Fifth Floor Common Room, Tuesday evening

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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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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.

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"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."

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

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"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?"

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"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."

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"So a productive weekend overall," Bruce joked.

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"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."

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

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"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!'"

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Bruce raised an eyebrow. "Fan of sockpuppets?"

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"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."

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"I know. I'm in that class with you," Bruce pointed out with a smirk.

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Kenzi stuck out her tongue at him, then asked curiously, "Whose did you grab? I was too busy kidnapping Seifer to pay attention to what everyone else was doing."

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"Dave Nelson. He made a car," Bruce said.

Yes, he knew Dave without having ever met him. He did his research for the student council elections. Even for the grades he wasn't in.

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Kenzi only knew Dave from the debate, but still found this amusing. "We should get to do that more often for Mr. Caffrey's class," she said with a happy sigh. "Mayhem! Theft! But I wouldn't want to get him in trouble."

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"I get the impression you cause enough mayhem without needing a class to enable you," Bruce noted. "Mostly harmless mayhem, I'm sure."

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Kenzi gave him a wary side-eye, but he didn't seem in intimidating mode, so she smirked slightly. "I do okay. Artistic mayhem. Opportunities just... happen." she pulled off one sock, studying it, and added, "I don't hurt people." Just in case he wondered.

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"Just steal from them from time to time," Bruce said.

Because that wasn't hurtful at all.

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Not the way she did it! Really!

"I don't steal from anybody here," Kenzi said, gaze wandering away. "...borrow, sometimes. Maybe." It'd been a while; it was too hard to know people and steal from them at the same time.

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"To be fair, it's been a while since you've tried to sneak anything from my dresser," Bruce said.

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"See!" Wait, that was just confirming it. Kenzi pouted, then mumbled, "If you're going to stay somewhere, it just makes sense not to make it harder on yourself." She sounded more defensive about *not* stealing at this point.

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"I actually understand," Bruce said. "Still, it's nice to have the occasional butter sculpture to take care of any occasional urges."

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"Yes. Or stuff from Mr. Caffrey's office to clear out because Mr. Madrox was on a roll." Kenzi cheered up again, and started tying socks together in a chain. "Can people stay in the dorms over Christmas?" She could go back to Canada, she guessed. Stay with Aunt Ludmilla, maybe.

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"There's usually several people around for the holidays," Bruce said. "I don't think I'll be one of them this year, though."

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"Are you going home, or somewhere else?" Bruce was rich enough to do the skiing-in-Switzerland thing, Kenzi was pretty sure. "Bahamas, or Gstaad?"