Sean Cassidy (keeningheart) wrote in academy_x, @ 2010-06-23 22:37:00 |
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Entry tags: | banshee, chamber, husk, jubilee, pixie, skin, trance |
Who: Generation X!
When: Wednesday, after training
Where: Rec Room
What: Team Bonding!
Sean didn't often reach into his bag of teacher privileges for much, but he'd made today an exception. He'd kicked everyone out of the Rec Room except his own team. He'd been nice about it, but definitely firm. He insisted on having the Rec Room all to himself and his team for at least an hour (and hoped that no one would raise a fuss if he made it two hours if all went well). He had a cooler stocked with water, juice, and cola, some pizza, and was content to do whatever the kids wanted to do. Though he kept giving the pool table a meaningful glance, hoping the kids would pick up on it.
The meeting wasn't really as much of a celebration as it seemed. Cassidy wasn't throwing this as a party, or even as a reward for their hard work (something he was very proud of, even if they didn't always do so well in the head-on challenges, it seemed), but a chance for the group to get together more. He liked their team spirit - Jubilee had made fantastic shirts, Angelo was always looking out for everyone on the team, Paige was always full of suggestions and causes, Megan was absolutely adorable and always looking for ways to help out, Hope was new but giving it her all, and Jono was being more social with his team than Sean would have ever guessed he would. There was always room for improvement, though, in Sean's mind. There seemed to be awkward tension between Jono and Paige, for one, and Jubilee and Megan could both be a bit overbearing in their personalities, and Hope was, well, still new.
Thus... games? Sean had proven to be a lot stricter about training than he was about classes - which, considering his classes, didn't say very much, but anyone who had never gone to Sean about power-training before was probably surprised to see that his ex-Interpol status wasn't just some title that floated around the student body. The kids had powers that could be very dangerous, and he was very serious about them getting the proper training that they needed to control those powers. This party was his way of pulling back a bit to show that they hadn't lost the fun-loving Cassidy. He reared his head outside of training all the time still, but Sean was worried that he wasn't seeing the students enough outside of training to keep that cemented in their minds (his office door was always kept open... but he was often bored in that office). Besides, games often instilled great senses of team-building, bonding, accomplishment, and a slew of other benefits the players often overlooked in all but their subconscious.
Besides. It beat making them dance.