Office Hours 2: The Officehouring

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Character(s): Snow and a legion of abusers anyone wishing to come to his office hours.
Location: The WTR classrooms.
Rating: PG.
Open/Closed/Finished: Open.
Summary: Snow doesn't learn from experience is holding office hours again!



In preparation for finals coming up, Snow had once again shoved the WTR classroom into something he could call an office by virtue of some practice mats now being stacked high enough to sit on. Having done so, he settled in to a simple exercise routine. After all, even Instructors have to keep in shape.

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[brightens]

Vanille laughed and stepped forward to pat him on the arm. "Not a requirement to be a hero, though, right?"

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He grinned, rueful but amused. "I don't think so. Otherwise I may need to pass on the title!"

[brightens]

Vanille flexes her arm in his coat, patting down her 'muscles' with her hand. "Maybe you should go ahead and do that already..!" She could definitely carry the part, what with the much-too-huge jacket and the skinny noodle arms.

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But she had the attitude down right. He'd better keep her away from Serah, or else confusion and wacky hijinks might ensue. ("S-Snow? You're really Vanille?!")

"But then what would I be? I've been a hero all my life!"

[brightens]

"Mmm... Sidekick?" She was joking, of course. A little. Snow wouldn't exactly make a great sidekick. He was too big and... Noticeable.

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"Would I get a new name? Like, 'Winterboy' or 'the Frigid Kid'?" Of course, Vanille has to decide, if she's going to be the hero.

[brightens]

Vanille lifted a hand to her face, tapping her chin in deep thought.

Prepare for terrible, Snow: "The Snowman!"

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Groaning, Snow dropped his face into his hands.

"Tell Serah that one," he said, muffled. "She'll love it."

[brightens]

"Ah?" She leans down a little, looking at him. "You don't like it?"

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"It was terrible!" he protested, but given that he was starting to chuckle into his hands, Vanille could take that as she would!

[brightens]

"It wasn't that bad!" She pouts, placing her hands on her hips... Which are hard to find, in that big coat.

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"Okay, Vanille, I'm sure I'll regret this, but if that wasn't 'that bad'," he said, looking up with a gleam in his eyes and a smile still hidden by his hands, "what is?"

[brightens]

"Mmmmm," she brought her hand up to face, tapping her chin thoughtfully. "Aah... 'The Big Freeze!'"

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"I asked," Snow said, lowering his head down with that particular tone of voice exactly midway between pain and humor. "I had to ask!"

[brightens]

"You wanted to hear bad!" So, she'd given it to him.

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"I should never have underestimated you," he said, shaking his head. "I deserved that."

[brightens]

She giggles, nodding and practically jumping in place. "Sure did!"

"Aaah," once she settled back down, she decides to slip out of the coat, holding it back up to him. "Here you go."

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He took it back, swinging it around to slide his sleeves through in a gesture that screamed 'dramatic' and 'heroic'. Heroes have to look the part, after all. "You know, I should get you one of these for when the weather gets colder."

Purposely oversized. Because Vanille in a big floppy coat was one of the cutest things ever.

[brightens]

She watched, admired, and added the movement to her list of things to do if she were really a hero! After all, Snow would always be the real hero here, no matter what she said. "Ah... One that heavy?" She couldn't imagine walking around with something like that.

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"I couldn't even if I wanted to. Can't duplicate the AMP tech in this one." That and even a coat large enough to just be cutely floppy on Vanille would still have a ton less material in it...

[brightens]

"I guess not. But, that's not really a bad thing." For her. She would get worn out walking around in a coat that heavy. "Well... I guess there would be other ways to make it heavy, though." Like putting rocks in the pockets.

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"I kinda worry that something will happen to this one. If it broke or got stolen, I couldn't replace it here. Lucky for me it's tough." It had survived Fal'cie, Raines, and the entire ammon load of a small PSICOM army, so what was he really worried about?

But then he got a sly smile. "I'll just get yours made out of wool."

[brightens]

"You'll just have to be careful with it." She worried the same thing about her rod, though she knew how to take good enough care of it and fix it whenever she did anything too damaging to it.

Wool? Did someone say wool? Do you see how excited she looks about that. "Ah, really?"

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He hadn't watched seemingly endless harassment of innocent Pulse sheep to not learn a thing or two about how Vanille's mind worked.

"I think I could make an arrangement or two," he said, with a confidence that promised the world. "I'd give it to you as a birthday present, but I'm not even sure how I'd figure out when that is, since I have no idea how we'd fit all the calendars together sensibly."

[brightens]

"Me, neither!" As a matter of fact, she isn't even sure the calendars of Pulse and Cocoon are all the same. She hadn't thought about her birthday in a while, either... It was one of those things you didn't tend to think about when you had so much weight on your shoulders, after all. In a way, it makes her sad to think about it now— because it just reminds her of Pulse, of times when things were more simple... And when all she'd wanted for her birthday was a baby chocobo to keep as a pet. Things like that.