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Dr. Charles Xavier ([personal profile] wedonot) wrote2013-04-22 06:47 pm

FIFTY SEVEN ✖ VOICE/SPAM

[Warden Filter, backdated to Day One of the flood]

[Again, Charles sounds more tired than anything else when he makes this post, because today is officially going on the record as the longest day of his life, and he'd really, really like it to be over. Like, now.]

Alex and I brought Pietro Maximoff down to Level Zero after he attacked and tried to kill us. I don't know if he's been assigned a warden or not, yet, but if anyone's stepped up to take responsibility for him, he'll probably be awake and hopefully willing to talk in an hour or so. [He might have put him to sleep for a while. B(

He lets out a slow breath before continuing.]
Has anyone seen Dr. Banner?

[And everything else in this post is present dated!]

[Friends Filter - if you think you're on it, you are]

I'm sorry I wasn't very available during the flood. [And that's all he really wants to say about it from his end.] How is everyone doing?

[Private to the Admiral]

[As much as he doesn't like you, Boss Man, he's learned how to ask for things from you, and this is important. Also potentially very stupid, but Zane had been right, he could tell what they were used for, and he was more likely to be sympathetic to someone who power reductions literally meant feeling as though they were missing a sense just as important as sight.]

I need a reasonable amount of tin and copper for Zane, enough to keep him comfortable until he's assigned a warden who can continue supplying it. Please.

[Spam for Pietro]

[His first priority after the flood was over was to head down to Zero. As much as he really didn't want to spend time down there ever again after what had happened when Tosh had been in control of the ship, he couldn't just leave Pietro down there, either, and so he's shoving aside his discomfort and heading downstairs to let him out.

He calls over to him before he actually gets in front of the cell, concerned.]


Pietro?

[Spam for Erik]

[It's not really uncommon for them to just invite themselves over, whether for chess or needing to tell the other something or simply because they're bored, and so after letting Pietro out and gently checking to see if Erik would mind the company at all, he heads back to their floor and opens his friend's door instead of his own, closing it behind him and managing a sort of wry-but-pained smile.]

If I wasn't already convinced that meeting you was one of the best things that's ever happened to me, I think this would have cleared up any doubts. [It's supposed to be a joke, making light of the issue because he really, really did not know how to process what had happened at all. They'd talked before about how maybe they did live in the best possible reality, and times like these made Charles think they were right.

He sobers a little when he looks at Erik, a faint line of concern forming between his eyes.]
How are you doing?
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-04-24 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's a little like waking from a nightmare, for him, the kind that feels so real and all-consuming that you spend those first few moments of consciousness in unbroken panic, unaware that you've even woken. Except when Pietro comes back to himself, there is no wash of relief, no grateful realization that none of it was real — because it was. He's in Zero. His fists feel like meat because he hurt people. (Wanda is alive.)

It's good that Charles comes quickly. Solitary confinement is hard enough on someone whose concept of time is so elongated, and after how things went the last time Pietro was down here, it does nothing positive for his emotional state now. He comes to the front of the cell when he hears Charles, instinctively moving toward the door. ]


Charles. [ Not 'Xavier', not right now, because he needs to draw that distinction in his mind. ] Are you— is everyone all right?
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-05-05 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[ Oh yeah, that. A guilty look crosses his face, although possibly not as guilty as it ought to be. ]

–Sorry. [ Awkward. ] I am usually saner than that.

[ 'Usually.' ]

[ He steps out, not keen on staying down here longer than necessary. ]
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-05-06 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Pietro hesitates, as if choosing his words carefully -- and considering how rarely he bothers to do that, perhaps it's telling. He hasn't had time to prepare a lie, though, or even fully process what happened, so what he says is more a half-hearted attempt at evasion than an untruth. ]

Wanda. Apparently that's what happens when the X-Men and the Avengers kill my sister.

[ ...As if him trying to murder everyone is an inevitable consequence, not a choice, he says that. ]
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-05-08 05:51 am (UTC)(link)
I know. [ Pietro nods, and that much is more sincere than anything else he's said. ] You didn't even try.

[ And his Charles Xavier did. He lets the implication hang there for a beat, unspoken. He shouldn't have said that aloud, he shouldn't even let the conversation go down that path, but he needs to remind himself, too, that Charles isn't to blame. It's important (and difficult, with the echos of his other self still rattling around in his head) to make that distinction. ]

I simply didn't care, once she was gone. I thought— it seemed fair somehow, to kill all of you, too, for the things you might do.
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-05-10 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
When I am in my right mind, you do not need to tell me that. [ It's— a little defensive, yes, because taking responsibility for his actions is not Pietro's favorite thing when he is fully responsible, let alone when he's been replaced by an alternate self, but it's honest, too, in Pietro's usual insensitive sort of way. ] If I had wanted to blame you for his failings, Charles, I would never have trusted you with anything at all.

[ But he has. With Anya even, and with his own sanity that time in Zero, when he hasn't extended a modicum of that trust to, say, Erik. So there's that. ]
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-05-10 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
[ Silences are always long for Pietro, and this one doesn't pass unnoticed, but he doesn't know how to fill it. He gets that this is awkward, for Charles, but he doesn't actually get why — although he understands, intellectually, that there is a thing he should get, that there's some piece of empathy he's missing sometimes, some inner voice that says what he would do to avenge his sister is wrong, but to him it's a natural reaction to anyone harming Wanda. He does not and never has had a stopping point when it comes to defending her, and it doesn't occur to him that Charles would have expected anything else from him in response to her death.

So he doesn't ask. Somewhere near the top of the stairs, it occurs to him he wouldn't have had the option of asking or not, with any other Xavier. ]


You really don't read anyone's mind, do you? [ Not accusing, just surprised. ]
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-05-10 04:46 am (UTC)(link)
I appreciate that.

[ ... Which may be concerning, when you consider the kinds of things Pietro may prefer to keep to himself, but. Well. There it is. Apparently he hadn't been going anywhere else with that, though, as he doesn't pursue it further. ]
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-05-10 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Not everyone would care so much what 'most people' want.

[ He's just saying. He wouldn't, certainly — his mutation isn't invasive, but even if it was, he doesn't reign in what he is for anyone else's benefit. He isn't sure Charles's restraint is better, objectively, but it's probably less selfish. He's reminded of Cap, just a little.

Saying that aloud sounds far too much like being nice, though, so naturally Pietro doesn't linger on the sentiment. ]


Try not to overdo it with that stab wound, will you? [ He adds as an afterthought, turning slightly to go when they reach the appropriate level. ] I'm sure Erik will be sufficiently furious at me without you accidentally keeling over.

[ (Which is speedster for "Take care of yourself.") ]
Edited 2013-05-10 07:33 (UTC)
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[personal profile] supersonic 2013-05-11 06:52 am (UTC)(link)
No, I value my life far more than that.

[ Things that are less funny in context: this.

Nevertheless, he inclines his head in what passes for a goodbye and moves to go. ]


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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-05-16 02:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He's sitting at the chess board, hunched forward with one elbow resting on the edge. It's melancholic, maybe, but he's turning one of the chess pieces over in his hands. Charles' entrance only earns a quick glance up, and the comment gets a vague, brief smile.]

Nothing puts things into perspective quite like a flood, does it. [His gaze flicks up again.] If only they all had such straightforward meanings. [Taste that sarcasm.]
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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-06-01 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I suppose it doesn't. [And he falls silent again, for a little while. He stops toying with the chess piece - the queen - and his palm goes flat. The piece rises from his hand, and the king and a pan join it in the air, hovering.]

I could have had a daughter. A family. And they would have died in a nuclear war.
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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-06-01 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's still for a moment, then shakes his head.] Even if she's still alive, somewhere. I can't. There are things more important than my settling down.
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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-06-07 06:22 pm (UTC)(link)
[He waves that aside - a yes, yes, I know, but also avoidance of discussing it. He has a family, he understands that, but there are still years of weight on his shoulders, telling him it's a matter of time.]

I already left her, Charles. What I want is to do everything I can to keep our kind safe. I'll sacrifice having a wife and child for that cause if I have to.

[And besides - what faith does he have, that he can be an attentive, kind father and revolutionary as well? None.]
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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-06-08 08:49 pm (UTC)(link)
[No promises B( Several thousand people might try to kill them again B(

That makes his mouth quirk, though, and he looks up with eyebrows raised.]


He was apologizing? [He already thinks of Charles and Alex as family - he just thinks of himself as on the fringe, that uncle you're not sure how you feel about yet. Well - less than he did, but.]
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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-06-08 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well okay B(]

I suppose you can't blame any of us for being wary. [But it's good to have them, is the underlying thought, there. It's good to be part of something, to be a family.]
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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-06-08 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Buddy you couldn't be if you tried :C]

I'd hesitate before leaving heartfelt notes in lunchboxes.
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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-06-08 10:47 pm (UTC)(link)
[Well he's grinning, so deal.]

Thus my hesitation.
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[personal profile] wecanavenge 2013-06-08 10:51 pm (UTC)(link)
[The passive aggressive notes of love war begins.]

I have every faith you'll manage it.