Xaviers!

Posted: **Tue Jan 30, 2018 8:52 pm**

Tereza is working in the garage, putting some new parts onto the bike frame to replace the old garbage that Skreza had taken off. She checks a couple of the parts against the specs and then nods, moving to start bolting them onto the frame. Rock music plays from a small speaker on the work table and the scent of new metal and fresh grease hangs in the air.

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Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:33 pm**

Sam walks in, smiling as she spots Tereza. She's wearing a sweater that Tereza hasn't seen her in before.

"Wondered where you'd gotten to. Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:40 pm**

"More like zen and the art of motorcycle construction." She glances up as she gives a bolt one more twist, "New sweater?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:41 pm**

"Sort of," she says, pulling it off and setting it on the workbench.

"It's safe now, Will."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 8:56 pm**

The 'jumper' (crazy Europeans) shifted and twisted, and Will -- still a few inches shorter than normal -- ended up stretching and popping his joints on the bench.

"Travel takes forever."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:12 pm**

Tereza watches the transformation with a raised eyebrow. "Did you stow away in my luggage?"

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:17 pm**

"Nah. I was apparently sent parcel post. Someone's idea of a Christmas surprise."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 9:20 pm**

"Miriam put him through the post. He doesn't remember why, and I didn't really have a good opportunity to go through his head with my family around."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:29 pm**

"Miriam," Tereza says with a frown. "Hopefully all she did was send you parcel post."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:34 pm**

"I feel fine, which wasn't always the case with Miriam's goatee-wearing double, so, you know," he said, hopping down from the bench. "Could be worse, though if I ever see her again, I'm going to tell her to splurge for first class next time."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:43 pm**

"From the note that came with the package, I wonder if she thinks I sent you."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:44 pm**

"It just said 'I believe this is yours', right?

I suppose, if she was technically being accurate, she would have sent me to ASHLIE. Or the US Military, but that's probably not attention she'd want to bring down upon herself."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:51 pm**

"I mean, in theory, he is yours... in a manner of speaking," Tereza adds. "And she probably associates him with you."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:52 pm**

"I wasn't really in a position to tell my family that a friend got posted to me."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:54 pm**

"You apparently tripped the weirdness circuit breaker, 'Reza," Will joked. "Even my relative normality would have been too much."

Posted: **Wed Jan 31, 2018 11:57 pm**

"Yeah," Tereza says, refocusing on the motorcycle. "Still hate that that happened."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:05 am**

"I'm not blaming you, honestly. I just don't think my family's quite ready for our jetsetting mutant lifestyle."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:11 am**

"And I meant it as light bants rather than actually getting on your case. Sam fed me cookies and kept me hidden under her mattress for a night; no harm, no foul."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:15 am**

"I'll get over it. I'll just feel like the wolf who spoiled Christmas for a while, that's all."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:17 am**

"My sister still thinks you're the best, in all fairness."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:27 am**

"Well, there's that at least. And your father believes I'm sort of bad girl."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 12:28 am**

"Her father is very perceptive."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:04 am**

"Still not sure what her mother thinks of me."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 1:04 am**

"I don't think Mum... doesn't like you?"

"She tends to go into cooking mode."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:51 am**

"There are definitely worse modes than cooking mode."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 3:52 am**

"And was she ever in cooking mode. It was good cooking though."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 8:54 pm**

"Eating your feelings is a McManus tradition."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:31 pm**

"With this metabolism, I have to do a bit of that on occasion."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 9:32 pm**

"Shifting can burn calories like a crazy mother. Gotta keep that good quality fuel going in."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 10:15 pm**

"Always hits me harder after I get roughed up, but I guess that shouldn't really be a surprise."

Posted: **Thu Feb 01, 2018 11:55 pm**

"We'll fatten you up in no time.

What's up with the bike?"

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:15 am**

"The asshole posing as me bought it with my money, so I thought I might as well make the best of it and rebuild it."

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:31 am**

"See, now the jacket works even better."

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:42 am**

"Trying to get it up to modern specs?" Will asked, crouching down and examining it.

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:50 am**

"It was in pretty bad shape. I'll settle for running, but modern specs would nice." Some of the bike was in decent shape, but it had the air of a junkyard rescue.

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:57 am**

Will sniffed at the oil. "Was it working before you disassembled it, or are we Frankensteining it?"

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:05 am**

"We're frankensteining it, because it wasn't working and I couldn't tell precisely which parts were good and which were bad."

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:20 am**

"Poor thing needs some TLC," Will said, patting it on the seat.

"Yet another reason to hate Skrulls, if you ask me."

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:33 am**

"Well I don't think the skrull is the one who rode it hard and put it away wet."

Posted: **Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:52 am**

"Mmmmm," Will said, hrming disapprovingly. "People need to take better care of their stuff," he said, carefully dusting off one of the handlebars.

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