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Caritas, Wednesday Evening

Jarod whistled as he opened the bar, to the point where the zombies were elbowing each other in a knowing fashion and Tino kept hoping for some good gossip, which he wouldn't get. When it was quiet, Jarod once again worked on his laptop, closing it when he sensed anyone coming close enough to read the screen.

A sign was posted on the door:

WELCOME TO FANDOM, NEW STUDENTS AND TEACHERS!

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"Exactly. Everyone's new. People generally don't have common sense so I operate under the assumption that they're missing it. If they're not, well, then it's a pleasant surprise."

He chuckled. "Well, at least you won't be bored for the next couple of weeks while you're learning everyone's mettle."

"But if I'm bored, I won't be coming down here, so maybe I should pace myself," she says thoughtfully. "Or maybe I'll bring them down for hazing and multitask."

"You only come down here when you're bored?" He teased. "Why, Jaye, I'm almost hurt. And what's hazing?"

"It's a... think initiation," she says. "But mine includes stuff like telling them one of the teachers is a cannibal, and figure out who. And it's not just when I'm bored." Especially since that would only mean she gets bored on certain days of the week.

"Is one of the teachers a cannibal?"

"Not that I know of, but you never know what they do in the privacy of their own home," she explains.

"That's a good point, except for my house, because I would have noticed," Jarod said helpfully.

"You might still want to be wary of the freezer," she says with a nod. "How's the living situation going, anyway?"

"I'm in charge of the house, now that Hawkeye's gone. Still need a housemate or two, but good otherwise."

"Ooh, so you get like, run of the house? Do you get to boss people around and evict them for being deadbeats?"

He laughed. "I suppose? But hopefully they'll pay me and that won't happen."

"If you have to call the troopers to forcibly remove someone, you'll call me first, right?"

"Of course," Jarod said, vaguely offended. "Who else?"

Jaye smiles broadly. "Aww, really?"

"Of course!"

"You don't have a doppleganger, do you?" Jaye asks, completely out of nowhere.

Jarod blinked. "Um, not to my knowledge." He wasn't sure he wanted to know why Jaye had asked.

"Good to know," she says immediately. "Just checking."

The curiosity was killing him. Yes, just that quickly. "Why do you ask?"

"I have to have a reason to ask a question?" No, that's not avoiding at all.

"Well, no," he admitted, "but you could have, and I was wondering what that was. If there was one. Which I guess there isn't." Oh, suave.

"I just know a lot of guys who have them, so I realized I'd never asked you," she says. Which is mostly true.

"Oh," Jarod accepted this, "then no, I don't. Just me, as far as I know."

"Cool," she says. "I'll remember that." How this became Important Information, she doesn't know.

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