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by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 10:13 pm

Will, with his military uniform even more neatly-pressed than normal, knocked on the door to Laura's office.

by **Laura Kinney** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:06 pm

"Come on in!" she shouts from inside.

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jun 17, 2015 11:46 pm

Will entered, nervously. "Miss Kinney? Do you have some free time?"

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:03 am

"Sure thing. Oh, you're army-guy. I've been wondering when you'd drop in." she says, throwing a dart at a piece of paperwork that's pinned to the far wall.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:05 am

"You were?"

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:19 am

"Well you run around in army slacks all the time, figured you'd be interested in kicking some butt."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:27 am

"Oh, I don't know about that. I just want to help people, and some people suggested this was a good way to do so?

I worked with scientists where I used to be stored. I haven't done much in the way of butt-kicking."

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 12:43 am

"Huh, serves me right for assuming. Well, we certainly help people, though it is mostly by kicking butts and various other body-parts."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:05 am

"I know, and that's not my particular skill set.

I did put together a thing, for you to look at, about my skill set," he said, handing over a neatly type-written piece of paper. On it was a list of military-grade equipment--mostly scientific instruments, though some vehicles and other computer parts were on it as well, along with some more esoteric things such as "pool table, standard green felt".

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:49 am

"Wait, what is this stuff? Can you turn into all of this!?" she asks as she reads through the list.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 2:53 am

"It's my resume. These are some things I tried to help out with at the base in Antarctica when I was kept there."

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 3:12 am

"Wow, yeah, I'm sure we could find plenty of use for some of these things."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:04 am

"I had a few questions, though..." he said, hesitantly.

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:07 am

"Of course. Shoot."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:11 am

"OK...first of all, on the form, it said to get your guardian's permission. I'm not entirely sure who I'm legally supposed to get there. Do you happen to have those records?"

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:20 am

"Well, that's for the couple of students under 18. I believe you're technically older than that? And... also it said something about paperwork that I didn't read regarding you, I think? You'll have to ask Minamida about that. I don't think you'll have to get that signed."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:27 am

"Alright...

And, um, do people need to know I'm on the teams?"

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:46 am

"Need to? I don't know. It'd be of much more value if they did simply because you could turn into something else in the field."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 4:48 am

"It's just....I don't want to make anyone uncomfortable, and there was a bit of an incident at a party..." he said, nervously.

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:34 pm

"I'm not gonna lie, a lot of these items here could be very useful and I suspect you'd be able to expand on that as well. You think people wouldn't trust you? What happened?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:38 pm

"Are you familiar with something called Truth or Dare?"

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:39 pm

She tries not to chuckle so Will doesn't take it the wrong way. "Yeah. I'd imagine most people are."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:45 pm

"Yeah. Some people expressed...concern..." he said, carefully. "When I shifted above and beyond what they were expecting."

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:46 pm

"Did you turn into something dangerous or were they embarrassed?" she asks, still not quite following.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:51 pm

Will explained the incident of the beer bong, and how he altered the beer inside, based on his experience and training as part of a still in Antarctica.

by **Laura Kinney** » Thu Jun 18, 2015 9:57 pm

"Hoo boy... Okay, so I guess you didn't really know any better. Why do you think they got upset with you?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:03 am

"Because they didn't know what I was going to do before I did it? Because people don't like knowing their things are thinking?" he guessed.

by **Laura Kinney** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:06 am

This is so not what I signed up for. she groans internally. Punching things was so much easier.

"No, because if you had meant to do harm you could have poisoned her." she tries to simplify it.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:07 am

"Well, yeah. But someone could have come in and shot her, too, you know? Or crushed her skull in. Just because they could do something doesn't mean they would..."

by **Laura Kinney** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:13 am

"No but she agreed to one thing and you changed that thing." she says, wrecking her brain trying to come up with a comparison that'll make sense to Will.

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:24 am

"Yeah, that's what I do. I change things."

by **Laura Kinney** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:34 am

"No it's... People need to know what to expect. You can't change things up on people when they don't notice."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 12:49 am

"Why not? Variety is the spice of life."

by **Laura Kinney** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:03 am

"Yeah but not if you can't be sure what you'll get. That's expecting a lot of trust from people."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:27 am

"I haven't done anything to not have trust."

by **Laura Kinney** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:29 am

"Yeah, I think you got that backwards. You haven't done anything to earn their trust."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:47 am

"Why would they mistrust me? I just want to help."

by **Laura Kinney** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 1:54 am

"Because people are awful to each other all the time. You trust everyone you come across and you will get stabbed in the back."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 2:47 am

"That's never happened to me before."

by **Laura Kinney** » Fri Jun 19, 2015 3:02 am

"It's happened to me more times than I care to remember. Hell I've done it to more people than I can comfortably admit. You've spent all your life on a military base on a continent where the penguins outnumber the people. Nobody ever got backstabbed by a bird that can't even fly."

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