Xaviers!

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 3:50 pm**

Tereza sits in the briefing room, feet propped up on the table and a keyboard in her lap as she uses one of the monitors to read some information. Another monitor shows a map of a location labeled as "Madripoor" and yet another monitor seems to be showing images that seem to change occasionally to accompany what she's reading.

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Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 7:07 pm**

Chase wandered in and curiously glanced at the monitors.

"What would you want with that stain on humanity?"

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 7:15 pm**

"Family business, maybe," she says, looking up. "You remember the cryokinetic we ran into in Crimea?"

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 7:53 pm**

"Of course," he nodded, "I take it you believe her story about being... well, your mother."

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 8:09 pm**

"Believe is probably too strong a word. I need more answers and I know she has associates in Madripoor."

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 8:22 pm**

"And you're hoping one of them can shed some light on her past?"

Posted: **Mon May 08, 2017 10:11 pm**

"I'm hoping I can get some confirmation. I'd rather know than not, I think."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 12:01 am**

"I can sympathize with that. There's a lot about my past I still don't remember. But..." he began before shaking off a distant look, "...most in Madripoor wouldn't give such information freely, even the vigilantes."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 12:06 am**

"Probably not, but Laura should be able to get some answers. She seems to know some of the people I need to talk to."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 12:13 am**

"Is there anywhere she doesn't have contacts?" he commented.

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 12:18 am**

"Russia maybe? We're all kind of SOL there."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 12:25 am**

"True. So you're trying to find a starting point for her then?"

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 12:33 am**

"Trying to make sure I'm not going in blind when I go with her."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 1:42 am**

"Right. That... makes more sense," he admitted.

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 1:47 am**

"I went in blind once and everyone here got to pay the price for that. Not happening again."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 7:04 pm**

"None of us could have guessed the Russian mutant program was infested with aliens."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 7:07 pm**

"Doesn't excuse my stupidity."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 7:19 pm**

"Maybe not. But going off alone felt right at the time didn't it?" he asked, his own poorly thought solo 'mission' having turned out alright.

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 7:27 pm**

"To go into a controlled city, yeah, more or less."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 7:58 pm**

"It's difficult, isn't it? Remembering you have a team to back you... that would be upset and hurt if you never came back."

Posted: **Tue May 09, 2017 9:10 pm**

"I have someone who insists on coming along on things, even when it would probably be better if she didn't. I'm not sure she'd understand how hard it is to make *smart* decisions when she's around or how hard it is to do the bad things that need doing where she can see."

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 12:28 am**

"Is that because you feel guilty in front of her or because you don't want to... darken her?"

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 12:43 am**

"Yes," Tereza says, leaning back in her chair.

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 1:11 am**

"Do you really think you're that bad an influence?"

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 1:52 am**

Tereza shrugs, "I don't know, but I'm afraid I might be."

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 3:05 pm**

"Are you... afraid the bad things you've done, no matter how little choice you may have had... are more a part of you than you want anyone to know?" he asked, hesitant to put words to the idea.

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 3:22 pm**

"Something like that. At the time, I even thought I was doing them for the right reasons," Tereza says, fidgeting with the edge of the keyboard.

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 3:32 pm**

"Most people do. Even the Lotus in a twisted sort of way... as much as I hate to admit it."

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 3:33 pm**

"I worked with the Brotherhood right after they broke me out of the Russian school. Not anything major, just small time stuff."

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 7:16 pm**

"So... no blood on your hands?"

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 7:29 pm**

"Nothing permanent, no, but I didn't really show a lot of concerns for them either."

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 7:42 pm**

"Then you've got a leg up on me. I did monstrous things and no amount of telling myself I wasn't in control will make me feel clean."

Posted: **Wed May 10, 2017 7:46 pm**

"I suppose we can form our own support group then," Tereza says, trying to lighten the mood ever so slightly. "I guess I keep trying to tell myself this place is my second chance."

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2017 12:54 am**

"That's because it can be if you let it. People with worse baggage than ours have gotten theirs through Xavier's. Kinney included."

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2017 1:18 am**

"I guess that's one of the things I struggle with. Especially since I was bitten. Violence feels good... it's where I feel at home. Maybe I just need to pick up my guitar again, try to lean on something else in addition to the violence."

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2017 1:27 am**

"Music soothes the savage beast eh?" he cautiously teased. "For me it's books."

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2017 3:39 am**

She sticks her tongue out at him, "Not really, but Sam seems serious about wanting to start up a band. And I just haven't had time to focus on much else lately beyond missions and not eating people."

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2017 2:50 pm**

"Not going on missions is always an option," he suggested, "Though if you're anything like me you're lost without something to punch."

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2017 2:52 pm**

"Yeah, I am. And I don't think my lodger," she says, tapping the side of her head, "Would stay very well behaved without some occasional punching."

Posted: **Thu May 11, 2017 3:05 pm**

"I guess we're just hopeless then," he chuckled.

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