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Nova opens the door.
Logan freezes and lifts his hands in the air. There's red smeared around his mouth.
"This isn't my blood."
"You do understand how that makes this worse, right?" Nova closes the door behind her, shutting out most of the light from the hall.
Logan grimaces, looking away.
"So... any particular reason you're hiding out behind Mr. Oz's desk?" Nova shuffles her feet awkwardly.
Logan hesitates. "I... may have bitten Zoey. Or Cooper. I can't really remember." The confession having left his lips, he becomes suddenly defensive, "What are you doing here?"
"I have class? I'm a little bit early, but— wait, did you just say you bit Cooper and Zoey?!" She eyes him cautiously, edging a little farther away.
"Not on purpose! And I didn't bite both of them! I think." He pauses, brow scrunching as he thinks it over. "Jeez, I hope not."
"Why?!" Nova bursts out, bewildered.
Logan looks at her with one brow raised. "Uh, because you shouldn't bite people if you like them? That's rude?"
"No! I mean- why would you have bitten them at all?!"
"Oh. Uh, yeah," Logan sucks the air through his bloody teeth, averting his gaze. "Well, y'see, I may or may not've been trying to eat Izzie."
After the few seconds that takes to process, Nova screeches in horror. "WHAT?!"
Immediately, the door slams open, Cooper and Zoey silhouetted in the opening.
"LOGAN!"
Zoey shoulders her way in front of Nova, pushing her back with one arm as she squares up. There's an obvious bitemark on the meat of her palm, drying blood smeared across it. "Stay back, Nova. We'll handle this."
Logan's eyes widen as he backs up, raising his hands again. "Woah, woah, hey! S'cool, I'm back in control again!"
Zoey narrows her eyes at him critically, looking him up and down before slightly relaxing her stance. "He's back to normal... for now." She confirms.
Immediately, Cooper rushes forward. "What on earth was all that?! One moment you were normal, and the next-"
"Are we just ignoring that he ate Izzie?!" Nova wails.
Zoey immediately whips her attention around to the girl behind her. "He what-"
"I did NOT eat Izzie!" Logan asserted, "I only tried to. Against my will."
Cooper looks at him as though Logan were a slightly-horrifying puzzle he was putting together. "You mean... Claudius? With the Crown of Control? Why didn't he just wake you up?"
"Well, he did. I just kept going back to sleep." Logan shrugs.
"And that worked?" Zoey asks incredulously.
"Uhm, can we get back to Izzie before the rest of the class comes in? Is she okay?" Nova asks, a little desperately.
"Oh, shoot, yeah. People are coming." Zoey digs in her pocket and pulls out a thin, blue medical facemask. "Here, Logan, wear this."
"A mask?" Logan questions, looping the strings around his ears and pulling the mask over his face even as he did so. "I thought these were for sick people."
"Yeah, well, unless you wanna scrub your face with Mr. Oz's hand sanitizer, you'd better keep it on til we get home." Zoey says sternly.
"What?! But that's hours away!" Logan groans in complaint.
"Eh, actually, we were kind of hoping to leave after we found you." Cooper nervously rubs the back of his neck, gesturing to the side with his other hand, "When we were trying to find you, we ran into Ms. Putnam, and she saw this-" Cooper rolls up his sleeve to show a livid bitemark, matching his jacket in color- "and I may have panicked a bit."
"He told her we got attacked by wild dogs." Zoey states plainly. "In the cafeteria."
Cooper opens his mouth, presumably to defend himself, but Zoey continues, cutting him off.
"Point is, we should get going before animal control gets here with questions." Zoey concludes, crossing her arms.
"Wait, wait-" Nova waves her hands in front of her, ignoring the distraught look on Logan's face as he looks back and forth between his friends' wounds, "What about Izzie?! Is she hurt? And- hang on- what am I supposed to do now?!"
"No time to talk, Nova!" Zoey calls back as she catches the boys' wrists and drags them out, paying no mind to her bitten hand, "Just go to class, we'll probably be fine!"
"That is not reassuring in the slightest!" Nova screams after them.