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Jeremy Darling ([personal profile] stars_and_money) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2013-01-05 01:12 pm
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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

It was a new year, and with the new year came the new spring term, and Fandom High was all set to welcome its new students, along with those just returning from holiday trips home. It was a familiar setting for the latter bunch: there was the requisite bonfire, with tables and chairs scattered around it, as well as the buffet table with moldable warm food and drinks.

And of course, name tags and lists of Big and Little Siblings as well as roommates. Yep, the weather was okay for early January, and Fandom was all ready to celebrate the start of a new term.

[OCD up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 12:05 pm (UTC)(link)
Jono had actually dragged himself to the picnic today, crutches and all, with something that at least passingly resembled a smile on his face. After all, it was the new semester, and after all his years on the island, he'd been through a good many of these. He was pretty certain he'd seen the island as about as crazy as it could get.

He had parked himself off to the side, sitting on a park bench with his crutches propped up on it beside him, and was idly sipping from a cup of coffee. So far, this new batch of students wasn't hurting his brain. That was a good sign.
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] sith_happened 2013-01-05 12:19 pm (UTC)(link)
Anakin tilted his head. "Bar fight?"
furnaceface: (Eheheh...)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 01:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"I usually come out looking a little better after bar fights," Jono replied, turning a wry smile Anakin's way. "This bloke had bigger, pointier weapons than me, and we were on his home turf."

... Which, in fairness, could still suggest that he'd been in a bar fight.
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] sith_happened 2013-01-05 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
"At the risk of asking the obvious, why fight him when he had the advantage?"
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 02:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bad intel," Jono replied, frowning a little. "There were far more of us than there were of him, and we ran upon a bit of poor luck."

You know. A tiny bit. A little. A smidgen.

"And somebody had to."
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] sith_happened 2013-01-05 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
"Well, most people deserve to be smacked at least some of the time," declared the ethics teacher. "Does he as least look worse than you do?"
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 02:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"He looks dead," Jono intoned, looking and sounding grimly satisfied. "I was out and bleeding by that point, but I've been informed that th'bastard's been liquefied."

Very literally.
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] sith_happened 2013-01-05 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Anakin smiled wryly. "In that case, well done."
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Any job you can hobble away from..." Jono gave his shoulder a shrug. The one good shoulder, anyhow. "We did what we needed to do. Now I'm just out of commission for a while, I suppose. It was more or less worth it."

He got his people out. That's what had mattered the most.
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2013-01-05 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Jack waved a greeting before sitting down next to Jono. "You're supposed to orient me to teaching," he said. "I hope the crutches aren't a classroom injury. That might put me off it."
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 03:16 pm (UTC)(link)
"These are more a New York, pretending to be a hero injury," Jono promised. "Classrooms are safe, with the exception of the fact that they're full of teenagers."

The most dangerous species on the island!
bitten_notshy: ([b+w] pacing)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2013-01-05 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
"I remember those," Jack said solemnly. "Hormonal, impulsive, think they know everything?"

Which, of course, didn't describe Jack at all.

"Sorry the heroic efforts ended in crutches, by the way."
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"It could've been worse," Jono settled on, because, really, he hadn't been expecting to come out of there alive. "I'd still take that bastard over the know-it-all impulses of a teenager bent on getting him or herself killed in one of Fandom's... Fandom things... any day."

That was untrue.
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2013-01-05 10:54 pm (UTC)(link)
Jack winced. "I have to give them good advice now, don't I?" he said. "I can't be so ... laissez-faire about everything."
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's the idea," Jonothon agreed, smirking. "Though most of them will inevitably ignore you and dismiss your advice as the joy-sucking ramblings of a stodgy old spoilsport, now. Congratulations, Jack. You're practically geriatric now that you're a teacher."
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] bitten_notshy 2013-01-05 11:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"And I'm not even the one walking with assistance," Jack sighed, eyeing the crutches again. "So we're both fantastically ancient. I can't remember, did you graduate with my class, or Emma's?"
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 11:19 pm (UTC)(link)
"At this point, I'm not even certain I'd consider it 'walking,'" Jono admitted, glancing down at his leg. "It's more like very careful one-footed hopping with the crutches there to keep me from toppling over."

The joy of mangling your left leg and left arm. All of your balance was suddenly and thoroughly shot.

"And I graduated from Emma's, mate. She was valedictorian that year, if I remember right. Made one hell of a speech about being strong, about being fighters. I was prom king." A beat. "There might've been something in the water that year, I'm not sure."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] doesdoctorstuff.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 10:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're hurt!"

Navaan was a doctor. She knew these things.
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've noticed."

Jono glanced up at the source of the exclamation, and he blinked. A... plague doctor?

What?

"And you are...?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] doesdoctorstuff.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 10:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"A doctor!"

This was very important, Jono. Pay attention.

"And also a sometimes writer for the Fandom Gazette. I have fan mail!"
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"I try not to read the newspaper when I can avoid it," Jono intoned, raising an eyebrow. "Too depressing. And I have seen a doctor for this already, you know. I mean, th'sling didn't materialize out of thin air or anything."

Of course, this being Fandom, that probably wouldn't have surprised anybody, anyhow.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] doesdoctorstuff.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Navaan sniffed. "And what was that doctor's qualifications?" she demanded. "How many adventures had they been on? People have they laid? Have they ever killed the fun god? Hunh? Hunh?"

Navaan didn't think so!
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 10:58 pm (UTC)(link)
"They... went to school. To learn medicine." Navaan was getting the most wary side-eye Jono had given anyone in at least a week. That was a big accomplishment, really. "I'm fairly certain killing the fun god doesn't have anything to do with it."

At least, not last he checked.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[identity profile] doesdoctorstuff.livejournal.com 2013-01-05 11:06 pm (UTC)(link)
"Bah," Navaan said, judging the sun had gone down enough to push her mask out of the way. "What can anyone learn about being a doctor in school? The most important stuff can't be taught! Only experienced!"

Beat.

"Well, okay, sex can probably be taught. But if you're learning it in school, you're doing it wrong. Unless you go to the best school ever!"

HEY! HEY FANDOM! NAVAAN HAD AN AWESOME IDEA FOR A SUMMER COURSE!
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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2013]

[personal profile] furnaceface 2013-01-05 11:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"I believe that's half of what going to college is about," Jono mused, glancing up thoughtfully at the sky before looking back at the now-unmasked... Doctor.

Really, he wouldn't know.

"Or at least, it would've been, if I'd gone for more than a week." A beat. "You figure saving lives involves sex, hm?"
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