Come and Knock On Our Door, We've Been Waiting For You

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 6:55 am

"Oh geez! That's too bad -- you should talk to some of our telepaths. If it's there, they might be able to help you."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 3:08 pm

"Yeah... but then they'd have to get into my head. That's where I keep all my embarrassing stuff!"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 6:35 pm

"Oh, that's what I thought all these boxes were for."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:48 pm

"Nah, that's not mine. Just holding on to it for a friend, I guess. Feel free to rifle through this stuff, although I think most of it is just junk."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:57 pm

"Glad to see the room has been turned into a dumpster while I've been gone," Will sighed. "Ah well."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 7:59 pm

"I'll get Cam to take some of this back if it's bugging you. The rest oughta fit in the closet."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:01 pm

"Yeah, we'll have to work something out. Wasn't expecting anyone else in here either, to be honest."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:11 pm

"Hey, I liked having the place to myself too but you don't hear me complaining."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:12 pm

Will shook her head. "A fair point, I suppose."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:21 pm

"Do you snore?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:23 pm

"No one's ever complained, at the very least. I don't always sleep, which some people might find creepy."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:37 pm

"Only if you plan on sitting there staring at me all night." she jokes.

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:39 pm

"Depends. Planning on doing anything interesting?" she laughed.

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:49 pm

"Oh yeah, all kinda of stuff. At night is when I practice my tuba playing. Just for 2 hours or so though, gotta leave some room to practice shapeshifting into a howler monkey."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 8:54 pm

"Wouldn't be the first time I've had a simian roommate. Did some crazy things with his tail."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:03 pm

"Man, you must be full of all kinds of stories, but I'm not sure I want to hear that one."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:04 pm

Will laughed. "I always try to remember the positive stories. You wouldn't like the negative ones, anyway."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:12 pm

"Well yeah, nobody wants to get bummed out. And then they just feel sorry for you. No thanks."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:14 pm

"Yeah, I've had enough of that for three or four lifetimes, thankyeverymuch. A little faith, and everything turns out right in the end, and we can look back and laugh at minor bumps along the road."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:24 pm

"So you're hoping somebody comes looking for you here?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:27 pm

"Yeah, basically."

Will paused.

"There's a girl here. A friend of mine. She's just a normal girl here, but in my dimension, she's a Goddess. Like, an actual, factual, reincarnation of ancient Celtic myth Goddess.

We...have a compact. An understanding. We're closer than family, Sam and I. And I have faith that one day, she'll find a way to pierce the dimensional boundaries and bring me home.

Until then, I guess I'll chill."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:34 pm

"Damn... That's something alright." she says, almost a little in awe at something about this. "You're not even concerned if that's gonna happen, huh?"

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:39 pm

"I am concerned. But I've been in very tough spots before -- VERY tough. She's never let me down.

Even here, her....echo, or her shadow, or whatever you want to call it...came to my aid. Maybe that's coincidence -- maybe Sams are just generally helpful, and we are friends, albeit not as close as I'd like.

Or maybe it is fate. The world works in mysterious ways, Shari. Very mysterious.

I'll be honest, I was more worried before my recent...experience. I know I should scarred and mortified over what happened, and there are side effects we still don't understand...but there was something...I don't know. Fulfilling. About letting it all slip away for a while, and just chilling out. And then having friends and family stage a daring attempt, putting their own lives at risk, to come and get me. It warms the heart, even when I don't have one.

But it's a reminder that, when you're at Xaviers, everything does seem to work out for the best, eventually. Sure, sometimes you get kidnapped, and other times you get degraded and destroyed and smashed, but there are always people to build you back up again."

by **Shari** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:21 pm

Shari frowns a little. It seemed weird to her that people would just be that... nice without expecting anything in return or being condescending about it. Yet that's exactly how everyone she's run into had been like. Even Cam, though he seemed to go out of his way to pretend he wasn't helping. Which oddly enough made the whole thing easier to accept.

"You know, if you'd told me that just bumping into me on the street I woulda laughed in your face. It just seems so... naive? But I dunno. You sound so convinced, I almost wanna buy it..."

by **Will Stanton** » Thu Mar 09, 2017 11:22 pm

"It's a good bunch of Joes and Joettes here. You could certainly find worse places to spend an eternity."

by **Shari** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 3:32 pm

"Well... maybe till Christmas and then I'll see from there." she laughs. "Eternity's an awfully long commitment..."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:21 pm

"Tell me about it," Will joked.

by **Shari** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:27 pm

"So what was it like? Musta been incredibly boring to be around when there was, like, nothing here but rocks and shit."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 6:37 pm

"Worse than that -- I didn't arrive here right away. Blasted way, way back. Floated out in space for...well, let's just say a really long time. Didn't get HERE until the '50s."

by **Shari** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:28 pm

"Damn... so nothing at all to look at. How did you even stay sane through that?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:35 pm

"I didn't," she said, bluntly. "I went nuts. Totally bonkers-bananas-crazy. I was technically insane beforehand, and hurtling through space didn't help.

Didn't even realize I was a person, per say, until...well, three months ago or four years ago, take your pick. Spent a lot of the intervening time on Earth trying to be helpful to the people who found me -- couches, pinball machines, jukeboxes..."

by **Shari** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:40 pm

"Kinda nuts. Got it. But I hope you do realize that now I am obliged to make a million old people jokes at your expense, right?"

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:43 pm

"Don't mock your elders, lassie," Will laughed.

by **Shari** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 7:54 pm

"Hey, you're not my elder. Just some really old guy who'd probably break a hip shifting too rapidly in the mornings."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:05 pm

"Ah, see, you can get around that by just not having hips," she said, tapping her temple. "It also means you're able to hide things better, because I'm told by reliable sources that hips don't lie."

by **Shari** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:21 pm

"See that's the kinda stuff you can only get from millenia of experience. Or pop music."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:23 pm

"Maybe Shakira is also billions of years old. We can't rule that out."

by **Shari** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:51 pm

"All evidence I could be bothered to gather points to yes."

by **Will Stanton** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 8:56 pm

"Sounds indisputable, then. I'll alert the media."

by **Shari** » Fri Mar 10, 2017 9:54 pm

"What a scoop!" she laughs.

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