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Professor Chaucer's Office Hours, Tuesday

Professor Chaucer is in his office throughout the afternoon today (any time fifth period or later, until his eighth period class). However, the door is closed. If you could see through the door, you'd see that he's asleep with his head on his arms at his desk. Pity the poor poet. He's having a bad year.

(Seriously. Chaucer is not in a good place right now. He is not a good person to come to for advice. He will not take kindly to antics or practical jokes. If you come to emo at him, he will emo back at you. And he has an excellent vocabulary for emo. He is, after all, a poet. However, if you are very nice and bring him coffee and no bad news, he may wake up long enough to look sad and say thank you.)

[OOC: Mun is unwell today. Periods of radio silence may occur.]

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Paige has brought not only coffee but muffins too, not that she's worried he's not eating properly or anything, she's just a very good temporary house guest.

she sits on the other side of the desk, "eat."

((sorry you're not feeling well))

Since he hasn't eaten since Monday in Baltimore, it's good that Geoff has such a thoughtful temporary house guest. He raises his head and gives Paige a wry smile.

"Yes, m'lady. Eating." He takes a muffin and picks at it. "Thank you for looking after Cash. I'm sorry you got stuck with that -- I'll be more on top of things after this."

[Thank you :)]

She gives him a small smile, "It's okay, my teachers were suprisingly cool with me bringing him to class and he's not the worse company I've ever had. I thought maybe I'd pick us up something for dinner tonight, if you want, cos otherwise it's going to involve me cooking and I'm sure neither of us wants that."

And yes she's not asking him how he is cos she iknows how he is and if that's verbalised to her she's likely to cry and that's not good in any way at all, for either of them.

"Well, they probably thought he was another student," Geoff answers wryly. "That would be...fine, Paige. Nice. If you really want to. I don't want you to go to any trouble over it. Dinner I mean."

He realizes he's babbling and takes a sip of the coffee to cover it. "How are you doing?"

Paige smirks a little, "yeah maybe but it's fine, I mean I need to eat, you need to eat, this way we both get to eat and since I'm staying at the shop I might as well get something for both of us."

She considers his question for a few moments before answering, she'd not really thought much about she was, that was one of the good things about worrying about someone else, you didn't have to worry about yourself. "I'm pretty good considering, I could do without having been kicked out of my room my James but other than that."

Frowning, Geoff says, "Is that a permanent thing? I mean, I'm assuming you argued but...have you broken it off or are you just going through a cooling off period?" He looks worried. "And you know you're welcome to stay as long as you need."

She shrugs, "I hadn't planned on it being permanent, I left him a note saying I needed a little time to think about things and he just lost it and chucked all my stuff out the room. I've just forgiven too much lately, he needs some sort of help to control his anger but while he's like this I'm not willing to even consider going back to him. I'm okay though, but staying at the shop a little while longer would be good, thank you." Of course part of her wants to stay to keep away from Sawyer, but the other part wants to stay and make sure Geiff's okay, she did promise House.

"That's understandable, Paige. And it's a good idea for you to be away from him while he's that angry. Like I said, as long as you need."

He fiddles with the coffee cup. "Why don't you move upstairs, and I'll sleep in the back room. It'll be a lot more comfortable for you."

"I don't wanna put you out Geoff, I'm fine in the backroom it's your room, you're the one doing me the favor remember." she replies, "I might leave some of my stuff upstairs though if that's okay I figure it'll be safer up there."

Shaking his head, he says, "You're not putting me out, Paige. You're a guest in my home, and it isn't right for you to have to sleep down there. It isn't really...appropriate, either, but I know you're going to argue with me on that point." He gives her a wry smile. "And yes, I know you can take care of yourself, that isn't what I'm saying."

Geoff takes a tired breath. "But I also don't have it in me to argue about it, either. The offer is there, if you want to take it. Either way, you're still welcome to stay as long as you need."

She raises an eyebrow at his comment about her staying her in the backroom not being appropriate, if anything her staying in Geoff's room seemed more inappropriate, but she didn't say anything on that count.

"I didn't think you were saying I couldn't look after myself actually, I figured it was just you being being gentlemanly, and thanks I guess I'll see how I feel later. And thank you Geoff, I do appreciate it. So is there anything you fancy for dinner tonight or shall I just wing it?"

"I submit to your whim on dinner. Anything you'd like." He hesitates a second, and adds, "Just...not seafood?"

She nods, "damn and I was gonna try to get you to try sushi too," she jokes

"That's the raw stuff they eat in the Orient, isn't it? I think someone mentioned it once. Maybe it was CJ." He shakes his head. "I think I'm needing what CJ calls 'comfort food'. Although I don't really know what that would be, except that I'm pretty sure it isn't raw fish."

He answers Paige's joke with a little grin.

"That's the stuff, it's pretty good actually, not sure I can get hold of any on the island though."

She smiles, "comfort food it is then, I'm thinking ice cream and pie personally, but then I'm a girl so you might not want that." she wrinkles her nose for a moment as she tries to work out what to get. "I'm sure I'll think of something. But if there's anything you want you have my cell number right?"

"Yes, I have it. And ice cream and pie sounds good. Are there supposed to be foods that only girls eat?" Geoff teases.

Paige smiles, "oh yeah, they'll only sell it to females didn't you know?"

She tilts her head to look at him, "I guess I should get to class now, I'll see you later okay?"

She leans in to kiss him on the cheek, "and if you want to talk later about anything at all the shop might be a better place for it." she says softly

"I might do that, Paige. Thank you. Have a good day in class, all right. And I promise, you won't have to take Cash with you anymore."

"It was nice having him with me, don't worry," she replies as she leaves the office.

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