wedonot: (No more Mary Poppins jokes.)
Dr. Charles Xavier ([personal profile] wedonot) wrote2013-11-08 08:19 pm

SEVENTY FOUR ✖ TEXT

Just so everyone's aware, I'll be making myself available for anyone who feels that they're in need of counseling in light of what happened.

On a similar note, especially in light of Mark's disappearance, if anyone is interested in volunteering as a counselor to those who might need it, I'd be happy to discuss how to make that work.


[Unless you're a cannibalistic serial killer, in which case you will need to find somewhere else to hang out. :|]

[Filtered to various Friends & Family]

I apologize for not being in touch sooner. I'm alright, and I'd appreciate hearing from you when you've got opportunity.

[Private to Anya]

I hear some congratulations are in order.

[Private to Alex]

Can I come see you?

[ooc: Charles is unaffected by the flood, but if you'd like to be all cuddly and fond with him, I am def up for it. :]b If you think you should be on the filter, you are, and if anyone wants to backdate anything for post-MirrorBarge fallout, I am down!]
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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-11-11 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
[She laughs softly, a little jagged, because she knows exactly what he's doing, but she doesn't know how to pull back from hurting for him without looking like she's pulling back from caring, too.]

This isn't even supposed to be about me. I'm going to be fine.

[She doesn't let go, though, just stands cheek to cheek with him, almost exactly of a height, and squeezes a little tighter. She feels oddly, unnecessarily, instinctively comforted by the hand on her back, and something burbles up inside her, raw feeling as much as much as thought, fierce and absolute: I wish you were my real family. The you is broad, Charles and Erik and Alex and Jean a little too, but she has Erik one way or another already; Charles is the centerpoint of the desire. It would matter less, maybe, how often they don't quite get on, if they had that other bond to hold through instead of just Erik and tea. She never really saw eye to eye with Magda either, not even when she was a precocious and stubborn three-year-old. But they were part of each other anyway, flesh and blood.]
fridgetothefire: (wish you were right)

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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-11-12 06:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[It grates on her, but not because she thinks it's presumptuous. She's just mad at the whole cultural order of it, that whatever they are is defined and elevated by referring to the people who failed them so spectacularly, whom Anya failed in turn. Quietly, she mutters,]

People always get that backward. It's - in the original saying, it's about the blood shed by comrades in battle, how it's more important than the water of the womb.

We're blood, you and me. It's real. It's right.

[She laughs a little, soft and rough and rueful.]

I just wish we'd been stuck with each other from the beginning, you know?

[However terribly they've gotten along, on occasion, at least they've both always cared.]
fridgetothefire: (poised)

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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-11-18 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
[She leans back a bit, not enough to pull out of the hug entirely, just enough to look him in the eyes, her hands gripping his arms lightly, just below the elbows. She sniffs, gets her breathing steady and under control, manages a shaky smile.]

We should. Do things. Besides tea.

Everyone needs things that they can just. Do for themselves, you know? I suppose you're still pants at knitting.
fridgetothefire: (thinking)

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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-11-23 08:02 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd have found time, if you really liked it. So maybe something else.
fridgetothefire: (innocence he said you're alone here)

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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-12-04 11:24 pm (UTC)(link)
What did you used to do for fun? Before the barge, and...everything.

[She waves a hand vaguely.]
fridgetothefire: (o rly)

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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-12-05 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
Always.

[Omg mom you cad, spill.]
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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-12-18 04:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[She snickers a little, mostly because of his embarrassment, but it smoothes out into a contemplative expression.]

You ever play bar games? Darts, pool, that kind of thing? I know Dean organizes some. You don't have to be a party animal all the time to indulge with people a little.
fridgetothefire: (yeah well sure whatever)

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[personal profile] fridgetothefire 2013-12-20 03:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Alright. You and me, pool room. We could go right now if you want.

[To get him out of his head a little more after the kerfuffle, if he wants to keep being distracted; they can make plans for later if he'd rather flop with his slanket and some tea for a bit.

Anya herself loves pool, though she doesn't play it all that often. People think it's a matter of physical skill, but it's 90% cerebral, all geometry and measured forces.]