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Post by elliot on Dec 7, 2008 14:38:46 GMT -5
8th December 2008
Today was the first day of Elliot’s teaching gig. He couldn’t say that he was excited, but he wasn’t completely bored either. He wanted to see and find out what he was dealing with when it came to the students. Their powers, hopes, dreams, ambitions…okay, maybe just their powers. He didn't want to spend twenty minutes listening to them saying how much they wanted to be a firefighter or an astronaut or a princess or superhero. He couldn’t care less. He wasn’t her to know everything about them and he wasn’t going to act like he was. It was weird enough as it was. He was only two or three years older than some of them. He was only twenty and he was going to teach kids who were only a couple years younger than him.
He walked through the halls and eventually reached his classroom. He walked through the doors and looked around. It looked like every other classroom he had ever been in, but something was different; maybe the fact that this time he was sitting behind the desk, rather than sitting in front of it. He chuckled a little. Maybe being a teacher would be fun, but not because of the kids or anything, he thought that part would be dreadful. But because in his classroom he held the power.
He went behind his desk and sat down, putting his belongings, a coffee mug and some papers, on his desk. He looked impatiently at the clock and then his watch. The students should be arriving at any moment. And in the spare time he got an idea. He walked over to the front of his desk and knelt down. He put his hand on the floor, palm down and left I there for a few seconds. The floor started to freeze over immediately. It slowly became engulfed in ice, albeit a thin layer.
He stood up and shivered a little when it was done. It took him a little longer than he had expected. It had been a while since he had frozen a big area like that. But no-matter, the floor was frozen either way. He went back behind his desk and sat down. He didn't slip because over the years he learned that he should get boots that were pretty ice worthy. Too many accidents with his power.
He waited for the students. He wanted to see who was smart enough to realize the floor was frozen before they slipped and who slipped before they realized the floor was frozen. You could say that it was sort of a test, but it was mostly for his enjoyment. But they didn't have to know that.
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Post by leona on Dec 24, 2008 13:48:38 GMT -5
Leona heard that there was a new teacher today as she made her way to the first abilities class, but before she did, she looked around to see if Elli was with her. She knew he had gone to see Niki, but now he didn't seem to be anywhere. With classes being due to start she knew Niki wouldn't have kept him back too long. So she held off going into the classroom for a few seconds to see if he would come.
Other students were already bundling their way into the classroom, and taking another look and not seeing Elli, but seeing Carla and Rebekah, she smiled at them. "Well no sign of Elli, I guess he's still talking to Niki" she said to them, as she opened the classroom door and immediately realised how cold it was. It wasn't like the classrooms to be so cold, so instincts made her look around and that was when she noticed the floor, it had a coat of thin ice on it.
"Oh, very clever Sir" Leona found herself saying, as she walked in really carefully so she wouldn't slip. "No surprises for guessing what your ability is" she added, as she saw a couple of students who had obviously fallen and lifting themselves up off the floor.
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Post by carla on Dec 24, 2008 14:20:33 GMT -5
Carla like Rebekah, had been behind Leona as she'd opened the classroom door, and of course she too had felt the coldness from the room. Whether she'd have been smart enough to pick up on the floor being covered in ice or not was another matter, but since she was behind Leona, and she'd been smart enough, then Carla was careful not to make the same mistake some of the other students obviously had, as she walked carefully to a desk and managed it without falling or slipping.
Carla laughed at Leona's remark about the teacher being clever, even if she did call him Sir, when he looked like he was only a few years older then they were. It was funny though, such a good thing for him to have done to catch them out. However, Leona hadn't introduced herself, having been too busy applauding the teacher on his work.
"Carla Norton, soon to be Carla Adams" she said smiling at the teacher across from them, "and my ability is Telekinesis" she added, as she sat down and waited for the class to begin, obviously they were going to be getting taught on the ability of freezing.
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Post by rebekah on Dec 24, 2008 14:25:32 GMT -5
Rebekah would like to say she was clever, but sometimes she simply wasn't and even though she too had been with Carla and Leona when they saw the floor, and although Rebekah was aware of the situation, as she walked into the classroom, she simply couldn't keep her balance on the slippery surface and ended up slipping and would have really hurt herself, if she hadn't immediately used her ability to phase through the floor and back up again onto her feet using a desk to steady herself as she walked shakily toward a desk beside Carla and Leona.
Looking sheepishly as the teacher, she waved slightly, and gave him a weak smile as she sat down.
"Rebekah Taylor Sir, and well as you've seen, my ability is Phasing" she said to him, looking forward to todays lesson because it certainly seemed like it was going to be a lot of fun given the fact he'd iced the floor up.
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Post by soveliss on Dec 24, 2008 15:10:07 GMT -5
Elli walked into the classroom, oblivious to the fact it was slightly colder. A dull thud erupted as he crashed onto the ground. He could hear a slight bit of laughter from someone, but didn’t know who, and was far more interested in standing up again.
A good start then. As he clambered up he looked around, trying not to make an idiot of himself, well not more than he already had. Really he quite liked the cold, it reminded him of living back in Scotland. He looked up, trying to navigate his way across the ice towards Leona.
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Post by leona on Dec 24, 2008 16:13:23 GMT -5
When the door opened again, Leona turned round and saw Elli, so he had found his way to the first class after all, of course like a few of the other students before him, he had failed to notice the floor was covered in ice and he slipped and fell. Someone laughed at him, however Leona didn't, she wasn't like that.
When Elli had found his way to a desk near Leona, she smiled at him. "Made it then?" she asked him with a grin not even daring to mention the fact she had got across the floor without falling, having already figured out something was wrong with the classroom before she'd stepped into it. Apart from the cold, she wondered if her Telepathy had picked up on it also.
"How was Niki with you?" she asked, knowing Niki was really nice, Elli probably wouldn't have or shouldn't have had much bother with her.
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Post by soveliss on Dec 24, 2008 16:39:24 GMT -5
“Fine, really nice.” Elli replied. Think about what he was saying. “I still don’t have a name for my power thought.” The thought wasn’t bothering him much, after all if he hadn’t come here he wouldn’t have gotten the chance to learn about his power.
“Who covered the floor in ice?” He asked, looking at it with mild curiosity. It seemed like a weird thing to do, or a weird thing to use your powers on to him.
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Post by leona on Dec 24, 2008 16:53:59 GMT -5
"I'm glad Niki was nice, I knew she would be, Niki is a wonderful person, although sorry you don't have a name for your power yet though" Leona said softly, "I bet she'll talk to Mohinder about that" she added.
When Elli asked who had covered the floor in ice, she looked at the teacher sitting at the front, and then back to Elli, and leaned over so she wouldn't be speaking too loudly.
"That would have been the teacher/adult what ever you want to call him at the front" Leona said, and then she laughed slightly, "I think he was possibly trying to see how many of us he could trick" she added, as she sighed and rolled her eyes before leaning back toward her own desk again.
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Post by soveliss on Dec 24, 2008 17:04:47 GMT -5
Elli looked forwards towards the teacher. Some trick, Elli almost felt daft for falling for it. It was a stupid thing to do, and he could of hurt himself, and almost had.
He was more relaxed now, looking around at the other students. The entire place seemed more relaxing than most schools would be, and Elli could feel it. He wondered what was else would happen to him today. He would just have to make sure there was no more ice.
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Post by elliot on Dec 24, 2008 21:47:08 GMT -5
Elliot watched as one by one students came and fell. He rolled his eyes dramatically; he didn't think that there would have been a lot of them, just a few. But he guessed that he was going to have to teach them the simplest thing he could think of. Well, two if you thought about it. Always keep your guard up, and expect the unexpected. They were teenagers and he just assumed they would have learned theses things the hard way by now. Apparently the hard way was falling on your ass because that teacher decided to play a trick on them.
Three students then entered. They were all girls, two saw the ice and managed to avoid it, and the other must have noticed because of the other two and yet she still managed to fall. He just stared at her with a puzzled expression until one of the others spoke to him. She had called what he had done clever. “I thought so,” he told her. Then the other two introduced themselves and told him their abilities. Honestly their names he could live without, but he still put on a smile. “Good to know,” he told the both of them. He went back to looking at the door.
A boy came in and he fell too. He gave a deep sigh. Wonderful, he thought. Then he heard him ask who covered the floor in ice. He thought that now would be a good time to start the class. He walked to the front and was about to say it was him but the girl from before had already said that. So he just decided to tell the reason as to why. “It wasn’t exactly tricking you. I just had to test you.” He told them. “And by the way, all of you failed.” He gave them a smile. They did all fail for specific reasons. Whether they fell or not wasn’t the only thing he was watching.
“And I guess I should tell you my name. It’s Elliot Walters.” He told them, and then he added. “Im sure some of you might just want to call me Elliot because I’m only a few years older than you, but don’t. It’s Mr. Walters in the classroom. Now, I want you all to tell me your names and abilities. Starting with you,” He pointed to the girl who was talking to the boy who had fallen.
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Post by leona on Dec 25, 2008 19:20:40 GMT -5
Leona had told the teacher/adult guy what ever they were calling themselves very clever for his 'trick' but she'd been so smart at telling him that, she hadn't been smart enough to give her name or ability, instead speaking to Elli when he'd finally slipped his way into the classroom, so of course she was almost the first to be picked on by him. Well not 'picked on' per say, but it would be her he asked his first question to and nobody else, and that was only because she'd been too smart to give her name and ability like Rebekah and Carla.
"Hello Mr Walters, it's so nice to meet you" Leona said with the warmest and most honest smile she could muster, "I'm Leona Stevens and my ability is Telepathy" she said and then looked across at Elli and gave him a re-assuring smile.
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Post by carla on Dec 25, 2008 19:34:59 GMT -5
"Nice to meet you Mr Walters" Carla said in a soft voice giving him a glowing smile. You see, Carla is very happy right now. So happy she's finding it difficult to find anything to be unhappy about. She was an engaged woman, and she was having a baby to the man she loved, what could be more perfect?
She didn't see the point in giving her name or ability as she'd done it earlier, but she felt compelled somehow to ask why they had failed, especially when she and Leona had been so careful at walking across the floor and not falling. Surely if anybody had failed it would be the students who had fallen on their backsides.
"So Sir, if Leona and myself didn't fall, surely we passed the test? And if not, then what exactly were you testing us on?" Carla asked, looking over at Leona and then grinning at Rebekah, knowing full well she'd known about the floor and yet still managed to slip while walking to her desk.
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Post by rebekah on Dec 25, 2008 19:54:04 GMT -5
Rebekah felt like an idiot for falling on the ice, especially after knowing it was there when Leona had spotted it. Not that she hurt herself, she was able to use her phasing ability to go through the floor and back up again, so she wouldn't hurt herself. Didn't stop her from feeling like an idiot though.
She too had wondered what Mr Walters had meant by the fact they'd all failed, of course Carla asked the question before she got a chance to, but she wondered the same thing. Because she'd thought everybody who'd fallen would have been the ones who had failed.
"Pleased to meet you Mr Walters" Rebekah said kindly, "Yes, like Carla said, please tell us why we all failed, I'm desperate to know, because I was certain I had failed for falling, but if the ones who didn't fall also failed, well..." Rebekah said trailing off, desperate to know the answer.
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Post by soveliss on Dec 26, 2008 5:28:37 GMT -5
Elli looked up, feeling like an idiot. How could he have not noticed the ice on the ground? Normally he was reasonably smart, and had quite a bit of common sense, but he had managed to miss this.
“Elli Sonra, and my power is to absorb air.” He said, when he was asked for his name and ability. At the minute he thought it would just be best to refer to his ability as what he had always know it as, until someone could tell him if it even had a name.
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Post by elliot on Dec 27, 2008 20:36:38 GMT -5
Elliot listened as he heard the students tell their names and powers. He heard two of them ask about why even the ones who didn't fall failed. He ignored them and waited until everyone was finished introducing themselves. When he got to the last kid he sort of thought for a second. “Absorbing air,” he repeated softly, “Huh. Different.” Then he turned his attention to the two girls who asked about failing.
“Well, why you failed doesn’t really matter as much as the fact that you failed. But if you really want to know then I guess I could tell you.” He went back behind his desk and sat down, leaning back in his chair. “Im a mean person,” he told them simply, “At times Im unfair, unreasonable, and uninterested. There are others but I don’t think I’m allowed to say them in present company. Anyway, I’m either one or the other or all three.” He smiled a little at all of them. “Today I decided to be unfair.” He sat up and folded his arms on top of the desk.
“The ones who fell immediately failed. So did the ones who laughed. No one gets to make fun of anyone in this classroom.” He said with a serious look on his face. “The exception to that rule however is me. Then there are the ones who introduced themselves to me after they fell or not. You got points for being “nice”. But you failed for thinking I cared. And then those of you who were talking when you came in. You failed because you didn't give me your undivided attention. Im the jealous type. If your not talking to me don’t talk unless I say you can. Okay?”
He looked around the room, some students looked at him like he was an ass, some like he was insane, and some just didn’t care. It worked out just the way he wanted. “Now before any of you say anything, just remember: I said unfair. Now, that sounded pretty unfair to me. But if you have any objections then voice them now.” He didn’t even wait to listen if they did have any objections before he spoke again. “Good, now lets move on shall we?” Ha got up and moved to the front of the classroom, he sat on his desk. “Who wants to fight?” He asked the class. “No powers. Just to make it fair,” he said in an attempt to get volunteers.
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