Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday evening

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Bruce could be out of his room without feeling the need to find a more private place with the first person he saw. It was a good feeling. A good enough feeling that Bruce was willing to actually risk messing with the television in the common room again. But first? Threats.

"If you act up on me, I will end you," Bruce whispered while kneeling in front of the set. "There's a window right there. I will throw you out of it. You will be destroyed. And then I'll buy a new TV for the floor. I can afford something that will make you look like you're a black and white set. Nobody will miss you. So behave, or you'll force me to prove that I'm serious."

Bruce settled into a seat on the sofa and turned on PBS. It worked just fine. "I'm glad we could come to this arrangement," Bruce said with a bit of a smirk.

Good job badgering the inanimate object into working, Bruce.

[OOC: Much like the writing utensil I use exclusively for writing the third vowel, this post is open.]

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And Ariel couldn't have asked for a better answer than that, and she smiled happily to hear it. "Good! It's going to be great. Lots of food and games and Jono's going to do music for it, too. It needs to be Thursday already."

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"You really aren't the type to appreciate the anticipation more than event, are you?" Bruce asked.

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"Not when the event is so much fun, no," Ariel admitted with a chuckle. "Though I did like making the invitations, and doing the decorations will be fun, too, though I don't know when I'll have time. Plenty of things to keep me busy until then."

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"What kind of things? Just classes and clubs?" Bruce asked. He was curious if she had moved on already, yes.

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Ariel nodded. "Play rehearsal, especially since I skipped last..." Excuse the pause filled with a little bit of a blush, "...Wednesday, and I still don't have a plan for Glee Club, either, yet, and I've also got to get ready to go home this weekend. Daddy wants to do something for my birthday, too."

She said, as if getting a fin again and spending a weekend under the sea involved so much packing.

But she did have gifts for her sisters that she had to figure out how she was going to smuggle into Atlantica so Triton didn't notice...

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"What are his parties like, exactly?" Bruce asked.

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Ariel took a second to think of an answer that didn't involve the word wet.

"Very lavish," she decided with a nod. "He does have a reputation to uphold, after all, and it's usually a chance for Sebastian, that's our, quote, royal court composer, to showcase some of his music. There's a lot of hanging around and mingling and attempting to leave good impressions on people, which usually means being told not to do a long list of things, so I usually end up ducking out halfway through and going treasure hunting instead, which works as long as I get back in time before Daddy notices anything amiss."

And if she sounded excited for a good old fashioned treasure hunt this weekend, well, that's because she really, really was.

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"It sounds like you have it down to a science," Bruce said.

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"I just hope I haven't gotten rusty," Ariel admitted with a grin.

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"If anything, I'm sure your sense for finding treasure has only increased since being around so much here," Bruce said.

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"I'll definitely know a lot more about what I find," Ariel allowed. "I can even teach Scuttle a thing or two this time."

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"Scuttle is another treasure hunter?" Bruce asked.

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"He's, uhh, a..." Ariel may have checked to see if anyone else was paying attention before leaning in a little and whispering, "seagull. Before I came here, he knew more about this world than anyone else I knew..."

And, really, it was kind of nice to just be able to say that, rather than trying to think of ways to cover it up, though she did watch Bruce carefully for any signs of thinking it was just too weird.

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"I suppose that makes sense," Bruce said. It was tough to be too weird for Bruce. "I'm sure he's seen a lot of this world."

From the air.

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And beaches!

And stalking people eating at tables at restaurants with verandas for their french fries.

"He's the one who first told me about dinglehoppers. He's not going to believe me when I tell him they're actually called forks, and they're not at all for personal grooming."

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"... Why did he think they're for grooming?" Bruce asked, ignoring the 'all' in the sentence.

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Ariel shrugged. "They work very well, you know. You just run it through your hair, and if you give it a few twists, you can add some great curls."