Office Hours

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Character(s): Snow and... you?? (Anyone who drops by his so-called office hours!)
Location: The WTR classrooms.
Rating: PG?
Open/Closed/Finished: Open.
Summary: Snow is a good Instructor who makes himself available to the students if they need anything.



Once classes finished for the day and the students had entered the blocks of time set aside for tutoring and extracurricular activities, Snow moved back into the training classrooms to hold what he called 'office hours'. The classroom wasn't much of an office, of course, but he figured he'd do more good in it than behind a desk.

He'd let his own classes know that he'd be available, but he hadn't specified that it had to be martial-arts-related. He'd passed word to the other Instructors too, just so they knew he was here (and please don't book the classroom at the same time!).

Until someone showed up looking for him, though, he was content to pummel a punching bag. He had to keep in shape himself, right?

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"I never doubted that, Mikuru." He grinned at her, pleased that she'd taken his words to heart at least a little bit.

[bunnypassingby]

She lowered her fist, feeling slightly silly. Snow could pull it off; she wasn't so sure she could.

"Thank you," she said quieter.

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Sure she could. It's all in the confidence and belief.

"Hey, that's why I keep my door open. So to speak." Since they were, after all, in a training room. "Maybe I should get an actual office someday. I don't think they have desks with enough leg room for me, though," he said, rubbing the back of his head with a smile.

[bunnypassingby]

Mikuru giggled. "Yeah, I don't think I've seen one around."

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"I'll keep your secret, though," he said confidentially, leaning in. "You ever need anything else, you feel free to come back and talk."

[bunnypassingby]

"Thank you," Mikuru repeated, bowing her head.

She bit her lip, wondering something, before deciding to voice it.

"On my home world I'm used to not telling anyone because not many people have powers so it's kind of hard to believe... And my enemy looks almost just like a normal person, so I was worried there might be others working with her. But I think I'm the only one from my world or at least my time plane and city here. Do you think it's silly to still keep it a secret?"

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"I don't keep what I am a secret, here," Snow said, looking down at the brand that marked him seemingly permanently. "It nearly got me killed when I came here, first, because I can use magic. The real stuff, not para-magic. But if I hadn't, I might never have gotten the chance to be an Instructor here.

"Of course, I was pretty rotten about keeping it a secret back on Cocoon either," he said, looking up with a grin. "I tried to talk sense into an army once. It didn't work so well. So maybe I'm not the best person to ask on this. If it were me, I wouldn't hide it, but you listen to your heart first and me a distant second, okay?"

[bunnypassingby]

Mikuru's eyes widened as Snow mentioned he'd nearly been killed for his magic. Sure, she'd read the letter she got when she arrived, but this was the first she'd heard of it affecting someone she knew. But his telling people about it leading to his becoming an Instructor made sense to her.

She'd have to think about this some more, now that she knew the note from Yuki and the situation back home weren't things she could do much about.

"Okay... Thanks again.

"I'm glad you weren't killed," she blurted out as an afterthought.

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"The heroes never die," he said with a broad grin, raising his fist again. "I have my family and my fiancee to come back to, and worlds to live for. An army or two isn't enough to stop me when I've got all that motivation!"