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notmarieanymore"Hey, ya'll've reached Rogue. Leave a message!"
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» you know what to do
action;
Date: 2015-10-06 01:30 am (UTC)That was it. The alcohol, sure, but she didn't have her powers. She didn't have to close herself off to keep everyone safe. She could actually be a teenager, for once in her life.]
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Date: 2015-10-07 01:13 am (UTC)[Too bad they put their clothes back on - and there's glass out there now - or he'd see if he could get her skinnydipping. Wouldn't that be something.
Something more serious flickers across his face, though, because he can't leave it at tonight. Not even with all the wrong reasons we did this.]
You were right, too. I wanted to. For a long time.
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 01:28 am (UTC)I've always been fun, [she told him, though she knows it's not true. She hadn't been fun at the school. Her powers removed a lot of fun from her life. Made it so she had to be careful at all times.
His words take her aback.] John what- [Oh. Oh, shit.]
You liked me? I was just giving you a hard time...
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 01:30 am (UTC)[It was always Bobby for him, too, in a lot of ways. But Rogue came into their lives and turned everything upside down.]
Not like I can blame you. No one can see past him.
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 01:40 am (UTC)That whole thing was now painted in a very different light.]
Hey. [She reached out and put a hand on his shoulder.] Wasn't like I made the best decision in the world or anything.
[That was supposed to be comforting.]
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Date: 2015-10-07 01:44 am (UTC)[He starts to pace up the beach, giving no indication if she should follow or not, but he's still talking.]
Even being at Xavier's was impossible. I knew I hated the guy and everything he stood for. Trying to be friends with Bobby, with you - none of that was who I was.
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Date: 2015-10-07 01:46 am (UTC)You seem... I know they probably aren't the best things to judge from, but you seem happier here.
[kinder. Ironically.
For a second, she wants to ask him something; if he believed that Magneto was right, in kidnapping her, using her like he did. But she didn't want to know the truth, as much as she did. She didn't want to ruin what could be, oddly, a solid friendship.]
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Date: 2015-10-07 01:51 am (UTC)[He's not happier, exactly, but there's not as much to be angry about. He couldn't deny that if she were to say it.]
It's all fucked up. Just not as bad. [Which probably isn't true for her, given what she just found out, but he thinks she might be calling it an even trade-off right now.]
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 01:59 am (UTC)[She has no idea they're here. Any of the other X-Men that aren't them weren't known to her. Well. Other than Remy.]
It's still bad. I just- [she sighs.] I'm just really glad I won't kill someone by giving them a hug. I'm glad it's just me in my head again.
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 02:03 am (UTC)[But his satisfaction is short-lived. He's never fully understood her powers, so this is a bit of a confusing shock.]
What do you mean, in your head?
Re: action;
Date: 2015-10-07 02:39 am (UTC)The voices. [She gives him a look- doesn't he know?]
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 02:41 am (UTC)[No, they're so far beyond Charles and Erik now. What is she talking about? He isn't even walking anymore, just staring at her stupidly.]
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 02:45 am (UTC)[they're gone. Thank god.]
They were- [she hated this part of explaining her powers.] -they were the personalities of people I touched. Bits of their lives and memories all floating around. [It's why she often had migraines.
...and now he was going to think she was crazy.]
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 02:47 am (UTC)You had me in your head?
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Date: 2015-10-07 02:51 am (UTC)[She doesn't apologize, she's always hated apologizing. But she's got no choice, as she looks at John, willing herself to turn away, but unable.]
I didn't want any of it. I hope you know that.
[Maybe now he'd see why she hated using her powers so much.]
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 02:54 am (UTC)You know how it feels, then. Knowing every heat source around you, every temperature down to the decimal point, and how much of a push it'd take to combust. You know how you want to, 'cause it'd be so easy, and your whole head's built around making that happen. You must've felt that if you used my mutation.
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 02:59 am (UTC)[simply, because she doesn't want to dwell on it.] I know exactly what it felt like.
[Ironically, she always had control over whatever mutation she absorbed. She could control the optic blasts that Scott Summers himself could not.]
You got real lucky, when it came to powers.
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 03:02 am (UTC)[He's the ticking time bomb. The grenade with the pin just pulled. He's the dangerous one, but not the threat - he just needs to be kept in line because he can't stop himself. He can never stop himself.]
action;
Date: 2015-10-07 03:09 am (UTC)[Seriously. She just couldn't really ever express it. Besides, that would make John insufferable.]
What you were capable of doing, and the minute control you had over it?
action;
Date: 2015-10-11 05:23 pm (UTC)[Maybe it's true, but taking praise from Rogue is so weird that he'd rather just write it off with a smirk. He shivers a little, an unusual gesture for him, and pulls the coat closer around his bare chest.]
You're drunk and it's fucking cold out here, even I'm feeling it. Lemme get you home.
action;
Date: 2015-10-12 12:29 am (UTC)[Which is. Fine. Kinda. Maybe? She'll take it.]
Who's fault is that? You aren't wearing a shirt.
[Wait.] D'you drive? Drunk?
action;
Date: 2015-10-12 12:31 am (UTC)[Just a friendly reminder. And then he rolls his eyes.]
No, I don't drive. I just got here, I couldn't afford a car. I'll take the tram with you, what district are you in.
action;
Date: 2015-10-12 12:34 am (UTC)[What fourth wall?]
Just curious, gosh. [Elementary school, are we, Rogue?] Alright. I 'preciate that. I'm in the West.
action;
Date: 2015-10-12 12:39 am (UTC)[And he took her home, then went home and felt very smug. And also kind of dead inside.]