"Should" doesn't matter much when it comes to mutants.
[The comment about Cerebro makes him snort coldly.]
Yeah. The king with his little crown. Watching over his subjects. Makes me fucking sick. How'd they take three years with this thing around? C'mon, it's not this way anyway.
[Everything is very lab-like, all lit in the same cool blue light, but there's no science happening here - just uniforms on display and doors they can't open. He's confident, when he gets to the door to the jet hangar, that he can get it. Somehow, through massive shit-stirring, he knows the code.
But somehow when he enters it, the corridors all go black.]
[ he's looking at the x door and lingers for a second before following after john again. it's a curious thing. dangerous, he thinks. always three steps behind now, swinging arms at his sides with still uncontrollable energy.
he moves next to a case while john puts the code in ]
You know, I think the professor has a bondage ki--- ...[ oh there go the lights. he moves next to john quickly ] I didn't do it.
[And then there are flashlights bobbing toward them through the pitch darkness, and John doesn't need to see a single face to know that he's brought down the wrath of the staff somehow. Fingers slipped, maybe, wrong code and it set up an alarm.
He pulls out his lighter, still high and ready to fight every single one of them, and about a split-second later they're in detention.]
[ he's leaning an elbow on the desk, his head propped up on his hand. fire energy long since burnt out. sunglasses on his face. burnt mark on his shirt. siiiigh ]
[John's own head is pillowed on his folded arms, and he lets out a groan.]
You didn't tell me I'd come down off this. [Maybe he didn't know. It was a unique high, after all.] I just went after the whole staff with my lighter. I'm gonna get lockdown for the rest of my life.
My bad. [ he didn't know. fire's hard to predict and john's a unique case. ] I doubt you'll get lockdown. I had to tell them what I did so they could reason that you can't be held entirely at fault for that one.
[ he's looking side-long at him ]
Then I got a long lecture about how I'm new and probably didn't realize befriending you was a horrible idea.
Oh, nice. Slam both of us in one "supportive" statement. [Yes, he definitely gestures those air quotes as well as using emphasis in his voice.] They really never lose their style.
They're style is hysterical. They were really trying to be supportive like they genuinely were but ended up just insulting me repeatedly. There was this one remark where they were like 'your father raised you better than that.'
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[The comment about Cerebro makes him snort coldly.]
Yeah. The king with his little crown. Watching over his subjects. Makes me fucking sick. How'd they take three years with this thing around? C'mon, it's not this way anyway.
[Everything is very lab-like, all lit in the same cool blue light, but there's no science happening here - just uniforms on display and doors they can't open. He's confident, when he gets to the door to the jet hangar, that he can get it. Somehow, through massive shit-stirring, he knows the code.
But somehow when he enters it, the corridors all go black.]
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[ he's looking at the x door and lingers for a second before following after john again. it's a curious thing. dangerous, he thinks. always three steps behind now, swinging arms at his sides with still uncontrollable energy.
he moves next to a case while john puts the code in ]
You know, I think the professor has a bondage ki--- ...[ oh there go the lights. he moves next to john quickly ] I didn't do it.
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[And then there are flashlights bobbing toward them through the pitch darkness, and John doesn't need to see a single face to know that he's brought down the wrath of the staff somehow. Fingers slipped, maybe, wrong code and it set up an alarm.
He pulls out his lighter, still high and ready to fight every single one of them, and about a split-second later they're in detention.]
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Well. That could've gone better.
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You didn't tell me I'd come down off this. [Maybe he didn't know. It was a unique high, after all.] I just went after the whole staff with my lighter. I'm gonna get lockdown for the rest of my life.
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[ he's looking side-long at him ]
Then I got a long lecture about how I'm new and probably didn't realize befriending you was a horrible idea.
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Standard procedure. They know I hate it around here and I'll raise hell however I can. Any new friend I make, they figure I'm starting up a gang.
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[ he huffs and blows a hair out of his eyes ]
Quote "he'd be a destructive influence on your addictive personality" unquote.
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[ actual laughing ]
They think I was raised.