Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday evening

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce was in the common room with a book and a pile of socks. Next to the socks was a sign.
FREE SOCKS
FRESHLY LAUNDERED

You see, Bruce had finally finished his laundry after the recent... unpleasantness with the laundry machines. But when he pulled them out, all of the socks were argyle in various sizes. Did machines change them? Were they secretly argyle all along and were just pretending to be single toned socks that fit Bruce? Did gremlins switch them mid-wash? Bruce didn't know, and buying new socks, throwing them in the same machine, and watching from a hidden location didn't reveal anything useful.

So screw it, he was just going to get more new socks and give these away. Because Bruce Wayne didn't wear argyle socks. Just... no.

[OOC: Inspiration for the post taken from momslilassassin. Open CR, naturally. Take the socks.]

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[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi wandered in, saw the sign, and tilted her her head. "What's this? New kind of charity?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I found myself suddenly overburdened with argyle socks," Bruce said, looking up from his book. "I figured I'd leave them for people who dress just a little more preppy than me."

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

Kenzi picked up one and pulled it onto her hand, making a sockpuppet out of it. "Not my style. Although I could use new socks. When are they gonna fix the machines?" Because until then, she was shoplifting new stuff to wear.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"They seem to be mostly fine," Bruce said. "As far as I can tell, this was either a random glitch, bizarre sabotage, or a strange prank. I haven't found out which yet."

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Oh, good. I need clean shirts." Kenzi made the sockpuppet muppet-face at Bruce. "And how was your weekend of fun?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I was my normal age and made a point to stay away from all of the kids," Bruce said. "So pretty good, overall. At the very least I have nothing to be embarrassed about. What about you? Cause any damage?"

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Nothing permanent," Kenzi said cheerfully. "Traded my Ethics doll for two lollipops, helped Bo trash her place with candy and playing in her giant tub, and scared Topher at one point." She frowned. She had to track him down soon; she had prezzies for him. "I was nine, though. Not five or anything."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"So a productive weekend overall," Bruce joked.

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Yup!" She'd even made money, being cute at Jonothan. She'd have to thank him for that, track the guy down. "But I could take not being little again any time soon. I forgot how frustrating it was."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"If it helps, there's usually a long gap between occurrences," Bruce said. "You should be fine for several months."

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"It does, kinda. And nothing really bad's happened since August with those monsters," Kenzi said absently, fitting another sock on her hand. "'What are we going to do today, Lefty?' 'What we do every night, Fingers. Take over the dorms!'"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

Bruce raised an eyebrow. "Fan of sockpuppets?"

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

"Well, if I'm not gonna wear them... plus I heard about Mr. Madrox last week." She snickered. "I'm so sorry I'm not in that class. It sounds fun. We stole their butter sculptures one week."

[wrongkindofsith]

"Taking up knitting?" Since leather and washing machines didn't really mix Cara was largely unaware of any recent problems on that front.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"No, that was last winter," Bruce said. "Rilla got me started on it. This is just taking care of a surplus of argyle."

[wrongkindofsith]

"You actually knit?" She'd probably mock him for it later. "That's an odd word for socks." Even on the off chance Cara would admit to knowing any fabric patterns, no one in the Midlands had gotten around to inventing argyle yet.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I can make you a very nice hat if you don't believe me," Bruce said. "And argyle is the pattern. It's... not really my style." Even if some of them had a lot of black in them.

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara raised an eyebrow. "Do I look like a hat person to you?" She poked dubiously at a sock. "Is it anyone's style?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"You're getting a hat," Bruce decided. "And some people can pull argyle off. I think it requires a really upbeat personality, though."

[wrongkindofsith]

"That's really not necessary." And wool didn't go with leathers, they clashed. Badly. "Remind me to save Richard a pair then."

Given what happened last time she got bullied into celebrating his birthday, a present seemed a safer option.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Take all you want for him," Bruce said. "In a pinch, the could be used as gloves, too."

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara held up a hand and wiggled her fingers. "I'll stick with these. That way I can avoid looking like the crazy teacher."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Would that be Madrox again?" Bruce asked.

Kenzi mentioned something about sockpuppets with that class, so he was going ahead and making that leap.

[wrongkindofsith]

"Who else would it be?" It was a sad state of affairs when the teacher who wore tights and a mask to class wasn't 'the crazy one'.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. I haven't had Madrox for a class, so I don't know how much is just reputation," Bruce noted.