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Olive's pants and baby blue tank top were a lot more whimsical than she necessarily felt today, between the weekend and then dealing with stuff with Jim last night, not to mention her inner battle of stupid earlier (which, spoiler: she had been a total chicken and stupid had won and she'd slunk back to the dorms with her coffee and Trix without purposely going to see anyone. Because she sucked.)

But it was pajama club, dammit. She would put on a whimsical face for them. Plus, it'd probably help her mood, some. So the TV had cartoons on it -- not the crappy ones they showed nowadays, but the good Looney Tunes stuff she remembered being on TV sometimes when she was a kid. And there was cereal. And blankets. Let's all just make a cuddle fort, okay?

"Does anyone have any trauma to share from the weekend?" Olive asked, over her bowl of cereal. "Because I don't feel like sharing my trauma but maybe someone has a better story. Also I don't have trauma so much as irritation and relief people are gone, but I figured that 'trauma' makes for a better reason to lie around in our pajamas, am I right?"

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"Dammit. There goes my Friday night," Olive said, snapping her fingers. She was still looking at him kind of curiously, though. "Do you do that kind of thing...like, a lot? Save defenseless strangers at the expense of getting werewolf-punched?"

"When I can," Victor said, with slightly self-conscious pride. "It's not like it comes up everyday, but... sure. There's no point having powers if you don't help other people."

Ah, superhero programming.

Sigh. As though Olive needed another reason to like him. "I mean, there's the side perks," she noted with a small smile. "It's not everyone who can play taser. But yeah. Help the helpless, and all that. I completely get that."

She'd used fake sex rather than superpowers, but she got it. "If you have the power to help people, you probably should. Even if most people are dickheads."

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Victor grinned back, relieved but not surprised she got it.

"And even dickheads don't deserve to die, you know?" he said. "Or ... at least not from something that isn't their own fault."

"Or suffer at the hands of even bigger dickheads," Olive noted with a small sigh. "It completely sucks when you've saved someone's ass and they're obnoxious about it. Almost enough to make me want to abandon the whole endeavor and let them deal with it, you know?"

"Absolutely," Victor said, with some feeling, and gave her a curious look. "That a situation you end up in a lot? Superheroine to dickheads?"

"Kind of," Olive hedged. "More like...favor-doer to the ungrateful. There's kind of a bullying problem at my old school and our principal tends to side with the bullies. So I helped out a few kids...get their asses kicked less, and was generally unappreciated and mocked for it."

And sometimes worse. She should have been suspicious of Anson to begin with, honestly. He was the only one who didn't get picked on who'd approached her.

"Because nobody remembers how to say thank you," Victor theorized. He wondered whether the rejected help had been part of the spiral that had lead to her burlesque performance, but he could tell none of it was her favorite thing to talk about. He'd ask later.

"That's one nice thing here. Basically no bullies."

"Yeah," Olive said, frowning a little. "I'm sort of baffled by that. Everyone's like, shockingly nice here. Like, I'm mean by comparison to most of the people here. I mean, I live with a saint."

"Someday I'm going to tell the Karolina at home she has a double here, and other-her's roommate thinks she's a saint," Victor said. "... not that I can argue much, I just think it'd make her blush a lot. Also, no way are you mean."

"I'm super-mean," she assured him. "Or at least obnoxious. I'm just not mean to you. Fine distinction."

"Then I guess I feel lucky I'm special," and there was no way to say that without smiling.

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