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Third Floor Common Room, Thursday Evening

So, Kathy's grand plan to go trick-or-treating in the dorms to meet people had kind of been a bust, but an important discovery had been made nevertheless: Theo had never seen Mister What.

Not a single episode. Hadn't even heard of the show. On the eve of the fiftieth anniversary, even!

The very idea was shocking, but Kathy was there to make it right. She couldn't let her favorite wallflower buddy continue to wallow in cultural ignorance forever! So, she'd hooked up her laptop to the TV in the third floor common room, where she had every episode from the new run (and a bunch of the old) ~~torrented~~ TOTALLY LEGALLY OBTAINED on her external hard drive.

The amount of food she'd gotten from the Chinese place in town was ridiculous, but the delivery guy hadn't seemed too fussed about it and the price was about what she'd figured, so she just shrugged and hauled it up, spreading it on the counter. Hopefully the smell of General Tso's Chicken and the distinctive noise of Mister What's time and space machine would lure other people to coming around, too.

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"Eventually we'll end up getting to the bottom of the Christmas gifts barrel and end up getting socks and underwear," Kathy laughed. "Notebooks and pencils and scotch tape around September-Christmas?"

"I think any teacher would say that notebooks and pencils and scotch tape are excellent gifts!" Theo pointed out. "Practical and fashionable."

"I know that's what I'm always hoping to open up under the dead Christmas tree," Kathy teased. "Socks, underwear, and mechanical pencils. How exciting!"

"Well, now I know what I'm getting you for Christmas," Theo replied smartly.

Laughing, Kathy tried to push Theo away from her via his shoulder and made the most ridiculous face she could at him. "Brat! That's fine. You'll just wake up with dental floss and a box of kleenex in your stocking. Not even the good, moisturizing kind. The cheap stuff that leaves your nose raw."

VENGEANCE WILL BE HERS.

"So, I'd just give that to someone else!" Theo threatened oh so seriously. "Re-gifting!"

"Oh my god! You can't regift wallflower presents!" Kathy was oh-so-scandalized, really. "That's totally one of the rules we didn't get around to making!"

"Yeah but my re-gifting would be grandfathered in because I thought of it before you made the rule," Theo decided quickly.

"But the actions wouldn't take place until after the rule was passed," Kathy countered. "So, really, if you hadn't mentioned it until Christmas, you would have been fine!"

"I like my explanation better," Theo said because it made him right.

"You would," Kathy sniffed. "But, then, you're a dirty regifter, so you clearly don't know what you're talking about."

"I am the smartest person in the room!" Theo decided with a flourish. "I am genius levels of smart for thinking of what I did."

"Ha!" Kathy was just going to laugh herself back into the cushions at that. "Are you smart enough to--"

Dodge the pillow she was swinging towards his head?

He was...not. No, he was not. The pillow hit him in the face and he could be heard laughing behind the pillow. He tried to push the pillow away and back towards her in retaliation.

Kathy, however, was prepared for retaliation and ducked under it. "Who's the genius now?" she asked with a grin.

Theo didn't answer because he was too busy reaching for one of his fortune cookies so he could toss it at her. Not hard or anything like that but still at her!

The fortune cookie surprised her as it bounced off her head. "Oh, that tears it!" she declared, jumping up from her spot on the couch and snatching up one of her chopsticks.

"En garde!" she cried, moving into what she thought was a fencing pose, based entirely on what she'd seen on TV.

Theo was a little slower to react but once he figured out what she was doing, he snagged a chopstick and got to his feet, holding it up in a defensive stance.

"Bring it on!" he said, waving the chopstick.

"Take that!" she said, poking wildly at him with her chopstick. "I mean...have at thee!"

Because she was a pirate now. Or a musketeer.

Theo managed to dodge the first strike and tried to poke her shoulder with his chopstick. He was careful not to trip over his own feet because that would have been ridiculous.

"You missed!"

"Not for long!" she announced, before taking a chopstick to the shoulder. "You bilge rat!"

Pirate it was, then.

"Being down an arm won't stop me from poking you full of holes!"

"You'll never take me alive!" Theo said, twirling his chopstick. "And I know that's the point but it sounded cool to say!"

Kathy's attack was momentarily arrested by a fit of giggles. She would absolutely get back to skewering him in a second, but laughter needed to happen now.

"You'd--you'd better--get ready to meet your maker!"

"I'm always ready!" Theo wasn't really thinking before speaking but everything sounded cool. He jabbed low, trying to take out her leg now!

"Ready to die!" Kathy hollered, leaping backwards away from his low jab.

Instead of only jumping back a foot or so, she found herself on the other side of the room. And when she landed, she immediately bounced upwards again, high enough to touch the ceiling.

Her second landing was not so graceful; she hit the floor on her hands and knees, looking dazed and very, very confused.

Theo might not understand the string of Korean words she let out right then, but he could probably guess from the tone that they weren't words to use in polite company.

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