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[mm_requiem]

Helena Bertinelli.

At the bar.

Glass of wine.

Marking a stack of 10th grade English papers.

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[notricksyet]

Leah would be an eighth grader if she were actually in school right now.
- Actually, she wouldn't, cause she's British so she'd actually be in Year Nine, but that's not the point.

The point is that she's hauled a barstool right over to where Helena is sitting, has a giant hot chocolate with whipped cream and marshmallows, and has decided to read the top paper on Helena's pile.

[baptizemyself]

"You know, it's kind of rude to read someone else's papers," Helena says, putting her pen down and turning to face Leah.

[notricksyet]

"Yeah, well, I'm kind of a rude person," Leah says cheerfully, looking up only briefly to grin at her.

"What are they supposed to be about?"

[baptizemyself]

"Romeo and Juliet," she says with a sigh. "But at least half my students seem to think it's called 'Leo DiCaprio and Claire Danes'. It's the last time I set a Shakespeare play with a major Hollywood movie based on it."