Fifth Floor Common Room, Sunday evening

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It had been a long day, at the end of a long weekend, at the end of a long week, and so on. So Bruce was pleased enough to take it easy for a night and head to the common room. But that was just a cover for something he really wanted to test.

When Bruce made his contributions to remembering everything back into existence, he cheated in one area and changed one small detail in the dorms. Bruce turned the television on and flipped channels freely.

He won.

That - and the overall return of Fandom, his home reality, his cave, and apparently all other realities - meant that he was even willing to compromise from his habit of watching true crime documentaries by watching a stupid-looking Christmas movie about a con. Why not? Twas the season, after all.

[OOC: TAKE THAT, TV! Ahem. The common room is open, naturally.]

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"So did the universe bring the diet coke with it when it started existing again?" Quinn wondered, as she came up to poke through the fridge. "Hey, Bruce."

Casual. Like she wasn't glowing with happiness.

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"Hello, Quinn. Glad you could make it out tonight," Bruce said. Okay, he was more glad that she existed at all. Whatever. "I think there was some toward the back. If not, I'm sorry I didn't think of it at the time."

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"Yeah, I'm glad to be here." Quinn gave him a dubious look. "Wait, you're going to have to explain that last sentence."

She knew she was back; she just wasn't clear on the mechanics yet.

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"Those of us who made it to the end had to use our memories to recreate everything, and it went off from there," Bruce said. "So if something's missing from the fridge, that's on us."

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Quinn considered this for a moment. "So somebody had to remember the mole on my knee," she realized. "I'm weirdly flattered."

"And" -- she added, holding a can up with a flourish -- "you did remember the diet coke."

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"If I understand it right, it was more that we remembered you, then you filled in the details when you came back," Bruce said. "But I will take credit for the soda."

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"Like dominoes," Quinn said, thinking about it. "Neat. Bizarre, and I hope it ever happens again, but -- neat."

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"I can't disagree with any of that," Bruce said. "Right now, I'm just glad it's over and everyone is back without any major issues that I've seen."

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"Not counting psychic wounds," Quinn pointed out. "But those probably just make us more interesting."

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"That's why I said 'that I've seen,'" Bruce said. "I hope you didn't suffer too many psychic wounds."

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"I'm fine," Quinn insisted. A bit too firmly. "Just, you know, not everyone is as" -- skilled at denial and repression -- "strong as I am."

She ran a hand through her hair. "It still wasn't worse than that other world with all the radiation," she decided.

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As a fellow expert at repression, Bruce just nodded. At least she seemed to be dealing with it for the moment. "I'll agree with that. When I was in Rapture, psychotics were constantly trying to kill us. At least there was down time with this."

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"Yeah, and this time I didn't have to beat anything with a crowbar," Quinn added. "But I'm desperately hoping this is the last horrible thing before graduation."

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"If we get anything worse than those turtles and mushrooms last spring, I'm going to declare that our class is cursed," Bruce said. He was serious, despite the smile. He would try to call in the magic experts he knew of from his world to try to break it.

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"I wouldn't be surprised if we are," Quinn said, halfway serious. "We can't be this awesome without paying some kind of price."

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"It would be great if we could," Bruce offered. "But if that's the price we have to pay, I guess I can stand it."

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"Quinn! Quinn. QUINN!" Kenzi was even delighted to see her. "Oh, you coming back to reality is wonderful!" Probably because it meant more quality teasing time.

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Quinn gave her a suspicious look. "Okay, what's the punchline?"

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"Nothing! The universe is back where it should be! And I got to meet a giant flying puppy! And your hair is so shiny!"

Maybe it should be blue now, though.

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No. No, it should not.

"It is," Quinn preened. "And -- even though I'm sure I'll regret saying this -- maybe I'm a little happy to see you, too."

She raised an eyebrow. "Tell me about the puppy?"

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Awww. Just for that, whatever Kenzi eventually did, it was going to be reversible.

"It was huge! It's head was as tall as me! All white with pearls and scales and oh my god, I hope we get one of those someday," Kenzi said, delighted. "Also, there were aliens. And you missed the weirdest D&D game ever."

Oh, that was probably a good thing.

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Quinn's eyes got huge. "Seriously, there were crazy people around zapping everybody, and you guys played Dungeons and Dragons?"

She considered. "Somehow that's less of a surprise than the dragon."