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Post by Rogue on Oct 25, 2004 17:48:55 GMT -4
She didn't want to talk about it.
Wanda wouldn't have understood even if Rogue had tried to explain half of her problems. So, as usual, and under advicement of the other Rogue, she kept to herself. Letting out a silent sigh of relief as the witch changed the subject, Rogue shrugged her shoulders, hearing the Goth in her head snicker at the mention of Wanda 'knowing' Magneto. A little puzzled, she let it ride off.
"Ah thought Ah did too..." she spoke, her mind wandering to the past few weeks, "But it turned out Ah was just havin' memory flashes of someone else."
Technically, it was someone else. Magneto wasn't the same on both planes, so she never really knew this one. Come to think of it, she never knew the other one either... Rogue did. Argh! Talk about messin' with mah head! Ah'm jus' gonna stop thinkin' about it....
Ever since the universal switch, Rogue had found she had been gaining more and more headaches and her pain tolerance for them was either decreasing, or they were just intensified. Not that situations and stress at the moment was helping much. Trying to toss the matter aside, she found she was unsuccessful and became sarcastic. Ah need Asprin... Bottles of it.
"Ah wonder when we're headin' out... Ah need a distraction," she whispered, seeming to faze off for a moment, lost in thought, though it was just the pounding in her head. Gritting her teeth against the jostled thoughts and memories, she quickly desided to head back to her room before things got any worse. Just need t' rest... It'll go away... Ah hope.
Needing time alone, and some pain medication, she asked, "Ah'd better get ready... Sorry t' cut the convo off like this, sugah, but Ah think Ah'd bettah lay down before Ah go anywhere. Mah head's screamin' like a banshee!"
Giving Wanda an "I'm sorry" smile, Rogue put a gloved hand to her head before waving goodbye to the other woman and heading off down the hall to her room. Get yourself together!
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Post by amieva on Oct 25, 2004 19:52:30 GMT -4
Wanda nodded solemnly as Rogue excused herself. Now she was alone in an area of the compound she didn't recognize. She sighed heavily and uttered something under her breath in Romany.
Looking around in slight frustration, Wanda picked a random direction and just started walking. She'd either run into someone, or find her way to the garage eventually.
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Post by Havok on Oct 25, 2004 20:30:44 GMT -4
Alex had walked out the door without paying much attention to where he was going. He was lost in thought. And emotions. He had been feeling particularly exiled in the last few days, what with so many new people joining and him not being informed or even introduced. And this feeling made him angry. And anger made him frustrated. Not only that, but he had been given a place of responsibility in this organization, and so far Jubilee was doing a better job than he was. This, too, made him angry. And this, too, made him frustrated.
By the time he realized he was not heading towards his room, he was on the opposite side of the base, moving towards the garage. Cursing under his breath, he started heading back towards the Main Hall, since it was the only way to get to the Dorms from here.
Standing in the middle of the intersection was one of the new recruits, looking very lost and very alone.
Sounds familiar. He thought darkly, getting a good look at her before addressing her.
Another pretty one?! What happened to all those ugly girls I saw back at the orphanage? Part of him was glad that there weren't that many of those girls here. That part was the hormones. The other part, the insecurity, was regretting this fact.
"Can I help you?" He finally asked, trying his best to keep his uneasiness out of his voice.
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Post by baskefire on Oct 26, 2004 21:24:56 GMT -4
X23 watched the people in utter confusion. Never before had she seen such dramatic situation before. Envolving so much emotion anyways. She was trained to live without emotion, and while that training might have failed in areas like anger, emotion like what she just saw was... alien.
Realizing no one was watching her, the devious girl stepped out of the meeting room to wonder around and inscribe the base's layout in her memory. She stalked from room to room, freely opening doors to search around, listening and scenting the entire time. She kept alert watch during her explorations.
She entered what must have been one of the female's rooms, judging from the scents and objects.
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Post by Jubilee on Oct 26, 2004 21:32:00 GMT -4
Jubilee crossed her arms and tapped one foot against the floor as she saw X23 peering into her room.
"Uh, hello? That room's taken, because it's where all my junk is. If you couldn't tell."
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Post by Rogue on Oct 26, 2004 22:30:08 GMT -4
Turning the corner to the girl's dorms, Rogue let out a soft chuckle at Jubilee's sarcasm, only making her head hurt worse. Muttering a soft, "ow..." she massaged her temple, waving to X-23 before opening the door next to Jubilee's and walking inside.
Tossing through drawers, she searched for some Advil, Aleve, Asprin... anything, but only managed to scrounge up Tylenol. Scoffing at her lack of pain medication, Rogue rolled her eyes, calling into the next room, "Jubes... you wouldn't happen t' have any pain meds would you? Mah head feels like it's been hit with a sledge hammer."
Ignoring the fresh pain that burned in her brain, she waited for the girl's responce. Crashing onto her matress, she lay on her back, gloved hands to her head as she tried to clear the rampaging thoughts. Ow... ow... Ow... OW! DAMMIT! her mind screamed, the voices all shouting amongst themselves, she wished they would all just go away.
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Post by amieva on Oct 26, 2004 22:38:34 GMT -4
Wanda very nearly DID run into someone. She looked up when she heard a young man's voice speak to her. Her face flushed in embarrassment when he asked her if she needed help. She felt like an idiot.
"I do not know where it is I am going." she admitted in her heavily accented voice.
She understood that this man's name was Havok, or something. She had heard Jubilee mention him once or twice. He was attractive, though quite young looking. He was probably still in his teens.
"There are too many directions to turn! How does one remember them all?!"
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Post by baskefire on Oct 27, 2004 6:20:10 GMT -4
X23 looked casually at Jubilee.
"Your room?"
She looked over the room again before returning her line of sight to the young woman. Jubilee was obviously aggitated with the younger girl's presence here.
"I am not allowed in here?"
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Post by Jubilee on Oct 27, 2004 6:49:27 GMT -4
"Shyeah," Jubilee said, arching an eyebrow.
"This, is mine. Unless I invite you in, I don't want to see you in it. Or touching my stuff neither. And I will know if you do."
She turned to Rogue as she heard the Southerner's drawl.
"I've got some. If you take a codeine one, will you still be up for the mission? I know some people get groggy."
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Post by baskefire on Oct 27, 2004 7:01:20 GMT -4
X23 snorted quietly and held her chin up. She stepped out of this room to see another woman, appearently in pain in her own room. She would have asked what was wrong with her, but the way she was holding her head, it would have been a stupid question.
X23 stood off to the side. She couldn't offer any help to the woman, her healing factor took care of any aches and paines she ever had. She would explore more in a little bit.
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Post by Havok on Oct 27, 2004 15:35:15 GMT -4
Despite Alex' nervousness, he couldn't help but give a sympathetic smile to the woman. She seemed a bit embarassed at being lost, which she shouldn't have been.
"Don't feel bad," he said to her. "I've been living here for a few years, and I still get lost." As in a few moments ago.
"Where do you want to go?"
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Post by amieva on Oct 27, 2004 17:24:58 GMT -4
Wanda smiled back to him at his admitting his problem with getting lost.
"Everyone else has gone to their rooms for final preparations, it seems," she said. "I am too nervous to rest, and I do not require anything than what I have with me."
She laughed lightly to herself. "I suppose I am eager to leave, yes? Is it strange I should wish to leave immediately, though I do not know what awaits me?" Wanda pondered out loud. She was reminded of her brother, and his constant need to push ahead; to search for something new.
Wanda missed Pietro terribly. They'd been apart for far too long. Perhaps Magneto would be able to help her find him again.
"Your name is Havok, yes?" she asked. "Would you wait with me until it is time to leave?"
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Post by Havok on Oct 27, 2004 19:02:59 GMT -4
Alex smiled lightly, his nervousness fading somewhat. She had a thick accent, though it was understandable, and it served to lighten his mood. It was...musical, almost jovial.
"It's not." He answered in reponse to her question. "It's the nature of all intelligent life to explore, to seek the unknown." Mentally, Alex checked what he had just said. It didn't sound like something he had ever heard before, yet at the same time, it seemed familiar...
His brief reverie was interrupted by another question being directed at him.
"Uhh...sure." He replied. If there was one thing Alex did not do well, it was say no. No matter how much his brain kicked him for it.
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Post by amieva on Oct 27, 2004 19:29:47 GMT -4
"Thank-you." she said sincerely. "I have been feeling ..." she racked her mind for the word, "lonely. I appreciate that you accepted."
Wanda didn't want to discuss the causes of her lonliness at the time, but find another conversation topic. Well, Havok was a mutant, just like her. "What is your powers?" she asked. Perhaps she'd be able to better understand her own if she learned about others.
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Post by Havok on Oct 27, 2004 19:43:38 GMT -4
Alex was not inquisitive as to why she felt lonely. He knew he wouldn't like to explain why he felt the same way, so he felt that she wouldn't want to explain, either.
"My powers?" He asked. No one had ever asked him to explain his powers before. He had a semi-understanding of how they worked, but nothing concrete.
"Well, I absorb solar energy, and I channel it in heat waves that are constantly pulsing from my body." He paused for a moment, thinking about how to continue. "With concentration, I can direct the waves of heat to form beams of super-heated particles called plasma." That was about all he knew about his powers. It felt odd to be talking about them in scientific terms.
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