Office Hours, Thursday

[raspberryturk]

Reno... really didn't have anything better to do today but come and hang out in his office, no.

Okay, sure, so there was the mother of all freaking bouquets on his desk, courtesy of his smart-assed co-teacher. And the flowers were starting to go a little...

Uh. Soggy, Reno supposed, was a good word for it.

So he was here today, up to his elbows in rotting flowers, with his nose wrinkled as he picked out all the valuable little nick-nacks from inside of it.

Pearls? Seriously?

The one upside, anyhow, was that Reno could sell some of this crap off and send the money back to Edge or Junon or something. This monster could totally go a long way, back home. Not that he suspected for an instant that maybe something like that was what Genesis had in mind...

[Open door, open office! Since I remembered that Reno actually has one of these things, today!]

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[sith_happened]

"Except you aren't teaching Ethics," Anakin said a little wryly.

[raspberryturk]

"What, you mean they expect us to practise what it is we're teachin' these kids?" Reno was all-out grinning, now. Grinning was more or less his default mode in all inappropriate situations. "Whelp, there goes my job, if ever someone sits on in my Teamwork class, yo."

And anyhow, Reno always thought that ethics were more like... suggestions. Guidelines, if you will.

[sith_happened]

"Well, I try not to make judgments about their decisions," Anakin said. "Since it's not like I've made all the right ones myself."

And the winner of Biggest Understatement of the Day goes to...

[raspberryturk]

To one of the few people on the island who had left a bigger swath of destruction behind himself than Reno?

"Eh, we're human," Reno replied, shrugging as if that somehow excused half the things that either of them might have done in the past. "We ain't angels or whatever."

[sith_happened]

"Some of the students might be," Anakin mused. "That would be awkward to teach."

[raspberryturk]

"You think?" Reno pursed his lips, and then broke into a laugh, shaking his head a bit. "Man, I think if there was ever an angel for a student here at the school, they'd probably already figure they have Ethics in the bag, yo. You're probably safe, there."

[sith_happened]

"I taught a unicorn one semester," Anakin said, laughing. "It was an experience."

[raspberryturk]

"Sounds like it," Reno agreed, smirking. "Probably a matter of time before I end up with one of the really unexpected ones too, I suppose."

[sith_happened]

"I taught a tiny frog to fly spaceships," Anakin said dryly. "I think I win."

[raspberryturk]

Reno wrinkled his nose a bit. Yeah, he really couldn't compete with that.

"The best I got so far is that I had a student who was, like, a year older'n me."

Which really didn't compare to the tiny frog thing.

"But at least where I'm from, sentient frogs ain't all that weird, yo."

Just annoyingly contagious.

[sith_happened]

"We have sentient...other things," Anakin offered. "Some of them kind of look like frogs? Most of them aren't pilots."

[raspberryturk]

"Yeah, I wouldn't trust most of Gaia's gods with my chopper, never mind a frog," Reno snorted. "I don't think they'd be able to reach all the controls, yo."

[sith_happened]

"I had to made him prosthetic legs," Anakin said, shaking his head.

[raspberryturk]

Reno was pretty obviously chewing the inside of his cheek now, to keep from laughing too hard.

"Damn." He gave his own head a bit of a shake. "I guess it could'a been worse. He could'a needed some kinda water tank, or a steady supply of flies, or some shit, yo."

Reno was dreadfully helpful. Truly.

[sith_happened]

Anakin couldn't suppress his indelicate snort. "I'll have to ask Zoe where we draw the line at accommodating students."

[raspberryturk]

"I ain't in the habit of pattin' nobody's ass," Reno noted, "but I ain't about to leave a rookie up shit creek without a paddle, neither. I guess there's probably some kinda balance, somewhere in the middle."

A pause.

"Kinda makes you wonder what a frog wants with knowin' how to fly a spaceship, though."

[sith_happened]

Anakin paused.

"...I probably should have asked."

[raspberryturk]

"See," Reno snorted, "you just went an' facilitated some kinda interplanetary amphibian invasion. He's gonna go home and teach all his little frog friends these spaceship secrets, an' then take his revenge on the whole damn universe for... I dunno. French cuisine and shitty terrariums."

[sith_happened]

Anakin snickered. "I'll rue the day."

He didn't seem all that worried.

[raspberryturk]

"There just ain't no makin' up for that, man. Unless they run into some kinda trouble convertin' their pilot seats into lily-pads, or somethin'."

... Flying attack bogs. They'd be all the rage.

[sith_happened]

"I never did mention how to refuel the ships either," Anakin added. "So that might help us to survive past the initial wave of froggy fury."

[raspberryturk]

"Hey, even if they did know how, do you suppose they'd be able to reach to do the refuelin' thing, anyhow?"

It would be kind of funny, trying to watch them hop that high.

[sith_happened]

"Maybe they'd stand on each other's shoulders?" Anakin suggested with a wicked smile.

[raspberryturk]

Reno pursed his lips and mulled over that one for a moment. "It'd be a shame if one of 'em went and sneezed, yo."

Frogs everywhere.

[sith_happened]

Anakin burst out laughing at the mental image he was presented with. "I think the island would probably be able to handle a frog invasion," he decided. "Even in spaceships."

If it were pigs, though...