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Writing Workshop - 6/27 - Journalism Classroom - Tuesday Morning

Chloe was back on the laptop this morning when everyone came in, drinking what was clearly not her first cup of coffee.

"Okay, so I'm doing a slight switch in the syllabus this week. Those of you who have been looking towards the Romance class with dread will be happy to know that you have one last week of a reprieve." Chloe laughed, and handed out the worksheet for this week, before launching into a short lecture about fanfiction and its characteristics ~~which is probably a lecture the mun could give at frightening length~~.

"Now, I'd like to think that either at home, or in your time here at school, you've been exposed to some television shows or some movies. So, I'd like you to take the rest of the class period to work on some of your own fanfiction. Write yourself into the story, or stick two characters together who were never able to get together while the show was on. It's entirely up to you.

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Marie signs in

Kawalsky signed in.

Rory signed in.

Elizabeth signed in.

Janet signed in.

...

Marie decides to write Vanessa Saturn fanfic.

She starts scribbling down ideas.

Rory chewed on the tip of her pen thoughtfully, and after a moment, decided to write Space Battles fiction.

She smiled, thinking of the godawful dialogue in the prequels, and decided things would have been so much better if there had just been some good, old-fashioned, Master/apprentice slash.

So she spent the rest of the period writing it happily.

Elizabeth decided to cross-over The Z-Cases with The Oval Office, with Lana and Wolf visiting the White House for the Big Block of Cheese Day and confusing TJ.

There might have been a mention of Jack Loman having a date with an attractive Georgetown poli-sci professor too.

She's caffeinated, so it's safe.

Chloe's actually doing some writing herself today. It's something about a perky blonde reporter and her tall, gorgeous ~~big dumb alien~~ sidekick, and it's making her giggle to herself in short intervals.

"People actually write this stuff?"

Chloe snickered. "Oh yeah. It's a really big thing in some sections of the internet."

"About all different shows? Like, say, The Z-Cases or...Wormhole X-treme?"

"Yeah, totally. I've actually seen some really good Wormhole X-treme stuff. Not that I, you know, read a lot of this kind of thing," she added.

"Huh. Where would a guy...or girl...whoever find some of this stuff?" Not that he was interested. At all.

Chloe smirked. "It used to be that everything was put into zines that were really hard to find and kind of underground. But that was before computers, so it's all on the internet now. If you go to a search engine and put in something like 'Wormhole X-treme fanfiction', you'd probably find more than enough to get you started."

"Not for me. For my friend."

Lamest excuse ever. Kawalsky quickly retreated with that knowledge.

Like a good teacher, Chloe didn't laugh until Kawalsky had completely retreated. "Friend. Riiiight."

...

Vanessa pulled out her geometry book and shut her locker door. She wasn’t looking forward to class, since Donavon and Eric were both in it and neither one of them was speaking to her because of what her last investigation turned up.

She sighed and turned to walk down the hall, almost walking right into Donavon.

“Oh, hey,” she said, looking at him with hopeful eyes.

Donavon looked nervous. “Vanessa, can we talk?”

Vanessa nodded and led him in to a nearby janitor’s closet. “What’s up?” she asked, her heart beating in triple time.

“Are you back together with Eric?” he blurted out.

She shook her head. “I’m pretty sure that he’ll never forgive me for what I did,” she said. “And it’s just as well. I don’t want to date someone I can’t trust.”

Donavon’s face fell. “I guess that makes sense,” he mumbled. “Okay, I’ll see you in class.” He started to walk past her.

“Donavon, wait,” Vanessa said, putting out a hand to stop him.

He looked back at her and she saw her own hopeful feelings mirrored in his expression.

“That’s not the only reason I’m not back together with him,” she said.

“What’s the other reason?”

Vanessa looked him directly in the eye. “I don’t want to be with him if there’s any chance I can get you back.”

Donavan stepped close and put his hand on Vanessa’s waist. “You still want to be with me even after knowing what I did?”

She nodded. “You’re the first boy I ever loved. And the only boy I’ll ever love.”

He smiled and pulled her close for a kiss.

[it caused me physical pain to write this]

Chloe looked the assignment over. It was awfully good storytelling, even if she was a bit squicked by finding out Marie was a Vanessa/Donavon shipper. She just hoped that Marie would see the light of Vanessa/Eric some day.

[*dies* *pets* I can understand your pain.]

OCD is done!

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