Characters: Ororo Munroe and Remy LeBeau NPCs: -- Location: Ororo's office, the X-mansion; then IN THE WIND. Timeline: Friday night, 26 February. After bedtime. Description: Remy, who is a master thief as you may recall, comes and steals a school headmistress for some much-needed distraction. Rating: PG? Drinking, I assume.
It was another late night in her office for Ororo; with the funeral behind them and the public memorial service ahead, she was catching up on school business. Going through invoices, cutting checks, dealing with disciplinary reports, supply requisitions, curriculums, building maintenance, payroll... it was daunting, this job that had fallen into her lap, and she'd fallen behind on some of the day-to-day necessities while dealing with the fallout from her beloved mentor's death.
Some of her fellow staff members had stopped in to check on her as the evening progressed, and Ororo had assured them all that she was fine and would be out of the office shortly. It was a bald-faced lie, but a necessary one: with every student needing extra care and attention as well as her duties with the X-Men and dealing with arrangements for Charles' memorials, the time she had to deal with the banalities of running a one-of-a-kind school was now, after curfew, with the children in bed and the other adults enjoying their free time. If anyone could enjoy anything at the moment, that is.
Her vision blurred with the sudden sting of tears, making the words on the expenditures report she was going through fuzzy and unreadable. With a sigh, Ororo dropped her head into her hand, rubbing at the growing headache between her eyes as she blinked the moisture away.