Room 304, Monday Night

[chasingangela]

After dinner in the common room, Angela came back to her room and flopped onto bed. Meeting Luke had been ... kind of odd, especially after her conversation with Rory a few days before. At least Alanna understood how much the whole thing sucked, and no one seemed to hold the whole gremlin thing against her.

She'd met the new librarian, too, who seemed very cool. And Cross-Species Communication was interesting.

She scratched a sleepy Min with one hand and stared into space, leaving her dorm room door open so she could see any action.

[OOC: Open.]

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[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

A tired looking Marty pokes his head into Angela's room. He must be tired because he took off his tie. "Hey you."

[chasingangela]

"Hey yourself," Angela said, scooting over on the bed and inviting him to lie down beside her with a look. "Looks like it's been a long day for you, too."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Classes," Marty said taking off his jacket and hanging it on the back of a chair. "For some reason I found them more tiring than the workshops. I guess school is back in session for real. Y'know?"

Marty kicked off his shoes and took the spot next to Angela. "How was your day?"

[chasingangela]

"I had creature languages and stopped by thelibrary," Angela said. She rubbed her eyes. "Have you met a kid called Luke yet?"

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Luke? No I haven't," Marty said resting his eyes. "Did he blow up the common room? Because I think that's becoming a tradition."

[chasingangela]

Angela shook her head, smiling a little at the suggested tradition. "Ready for something incredibly weird and pretty sad?"

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty opened one eye to see what kind of expression was on Angela's face. "What happened?"

[chasingangela]

"Nothing!," Angela insisted, a bit too brightly. "He's just -- he's Anakin Skywalker's kid. And he says Anakin's been dead his whole life."

She watched Marty to see how he'd take it.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty's face went blank with shock. "What... What happened to him?"

[chasingangela]

"Got murdered," Angela said simply, and she drew her legs up and started rocking. "It sounds like basically his whole civilzation is gone, Marty."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty put his arm around Angela. "That's..."

He tried to go on but nothing came out for a moment or two.

"Rory?"

[chasingangela]

"I think she's shutting a lot of it out," Angela said. "Gets better, too. The jerk who killed him is a teacher here. I tried to talk Rory into getting him fired and she said not to."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

A cold look goes over Marty's face and his hand reflexively goes to rub the set of ribs that were broken last year.

"Why not?"

[chasingangela]

"Because we should trust the administration like good little boys and girls," Angela said, disgust in her voice. "I don't know, I hate it but maybe she's right and I know better than to talk Rory out of anything, especially when she's like this."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Maybe," Marty replied in a dead tone. "Then again the school thought Angelus was safe to have in a classroom."

[chasingangela]

"And Rory thought he was all misunderstood," Angela said, stomach turning sickly.

She put her head on his shoulder. "We're either paranoid or doomed."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

Marty slipped his arms around Angela's waist and held her close and said nothing for a very long time.

"For now? I'm just going to go with paranoid and hope for the best," he said finally and without much conviction.

[chasingangela]

"Yay paranoia," Angela said, without enthusiasm.

But the holding close was nice. "We haven't met him yet," she reminded Marty. "We're hearing this all thirdhand. Could be wrong."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"I hope so," Marty kissing the top of Angela's head. "I'm not really up for a repeat of last year. What teacher is this?"

[chasingangela]

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[chasingangela]

"Vader," Angela said. "He's teaching ethics." She sighed. "Which makes me think there's a law at this school that ethics teachers be mostly insane."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"You would think that the school administration would have learned after last year," Marty said shaking his head. "It's just insane."

[chasingangela]

"Yeah," Angela said, and there wasn't much else to say, so she snuggled cloaser. "You aren't in his class, are you?"

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Nope. As far as I know my classes are danger free," Marty said with a sad smile. "What about you?"

[chasingangela]

"Not unless the goth chick teaching computers is secretly a vampire," Angela said. "And you'd think she'd have a better disguise if she was."

"I had cross-species communication and stopped by the library today. They both seemed really nice." She gave Marty a bemused look. "You didn't mentiopn meeting my new boss."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Sorry about that," Marty replied apologetically. "I thought I had mentioned it before. That was the day I went to the coffee house and met a bunch of teachers. Since the librarian has no fur, are you going to work there still?"

[chasingangela]

"Not a big deal," Angela shrugged. "And I'll stick around at least until they hire new people and probably longer. I could still use a job that paid me, though."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Just make sure it's a job where I can visit you without getting you into trouble with your new boss," Marty replied as he played with the ends of Angela hair. "And that it has cool stuff I can buy with your employee discount."

[chasingangela]

"Of course," Angela promised, intertwining her fingers with his.

"Hey, subject change, would you mind if I went home this weekend, like we talked about? I could use the break."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Like I could stop you from going home," Marty said with a small grin. "I don't blame you for wanting a little break. We went from globetrotting to summer workshops with only a little bit of time with your family. Want me to look after Min while you're gone?"

[chasingangela]

"And this week has been emo central," Angela said. "I think I'll go Thursday and get back Saturday or Sunday so I don't miss class. Feed the hellbeast if you feel like it."

Said hellbeast, who had been battiing at a balll of paper, gave Angela an indignant look.

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"I think the hellbeast heard you," Marty said with over exaggerated worry. "He may attack you when you're sleeping. Do you want me to stand guard?"

[chasingangela]

"She does look kind of dangerous," Angela said. "Actually, I could use the company, if you don't have important second-floor things to do."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"Hmmm. Well there was the plan to convince everyone that the ceiling taste like vanilla but I can trade that in for an evening of protecting you from the dreaded cat creature of 304," Mart said as he snuggled up to his girlfriend.

[chasingangela]

"I'm not asking how you licked the ceiling," Angela said sleepily, snuggling in for the night.

She turned to kiss him. "You're such a good boyfriend."

[oatmanspatient.livejournal.com]

"It helps having such a good girlfriend," Marty countered after returning the kiss before leaning his head back on the pillow and eventually drifting off to sleep.