Setting Up Shop: Field Leader's Office

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:18 pm

The "office" Will had procured wasn't the world's largest -- he had a sneaking suspicion it had used to be a janitor's closet that had been slightly retrofitted for this task. Still, an office was an office, and Will was going to do this up right.

On the walls, he had hung picture of many of the former field leaders of the X-Men: Cyclops, Storm, Rogue, Nightcrawler (this one oddly slightly larger than the others), Havok, Wolverine, and Seraph. A big oak desk literally stretched from one end of the room to another, such that the only way around it was directly over it, a prospect made difficult by the slanted ceiling. On the wall behind the desk was a map of London with a number of pushpins stuck in it at various locations, and a row of three-ring binders.

Will took a step back, nodded, and smiled.

((open!))

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:27 pm

Janice spotted the name on the door as she was passing by, and ducked her head in.

"...when did they give you an office?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:36 pm

"When I asked them for an office, believe it or not. The Headmistress is helpful, sometimes.

...Sometimes."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:42 pm

"Did you have some sort of trouble with her? I haven't really spoken with her."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:47 pm

"It's...."

Will paused, uncharacteristically.

"Let's just say that it's a long story.

But hey! Sweet new office."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 2:48 pm

"Well that's cool. Is... everything alright?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:31 pm

"Everything's just fine. Just throwing myself into this new role with a bit of gusto, you know?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:34 pm

"As long as you don't want to call them the W-Men, I think you'll do fine."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 3:38 pm

"Yeah, I don't think I could fit that ego into this room, y'know?"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:04 pm

"If you did, we'd have to pour you back out of it very carefully, huh?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:25 pm

"Pretty much. I have NO idea why this room is this shape," he said, as he started painting the fourth wall of the office.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:38 pm

"Ductwork, maybe? Might keep you warm in the winter."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 4:47 pm

"Aha! A theory. A theory most sound.

I suspect that I've got enough special privileges as it is that they just kinda pawned this one off on me," he chuckled.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:02 pm

"You're the least likely to have back trouble, right?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:30 pm

"That's the one time you can get away with calling me spineless."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:33 pm

"You're a willow, you can bend."

"...pun not intended."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 5:55 pm

"You're a superhero. Of course the pun was intended."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:00 pm

"Yeah well... not so loud, eh?" She chuckled.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:16 pm

"Of course," Will chuckled. "But this isn't exactly the highest-traffic corridor. I was rather hoping for Professor Lumis' old office, but somehow that didn't come through!"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Mon Jun 04, 2012 6:20 pm

"If they gave you that, you'd have the temptation of the shark tank trap door in front of your desk. You'd be laughing maniacally constantly."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 8:01 am

"I might do that anyway! You never know."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:19 am

"Been practicing?"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:47 am

"I wish. That was the kind of role I wanted to play."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:49 am

"What, a Bond villain?"

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:54 am

"I think I'd be good!

It'd be better than another fucking mop."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:57 am

"...that sounds like a story coming on."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:08 pm

"...Close the door."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:10 pm

"...alright, then?" She said, quirking a brow as she did as Will had asked.

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:21 pm

Will then proceeded to tell the story of the quality of jobs he had been offered as an actor, as well as the long list of slightly more respected things that he wasn't even considered for, most often due to his status as a mutant.

"...so, yeah. Sara's got a big, fat, juicy government contract and articles in journals and shit, and I'm a mop."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:30 pm

"Well I don't think its... easy... to break into show business even if you're not a mutant."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 12:37 pm

"Yeah, but most people don't have their heads rubbed against the floor...or another man's crotch."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:22 pm

"...guess it's a little like getting into dirty pictures."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 2:55 pm

"Yeah. At least this job is somewhat more respectable.

...Somewhat," he said, looking at the row of pictures on the wall.

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 3:04 pm

"I can't help but notice which one's the biggest."

by **Will Stanton** » Tue Jun 05, 2012 4:54 pm

"Uh, I already had that poster."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:32 pm

"Didn't think to get him to sign it when he was here?"

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 12:48 pm

"I could never ask him to do that!"

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:00 pm

"Why not? I'm sure he would have, for a fan."

by **Will Stanton** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:56 pm

"It's not that...the, uh, leader of the X-Men can't be a fan boy."

by **Janice Gilbertson** » Wed Jun 06, 2012 1:57 pm

"You could say you got it signed before they promoted you," she teased.

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