WHO:
grooviestmutant and
blue_and_proudWHERE: Charles' apartment!
WHEN: Perhaps early evening, today.
WARNINGS: None~!
SUMMARY: Charles and Raven exchange talk of teaching, until Raven can tell that Charles is keeping hawkward secrets.
FORMAT: Prose, probably. :)
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Charles had anticipated his conversation with Raven... )
...That was actually rather strange too, now that she thought about it.
But she was in a good mood and she wasn't talking to Charles nearly as much as she preferred, so she had decided she was going to go ramble about teaching to him. If only she knew what was coming...
"Hello!" She called in as she closed the door behind her.
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"How have you been?" he asked then - he, too, finding it an unusual sensation to speak to her in a way as he would a colleague or old friend and not, well, his sister. "I was just about to pour the tea."
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For a moment, she didn't say anything, and then she laughed. "Okay, this is strange. We should never be that stiff." She reached out to give him a little shove on the shoulder as if to make her point, and then leaned over to help him with the tea.
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"You're always fine? You know there are moments when I could disagree with that statement," he said then, raising an eyebrow in his sister's direction with a skeptical expression.
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"It doesn't matter. Teaching is a much bigger worry right now."
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He leaned back himself, closing his eyes momentarily as he crossed his legs at the ankle and made himself comfortable. "I can imagine. How are you getting on with it? I had-never imagined you would enjoy such a thing!"
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She shifted some, looking over at him. "I think I mostly like it because of that moment when I'm explaining something, and one of the kids actually gets it. And I can see them suddenly saying something in french to themselves that they couldn't have figured out five minutes before that."
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He sounds almost reverent as he replies to her words. "It is a wonderful feeling, watching someone learn."
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"Better than that first network announcement you made that sent all your students scurrying in a panic, I hope?"
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"It has been nice, overall. Though Erik... remains to acquire a job," he added, pursing his lips and looking pensive. "I think it's making him quite restless."
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"That's why I started waitressing as soon as I got here. It was...something to do." Two hundred dollars wasn't a lot of money, but she knew she could've waited a little longer before finding a job. But after a couple days of sitting around, it had just felt...necessary.
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Then he hums and considers what she's said even further. "I wish I could get Erik to do something even that menial, to be honest."
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"How come he doesn't?"
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But he certainly needs a job."
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