AN: This one, although firmly in the Just Another Patriotic Guy AU, since it gives a little more of Beth's (or my roomie's girl, as Bozer calls her in his posts) backstory, should make sense even if you haven't read either read Paperclip Charms or Just Another Patriotic Guy. For readers of Just Another Patriotic Guy, this is set after the end of that story. For readers of Paperclip Charms (which I have just realized is my most popular MacGyver fic to date, for reasons unknown), you can assume that Beth has the same backstory in that universe and similar events to the ones described below happened in that universe at some point.

Movie-Magician-n-Waffle-Wizard:

So, today, me, my computer goddess, my roomie and my roomie's girlfriend/former pen-pal went out on a double-date, and I learned all about my roomie's girl's backstory!

Now, you all know that even if my roomie's a great guy (the best!), he wasn't exactly a rule-abiding student back in school. You know, there were a couple of incidents involving the police, some (accidental) destruction of school property, he got kicked out of the Boy Scouts, only got a C in Biology because he couldn't be bothered doing the homework…

Well, turns out that his girl was a goody-two-shoes back in school. You know, won all her science fairs without breaking into the school's labs after hours, never dropped below an A, didn't burn down school property, didn't piss off half the teachers...

So of course I had to tease my roomie about it (HOW COULD I RESIST? It's a twist on the good girl/bad boy trope!). Here's his response:

My roomie: Cations and anions attract. So do opposite poles of magnets. Opposite charges attract. *shrugs and smirks* Good girls and bad boys? That's practically a law of physics.

Me: So [old man/boss lady]…that might be meant to be according to SCIENCE?

My roomie: *snorts* I'm not sold yet, but I see where you and [my computer goddess] are coming from.

#double date #backstory #my computer goddess is always right #opposites attract #it's a law of physics #good girl #bad boy #science style #nerd style #OTP #school days

To: Beth Taylor

You weren't as Little Miss Perfect as you were making yourself out to be to Bozer, were you?

To: Riley Davis

Well, of course I wouldn't have not done my homework, or have done anything that was likely to destroy school property, or have broken into the school…but I'm pretty sure that my Junior chem teacher secretly hated me. And I once ruined a couple of glasses because I forgot that if you run electricity through salt water, you produce an acid…

To: Beth Taylor

That's nothing compared to Mac and you know it. So he really is corrupting you. ;)

To: Riley Davis

We're adults and we can destroy as much of our own property as we wish. Besides, I think he mellowed a bit with age, and I'm far less goody-two-shoes now.

And to be fair to Mac, he didn't have a biomedical engineer for a dad or a chem professor for a mom to help him channel his inner mad scientist. And I was always more of a bio/chem type, rather than physics/chem/engineering.

To: Beth Taylor

Sure, sure. Still – good girl/bad boy. (Hey, he does wear a leather jacket!) ;) And INNER mad scientist? INNER?!

To: My Computer Goddess

Riley, baby, what do you think about doing Grease for our group costume for Halloween?

To: Bozer

On one hand- ugh. Changing yourself for a man = not healthy. On the other hand- HELL YEAH, it'll be so much fun. We'll have to take SO many photos for posterity. I'm guessing we're going to have a Danny, a Sandy, a Kenickie and a Rizzo, but who's Jack going to be? Coach Calhoun?

AN: Credit to Tinkerbella for the reason why Mac only got a C in Biology. I personally do not really like the whole good girl/bad boy or opposites attract mentality with relationships- I firmly believe that people need to be sufficiently alike (particularly in terms of things like key values and morals) for a relationship to work out, but I also firmly believe that people need to have some differences and some ways of balancing each other out or it also wouldn't work out. I hope that comes through in my writing! (Having said that, it's a fun trope to play around with and seems like something Bozer would find amusing…)