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oo6. closedish.
CHARACTERS: Charles Xavier and Severus Snape; Remus Lupin; Emma Swan; Nuala; Rogue; Johanna Mason; Odessa Knutson; Erik Lehnsherr; Captain Hook (Killian Jones); Hank McCoy; Raven Darkholme; Cassandra Anderson, others as they happen.
LOCATION: Level fourteen, room one hundred; laundry facilities; bar on level fourteen; kitchen on level fourteen; the Gardens; media library; level twenty, room one-hundred and ninety two; others as they happen.
WARNINGS: TBA.
SUMMARY: Adjusting to being a different person is a struggle.
NOTES: This is only partially closed. I'm using this as a forum for people to poke him, as random run ins may happen as I tag out instead. Please let me know if you'd like to do anything, and I'll be happy to set up a thread (unless you're feel ambitious).
to ever spend my life sitting playing future games
LOCATION: Level fourteen, room one hundred; laundry facilities; bar on level fourteen; kitchen on level fourteen; the Gardens; media library; level twenty, room one-hundred and ninety two; others as they happen.
WARNINGS: TBA.
SUMMARY: Adjusting to being a different person is a struggle.
NOTES: This is only partially closed. I'm using this as a forum for people to poke him, as random run ins may happen as I tag out instead. Please let me know if you'd like to do anything, and I'll be happy to set up a thread (unless you're feel ambitious).
severus snape. level fourteen, room one hundred.
He has some books. He has a few bound texts he picked up while on Arima, and he has his own thesis because you know maybe anyone ever really wants to subject themselves to their own academic writing from ten years ago, and then a written collection of notes he's gathered both in his room as well as stealing them back from the laboratories in one swift trip there and back again.
(The serum notes, formerly fanned out on the floor in front of him like a hand of cards, kneeling as he tries to fish out what's relevant, ignoring his comms device, ignoring it. He doesn't want to do this to Hank. He doesn't want to do this to anyone.
They are put into a rough stack, cast under his bed.)
But not enough books. The sounds of a datapad at high volume gently indicates which room on this abandoned floor he has chosen for himself, space-age folksy music emanating through the sealed door.
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The lazily-cast tracking spell swirls through the hall and marks out a door - one Severus would have been able to find easily without assistance, it seems, because even meters away he can hear it, reminding him uncharacteristically of petulant teenage behavior he himself never had the opportunity to indulge in. There is no ominous apprehension within him as he approaches, footsteps quiet by nature. Severus is not skeptical - he doesn't think someone as closed off as Lehnsherr would bring it up with such deliberation if it was nothing - but he is carefully avoiding any wound-up preconceptions. He's personally experienced enough strife caused by timelines to, frankly, not want to get involved (no matter what aesthetic sins Charles may have committed), but there's something to be said about professional camaraderie. Probably.
Severus knocks on the door twice, firmly. The sound shoots through the deserted hall unfettered without anything else to absorb into, the edges of it rolling away like distant thunder.
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laundry facilities. remus lupin.
So the sunglasses he's wearing, darkly amber in tint and dated, are completely reasonable. What might not be reasonable is the midsized bottle of liquor half depleted next to him, which. Can be justified by the fact that Charles did not in fact bring liquor with him to do the laundry with, but rather, he is doing laundry because it seemed like a great idea upon drinking.
Seated on the ground, back against unused laundry machine, he is watching his own clothing toss around behind the eyeball of glass in front of him. Queasily.
Every now and then, he checks his comms device for the time.
Forty-four minutes. Should it take that long.
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He dumps his armful of clothing into a machine first (all together; his mother wouldn't approve) and adjusts the settings with the same unhesitating uncertainty as someone about lose at a shell game. Only once it's making enough noise for him to believe he's done something right does he look down the row.
He's only planning to be idly friendly to a stranger, but his quick sideways glance snags on the familiar profile and turns into a longer, squinting stare. "Charles?"
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Usually, she sees him around more often. Usually, he’s not so difficult to find.
Then again, he doesn’t usually have that dead look in his eyes, either.
She heads down to the fourteenth passenger level, tracking down his new room. For about five solid minutes, she paces outside of it. Finally bringing herself to stop in front of it, Emma raises one fist and pounds on the door three times. She recoils from it after that, tucking her hands into her back pockets and outright cringing that she can’t take the announcement of her presence back.
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The familiar shuffle of someone approaching, moments before door opens.
Charles isn't expecting her either, a twitch at his brows indicative of that. Maybe he wasn't mind reading. Maybe he was just expecting someone else. He should probably stop cold opening the door so much.
Discouragingly, he hasn't changed much since they last left off at the lockers. Shadows at his eyes and the affect of someone getting too much sleep rather than not enough. He's addressed appropriately, if only for the occasion of the world's laziest slightly unshowered Sunday morning.
His hands rest on either door frame aside of him.
"Emma," he says.
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Being here has nothing to do with the department. What takes her all the way to his doorway is the same thing that meant Severus contacted her by text, the reason why they discussed it in such tersely truncated terms - she goes because he's her friend, because she cares for him and worries for him and even the barest version that she's received is an unsettling one. She just isn't sure what she means to do, beyond witness the truth of the matter--
--but when she reaches out and finds his mind altered, she nearly leaves.
Nearly.
Then, unusually, she knocks.
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Because that's been working out shittily. He remains still, for a moment, lying in bed, trying to decide if he should just pretend he isn't here, but perhaps doing a good impression of an empty room is cutting it a little close to home. The bed frame creaks.
"Who is it?"
Because he's asking, this time, allowing himself that much preparation even if it gives away the fact he can't just know. There's the sound of shuffling. Tidying. Things like an ashy bottomed teacup and the cigarette butts inside clumsily dropped in a drawer.
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bar on level fourteen. rogue.
Well, Charles doesn't want a drink, to be honest.
He also doesn't look well, but he's managed to shovel himself into some respectable clothing for this occasion. Slacks that match his jacket, a button down shirt left open collared, all palettes of blue and grey. He's combed out the tangles in his hair, damp from a wet-handed run through upon washing his face.
This place is space age ridiculousness, and he once told Severus it'd be better served if it also contained dancing women in their knickers. He skips the curving sweep of bar, the liquor bottles all in a row (with some missing like gapped teeth), headed for a lounge area instead.
It's very quiet. The soles of his tidy shoes resonate against the smooth floor.
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Rogue waits until just before the designated meeting time to go down, waiting and trying to remember what she thinks a young Charles Xavier looks like. She's got the memories in there somewhere, but they aren't coming in particularly clear. Thank goodness for that.
Once it hits half-an-hour, Rogue enters the bar, having also tried her best to look put-together. Her two-toned hair is down, and she has on a dark purple long-sleeved dress that she'd found. Leggings, boots and gloves complete the outfit. Anxiously, she keeps her hands at her sides, trying not to fiddle with the fabric of her gloves. A few glances over the bar tell her that he's not there. Which leaves... the lounge.
And there is a man there. Blinking, Rogue approaches him with caution.
"Professor?"
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kitchen - level 14, midmonth
And no matter how many times they tell her that it's not the Capitol, and no matter who it is that says it--she's still not sure that she believes it. Who else but the Capitol would grab up a lot of people and shove them into a place where they've got to fight for their lives?--not always in the dire Arena circumstances, but in circumstances so like the Districts. Limited resources, shitty food.
It's the shitty food that has her on the move today. For someone that hated the indulgences of the Capitol, and all that they stood for--Johanna is not happy to return to a diet more like her childhood, or the packs in the Arena. Meat was scarce even in District 7, just like it is here. She's gone through every floor that she can find, one by one, looking for something edible, something that doesn't require a lot of work. And each floor proves fruitless (ha ha, food joke), and each time she steps onto the lift, Johanna's irritation increases by a notch. Sometimes by ten notches at once.
So when she finally does reach level fourteen, and steps into the kitchen--and sees just the hint of movement in her peripheral vision, she needs no encouragement. Her anger has frayed away at her nerves, which were pretty frayed to start with. Not half a heartbeat and she's got one axe in her hand, and the other, she throws--picking out a target before confirming what it is that she's actually looking at--there's no time for that, only time for quickness and precision, and so she throws, hard--
perfect.
"Holy christing--"
A refrigerating unit shudders as Charles' back slams into it in flinch, hands up to cower for a moment. Not the most impressive showing in the world, he's only a few inches taller than her, and dressed in pyjamas, a robe loose over bedclothes and feet bare on the ground. Over-long hair not wildly tangled, but he clearly didn't expect to have to meet anyone today.
Cowering only lasts a second, hands dropping to shoot her a look of disbelief. "What the hell do you think you're doing?" he demands, voice as dry as autumn leaves, crackling in recent disuse. "That wasn't-- you threw an axe at me."
Who throws an axe at him. >8[
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bar on fourteen.
If what she's heard is true, however, then Charles isn't able to employ those tricks currently. Or is reluctant to do so. In either case, that's a win for her. She's also heard that he's been coming to this place to drink. She shouldn't care, or even tempt fate, but here she is with what passes in this place for a beer in front of her, watching the few gathered here for a drink, but mostly watching the door for any sign of the man who was, until just recently, also her boss.
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But he doesn't turn away when he realises that some people have trickled down to level fourteen. He's managed to dress as if he expects to be seen in public, if not very formally -- denim jeans, a shirt with vaguely dated pattern of chaotic purple and red helpfully obscured by brown leather jacket. Sunglasses hang off where his shirt buttons to a V at his neck, reflecting the bar lights.
That Odessa is here isn't part of the plan, the plan being to get drunk a little. She is watchful and will see him come in before he can divert.
So Charles will move towards her, but then past, around, so as to settle in front of her again at the bartending side of the bar, picking up a bottle of something clear, and then two crystal glasses. And pours, a neat ting twice of bottle neck to glass rim.
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shhh
but most people don’t know him very well.
Level 14 gets the same sort of network reception that more densely populated levels do. Erik would know: he’s been seated against the wall outside of 014 >> 100 on his phone for hours when he finally feels the stirrings of familiar movement for the door beside him.
He stands as silently as he arrived, comms device tucked away, shoulders pressed back flush to metal that isn’t metal, out of immediate sight.
Waiting for the door to open.
Waiting for Charles to step through. ]
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Charles doesn't appreciate them any more now than he did then. What's a tin can to a mansion to exist vaguely within?
Anyway. He has to leave sometimes.
He's even dressed, dark denim and lurid shirt and brown leather, but all else about him sends off the sense that he is getting far too much sleep. The fact that he misses that his hallway is haunted is but one indication, peeling off to head away. ]
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killian jones. gardens.
It's about as far as he's managed to venture from level fourteen, and already he's regretted it enough to advance his way out again after getting sufficiently deep enough to say that he tried, should Nuala ask why he hasn't visited yet. The humidity seems to lay damp in hair that is prone to getting lank, and there's no pleasure being taken in the way his shoes sink into the softness of natural soil and grass, a stark contrast to the eternity of super smooth spaceship floors beyond.
He is also super drunk. This is completely his own fault, yes, sure. At one point, his hand reaches out to rest against a tree, the other peeling off gradient-tint sunglasses so as to press the back of his hand against his brow and collect himself.
Rather than continue on his way, Charles sort of. Turns on a heel, to rest back against tree. He looks out of place, in denim and brown leather and lurid shirt, apparently offended by all the nature everywhere. ]
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It's easy enough to tell that the man isn't all there. There's a curious glance to the sunglasses before Hook speaks, voice all measured nonchalance. ]
All right, mate?
[ Because you kind of look like shit. He's keeping his distance as he asks, if only because the last time he asked a stranger how they were doing they ended up biting him. Not up for a repeat. ]
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climbs back
embrase
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hank mccoy. media library.
is frankly untenable. There are two on the table in front of him. One of them is bound in leather, cryptic runic patterns pressed into it, once gilded. The other is exactly what it says on the tin, a faded paperback of pulpfiction appeal with a green woman in a leather corset and an eyepatch, tits up to here. It had been funny, when he'd picked it up on Arima, wondering whose drawer he'd slip it into.
Then Arima went to hell. As did a lot of other things.
Charles is a familiar figure, from the incline into chair back and the hook of one leg over the other. The mane of shaggy hair is new, the grizzle grown down his jaw and neck, the wide wings of shirt lapels, the sunglasses hanging off his collar despite the fact there is no sun. Denim and leather.
He isn't watching the door. Rather, his eyes are shut, more meditative than dozing. ]
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There's also no sign of a chair or any other apparatus nearby until he reminds himself that there hadn't been one when Charles was on board the Tranquility before. It was more something he'd become acutely aware of in his brief time 'away.'
These days he can move much more swiftly, much more silently, and he's done away with footware because if all of him is big and blue, the least he can do is be as comfortable as possible. That's also why the arms are cut off his jumpsuit, much like the short sleeves look to his yellow and blue flight suit - chafing was a pain.]
Hey. [ - with that new, rumbly voice, as he takes a seat nearby. As far as he can hear, there's no one nearby and so no one is likely to disturb them. And at least with Charles he can (hopefully) be free of looks and false cheer.]
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bar on fourteen again
So he's surprised — not particularly by the fact that Charles isn't in his office at the usual time for their session (it'd been a rough jump), or that he isn't in the room marked on his forearm (he'd noticed the move to level fourteen before), but that the soldier gets down the hall, across the threshold, and halfway into the bar, the tread of his boots his usual well-trained silence but his mind far from it, without sign of notice.
Then there is, of course, the fact that Charles's hair has grown from mopish to hippie in the course of a few weeks. ]
How long?
[ —Is how he chooses to announce his presence directly behind the other man. (You're welcome.) The soldier looks a bit hellish himself, actually, although Charles is still well positioned to take the poor personal grooming olympics by a landslide. The top ridge of a bruise escapes the line of his t-shirt up one side of his neck and his are eyes dark-circled but for the moment sharp, studying. ]
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By the time he looks past his shoulder at the other man, he's schooled his expression into something that passes for neutral. The shadow of longer locks and the gingery graze from jaw to neck probably help.
The soldiers gets a look up and down, bruised face to silent feet. ]
Ten years, roughly.
[ He hefts his glass, decides to knock it back swift. The back of his hand presses to mouth as if to resist the urge to hurl it up again, but the danger passes. ]
Do you drink? Smoke? I think you should start.
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THE BAR WHERE ELSE
Moira MacTaggart makes interesting choices in tactical lingerie, but a history of successful infiltration (of world-saving relevance) holds that it's interesting in a good way. Moira leans all across the bar-top in front of him, Cleopatra-style, a set of neatly-lacquered nails flicking his glass out of the way and two feet further down the counter. Moira's boobs say hi, thrust forward on a would-be painful curl of her spine.
There is also a stupendous arch to her left eyebrow, heavy with exaggerated expectation. Her voice is on the wood-saw side of husky, when she asks,] Does this cheer you up, Professor Xavier?
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What.
His hands lift off edge as his posture is regained, brow winched into more confusion than anything else until it occurs to him to look at her face rather than just her tits. Around when she calls him Professor Xavier.
There is a good amount of open shock, frost's edge hint of wary, before context slams down like a wall behind his expression a split second later. ]
Raven, [ is half-scolding, half-disgust. ] Would you get down off the bar, please. For god's sake.
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cassandra anderson. level 20, room 192.
Smoke is white, which is wrong, because smoke is black, but right now it's white, clogging her senses. Voices and faces, the fragmented past coming together to form a kaleidoscope of story without arc, or beginning, or ending. Abstraction. Her ankles are caught up in rope? Or metal? Or vines.
And they break as she stumbles, ground giving to sand, dust as fine as smoke, and black. Ashy. Paint. A bed, mattress soft under her small body. Is she awake?
Please wake up.
A voice from behind, which becomes a hand, closing on her wrist. Beneath her, her bed creaks -- but it isn't the cot in her room on board the Tranquility, but a larger, more luxurious thing, and there is soft light coming through windows she doesn't recognise. The air is soft and claustrophobic. That grasp on her wrist is dragging her out, but it feels as though it's just gravity doing the work, tumbling her over the side, delirious and off-balance, bracing herself for a hard landing--
Now. Now she's awake. Possibly she hasn't actually fallen out of bed. Charles hasn't knocked, since the first time he tried, now just leaning with his hands braced against her closed door. Telepathic again, but it feels wrong. ]
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( white smoke and falling, falling again, into a bed and out of it, a hand dragging her )
— and distantly, as she wakes, she registers that this dream was not entirely her own, or that she was not alone in it. there aren't many people aboard the tranquility who can do this kind of thing.
(morgoth, melkor, he was one of them — but he is dead and this doesn't feel like his presence threatening to swallow her whole and drown her. )
she's awake, and charles is apologising. anderson sits up. ]
Charles?
[ what is going on?
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