http://whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2015-02-10 02:19 am
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Creative Problem Solving, Tuesday, period 3

[Class #6 - the Beatdown Job!]

“This is Eliot’s week for doing lots of stuff,” Parker said to everyone as they walked in. “He’s the best at it.”

The students could be forgiven for thinking this meant the food: the setting was a swank banquet in the courtyard of a museum, with tables of food in individually heated trays on one side, punch bowls full of icy lemonade, and huge platters of hors d'oeuvres. There were well-dressed guests, and staff circulating with trays of champagne.

Parker was wearing her blue cocktail dress, but Eliot was not dressed as a chef.

He could've been! Kitchens were rife with opportunities for his particular specialty. Of course, so were banquet halls. And bars. And street corners.

Honestly, when you could turn anything into a weapon, everywhere was rife with opportunity.

Eliot was keeping it simple this time, though, wearing his usual t-shirt and jeans combo, a beanie keeping his hair back off his face. He cracked his knuckles and then his neck and smiled at the class.

It was maybe a creepy smile.

"This week we're going to work on some of the more . . . physical sides of problem solving." Punching people totally solved problems, shut up. A group of four simulated security guards came out of the doors to the museum with guns trained on him and Parker. Eliot waited, looking almost bored, until they were within range.

Then he very quickly and very efficiently unarmed them and took them down. He looked back up at the students again as he tossed the last gun, emptied of its magazine, to the side. "Something like that."

Parker grinned, holding up a fork. “I just like to stab them. But you can use whatever you want! The food. The plates. The bottles. The people.” She pointed upward. “You want to get into the museum.”

Did they though? Really?

Guessing by the way the doors to the museum were opening again, this time discharging a crowd of unruly teenagers in letterman jackets, another group of professional security guards, and some really large, really ugly fantasy monster things, they might not, actually.

"You don't have to take out alla them," Eliot said, crossing his arms. "You do have to take out enough to get through the doors. And then you're welcome to the whole banquet! Assuming you guys haven't smashed all the food by then." He smiled again. "Have fun."
vdistinctive: (artsy-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-10 10:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Rocko lived to a ripe old age," Eliot assured her. "No tragic accidents in this story."
vdistinctive: (daddy issues-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-10 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
"Because I throw myself in front of guns for a living."
vdistinctive: (exasperated-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-10 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wh -- Seriously, Parker?"
vdistinctive: (bespectacled grouch-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-10 11:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"The puppy doesn't speak English!" It occurred to him immediately after he said it that in Fandom that might not necessarily be true, but he wasn't about to say that out loud.
vdistinctive: (resigned-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-11 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm not worried the dog's gonna judge me, Parker." It still astounded Eliot the sorts of things he had to explain to her. "I'm worried I'll die on a job and the dog'll be abandoned."
vdistinctive: (exasperated-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-11 12:45 am (UTC)(link)
"Ow!" Eliot yanked his arm away. "I didn't say I'd do it on purpose!"
vdistinctive: (angled grouch-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-11 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
Eliot should really just back down and reassure her and let the whole subject drop -- except then he'd end up with a dog. "I ain't sayin' that. I ain't sayin' it's gonna happen, or even that it's likely to happen. I got zero plans to do anything other than retire eventually and maybe train up the next generation like Archie did. But it's a dangerous job, and dogs don't make their own contingency plans."
vdistinctive: (bespectacled grouch-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-11 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well that was terrifying.

"What."
vdistinctive: (angled grouch-face)

Re: Talk to the Teachers

[personal profile] vdistinctive 2015-02-11 01:13 am (UTC)(link)
Eliot growled, frustrated. "Dammit, Parker."