Locker 327, just after 6th period

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was probably pushing his luck after his meeting with Agent Principal earlier in the day. Particularly since Principal Smith had given Walter permission to keep his "tools."

But, the locker was there, the challenge was there, the curiosity was there, and his new partner-in-crime, Pippi Longstockings was there.

Standing on the other side of the hall from the locker, Walter looked at it and shrugged. "It doesn't look like much."



[ooc: feel free to watch, but consider this post locked for Walter, Pippi, and the locker.]

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[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Fresh from her appointment with Dr. House (http://www.livejournal.com/community/fandom_clinic/59128.html?thread=2739704) Pippi stands next to Walter with her hands on her hips. In one of her hands in a belaying pin.

"Well you know what they say... It's what's on the inside that counts..."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Then let's crack it open and see what's there. Nice club." So much for the school's no weapons rule. That didn't seem to work particularly well.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"It's not a club," she explained as they walked towards it, "It's a belaying pin (http://www.all-model.com/wolfram/small/247.7.jpg) you use them on ships. It's a tool." she said, not at all aware of what she was saying and how it related to Walter and his wires.

She reached out and knocked on the locker door. "Hello? Anybody home?"

[fh-anonymous.livejournal.com]

The locker door remained closed and quiet. They might notice though that Pippi's knock echoed more than would be expected from a standard sized locker.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

That excuse had already worked successfully once, why not twice? Walter grinned and leaned over to pull on the locker handle.

"Maybe we have to go to them."

[fh-anonymous.livejournal.com]

As Walter pulled on the handle, the door jumped open and the two students were blow back across the hallway in a storm of cherry blossoms.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Both Walter and Pippi were blown off their feet.

Walter managed to twist is body about in the air and landed on his feet, sliding back a few inches as the little white flowers swirled around him. He put his arm up to keep them from blowing into his eyes as he tried to see what was inside the locker, but the wave of cherry blossoms was to thick.

Pippi on the other hand flew tukus over tea kettle in the air as Mr. Neilson jumped clear. She slammed upside down against the back wall and dropped her belaying pin.
"Oof!"

The locker door slammed shut as quickly as it opened and she slid to the floor.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter shook himself like a wet dog, sending a spray of fragrant pink petals onto the floor.

"That's more like it. You alright, Pippi?" Standing over her, the girl didn't look hurt, which reminded him that he'd never quite figured out if Pippi was another of the not quite human sort of person that abounded in this school.

"I'm ready to give it another go, if you are." He flicked out a wire to pluck the belaying pin off the floor where it had flown and handed it back to the girl. "Let's just not stand directly in front of it this time."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi stood up and dusted herself off. She shook her head and some of the flowers came out of her hair. If it wasn't for the fact that it would be a complete falshood, one might say she looked like something out of an oriental screen painting.

"Yeah, I'm fine," she said taking the belaying pin from Walter. "That was fun. Let's do it again."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Let's be a little less direct." Walter leaned against the wall opposite the locker, ready for another blast of wind and wrapped a pair of wires around the handle, giving it a sharp tug.

[fh-anonymous.livejournal.com]

The locker door stayed firmly shut this time.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Ah, man." Said Pippi as whe watched the locker not open.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"Bollocks," muttered Walter, pulling the wires loose. He briefly considered just cutting the door off the locker, but he'd promised Principal Smith that he wouldn't do things like that earlier that same day.

He could wait to piss off Smith more than this little adventure might.

"Fine. You might want to step aside. I'm going to try it again."

This time he stood to the side of the locker and tried the handle.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

She didn't really feel the need, but Pippi took a step back.

"Try not to hurt the door." she said looking around. They were ankle deep in cherry blossoms. "I think we're leaving enough evidence as it is."

[fh-anonymous.livejournal.com]

THe locker door, again, did not budge.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter employed a few choice curses he'd learned from some of Hellsing's soldiers and gave the door another yank.

"I think it's mocking us."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Huh. I guess it's done with us... Or maybe just with you? Let me try."

Pippi took a hold of the door and said, "Open says me... please." and tried to pull the door open gently.

[fh-anonymous.livejournal.com]

The door swung open slowly to reveal... an empty locker.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

"It's doing that on purpose."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi looks into the empty locker and raps on the inner side wall.

"Well," she says. "Maybe they've been trying to fix it and did."

Leaving the locker open she turns around and shrugs. "I think maybe this is one danger we can probably cross off our lists."

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

Smith, who caught wind of this fool-hardy experiment thanks to his video feeds, gives a bit of a mock applause as he approaches Walter and Pippi.

"Congratulations. You two have done something quite... amazing."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Mr. Neilson scurries off into the night.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter watched the monkey fleeing their sinking ship of giddy exploration. Rat.

"Good evening, sir." What else was there to say?

[fh-anonymous.livejournal.com]

The locker door slammed shut behind Pippi and Walter.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi leaned over to Walter and whispered, "Maybe you were right about it doing that deliberately."

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

"Not the locker exploration, of course. The amazing part is having earned yourselves detention for foolhardy endangerment of yourself and others on the very first day of the semester." Smith smirks.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi didn't think that was really so amazing, given who she was. But decided that it was best if Principal Smith did not know this.

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter restricted his response to the detention assignment to a nod. He'd deliberately broken the rules and knew it.

Oh well, it gave him something to talk about with other people.

"Have we set a record, sir?"

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

"Well, you are the first two since term started. However, we do already have someone joining you in detention, having earned it before the term even began." Smith shrugged.

"Shennanigans are infectious at this school."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Good thing I've already given blood at the clinic. Maybe there's an innocuous for it." Pippi said without irony or sarcasm .

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter was fairly certain he had come pre-infected with his own case of pernicious shenanigans.

Perhaps that wasn't the best thing to mention.

"Where do we report? And do we have to do it more than once?" He had a feeling he'd become intimately acquainted with detention.

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

"Detention is held every Saturday in the Danger Shop. You can refer to the student handbook's specific rules, but I believe the standard procedure is a fun-filled day with a faculty member, beginning at approxamitely eight a.m. Fandom Standard Time." Smith pops his neck a little.

"A good detention hopefully will keep you in mind of proper school behavior for the future."

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi looked up at Principal Smith meekly. Something she did surprisingly well for somebody who did it so seldom.

"Yes sir."

[agent-principal.livejournal.com]

Smith pinches the bridge of his nose, because the cuteness hurts his brain.

"Thank you for being so understanding of your punishment. Good day, students."

And with that, he turns and walks away before any further questions can be raised.

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

As Principal Smith rounds the corner Pippi turns to Walter.

"Welp... That was fun. But I don't know that it was worth it... Though now we get to investigate the possibility of creepy pie."

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

Walter leaned over and whispered in Pippi's ear, wary of Smith's far reaching eye, "You killed him with cute. Good job."

He bent and picked a few cherry blossoms off the floor for souvenirs and tucked them carefully in his waistcoat.

"It was worth it. We need to remember this moment. Go stand near that pain in the arse locker and I'll take your picture." He retrieved his bookbag, which had been down the hall away from the locker, and pulled out his prized Polaroid. "Smile and say, 'detention.'"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

"Detention!"

[walter-n-wires.livejournal.com]

*flash*

Walter blinked a little at the flash in the somewhat dim hallway.

"Looks like we have a date for Saturday, then." He tucked the camera back in his bag and waved the photo back and forth a little.

"You want some help with dinner?"

[strongestgirl.livejournal.com]

Pippi started down the hall swinging her belaying pin and leaving a trail of cherry blossoms behind her.

"Sounds a right bit more productive then what we've BEEN doing." she said. Mr. Neilson jumped from the top of the lockers onto her shoulder as she turned the corner.