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Hi there! I just got accepted to the guild, so I'm making my first post, just so you know I'm not some weird person who doesn't read the rules or anything and just wanders in randomly. Shoooop!

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Depsite the time of day, the heat was searring in the cooking area for Pizza Palazzo. Not used to the stifling temperatures, Kai needed to take short breaks every ten minutes to stop herself from sweating to death and passing out in front of the ovens. It seemed a waste of heat when her apartment in town got pretty chilly at night time. If she could have somehow bottled the heat from the kitchen of the pizza Palazzo and used it to heat the apartment, she'd be set for heating, and she'd also save money because she wouldn't have to run the heater on all the time. Not only that, but the place might smell like garlic bread, and she loved the smell of fresh garlic bread. As an extra special bonus, she could sleep easy at night knowing that no vampires would enter a place that smelled like garli-

"Hey, part-timer! Watch those fries!"

Suddenly snapping back to reality, Kai looked to her left and realised that the fry-cooker alarm was bleeping, telling her that fries were cooked and ready. Before she could act, the large, hasty palm of the head chef dove past her and hefted the metal basket of fries out of the cooker. The fries were all a darker brown than was acceptable, according to the chart the loomed above the cooker, like a page from the Bible. Studying the chips, the man grimaced and shook his head.

"Too late. The fries are too crunchy and oily now. Weren't you watching?"

Kai looked apologetic, but optimistic. "I'm sorry, ity's just so hot in here. Well, maybe we could just soak them in warm water for a little bit, that'd get them soggy and soft again, right?"

The four kitchen staff all simultaneously were stunned and glanced back at her with mouths agape. The head chef looked down at her in disbelief for an eternity. He spoke after rubbing his temples. "Look, the waitresses are understaffed right now, why don't you go plague them instead of us, alright?"

A wide, apreciative grin shone on her face. "Alright! I love doing the waiting, thanks!" With that, she pulled off her cap and let her hair down, then walked excitedly out of the kitchen to the staff room to change. Wiping her face with a wet towel to clean off the scent of cooking oils, she changed from an apron to a waitress uniform, an orange polo shirt with the store logo on the breast, and a matching skirt and stockings.

Grabbing an order-PDA from the bench, she walked confidantly towards the restaurant area, where she stood in wait for customers to come in.

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Hope that was okay for the first post. Kai's kinda a ditz, but I'm not. Really.

Regina sighed in relief from the shadows. Once Tetsuo was safely in the infirmary and Porter was out in the hall, she appeared out of the shadows next to him. "I think I'm supposed to go to your room tonight. I just have this feeling." she told him with a grin.

Gen watched Tetsuo from the doorway, wanting to talk to him but worried about what he'd say. It seemed to be all her fault. The drink then the ice... What would he think of her?

ooc: this is ginko. i'm going to be using this account from now on.

OOC: I'll update the summary thread tomorrow (since I dont have class biggrin ). In fact, I may add a post to it tonight... i'm just gonna take a nap first ^^;

After a couple of long minutes, Sasha saw Pierto walking back into the room with a couple of boxe of pizza. Sasha quickly sat up and grabbed a box. She began scarfing down the pepperoni. Meanwhile, Ana was just laying down, looking up curisously at the new world around her, while sucking on the necklace that was Wanda's.

Sonya was lead away from the group of thugs. She and Markus rested under a tree. "Thanks," she said. She looked down at her feet. "So, um, you called me your um, girlfriend back there," she managed to say.

OOC: We have an OOC forum thanks smile Just being an a** cause I can.

IC:

Penance stretched her arms and stared at the ceiling after Jacen left trying to convince herself to get out of bed. It had been quite awhile since she rested, not Jade. It was different. Not having to look at Regina's bed, she alread knew her friend hadn't come back for the night. Their living arrangement was getting slightly awkward these days.

"Oh well, let's say hello to the world," Penance grabbed her shower things and went to take a shower. There was nothing in particular she had to do or nowhere she had to be. That was the thing at the moment. She had no obligations. No team to lead, no classes to take. In a way it was unsettling and in a way it was a relief.

After getting dressed she trapsed about the Institute for a bit seeing if anything else had changed. The only new thing was a large wing being constructed towards the back of the Institute. The place did need the space. Before she could head down to the weight room, Kitty popped in from one of the walls.

"Scott wants to meet with you in about ten minutes if you aren't doing anything else," Kitty said. Penance noticed her shoulder, "Sorry about that."

"Don't worry about it," Kitty shook her head and lead them both back to Scott's office. Scott was indeed waiting for Penance when she arrived. This wasn't exactly the face she had wanted to see. The man still was not on her christmas card list.

"Evelyn, everybody has a role here whether it's a student, trainer or teacher," He started off.

Penance arched and eyebrow not liking where this was going, "Okay, are you about to tell me I can't stay unless I do something? Quite frankly, I'm not about to take back my position before. I left this place once cause I didn't want to play the super hero game."

"That's not what I'm telling you. There is a position I need you to fill," Scott said, "And you're the best one for the job."

"And if I say no?" Penance said in a dry voice.

"You can start paying rent because we need your room for students. I need you to be Jonothan Porter's assistant trainer and advisor. You know these students better than most and they look up to you. I know you, and I know you're going to refuse. You and I both know that these students need trained and they need trained right. Jacen and Morgan both are taking up such positions here," Scott tried to use that as leverage.

Penance always felt the obligation to the students. She started training young because she never wanted to defend herself and others. The better reasoning side of her knew it was a position she should take, "Fine. But that's all I'm done."

"You're new room is on the third level next to Jonothan's. Kitty will give you the paperwork to get onto our payroll," Scott was all business. Penance got the papers from Kitty and left the room a bit annoyed at the way she was asked to take the job. Walking past Sonya's room she tacked a note on the door, Sonya, name the time and place for the rematch.

"I need to work on my skills," Penance thought to herself.
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"Somehow I think you're right," Porter said to Regina, "Let me make sure McCoy is on this Tetsuo case... I don't want to leave before then."

Jonothan found McCoy and told him what had happend with Tetsuo. McCoy didn't show one way or another if he was concerned or not and left to see his new charge.

"Okay, lady, let's go get some sleep."

Scott sighed. "Come in!" He looked mornfully at the pile of paperwork still sitting on his desk. At the rate his day was going we was never going to get rid of it all.


"Sorry for bothering you Mr. Summers..." Rachael said sliding into the office. "I wanted to see if perhaps there was a....err... possition open here...." She was asking if he had a job open.

Several came to mind. "Can you type and use a computer?" He asked.

"Yes sir."

"Hmmm....I have a secraterial possition open with Hank...err....Doctor McKoy..." He said locating a file with the paperwork.

"I did secraterial work before..." She replied brightening.

"Good, that only leaves a few left and we're back at full staff." He looked at her criticly. "You can start as soon as you're feeling better..."

"Thank you sir...and it was probably just something I ate last night." Seh lied not wanting to get anyone in trouble.

He took her arm as they walked. "It's not that..." He said feeling a bit foolish. "It's because you're a beautiful person. Mutant or no." He said. He hugged her back. "Mmm....wonder who they placed me with, if they've actually gone and done that yet." He pondered when she had read her note. He nodded. "Ok, I'll see you later than...." He looked at his watch. "Better get changed as well." He started down the hall to his room.