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Iiiiit's Monday, and that means it's time for class!

Who: All the fine students of Luceti U!
What: IT'S TIME FOR COLLEGE, YO.
When: September 8 - 12th.
Where: All over "campus".
Summary: It's the first week of class for all you wonderful students, both new and old! Enjoy catching up with friends, trying to find your classes, engaging in all aspects of college life, and... let's not forget about the upcoming game.
Rating: PG-13 at best, guys. I know this is supposed to be college but if you're going to engage in the more... racy aspects of college life, take it off-comm!
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You never called me by my name before.

[But she did remember him enough to remember his name in the first place, so that's a point in her favor.

The expression on his face is a study in neutrality at the moment, though he doesn't bother to hide the faint amused curl of his lips. Good, she seems to be calming down somewhat now that she knows this isn't some practical joke being played on her.]

I... guess not... [Elizabeth looks uneasily at the computer. Gai is apparently making some cry for attention or something, and he's resorted to the grad student behind the library desk.]

You know, uh. The counseling center on campus is really great, if you need someone to, you know, listen to you. I've been there before!

[Now Gai has to outright fight back a smile at her sudden display of flustered uncertainty. Goodness, this really is going right over her head... hasn't anyone ever flirted with her before? Or perhaps they have and she didn't even realize what was going on.]

Maybe they are, but I also don't happen to think that they're one of the most attractive women I've ever seen.

[There. There's no way she can misinterpret that, right?]

[Not really. Elizabeth had been raised to avoid boyfriends and all other romantic entanglements, and given the history between her parents she was already fed up with it. She had her studies, and she'd always thrown herself into them and left little time for much else.]

[But nobody's ever put it this bluntly. Elizabeth stares at him, stunned for a moment. Gradually, her face starts to turn pink.]

I don't... I'm a graduate student, Gai. I'm sure there are plenty of attractive girls your age-- ones who you don't have to hold books hostage for.

I'm nineteen.

[He almost, almost sounds slightly insulted by that-- does she really think he's some immature freshman just barely out of high school? He likes to think he's far more mature and self-possessed than THAT. He'd had to grow up fast, not that he'd wanted to. Being orphaned at a young age and then adopted by a stepfather who was more interested in his work than his son had forced a certain level of self-reliance on him whether he liked it or not.]

Don't tell me that's too young for you.

I teach classes to your peers, that says enough...! [Elizabeth is twenty one, so by the numbers Gai isn't too young for her. She thinks? She doesn't know, she's never had to think about too old or too young or anything dumb like that.]

Alright, alright-- say that wasn't such a big deal. I teach two classes, I take a full courseload, I have this job, and I'm an RA. You'd be happier with someone less married to their work, right? Someone who actually goes on dates.

Then I'll just have to get used to spending more time in the library.

[No, that isn't a deterrent to him at all. There are few things that are enough to actually turn Gai away from something he's interested in, especially something as pretty and as interesting as Elizabeth is. The very fact that she does all of those things is part of what attracts him to her in the first place.]

Nothing says you can't have dates right here.

[That just makes her deflate. Elizabeth's face is getting pinker too, and she's starting to worry that Helios is going to find her at the front desk with this boy talking about dates while working.]

I'm pretty sure I can't be on a date while I'm at work.

Can anyone actually see what happens in the stacks?

[It's an honest question here.]

I catch students eating lunch in the stacks all the time. Especially on the fifth floor. [Which no one but her ever really pays much attention to. That's why she's made it her project.]

Aside from delinquents getting crumbs on the books.

[He is not deterred.]

...why do you want to know?

[Elizabeth is clueless.]

[He's just going to sit there and look at her, eyebrows raised.

Just think for a few moments, Elizabeth.]

[She waits...]

[Then raises her eyebrows back.]

In other words, it's a pretty private location.

[And it clicks.]

[And Elizabeth looks miffed.]

Gai, I admit, you're very easy on the eyes. I'm sure many girls have followed you to 'private locations' before after you've called them 'the most attractive woman you've ever seen'. And I am thrilled to break your streak.

[She throws another stack of books onto a cart and starts pushing it to the elevator.] Drop the rest of your books in the slot next time!

[She wouldn't be wrong about that, not that Gai is going to confirm or deny her suspicions either way. He'll just remain silent on that front, face still wearing a Cheshire Cat grin that may be getting just the tiniest bit wider at this response. Honestly, if she hadn't gotten angry at him for that implication, he probably wouldn't be anywhere near as attracted to her as he is. The fact that she has no intention of being another notch on his belt ratchets his respect for her up several levels.]

And I wouldn't have been interested if you'd agreed right away.

[Elizabeth pushes the cart to the elevator and hits the button to call it before turning back to Gai.]

In it for the chase then, are you? Done with the impressionable sophomores and juniors, so you're running after a grad student? I mean, that's the only reason I can think of as to why you'd be after me-- you don't even know me from the next female grad student.

[Gai meanders casually after her, but stops at a respectable distance so as not to come off as being pushy or creepy. Which, granted, is probably a useless endeavor at this point, but...]

I know that you TA for the Professors Lutece, that you're an RA in one of the dorms, and that you work here in the library. I also know that I have yet to meet anyone who has a single negative thing to say about you, save for the fact that you overwork yourself frequently.

[Perhaps it should be a little creepy that it sounds like Gai has been asking around about her, but to Elizabeth it's a surprise. She didn't have many friends because she was always so busy, and not many people asked after her unless they had a late assignment to hand her.]

[So when Gai rattles all of that off, she looks at him with a much softer, more curious eye.] All that because you thought I was attractive?

[It is perhaps a little creepy, but Gai is the sort of person to want to have the entire picture before he takes action on anything. He has his stepfather to thank (or blame) for that-- scientists are nothing if not thorough, observing every possible angle and outcome.

When he sees that slight shift in expression, his own smile grows softer and more genuine.]

In a nutshell.

[Elizabeth really isn't sure what to do with that. No one's ever really come at her like this-- at least, she's never realized that anyone was flirting with her. She watches him for a moment longer before the ding of the elevator arriving snaps her out of it.]

[She pushes the cart into the elevator and looks back at him. The doors start to close and she hits the door open button to hold it.]

If you help me reshelve these, I'll clear your fines.

[Score a point for Gai. And possibly a date, but he's not going to get that far ahead of himself just yet. There's still ample time for things to go wrong before that happens.

Grinning, he nods in gratitude to her, then steps into the elevator alongside her, careful to maintain a polite distance. The last thing he wants is to end this before it ever really begins by making her think he's trying to make a move on her.]

You've got yourself a deal.

[Elizabeth, fortunately, isn't so concerned. Sometimes she teaches the self-defense for women seminars on campus, which mainly consists of her teaching girls how to break noses.]

So. Gai Tsutsugami, junior. And that's all I know about you, at least. What's your major?

[This is her trying to catch up with him.]

[Don't tell him that or he'll be even more attracted.]

Public policy. It's about as far from my stepfather's field as I can get, which was my main priority in picking a major.

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