fandomhigh | Conflict Management for Dummies, Thursday, Third Period

Oz's class was meeting in a normal classroom this week. Once everyone had arrived and found a seat, he began.

"Afternoon, kids, I'm Oz and this is Conflict Management for Dummies, if you're in the wrong place, stick around, you might learn something."

"Now usually conflict management is all about touchy-feely crap, and don't get me wrong that has it's place, I am a big fan of team bonding." Just ask his employees sometime, and ignore the shell-shocked looks while they replied. "But sometimes the person you're in conflict with is a real jerk who doesn't want to kiss and make nice, and even they did you know they'd be back to their old tricks the second they weren't being watched. Basically, sometimes conflict management is less about resolution and more about controlled escalation." Because that was a thing that always ended well.

"So over the the next few weeks, I'm going to be teaching you guys some conflict management techniques, which I highly encourage you to practice outside the classroom, at least the legal ones. But for now I just want your names, your year, and the best prank you ever pulled on someone." Just in case anyone was in doubt about the kind of techniques Oz was talking about.

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Peter Wiggin

Snow White

Alec Lightwood

Jessica Drew

Sholeh Zeela a Zhahar

(Zee)

Realise you may have made a terrible mistake.

Or an awesome one.

Peter had been in almost every one of Oz's classes, so he knew exactly what he'd signed up for.

If anything, he looked smugly pleased during the lecture.

THIS WAS THE BEST CLASS EVER.

Name, year, best prank.

Oz is still fond of convincing Cash the machine uprising was imminent.

"I'm Peter Wiggin, I'm a rising senior, and I have to tell you, I'm glad to be here again," Peter said, because mostly he'd never really played any pranks. Ever.

"Glad to have you here again." Oz was sure Peter would get the hand of pranking soon enough. He was a bright kid.

"I'm Snow White, and I'm a junior," Snow said. "And I've never played any pranks that I remember."

Being a carefree child felt decades away.

"Don't worry," Oz told her. "We'll soon fix that."

"I'm Alec Lightwood, I'm a senior, and I've... never done a prank, I don't think."

Oz had his work cut out for him it seemed. "No time like the present to start."

"Jessica Drew, I'm a junior, and I recently quit a job by walking off while I stuck my boss's feet to the floor with industrial-grade adhesive," Jessica said. "And I knew he was going to get fired before the end of the day, too. I had my job back the next day."

A prankster after Oz's own heart. "Best prank of the day."

So far only prank of the day, but that was irrelevant.

"Zee, rising junior, and I'm a fan of the classics," Zeela said, grinning. "Honey in a hair brush--"

*I hate you.*

"--knots in clothing--"

::I hate you, too.::

"--a bowl of warm water and the hand of someone sleeping--"

*Okay, that was kind of funny.*

"--stuff like that." Zee beamed when she was finished.

Who considered gluing your shoes to the floor but refrained. This week.

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