[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

[julienned]

[he gives him a sardonic thumbs up with his mangled hand. then he winces a little]

Huh.

[skinofalizard]

You okay?

[julienned]

I'm going to have to get this fixed.

[skinofalizard]

Probably a good idea. Maybe Iron Man could do it for you, if he's still around.

[julienned]

His name's come up a few times.

[skinofalizard]

Play your cards right and he might even add a laser for you.

[julienned]

What would I do with a laser? I can do that with my powers already.

[skinofalizard]

Sure, but lasers are cool.


... And yes, I know I hang out with Santo too much.

[julienned]

[he holds up a finger, pointing across the room, frowning in concentration a minute

and then a stream of red light shoots out from somewhere around his finger to the other side of the room, burning a shallow hole in the wall before he stops it.]

See. Laser. I'm still working on different colours.

[skinofalizard]

I'm just surprised it wasn't green.

[julienned]

That's my telekinetic aura, dumbass. I can't help that.

[skinofalizard]

And here I thought it was your favorite color and that's why you hung out with me.

[julienned]

It's blue, but nice try.

[skinofalizard]

Huh. Then you'd think Kurt would piss you off less.

[julienned]

He's another one who is like "oh once my cat ran away".

[skinofalizard]

Yeah, I've noticed that sometimes. He means well, but needs to learn how to just listen sometimes.

[julienned]

Are we even allowed to say that a mutant has it better than us? I mean, he's blue. But they get to go to a normal school and no-one's tried to set them on fire or anything.

[skinofalizard]

I don't know. I mean, he still had to use that holograph device and be ashamed of his physical mutations to get to go to that normal school and not be set on fire, so it's not like it was all rainbows and flowers for him, either. But I guess comparatively he's had it pretty good.

[julienned]

Makes you wonder how Cess'd be if she could use one of those.

[skinofalizard]

What would any of us be like if we were in that universe?

[julienned]

...happy, I guess.

[skinofalizard]

And so what's the point of thinking about it at all? It'll just make us even sadder.

[julienned]

You never sit and go "what if?"

Wow, that's sad.

[skinofalizard]

Sure I do. I just go "what if I die today" or "what if I can't protect the people I care about" That way when I come back to reality, I feel better because I realize none of those things happened. Of course, I guess I can scratch "what if I lose my other arm" off my list.

[julienned]

Clearly you did protect people, dumbass. I heard that.