Fourth Floor Common Room, Tuesday Morning

[wannabehunter]

By now Jo was acutely aware of just how little time she had left in Fandom, but rather than mope, she'd decided to be proactive about things.

Which was why the floor of the fourth floor common room was (barring enough room to step around them) completely covered in road-maps for every state from Maryland to Nebraska.

She also had her laptop open to several news sites. No reason.

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[wannabehunter]

"I can work with that," Jo said. "Besides, I'm not going to go after anything too nasty by myself." Not deliberately, anyway.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"It's what might be lurking that you don't intend to go after that bothers me."

[wannabehunter]

"I'm not going to try anything dumb," Jo assured him. "My mom would murder me if I got killed."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"I have faith in your abilities," Edmund assured her. "Goodness knows you've survived years here and held your own." Plus he'd seen her in action and knew Jo to be quite handy with defending herself. "It's the stories you've told of what might sneak up on you. That," he started, then let his comments stand as they were.

[wannabehunter]

"Yeah." Jo grimaced. "But I'll have Jet with me, and dogs can figure out those things are coming before people can."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Jet's a good companion, but if you're going to keep doing this, having someone who speaks English and can fire a weapon would be better."

[wannabehunter]

"I'd need someone I trusted for that. Even if it was only once in a while." There was totally an open ended offer there.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

He gave a small smile. "I don't know that I can. But a visit one weekend here or there in between classes might be possible."

[wannabehunter]

Jo smiled back. "I can think of worse ways to spend a weekend here or there. Especially since I somehow managed to get accepted to college." She didn't even remember applying.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"You were accepted?" he asked, realising a moment too late that he shouldn't have sounded so surprised. "Why didn't you say?"

[wannabehunter]

"I was still trying to decide if I was going," Jo admitted. "Though the subjects would be useful."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Well congratulations are in order for being accepted," Edmund insisted. Then he recognised the look on her face. "What subjects would be useful for what?"

[wannabehunter]

"It's a double degree," Jo explained. "Ancient Languages and Comparative Religions, Myth, and Folklore."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"That sounds," he started, trying to find the right word, "hefty."

[wannabehunter]

"You're telling me. Though apparently I can test out of introduction to Latin."

See, obsessively learning exorcism rituals she'd probably never actually have to use paid off!

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"This is all in the pursuit of hunting I'm assuming?"

[wannabehunter]

"Well, hunting pays better than teaching." Barely. "Which is the only other job I could get with this degree."

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

"Would you dress appropriately as a teacher and wear glasses to make you look smarter?"

[wannabehunter]

Jo rolled her eyes. "If that's a kink of yours you really needed to bring it up sooner." Because that would have been interesting, yes.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Edmund's face turned red. "That wasn't what I meant," he explained quickly, though now he was thinking about it and became even more red. "Hunting pays?" Smooth change of topic accomplished.

[wannabehunter]

"In a manner of speaking." If your speaking included credit card fraud, among other things.

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Things a King who was known as 'the Just' probably wouldn't approve of. "You do realise you've managed to find a way to further your hunting training and please your mother."

[wannabehunter]

"Never thought I'd have managed that, even if hell froze over."

Who wanted to guess when she'd put in her college application?

[once-a-traitor.livejournal.com]

Ah, Fandom.

"I'm waiting for the catch now. It doesn't seem like something like this should be possible."

[wannabehunter]

"Me too. I'll probably end up with an evil roommate or something."