Durden's Office, Monday afternoon

[tyler_gone]

Tyler had never been sure exactly what teachers were supposed to do during office hours, but he supposed he owed it to his students to hold them.

After an email check and some time spent perfecting his instructions for Thursday's class, he leaned back in his desk chair and started tossing pencils at the ceiling.

The door was open.

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[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Ferguson kept insisting the jello dragons were too good to be true," Cameron remarked, slightly wistful.

[tyler_gone]

Tyler took a moment, picturing the dragons, and then laughed. "I'd forgotten those until just now," he said. "Somehow."

"Who's Ferguson?"

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I'll never forget the jello dragons," Cameron insisted. "He's a friend I knew before I went to Fandom. We went to the academy together." Then fought a guerrilla war against aliens, but he left that part out.

[tyler_gone]

"I wouldn't think I would, and yet I did," Tyler returned. "I think they were just too weird for me."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"I thought the tiny animals were weirder," Cameron remarked.

[tyler_gone]

"Am I making up gnomes?" Tyler wondered. "I'm remembering something with gnomes and pie. That might be weirdest."

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Mine got drunk," Cameron remembered, sounding like he just managed to dredge up the fleeting memories of a dream. "Are you sure you wanna subject yourself to that kind of insanity again?"

[tyler_gone]

Not really.

"At least this time I know what I'm getting into," Tyler said with a kind of verbal shrug.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"If you think that will change anything," he replied, not bothering to be reassuring.

[tyler_gone]

"Nah. I'll waste a little less time being surprised, but I never so much bothered with that last tim," he said, remembering.

"Maybe I just like Fandom crazy." It went well with his own, somehow.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"It's never boring," Cameron agreed and he rubbed a hand through his hair. "I should probably get going."

[tyler_gone]

"Yeah, me too," Tyler answered. He had important pretending to look like he knew what the hell he was doing to do. "Good catching up, Mitchell."

He even meant it.

[cameronmitchell.livejournal.com]

"Yeah," Cameron wasn't sure what he made of it, luckily he was getting used to that feeling. "Try not to blow anything up." It was a joke. Sort of.

[tyler_gone]

Tyler made a slight throat-clearing noise, then seemingly decided not to say what he was going to say.

"Bye."

He hung up.