Zoe's Office Hours - September 6

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe sat in her office, writing a series of memos to the powers that be on the school board. As nice as it was having a skeleton staff in the office occassionally, using them always resulted in a number of forms that had to be filled out after the fact. (Bills for spare bones? Honestly, that was just unnecessary.)

The door was open for anyone who needed her.

[I figure this goes without saying most days, but it's important today: the radio can say who came by, but not what was discussed.]

Comments

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"I didn't discover this until I was leaving after class so I don't know about my students, but being asked who died and left me the vigilante hat and being called a murderer to my face isn't exactly the highlight of my day."

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe sighed. "No, I can imagine it wouldn't, and I apologize for that. Did you get the student's name? If he continues to be a bother to you, I can call him in to speak to him."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

John sighed, and shook his head. "No, I didn't get his name. He was on the short side, long curly brown hair, blue eyes. And dressed like a hippie."

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

"Ah. That would most likely be Blair Sandburg. I should have known when you mentioned protesting." She smiled lightly. "He seems to enjoy fighting causes, but overall he's very harmless."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"Not exactly respectful of his elders though."

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe frowned a little. "I'll admit, you'll find that a lot here. The flip side to having an extraordinary school is having extraordinary students who don't exactly act like normal teenagers." She smirked softly. "Or maybe they do, with the lack of authoritative concern."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"I was expecting some snark," John addmitted. "But being called a murderer was a little more than I'm willing to accept with a smile."

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

"That is a little much. Especially since the things being hunted are...not normal, if I'm remembering your course correctly."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"That would be one way of putting it yes." He paused. "So would it be out of line to give him detention if he tries protesting again?"

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

"If he harasses you and calls you a murderer again? Go for it."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"Thanks." He smiled wryly. "It's either that or drag him on a real Hunt and let him see just how well trying to reason with a poltergiest works."

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

"And I get the feeling that might result in my school having one less student, so detention seems like a much better option." Zoe smirked.

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I'd only let him get mauled a little. Probably." He smirked back.

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe laughed. "Oh, well that's completely reassuring. I'm sorry you had trouble on your first day. In a perfect world, everyone would get an easy start with the students."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"In a perfect world, we wouldn't have to teach teenagers this kind of thing in the first place," John pointed out. "The class itself seemed to go well and considering my only previous experience was teaching my own sons I hadn't been taking for granted that it would."

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

"That's a good point. In a perfect world, none of them would have previous experience in the class's subject either. But I'm glad the class went well. Your sons are the Winchesters enrolled here, right? Dean and Sam? They don't appear to have gotten mauled recently, so you must know what you're doing."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"That's them," John confirmed. He chuckled. "I'm not sure I should be worried you know them by name or not."

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe couldn't resist a big of a sly look. "I do my best to remember the names of the students who have been in my office. But I don't remember them well, so that's a good sign."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"Either that they're behaving or just perfecting not getting caught." John chuckled again. "I honestly can't predict which and I'm not sure if that makes me worried or proud."

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

"Knowing the students here? It's probably safe to say they're not getting caught. Which is something to be proud of, I suppose," Zoe admitted. "The skill of staying out of trouble while still causing it can be pretty valuable. Not that I'd ever tell the students that."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"I'm afaid I may have taught that by example," John admitted wryly.

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

"We don't get a lot of teachers who walk the straight and narrow around here, so I'm not terribly surprised. And considering my own background, I can't really call you on any of your own behaviour," Zoe said.

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"Oh?" John asked, interested. "You have a history of courting trouble without getting caught too?"

Re: after classes are over

[bigdamnprincipal]

"We had a bit of a civil war a while back, which was really anything but civil, but that's the term, I suppose. My side wasn't the winning one, so finding honest work since then has been a bit...difficult."

Re: after classes are over

[demons-death.livejournal.com]

"Really." John realised he'd already subconsciously pegged her as a soldier. "I don't know how much you know about recent American history, but I fought in Vietnam."