Xaviers!

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:57 pm**

"I can't always be a wolf, even if it's simpler," she reasons as the last of her humanity returns.

Getting up, she heads for a suitcase in the corner.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 6:59 pm**

Once the sounds stop, Wanda turns back towards Isolde. "It's..." Her cheeks color a little and she stares for just a moment before she tries to politely look away again. "Keep forgetting about that bit."

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:08 pm**

Isolde has collected a few scars over her life. They've healed fairly well, but there's still the fine silvery traces that speak to their presence.

"I'll be dressed soon enough if you're scandalized," she says, pulling on clothes.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 7:34 pm**

"I'm not scandalized," she objects, "But it's not polite to do what I want to do, which is stare... I mean, admire."

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:11 pm**

"I may clean up well, but you don't need to flatter me."

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 8:15 pm**

"Flattery implies that I don't mean it," she points out, "if I wanted to pedantic. Or did you think I asked you to go dancing out of pity?" She turns back to look at Isolde, smirking now.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 9:56 pm**

"I don't... really know what we are, yet. I'm still not used to the attention," she says as she finishes getting dressed.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:11 pm**

"More used to the screaming in terror and running away then?"

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:16 pm**

"...that's a bit easier to read," she mutters.

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:29 pm**

"I heard that," she says, swinging her legs off the bed and getting up. "I'm difficult to read?"

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:32 pm**

"People are difficult to read. There's ways to make them simpler. Not all of them are pleasant."

Posted: **Tue Mar 06, 2018 11:43 pm**

"So make this simpler," she says, "Too much of this other stuff is complicated."

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:08 am**

"Alright, why are you even attracted to me, knowing what you do?"

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:21 am**

She looks like she wants to say 'Because I like to live dangerously', but as this appears to not be the time for levity, she answers truthfully. "You're attractive and strong. And despite the... unnatural origins, you're refreshingly... primal to my senses. It's esoteric to describe at best, but I'm trying to keep it simple."

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:31 am**

"Honestly, I thought I'd jump at the chance for someone who actually likes all of me, but it's hard to accept that's possible."

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 12:40 am**

"And if you told me that I'd be chased by vampires to turn out the sun, I'd have had a hard time accepting that. But here we are."

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:17 am**

"...I've spent too long among liars and murderers," she sighs.

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:31 am**

"I'm not a murderer, though I will admit to lying now and again. But I'm being honest with you, I *am* interested."

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:33 am**

"I'm not saying that's you. I know that's not you. That's just... been my baseline."

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 1:48 am**

"Time to readjust that baseline then," she says, stepping over to Isolde and taking her hand. Wanda's no fighter, but she slides inside Isolde's guard to give her a light kiss.

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:36 pm**

"This wouldn't... be the worst thing," she says, trailing her fingers off Wanda's hair.

Posted: **Wed Mar 07, 2018 8:45 pm**

Wanda smiles at her, nose to nose with her at this point. "Might even be a very good thing, but there's only one way to find that out and that's to give it a chance." She slides her arms around Isolde's neck, "Want to give it that chance? This time with 100% less angry women in clubs."

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2018 6:57 pm**

"...I could manage a few angry women in clubs."

Posted: **Thu Mar 08, 2018 7:05 pm**

"Only if we have to," she says. "Pity there's no music here. I feel like I could dance."

Posted: **Tue May 08, 2018 5:56 pm**

Someone put a piece of mail in front of Isolde's door. It was postmarked in Geneva with no return address. It had probably been in her mailbox downstairs, the one she never bothered to check and someone had finally propped it up against her door. The handwriting looked somehow familiar, but she couldn't quite place it.

Posted: **Wed May 09, 2018 6:59 pm**

Isolde frowns as she approaches the door, bending down to pick it up.

Taking it inside, she slides a nail under the seal to open it.

Posted: **Wed May 09, 2018 7:17 pm**

The letter is neatly handwritten on good paper. As she unfolds the letter, a business card falls out. The letter reads as follows:

Hello, Mother. It's been quite some time and I'd begun to be concerned that you might be dead. It's good to hear that you're still among the living. I'll be in England for work soon and I'd like to reconnect. We could catch up and you might even be able to help me with the job. Contact me at the included number and let me know.

Love,
Eric

The business card just has a phone number printed on it with a UK phone number.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2018 2:13 am**

Isolde's frown only deepens as she reads the note.

She reaches for her phone and dials the number.

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2018 2:40 am**

The phone rings several times before someone picks it up. The sounds of city traffic in the background greets her ears. "Hello, Mother."

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2018 2:52 am**

"You must feel terribly clever for having found me. What do you want, Eric?"

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2018 3:07 am**

"You taught me better than to feel terribly clever about anything. I have a job I need to do, I wanted to see if you wanted in on it. Of course we'd have to discuss the details in person."

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2018 7:43 pm**

"I thought you'd be reluctant to work together, after the last time."

Posted: **Thu May 10, 2018 7:46 pm**

"Of course I am. It could also be idle curiosity to see if the rumors about you going soft are true."

Posted: **Fri May 11, 2018 7:00 pm**

"If you make a mess of things, I'm more than ready to make a mess out of you, Eric dear."

Posted: **Fri May 11, 2018 7:19 pm**

"Why, dear mother, would you assume that I'm going to make a mess of things?"

Posted: **Fri May 11, 2018 7:25 pm**

"I still remember when I had to pull you out of Gävle."

Posted: **Fri May 11, 2018 7:30 pm**

"Which you did out of the kindness of your heart no-doubt. I haven't been back to Sweden in years. Everyone I knew from back then is dead at any rate, so there hasn't been a lot of point until recently."

Posted: **Mon May 14, 2018 7:03 pm**

"Listen, I'll have to get back to you. I have some things to attend to."

"Don't call me. I'll call you."

Posted: **Mon May 14, 2018 7:13 pm**

"You have my number," he says mildly before hanging up.

Posted: **Fri Oct 04, 2019 5:05 pm**

*** Some significant time later ***

A voice mail is left on Isolde's phone from the school receptionist:

We received a call from a Doctor MacReady at the Doctor MacKinnon Memorial Hospital. Lydia Stanford passed away peacefully in her sleep and he thought you would want to know.

Xaviers!

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