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[ So there's this girl chilling out on some rock outside right now. She ventured out a little to try to get an idea of where she is, but... ]

As unlikely as this is, I have to ask- Did I timeslide in my sleep? [ She looks around warily at the landscape. She looks a little confused, but mostly annoyed as she addresses the video again. ] Not that I can without a time device of some sort, but this looks like the places I grew up in.

[ A pause. ]

Or did Bete Noire get a remodel while I was away? [ Because that's the only other option here really.

Behind her a large dog pops up to nuzzle at her, making her nearly fall and drop the communicator as she tries to shove it off a bit. Just enough so that she doesn't fall before she's reaching out to hug the big ball of fur. ] I'm leaning towards nuclear apocalypse in Bete Noire that somehow The Dog survived right now.

Anyone want to give me the real details? Thanks.

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[That draws a slight smile.]

Precisely. They also fear contaminants - their immune systems may be weak, or perhaps they're simply paranoid.

[ Every little bit helps. ]

/ Has anyone tried catching one of them? /

If they have, they haven't succeeded.

Confrontations tend to be quick and brutal. Their last attack on the city was devastating. [There's a ghost of guilt, to the thought; she wasn't there to help. If she had been, perhaps - no, she's not going down that road yet again.]

/ Maybe it's time to stop being the victims, then. /

[ Sorry, Hope likes to be proactive sometimes. She doesn't like hearing that they were the ones attacked and who suffered. ]

[Jocelyn studies her with a wry, weary sort of amusement.] I can see why you and Erik would get along.

[And yet, as much as it pains her to say it...]

You aren't wrong.

[ Ffffffffffffffffffff implying her and Erik are bffs. implying they're not. SIGH. ]

/ Once I get more settled in Erik and I can work on something. They can't be impervious to everything. /

[Erik makes everything complicated. :|]

Yes, speaking of that - we've set up something of a home for ourselves outside the city.

[ He does. It's awesome she can control him a little though. ]

/ Outside the city that's out here? / [ Mental pausing trying to see if she understands what she asked herself. Schooling was not high on her list.... ]

[Hope that is not ethical. ~~But if it stops him from getting himself killed I won't fuss.~~

Jocelyn takes a moment, too, amused in an entirely different way.] Yes. It's just...the three of us, at the moment.

I'm, ah, not the only Xavier here.

[ If it works, shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! ]

/ I should probably be more surprised, but I'm not really. Is it you and the other Xavier and Erik, then? /

At the moment, yes.

I wouldn't mind a hand keeping an eye on the two of them.

[ Hope hesitates a bit at that. Everything in her tells her that living with mutants never works for her. She's usually too isolated. ]

/ I can do my best. / [ She concedes. But if it turns into another Utopia incident she might have to skip out. ]

That's all one can ask. [Jocelyn's tone is firmly reassuring, her smile a gentle one.] The Flop will still be there if it doesn't work out, or you could find shelter elsewhere.

/I usually do better alone. / [ Too much time with just herself and her father. ]

[She doesn't let Hope feel just how sad that makes her.] We sometimes surprise ourselves.

/ Usually my surprises never spell anything good. /

I'm willing to take that risk.

/ I'm not.

I'm supposed to save people, not endanger them. /

[It's a gentle thought, but an insistent one.] You can't help people if you hide from them, Hope.

And you, by the way, count as a person as well.

/ I don't hide. I just need distance. / [ To work from the fringes and not from within.

Also conveniently ignoring the second half. ]

How well has that worked, so far?

/ Slightly better than when I'm involved. /

Only slightly.

/ Slightly's the best I can do. /

You oughtn't sell yourself short.

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