Xaviers!

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2016 9:57 pm**

At a pub in Sevastopol, a rather severe looking woman is slowly circling a drink stirrer in a glass that mostly seems to contain vodka and little else. Her steely eyes are slowly moving across the room, looking for something or someone.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:33 pm**

A woman, draped in a coat with an apparently atrophied arm in a sling, pushes her ways into the pub. She looks around the room, eyes finally lighting on the severe woman and beginning to make her way over.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:36 pm**

"<You're not quite who I was expecting,>" the woman says in Russian, narrowing her eyes at the other approaching.

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:44 pm**

"<You were expecting someone,>" Tatyana says with a bemused eyebrow raise as she stands next to the seat opposite the other woman. "<One would think you've become good at dealing with the unexpected.>"

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:47 pm**

"<One would think I was clear about what I'd do to any of you if you came after me.>"

"<How is the leash fitting, these days?>"

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:54 pm**

"<I'm on injured leave...>" She gestures to the arm, "<So it's not so tight at the moment. So they don't know I'm here.>"

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:57 pm**

"<It's a pity I couldn't be there to see you taken down a notch.>"

Posted: **Tue Nov 15, 2016 11:59 pm**

"<There's no shame in this injury. It was given to me in a fight with X-23. A fight I survived.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:02 am**

"<I admire her restraint, then.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:11 am**

Tatyana laughs and sits down, motioning for a drink, "<She was retaliating for a misguided mission, one that was executed, poorly I might add, by...>" She looks around the room, "<227A targeting 227B.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:14 am**

"<They have names,>" she grits her teeth, her glass frosting over.

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:17 am**

Tatyana sighs and rolls her eyes. "<Yes, several. Which would you prefer I use? You always were soft in that regard.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:19 am**

"<I couldn't stop you from starting that project, but I can insist you treat them as people.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:23 am**

"<We did. We placed them both with a good family. Both got excellent training. Svetlana is a valued agent, even if she bites off more than she can chew.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:25 am**

"<They won't stay with you forever. After all, I didn't.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:28 am**

"<Something of which we are acutely aware. Tereza is no longer with us.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:31 am**

"<Is that why you came after me? I can't believe those ghouls would have run through all they took from me.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:35 am**

"<If I was coming after you, it would be more than just me here. I just thought you would want to know, given your softness on the subject.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:46 am**

"<If she got out, no matter how she got out...">"

"<...good.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:55 am**

Tatyana sips at her drink, "<You say that, but she was an active member of the Brotherhood of Mutants for a while. Our information currently puts her in the United Kingdom at that university.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 12:59 am**

"<And what do you expect me to say to that? She can do what she wants. She doesn't need me in her life.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:04 am**

Tatyana shrugs, "<Do what you want, but you know the organization will retrieve her or destroy her. And next time they try, it won't be Svetlana running the operation. It will be someone more competent.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:07 am**

"<Is the organization that intent on poking hornet's nests? I suppose you would be, if you like tangling with X-23.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:11 am**

"<The organization is not in the habit of allowing assets to wander away. Excepting present company of course,>" she says with a smirk.

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:11 am**

"<The organization isn't allowing anything.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:18 am**

"<I know, I know. You will... how was it you so charmingly put it?>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:21 am**

"<You'll get a rather good idea how the mammoths felt.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:23 am**

"<Ah yes. A second localized ice age,>" she says with a chuckle, finishing the rest of her drink. "<But as you say, she doesn't need you in her life, so what do you care what the organization does in regards to her?>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:29 am**

"<Because she deserves to make her own life. Svetlana too, even if she hasn't seen past the organization yet.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:37 am**

"<The organization likes to see some return on investment,>" she says, standing and tossing some money on the table. "<They received more than their money's worth out of you, but a lot of effort went into developing those two.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:40 am**

"<Yes, because you wanted redundancy this time,>" she scowls.

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:44 am**

"<Oh, you hadn't heard? Of course you didn't. We got no redundancy with those two. Pesky X-gene and it's unpredictability.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:49 am**

"<Oh, what a pity,>" She smirks.

"<Even before they were born, they wouldn't do what you wanted.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 1:56 am**

"<And the cryokinetic was the one who ran away. Such a shame,>" she says with a smirk of her own.

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 2:07 am**

"<History repeats,>" she says flatly, emotion not showing in her face.

Her free hand however is tightly gripping the wood of the table edge, making a bit of a dent.

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 2:10 am**

"<After a fashion. I always enjoy our little chats, Natalya. Enjoy the rest of your evening.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 2:12 am**

"<Try not to lose any more limbs, Tatyana.>"

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 2:15 am**

"<Funny,>" she says as she walks away.

Posted: **Wed Nov 16, 2016 2:18 am**

The woman lets out a long breath and lets go of the table edge, the clear impression of her fingers in the polished wood.

After Tatyana is gone, she finally takes a sip of her drink.

Xaviers!

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