Office Hours (Open to all)

[firstbornrichards]

When: Friday afternoon
Where: X-Mansion, Franklin's office
What: Franklin has open office hours.

Franklin Richards had taken to teaching like a duck had taken to water. He'd shown up with half of his planning for the year finished already, though as a famous general had once said, "no plan survives contact with the enemy". He'd had to do a lot of adapting on the fly, but it was good. It kept him busy and made him feel useful as something other than some sort of ridiculous fount of all power.

He'd adopted an open-door policy pretty early, because the truth was, sometimes he liked being interrupted from marking and other paperwork. If anyone had any questions or concerns, he was there to help them out. If someone wanted to drop him off some coffee, well, that was extremely welcome.

Franklin liked coffee, a lot. People who gave him coffee tended to get their requests granted much more quickly.

The door was open. Who would come in next?

And would they have coffee?

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[firstbornrichards]

"Oh, Miss Power, I think we might be able to find a ... mutually agreeable solution." Franklin grinned. "Why don't you come in and close the door and we can work something out?"

Yep, Franklin's expression just turned into a great big grin.

"Hey you."

[bunny_battery]

Katie grinned, shutting the door behind her.

"Hey yourself."

[firstbornrichards]

Franklin got up from his desk and crossed the distance between them, wrapping his arms around her and giving her a long, sweet kiss.

"Found a few moments in the schedule for little ol' me, huh?" He smiled. "Everything going well at the Future Foundation?" As for him, it was clear he was hard at work, the office being liberally stewn about with half-read books and papers.

"I'm sorry about the hurricane that came through here. Thankfully there were no casualties."

[bunny_battery]

"Well, there was some kind of accident on the dimensional physics floor, so they locked it down and sent the rest of us home until they put the tentacle monster back in whatever dimension it belongs," she said, her tone making it clear she was kidding.

[firstbornrichards]

"I hate it when that happens." Franklin replied. "Don't suppose I get to drag you out for lunch? There's a great shawarma place in town. And I think if I stay in this office any longer, I'm going to become symbiotically fused with the New York state curriculum.

They will call me Outcome. It will be terrible." He grinned broadly. "And men shall behold the power of my attainments and tremble. I'll assess them all to oblivion. Formatively and summatively."

[bunny_battery]

"My afternoon's pretty clear," Katie said. "So yes, lunch is good, thanks."

She laughed. "Teaching really that terrible?"