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"Good morning, everyone," Steve said. "Today we'll be talking about a subject near and dear to everyone's heart: how to behave when dealing with your roommate or roommates."

Deadpool nodded seriously along with that. "Important rules about replacing food and cleaning up their dirty laundry and not being so damn fat all the time. I mean, c'mon. If you're gonna teach a gym class, you should try to be in shape. But nooooo. Just wallowing about and bein' more fat."

...what? He was very passionate about the subject at hand.

Steve stared at Deadpool in his usual dealing-with-Deadpool manner, which meant he looked slightly blank for a moment as his brain tried and failed to process that, then said slowly, "I don't think we should judge people based on their weight, Wade."

"...dude, The Blob."

"Oh." And that was all Steve was going to say about that. "Having a roommate is really about respecting the other person and their right to live in a clean and nondisruptive environment. That's the base of all the little rules and routines, so if you can remember that you'll be fine." Said the man whose house had gotten blown up regularly for years. Maybe not as often as Xavier's, but still.

"And always, always, always throw something at them when they forget to wash the dishes and leave them in the sink until things start growing and quiche comes to life on you," Deadpool added.

"Ideally," Steve said, shooting a look at Deadpool, "Everyone will do their dishes in a timely manner so that things don't start growing in the sink. But even if they do, you shouldn't throw things at them." Unless they were Clint. "That's rude."

Deadpool eyed him. "Maybe in crazy Avenger Land where you have a butler to take care of things."

"I washed my own dishes," Steve said, sounding mildly offended. It was part of why he'd been able to keep kitchen privileges for so long. "But that's neither here nor there. A good roommate should also be considerate of their roommate's sleep schedule, which may be very different from their own, and not play loud music or practice mixed martial arts while other people are trying to sleep."

"Whoa! Whoa. Let's not be Nazis here. Nazi bees and or ones with stupid pink masks on. We can't just tell them not to practice mixed martial arts just because someone is sleeping," Deadpool replied. "That's just cruel and unusual, man."

He took a step forward, looking at an audience that wasn't there, hand on his chest. "Because the American dream includes practicing mixed martial arts in the wee hours of the night, just as much as it does protection from religious persecution and the ability to speak one's mind without fear of the goverment going all nutso on you and sending crazy ass Dark Avengers out to kill you. Norman. Seriously? Seriously? What kinda crack were the editors smoking to let that one get through?"

Steve wasn't even touching that. "You may have noticed by now that Mr. Wilson has some issues," Steve said to the students. "Let's just pretend that didn't just happen."

"He's being kind," Deadpool added. "I'm crazy and we all know that. Now, we're going to have a few scenarios that happen in real life all the time and you are gonna pair off to come up with solutions to them that--" He sighed. "--don't involve braining them with a shoe."

"So, pair up," Steve said, "and then you can draw scenarios out of this bowl. Get to it."

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Hannibal hadn't had any of these apply to him (thank you, Angela) but he was more than willing to go off past experiences and thought about that while he waited for a partner.

Raven's shyness made it difficult to approach someone she didn't know well (especially a boy), but she gave it a try. "Hello," she said. "Do you require a partner?"

"I think I do," Hannibal said, looking up and nodding. "If you need one too then we're in luck, right?"

"Yes, I do," Raven said with a shy smile. "Though I am unfamiliar with all these scenarios. I have never had a roommate until I came here."

"Oh yeah?" His mind automatically went to only child but, with all the diversity on the island, he knew he was probably wrong. "I'm Hannibal King. And I've had a few roommates here and there. Nothing extremely terrible, thankfully."

"I am Rachel Roth," Raven said. "It is nice to meet you. My own roommate is very odd, but I have not returned to our room to find it in disarray, so I suppose I am fortunate."

"My roommate's great," Hannibal said, nodding. "But we've been living together for over a year now so we're used to each other. Are you with a guy or a girl?"

"My roommate is a girl, thank Azar," Raven said. "Her name is Diana. She has a cat with her much of the time, though I haven't not seen her since we returned to the dorms."

"Mine's a girl too," he said and nodded in Angela's direction. "She's my roommate. I kind of lucked out. Are you not used to coed living?"

Raven shook her head. "Not at all," she said. "I have always had my own room. I have never studied with others, either, though I have had both male and female instructors. Fandom was a interesting change for me."

"Interesting good?" he hoped. "Or interesting 'oh my god, get me the hell out of here?'"

"I found it overwhelming at first," Raven admitted. "But I have come to enjoy it. How long have you been here?"

"Going on two years," he said, a little surprised every time he said that. "Probably the longest place I've stayed in awhile but I haven't really found any reason to leave. Place gets under your skin."

"It is certainly an interesting place," Raven had to agree. "Pastries falling from the sky, people turning into animals...and I have heard stories of people waking up children or a member of the opposite sex."

"Both have happened to me," he confirmed. "Woke up as a kid, woke up as a girl. Both weird in their very own special way."

"I cannot imagine what I would do in that sort of situation," Raven said. "At least is is always temporary, correct?"

"Yep, temporary." So far, at least. "Everyone seems to change back and the only side effect is the embarrassment and possible odd situations you might have gotten into. And they make good stories for later."

"I am surprised then that they did not put that kind of a scenario as an option," Raven mused. "Since it seems more likely here than some of the others they wrote. What is the proper etiquette when your roommate turns into an animal or a child or the like?"

"Well, if they're an animal, mostly you just make sure they don't get into trouble, don't get lost, that sort of thing," he relayed. "If they're a child, it's harder because you'll probably be a child too. So, then, you get into trouble together."

"With all the gifts the people here possess," Raven said, shaking her head, "I am surprised the island is still standing when faced with their child-selves out for mischief."

"I think the island's stronger than it looks," he said and shook his head. "It likes to cause trouble too."

He was never forgetting no sex week.

"So it protects itself, yet it also creates havoc with its residents," Raven said. "Truly this is a strange place, but I am feeling more at home now."

"Yeah, as long as you remember to expect the unexpected with roommates and the island, you'll be fine," Hannibal said. "And if you catch your roommate doing anything on this list, you can always retreat to a common room or a friends room, at least."

"Yes, that would be best," Raven said, unable to hide a blush. It was bad enough walking passed doors behind which there were people being intimate, but if it were in her own room....

"Let's hope it doesn't happen," he said, catching that blush. "It'll be easier and less embarrassing."

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