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Leadership, Friday, 3rd Period

"Short and sweet from me today, people," Scott said as the class began. "Because a valuable part of leadership is being able to impart wisdom to your team. I've assigned teams. Get together and see if you can't teach each other something new and useful. And I know that's vague, so define that however you want, but keep it within reason. I'd rather not have you learn that I'm willing to give detentions if anyone bleeds or something."

Scott waved a hand to indicate the start of teamwork. "Have at it."

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Teaching!

Bobby Drake

Cara

Quinn Fabray

Rebecca Logan

Anakin Solo

Susan Sto Helit

Warren Worthington III

Squall Leonhart

James of Krondor

Ben Skywalker

Karla

Get together with your partner and teach each other something they don't know that will be useful. Whether this is useful to school, bizarreness, college admissions, computer usage, or whatever is up to you.

If you decide to teach something fighty, don't hurt each other.

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

Most of Bobby's useful skills revolved around three things: math, jokes, and beating up supervillains.

So he turned to Susan ~~assuming she's there~~ and said with a shrug" "What are your feelings on practical jokes?"

"Nothing good," she told him.

After discarding the options most likely to get her detention, most of Cara's teachable skills revolved around punching.

Quinn was going to do her very best to teach Jack a basic cheer routine. Mostly because she thought it would be funny.

Teaching! Rebecca could teach. Hey, maybe she could teach Britta how to be cooler!

No, Rebecca. You couldn't teach her. She was the worst.

See, Anakin thought he knew a lot of useful things. He wasn't sure how well he'd be able to teach them, though.

Mainly because patience was not at all his strong suit, but he was contemplating his options here.

"So," Warren said, offering Anakin a little smile as he approached him. "I have... no idea what I'm going to teach you."

That was helpful.

"I mean, unless there was anything you wanted to learn?"

It wasn't that Warren didn't know things, but it was hard to just inform someone that they were going to learn those things without first knowing if they knew anything about them or not.

"A lot of things, actually," Anakin replied, but scrunched his face up as he realized that didn't narrow things down at all. "But I'm not sure showing me how I can finally beat my sister in a starfighter race is something you can show me."

He considered. "But if it is . . ."

Warren grimaced a little. Nope. He was definitely not qualified for that, right there.

"I really don't know the first thing about starfighters," he admitted. "My area of expertise when it comes to flying is a little less... interstellar."

He stretched a wing slightly to demonstrate.

"So you're not from around here, then? Is there anything about Earth that's been giving you trouble, maybe?"

Yeah, this was why Tahiri was the jokester and Anakin was the straight man. He was terrible at jokes, most of the time. (Like his brother, except unlike Jacen he didn't keep trying anyway.)

"Just that it's a lot more primitive than home, some ways." Anakin looked a little sulky about that, yes. He did that a lot. "Maybe . . . you could explain to me why pizza is such a traditional food at gatherings around here?"

Just curiosity, really. He liked the pizza.

Warren couldn't help but laugh a little at that. Oh, that was an easy one.

"I think that's mostly because you can feed a lot of hungry teenagers with just a couple of them, and get toppings to suit anybody's tastes," he offered. "And we can pretend pizzas are actually healthy, now that the government is telling us they count as a vegetable."

He wasn't going to knock it if it gave him an excuse to eat more of it, okay?

"That's all?" Anakin laughed. "I thought there might be some cultural significance to it or something."

You could sort of argue that there was, though, couldn't you? Because it was traditional.

"It's only cultural if culture is synonymous with 'cheap and easy' wherever you're from," Warren replied, still smirking a little. "Mostly, it's just that we're all too lazy to put together something different each Frat meeting or whatever."

See? Warren was teaching! Kind of!

It was more structured than "Here, go do this," which was about as much as Anakin had gotten in some other fields, so hey.

"Well, it makes sense. And now I know," he decided with a little nod. "So it's my turn to ask if there's anything you want to learn, I guess?"

Warren took a moment to seriously consider that question, tilting his head a little to the side as he thought.

"I'm really not picky about what I learn," he admitted. "I've got a long way to go with a lot of things, which is kind of why I'm here, you know? But if there's anything that you're really comfortable with that you wouldn't mind walking somebody else through, I'd be all for it."

He wasn't kidding when he said he had a lot to learn. His experience with the world was still kind of limited to his time on the island. With a definite skew in the direction of not getting himself killed, admittedly.

Sadly, Anakin was hardly qualified to teach anyone how to do normal everyday teenager things. Basically at all.

"Flying things, programming computers, building machines," he rattled off, then frowned. "Puzzles?"

Flying, Warren pretty much already had handled. Computers and machines wouldn't do him a heck of a lot of good after graduation, if he wound up in Kaeleer. So...

"What sort of puzzles?"

Warren actually enjoyed those, so if Anakin had anything that he hadn't seen before, he'd probably be thrilled.

"Any kind, really." Anakin ran a hand through his hair. "I've got some 3-D ones that are pretty astral. Or just using logic to solve practical problems. They're easy once you figure out the trick to them." ~~Not that his player ever has. Wah.~~

"I've never really seen a 3-D one before," Warren admitted, after a moment. "I used to do logic puzzles just to pass the time, so I think I'm already pretty set for those."

Logic wasn't really something that could be taught, anyhow.

Not really. So much for that idea, Anakin.

"If I show you one, do you think that counts as teaching?" he mused. What? It sounded like fun.

"I don't see how it would count any less than me explaining pizza does," Warren allowed. "I guess you'd be teaching me... what a 3D puzzle looks like."

That was totally legit, boys.

"I could give you one, even," Anakin offered, brightening.

Totally legit! Even if that fell outside the bounds of 'teaching' even if you squinted and . . . spun around in zero-gravity while squinting.

In a very squinty sort of way!

"It could be like homework," Warren agreed, his feathers fluffing a little behind him and a grin on his face. "Solve the 3D puzzle before next week."

It could be done! It was totally possible!

... Right?

Squall looked at Tony thoughtfully. Most of his own skills were of the killing monsters variety, and Tony was more of the science and technology type.

Well, maybe something that everyone could enjoy, then. He pulled a deck of collectible trading cards out of his pocket and started dividing it into two stacks of approximately equal strength.

When they make with the pinging.

Bobby was here, looking mildly impressed with Scott's powers of bullshitting.

Rebecca was also here, looking... well, not impressed, but that was a thing with her. She was totally here, though!

Who just taught you how to get out of not having a good lesson plan worked out for today. His reasons for that were deeply personal and involved crying last night about something that happened months ago. Get over it already, Scott.

It was only a relatively minor step back, but it ruined his planning.

Sorry for the lame "figure it out for yourselves" class. A combination of work, allergies, and sheer bloody-minded forgetfulness got me tonight.

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