[voice]

[deadlyjuliet]

[A relatively new face to the Institute, Grell's been stuck watching training videos about how to manage academic offices. It's been boring. So boring. Once the videos were over, though, the real work started and the new office lady(?) has realized something very important.]

To those in the student body who are organizing new clubs, first let me applaud you on your enthusiasm. Everyone should learn from your excellent example. Second, please allow me to remind you to turn in your bloody forms. I am not chasing you down because it's absolute murder on the legs to run in heels, and a lady should never be required to run anywhere that doesn't hold handsome rewards for her. If you force me to chase after you, you will not enjoy it. Are we clear? Wonderful. I expect tardy forms in by the end of the week.

As for the staff and faculty, please do me a pretty little favor, hm? I seem to have misplaced a bottle of polish - rose red - when watching one of your classes. If any of you have seen it, do be a dear and return it? I have a special reward to any handsome prince who brings it back to me.

[Which is to say, she left a bottle of polish in most male teachers' classrooms so she has a reason to talk to them all. Huehuehue.]

Comments

[defibrillating]

[At least being a seven-foot purple elf man makes him kind of used to jerks.]

Yeah =(

No, ma'am. I only work in the school, in the nurse's office next to the ground floor medlab.

[deadlyjuliet]

[But if you're a seven-foot, purple elf man, just punch the jerks.]

Ah, that may be why I've missed you for so long.

[She avoids the medlabs because it's too tempting to break in.]

What a shame. I suppose if Taka-chan and I are to begin seeing each other, we shall run into each other a little more though, hm?

[defibrillating]

[Unfortunately for him., he's more the shy and gentle kind of giant than the punching type.

...also no stay out of the med labs Grell, he counts the blood bags.]

I guess?

[What do you even say to that? 'Maybe if you asked him out normally he'd probably date you'? No, Zian was too nice for that.]

Well if you want the polish back sooner I can still go get it for you. Otherwise I'm sure the doc will straighten that out.

[deadlyjuliet]

[Wow, come on, Zian, don't be stingy. Let her steal a couple.]

I have other business with "the doc," as you put it, so I shall wait.

And it could also be the video purgatory I've been stuck in for one month. It's amazing how terrible those things are. Were you subjected to them?

[defibrillating]

[Nooope. There are kids who need them regularly. Shoo!]

Okay, no problem. [See, he tried to save you, Taka.]

Video purgatory? No, I must have missed that completely. What happened?

[deadlyjuliet]

[Gosh, what if she needs them, too? For research...purposes...]

Hours of someone very old explaining how to help run a school from a dusty office. I have since rid this office of both dust and anything "old," but the videos sadly must remain.

[defibrillating]

[Ask Dr. McCoy for that! Med lab bags are for kids like Flandre and X-Men that get hurt. Shooooo.]

Oh. No, I don't think the medical team had to do that. It sounds more like it's for teachers and faculty. I guess I'm lucky?

Sorry you had to, though.

[deadlyjuliet]

[But it's easier to just steal it, ugggggggh.]

Lucky indeed. If only you could hear me sigh right now.

[defibrillating]

[No. Bad. Now he' gonna need a better lock.]

I'm very sorry, ma'am. I'm sure this place will be lively enough for you soon. The school was attacked on my first week here, so I'd rather take all the boring videos. =(

[deadlyjuliet]

[Gosh, so rude. Keeping her from what she needs!!]

Considering what's going on in your capitol, I wouldn't be surprised if we all didn't get attacked again. Although I can't say I disapprove of the lull in activity. This is the longest I've stayed in one place since I left England.

[defibrillating]

[NO. (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ ]

Yeah... it's sounding like it could get almost as bad as back home.

[Now he thinks she's physically mutated, too, having to run from places. Murderizing is worse than an extra arm or two, Zian.]

[deadlyjuliet]

[OH MY GOD!!!!! D8<

Also she only murderized...well, once for humans? A lot more for other things. ...And uh...near murderizing of a lot more humans, oops.]

Was it terrible where you came from as well? The world can be such a cruel place.

[defibrillating]

[That's one murderizing enough!]

Yeah. They even sent out a weaponized disease in the sewers where I lived just to clean us out. Lots of people died. It's... sad, how it is. I just want to help people, yet they hate us.

[How did they get into this discussion?]

[deadlyjuliet]

[Nah, one murderizing is never enough!]

You lived in the sewers? Zian, darling, please. At least find an abandoned building. Or an old inn with a hotel manager who cares more for ale than administration.

[aka totally missing the main point there]

Besides, let them hate us. It's not as if we're here to entertain them.

[defibrillating]

It was the safest place. Well, we thought it was. My dad even had a clinic to take care of the mutants down there.

[The dude with jelly skin and tentacles doesn't even fit in a normal door, Grell! Think of poor Jellypus. He was a good man.]

I know that. I just wish I could have gone to school and such without being persecuted.

[deadlyjuliet]

Wait, so there were others living with you? I didn't realise the sewers were such a popular locale for American mutants.

[And wow, just break the doorway down. Or use windows. Windows are useful.]

I suppose that's why this school exists, hm? So the future youth needn't experience what we did.

[defibrillating]

This was back in Russia, but there are a few tribes of the sewer mutants here as well. Most of them in New York.

...and yeah. That's why I'm here. To make that possible for the kids.

[deadlyjuliet]

Ah, Russia. Well, I suppose I can understand that lifestyle choice there.

New York is a bit more of a stretch, but to each their own.

The children are quite blessed here. For their tutelage and the rather forgiving nature of our benefactor.

[defibrillating]

[Zian would be insulted if he didn't actually agree with the first comment.]

Considering the dangers that mutant kids face, I wish the place was even bigger to fit more.

[deadlyjuliet]

[This is why she said it. She's visited Russia. It was a v. short trip for several reasons.]

Or perhaps even that there were more schools such as this one in other nations as well. Homesickness, even for a place one might not consider safe, can be terrible.

[defibrillating]

Yeah! =) That would be good for everyone.

[deadlyjuliet]

Perhaps we can save other families from having departed fathers as well.

[Oh, and she should probably say something nice, shouldn't she. ...that's what normal people would do.]

My condolences, by the by.

[Nailed it.]

[defibrillating]

[Zian isn't sure what to say to that. Had he been that obvious?]

yeah. Yeah, that would be good.

...and thanks.

[deadlyjuliet]

[Bioweapons released in an enclosed space means no one gets out alive unless their mutation saves them.]

Don't mention it. I know what it is like to lose a parent or two.

[defibrillating]

[Hey, Zian lived! With... no throat and now has to eat from an IV. But he lived! Yaaay.

...his mom and dad did, too, since they lived in a house near the sewers and not actually in them. Zian's dad had several strokes later in life and died just recently. Still a sore subject.]

I'm sorry, ma'am. It seems far too common with both student and faculty here.