Office Hours, Monday, 10/27

[tyler_gone]

It was Monday, which meant Tyler had to have office hours. So he was in his office; that was a given.

However, nothing said he had to actually work while he was there. Tyler was spending his time at his desk playing the stupidest Internet games he could find as part of an effort not to think about his weekend. (Though the kids' parents hadn't been all bad.)

His office door was open for anybody who wanted to bother him.

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[intraspective]

"I do not have issues with morality, Tyler-sensei," Ino said, leaning against his door, and grinning a bit. "Morality has issues with me."

[tyler_gone]

Tyler jostled the mouse, accidentally shooting the puppy as he turned to face her.

Eight minutes, wasted.

"Morning, Ino," he said, almost mildly. "That's not exactly what I told your dad -- nice guy, by the way -- but go ahead."

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

Without so much a word, Tony was walking on into Tyler's office like he owned the place, bottle of scotch in hand.

"Do you have glasses?"

[tyler_gone]

"20/20," Tyler said, rebounding a kitten off a mattress before he paused the game and looked up. "Oh, that kind? I got coffee mugs. And hi."

He went to get the mugs -- clean, thankfully -- from a bookshelf.

[intraspective]

"My dad is awesome," she informed him. "And radio said that's what you said, so I thought that needed corrected. My morality is just fine for my world."

Her world being the key, really. A beat.

"Are you playing games?"

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, hi," Tony said, shutting the door behind him. Couldn't have the kids seeing their teacher get drunk, after all.

[tyler_gone]

Tyler glanced at his screen. "Losing, actually. If not moving the mouse counts as a game. And that's what your dad was telling me, that you're used to more concrete situations."

[tyler_gone]

Tyler was grateful for the shut door as he set the mugs for Tony to fill. "So did your guests get off the island safe?"

[intraspective]

She shrugged a bit. "It's just... silly... to do something that's not got a potential use."

[tyler_gone]

Tyler rubbed the bridge of his nose. "I still think there's a purpose to demolitions without casualties, though," he argued. "I admit I might have been a little flip in how I presented it."

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I think so. Rhodey was still upset I let him drink so much." The tone implied he thought Rhodey needed to stop being such a light weight.

[intraspective]

"Sure," she said, wrinkling her nose. "Blow up a bridge to disrupt supply lines, blow up a shed to cause a distraction, or something. But blowing up a building generally means you want causalities."

[tyler_gone]

"God, personal responsibility," Tyler rolled his eyes. "I didn't see you pouring it down his throat."

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

"Well, considering the last time he and I hung out, I got him to drink a bottle of sake..."

And then there were stewardesses...

[tyler_gone]

"Generally, not every time," Tyler said. "It was a class exercise, Ino. And I'm not a fan of pretending to blow people up." Beating them to a pulp, on the other hand ...

"Your dad did help me understand why you saw it the way you did." Which was as close as Tyler would come to a concession.

[tyler_gone]

"So you'd think he would learn?" Tyler guessed. "I can't even blame you entirely for my hangover, man. Marla and I hit Caritas after we left the restaurant."

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

"I heard." Tony poured them both healthy cups of the sweet sweet life giving alcohol.

[tyler_gone]

Surprised even though he shouldn't have been, Tyler needed a sip of the scotch before he could answer. He'd listened to radio too. "Yeah? Fucking squirrels."

It wasn't Tony's business who he went home with, he thought.

[intraspective]

Ino could live with that, she supposed.

"Fine," she said, not quite sulking. "I still don't get the exercise at all, geez."

A beat.

"And please never ever talk to Ichigo's dad ever again 'bout me. That's just weird and creepy."

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

"That has to be the strangest way to get news I've ever heard," Tony said, smirking faintly and downing half his cup.

Oh, that burned.

[tyler_gone]

Tyler thought Ichigo's dad was kind of weird and creepy, but he supposed that was a thought he shouldn't share. "Done. I wasn't planning on it anyhow."

[tyler_gone]

That got a smile. "Squirrels themselves, or fucking them? Because the latter, kind of impossible."

[not-ironmaiden.livejournal.com]

Tony raised an eyebrow at him. "I was going to say the former, but the latter works if that's where your mind goes."

[intraspective]

"Thank you!" she chirped, beaming at him. "Because, seriously, no. Last thing his dad needs is any information on me."

[tyler_gone]

"My mind can be a strange place," Tyler admitted, as if this would be news to Tony. "Let's stick to the former."