A/N: I actually didn't intend for this to be part of AoHB, but it wanted to be placed there, so I gave in.
It was a very normal day, especially for Alex Rider. So far, nothing had blown up, nobody had tried to kill him, and the school lunch didn't look radioactive. Okay, so maybe the day wasn't that normal… but Alex would take what he could get. So he went to classes like a normal boy, ate lunch like a normal boy, and fooled around with his friends like a normal boy.
And in his very last class, he finished his quiz with the flourish of someone who knows exactly what he's talking about and turned it in, like a very normal boy.
Later that evening, his teacher graded the quiz of that very normal boy and leaned back in bafflement as he stared at the only perfect score on his pop quiz essay for "Explosive Chemicals and Their Uses".
A/N: Also, sadly, not as many shenanigans as usual.
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