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 Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:05 pm
Victoria woke up in her bedroom, sun streaming through the window and the scent of sausage wafting in from the kitchen. Thankful that she didn't have a head ache, she sat up and scratched her head uneasily. Anxious to see what today had in store for the young mutant, she hopped out of bed and started getting dressed. Rifling through her suitcase she came across a fitted red t-shirt and her favorite pair of stretch hip hugger jeans. She smiled at her choices as she pulled them on, allready feeling like today would be a good one.
After combing her hair out so that it glistened in the mid-day sun, the young girl let her followed her nose pull her toward the kitchen. She rolled her eyes in annoyance when she saw that there was no more sausage...or anything else for that matter. Face set like cement, Victoria rifled through the cabinets in search of something vaguly edible. Finding only a near empty box of Froot Loops she plopped herself down on an uninhabited chair and dug in, not bothering to acknowledge anyone else in the room.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:50 pm
"Please, tell me you have other things in mind than just working on your sun tan," asked Wanda. Even though she liked laying on the beach and relaxed, doing nothing was kind of boring after a while.
"Oh no. I'm planning to play a trick on both factions actually," only said the blond with her usual innocent smile.
For some reason, Wanda didn't feel very excited about that. She somehow felt it would mostly turned into a huge disaster. However, she was hesitating between grinning or not. "And what kind of trick you have in mind?" she finally dared to ask.
"First of all, we got to help Regina and Porter. Those two are so BORING on the love and romantic part that it's making me sleepy. So a little danger on the road of love can easily arrange that."
"You mean, you want to kill Regina in order to have Porter?"
"Awww... How did you read me so easily?"
"I'm just starting to understand how you think though it's not much since you're so impredictable," stated Wanda. "Leave those two alone. You might really kill someone by mistake."
"I'm not that clumsy! And drowning sounds like a good idea..."
"I doubt Porter would like you to be the medium between him and his dead girl."
"Fine, fine... Well I was thinking about..."
Wanda more or less listened to her. She turned her gaze to Freya and looked at her carefully. She was starting to feel as if Freya was wearing a mask. All the time. Hidding behind her jokes and her plans. And then, she realized she didn't know the REAL Freya at all. She could sometimes climpsed a small part of her but it quickly hid back behind a joke.
What is she trying to hide so badly? Wanda thought.
"What do you think?" asked Freya after explaining her plan.
"As long there's a part where I can torture or see my brother being tortured or humiliated, I'm in."
"Let's start gathering the pieces then."
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:51 pm
Morgan hadhad already started putting together a makeshift stage on the patio. This whole affair was going to take at least a day to fully organize, so he figured that it was best to get a head start on it. Which is why he was awake before everyone else that day. Since the incident with Project Alpha some time ago, he found he wasn't sleeping as long, even though he felt refreshed when he woke up. He figured that if he wasn't going to be sleeping, he may as well get something done.
He even went so far as to slip a notice over the fence in case any of the Brotherhood members wanted to join in. Most of them were decent people, they just made different decisions. Morgan himself might have ended up with them, if his parents hadn't made the decision for him and enrolled him with Xavier. He didn't regret it though; he'd made plenty of friends, and he'd done things that he'd normally read about only in comic books.
He finallly strolled back into the kitchen after getting the stage itself mostly set up. None of the wiring, or the instruments were set up yet, but the platform on which they'd be placed had been finished. Morgan had come up with the idea, and damn if he wasn't going to see it through. {Hint, hint}
"Hey Penny. Just finish your workout?" he said, noticing Penny sitting in the kitchen, her outfit drenched with sweat.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 6:51 pm
OOC: Moren, I'm editting the middle of my post to reflect yours.
"Come on," Penny got out of her chair nudging Jamie along with her. They left the left over food on the counter for any later wakers and cleaned up the rest of the table because it was only fair, "You feeling any more comfortable with the Katanta?"
Jamie shook he had back and forth, "Sometimes yes and sometimes no. Still think I'm going to impale somebody or myself."
"Well you haven't yet so that's a start," She rinsed some dishes off and started handing them to him to put in the dish washer, "I'm sorry we haven't had a chance to have any lessons... things have been insane."
"Yea, they have," He answered and started, "Sonya said..."
"I know, I heard," Penny nodded and handed him the final plate, "I can't proceed to tell you what to do, but I'd feel better if you left the training to me for a few reasons. Saftey concerns mostly. Oh, but they do have this great sword shop down on the board walk. I was thinking of stopping in myself today. Sonya might like it as well."
Jamie nodded and Penny said and put her hand out and shook it as a 'no' gesture, "I swear, I'm not being territorial. I've just never seen her style before and well, I don't want anybody on either end impaled. I can take a few bangs and bruises."
"That's the understatement of the century," He said and tossed a dish towel at her. Penny caught it quickly in her hand and laughed. Morgan stolled in around that time and asked her about her workout. She smelt her shoulder.
"Do I smell that badly?"
"No, no, not what I mean!" He exclaimed.
"Just teasing," She jumped down off the counter.
She excused herself from the kitchen, saw that the downstairs bathroom was occupied, and headed back upstairs feeling absolutely gross after running. Porter was in the shower up there so she leaned against the wall with a towel over her shoulder whistling the tune to Boulevard of Broken Dreams.
Tired of waiting, she walked down towards the guy's room and saw that Jacen was still sleeping. Just to be a pain in the a** (because that was often her goal in life to be a pain in the a**), she quietly slid between the door and the doorway and sat down on the edge of the bed and leaned against him. Pretty much expecting the same morning reaction she did, she caught his hand that went swinging at her.
"Are you trying to get hurt," He mumbled and rolled over not appreciating the wake up call.
"I broke somebody's jaw once who tried to wake me up," She said and got up, "There is breakfast downstairs. If you feel like getting up, some of us are going down the boardwalk in an hour or so. Otherwise, barring Pyro destroying my fun, tonight is bonfire and heavy drinking night as the beach should be."
She passed Porter in the hallway, and then laid claim to the shower before anybody else could get it.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:17 pm
{Thank you.}
He headed to the downstairs bathroom, and finding that it was unoccupied {It was occupied when Penny checked, but things may have changed in the time between her checking, and Morgan checking}, quickly claimed use of the shower. Putting the stage together was hell, and Morgan was drenched with sweat, and his shoulders felt like they'd been removed, run over, and them put back into his body.
He locked the door, and after quickly undressing, turned on the hot water, and stood under the stream, feeling his shoulders untense, and the grime that had collected on him while constructing the stage being washed down the drain. Heading into town, huh? Probably find some of the stuff for the concert there, he thought to himself, as he stood under the water.
{And I'm out for tonight! See you guys later!}
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:56 pm
"Wha??" John mumbled as he sat up. He sa therre for good couple of minurtes, ignoring the smell of food, and the people passing by his & Noko's room. "Damn that Pietro," he thoughtto himself, "Spiking my drink like that. Now I can barely remember what the ******** happend last night. ******** it, I'll just go down stairs and get something to eat." John finally forced himself to get up and walked downstairs to see Sasha, Victoria, Noko, Corky, Pitor, Pietro and some other girl sitting down. John looked over at Sasha. "I know I'm suppose to be mad at her about something, but what?... damn this hangover!!! The only thing I can remember is me, Victoria, and Pietro hanging out together, and I can barely remember that! Oh well, ******** it. Whatever it was we were fighting about couldn't have been that important if I've forgotten about it. John gave a grunt of hello to eveyone and sat down next to Noko. He gave her a hug, and the returned to his thoughts. "Isn't she mad at me about something? I hope not. It would be real bad...espically if she realized that I don't remember."
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:11 pm
Jacen lay there for a second. He heard people walk past the door and he saw it open slightly. He sighed and knew it was Porter just grabbing his garments.
"Jacen."
"Porter," Jacen said as he stretched, finally waking up a bit.
"The rest of us are going down the the boardwalk in roughly an hour."
"Heard from Penance, thanks though."
"Then we should expect to see you there," Porter said as he left the room after getting dressed.
"Very well," Jacen said as he got out of bed and looked through his belongings. It was time to find at least a shower to get cleaned up quickly in. Possibly. But first, breakfast was on his agenda. After setting out a pair of slacks and other garments, Jacen slowly made his way downstairs. The wound on his leg was bothering him. "Maybe it wasn't a good idea to go into the ocean last night," he thought as he made his way to the kitchen.
When he got there, he noticed that the final plate had been doled out and dishes were being ready for cleaning. "Damn, missed my chance," Jacen said as he said a quick hello to everyone before heading back upstairs to grab his shorts and pants. Again, after a moment, he carefully hobbled downstairs to the bathroom there. He heard the shower running in the upstairs when he went by, and figured his best chance would be downstairs. No sooner had he thought that, then he almost bumped into Rogue as she was walking down the hall. She had a towel wrapped around her and almost hit her shoulder to his. He, as well, was shirtless at the moment.
"Oops! Sorry!," Jacen said as he danced around her.
"Not as sorry as ya could've been," Rogue said as she went on her way. And she was right. Jacen knew her deal, and would not have been happy about dealing with her powers first-hand. Thanking the Heavens, Jacen walked into the bathroom, and immediately turned the shower on.
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Stepping out after fifteen minutes, Jacen felt quite refreshed. They were mostly all getting ready to take off for this 'Boardwalk'. In all his travels, Jacen never did make it to this city. It would be interesting. Again making his way through the halls and back to the kitchen, Jacen grabbed up an apple and orange in his free hand. He had his dirty laundry, literally out for all to see.
As he sat down, he took a big bite of the apple while listening to alot of the other's conversations. Not that he wanted to be an eavesdropper, it was just in his nature to be an observer. And so he observed most of everyone doing their thing, walking back and forth, taking care of dishes, displaying the usual comraderie. All of which Jacen didn't really care for, comraderie that is. He would almost always stick to doing his own thing. That was his nature.
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:23 pm
"Okay, we are definately having dinner tonight," Porter put his arm around Regina as they sat on the porch swing together. They had been waiting for the folks who were going to the boardwalk. He looked at her and felt guilty for not sharing what was going on with his powers.
"Regina, I'm having some side effects to this power fix thing," He said quietly not wanting any of his students to hear the conversation.
She looked concerned, "What do you mean?"
"I thought I had a handle on it but I keep picking up random emotions from people I make contact with. Yesterday I picked up some of Jacen's angst and completely went off on him. Last night I picked up a bit of spite and agression from somebody and went on my tiraid to find you..." He shook his head, "Nothing comes without a price I guess. I'm trying to control it, but just incase... I thought you should know."
Penny disrobed and shut her door after her shower and walked around singing a song that wasn't an annoying and catchy early 90s tune [OOC thread reference] but rather a more current melody. Vacation had definately taken a turn for the better it had seemed and she couldn't help but remain in a good mood. She put on her cut off shorts over her bikini, grabbed her rings, sunglasses, and purse. Taking a sideways glance at the mirror she ran out the door to meet outside.
Hmmm... I think I could use another tattoo today... wonder if I could convince Regina to join me...
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 8:50 pm
Victoria was half way through her bowl of dry cereal when John came down the stairs. She frowned into her bowl, mildly confused by the fact that the Pyromaniac was in a bad mood. Perhaps Johnny here had a little to much fun last night. Nearly choking on her cereal, the young mutant laughed mentally about the night before and all of it's perks. Hot tub, boozes, messing with the neighbors add a few bitchin with the mutant gene and you've got a hell of a party.
Coming back to the present, she looked down at her bowl and shoved it away with annoyance. Feeling as if it's blandness was threating to bring them all down she jumped up from the table and headed instinctively toward the front door. "So..." she said pausing to grab her flips-flops and swim suit, "I'm goin' out to rent a jet ski anyone want to come with?."
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Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 10:35 pm
ooc: regina would be very interested in a tattoo! we'll rp it tonight, it being friday now.
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Regina nodded. "I had few friends, not really because of my power but not a big surprise overall when I suddenly fell into the shadows. I should be honest too, I don't think I'm done finding my powers out. There's just... something welling up inside of me. Light... a power source that I'm unaware of."
"Right now we relax." Porter looked out at the sea. "When we get back we'll approach this issue."
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 1:04 am
Blair thought,"I wonder why Bobby didn't come back to the room last night...", as he was cleaning up his dishes. Paying attention to the conversation intently, he caught everything that was going on in the kitchen and downstairs so he was up on all goings-on. Since nobody seemed to be paying him attention with the new girl and her sock problem and whatnot, he walked to the fridge and read the note about forming a band.
Keeping the thought in his mind, he walked into the downstairs bathroom and began to wash his face and fix his hair, covering his left eye as usual. He examined himself in the mirror, the black leather pants he picked up from the Lost & Found looking like something he would pay good money for. Smiling, Blair thought about finding Morgan and letting him know that he was a skilled singer and would be interested in some performance fun.
"But that can wait..."
Blair checked his teeth and left the downstairs bathroom and walked upstairs to figure out what was going on next, since he was ready for anything.
Bumping into Rogue, all dolled up and ready to hit the town...
"Why don't you come along to the Boardwalk with us, sugah? Ah'm bettin' there's something you're just itchin' to buy."
She smiled and grabbed his arm, pulling him downstairs to meet outside with the others for the Boardwalk adventure.
OOC: If I messed up anything or confused anyone please let me know. It's 4 AM now as I'm writing this so pardon me if it's scattered. Hehe.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 2:39 am
Penny went outside and sat down on the end of the swing next to Regina, "So my wonderful friend Regina..."
Regina looked sideways at her, "What are you buttering me up for?"
Laughing Penny was pretty predictable sometimes to her friend, "Would you care to attach permanent ink to your beautiful skin tone? I'm in the mood for another." She looked back behind her shoulder to try and see her last one, "And I need one where I can actually see it."
"Only if they have something I want," Regina was a quick sell.
Penny put her arm across the back of the swing behind Regina and flicked Porter in the shoulder, "You should go too Mr. Serious."
"No, I think I will pass. Body art is fine on others, never wanted it on me," He shook his head and stood up putting his hand out to Regina, "Come on, let's get going."
Penny jumped off the swing after Porter and Regina and jumped over the railing to catch Jacen who had ascended the steps. Pushing her hair behind her ears she hesitated a bit before taking his arm, "Glad you're coming with. No regrets about last night, right?"
He shook his head, "Nope."
"Just making sure," She smiled and said jokingly, "I'm glad. I've never had anybody to drag around vacation with me before."
"That's surprising considering..." He didn't finish his thought.
"Considering nobody can keep up with me, It's not surprising.," She laughed and caught up with Regina.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 5:43 am
Pietro just laughed. "There's no guesswork here, I am the fastest!" Pietro shouted at the door as he walked over to the bathroom, running a comb through his hair to freshen up. An instant later, he was completely dressed. He zipped over to the front of the house, faster than any human eye could see.
"You might be able to run fast, but EVERYTHING I do is fast. I can see the world at mach 7 as clearly as humans can when they're walking. You've got nothing on me," Pietro bragged. He'd been up against "artificial" super speedsters before. They weren't born with true superspeed, they simply used another power to accelerate their normal movements. Like that Northstar fool who gained speed by manipulating the molecules in the air in front of him, or that Slipstream punk who could open portals that moved him nearly as fast as light. The problem with them was that their human senses couldn't keep up, and even though they might be able to move faster than Pietro, they never got far before Pietro could trip them up and send them crashing into a wall.
In the realm of true super speed, Pietro was truly at home. Untouchable.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:06 am
"Ha! Well if you're so confident that you won't mind a race to prove me wrong," said Sasha, "And to make things more interesting let's make a wager on this occasion.
"But Sasha...." peeped in Sonya, "You know what happens when..."
"Anyways what do you say Piehole?" asked Sasha.
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Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:10 am
"'What do you say piehole?' That doesn't even make sense. And I'm not gonna humiliate your little friend there, she probably can't even lap the earth without help," he said dismissively. "And you losers wouldn't even be able to tell who won! What are we gonna do, run to the end of the street? I, at least, would be done before the button on the stopwatch wouuld come back up."
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