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glacial_queenAfter a brief pit stop at the other island off the coast of San Francisco (look, Alcatraz loomed large in Karla's recollections; there was a lot of trauma associated there), Karla and the others made their way to Utopia--which, truth be told, probably should have been their first stop, consider how utterly ridiculous it looked. Was there some kind of side effect of the X-gene that drove them towards horrific ostentation?
...Okay, someone was feeling a little bitchy right now. Short of sleep and long on worry did not make for a particularly charming Karla.
But hey! No one here would be surprised when Karla stormed in and threatened to rip everyone and everything apart until they brought her to Jono. They'd dealt with her before. That was okay, though. She wasn't here to make friends.
The doors to the base slammed open and Karla strolled inside, totally not spoiling for a fight at all, thank you. She collared the first mutant she could see, a pink-haired girl with wings, and pleasantly snarling, "Where is Jono? Now, please."
That was a friendly smile, Pixie. Really.
[NFB, for folks who wanted in on the yelling!]
...Okay, someone was feeling a little bitchy right now. Short of sleep and long on worry did not make for a particularly charming Karla.
But hey! No one here would be surprised when Karla stormed in and threatened to rip everyone and everything apart until they brought her to Jono. They'd dealt with her before. That was okay, though. She wasn't here to make friends.
The doors to the base slammed open and Karla strolled inside, totally not spoiling for a fight at all, thank you. She collared the first mutant she could see, a pink-haired girl with wings, and pleasantly snarling, "Where is Jono? Now, please."
That was a friendly smile, Pixie. Really.
[NFB, for folks who wanted in on the yelling!]
Tags:
- crankyface mcbitchypants,
- event: age of x,
- nfb,
- what: playing telephone,
- what: the cavalry rides again,
- when: before coffee,
- where: utopia,
- who: dinah laurel lance,
- who: jonothon evan starsmore,
- who: momoko akatsutsumi,
- who: raven roth,
- who: stinky wolverine,
- who: warren kenneth worthington iii,
- who: x-idiots
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 07:07 am (UTC)Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 07:15 am (UTC)It would be easier, in a way, if this was all just another bad dream. He could handle bad dreams. He'd been doing so all his life.
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 07:21 am (UTC)*Do you want to talk about it?* Now, she meant. With others here.
"I'm real, Jono. And this is real. And I'll just have to keep telling you that until you really believe it."
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 07:31 am (UTC)He sounded ashamed of that, that the word had taken up residence in his head alongside everything else, was now synonymous with both 'humanity,' and 'enemy.' There were a lot of things in his head that he wasn't proud of, of course. This one was just newer than most.
//Between you and me... It was a major point of contention, you know. There, where we all were. Was the entire world real, or wasn't it? Nobody knew, and then once somebody gave us the truth, nobody wanted to believe it. The entirety of the world consisted of a plot of land no larger than the estate, and the universe came to a dead stop on all sides.// He looked at her, tiredly. //How far does this world go before it all stops? I've stared into Nothing too bloody many times in my life. I don't want to do it again.//
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 07:37 am (UTC)*So, from the beginning, you doubted?* she sent, puzzling it all through. *Someone realized you were all kings of infinite space, bounded in a nutshell? But once you knew it, who'd want to accept it?*
Who wanted to contemplate that the world they were living in, the world they all knew, was a lie?
*Kaeleer may stop, but there's never Nothing,* she promised. *There's the Darkness within and stars without, but nothing ever stops.*
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 07:46 am (UTC)He curled up a little into himself.
//Story of my life, I guess. I'm almost starting to get used to it.//
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 08:00 am (UTC)Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 08:05 am (UTC)Karla could probably understand why he sounded so bewildered about that.
//They were offering to take it away, before you arrived. I turned them down. What would I be left with, if they took all of that away? Fire where my face goes, and no explanation for it? A week ago, I was whole. I wasn't me, but I was whole.//
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 08:13 am (UTC)For Jono to go through all of that and still feel Apocalypse within him...
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 08:18 am (UTC)//He's gone,// he confirmed. //All that's here is what used to be me. Cold fire, mostly. That twisting-in-my-chest feeling, though there's nothing really there. All me.//
So, at least there was that.
//Plus side... no more stupid tattoo.//
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 09:43 am (UTC)Jono wanted to look on the bright side? Karla could oblige him, at least for now.
Re: Meanwhile, Back at the Estate...
Date: 2013-12-27 09:54 am (UTC)Mostly, that reason was that he was a pack rat who never threw anything out. But considering the fact that there was realistically no way he'd ever fit into those clothes again?
//... I have a lot of clothing I'll be drowning in, though.//
He glanced toward the coat that Momoko had tripped on. It had been through hell and back with him, between the New Warriors, Fandom, and Glacia. It was a wonder it was still recognizable as a coat. And now there was nothing to be done but to empty the pockets and move on.