Sit Down Now And Rest

Sit Down Now and Rest

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Description: You had anxiety and depression, and Tony and Bruce were more than happy with getting you anxiety meds the moment that you asked. When you stop taking your meds, your mental health plummets and spirals as well as your physical health, and everyone notices. Don't worry though, they're there for you.

Pairing: (Platonic) Avengers x Teen!Reader

Type: Fluff, Angst, Hurt/Comfort

Warnings: Depression, anxiety, sickness, fainting, dizziness, taking meds(both medicated and just vitamins/iron supplements), dehydration, insomnia, depressive and hurtful thoughts, reader doesn't talk very much in this, nicknames(Kiddo, Kid, Hun)

Word Count: 1,627

Note: I may or may not have written this with too much of myself being present… But it's fine! I also wrote this at like 2 in the morning so it's kinda rough but I just needed to get this typed out so here ya go! Also, the characters might be kinda ooc because I haven't watched any marvel movies in a little while but I've been hyper focused on fics with them lately so yea. And I am working on my tlou and tech fics, it's just hard to find the motivation to write them, but don't worry, I'm working on em.

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You were quick to notice that you stopped taking your meds. You knew that they helped you, but you couldn't get yourself to start the habit of taking them again. You wanted to, most definitely, but you couldn't. Every day was the same. Wake up, look at your meds, contemplate taking them, saying you'll take them later, go train, eat, and then not take them.

You also stopped taking them at night too. You had even set alarms so that you'd remember to take them, but it didn't help at all. Natasha was the first to notice that something was up, being the closest one with you. When she realized that something wasn't quite right, she made sure to keep a close eye on you. She was quick to pick up how dizzy you looked when you'd get up, sometimes not even being able to stay standing before you crumbled back onto the couch. You'd always play it off as if you just lost your footing but she and everyone else knew that that wasn't the case.

One morning you had gotten up much later than you had recently been getting up. When you checked the time, it was around two in the afternoon. You got up and went to the kitchen, feeling extremely hungry after forgetting, and also just not wanting dinner the night prior. When you arrived in the kitchen, Tony was there. He had kind of taken up the father role in your life.

The moment he saw that you had finally arose, he was quick to make a snarky comment in good fun, “Ah! The beast has finally awoken from their slumber, now off they go to find their beauty.”

You only roll your eyes, ignoring him. You felt exhausted, even though you got close to ten hours of sleep seeing as you fell asleep around 4 in the morning. You couldn't find anything easy to fix or that looked appetizing in the fridge or pantry so you just opted for a bottle of water that you would only take a sip or two of then leave with your other five almost full water bottles on your nightstand.

Before you could go back to the confines of your room, Tony had to ask you a question, “ Hey kiddo, did you take your meds?”

The question caught you off guard, not expecting him to ask seeing as he hasn't asked in a real long time.

“Oh yea! I, um, took them earlier but fell back asleep. Yea, that's what I did!”

You try to make it seem like you weren't lying through your teeth, but weren't very successful because of how exhausted you were. However, before Tony could confront you, you book it to your room. You hide there for the rest of the day, not coming out for Dinner. Steve had come by to tell you that dinner was ready but you told him that you weren't very hungry as you just kept your

on the book that you had your nose in. You kept your light on all night, not feeling tired.

The next morning, Nat knocked on your door around eight, coming to get you so that you could train with her. When she opened your door, she saw you laying on your back staring up at the ceiling. You looked exhausted and had dark circles under your eyes. When Bat opened the door, you flung up in surprise. You hadn't heard her knocking so you weren't expecting for the door to randomly open. You couldn't tell who it was at first because your vision went fuzzy black as your body tried to accommodate the sudden movement that you caused. Nat waited for you to acknowledge her.

When you did after a couple seconds, you looked over at the time, confused. It had just been two the last time you looked at the clock. How could it be eight all of the sudden? You were brought out of your thoughts by Natasha trying to talk to you. You zoned back in, giving her a questioning look.

“I said, are you ok? You look exhausted Hun. I came by to get ya to come train but it looks like you need to rest for a couple days.”

“Oh! No, I'm fine. Just give me a couple minutes to get ready and I'll be down and we can get to work in no time!”

She gave you a skeptical look but nodded, closing your door behind her.

When you got down to the training room, Bucky and Steve were there with Natasha. They smiled upon seeing you walk in. However, Bucky and Steve's bright smiles dropped upon looking at your figure. You were slouched, tired eyes not fully open and your eye bags were extremely dark.

Bucky was the first to point it out, “Hey Kid, you ok? You aren't looking too good.”

You only shrugged, your body aching and your throat feeling scratchy and sore for some reason.

As you're sparring with Natasha, you continuously have to stop the match because you go into coughing fits. As finish with your last coughing fit you go back to Natasha, but she's packing her stuff up.

“Wait, where are you going?” You're voice comes rather harsh and rude as you ask the red head.

“I think you should rest for the rest of the day Hun. I'll come check on you in a little while. But go take your meds and also some cough syrup and eat something.”

You didn't say anything as you grabbed your stuff and walked back to your room. This was stupid. It was just a little cold. You can still fight. You need to train. Deep down though you knew you needed to listen to her and do as she said. In the end, you don't. You go back to your room, take a sip or two of water, get a small snack and then sit down in the living room with a book.

You try to read it, but you can't stay focused for long enough to. Your mind is spiraling and racing. You kept replaying how training went. You were so pathetic. And rude. How could you be so rude? Stupid. Stupid, stupid, stupid. You slam the book down onto the sofa, huffing.

You hadn't noticed that some of the others had joined you in the living room. They look up at you, surprised. They weren't used to seeing you like this. You tried to get up quickly, wanting to get away from this embarrassing situation.

The moment you get up, the world goes black, buzzing and ringing is the only thing you can hear as you collapse. You feel something picking you up and setting you down on the couch. You blink your eyes a couple times, slowly feeling sensation being restored in your body. You look around you and see that Bruce is coming over with a damp cloth and water. Nat has your head resting in her lap and Tony has your hand in his. They all look worried as they stare down at you. You hear gasped as Steve and Bucky walk in.

Questions are being thrown at you, too fast for you to comprehend. You instinctively put your hands on your ears, feeling overwhelmed. They all quiet down upon seeing this. Tony is the one to ask the questions from then on.

“Hey, it's ok. We're sorry, didn't mean to overwhelm ya like that. Can ya sit up?”

You nodded, feeling embarrassed now. Tony nodded and Nat helped you sit up, allowing you to lean against her.

“Ok, drink some water, you're ok,” Tony hands you the water that Bruce had brought over as Bruce is wiping your face with the cold damp cloth.

“Ya feeling better?”

“Ya, I'm fine.”

“Have you been taking your meds, kid?”Tony doesn't hold back, knowing what it looks like when you don't take the meds that have been helping you produce what your body needs.

You sheepishly look down at your hands that are fidgeting in your lap. You inhale sharply before shaking your head no.

They all sigh, Natasha being the one to talk this time, “Why haven't you been taking your meds, Hun?”

“I-I just don't want to… I don't like the feeling.”

They looked at each other, wondering what to say. As they look at each other, you go to stand up, but they make sure that you don't get up.

“Sit down now and rest,” Bucky's voice comes from behind you, his hands still on your shoulders.

“I'm sorry…” Your voice comes out in a whisper.

“You're forgiven kiddo, but ya gotta start taking your meds again.” Steve comes over and sits on the other side of you as he speaks.

“I know.”

“How bout I take my medication with ya? God knows that I haven't been taking it as much as I should be,” Tony chuckles as he tries to negotiate with you.

You didn't know if it would actually help you but you were open to the idea.

“Good, drink some more water. Now what do you want to watch? Hm? TV's all yours,” Tony stood up, giving you the TV remote as everyone decided to sit down on the couch.

You picked your comfort movie as you snuggled up with Steve and Nat. Tony had gotten you some actual food, and by the time the movie was over, you had drank all the water, ate all the food, fell asleep, and almost everyone else had fallen asleep as well. You felt safe with the people that cared about you all around you. You knew that this would be a journey, but you also knew that you weren't alone.

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Tag list: @fakegingerrights @macchiato-dreaming22 @silnebula

For all my friends I know IRL and those that want to enjoy a bit of my daily chaos, let me present to you:

OUT OF CONTEXT QUOTES FROM THE ASTRONOMY CLASSROOM

(Discussing why they need to recover your body in antarctica)

Teacher: - But anyways, death aside- (Goes into particle physics)

@renon4224: Hold up, what?

Teacher: Well if you die in antarctica your body will be dissected to find out why you died.

@renon4224: Then why aren’t we researching the sahara for the extreme heat?

Teacher: If you die in the sahara you will be eaten before we find you. NOW BACK TO THEORETICAL PHYSICS-

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Ginger (During a test): Does Nano stand for nine zeros or nine decimal places?

Teacher: Shhhhhhhh

Ginger: But-

Teacher: Holds up nine fingers and nods

Ginger: …Helpful. Very helpful.

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@endo-bunny: (Chilling in the room before she goes to class) Teacher, if you could be any kind of penguin what kind would you be?

Teacher: Hopefully a dead one, that sounds like a miserable existence. 

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Teacher: There is one shape that works in the arctic, and that is Round™. If the animal is not imitating a sphere, there is something wrong with it. 

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(Arguing about the shape of a galaxy)

@silnebula: Its a penguin! The general shape is a penguin!

Ginger: Its clearly a hummingbird! 

@silnebula: No, that’s a penguin!

Ginger: @silnebula look at the breast. If your penguin is that skinny your penguin is dead.

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Ginger: If you didn’t obsessively research spaghettification, what sort of childhood did you have?

@renon4224: My mom died.

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Ginger: So basically, somebody gave the scientists crayons and we can’t take them away.

Teacher: …Yeah pretty much. 

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Ginger: (Discussing the Nice model) So basically, Jupiter and Saturn are fighting and Uranus and Neptune went and made a mess in the ball pit

Teacher: And probably lost their anonymous sibling forever along the way, yes. And then Jupiter started stealing all the toys and wouldn’t give them back.

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Ginger: …Why does Jupiter look microwaved?

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Teacher: Yeah that was a big contribution to WWII, the Soviet Union wanted the deepest hole and gave us the middle finger over this.

Ginger: 𝅘𝅥𝅮My hole’s bigger than yours is𝅘𝅥𝅮  

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Teacher: I don’t make the rules. If you don’t like them then topple the IAU’s dictatorship.

Class Clown: They can’t be dictators if they’re dead

@silnebula: NO.

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Class Clown: But if you come to school sick you’ll get all the kids sick

Teacher: Didn’t you ever learn how to share?

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Class Clown: Are you going to keep this out on the counter?

Teacher: Nobody has died from it yet. (It’s a small newton’s cradle.)

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Teacher: Only two cars and three students were hit by the train while I was there. 

Physics Student: …What?

Teacher: Sacrifices must be made to the observatory.

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@renon4224: Actually, Hel is beautiful on one side

Ginger: And freezing cold on the other.

@renon4224: Isn’t that just the definition of a teenage girl?

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Ginger: VENUS IS A PLANET! IT SHARES NOTHING BUT THE NAME WITH THE GOD

@renon4224: LOOK AT HOW HOT SHE IS THOUGH!

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Ginger: Let’s justs steal metal from Venus’s atmosphere!

Teacher: There are better things to shield with than lead. 

@renon4224: We can’t have children eating the spaceships.

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@renon4224: How would you feel if you had to genetically modify your kids!

Smart Kid: That’s what orphans are for.

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Principal: How’re we doing today?

@renon4224: Smart Kid wants to modify orphans and put them on mars.

Ginger: We’re turning the foster system into aliens. 

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Ginger: That’s why you build a ring out of the junk in orbit

Teacher: Ah yes. A space station made out of screwdrivers, bolts, and toilets.

@renon4224: How does a toilet end up in space?

Teacher: It fell off!

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Ginger: If I had a nickel for every toilet orbiting the earth, I would have two nickels which isn’t a lot but it's still weird that it happened twice. 

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Teacher: The sand should be cool enough now to return the snake to it.

Ginger: Don’t cook the snake:

Teacher: Why?

@renon4224: Because it’s a beautiful creature!

Ginger: *At the same time* Because they don’t taste good.

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Teacher: Yeah most chemists don’t consider Beryllium a metal, that’s an astronomy bias.

Ginger: Well does it taste like a metal?

Teacher: …No.

Ginger: Then its not a metal. 

@renon4224: How many metals are you eating?!?

Ginger: …

Ginger: Yes. 

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Ginger: Teacher if you keep making us do math we’re gonna make you the next sacrifice to the nearest observatory.

Teacher: *Cackles*

--- Ginger: But chinchillas are cute!

Teacher: Not when they’re filled with flies and maggots. I found food and water and corpses when I came back.

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Teacher: Chinchillas are just oversized cat food. 

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Teacher: *fumbles his goggles and knocks them across the desk twice, has a glass dish shatter from liquid nitrogen, and turns around just in time to watch the egg he flash froze shatter on the floor and get the still liquid yolk everywhere.*

Ginger: It is not your day, is it.

Teacher: Apparently not. 

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@renon4224: What does a spaghettified planet taste like?

Teacher: Rocks.

Ginger: Hey! That’s my question!

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Teacher: I’m debating whether or not to inform a student’s parents on his possession or waiting for the second encounter to inform them that they need to call an exorcist. 

Ginger: Anyone in our class?

Teacher: No. Sophomore, 6th period. His demons got to him and he was terrorizing his classmates. 

Ginger: Huh. Usually he’s at least somewhat stable.

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Ginger and @silnebula: Discussing Bob (Iputas)’s death in percy jackson and the sadness of it

Teacher: That is not what I think of when I hear the name Bob.

@silnebula: Well what do you think about?

Teacher: Pulls up a picture of mirror mask This?

Collective students: Shrieks and loud sounds of horror. WHAT IS THAT? W H A T  I S  T H A T?

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Teacher: So I only have two people with notes today?

Ginger: What about me?

Teacher: You’re not a people, you’re a document. 

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Ginger: Vive la pluto! Make the solarsystem great again!

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Teacher: There’s always a hole in the sun, that’s what it does.

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Teacher: Just use Windows+shift+S

Ginger: …I use a mac.

Teacher: Well then your life is worthless. 

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Ginger: Is it ethical? No. But it's funny and you might learn something. 

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Teacher: And what causes magnetic fields in gas giants?

Ginger: … Spinning?

Teacher: Spinning what?

Ginger: … Left. 

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Teacher: I don’t do things with option keys. Options are evil.

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@renon4224: Can we egg the IAU?

Ginger: … Field trip?

@renon4224: I was kidding-

Ginger: What are they gonna charge us with if they catch us? Biowarfare?

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Teacher: The IAU is located in Geneva that seems like an expensive trip

Ginger: Oh even better we can break the Geneva convention while we’re there.

Ginger: All we need is a flamethrower.

@renon4224: Ginger we’re not raising Arsonists.

Ginger: (looking at the rest of the class) Too late.

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Teacher: The last time I did a Kahoot it ended in three concussions and two broken chromebooks. It’s a bad idea.

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Ginger: So if you had some bad experience with Kahoot but you haven’t said anything about… Jedi? Wait no-

Teacher: Yes, jedi. It was horrible, life alteringly bad experience. 

Ginger: I MEANT JEAPORDY! 

Teacher:... Also, yes. Bad experiences. Maybe one day I’ll tell you.

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@renon4224: You had a bad experience with Jedi?

Teacher: Yes. It involved a scary lack of anaethetic. (he never did explain)

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Ginger: Comments, questions, concerns?

Teacher: … possible institutionalization recommendations. 

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Ginger: (Acting out a scene from a book she read) If you’re going to kill someone, do it outside. Looking at you, (most likely person to murder.)

Ginger: Murders outside only. Got it. 

Ginger: (Feigning concern for character change.) Or maybe no murders at all!?!

@silnebula: (Giggling uncontrollably at Ginger’s insanity.)

Teacher: That’s asking a lot. 

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(Person on a video makes a face)

Ginger: Eww. Don’t move your jaw like that.

@renon4224: Fix his face. 

Teacher: So aside from the freak on tv-

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@renon4224: Is Niel deGrass Tyson still alive?

Teacher: Yes. 

@renon4224: … I can fix that.

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Teacher: I have long suspected that if you put a camera on a scientist it warps their brain in unimaginable ways and strange ways. 

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Ginger: Teacher is a strange and eldritch being sent to punish us for our wicked ways.

@silnebula: … Is the punishment math? 

Ginger: Probably. And bad grades. 

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Ginger: Why don’t we use the graph if it has more information?

Teacher: Because graphs scare people. 

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Ginger: What does a shrimp have to be depressed about? Did his wife leave him?

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@renon4224: How does a star have blackbody radiation if its not black?

Ginger: (Exasperated snarling)

@renon4224: Don’t do that, it reminds me of the demon in the closet.

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Teacher: Nope, all the technetium comes from a thorium cow in California and they milk the cow and get the technetium and send it to hospital. 

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@endo-bunny: Can I eat God?

Ginger: I like my God alive.

@endo-bunny: …I like my God scrambled.

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Teacher: We ready for more math?

Ginger: I’m ready for a breakdown.

Teacher: Speaking of breakdown, Beryllium-

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Ginger: Hand me a knife I have a dead guy to thrown down with on the steps of heaven

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Ginger: Why are you cuddling the skeleton?

Teacher: Because its in my way.

@renon4224: Then move it?

Teacher: Its not that in the way yet. 

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Ginger: Retirement? I just did a report on retirement in JMG!

Teacher: But these ones you don’t have to save money for.

Ginger: What type of 401k does a Star get?

Teacher: Nuclear fusion. 

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Teacher: The sun is actually 40% brighter than it was when the earth was formed. 

Ginger: Is that why I burn so easily? I’m a dinosaur?

Teacher: …… (Spraybottles) 

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Ginger: Imagine if aliens are watching us and just. Amused. 

Ginger: “Why are the hairless apes screaming into the bottomless pit? Shhh, let them be curious.”

Ginger: “They’re making good progress! They’re a little unsteady, but so far they’ve made it to the edge of their back yard and have found Rocks!”

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Teacher: When you get into the weirder theories for black holes, things get… strange. 

Ginger: Eldritch gods?

Teacher: Yes. 

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Ginger: I want to become one with the fuzzball

@renon4224: We cannot feed the fuzzball with our bodies.

Ginger: I’ll feed the fuzzball with your body then sacrifice myself to the Fuzzball

@silnebula: I want to be sacrificed!

Class Clown: We can feed Smart Kid’s Orphans to the fuzzball.

@renon4224: No! We’re not feeding the orphans to the Fuzzball.

Class Clown: Who is gonna miss them? Their parents?

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Teacher: If we get a turtle we can put the turtle corpse skeleton in there with it to traumatize it. 

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Teacher: I can fix the Geese’s weight, I have lead. 

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Physics Student: (Pointing at the list for future Zoology creatures) Gargoyles?

@renon4224: That’s for the kids who can’t be trusted around animals

Teacher: Their job is to polish it daily and sacrifice a pidgeon to it daily

@silnebula: Clean the alter of the gargoyle with a toothbrush.

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@renon4224: If you get geese and goats in the classroom you can eat them when they die!

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Teacher: Unfortunately, there is no law of conservation of pain. Just because you torture one thing does not mean the torture will come back to you. 

@renon4224: …Therefore I can torture you, consequence free?

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@renon4224: If you kill me to take a slice of my skin, its just carbohydrates

Ginger: Who says we have to kill you?

@renon4224: Well it wouldn’t be given willingly. 

Ginger: We can obtain it unwillingly just as well without killing you.

Teacher: That’s what chloroform is for. 

I question you a lot, ya know?

"fuck you my child is completely fine" your child wants to be adopted by any fictional father figure they know of.

Drowning is quick, BUT! It can hurt really bad.... Personal experience.

Not sure if you've shared with the class yet but what is the best poison for a quick death?

Quickest way to die is vaporize yourself. Jump off a cliff. I've heard drowning isn't that unpleasant. Poisons...

Overdosing on a sedative is the most painless way I can think of... relatively quick too. Mushrooms are pretty quick if you get the right ones. Depends on what type of death you're looking for.

The fact I'm literally going to a hospital on Friday to have my back and shoulders looked at the find out what the fuck is wrong with me

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