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Reno of the Turks ([personal profile] raspberryturk) wrote2014-12-02 08:14 am

Office #7, Tuesday

So, Reno really hadn't been here at all this semester, with a couple of exceptions. It stood to reason, with him, that almost a week before his final class was probably a good time to make an attempt at that.

Not that there was a hell of a lot of paperwork to be done, what with all of the hard work finished with back in Edge. Tseng had been more or less off his case the whole semester, which was nothing shy of a miracle. They weren't exactly going to be able to start anything new next week, and how the hell did you even give a final exam about public service, anyway? So mostly he was in his office because it felt as though he should be in his office, and as for doing actual office work?

Did drinking coffee and flinging pencils up at the ceiling until they stuck up there count?

[OOC: Open office hours! Probably Reno's last for a long, long while.]

[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-12-02 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
You know what Karina was terrible at? Faking submission. Of any sort. He was trying to pull shit like rank on her, or something, and all it did was irritate the crap out of her.

But since her instincts were shrieking 'DANGER, DANGER' at her, she wasn't going to go with her first thought, which was to roll her eyes at him.

Instead she shrugged. "We both know the answer is 'none of them'."

[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-12-02 10:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Karina actually had to take a few moments to think about that, since, really, it had happened a while ago and she'd thought she'd gotten off scot-free and unnoticed about it.

"You got turned into a bird or something," she said. "And it fell on me to teach the class. I knew basically what you wanted us to do, so I figured that I'd just pop over for a couple of minutes and see the sites before taking everyone else over."

She'd been nervous about teaching and so had wanted to be extra prepared for it, and that had meant getting a grasp on things before showing up.

"Anyway, turned out the sites had been trashed. I spent a while there getting an idea of how badly, then went and brought the class over for clean up rather than new work."

[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-12-02 11:43 pm (UTC)(link)
"I didn't think about it," she said, keeping her voice mild with an effort. "And I figure you're mad because I broke the rules."

Obviously.

[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-12-02 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"To keep us safe," she said grumpily.

Yeah, she'd guessed that.

[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-12-03 12:07 am (UTC)(link)
Because she wasn't actually an idiot, no matter how much he might think she was one right now.

"You weren't around," Karina said flatly. "Kathy didn't even show up for class that week and that meant I was in charge, since I'm one of your TAs. That meant it was up to me to do your job and check things out to make sure everyone else would be safe when we went over. So I went alone because it didn't occur to me to take one of the people I was supposed to be looking out for along with."

[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-12-03 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
"I was safe! Nothing got me and no one bugged and I didn't see a single monster," she snapped back. "I value my own skin!"

Her, uh, career choices did not make that immediately obvious, but she did.

"But I also did the job you gave me. Because it was what I was supposed to do!"

[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-12-03 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
"And I made sure they were followed by the class," Karina said, her temper flaring. "I kept them safe while acting in your place. Your goddamn rules didn't say anything about what a TA was supposed to do when you weren't around. So I used my own judgement and did the best I could and, you know what, it all worked out okay!"

[identity profile] notacokeperson.livejournal.com 2014-12-03 12:57 am (UTC)(link)
It was a terrifying look.

So much so that she took an involuntary step back before her eyes flashed and her chin came up defiantly.

"Fine," she said, absolutely zero apology in her voice. "Can I go now?"

Yeah, she had no regrets about what she did. None.
Edited 2014-12-03 01:00 (UTC)