Law and Order?

[Mycroft Hollins]

Mycroft was pleasantly surprised to find how good he felt being in the front of the classroom again. His leg didn't necessarily feel very good, in fact it ached enough to force him into his desk chair at the front of the classroom as he waited for his students to file in. He wondered with a smirk just how many of them were not looking forward to sitting through a speech about the wonderously dull world of American economics and government. As a British government official he'd found it all wonderously interesting due to the high multitude of ignorant and incompetent people who found themselves working for the government, but he wasn't about to tell any stories about that.

He checked his lesson plan one more time. He'd decided to go easy on them since it was the first day of class, but also because he was more interested in examining and deducing his students than teaching them. He wanted to know just what sort of group he was dealing with before he tried to make any real plans to educate them. The exercise he had planned would tell him everything he cared to know about every individual, as well as provide mild entertainment.

So he waited with suppressed excitement for his students to all arrive, keeping himself composed and his expression passive. He wanted to surprise them, as much as he hoped they surprised him.  

Class Roster
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Miranda Florin
Thomas Oliver

[Thomas Oliver]

Tommy brushed down the black jeans he was wearing as he walked down the hall, he didn't know how he'd done it, but he had somehow covered himself in white power between one class and the next. His eyes narrowed as a familiar blonde walked passed him, and he wondered if his sister had something to do with this.

Before he got to the classroom, and a stop at the drinking fountain for some needed water, he managed to remove the last of the powder off his clothes. With a shake of his head, he walked into the classroom and gave the teacher a charming smile before he gave a flourishing bow. "Top of the morning to you, Mr Hollins." He said as he straightened up and made his way to a table at the side of the room. He wasn't the type of student to lean against the wall, but he liked sitting by the windows, it gave a little extra natural light and made him fell less like he was in a prison cell - not that the classrooms were nothing but a concrete block.

He pulled the folder and pens he needed out of his bag and sat back in the seat as he waited for class to start.

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    Kate never slept well - that was a fact - but as far as she'd found, sleep wasn't terribly important to her. Sure, the caffeine tolerance she'd built probably wasn't terribly healthy, but she was doing just fine! So, this particular day, she'd been up since devilishly wee hours of the morning, fiddling with anything she could find. She'd set out outfits for the rest of the week, lined up chronologically in her closet, written a letter to Peter, and did some origami (her desk was now filled with tiny paper animals). 

    Needless to say, by 8:30, she was just about dead feeling. She looked pretty fabulous, if she did say so herself, with perfectly curled hair and a fabulously put together outfit, but her mind was not working its best. Stifling a yawn, Kate navigated through the halls, hoping that her first class would have something in store that would serve to wake her up.

    Stepping inside, she smiled (something so natural enough for her that it required little effort, and was therefore manageable), and greeted Mr. Hollins, "Hello!" The teacher's British accent had always been a comfort to her, as she seemed to be one of few students from the UK. Taking a seat, Kate took out her materials and waited for the class to begin.      

[Miranda Florin]

Miranda rubbed Beauty's forehead before turning to leave, smiling over at Ziggy and Zagg, "Be good, you two." After picking up her backpack from where she'd left it, she rounded the corner of the barn, although she didn't break into a jog until she'd left the grounds of the clinic behind her. It had been a good morning, although she'd spent a bit longer brushing out Beauty than she'd meant to, and thus, the quicker pace to get to her classes.

As she reached the academic building, she let herself inside, stopping briefly by the bathroom to wash her hands and tie back her hair before she walked back out and towards the Social Sciences wing. As she entered the classroom, she smiled at the teacher and greeted him with a simple, "Good morning," before making her way to a seat near the middle of the room.

After pulling out a notebook with the Miranda rights warning and waiver on the front, that Kent had found for her and sent as a joke, which she considered fitting for this class, along with a pencil, she zipped her backpack shut and then turned her attention to the front of the room, watching Mr. Hollins as she waited.

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Her next class was government, not entirely thrilled about that, Caroline took her time to get to it. Dressed in her cheer uniform she felt like she actually did belong in this school and not just in the school but to a group of girls that she got along with. Taking a much time as she could before she had to go to class Caroline stopped at the bathroom to check her makeup and hair.

Although she was a tomboy at heart, cheerleaders had expectations that they were held to and Caroline wasn’t an exception. She finally reached the class and she let out a heavy sigh before stepping into the room. Seeing that there were two other female students and one male she figured it would be a relatively small class seeing as the bell was about to ring, luckily she one of the girls from dance class last year, but that didn’t mean she would converse or even say hi. She just took a seat.

Caroline being the studious child she was pulled out a notebook and a pen and flipped it open to the first page. She waited for the class to begin even though she didn’t really want it to.

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Jason moved swiftly towards his next class. While he came by a different route than last year, it wasn't long before he was in the familiar hallway of his Government class. He didn't mind taking the class again, for he enjoyed the subject and its discussions. Also, he felt like the teacher had a great wealth of information that could be shared. He paused and straightened his dark blue shirt before entering. He wasn't quite sure why, but every time he went into this particular class he felt the need to freshen up a bit.

"Hello Mr. Hollins!" He said, greeting the familiar man with a smile. Taking a quick glance around the room, Jason saw that he wasn't the only one who didn't mind repeated a class, for he recognized some of the students from last year. He moved towards an empty seat and took out a new notebook and a few pencils. While he hadn't used up the whole notebook from last year, he liked the idea of a fresh start. He still had the old notebook sitting on the shelf, and he could go back to it if he wanted to cross-reference some information.

All settled in, Jason waited quietly for class to begin. He was eager to see what the new year would bring.

[Mycroft Hollins]

When the bell had finally rung Mycroft did a quick attendance to make sure that all of his students were there. It was pretty easy to tell as just a glance, considering the class only had 5 people in it. Some of them he even recognized from the previous year, and he wondered why they had decided to take this class again. Perhaps this year they expected him to suddenly have something interesting to talk about, maybe he'd stand on his head or perform witchcraft (A student at one of his previous schools had actually insinuated that since he was British and didn't talk about his old job he must be a wizard from Hogwarts). unfortunately his students would be rather disappointed, except perhaps with this activity he had planned to break the ice.

Grabbing his black umbrella, which rested against the desk beside him, he stood and walked to the front of the class with a paper in hand, trying his best to keep his steps and hide the limp. He leaned heavily against the umbrella once he was standing where he wanted to, crossing his throbbing leg to take more weight off it. "Greetings, my name is Mr. Hollins, I'll be teaching you about the incredibly dull and complicated world of American politics and economics. We're going to start with government, and move onto economics the second half of the year. Now then, since hearing you all recite your names and mumble something unimportant about yourselves would put me and likely the rest of your peers to sleep, we're going to introduce ourselves differently."

Turning, he set his umbrella aside for a brief moment and began writing on the board. It was chalk, since he'd requested it to be. He absolutely hated white boards, and how dirty they became. That's not to say that chalk boards weren't dirty either, but there was something far more classic about it. Besides, if a student misbehaved he could have them clap erasers for him after class, something he knew would amuse him greatly. In his perfectly practiced scroll, he began writing lines on the board for the class.

'1. It's illegal in Marion, South Carolina, to tickle a female under her chin with a feather duster to get her attention while she's riding a horse.

2. It is illegal to fish from horseback in Washington D.C, Colorado, and Utah/Tennessee prohibits riders from lassoing fish.

3. In South Carolina, no horses are allowed into Fountain Inn unless they are wearing pants.

4. In Raton, New Mexico, it is illegal for a woman to ride horseback down a public street with a kimono on/In Omega, New Mexico, every woman must "be found to be wearing a corset" when riding a horse in public! A doctor is required to inspect each woman to make sure that she is complying with the law.

5. In Hartsville, Illinois, you can be arrested for riding an ugly horse'

Once Mycroft had finished writing the list of things on the board he picked up his brolly and strolled over to his desk, leaning back against it with his arms crossed to address the class, "Now, we will be going into more detail on how exactly a law gets put into place later on, but for now I'll just tell you that it is a very long and arduous process. Considering the amount of trouble one must go through to get a law passed, it would make sense that only laws of the utmost importance would even be looked at, let alone passed. If that is the case, then I ask you bright individuals, how and why did these very real laws get passed? I am giving you fifteen minutes to think of an answer, what were the lawmakers thinking when they came up with these laws, and why did they think they were so important? Under what circumstances, for example, did the problem of lassoing fish become so problematic that it needed to become a law? Use your imaginations! There are no wrong answers this time, I'm only looking to see how you each think. After 15 minutes you will each present them by coming up here, stating your name, and then telling the class your opinion. You may pick any of the five laws I've listed, although since there are five laws and five of you, I am hoping you will each pick a different one. You may begin now."

[Thomas Oliver]

Tommy grinned at Mr Hollins' words on their class, and then chuckled on the idea of being put to sleep by listening to the others introduce themselves. It was a little class, so he didn't see that happening.

He read through the things that were written up on the board, but held back from copying them all down and listened as the teacher addressed the class again. Form his religious background, Tommy knew all about how hard it was to put laws into place. Freedom of speech and all that didn't always work when you were trying to talk about something that everyone else shunned.

He turned his attention back to the five laws, settling on one before their time was up. Tommy wasn't one to write a speech, so he did what he did best, picked a law and when their fifteen minutes were up, he walked to the front of the room and would wing it. Sure, he'd write it all down later.

"Hey everyone, I'm Tommy... Oliver." He said with a flourishing bow. "The law, or laws I want to talk about are: It is illegal to fish from horseback in Washington D.C, Colorado, and Utah. And that Tennessee prohibits riders from lassoing fish." He circled his shoulders as he gave a wicked grin. "Although the laws may sound a little silly, I could see how they would both work. A person on horseback would have a better advantage at fishing than a person standing on the bank, your horse would also be disrupting the bottom of the lake, pond, whatever. The lassoing thing became a huge problem a few years ago, it is inhumane and puts the fish through a lot of stress, so I can understand how that managed to pass through and become a law. After all, if enough people sign a petition, the government have no choice but to put a law to the vote." He gave another bow and walked back to his seat.

[Miranda Florin]

Miranda grinned as she listened to Mr. Hollins' introduction, knowing that the class would be anything but dull if it was like the past year she'd had with him. As the teacher turned to begin writing on the board, she watched his script, so much neater than her own handwriting, even in the larger size. As she realized what the man was writing, she had to stifle a chuckle, leaning forward in her seat to read each 'law' as he wrote them up.

When he'd finished, Miranda listened to the instructions, pursing her lips for a moment as she thought about which law she would talk about. After Tommy had stood up to speak, Miranda decided that she might as well go now, and rose, walking to the front of the board, “My name is Miranda Florin.” She paused, looking up at the board again, “Well, once upon a time in Hartsville, Illinois, this person rode a terribly ugly-looking horse down the street. This horse looked so frightening that he stopped all business for the day, as people were hiding within their homes, and caused the children that saw it to require therapy.” She paused, “When the counsel was able to leave their houses again, they convened a special session to push this law through, with the public fear pushing it on rather than hindering it.”

She grinned easily, thinking of a horse that most would know to end her presentation, and then spoke once more, “And that's how Roscoe ended up at Blue Ridge.” Chuckling to herself, she moved back to her seat, folding her hands as she waited to listen to the rest of the presentations.

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Caroline sat back in her chair and sighed as class started and Mr. Hollins officially began class. She listened to his whole spiel on the class and she rolled her eyes slightly. She read and reread the laws that were on the board, they were truly odd and how they were passed to become laws were passed her.

Although she figured out soon that she would have to pick one and explain how it became a law. Caroline mentally shrugged and thought that it wasn’t as bad as she thought it was going to start off as. Again she reread the laws as Mr. Hollins gave the instructions as the first and second time she read them she was just reading them in awe of why.

Once the fifteen minutes started she knew which one she wanted to use her only dilemma was to come up with why it was a law in the first place. She wrote it down at the top of a blank page and began brain storming ideas. She looked down over her list and decided on one reason. When the fifteen minutes were up she listened to the other two students and then volunteered to go.

She stood at the front of the class and began. ”My name is Caroline Thompson. The law that I chose was the one about tickling a female under the chin with a feather duster to get her attention while she was on a horse.” Taking a breath and resumed, ”Well way back when people actually used feather dusters there was a woman riding around in Marion and someone tried to tickle her under the chin and the feather duster was so big that it tickled her nose as well and she sneezed, this spooked the horse and the horse took off leaving the woman on the ground with multiple injuries and the horse unfortunately trampled many people. Once the horse was controlled lawmakers had a meeting and made this law for the safety of the townspeople.”

Although it was stupidest thing that had every come out her mouth she thought it sufficed and so she sat down and waited for the others to go.