Office hours [Tuesday, April 17, 2012]

[sith_happened]

It had been bad enough that he was in a navy blue polyester nightmare, but Anakin's problems had only compounded when he'd reached out to save what he'd thought had been several little green toys from falling into the pond on his way to the school

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[fates_jaye]

"This is hell," Jaye said when she arrived at the door, with a really big, zipped-up coat over her uniform. Was it too hot for it? Yes it was. Was she wearing it anyway? Uh huh. "I always wondered what hell was like, but now I know. It's this uniform."

[sith_happened]

"I've worn worse," Anakin said, "but not much worse. How'd your exam go yesterday?"

[fates_jaye]

"Good! I think I really freaked them out."

Teacher of the Year here.

[sith_happened]

"Please tell me you mean the students and not the board," Anakin replied.

[trigons_child]

Raven's wings had gone away, thank Azar, though she was still wearing her cloak over her uniform because she thought she looked ridiculous. She'd promised Jono she'd talk to Anakin about her nightmare but right now the situation on the island was more on her mind.

"It is not right that the school board has made people leave the island," she started to say, then stopped short first at the sight of Anakin in his own awful uniform and then at the little green minions praising him.

[sith_happened]

"I should have brought my robe," Anakin lamented. "Maybe I could've smothered my new friends with it."

"You saved our lives. We are eternally grateful."

Anakin ignored that. "Who'd they make leave?"

[trigons_child]

"Jono and Elphaba," Raven said unhappily. "I do not believe they were told they were required to leave, but they were put in a position where they believed they had very little choice in the matter. Fandom is a place where we are safe to be ourselves and now that safety has been taken away from us. Even if it is just for a day, or a week, it is not right."

Unfortunately she didn't have any suggestions for a way out of it other than "find money somewhere else."

She paused to take a breath to rein in her anger and crouched down to inspect the green aliens. "Hello," she said.

"He saved our lives. We are eternally grateful."

"That is a gratitude I share," Raven said, managing a smile. She just didn't follow him around announcing it.

[sith_happened]

And as a student, Anakin would have felt just as betrayed. Being an adult had given him more perspective on politics and how money made the galaxy go around.

"I've had my own thoughts on the board's...capriciousness," he said, "and the wording on Colbert's letter would make even a sane person clench their teeth. But we can't just ask Warren or Chuck Bass or Bruce Wayne to foot our bill instead. We need accreditation to be able to get students from this world into good colleges, and if we changed the money flow so abruptly, those people would be looking for things that are out of the ordinary, and I don't think they'd be as easily distracted as the Howells seem to be."

[mouthy_merc]

"Is the coast clear?" Look, Deadpool was well aware that just being around the school could only lead to messing up this ridiculous masquerade they had goin'.

It was his charm that did it.

[sith_happened]

"Of board members, Howells, or irritating green aliens?" Anakin asked.

"You saved our lives. We are eternally grateful."

"I will toss you out the window if you do that again."

[mouthy_merc]

"Give 'em to the kid. They'll shut right up after a few hours," Deadpool suggested.

[sith_happened]

"Yes, but I'd like to still be married at the end of the evening," Anakin replied.