2nd Floor Common Room | Tuesday Evening

[pursuedthestars]

Jim's hearing was just now starting to come back. That was an exaggeration but he'd swear up and down that the early morning fire drill had caused permanent damage to his hearing and he should be assigned a personal assistant (preferably a very pretty, very female one) just to help him through the rough times.

But, he figured that request would be turned down since the school probably spent their entire budget on free food. Jim would take that trade off. He was a fan of free food and he wasn't shy about that.

His trip to the common room this week had yielded some pasta dish that he'd found in the refrigerator (and managed to heat up without starting a fire) and some documentary about mobsters.

It wasn't Cactibear but what was?

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[pursuedthestars]

Jim hadn't thought about that himself so he nodded because, yeah, he could definitely do that.

"Now, would he do that with the gun or with his fists?" he had to ask. "Because the gun...might do a little more than leave someone with a lisp."

[dressedinblood]

"I think hitting someone with the gun would be more effective," Anna said. "Not shooting them. That would just make them dead."

[pursuedthestars]

"Ah, using the gun as a blunt instrument," Jim said, getting it now. "Yeah, that would probably shatter a few teeth. Maybe that's what this guy should have done to be scarier."

Not that he wasn't scary already. Mobster and all. "Driven by revenge and the echo of people calling him names about his lack of teeth, he goes out and shatters teeth of anyone who looks at him funny. Might make for a better documentary. Shooting people with a gun? Very unoriginal."

[dressedinblood]

"Effective, though," Anna mused. "Although if everyone else is shooting people I don't guess it makes you stand out much."

[pursuedthestars]

"From what I gathered from this documentary, mobsters like guns and they like to shoot people with those guns," Jim said, shrugging a shoulder.

"Some of them are better at it than others. And some of them are a little more inventive. If you were a mobster, what would your schtick be? And if you say you wouldn't have teeth, I am going to be so disappointed."

[dressedinblood]

Anna thought about it for a moment, then said, her smile a little sly, "I'd wear all red, so they would call me Anna Dressed in Blood." She paused, then added, "If I was a mobster." Or, you know. Herself.

[pursuedthestars]

"That's...a little creepy which means it's perfect," Jim said, impressed. "I was gonna try to come up with something but seriously, anything else is gonna pale in comparison to that. Is your name Anna?"

Beverly Dressed in Blood didn't have the same ring.

[dressedinblood]

Well, it was a ghost story name. Creepy was kind of the point. "Oh, yes, I guess I should have mentioned that part," Anna said. "I'm Anna Korlov. Pleased to meet you."

[pursuedthestars]

"Jim Kirk," he introduced, nodding in her direction. "And not Jim Kirk Dressed in Blood because red's not my color. I'd probably do better in blue but then I'd just look like some ripe fruit. Not very threatening or mobster-like."