bouncing around, and she lays printouts of the images in front of them.

"Gestalt! Got you attention? We're going to break these down using the Gestalt principles of design and see if we can decide what gives them power. Ask me whatever, you know. It's cool. This is new and kinda hard and stuff.

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She writes it off because, hey, he's Jack and he's just being sweet to his mom, right? He knows, right?

Laughing softly, she walks over to him. "That's sweet. I'm getting ready to run class. Why?"

Jack tilts his head to the side. He thought Liz was her TA. Maybe that was just last semester, and one of the new students was TAing this semester.

But why would CJ be handing off class duties to a TA? She'd only done that with Liz when she'd really, really been unable to come to class. Brow furrowed, Jack asked, "Why are you running class?"

Her rows furrow as well, "Beeeeeee-cause?" Shaking her head, she turns and preps some notes. "Why are you in here?"

"Because I thought I'd stop off and say hi to my mom before I headed off to Quantum Physics. You... didn't lock her in the closet, did you?" Jack glances over his shoulder at the emo closet, and sidles a few more steps away.

She kinda looks annoyed, or maybe she thinks he's just being soooo sweet, "Not in the closet, dork. Hellooo..."

She walks over and gives him a hug. "You're so weird."

Okay, usually? Jack has zero problem hugging random strangers. Or groping. Pretty much physical contact = good.

However, weird things happen in Fandom, and this strange redhead was freaking him out. So it was no comment on her hotness and every comment on his worry when he wiggled away violently. "What the hell? Who are you? And where's CJ?"

"Jack...don't be a dork. I'm CJ...jeez...what's your damage?" Now? She actually does look annoyed.

"Okay, I know you're not CJ, because CJ would probably never say 'what's your damage'? So... who are you?" Jack crosses to the emo closet and yanks open the door, peering in, to make sure she's not there.

"Sweetie...it's me. Swear!" She walks up behind him, and slides her arms around him in a gentle hug. "Did you want to go in there?"

Jack twisted away again. "Yeah. Right. Uh-huh. No, I don't want to go in there, because for all I know you're going to suck my brain or something. Seriously. You've got to be a bit more convincing than that." Jack starts backing away towards the door, grateful that his next class was Quantum Physics with the Doctor. If he didn't know about this, then he should. "So, let's try again. Who are you?"

She sighs heavily and backs off. "I am CJ Cregg, former press secretary and current speech teacher. I adopted Jack Harkness, which I now know since he came clean with me at the Perk in a huge scene which I was deeply sorry about. I call him Chip, for no particular reason other than it makes me happy, and his sister Shane has disappeared. Um, what else...I live in the TARDIS with Ten, and you have your own room there, but you never come home...and you've got aroom just for your Legos because you're weird..and...um...when I was in the hospital you laid with me and it was sweet...and your good and kind and obedient and you're looking kinda...Jack?"

Jack's eyes are big and buggy. "Mom?" he asks.

The same old half smile curls the corner of her mouth, "Duh."

Jack still looks baffled. "What the hell happened to you?"

"I got sucked into the locker when I was talking to Charlie Eppes...and it dumped me out in there..."she motions to the closet, "...looking like this. Cool, huh?"

Jack takes another step back from the closet. So not trusting that place. "Is it going to switch back?"

"Probably. Why?" Her smile fades and is replaced by a pout. "You don't think it's cool, do you?"

"No! It's cool," Jack says, very unconvincingly. "It's just... I like you better when you are you."

"But I'm still me." SHe walks to him, slowly, and rubs her hand against his arm, "Sweetie, please don't be upset. I'm having a ball. I'm totally taking advantage of this. And hey...look...if you want I can just, you know, bug out til I'm back to normal. I don't want you to be sad."

"I'm not sad, I'm freaked!" Jack bursts out. "I mean, not mega-freaked. There have been far more freaktastic things going on here. And you're like alive and okay and not in the hospital, so I'm happy. I just... didn't expect to come in here and find you like... this." Jack stares at her, hard, trying to imprint her current appearance on his retinas and to cross-check it against his internal file of Mom. "You're okay, though? No amnesia... I mean, more than normal. No random desires to run crazy and murder people? I heard about a girl humping Angel's leg a couple of weeks ago, but I think that was a gremlin bite." He takes her hand. "As long as you're okay, I can deal with anything."

"I'm fine, hon. More than fine. I feel...invincible. And? Jeez, just look at me! Even you think I'm pretty!"

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