Fifth Floor Common Room, Saturday night

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

The ceremony was over. Nothing had eaten his diploma. He got to test out the taser function of his grapple. He punched a bear until it cried (basically).

Bruce was having a pretty great day.

Of course, the day was ending soon, and it was almost time to start focusing on leaving in a few days. Almost time. For tonight, he could give a small token of thanks to the students of Fandom for the past three years by paying for pizza, cake, and refreshments and getting it set up in the common room.

Yes, it was completely impromptu. But if people remembered him putting together a quick celebration, maybe they would focus less on him tasering a bear. Probably not. Oh well, he could deal with being known for that here.

[OOC: Open for an impromptu celebration!]

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[wasthecuteone]

"Dude!" Petra said when she saw Bruce in the common room. "You beat up an evil koala!"

Yeah, good luck with the not being remembered for that thing, Bruce.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

It kind of worked. She was using singular nouns. "That's not a sentence I really expected to hear when I woke up this morning," Bruce said. "But I knew there would be something like that."

[wasthecuteone]

"Seriously?" Petra asked. "Does that sort of thing usually happen? Because it wasn't on the program but then there was a locker of weapons, and I just would like to know whether I should bring some pepper spray next year, you know?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Hope for the best, plan for the worst," Bruce said. "Two years ago there was a witch who turned the grads into children, animals, and made them sing. Last year there were vikings and the island started traveling through space and time."

"So the administration learned to keep some useful objects on hand. Pepper spray's a good start."

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

After that 'graduation' or whatever, Britta was really in need of something to clear her mind. Thankfully, there were offerings upstairs and she cracked open a Diet Coke.

"Okay," she said, to no one in particular, "so someone tell me that they saw what happened down there, too, and that it wasn't just some bad LSD."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

Without any family in town, Annie just needed someone to squee at.

"We graduated!"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I have the drop bear blood on my brass knuckles to prove it," Bruce said.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"We did. Congratulations, Annie," Bruce said. "Now you should be able to relax for a couple days."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Are you kidding me? I move across the US in under a week. There is no relaxing," she told him. "But you can!"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I'll be working in New York in a few days, then back home to work for the rest of the summer," Bruce said. "So not much rest for me either."

[shestheworst.livejournal.com]

"Gross," said Britta, because drop bears were people, too! "Is that what those things were? What were they doing there? Someone must have upset their natural habitat, or something."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"They were trying to eat our heads," Bruce said. "And I'm pretty sure they're magical creatures without a truly natural habitat. They just like to eat people's heads."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Oh, really? What are you doing?" she asked.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"For the next month I'm working in a doctor's office. Just helping out, nothing really medical," Bruce said. "Then when I'm back in Gotham City I'll be working for my family's charitable foundation."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"A doctor's office? Like administrative work? I'm actually looking to become a hospital administrator," she said.

Annie was the only person on Earth who could say that with enthusiasm.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Pretty much," Bruce said. "You know, I think you're the first person I've ever met who knew they wanted that career on their way out of high school."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Which means I'll be getting into a job in my preferred field just about the time everyone else is deciding they want it," she reasoned.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"Sounds reasonable to me," Bruce said. "It's a job I have a lot of respect for, too. My father was a doctor, and he always had plenty to say about the people running his hospital."

Most of it nice, too! Because the man was basically a saint.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Awwww. Well I'm glad," she smiled. "What does the charitable foundation do?"

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"A little bit of everything. The Wayne Foundation is more or less my world's version of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, where both a substantial portion of the Wayne fortune and all the money we can raise goes to as many charities as possible."

"I'll mostly be working with the fundraisers." Largely for the exposure it'll give him that he can use for covering his identity later.

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you'll be good at that," Annie decided.

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"I'll certainly try to be," Bruce said. "I just hope I can come up with some causes as inspiring as a fashion show to help the starving Belgians."

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"And that is when you can put in a call to me or Rilla," she said with a smile. "Though it might be harder to have the starving Belgians in 1915 over there."

[willbethenight.livejournal.com]

"True. And it's probably better PR to focus on the starving people of Gotham," Bruce said. "But if you ever have any ideas, I'm open to them. Anything I can do to do some good, you know?"

[annieadderall.livejournal.com]

"I'd be glad to help," Annie assured him. "It's important to give back."