Xaviers!

Posted: **Sun Dec 03, 2017 8:06 pm**

"Why people insist on the annual ritualistic murder of you guys is beyond me," Shane sighed as he studied the Christmas tree. "I bet you're thirsty," he said before kneeling down and moving aside the decoration at the base of the tree to check the water level.

Posted: **Mon Dec 04, 2017 8:32 pm**

The water level seemed a bit on the low side, as one might expect from all the lights and everything in here causing things to dry up.

Most people wouldn't notice this, but the tree didn't...didn't look right. At least, not to someone with a more intimate knowledge of plants.

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2017 12:58 am**

Shane's brow went up as he noticed the tree looked wrong somehow.

"Huh..." he said. He reached out to pluck a needle from the tree for closer examination.

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:35 am**

The needle felt real enough, if a bit dry. It also came off the tree without too much hassle.

The smell, though, was slightly off. A faint hint of artificial pine air freshener, perhaps?

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2017 2:52 pm**

"But a really good fake wouldn't need..." he thought aloud. He stepped back quickly and put up his fists before realizing how stupid it looked and lowering them. "No you bloody nutter, the Skrulls wouldn't care about ruining Christmas," he muttered.

"Will?" he asked uncertainly.

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2017 8:47 pm**

The pattern on the wood grain swirled and changed, revealing a secret hidden message.

Code: Select all: Was I that obvious?

Posted: **Tue Dec 05, 2017 9:15 pm**

"Visually? You don't look quite right, but I know plants. But the big thing is... real pine trees don't smell like air freshener."

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:51 am**

Code: Select all: They smell QUITE like air freshener. I mean, there's a reason they call it pine.

Posted: **Wed Dec 06, 2017 3:09 pm**

"Yeah. Marketing," he smirked. "How long has it been since you smelled a real one?"

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 10:31 am**

Code: Select all: Probably last y....no. Not that. A bit before that, then.

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 3:39 pm**

Shane mentally winced at probably opening old wounds and endeavored to change the direction of the conversation. "Though, small inaccuracies aside, you're still damn good at shifting. Getting close to check the water is the only reason I suspected anything."

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:00 pm**

Code: Select all: Well, thank you. It's always harder to shift into something people know about, and you're quite knowledgeable about plants, aren't you?

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:14 pm**

"Even with the way that my powers used to work, learning about plants just felt natural. And I always liked plants more than people anyway."

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 8:26 pm**

Code: Select all: Why's that?

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 9:11 pm**

"You met my dad. Do you really have to ask?"

Posted: **Fri Dec 08, 2017 9:30 pm**

Code: Select all: Is he quite alright, after all that?

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 1:18 am**

"He's fine. But still pissed about me lying to him. Even though he might be dead if I didn't."

"I suspect that he's more pissed that the X-Men saved the day."

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 6:13 am**

Code: Select all: Not a surprise; the muckity-mucks generally don't like the disenfranchised having a voice for themselves. Especially when they're actively trying to keep them down.

Posted: **Sat Dec 09, 2017 8:02 pm**

"I agree but I'm not gonna get all worked up about it when it looks like I'm talking to a bloody Christmas tree," he smirked.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:41 am**

Code: Select all: A quite passable Christmas Tree, I believe you will find.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 12:58 am**

"All the worse for the appearance of sanity. Can't you grow a face or something?"

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 1:40 am**

Code: Select all: OK, I want you to take a moment and think about that. A Christmas tree with a giant face on it. Just picture that, up there in your mind.

Posted: **Sun Dec 10, 2017 4:58 pm**

"A wise Elder Tree? And definitely more practical than a tree writing on itself."

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 9:48 am**

Code: Select all: Nah, trees should be trees and not people. There's enough trouble with things trying to be things they're not out there in the world, I don't need to add to it.

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 3:10 pm**

"I can't argue with that. I literally almost died learning that lesson."

Posted: **Mon Dec 11, 2017 8:28 pm**

Code: Select all: ...What's this, now?

Posted: **Tue Dec 12, 2017 12:56 am**

"Tried being the spoiled little rich boy dad always wanted, filled the miserable void with parties and booze, and proceeded to crash my very expensive car into a tree."

Posted: **Tue Dec 12, 2017 1:40 pm**

Code: Select all: To be fair, those all sound like things spoiled rich kids would DO. I've known a few, in my time.

Posted: **Tue Dec 12, 2017 3:41 pm**

"Maybe more of them hate themselves like I did. It's not a stretch."

Posted: **Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:34 pm**

Code: Select all: Some of them seem to want to make a charity case out of you. This one girl I once knew basically tried to pay me into being...let's say civil to one another.

Posted: **Tue Dec 12, 2017 9:55 pm**

"Now is this buying a friend or buying a friend with benefits?" he smirked.

Posted: **Tue Dec 12, 2017 10:00 pm**

If trees could turn greener, it would have.

Code: Select all: Good lord, no. I'll admit I got closer than I should have on occasion, but nothing like that. I'm no courtesan

Posted: **Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:05 am**

"She just paid you to be nice then? She sounds bloody diabolical," he said sarcastically but with a chuckle.

Posted: **Wed Dec 13, 2017 1:14 am**

Code: Select all: Mostly paid us to just not hate her, as she was pretty... ...Pretty callous, I think, first and foremost. Kind of diametrically opposed from me.

Posted: **Wed Dec 13, 2017 2:54 am**

"That is one of the most distressingly pathetic things I've ever heard."

Posted: **Wed Dec 13, 2017 4:26 am**

Code: Select all: Mmm. Some people think money solves everything. Glad you're different.

Posted: **Wed Dec 13, 2017 3:47 pm**

"Aside from growing up with nice stuff, money hasn't done me any favors. Too many strings attached."

Posted: **Wed Dec 13, 2017 8:54 pm**

Code: Select all: Well, it's a trust fund or something, right? Not your own cash?

Posted: **Thu Dec 14, 2017 1:12 am**

"That would be accurate, yes. Until it's politically plausible to cut me off. Saving the PM will only delay the inevitable."

"I should probably start looking into getting a... job," he said with a shudder.

Posted: **Thu Dec 14, 2017 2:52 am**

Code: Select all: The horrors of joining the working world. You'll manage, somehow

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