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Office hours- Friday

Jaina had gotten back to Fandom this morning, and she blamed her parents for that. Next week was spring break, so she'd been planning to make Tino take her Caritas shift and just stay at home to work. The problem was that she had made the mistake of saying this out loud. In front of people. Sure, in her galaxy, she didn't take breaks between missions and was hardly even on her homeplanet, but that wasn't the situation in Fandom. Still, she'd apparently conditioned people so that when she said any word that sounded like or meant something similar to "vacation," they insisted she take it. So after deciding it wasn't an argument she felt like having, Jaina agreed. Fine, she'd go to Hawaii. Huge chore, really.

She was slightly on the annoyed side this morning, though, trying her best not to think about the fight with Jacen and instead figuring she'd get class finished up today so she didn't have to do it after getting back from the trip. You know, the class she'd had done last week and then had to scrap because of the kids. One of which she still missed. Even working on class seemed to not be going so well, thanks to a drawer in her desk that stuck closed. After pulling on it for a while she managed to finally get it open, and since she now really felt the need to get out some frustration, she slammed the drawer shut about a half dozen times just because she could.

"...I don't even remember why I needed this open," Jaina said, frowning at the drawer.

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On the flip side, so had Rose. "Deal," she agreed easily, lounging in her chair. "How is it going? What are you teaching this time? I was - totally worried you'd have taken off for good."

"I throw my kids in simulated bad situations and see how they get out of it," she replied. "It'll be my last semester doing it, though. I'm back home in May."

"Yeah? Stuff heating up again at home or are you just done with teaching?" Rose asked. Stupid galaxy. ~~You saw NOTHING~~

~~LIES I SAW EVERYTHING.~~ "Both? Neither? I have things I need to get back to doing, basically. I'm taking this semester to sort of make sure I'm ready for it," she said. "But I'll be visiting, and the invite to visit me is always open."

"That'd be awesome," she admitted. "I'd seriously like that." Even if she couldn't see herself being able to leave Lissa for that long again.

"Great. We'll work it out," she said. And because she was apparently always going to worry, she asked, "How about you? How are things going there?"

Rose glanced up at Jaina then shrugged a little. It was Jaina. If she was going to tell anyone...

"It's fine," she said. "I'm assigned to Lissa like we always thought. I have to go to freaking college with her. Kind of unfair."

See? The truth. Just leaving out a lot of bits.

"I seem to remember college boys being nice to look at. At least you have that," said Jaina sympathetically. "What about the other stuff?"

She figured Rose would know what 'the other stuff' meant.

Rose shrugged, giving Jaina that point. "It's -" her shoulders fell unconsciously, swamped in that wave of conflicting emotions that always came up. "Thought I'd killed him. And...I missed."

For someone who knew she might end up having to go after someone like that, it was a little scary to hear that because missing had never even crossed her mind. Yet she thought she should really expect that sort of thing from Dimitri, at least.

"I'm sorry," she said gently, not to anything specific because the whole situation sucked. "Do you know where he is now?"

She couldn't quite meet Jaina's eyes at that question. "No. Somewhere in the US. He - he writes me." Rose swallowed, trying to explain how the hell she could miss the most important stake of her life. "I thought I had him. But I staked him. He went limp like they do and fell off the bridge. And I should've known."

"No, you shouldn't have," Jaina told her. "If you stab someone and they fall off a bridge, I'd assume that was a kill. I know it probably doesn't help much, but I'd have thought the same thing."

"Anyone else, yeah, but he's Dimitri."

"So the alternative was what, trying to find a body?" Jaina asked.

"Getting the stake into his heart like I should have?" Rose replied. She sighed. "I'm kinda glad I didn't. There's a rumour Strigoi can be changed back."

Jaina raised her eyebrows, definitely interested in that. "Oh yeah?"

"I don't know. It still sounds like a fairytale, but this guy I met in Russia said he knew someone who'd done it," Rose said.

"Is it an option?" she asked slowly. Personally she'd go the 'kill them before they hurt again' route, but she didn't know how possible this was.

Since he'd probably hurt again in the past month of so, that wasn't so much an option.

"I don't know," she repeated. "I'm kinda thinking I need to find out."

"If you need any help, let me know," she offered. "Or at least let me know how things go?"

Rose glanced up sheepishly. "You mean not disappear for the next 3 months?"

"That, too," she said with a little smile. Since she'd brought it up and all.

"Yeah, but you sould expect me to be an idiot by now," she pointed out, smiling a little back. "Miss 'I went away for five years.'"

"That was not planned," Jaina reminded her. "Also totally not my fault."

"It could've been," Rose snarked. "We can't know."

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