Advanced Journalism (Wednesday, February 15, 3rd period)

[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

"Your assignment this week," Rita said, her head in her hands, her hair frizzier than usual, and her general appearance somewhat disheveled, "is an easy one. In celebration of bloody stupid goddamn Valentine's Day, I want you to write a fifty word article on your favorite campus couple. How did they meet? Where? When? Why are they so good together - or rather, what caught your attention?"

She looked up blearily. "Questions?"

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Your headache," John says and leans back. "Can't you make your headache go away with that zippity doo da wandy thing?"

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[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

"I didn't have time to brew a draught," Rita explained.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Have a bad Valentine's Day?" John frowns. "No card from Wilbur?"

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[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

"Ms. Sullivan," Rita said to Chloe. "Quick. Which is more entertaining - an insect, or some kind of food?"

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[mycanonhatesme]

It took everything Chloe had to not just headdesk right where she was sitting. "An insect," she replied.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"Thanks," John mumbles. "I didn't want to be a pudding cup."

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[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

"Very well."

She waved her wand and mumbled something at John.

Ooh, look. A stickbug.

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[mycanonhatesme]

Chloe sighed. Really, she couldn't help herself. "Did you ever turn Wilbur into an animal when he said something you didn't like?"

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John's not exactly sure what he's been turned into until he looks up...and Professor Skeeter's head is the size of a small planet.

He tries to run and ends up falling off the desk chair and then the desk chair looks like a small planet.

Stupid bugs!

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory offered the...thing that looked kind of like a stick...some chocolate.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John tries to eat the chocoalte but he's got weird bug like hands! He's a monster! A MONSTER!

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory sort of patted him, and took a picture, sending it to Aeryn.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John creepy crawled and tried to climb up Rory's arm...

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

"Eep!" Rory said, flailing a little with her other arm. "John, don't, it tickles!

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John really can't apologize so he just nudges her fingers with his stickbug hands.

And he looks woeful.

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory stared.

"Professor Skeeter, why isn't he something fluffy?"

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

If John could talk, he would say 'because Professor Skeeter is a separated, wig wearing, mean spirited, loveless woman.' But, he can't talk so he just crawls around and sniffs things.

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[auroryborealis.livejournal.com]

Rory thought about doing something meanish.

She was in a good mood, so she did it.

She picked up wee stickbug!John, and walked over to Rita.

"You should change him ba - " she started, standing over her teacher. That's how far she got before, oh no, John tickled her again and she flailed, causing the stickbug to fall on Rita's hair.

Rita? Did not notice.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John is in Professor Skeeter's hair. C'mon, you don't get an opportunity like this every day.

So, he starts walking around in her hair, and, since the hair is so damn thick and dense, actually trips and collapses. While there, he starts slowly prodding Professor Skeeter's head with his stickbug legs.

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[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

Rita felt something, and reached up to touch her hair, and shrieked when she felt John. She grabbed her wand and did the first thing she could think of: she turned him back.

Or at least, she tried to. She didn't take a couple things into account. Namely -

1) He was on her head, and

2) She was pointing at her own head.

As a result, with a quick *pop*, John was no longer a stickbug, and Rita fell over with him on her head.

"Her" head being a relative term, since she had accidentally turned herself into John as well.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

John scurries away from...himself?

"What the hell just happened?"

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[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

"Why do my clothes feel tight?" Rita asked. Interestingly enough, her voice was still her own.

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[whitedeathpod.livejournal.com]

"You look like me!" John grimaces and starts pinching himself. "My worst nightmare, this is my worst nightmare. You look like me!"

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[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

Rita shrieked, grabbed her wand, and pointed it at herself.

Unfortunately, she wasn't magical anymore. So nothing happened.

She thought for a moment, then kept pointing her wand, and did another spell she knew backwards and forwards.

It worked. She turned into a beetle.

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[imanaturalblond.livejournal.com]

"Not yet," Rita said, smiling.