rnbwxsprinkles | 05-10-2011 05:25 PM | Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaw
(Post 10327474)
"Yeah yeah yeah. You all got it. Good. Don't forget it. I don't want no title attached to me. If we're attacked, and we very well might be, I don't want to be targeted as the leader of all this."
Shaw scratched at his stubble thoughtfully for a moment, then got his half eaten cup back out. He sat it on the big desk up front that he supposed was meant for him, then shed his cloak off. "Yall know what this is?" Shaw approached the chainsaw, picked it up, and JERKED hard on the string that FIRED the beastly machine to life. If the class answered, it was probably drowned out by the loud whirring and purring of the machine in Shaw's hands. He raised it HIGH above his head, laughed giddily, then cut his name into the chalk board with crude blocky letters. S H A W
They wouldn't be forgetting it. He killed the motor and put the hot piece of machinery down on the floor again. "What's a chainsaw good for? Why did I change that desk to a chainsaw? Why are we here? What is transfiguration???" | Olivia jumped a little at the racaket. She wasn't sure she liked this professor. He was rude, seemed quite disgusting and... if she was correct, American. She shuddered and resolved to do nothing other than take notes, and get good grades. No talking and answering questions unless she was picked on. She wanted nothing to do with the man. Quote:
Originally Posted by Shaw
(Post 10327654)
Shaw laughed nervously.
Gravity cows sounded not only familiar, but deadly serious and dangerous. "I did?" Good to know.
Shaw grabbed up his half-eaten cup nervously. "You watch yourself now! Rats are filthy! WHY would you need a rat? Cups are useful; rats are not."
...awww.
Awww.
Shaw had the urge to turn his music back on and rock himself to sleep after this one spoke.
"Well...put. I think. Well said." What HAD she said again? "Marred?" Shaw turned halfway around, always keeping one eye on the students and the door, but looked at this marring. "All's I see is my name up there. Looks pretty good, too. S's are hard to do with a chainsaw." "Don't ever think your enemy is smarter than you." Or on second thought, "or is it always assume they're smarter than you? Regardless, just do what I say when I say it and there's a good chance no one will get hurt."
Shaw nibbled his cup thoughtfully. "You got some pretty strong and high O-pinions there. Care to put your money where your mouth is?"
He bit off another piece of cup and spit it in the floor. "Gas," Shaw corrected, "this puppy runs off of GAS-O-LINE." For a moment, Shaw got that crazy twinkle in his eye like he MIGHT fire up his saw once again.
But it went away as fast it came and Shaw was left looking generally confused as to where he was and why that girl was looking at him and breathing funny. "Oh I didn't harm your ears. If I harmed your ears you'd know it. I'd know it. It'd be a mess in here." Shaw waved his arm around to indicate no mess. Simply no mess here. "Gamp didn't KNOW crap. You can quote that. Right that down. Gamp didn't know crap."
Shaw laughed. Was he serious? Kidding? Did he even know? "If someone attacks, I'm with you. You got your head on your shoulders." "Killing? I don't know about that. It could be used for killing, I guess, but it'd be so messy. I don't like messy. I like order. Let's not insult a perfectly good chainsaw." Shaw propped a steel-toed boot up on the chainsaw, the gesture managing to be somewhat affectionate. "You like my music? Me too. We'll listen to more soon." "You're freaking me out, kid."
Shaw took a seat in the floor, cross legged, with the chainsaw sitting in front of him. "You all got the gist of transfiguration, I reckon. You got one thing, frim-fram-froom, then you gotta 'nother thing. You take one thing you have - you make it into something you need. I needed a chainsaw to put my name on the board so I turned the desk into a chainsaw."
Logical, that was. "But you all don't need chainsaws like I do. What's something you oftentimes finding yourself NEEDING but not HAVING? And don't say women, 'cause that is a whole OTHER issue."
"Think about it then you can come up to the board and write down what you NEED today in class but don't have."
In the meantime, Shaw laid down flat on his back and stared without blinking up at the ceiling. | He seemed paranoid in some way, and he was much less than conventional. She disagreed with his rant against rats. Rats were quite useful, and Olivia thought learning transfiguration with a normal professor would have been much more rewarding. She was already quite sick of his yelling and if she had to watch him chomp on that stupid cup and spit one more time, Olivia thought she might scream. However, she managed only just to keep a glare out of her expression when she finally gave in with a sigh. She apparently couldn't resist answering a question even here, especially since she didn't have to say it aloud.
She stood and walked up to the front, avoiding the professor with distaste that she hoped she didn't show. She picked up the chalk and felt it in her hands for a moment before writing Sanity. She sat back down silently. She wasn't quite sure why, with his paranoia, he wasn't a Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher or why, with his apparent love for gasoline-powered chainsaws and teaching their usage, he wasn't teaching Muggle Studies.
On the other hand, she wasn't quite sure why someone so insane had been hired at all. |