The Perk, Tuesday Evening

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

After making a handwavy call, Blair took a seat and went over his notes. He sipped a large hot chocolate and tried not to let the sugar and caffeine rush go to his head.

[Blair's meeting V, but the post is open for all your coffee needs.]

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[victimorvillain.livejournal.com]

V slipped through the door after Fencing Club, and immediately took an awkward seat across from Blair. "Good evening."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Hey, man." Blair grinned. "Can I get you something to drink? I think they have a pumpkin coffee special."

[victimorvillain.livejournal.com]

V just stared. "No, thank you."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Okay." Blair took another sip of his drink and smiled at V complete with foam mustache. "I think we should get right into the interview, man. How about we start with you're background. Your name and where you're from?"

[victimorvillain.livejournal.com]

"I am V, lately of London, England, twenty years into this future," he said promptly.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Do you have any other titles?" Blair asked, scribbling in his notebook. "Anything that sounds like royalty, perhaps?"

[victimorvillain.livejournal.com]

"...no," he replied. "I oppose the concept a monarchial government, actually."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Right on, man." Blair nodded. "What was your previous job?"

[victimorvillain.livejournal.com]

V considered this. "I was self-employed," he decided.

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Uh..." Blair waited a moment. "Right. Do you feel like that has helped prepare you for the classroom?"

[victimorvillain.livejournal.com]

"Hardly," V said. "I never intended to be a teacher. It simply...happened. However, I do feel as though my experiences have enabled me to be an effective teacher of Criminal Justice."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Being self-employed in the future has a lot to do with criminal justice?" Blair asked.

[victimorvillain.livejournal.com]

"In my instance," V answered. "I overthrew a government."

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim was heading through town after picking up Lana's prescription and saw Blair in the Perk, so he quickly ducked inside. "Chief! I gotta talk to you!"

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Jim!" Blair bounced up from his chair. "You're all big and non-catty!"

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

"Yeah." Jim winced. "Yeah, I changed back last night. I wanted to come talk to you, but Lana caught a cold while I was chasing ducks, so I had to stay with her."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"How did that go? Are you okay? Did you have any problems with your senses? Any zone outs? Are you okay?" Blair kept bouncing as he asked questions. "Did I already ask that?"

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

"Yes, you did. And that's what I gotta talk to you about. My senses were totally normal while I was . . . well, a panther." He blinked and shook his head. "That is never going to sound normal. And I mean normal for a panther. But I zoned out this morning, burned my hand badly."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Shitshitshitshitshit." Blair ran his fingers through his hair and started pacing. "Okay, what were you focusing on and what brought you out of it?"

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim eyed the pacing. "Lana. I was focusing on listening to Lana, her breathing was wrong because of this cold. She snapped me out of it when she yelled my name."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Crap." Blair frowned and added handwaving to the pacing. "Okay, this is my fault, man. I haven't been working with you as hard as I should be. I need to be coming up with ways to help with the zoning. We need to do some tests and figure out what your baselines are and how to stop the zones."

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim's head followed the handwaving. "Hey, Chief, give yourself a break. I was a big cat for weekend."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Which should have given me lots of time to study." Blair facepalmed. "I'm going to get working on this right away, man. What are your plans for tomorrow?"

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

"Tomorrow?" Jim's eyebrows shot up. "Uh, nothing really. . . I have class at ten and KKG after school, but that's it. But I have to take care of Lana."

[lovechildblair.livejournal.com]

"Man, your priorites have to be your senses and getting them under control. We need to get some testing time and maybe some time that I can observe you or something. Let's see, I've got class tomorrow and then protesting..." Blair bit his lip and gave a sharp nod.

"I'll skip 'em."