Office #26, Thursday

[chosehumanity]

Doing this office hours on Wednesdays and Thursdays thing wasn't going to work, of that Mitchell was now certain. Having spent two days back home soothing Annie through the worst of her current condition, then having to spend another two hours in a Portalocity waiting room before getting to come here - drenched after an unfortunate layover in the middle of the Estonian marsh - was not his idea of good planning.

He was here anyway. Reading a few books on ghost stories. For... educational purposes. He was just trying to look out for Annie.

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[vanillajello]

"I'm not that interested in details, so I think I'll let the little tykes be and take your word for it," she replied, wandering in. "Hey."

[chosehumanity]

Mitchell leaned back in his chair. "Grab a seat," he called, "How was your week?"

[vanillajello]

"You ask as if it's anywhere near over yet," Kate snorted, flopping down into a familiar chair. "But other that... Normal." She shrugged. "Fandom standards normal, obviously, not normal normal."

[chosehumanity]

"It's been four days of the first week of classes," Mitchell pointed out, shrugging his own shoulders good-naturedly. "There's usually plenty to tell." A pause. "Is it strange that, since Fandom's normal this week, I'm afraid of the next?"

[vanillajello]

"No, that's just sane. Fandom's bound to act up again soon."

None of the newbies had seen any of the weird yet, for one thing.

"And I've only been to two of my four workshops so far, and one of them was yours, so..."

[chosehumanity]

"Really?" Mitchell asked, grinning. "And how'd I hold up so far?"

[vanillajello]

"Well, you didn't make me walk the plank, which I think is pretty good," she said, pretending to give this some thought, "but then again your class also wasn't at the beach."

[chosehumanity]

"I'll hold my class there if you can find me a socket for the telly," he promised. "Otherwise, you're out of luck."

[vanillajello]

"We could always watch stuff on a good laptop or something," she suggested. "I mean, there's not really even all that many of us. We could make it work."

[chosehumanity]

She got a firm lift of his brows. "If you clean out the sand afterwards."

[vanillajello]

"Jack can do that."

Jack wasn't here to defend himself. This meant Kate could say things like that.

[chosehumanity]

That gave Mitchell a bizarre and rather detailed mental image of Jack and Kate as warring siblings in the back of his car, but he did his best to shake it off.

"Then you can tell him that," he said. "It'll be great fun."

[vanillajello]

"He's your TA," Kate pointed out, lazily. "Shouldn't you tell him?"

[chosehumanity]

"You're also my TA," Mitchell pointed out in turn. "I can just tell you to make it so and figure out who does what myself." Beat. "I gave you power. It comes with its price."

[vanillajello]

Eyeroll. "A TA for a class on TV comedy," she said dryly. "Watch me pay the price for my truly astounding amounts of power."

Not that it was a huge price, either, but. She was herself.

[chosehumanity]

"And the price is that if you want to have a class on the beach," Mitchell said, grinning, "You'll either have to clean out the laptop, or find a way to make Jack do it. I'm not getting involved in these sibling arguments. It's unhealthy."

[vanillajello]

"Hey! I already have a brother, and like... four fake siblings." Yes, she had to pause to count them. "And Jack is not one of them. But I'll see what I can do."

[chosehumanity]

"Could've fooled me." Mitchell was having some trouble repressing that smirk, there.

[vanillajello]

Kate, for her part, looked distinctly grumpy. ".. You haven't even seen me with my actual brother."

The main difference was that Marshall was less likely to talk back.

[chosehumanity]

Mitchell shrugged. "I don't need to," he said, "But feel free to try and prove me wrong." He'd like to meet the famous Moosh, after all.

[vanillajello]

"Sorry but I think you're just gonna have to take my word for it," Kate said, leaning back in her chair. "I don't think any of my family are coming here again. Last time very nearly gave me an ulcer. No thanks."

[chosehumanity]

"Suit yourself."

Stop smirking, Mitchell.

"So any wishes beyond risking the wrath of the AV department?"

[vanillajello]

"None that I can think of right now," she said. "I have two more workshops to check out, but I doubt either of them are gonna give me any ideas."