Office hours [Thursday, March 20, 2014]

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Anakin was in his office today with his class list, writing down notes about the students and what he'd observed about them in class: "affected, affected, naturally peculiar..." he murmured as his pen flew across the paper.

Old radio broadcasts were playing in the background. He winced each time Jamie's name came up.

The door was open anyway because Anakin was a glutton for punishment....

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[toomanyofme.livejournal.com]

Hmm. What's that music playing? Does it sound like the theme from Jaws?

"Excuse me," Jamie said politely as he knocked on the door. "I'm looking for the Dean of Students?"

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"That's m--oh," Anaakin said. "It's you."

He was thrilled to see you, Jamie. Truly.

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Jamie paused. Granted he was used to that kind of look from people in authority he knew... not from new people.

Weird.

"Have... we met before?" Jamie asked looking confused.

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Sithspit.

"I took over for the previous ethics teacher," he said. "Lord Vader kept detailed notes."

...yeah.

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"Vader?" Jamie asked scratching his head. "Um. Never met the guy. Anyhow, I'm Jamie Madrox and I'm from-"

Jamie struck a gallant pose. He couldn't help himself.

"THE FUTURE!"

And then he went back to his normal stance.

"And I'm kind of stuck here along with a couple of other students," Jamie continued. "I wanted to come by to ask you a couple of questions if that's all right."

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"Ohhh," Anakin said, reaching up and rubbing his forehead. "My apologies. There was a student with your name here in...the present, I guess...a few years back."

And because it was Jamie, he frowned. "Did you touch anything and somehow screw up the universe?"

[toomanyofme.livejournal.com]

Okay. That explained a lot of the looks from Zoe yesterday.

"What? No!" Jamie said defensively. "I'm just an innocent mutant who got sucked through a portal. Which is why I'm here actually. A couple of my friends who got sent here from the future were students at that Fandom High. I wanted to check with you to see if for some reason this wasn't your typical gone-in-a-week-or-weekend weirdness if we could enroll here until we found a way back home. Or graduated."

Gosh! Maybe Jamie would take a class with Anakin! Wouldn't that be swell?

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Super swell!

"I'm sure something can be arranged, since you were already enrolled at a Fandom," Anakin decided. "It's not a Fandom where everyone's getting eaten by vampires, right?"

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"No," Jamie scowled. "The island is pretty much a dictatorship run by a thirteen year old sociopath. That brings me to the other question I wanted to ask. I'm trying to find a way to prevent that from happening. Principal Winchester is going to pass on a warning message to the school board, but she denied me access to Special Collections to try and find a solution there. Any chance you could talk to her and change her mind?"

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Anakin chewed on his lower lip. "I can try. Maybe go with a strike team...one not just made of many yous."

Because he'd met Jamie before.

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Jamie gave Anakin an appraising look.

"Those must have been some very detailed notes you have," Jamie... noted. "I'm not sure what that other Jamie did, but if you know anything about my duplicates we tend to be a package deal when stuff hits the fan."

Jamie shrugged.

"There are other people from the future here as well if that's what you mean. One of them used to be student here, Warren Peace."

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"I remember Warren," Anakin said, nodding. "I'll chat with Zoe, see what we can figure out. Any chance you were sent here through the portal by your teenaged dictator so they could screw up our reality?"

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Jamie shook his head and stuck his hands in his coat pockets. "Doubt it. I ran into one of his supporters yesterday. Wherever or however it's happening it seems to be-"

Jamie frowned and pulled out a sock puppet out from his coat. It was puppet with flowing blonde hair and a lightsaber attacked to its hand. Jamie sighed.

"-Random. Much like these puppets that keep showing up," he said right before throwing the puppet in nearby garbage can.

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Anakin snorted. "My daughter would love that thing."

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"You mean my wife from an Au Universe? How is she?"

"I've pulled at least thirty of them from my pocket since I arrived here. I'll save them for her if that's the case," Jamie offered. "I'm not sure why the island keeps giving them to me."

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YOUNG.

"Blame the other Jamie for that," Anakin said wryly. "His puppet shows were legendary."

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"Don't be that way! I'm your AU-SOW-Son-in-law! We married for love! Not because she's the heir to the Skywalker diamond mine!

"Really?" Jamie said in a dry tone. "Seems pretty juvenile if you ask me."

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"Yup," Anakin said, snapping the "p" on the end of the word. "That was Jamie."