Bringing People Together

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 9:53 pm

Quinn smiled as he finished putting up the last poster.

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"Good. Excellent. Perfect.

...Probably."

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by **Shane Marsh** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:34 pm

Shane stopped to read the poster.

"A talent show, eh? About bloody time."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 10:37 pm

"See? That's what I thought. We're so isolated here; some solidarity would be for the best!"

by **Shane Marsh** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:02 pm

"Solidarity? That's certainly good but I'm more interested in finally getting to show off."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:20 pm

"Oh? And what IS your talent then, anyway?"

by **Shane Marsh** » Mon Mar 16, 2020 11:51 pm

"I'm a musician. And a bloody good one too," he answered with total confidence.

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 12:15 am

"Quite a few of them around here, from what I've heard. You have a band, or are you a solo act?"

by **Shane Marsh** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 2:33 pm

"I'd like to have a band but no one really fits my retro hard rock niche. I could look harder though, I'll admit."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 5:47 pm

"Oh, of course we're having this while Viv's away," Sam mutters as she looks at one of the signs.

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 6:50 pm

"Well, some of us just have to fly solo," Quinn laughed patting Shane on the shoulder.

"Your double-act partner missing, Sam?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 8:16 pm

"Three of us in the band, actually. She's our lead singer."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:02 pm

"Mmm. Maybe you can work something out? Something instrumental, or a replacement, or one of you two could sing."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 9:53 pm

"Just seems like a shame to leave her out, aye?"

by **Shane Marsh** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:08 pm

"Would she want you to miss out because she isn't here?" Shane asked.

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:09 pm

"Well, perhaps you can get her back in time?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:26 pm

"We'll have to see," she shrugs.

"Just... bloody timing, aye?"

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:30 pm

"Well, I do apologize, but then, I was only made a prefect quite recently. Ah well. Timing is out of all of our hands.

I'm sure we'll do whatever it takes to make it a magical night," he smiled at her.

by **Shane Marsh** » Tue Mar 17, 2020 10:40 pm

"What does being a bloody prefect have to do with a talent show?"

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 12:26 am

"Well, I mean, I pushed the administration to run it. It's not bad, having the headmaster's ear," he smiled.

by **Shane Marsh** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:10 am

"Ah. Having connections is certainly useful," he said, hiding his usual cynicism.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:05 am

"It's weird. They had all you lot already picked. Nobody I knew even got asked."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:11 am

"It's a big school," Quinn shrugged. "Did you want a position? Because I could put in a good word."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:13 am

"Well I mean, when nobody I've ever seen on the teams makes the cut it just seems a bit odd, aye?"

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:15 am

"I don't think punching power was one of the pressing criteria," Quinn joked. "I'm certainly not much use in a fight. I think I spent most of that dimensional chaos thing locked in my room."

by **Shane Marsh** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:14 pm

"Well, he should have picked at least one person from the teams for the sake of representation."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 4:50 pm

"Well, I don't think we were looking to fill quotas," Quinn joked.

"Besides, being on the teams seems like something of a full-time job. It would be a bit unfair to ask someone to take on the workload of a prefect as well, wouldn't you say?"

by **Shane Marsh** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:54 pm

"The thing is, someone needs to make sure the teams get the resources they need. Like access to the Point outside of classes."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 5:57 pm

Quinn took a notepad out of his back pocket, flicked his wrist, and grabbed a pen that popped out.

"Alright, let me jot this down here for you, so I can run it up the flagpole. What, in particular, do you need access to?"

by **Shane Marsh** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:29 pm

"As I said, access to the DR for extracurricular training. And, of course, the War Room and Hangar for emergency use. Some of us do repairs in the Hangar anyway. And I'm sure the scientifically minded members need access to the labs for team-related projects. Lord knows they've saved our arses enough times."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:35 pm

"Mmmhmm, mmhmm, mmhmmm," Quinn said, writing all this down.

"I'm not sure what you mean by 'extracurricular' training. I mean, training is part of the curriculum, is it not? You just want to punch someone, don't you?" he teased.

"And, of course, emergency use is emergency use; if the X-Teams ever need to be called out, of course they'll have access to their equipment. That goes without saying."

"I'm not sure I'm going to be able to get any budging on using the labs without it being part of their classwork, however -- I mean, there's some highly sensitive stuff in there. But I'll bring it up, at the very least."

by **Shane Marsh** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:18 pm

"Well, ask one of the science whizzes. I'm sure they could give you examples of putting resources to use in helping the teams. I know we discovered the Skrull incursion that way."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:23 pm

"Ahhh, I see."

Quinn walked over to Shane and wrapped his arms around him, giving him a hug.

"It's going to be OK, Shane. I know it can be quite scary, dealing with all these external threats. But don't you worry -- the administration has all of our safety in mind, and we'll get through all of this together."

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:28 pm

"...starting to see why they picked you," she mutters.

by **Shane Marsh** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:38 pm

Shane forcefully shrugged Quinn off.

"I'm not scared you idiot! I just don't believe your precious headmaster understands what he's dealing with."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:42 pm

Quinn staggered back a little as Shane forced him off.

"Look, I get it. Change can be frightening. We lost the previous headmistress. But at least give Dr. Lippencott a chance to prove that his system works, right?"

by **Shane Marsh** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:44 pm

"Faith has to earned," he said stubbornly.

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:49 pm

"You have to give chances for faith to be earned," Quinn countered.

by **Samantha McManus** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 9:55 pm

"It's easy to be gung-ho about something when you're one of the people it's benefiting."

by **Quinn Quartermain** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:05 pm

"But we're all benefiting from it. Every one of us."

by **Shane Marsh** » Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:38 pm

"That remains to be seen."

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