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Tricks, Cons and Bamboozles | Wednesday | Period 1

Today in class, the students were fortunate enough to have a fully-human, fully-clothed teacher. Sure, that teacher was one who had spent the weekend sobbing into an empty bottle of Bordeaux, but that was neither here nor there.

“Today,” said Neal, “we’re going to do a couple of workshops.”

The room was set up with three main tables, with various pieces of equipment in buckets on each one. Yes, the class was a bit small to do workshops like this, but that was what he was doing and that was that.

“I’ve set up three main stations for you all, and each one focuses on a different manual task that’s pretty much essential in this field. I’m not saying you have to be experts at it, especially if you want to move to the more white-collar stuff, but you’ve got to know the basics. So here we have lock-picking, pickpocketing, and forgery.” He pointed to each table as he spoke, then shrugged.

“Any questions?”

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Kenzi looked mystified for a moment, than grinned in delight. "If they haven't busted me I can neither confirm nor deny that any election nomination forms might have been submitted on behalf of parties too busy moping to realize there was a deadline."

So, so devious.

Neal just looked at her for a moment, then laughed. "Man," he said, amused. "When Peter comes by in a couple weeks, he's gonna get such a kick out of you."

Such. SUCH.

Kenzi grinned. "Oh hey, is he bringing his nice wife? I like her. We talked shoes!"

"Maybe," Neal laughed. "I'll have to ~~see if someone wants to play her~~ talk to Peter about it. But I'll be sure to let them know your vote."

A beat.

"And no Mozzie," he said, hating to be the bearer of bad news as always. "Sorry."

"Awwwww." Kenzi pouted. "But, but, but! Codes! Encryption! Possibly special brands of sushi!"

Yes, they'd texted a lot. Most of it confusing. But still!

"He doesn't love Peter," Neal explained. "Authority's... not his favorite thing." He snorted, musing, "Can't imagine what he'd do if he met Zoe."

Sob, probably.

"I want to be her when I grow up," Kenzi said solemnly. "... if I wasn't, you know. Me."

Aww. And here Neal had thought she was aspiring to be just like him!

"Not sure if I should be hurt," he teased. "What about your friend? Bo?"

Kenzi grinned at him, then her eyebrows rose. "Be like Bo? Seriously? That's like aspiring to be Meryl Streep after you took a few acting classes." She paused, and equivocated, "Plus, Bo has issues. She's awesome, but I don't want her life." She grinned. "I do want yours. But I promise not to go stalker on you."

Neal laughed. "You mean like my 'teaching buddy' did to that student this weekend?"

Yikes, Hermione. Just yikes. But way to blow your cover about not listening to the radio, Neal.

"Dude, she's your teaching buddy? That's as bad as-- some of the other stuff that happened this weekend." Ahem! Ahem. Yeah. "Lots of awkward Monday morning around here."

"Getting that," Neal said, nodding. "Is it weird that it's kind of entertaining to watch, though? I mean, when I leave after this semester, I might sort of... miss it."

"Awwww." Kenzi would miss Mr. Caffrey. Maybe she'd get an actual cat and name him that. "And no, I'm pretty sure it's awesome entertainment if you're not crazy or diseased in the middle of it." And she had two more years of it to look forward to, woo!

"Wait, am I jinxed now?" Neal wasn't sure how this worked, but he reeeeally didn't want to be jinxed. "Kenzi!"

"Ummm... oops?"

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