[CT] Was Going to Punish Some Kids, but Then...

[Guy LeGrange]

Guy stared at the kids gathered around the fire. They'd huddled all about one another, whispering with lowered hands, and he thought he saw another stream of smoke curling up from where they sat. He couldn't be sure, not least of all because his rather low vantage point didn't really allow him to easily look over people. He seriously thought about just approaching them, but he didn't quite want to be a party pooper. The kids were here to have fun, after all, and Guy didn't want to go around squashing it.

Fortunately, he had other people to turn to in instances like this. He nodded and turned, moving through the area, looking. He'd originally been surprised to find that Tam had been recruited, but Guy quickly figured that she'd been tapped for more or less the same reason he had: they needed adults to watch the kids, and there had to be at least one female staffer around to handle those things. Particularly when you brought Frank Cox and Jack McCarthy together. One was enough, and Guy was just thankful that the two hadn't decided to form some kind of unholy duo.

There she was, and she appeared to be... standing on a ladder next to one of the girl's cabins? Guy thought he saw something on the roof, and he had to look from one to the other, before looking up at Tam. "Need me to hold the ladder or something? I'd offer to perhaps get up there, but unless you plan on throwing me, it doesn't look like I would be a great candidate..."

[Tamara Sulik]

Tam didn't mean to be real harsh on the kids during the trip. They were here to have fun after all so as long as things went by smoothly, she wouldn’t be too much of a pain. She mostly wanted to prevent any power from going out of control. And to get out of the dorm, even if she was doing pretty much the same job she would normally do. She had a lot less students to look after so it was almost like vacations. And she could have some fun too.

Things seemed to go pretty well so far. She should feel glad that no cabin had caught on fire or no student tried to murder another one. If getting up on a ladder was the worst she would deal with, Tam would be very happy. Some of the students were playing with a ball that was now up on the roof of a cabin. They thought it would be a good idea to toss stuff at the ball to have it fall down as opposed to something smart like, you know, get a ladder or something. So they threw branches, rocks and even a shoe. The ball not only stayed there, obviously they sucked with their aim, but branches, rocks and said shoe were now on the roof too. And they suddenly realized it might not have been that smart of a plan.

She caught them as they tried to climb with their bare hands and asked what happened. After they explained, she left to fetch a ladder. She would have them climb but by the time she returned with it, none of them were there. They must have found something more interesting to do. It shouldn’t be hard to find them though, all she had to do was look at a boy with only one shoe. But since she had the ladder, she figured she might as well get everything down. She would have preferred having someone holding the damn thing, she did not trust the ground too well, but she still climbed on it anyway. A good thing she was not afraid of heights.

She was a bit surprised when she heard Guy and looked down. She smirked when he referred to his height and suggested to hold the ladder for her. You mind? I’ll probably have to get on the roof,” she said. She wasn’t all that tall either, even if she had one good foot more than he did. With Guy securing the ladder, it was a lot easier. It wasn’t shaking anymore, or at least not as much. She was now able to look at the roof and locate the shoe and ball. As she said, she climbed on top of the cabin and walked on the roof until she got everything. The reason why the ball did not slide down was because it hit a larger branch there and was caught. She grabbed the branch too and carefully walked back near the ladder. Watch out down there,” she told Guy and anyone else that might be near as she dropped first the branch then the ball and the shoe. It was time to climb down now. And she was glad she wore shorts and not a skirt. Guy however might have liked the latter.

[Guy LeGrange]

"Not at all," said Guy. He moved to steady the ladder, grabbing on as firmly as possible. He may be slight of stature, but that didn't make him weak by any stretch of the imagination. Holding the ladder proved only an easy enough task, and Guy soon found himself relaxing as Tam walked onto the roof. He backed up a bit to get a better look, still wondering why she was up there.

As branches and debris fell, Guy figured it out. He already turned and checked, noting a few nearby students. An arm wave and a yell got them to move away, with Guy mumbling a little under his breath as he moved back to the ladder. Easy enough to steady it from there, readying it while she climbed down.

"I'd love to say that you were done for the day with this," Guy said, keeping half an eye on Tam and half an eye on the ladder. He really supposed he should be staring, as Tam proved worth staring, but Guy didn't like pissing off his friends, especially not the only truly adult female in the area. "But I strongly suspect that a group of students near the fire pit have some grass that isn't locally grown."

Guy paused for a moment, then frowned and shrugged. "Or possibly is very locally grown in little houses with hot lamps and poorly irrigated systems. I haven't exactly checked up on the local suppliers in a few years."

[Tamara Sulik]

If it was a little shaky up there, it wasn’t so much because Guy lacked the physical strength required than because of the precarious ground the ladder was standing on. Still, Tam managed to get to the roof without too much problem. She did thank the Lord or whoever had made her not lose her climbing skills, perhaps she should thank herself then? She didn't mind really the debris on the roof. It was the result of wind and nature and so not her problem. But the larger branch might risk causing damage. At the very least it might stop a ball or anything else they would think of throwing over the cabin and she would rather not be climbing up here again if she could help it.

She did bother to check before tossing everything on the ground. The ball might not hurt too much when received on the head but the shoe and the branch, well she would not be so sure about it. And she clearly didn't need some student bleeding from the head thanks to her. Or Guy for that matter. With one supervisor down, the kids will try to run the place.

Guy started to talk to her as she was halfway down the ladder and she did stop a brief moment to look down at him before going back to the ground. Whether or not Guy had been staring, Tam didn’t mind. There were some people like this you minded the stares or comments from less than others. She didn’t expect Guy to start going on with what he’d like to do with that ass of hers. He would even be able to hide from her if he thought that. She just never knew with him whether or not she had the same effect she had on most people. Sometimes, it did annoy her.

But Guy was going on about grass and students and they both knew what that meant. “I don’t know if I should be appalled by their stupidity of smoking it in front of us or appreciate the fact they didn’t do it in the middle of the woods or by the water so they could get lost or drown,” she pointed out with a sigh. She did have a tiny smirk when Guy pointed out he was not all that aware about the local drug business but she did not reply anything to that. Best leave the weed smoker’s jokes for a time and space where no underage ears could hear. “So you suggest we crash their little party?” she said, waiting for Guy to lead as she had not really paid attention to anyone by any fire.

[Guy LeGrange]

Yes, Guy had enjoyed looking for a moment. as he'd often told Tam: she was attractive, she should expect it. However, he could also shift to business quite easily, as his years of being utterly distracted by his hormones were, fortunately, far behind him.

"Well, they did have enough sense to actually wait until they were on a camping trip," Guy pointed out, turning to look at the little group, "but something tells me that is the extent of their logic. Of course, now I'm wondering if I'll need to be patrolling down by the water lately." He sighed for a moment, tapping his fingers. Then again, he'd been anticipating heading down to the water to fish anyway. He could just make certain to be on the lookout for various students while he was down there. Wouldn't be like they'd be that hard to find.

"But yes," he continued, turning to look at Tam, "I do think we should crash their party. Preferably before they get half the camp high, since I'm not sure what we will do if the students here get the munchies. God forbid Frank Cox or Jack McCarthy get hold of that stuff either," he shuddered at the thought. It was indeed the very last thing they needed. And he really didn't want to think of what Miss Cox would be like when she got the munchies.

[Tamara Sulik]

Sometimes, it was weird for Tam, the way Guy acted around her. He did exactly how she had wished people, mostly men, would but at the same time was unused to it. Actually, the weird part was the fact she didn’t know how to react to it. Almost every job she did before included at least one man a day saying something lewd to your breasts because obviously there was nothing more important above that level. She could take an army of JJ without too much of a problem but always found herself wondering if she acted properly in front of Guy. It wasn’t like the man was a paragon of virtue, she had no reason to care about what he could think of her. The only difference was that she respected the man. That didn’t happen a lot.

She stopped thinking like a young teenage girl trying for her teacher not to be angry at her and focused on the actual teenagers and most recent stupidities. On one side, she couldn’t believe they’d bring weed but on the other side, she could understand their reasoning. They probably thought that, with so many space and only three adults to watch over them, it would be easier. She wasn’t sure whether that made them smart or her dumb. Either way, she knew she wouldn’t like the answer.

Tam’s eyes grew slightly wider as she paused, thinking about the possibility for Jack or Frank to get their hands on weed. They were hard enough to deal with when clean, she didn’t want to imagine what they would be like high. “I’m surprised they aren’t around the fire already,” she said under her breath. Either way, Guy was right, they should crash their party and make sure they would not simply move away to do it all over again.

She looked down at the ball and the shoe. It was kind of silly, lying there. She would have thought whoever tossed it would miss his shoe. But there was no student shyly coming their way to pick it up. Tam picked it up. The ball, she wasn’t as sad about, but she supposed she might as well try to give that one back to its owner. “Where were they exactly?” she asked Guy, ready to check on them with the man and make it clear to those students they might be away from Bellefonte but the rules still applied.

[Guy LeGrange]

"Is it a full moon?" asked Guy, tilting his head up slightly to look. "Or possibly a blood moon? Some other kind of omen indicating that the two of them have gotten together for some sort of world-ending plan? I just hope that they never reproduce, let alone with one another. The offspring would probably come out tapdancing and yelling enthusiastic complimentary insults."

The image then immediately sprang to Guy's mind, but he could dismiss it easily enough. That happened when you saw as many horrors as he had. There had been several other students who had caused as much trouble as those two, though many lacked their... flare. In fact, they were technically approaching a group of troublemakers now, though, admittedly, of a wholly different sort.

Guy responded to Tam's query by pointing and nodding, "toward the smoke," he said. He walked that way himself, counting on Tam to follow. He barely got close when he noticed a certain... odor mixing with the woodsy smell of a campfire. Seriously, did they not think that people would notice? What did they think the staff did when they were teenagers?

[Tamara Sulik]

Tam did share Guy’s views about jack and Frank. They dealt enough with these two to wish they never have kids or if they did that none of them would have to deal with them. They should leave these demons to younger ones, people who had enough energy to deal with them, especially if you thought of the best, or the worst depending on your point of view, of Frank and Jack put into one. She’d rather not think about it.

Anyway, they had much more important things to do then to worry about these kids’ possible offspring. Apparently, the kids didn't notice Guy walking towards them but they seemed to have noticed Tamara coming their way. She couldn’t hear them but it was clear one said something like shit or fuck or whatever nice word of the like, the others saw what the problem was and soon they all tossed what they were smoking to the ground when not directly inside the fire before taking off as fast as they could.

For a moment, Tam did think going after them. Not that she particularly wanted to run after a bunch of teenagers. They weren’t that smart obviously. Didn’t they realize the two of them had seen their faces? All they had to do was wait patiently for them to come back or pick them up in their cabin and punish them then. Just because they no longer had weed in their hands didn’t mean they could get away with it. No, Tam thought going after them because she didn't want any of them to run too far off. She would not run herself. It was a plan to have them trip, injure themselves, get lost or even worse to fall into one of Frank’s traps. But she did think she could let Guy sit down in the middle of the camp site while she walked around the woods to get them back or something.

She checked the fire pit first though. And smiled as she picked one lost shoe. “Here’s one who will be easy to identify,” she said, showing how she had the second one to complete the pair. She made sure there was nothing smoking anymore other than the fire. Her days when she thought smoking pot behind monitors’ backs was fun were long gone but she didn’t want anyone to pick them up and decide they should finish them. “You want me to run after them or to wait for them to come back? I don’t really trust a bunch of slightly high students out there,” she admitted as she nodded towards the woods. It was more a matter of safety than the actual desire to punish or humiliate them.

[Guy LeGrange]

Guy almost started laughing when the high high school students attempted to make a break for it. They were about as coordinated as one would expect, though fear did add a certain fleetness to their feet. Guy waited till they had mostly dispersed till he actually laughed though. The laughter only continued as Tam held up a shoe.

"I'm not sure they'll make it too far," he said, turning to look. "They're likely to run into Bigfoot at the rate they were going. I heard he--" and Guy paused as he heard someone yelling. The sounds of confusion and surprise could be heard even all the way at the campfire. Most of it sounded like nonsense syllables and words, but one sentence came up clear:

"Who the fuck put a net in the middle of the woods?"

"So," said Guy, nodding, "still think we need to go running after them?" he then gestured for Tam to take the lead. He'd follow right along behind. Personally, Guy couldn't wait to see what kind of trap they'd managed to get into. And he didn't know whether he'd have to punish whoever set the traps or congratulate them. In fact, he seemed to vaguely recall practically seeing signs for a few of them, saying stuff like "Bigfoot only, yo."

Which gave quite a bit away, come to think of it.

[Tamara Sulik]

Tam was almost disappointed in the kids’ reaction. What, no one dared staying there, bribe them with a joint, claim they were on vacation r something? She supposed she shouldn’t expect too much. A teenager was already not a very bright creature so if you add drugs...

She was glad Guy was not standing there, asking her why she had not ran off after them already. She would do it if he asked but she didn't want to be taken at fault. Guy seemed as eager to go hunting for teenagers as she was though. He wasn’t even trying to hide how funny their behaviour was to him. She didn’t doubt one second that Guy cared for these kids but chasing after them seemed pointless. She’ll look for them though, just to make sure no one got hurt. And to give some guy his shoes back.

She startled when she heard the yelling. It made her drop the weed in the fire. She stared at it. No way in hell was she putting her hands there. At least no one will smoke those. But she should focus on the yelling. She tried to understand what was being said there and where it came from. She didn’t want to start running in there like a headless goose. She paused though as she heard one very clear sentence. She sighed. Why didn’t she have Frank go all around the camp to take them off and burn them? She really should have done that. She looked at Guy with a smile that could almost look sheepish. She did feel slightly responsible for this. Slightly.

“Let’s see which rabbit that next caught,” she replied, the smile turning into a smirk as this time she was first to go, shoes in her hand and Guy at her side. She recalled the trap Franck fell into. Would it be the same? She doubted as it could hardly be referred to as a net. “I should have made Frank go after them but she said she forgot where they were. Apparently, she’s not the only one,” she thought out loud. She did feel a little bad for not being able to get them all. At the same time, she did what she could. Since she didn’t even know what type of traps she set or where they were, she thought she did a good job so far. But, seriously, who would have thought of catching Bigfoot with a net?

[Guy LeGrange]

Guy did notice the dropped weed in the fire, and he thought about grabbing a stick and pulling it out that way. He probably should've, considering that the smoke coming off from that fire probably wouldn't be great for the students, especially if any of them had allergies or anything along those lines. However, they also had "rabbits" to catch, and they took some priority. Guy wanted to make sure that no one hurt themselves.

So he nodded his agreement with Tam's suggestion: investigate the source of the yelping and see if there was anything thy could manage. When Tam provided an explanation, Guy let out a noise of understanding, nodding his head slightly. "Somehow, I am not surprised to hear that Frank Cox is involved... unless you mean the other Franck, the French boy. Though he's often pulled right along into Miss Cox's whirlwind, so I wouldn't be surprised if they were both somehow involved," Guy looked ahead, peering into the woods as he spoke. He thought he saw a guy dangling in a net several feet off the ground.

"A net," repeated Guy, blinking. "Yeah, this definitely has Frank Cox all over it." He jogged slightly to end up underneath the net, looking up at the young man squirming inside. Guy looked around at the ground, soon letting out an "aha" and bending over. When he rose up, he had a small ziplock bag filled with green herbs, which he shook as he smiled. So they didn't need to dive into the fire, for evidence at least. Still, that left the guy squirming, and that was assuming that more didn't fall into other, nearby traps.

[Tamara Sulik]

Between catching the students before they hurt themselves and risking some other students to inhale some vapors they were not used to, the choice was easy. Anyway, before long, the weed would all have burned and it would be over. It shouldn’t last very long if anyone happened to sit by this fire and get effects out of this smoke. If they did... well she’ll worry about that later. A possible bunch of grinning kids laughing at nothing while saying words that barely made sense didn't seem as important as getting someone out of a Bigfoot trap.

“I don’t know that French boy too well, he doesn’t stay at the school,” she pointed out, making it clear that she was indeed talking of Frank Cox. “You had to deal with a lot of students like her? How do you do it without going crazy?” she asked him. She had to deal with all sorts of behaviours too but she had not done it for as long as Guy.

Tam froze for a moment when she saw the boy caught in the net. She knew it was the scene she was walking towards but now that she was seeing it, it seemed surreal. “Just how many of those will I have to take down?” she mumbled. Ever since she found out from Frank’s mouth that she set some traps, she tried to locate them and get rid of them. Somehow, there always seemed to be just one more.

Seeing Guy running to the net had her realized the scene before her eyes was quite real. She looked up to find the rope and just where it was attached to get him down. She was walking there when she stopped again after he let a small cry of victory. She looked at him and smirked at what he was showing. “Well, well, looks Frank’s little hobby proved useful after all,” she let out. She worked on freeing the student, trying not to hurt Guy along the way. The last thing she needed was for the boy to drop right on the trainer.

[Guy LeGrange]

"French Franck's a decent sort. Seems to have ended up friends with most of the students you can't help but have heard of. You know, Bellefontes and Cox and Ellen Banks and such," Guy shrugged. he'd only encountered Franck a few times for the most part, at least for anything resembling a meaningful conversation. Enough to get a decent opinion of the boy. The actual question Tam posed got a chuckle for a response, a chuckle and a meaningful raise of the brows.

"Who's to say I'm not?" was verbally tacked on as well, before Guy focused on the net. He thought he heard Tam grumbling about it, but he took that in stride. She probably had to deal with a lot of insanity from the students, and it occurred to Guy that she probably had even more interaction with the wilder ones than he. Guy mostly got to deal with situations like this: when nobody else could be called, or whenever someone desperately needed a stern hand for training.

Thankfully, he could help out here. He backed away as Tam got to work getting the student down. As he backed, Guy also focused, tightening his power around the panicking student. Said student now looked slightly queasy, looking from one adult to another.

"Don't suppose you'd feel like telling us where everyone else went?" asked Guy, raising his brows. "We'll probably be more lenient. You know how that works. Don't make us start with the good cop, bad cop thing, 'cuz Miss Sulik here makes a just awful good cop."

[Tamara Sulik]

“Smart move,” she let out as Guy told her about this other Franck. She eyed her colleague and felt it might need some explanation. “He befriended all the powerful families, he’s basically untouchable now,” she said. Maybe it was not why he chose to be friends with every popular kid with rich, influent parents but Tam couldn’t get over this clear advantage to his situation. “I always think that if I haven’t heard of a student, it’s a good thing,” she added with a light nod. That meant the boy was not causing trouble or breaking the rules, she didn’t have to run after him. She generally didn’t know the quiet students, she knew only the troublemakers and the boot-lickers who always tried to help her when half of the time they only made things more complicated.

She chuckled as he suggested he might as well be crazy. Oh, if Guy was, Tam had little hope for the rest of them. “I bet you were a little terror yourself,” she said though there was something in her tone that showed she was not all that ready to bet on that. She had a hard time imagining Guy young and that had nothing to do with his current age. But she felt like he had always been a grumpy middle-aged man. She couldn’t go too far with that however since they arrived by the net and the poor kid trapped in it.

Tam wasn’t quite sure about this student’s powers but she was glad she had Guy with her. Not that she expected a fight or anything but considering the situation, a loss of control might be disastrous. She didn’t want to imagine what could happen if the net caught on fire. They could burn, the tree could burn and that reach to another tree and another until the whole wood was set ablaze. That was just the worst case scenario she came up with but she thought of some other, less awful possibilities she’d still prefer not to happen.

She got the net down and helped the kid get rid of it as Guy started questioning him. She had a little smirk at the thought of her playing good cop. She didn’t see her in that role too well. “Correct me if I’m wrong, but don’t most schools have zero tolerance when they find drugs on a student?” she asked Guy. If that didn’t prove she was an awful good cop, she didn’t know what else would. The student started to talk, trying to convince them the weed was not his, motioning somewhere through the woods where the others left.

[Guy LeGrange]

Guy did wonder about Franck sometimes. The boy seemed quite earnest though, and it was hard to think that he had any ulterior motives. He just had a knack for ending up with the wrong sort. Didn't matter: he wasn't here now, and they definitely needed to focus on the ones they had on hand now.

"Of course I was. When I wasn't attempting to seduce a teacher, got at least three, by the by, I was usually out learning the ins and outs of the bars. Getting caught with weed was pretty much a normal Saturday for me for a while," only half a jest. Guy had always been focused on getting his power around, and he'd often used it to help balance things throughout the school. He'd also started training others sooner then most, since they'd discovered he'd had a knack for it.

The bit about seducing instructors was entirely true though.

Not that any of that charm was on display as Guy kept looking at the poor young man, who was obviously high, because he wasn't even trying to hide his attempt to look down Tam's shirt.

"See? What did I say? horrible bad cop," said Guy, gesturing toward Tam and shaking his head. "We do have something of a zero tolerance policy, though of course we can't actually suspend any of our students and all. There are leniencies though, since some students need them to deal with powers--"

The student quickly jumped on that, insisting that was totally the reason they had it and that they shouldn't be suspended or whatever. Guy raised his head and hands to the sky, begging whatever heavenly body to come and make sense of this mess. Sighing, he looked back at Tam, brows raised.

And of course at that moment, some other nearby shouts could be heard. Also another student with wide red eyes literally stumbled into their little area, looking at Guy like the dwarf was a hallucination brought on by really good weed.