Faculty Meeting (Friday after classes)

[bigdamnprincipal]

After the student council cleared out, Zoe got the council room set up for yet another meeting, hoping all the teachers had gotten her handwavey email. Sure, classes had only been in session for a week, but she figured it was a good idea to check the new teachers for shell shock early. There were warm food and drinks set out (not the leftovers from the student council... at least, not totally) but nothing alcoholic. If people wanted to go that route, they would have to bring their own this time.

"Hello there, come on in and have a seat if you'd like," she said. "I thought it might be good for everyone to have a chance to get together without students around, and be inside where it's warm. I hope everyone's had a good first week. If you haven't, well, now you have a room full of people to vent to." It was the little things that helped make this job better.

[Open to all staff and OCD free!]

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[vdistinctive]

Eliot just gave him a knowing look. He'd been possessed by a murderous ghost a month ago. An exceptionally stupid murderous ghost, sure, but still. He put nothing past this island.

"I ain't gonna go looking for a fight." Not on the island, anyway.

[justlurkinghere]

"People hunt us like animals. So excuse me if I don't trust you right away."

His issues were special ones.

[vdistinctive]

Eliot actually looked a bit disgusted at that, though he couldn't say it surprised him. Hell, even in his world there were folks who thought it was super awesome to hunt other people for sport, even when they didn't have magic superpowers. "Do I look like a hunter?" He didn't even smell like guns, Derek!

. . . Please ignore the knives he had tucked inconspicuously into his every outfit.

[justlurkinghere]

Derek gave him a look for that. "You're calm about all this. It's unusual."

[vdistinctive]

"You'd rather I was freakin' out?"

[justlurkinghere]

"It'd be less suspicious." Derek sighed despite himself. "Wolfsbane if you're really concerned about unfriendlies. Rowan too."

[vdistinctive]

"Sorry," Eliot said, not sounding the least bit sorry at all. "I don't do freaking out." Too easy for him to end up killing someone he didn't mean to. Yelling, sure. But not freaking out.

He made a mental note of the plants and nodded. "Thanks."

[justlurkinghere]

"I think rowan takes belief unless you build with it." The rules were fuzzy because the writers kept changing them. When they remembered they exited. "Try not to poison me."

[vdistinctive]

"Poisoning ain't my style," Eliot assured him. "I'll make sure to warn ya if I end up building anything outta rowan."

[justlurkinghere]

"Thanks," Derek replied dryly. "It's poison for humans too."

JUST SO YOU KNOW.

[vdistinctive]

It was Eliot's turn to roll his eyes. "Not if you build with it."

[justlurkinghere]

Derek snorted, just beginning to smirk. "I'm sure you'll do fine."

[vdistinctive]

"Gosh," Eliot said dryly. "I'm gonna sleep so much better knowin' you think that."

[justlurkinghere]

"There's more out there than ghosts and werewolves," Derek drawled. "Might want to check out the library."

[vdistinctive]

Eliot nodded. "Got a list going. Aliens, vampires, freakin' wooden tigers. . . ."

[justlurkinghere]

"...wooden tigers?"

[vdistinctive]

"At the carnival this summer. Fuckers tried to eat me."

You ever try punching a wooden tiger, Derek? So many splinters.

[justlurkinghere]

"...I managed to miss that." Thank god.

[vdistinctive]

"You're lucky. The solution on that one was hugging."

Eliot didn't approve. He still did it, mind you, but he didn't approve.