Xaviers!

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:39 pm**

"Dio is a special case," she says with a chuckle. "It's just... I'm not sure how I feel about all of it."

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:47 pm**

"Having a strange life can be an asset if you want it to be. Or it can be your little secret if you'd rather."

Posted: **Thu Jan 18, 2018 7:52 pm**

"It's hard to not want normal, but I'm also fully aware that the ship for normal sailed when I was born."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:23 am**

"I wish I could have made that easier for you. In Russia you're on top as long as you're useful. It took me too long to figure that out."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 12:27 am**

"There's not much you could have done. I don't hold it against you."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 7:42 pm**

"Then I'll not drag the night down. It's an easy knee-jerk, I realize."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:14 pm**

"Shit happens. We're here now, not there then. I prefer to make the most of now."

She gives the menu one more glance, "Yeah, big steak, medium rare."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:23 pm**

"Ah, so not mooing too much, then."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:44 pm**

"Lost my taste for the truly rare after coming to in front of an on-the-hoof meal," she says, shuddering.

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 8:57 pm**

"It's for the best. If you take that too far, you become a walking cliche. I've seen it happen."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:02 pm**

"I was so deep in the wolf at that point, I don't even know. I sort of remember this alien device and fighting a dinosaur? Then I was in a Russian forest and my ex-girlfriend found me... which is a whole different issue entirely."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 9:05 pm**

"I'm afraid running into exes at odd moments is a fairly ordinary thing."

Posted: **Fri Jan 19, 2018 10:52 pm**

"This particular one is still at the school. She's got some problems my girlfriend and I agreed to help her with. Unfortunately, removing the stick from her ass isn't one of them at the moment."

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:26 pm**

"I've been on missions with exes before myself."

Posted: **Mon Jan 22, 2018 8:28 pm**

"She's sweet, but a little wrapped up in her own world. Maybe once the mission is over, we can break her out of that, but it'll sort of depend on how the mission goes."

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 9:02 pm**

"Sounds like you've mended fences, then?"

Posted: **Tue Jan 23, 2018 11:13 pm**

"Working on it. We'll see where the mended fence ends up sitting."

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:23 pm**

"Is it prying too much to ask why you broke up?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:39 pm**

"She left. Wouldn't tell me where she was going or take me with her. Wouldn't tell me when she'd be back. Didn't find out until she eventually returned that she'd been screwed over by 'family'."

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 8:46 pm**

"...noticing a bit of a theme here. I can see why that'd bother you."

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 10:02 pm**

"Yeah," she says. "She's looking for her mom. Her asshole 'relatives' kicked her mom out and then told Viv to go find her. Sam and I agreed to help her and help her deal with her 'relatives' when the time comes."

Posted: **Wed Jan 24, 2018 11:20 pm**

"So you still want her in your life, I take it?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:48 am**

"In some capacity," Tereza says, "I still care about her, even though I was angry with her."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 12:53 am**

"I know that feeling. It doesn't exactly go away with a breakup."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:03 am**

Tereza chews on her lip for a second as if trying to decide whether to continue to share, but then she shrugs a bit and presses on. "Sam and I have discussed opening up our relationship for her, but like I said, she's been kind of wrapped up in her own problems and any serious discussion of that gets postponed."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:07 am**

"I haven't earned any right to tell you what to do. All I can really say is that... arrangements like that can be hard unless everyone's on the same page."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:12 am**

"Yeah, I'm aware. Wouldn't be the first time, but... well, the first time was with a girl who was three girls? So I'm not sure that really counts. Needless to say, the only way it'd happen is if everyone was okay with it and willing to communicate a *lot*. And we're not there yet. Maybe after we find her mom and toss her 'relatives' back to the other side."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:14 am**

"I don't need to know everything about your love life," she chuckles.

"And I won't embarrass you by speculating on whether we have similar tastes."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:23 am**

"Yeah," she says, coloring with a bit of embarrassment, "I don't really have anyone else to talk about this with though."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:24 am**

"That's fair. I don't know as I'm much better at things, I've just had longer to make mistakes."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:26 am**

"Hey, more experience than I have at screwing up is still experience."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 1:27 am**

"You've opened up enough, and while I'm not going to just volunteer everything while we're eating, it's more than fair if you want to ask."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 6:38 pm**

Tereza thinks quietly for a long moment before asking, "What made you decide to leave the program?"

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:11 pm**

"There are... a lot of things you can convince yourself of when life is going your way. When that runs out, they leverage the idea that someone like you can't live on the outside."

"But increasingly, there were two things. One, it became increasingly obvious that their treatment of me wasn't typical for the program. The second is that it became harder and harder to tell myself I was on the side of the angels."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:24 pm**

"Yeah, things start to look kind of dirty after a while."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:30 pm**

"And at some point there's the liberating realization that they can't make you do anything."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:34 pm**

"They seem to have made some attempts to fix that problem. They had to peel some telepathic triggers out of my head after I got to the university."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 8:47 pm**

"It wouldn't be the first time I was the reason people couldn't have nice things."

Posted: **Thu Jan 25, 2018 9:22 pm**

"Like mother, like daughter. I was the cause of more than a few new rules at that 'school' of theirs."

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2018 7:29 pm**

"Then here's to misbehaving, eh?"

She raises her glass to Tereza.

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