[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.] 

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[extremities]

[does so, pushing them back hard, and looking at the mini-crater in his room]

I'm going to get into trouble for that.

[julienned]

Blame it on the telekinetic. Everyone else does.

Anyway, the point is that that? Ms Grey doesn't have that kind of control. She has a lot of power and a whole ton of repression, but because she repressed her powers she has no control over what she could be.

That's what you got to work with if you have to fight her.

[extremities]

I rather not.

It's a lot to work with, but I'll see what I can do.

[julienned]

As for someone taking the Phoenix Force off her, there's ... three options? Four? Foley, Magneto, the Professor and me. They're all really bad choices.

[extremities]

Forget bad, they're not choices.

[julienned]

Gee, thanks.

But she has to control it. In our universe, she did. So did your and her daughter.

[extremities]

There's no need to take this the wrong way. It's not an inflection of your skills, it's that no one should have to live with the Phoenix.

[pauses over the word "daughter" before moving on] Do you remember any of the particulars?

[julienned]

It's the future of our species, you know. That's why we put up with Hope Summers - no relation to you this time - and her temper tantrums. Treating it as like it's the world's biggest curse isn't going to help her get it.

[extremities]

What are you talking about?

[julienned]

No-one told you? One day over ninety percent of mutants woke up without their powers, and after then no more mutants were born until she was. Eight percent of the entire mutant population lives right here.

[extremities]

I heard that the powers were gone, but I haven't heard of Hope Summers.

[julienned]

Vic, Alani and I are from the furtherest point in the timeline. It's likely they don't even know who she is yet.

[extremities]

How is the Phoenix going to save mutants?

[julienned]

[shrugs]

Maybe they know over at Utopia. We're over at the ... the school.

[extremities]

I see.

What do you think the Phoenix is?

[julienned]

Vic's the one that read the file. I only know what I need to.

[extremities]

Which is what, exactly?

[julienned]

If a gigantic flame bird comes and talks to me, it's bad news and I'm not allowed to kill all flatscans.

[extremities]

I see. Thank you for telling me.

[julienned]

Not that I would. You'd think the whole "I spent a week in a coma rather than killing people" would be a clue but nooo.

[extremities]

That wasn't the part I had doubts about.

How's your team? I spoke to all of them, but I figured you would have more to say about it than me.

[julienned]

I wasn't exaggerating when I said they want to kill Ms Grey. Or will, if they have to.

[extremities]

I didn't think so.

[sighs] I need to go see the doctors. I'll come by later.

[julienned]

I also wasn't exaggerating when I said I'm stopping them. Whatever we are, we don't kill if we can avoid it. But she has to start showing signs soon.

[extremities]

I know.