Xaviers!

Posted: **Wed Oct 20, 2021 12:45 am**

Leo grew more and more nervous as they headed to where they were to meet Ainsley's friends. He hadn't been a wonderful human being when he lived in Lambeth and could only hope that if he had met any of them before that it had been one of his good days.

Posted: **Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:12 am**

There was a trio of people chatting with each other in the spot they'd agreed upon.

A female with snakes for hair, a young man with yellow eyes, and an a completely normal looking but tall woman with a shaved head were doing a bit of rough housing and playing around while they waited.

Posted: **Thu Oct 21, 2021 1:23 am**

Leo pointlessly ducked back to avoid being seen as his nerves overtook him. They were gonna hate him, he knew it.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:47 pm**

Ainsley kept walking, despite Leo's hesitance.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 2:47 pm**

When she saw Ainsley, the girl with the snakes (and all of the snakes) turned towards them.

"Lee! Over here!"

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:22 pm**

Leo gathered his courage and, though still nervous, resumed following his boyfriend. At least he didn't recognize any of them.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:32 pm**

The quartet of them began to greet and hug one another, as a group of friends does.

But once they were done doing so, they started looking at Leo as if there was a conversation ongoing that he could not hear.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:40 pm**

Leo fidgeted, made even more self-conscious by the nonverbal conversation he wasn't part of.

"H~hi."

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 4:59 pm**

"Oh! Right!" The 'normie' replied.

"Do you consent to me entering your conscious?" She asked of Leo.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 5:01 pm**

"Yeah. It's how Ainsley talks to me anyway."

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:23 pm**

"Yea but that's different. He doesn't have a person's voice." She replied, and after a moment, Leo could hear everyone else's group conversation.

"I thought you went to go find Shari? Now you're dating this guy?" Leo knew from the 'normal' already providing her voice, this was the snake hair'd girl.

"You're all over the place mate." The yellow eye'd one chimed in.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:23 pm**

In response, a voice he did not recognize at all came out of Ainsley's 'mouth'.

"Come off it mate."

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:32 pm**

"Why don't I get that voice from you? That's just not fair," he 'said' teasingly in a voice much less deep than his physical voice.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:38 pm**

"Voice like what?" He asked. clearly unaware of how he sounded.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 6:39 pm**

"Party-Line, we weren't done grilling Lee yet." The medusa admonished.
"Sorry." Was all she offered back, rather non-committal and with a shrug.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 7:02 pm**

"You actually do sound a bit like Idris Elba."

"But, by all means, keep grilling. I never get to see him squirm like this," he grinned.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 9:31 pm**

"Naaah, i'm onto you now.

What's your story, friend? "

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 9:46 pm**

"My story? Well, my name's Leo. I don't really have much of one before the whole mutant thing changed everything. Got kicked out by my asshole uncle and actually lived here for a little while before everything changed again when a mad scientist got to me. But I wasn't really worth knowing then. Actually hoping you didn't hear anything about me," he answered with a self-conscious chuckle.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:14 pm**

"Not Leo alone....

What's your last name? " She asked, finally speaking with her outside voice, which sounded the same as the inside one.

Posted: **Sat Oct 23, 2021 11:17 pm**

"Eskandari," he answered, trying to hide his insecurity. But, of course, Ainsley could see it.

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2021 12:41 am**

She narrowed her eyes for a moment. "Dunno it." She finally commented.

"Let's go dancing. You'll have to share your partner with Party-Line though. Hope you're cool with that?"

Posted: **Sun Oct 24, 2021 1:01 am**

"I wouldn't deny him gettin' to talk with people other than me for a change," he said with a smile.

"As for dancin', you should probably give me some space until I get my rhythm. I still misjudge my size occasionally."

Posted: **Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:05 am**

"They call me Nagin." She offered.

"And they call me Kaa." The boy followed up. "We're twins."

"I'm eldest."

"Yea, cuz you shoved me out of the way to get out of the womb like it was on fire in there."

Posted: **Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:14 am**

He chuckled.

"Only child here. Those your mutant names or were your parents as accidentally precognitive as mine were?"

Posted: **Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:22 am**

"Mutant names. Our parents aren't that cool.

Were yours mutants?"

Posted: **Mon Oct 25, 2021 12:36 am**

"Mom, no. Dad, I have no idea. He wasn't in the picture for long," he answered, his tone suggesting the matter was a sensitive subject.

Posted: **Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:03 pm**

"Normal for our type I think." She shrugged. "Nothing to worry about, aye?"

"Sometimes I think our parents should have gotten divorced, but don't tell them I said it." The other added.

Posted: **Tue Oct 26, 2021 11:49 pm**

"So, we gonna tempt fate with the disaster that is my dancin' or what?" he asked, changing the subject.

Posted: **Sat Oct 30, 2021 1:44 am**

"Let's do it!"

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The gang of young adults made their way around to the stage. The band at this point had changed out for a ska ensemble.

Immediately as his feet touched the outdoor 'dance floor', Ainsley started the weirdest little dance, a sort of shuffling in place kick.

"This is my jaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmm!" He exclaimed through their new group mental link in his gruffer, sexier voice.

Posted: **Sat Oct 30, 2021 2:00 am**

Generally, it hurt his metalhead pride to admit he liked any Ska. But that was a song he could get behind. The dancing, however...

Let's just call his attempt shy and stiff. Like, it was more avoidance of other people's feet than an attempt to have fun.

Posted: **Sat Oct 30, 2021 10:41 pm**

The others seemed to know what they were doing, even going around each other in circles, and eventually Leo. It was almost like they were protecting him from accidentally on purpose kicking someone near him. The made a sizable circle around him for him to move about in.

Posted: **Sat Oct 30, 2021 10:55 pm**

The extra room allowed the big guy to relax a little and actually start dancing. He wasn't even bad, just obviously very self-conscious and still holding back a bit as a result.

"Thanks guys. Now I can't bump into anybody."

Posted: **Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:13 pm**

"Gotta look out for each other, especially the big ones!"

Posted: **Mon Nov 01, 2021 11:27 pm**

"It's hard not to," he joked.

He remembered Nika's crash course in how to find his best footing and adjusted his motions so that he could better let loose without becoming unbalanced. He let the music wash over him and began to truly unwind.

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:24 am**

The group would keep dancing together, until a slow song started up. It was obvious now what Nagin meant by having to share Ainsley.

She was *not* going to dance with her brother during this.

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:36 am**

He'd be damned if he didn't get the first dance, so Leo was quick to swallow his performance anxiety and swoop in close to Ainsley.

"Care to dance, stranger?" he asked aloud.

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:48 am**

"I suppose... But Nagin might gut you." He replied in amusement.

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2021 1:53 am**

"Hey. I can share. But I'm so goin' first, awkward feet or not," he said with a smile.

"Sorry, boyfriends go first."

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2021 2:01 am**

Nagin narrowed her eyes and allowed it to pass, but conceded and let Leo dance with his boyfriend.

Posted: **Thu Nov 04, 2021 12:56 pm**

Leo pulled Ainsley close and tentatively started his best slow dance. He wasn't terrible, but a little stiff and it was easy to see he was afraid of hurting his boyfriend.

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