Room 210, The Arms Hotel, Saturday Morning

Had Atton considered letting Mical and Mira stay at his place? Of course not. Maybe if it'd just been her, sure, he'd survive the headache. But not him. So of course when he stuck his head in through the doorway - right after the door had opened - the first words out of his mouth were, "He's gone, right?"

Yes, he was gone. You could even sense he was gone. Space, Atton.

( How would you react if he answered 'Nope, I'm still here!' right now? )

[[ much thanks to the incredible craftyladyparts for playing mira for me! nfi, ooc-okay, blah dee blah. ]]

Atton's Office, Saturday

Talking to Mira again that morning had actually been a pretty good thing - gave Atton a little energy boost he sorely needed. Okay, all he was planning to spend that energy on was going home and maybe watching something on TV, but still: energy. It was nice.

Had been nice, anyway. It lasted all the way down to the hotel lobby, where he'd bumped into Mical and suddenly his life had gotten a whole lot worse. Now he couldn't go home, because Mical would follow him there and talk at him and that was the absolute last thing he wanted to deal with. So instead he'd told the guy he had work to do and made a beeline to the school.

Mical had followed him anyway.

Well, at least now Atton knew for sure he actually had an office, and he'd gotten to it before Sparkle could. There was that.

"Why are you still here?" Atton asked him. He wasn't looking at the man, though, he was going through his many, many, many very important (empty sheets of paper) files. "There could be students' parents coming in any minute."

Mical heaved a sigh. "You are going to have to talk to me eventually," he said. "There are important matters to di--"

Atton pointed a pen at him. "No, I am not going to have to talk to you eventually," he said. "I came here all this way just to make sure I wouldn't have to talk to you eventually. You'd think you'd take a hint after a while."

"This is very childish," Mical told him. "I don't know why you are still this hostile to m--"

"Because you say things like that!"

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