Xaviers!

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2020 6:30 pm**

Tosh's dinner was usually big but anyone who knew him could tell he had extra on his plate. Chiefly, this was a very comfort food meal with extra dessert. To be precise it was enough food for exactly 1.3 metric weresharks.

He looked like he had a lot on his metaphorical plate too.

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Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:07 pm**

"Are you planning on saving some of the foods for the rest of us, or are you protecting us from their cooking yet again?" Katarina asked, pulling her own tray across from Tosh.

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 8:25 pm**

"It's a tough job but someone has to do it," he quipped. It came out a bit deadpan.

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:38 pm**

"Mmm. I tell you what, if you manage to finish all that, I will buy you a coke," Katarina teased. "To wash it down."

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:50 pm**

"You're out the cost of a coke," he said with a small smirk.

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 10:51 pm**

"We shall see. I have had better cooked food, so your stomach must be iron-clad to handle this much."

Posted: **Wed Mar 11, 2020 11:11 pm**

"I turn into a half-ton wereshark... that spits lightning... so a little mediocre food isn't gonna stop me."

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 9:21 am**

"Yes, but, as you can see, that is not just a little bit of mediocre food.

I do not recall seeing you grab that much before. Is everything alright?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 2:50 pm**

"Yes," he snapped defensively.

Hearing his tone, he sighed and admitted, "No. Not really."

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 6:12 pm**

Katarina looked a little nonplussed from being snapped at.

"And in that case, what is the wrong?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:14 pm**

"Aside from finding out literally my whole family has been hiding my buried childhood trauma from me like I was going to shatter if I remembered? It's not even that bad as far as childhood traumas go. But noooo, I'm apparently a fragile little baby."

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:29 pm**

"Childhood traumas? Whatever happened?"

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 7:47 pm**

He relayed how his grandfather had kidnapped him to use his DNA to create hybrid animals and then how the aging supervillain recently escaped and tried all over again with mutant subjects. He glanced across the cafeteria at Leo as he talked.

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:14 pm**

"But you are OK now, yes?" Katarina said, after listening to Tosh's story.

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:29 pm**

"Yeah... It's just there's this whole newly exposed part of me and my life that I can't quite get over not knowing about. It's aggravating."

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 8:30 pm**

"You feel like your trust was abused."

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 10:29 pm**

"It's really not even that. Not entirely anyway. I just... thought they had more faith in me than that."

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:26 pm**

"I am sure they were just trying to protect you. And sometimes, that protection can hurt more in the long run."

Posted: **Thu Mar 12, 2020 11:49 pm**

He sighed. "I know that's it. I'll even that I can see why they thought I needed it when I was a kid. I wasn't brave. I didn't stand up for myself. I had nightmares. But I never knew why I was afraid. I thought I was just a coward. What hurts is that they let me think that. And I hate myself that I can't seem to forgive them yet."

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:18 am**

"What have they done, then, to earn your forgiveness?" Katarina said, after a moment.

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 12:35 am**

"Aside from apologies and promises, nothing. But what else can they do but not do it again?"

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:32 am**

"Simply not hurting you again is not enough. You must have reparations!" Katarina said, firmly.

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 2:26 pm**

"What would that even be? My folks aren't rich or anything."

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 5:09 pm**

"It is not about money. It is about them showing you the respect you have earned, and making direct actions to guarantee future behavior. They must show you their respect!"

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 6:40 pm**

"That's... not how family works," he said, perplexed by her passion.

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:06 pm**

"Family is not a catch-all excuse for not giving you respect."

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:12 pm**

"Then what do you suggest I do to convince them I can handle myself?"

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 7:17 pm**

"They do not believe you can?" she asked, as she thought over his question.

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:07 pm**

"Emotionally anyway. Though maybe they just got too used to having that incident forgotten. I don't know."

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 8:21 pm**

"Well, the next question is a touch one, and one you must answer for yourself.

Are you handling yourself? With regards to all the new information you have been given?"

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 9:54 pm**

"It's slower coming than I'd like, but I believe I'm coming to grips with it all."

Posted: **Fri Mar 13, 2020 11:57 pm**

"Well, the first thing you must do is grip it as hard as you can. You must have the confidence in yourself before you can show that confidence to others."

Posted: **Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:20 am**

"Huh... that could be part of my problem. I was finally in a confident place when this crap set me back."

Posted: **Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:24 am**

"And you must find that confident place again, for you are the same person as you were then, only with extra knowledge now."

Posted: **Sat Mar 14, 2020 12:28 pm**

"Maybe I'll get some back once I have the all-clear to use my powers again. Or get my anti-grav levitation tech working. I mean, it already exists, but I'm trying to figure out how it works for myself."

Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2020 3:53 am**

"Is the administration stopping you from using your powers, or is it a medical thingy?"

Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2020 2:32 pm**

"Oh. Medical. Grandpa took a lot of blood and I'm still recovering."

Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2020 6:33 pm**

"Well, that explains the food, then. More than just the grief bacon."

Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:40 pm**

"Bacon is a reason in and of itself. At all times of day. For it is delicious."

Posted: **Sun Mar 15, 2020 7:41 pm**

"I shall keep that in mind if I ever need to curry your favor."

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