[IC: Forward dated to Saturday 19 May]

[julienned]

[YEAH I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHY YOU GUYS ARE IN HERE. it's a comatose teenager hooked up to a bunch of machines.

it's really boring.] 

Comments

[skinofalizard]

Or maybe my screams were so girly that you were trying to mute them.

[julienned]

Wouldn't I have put the barrier up over me, in that case?

[skinofalizard]

You were in a coma. Maybe you couldn't direct it.

[julienned]

Yes, I could, because I'm awesome.

[skinofalizard]

Yeah, well, I stood up to a mental assault from the Phoenix and then sucker punched her so maybe we both are.

[julienned]

Hell, I couldn't even do that first part. You are badass.

[skinofalizard]

Yeah, well, it wasn't really impressive, to be honest. You probably got a lot more than me.

[julienned]

[shrugs]

It was me doing it to myself too. If I'd said yes to her, then it would have stopped and I would have woken up. 'Course, if I'd said yes, 90% of this place would be dead and disintegrated.

[skinofalizard]

Fortunately for us, you're you.

[julienned]

I'm the best goddamn Julian Keller there is, and I should know as I met one. He was a miserable bastard.

[skinofalizard]

Alternate universes are weird.

[julienned]

Aint that the truth.

[skinofalizard]

I mean, a non-douchebag Cyclops is weird enough, but a miserable Julian? I don't know if I can handle that.

[julienned]

[he makes a face]

Look, I know I've been a really crappy friend these last months.

[skinofalizard]

I wasn't trying to make fun of you, actually. And...it's okay. There was...stuff.

[julienned]

I could hear stuff. Sometimes. While I was ... you know.

[skinofalizard]

...you could?

[julienned]

I put a telekinetic bubble around you. How would I know where you were if I couldn't hear you?

[skinofalizard]

Well, again, it could have been the screaming.

...what did you hear? Relating to me, specifically.

[julienned]

You're a dumbass who puts everyone first.

[skinofalizard]

No, you're the dumbass that does that. I'm the badass that does that. You said so yourself.

[julienned]

You asked me what I heard, and what I heard was that you're a dumbass who does that.

[skinofalizard]

[shrugs]

Yeah, well, they need someone.

[julienned]

Yeah, they do.

[skinofalizard]

And I'm actually good at it.

...it's kind of why the Phoenix couldn't break me.