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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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."