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Despite the... weekend of hell and bitey bitey, Deadpool and Steve were there for class and ready to shape young minds with their hard earned wisdom.

"Okay, so things happened, stuff and blah blah blah. Class time now. No vampires here, thanks."

"Unless you happen to already be a vampire," Steve added quickly. "In which case you are, of course, welcome as long as you do not bite anyone. So! In light of this past week's events, and some confusion that I understand occurred over in that other universe, we thought it would be helpful to discuss ways to determine that your friends are who they say they are without hurting their feelings."

"Or having to kill them in a tragic fashion," Deadpool added. Because he was helpful like that. "There are many reasons why your friend may not be your friend anymore. Shapeshifting aliens, alternate timelines, evil goatees, possession, crazy mind control devices, really weird coincidences with people looking like twins..."

"You forgot actual evil twins," Steve provided helpfully. "Additionally, there are clones and people surgically altered to look like your friends. And I'm sure I'm still forgetting something. But the important thing is, when these things inevitably happen to you, how do you deal with them?"

Twins were easy to forget, okay?

"Like, having a special code word to let you know they're the right person!" Not that it helped, really. "Or having a telepath nearby to help out."

"You can also quiz--subtly your friend on something only they would know. But sometimes even these methods will fail you. Like your friend might have been replaced by a Skrull. In that case, you'll need to consider technology."

"Which they won't have." Really, Steve. Really. "But exists! So, how about we come up with a list of questions to subtly question each other in case of being replaced, kaaaay?"

"That sounds reasonable," Steve agreed. "You never know when it'll come in handy."

"Weeeeell. Get on it, kiddos!"

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Bobby looked around for someone to partner up with. Hopefully someone who could come up with better questions than he was thinking of.

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"Bobby!" Zack's little sib looked like he could use a partner, and so Zack was going to deliver. "Think we can handle this assignment?"

He had experience in this, now!

"I'm totally ready, man," Bobby said with a nod.

"Okay, so, what we have to do is just talk about things that only the other guy would know about right?" Zack tapped a finger against his chin, thinking. "Like inside jokes, and stuff like that."

"Embarrassing childhood incidents," Bobby supplied.

"That only really works if the other guy knows about them already," Zack noted. "Why, do you have any you wanna share?"

He was grinning a little. He was still tired, but he was Zack, and therefore he could never turn down an opportunity to poke a little fun around.

"Not especially!" Bobby yelped. Look, he had enough embarrassing incident stories without bringing his childhood into it.

And that actually managed to get a laugh out of Zack, yes.

"Well, there are other options, too. Stuff you'd never do that someone else might, stuff that you might do that nobody else would. That kinda thing."

Bobby nodded. "Or make up total lies and see if the other person is all 'oh yeah, I remember that'."

"Oooo, that's a good one," Zack decided, nodding appreciatively, now. "That's probably safer, even, because it doesn't involve potentially giving away secrets to some other person who probably isn't on your side."

Now that he thought about it, babbling about everything that he'd done this week to Arthur in that other reality probably hadn't been his most brilliant idea, but Arthur had turned out to be Arthur, and so everything had turned out fine and dandy.

More or less.

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