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Leadership, Friday, 3rd Period

Scott was feeling inspired today. This probably meant nothing good for anyone.

"There are some times when you're presented with a relatively simple project that's made more difficult by some kind of insane or bizarre obstacle that you need to overcome. That can mean having to deal with something in your personal life, unrealistic expectations from a superior, or, in Fandom, pretty much anything you could imagine."

"So, let's try something easy. I'm going to pair you up and ask each pair to put together a 1000 piece puzzle of Times Square. Decide how you're going to work together to do it, and have at it," Scott said. "Your goal is to finish by the end of class somehow."

He decided not to mention the fact that he had taken three pieces from each puzzle and swapped them with random pieces from other groups' puzzles. Or that the class currently had a nearly 50/50 gender split.

Insane obstacles, people.

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Dealing with some kind of insane obstacle.

Jack Carter

Cara

Quinn Fabray

Bobby Drake

Squall Leonhart

Rebecca Logan

Anakin Solo

Susan Sto Helit

Warren Worthington III

Karla

Short and sweet and there's clearly a twist, right?

Do the 1000 piece Times Square puzzle with three of your pieces swapped out for three pieces that are doubles for pieces you already had. Figure out how to cross that bridge when you come to it.

Partners:
Alex Aaron / Rebecca Logan
Alice Cullen / James of Krondor
Anakin Solo / Tony Stark
Ben Skywalker / Susan Sto Helit
Bobby Drake / Cara
Britta Perry / Squall Leonhart
Jack Carter / Karla
Quinn Fabray / Warren Worthington III

Jack had already started work on the puzzle. He had always liked puzzles. He liked the way he could always make things fit...

Karla frowned at all the tiny little pieces. "There has to be something more than this," she said. "Putting together a puzzle is a pain in the ass, but I wouldn't call it an insane obstacle."

"Oh I'm sure ninjas will be dropping out of the ceiling any minute now," Jack said finding another matching piece. "And I'm lucky they'll just kill me before I do something stupid."

Karla shrugged and created a glowing shield around them while Jack found matching pieces. "There," she said, dusting her hands. "Good luck getting through now, ceiling-ninjas."

Jack gaped at the light show. "What? Whoa! Seriously?" he exclaimed. "You did that?"

Karla blinked at him in surprise and confusion. "...Yes?" she said, half in question.

Sorry, Jack. She just kind of forgot that not everyone knew she was a witch.

"It's a shield. That should hopefully stop whatever rampaging monstrosity comes barreling for our puzzle."

Which she had yet to help with.

Jack boggled at Karla for a second or two more before realizing that, yes, Karla was yet another attractive girl living at this school.

A second later he was reminding himself that Karla was just about the same age as his daughter.

"Right! Shield! No ninjas!" he exclaimed a bit too loudly. "Um. Thank you."

"Hey, it's my grade, too, you know?"

Though, again, she still hadn't moved to actually help with the puzzle. On a good week, Karla didn't have the patience for them.

"Hi, I'm Karla," she added, since it was kind of obvious they'd never met. She offered him a hand...and a slightly warmer smile than she might otherwise have given on a non-crazy week.

Jack looked up from the puzzle and melted a bit from the smile. "Jack Carter," he said taking her hand.

And then remembering again that his daughter is about her age.

And then his attention snapped back to the puzzle with laser sharp focus.

"Who just loves a good puzzle!"

"I'm usually too impatient for them," Karla admitted with a laugh. Which meant this week made her worse at them than normal. "I prefer more physical stuff. Like, if we had to fight off the ninjas, I could handle that no problem."

"Well, sure. With the whole..."

Jack gestured around at the magical shield.

"-glowy thing."

Things Cara had very little experience with:

1) Jigsaw puzzles
2) Times Square

Things Cara was not focused on right now:

1) Jigsaw puzzles
2) Times Square

Things Cara cared about not being focused on:

...you could see where this was going, right?

Thus her contribution today was mostly along the lines of glaring at random puzzle pieces and pushing them around with a finger. Sorry, Bobby.

Quinn sat down cross-legged and started sorting out the edge pieces from the rest. The exercise was making her really wish she'd actually been to New York.

She appreciated the eye candy factor on her partner ~~assuming he tags in~~, anyhow.

Warren the eye candy? Totally taking a seat across from Quinn, looking... well... a touch antsy. He didn't figure anybody would blame him for that, though.

"Puzzle, huh?" He was kind of pointedly looking down at it with his brow furrowed. "... I guess it's a good thing I had a really boring childhood, today."

Quinn smirked at him. "Lots of puzzles in that boring childhood?" she guessed. "But good. We might beat the other teams that way."

It didn't even matter that Mr.Summers hadn't said it was a competition. In Quinn's head, it definitely was.

"We might," Warren agreed, grinning faintly. Hey, treating it like a competition seemed like a good way to keep his mind on the task at hand, instead of on the girl sitting across from him. Warren was all about competitions, in that case. "I had to pass the time somehow, right? And how about you? Did you do many puzzles growing up?"

He was already picking through and pulling out all the border pieces, for easy assembly. And for the sake of not looking up.

"Sometimes?" Quinn shrugged. "You know, when it was rainy and there was nothing on TV. My dad liked them."

She fitted a corner piece into the two that went around it and grinned in triumph.

Warren grinned a little as well. Hey, a few pieces together was a start, even if he'd never managed to solve a puzzle like this in less than an hour before.

There had to be a system for it.

He shuffled through the pieces some more, making certain that he hadn't missed any more edge pieces, before he started sorting the rest of the pieces into piles based on colors and patterns.

"Yeah? Mine never really was the puzzle sort. But they kept me occupied and actually thinking, and that was better than letting me sit in front of the TV all day, you know?"

Seriously? They were here in class to do a puzzle?

Squall sat down and set about, grumpily, but methodically, dividing the pieces up by color and whether or not they had a straight edge.

Rebecca eyed the puzzle. Then looked up to commiserate with her parter ~~if he was here~~.

"Ugh."

Puzzles? Puzzles were easy. The prospect of a thousand-piece puzzle of a place he'd never been didn't seem to bother Anakin in the slightest.

How much of that confidence might be misplaced, well . . . that remained to be seen.

Susan was very good at puzzles. Getting immediately to work, she didn't understand how this was actually supposed to be difficult.

Who are surely completely calm today.

Well, one TA was calmly reminding herself that jumping someone in class would be a terrible idea. Also she was about to whip out a fork and stab this puzzle within an inch of its life. And she didn't even have a fork.

So, you know. Not calm. Not calm at all.

Who really misses Jean this week, but isn't crying about it. PROGRESS.

It's probably a good thing the week is almost over. I'm not even talking about pollen week. I mean the work week. It's been way too hectic.

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