MCA #0, Friday afternoon

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After sloshing out for some lunch and checking the outside of (Y)MCA to make sure the rising damp wasn't making its way into the apartments, Xander was sitting in the living room with his laptop, listening to the radio again, since the first run-through had mostly been obliterated from his memory by his momentary freakage at Broots' totally incorrect description of yesterday's TOTALLY NON-MAKING-OUT-FILLED events.

Freakage slightly less now that he noted the ongoing theme of 'squirrels gone wild' in last night's broadcast, but still.
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[OOC: For a phone call. ETA: and a visitor, la]

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"Isabel's back!" Xander calls from the bathroom, coming back with a towel, which he holds out.

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That makes Bridge grin at least, despite any frown-inducing events of earlier today. "That's awesome!"

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"She called me earlier, said she'd just got back this morning."

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"I'll have to go say hi tomorrow, or something," Bridge decides.

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"She said she might come by here soon, but I told her not to risk the pneumonia if it's still coming down like it is now." Xander glances away, towards the glass doors.

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"It's getting a little... yeesh," Bridge makes a face. "At least drying my hair doesn't take quite as long as it did yesterday."

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"Yeeeeeah, I'm kinda glad I didn't go out in that, then." Because Xander's hair was, for reasons known only to God, a leeetle long as a girl, yes.

"So if you didn't get my message about Isabel, did you just slosh over here because you felt like jumping in puddles?"

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"Maybe I did," says Bridge, who is totally lying.

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"Mmm-hmm." It's not quite a bitch-please look. "Jump in any good ones?"

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"One that made splashes almost as tall as me." And he hadn't jumped so much as tripped, but anyway.

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"Yeah, you look like it." Not that he's looking. Dammit. Not that the uniform is any less clingy without the pointless skirty bit. Dammit.

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And that'd be Bridge wriggling *out* of the uniform. Well, the jacket, anyway.

"I screwed up," he mutters, almost inaudibly.

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Blinkblink... Headshake that somewhat resembles a cartoon cat attempting to return ts face to cat-shape after getting smacked with an ironing-board... At least a 20-second delay before Xander realizes something actually got said....

"You what now?"

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"Screwed up," Bridge repeats, going over to sit on the couch. "With Rory."

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Xander follows, a little less distracted by things that he shouldn't be distracted by, once he hears the tone of Bridge's voice. "What d'you mean? Something happen today?"

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"You could say that," Bridge snorts. "I went to talk to Anakin today."

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"Okay..." Xander gives the universal sign for I know there's more to this story... "And?"

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"Apologized, 'cause I just... I should have watched out for her more than I did. She was hurting and she never talked about *why* and I should have asked. I should have," he says this all in a rush.

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"About something besides Anakin being dead?" Xander asks, leaning forward and resting his arms on his knees. Like it always has, like he'd forgotten how much it does, seeing Bridge upset feels like a dull kick to the stomach.

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"About that, and how the person who killed him was here in Fandom and *teaching*," Bridge says. Well, as far as he knows, anyway.

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"I'm sorry what?"

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"Yeah, Darth Vader, the guy who was teaching the class Anakin's teaching now?"

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And apparently a few of his synapses still work, because Xander finally makes more sense of what Rory said to him when he first got back to Fandom. "The Ethics teacher?"

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"Yeah," Bridge rolls his eyes at that. "Ethics, go figure."

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"And they let him teach here why?"