first salvation ✝ video.

[messiahed]

[ 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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[lehnsherr]

And here I thought the two of you were friends.

[messiahed]

So we are using the f-word now?

[lehnsherr]

It seems more fitting than acquaintance, considering.

[you know, what with her saving his sanity, and potentially his life.]

[messiahed]

I prefer the term 'soul-mate'.

[ SHE REALLY DOESN'T but it's fun to tease too! ]

[lehnsherr]

Really. So I should start introducing you to others as my soul-mate?

[messiahed]

I won't stop you.

[lehnsherr]

I'll have to take you to meet the kids then to test that theory.

[messiahed]

[ WOAH put the breaks on. ]

The kids? What kids?

[lehnsherr]

Toad and Quicksilver.

[a pause though as he sobers up a little to add-]

Havok's here too.

[messiahed]

[ HOLD THE PHONE.



Two things dropped on her, and she looks pretty damn shocked. One, is her great uncle who she has yet to ever meet. The other is. ]


So we both have family here, then.

permalocked ALONG WITH AS MUCH OF THE ABOVE AS HE CAN MANAGE

[lehnsherr]

[silence. just...silence. he doesn't bother asking her to repeat herself. the reply was clear enough and he knows she wouldn't joke about something like this. given just how well he already knows another version of havok and the way both toad and quicksilver had reacted to learning who he is-]

Quicksilver- Pietro is his son?

permalocked FOR AGES!!!

[messiahed]

[ ....................................... OMG HE DIDN'T KNOW?!?! ]

Yeah.

Not that Pietro. This Pietro.... The one here is different. Younger than the one at home.

[lehnsherr]

[there's more silence and a pile of questions he wants to ask. ones he knows hope would try to answer if he did. but it seems wrong to take that decision from pietro's hands. the boy obviously didn't like magneto, family or not. but he isn't going to gather those details from anyone other than the boy in question.]

Did Magneto ever harm the one from your world?

[it's treading that line, but he needs to know.]

[messiahed]

[ A long pause.

Then she shrugs her shoulders. ]

I don't know. I never met your kids. They don't have anything to do with us. And no one really talks about them here. It's kind of a taboo. [ Which she can guess is from the estranged family relations she's heard about. ]

[lehnsherr]

[woah woah. hold up a second.]

You said kids. Plural. And why would it be a taboo?

[also, sorry hope. but erik's at a standstill. he'll get moving again once he's had all the answers he needs right now.]

[messiahed]

So uh.

[ She hates this conversation. ]

You know my mutant ability? The one that helped you? That makes me kind of... special as a mutant? I told you it's because I'm the mutant savior or whatever, right?


Well the reason I am is because our race is nearly extinct. 98% of us gone. And they're all gone because of your daughter, Pietro's twin. She willed them all away. No one talks about it because people died when they're powers went missing. It was the most devastating thing to ever strike our kind.

[lehnsherr]

[of all the possible replies he was expecting to hear, that wasn't one of them. the idea that anyone would will away mutant abilities, yet alone his own child, adds to that pit of anger he's been trying to will away from the first moment he woke up here. it grew more difficult after being shown his charles' pod. after learning about his alternate self. after the other charles disappeared. but this? this is a step too far, and it leaves him knowing that he needs to get away for a while.]

Ask Jocelyn to direct you to the house.

[because, sorry hope, that's him disconnecting now to go and sort through all this.]

AND THEN FOUR HOURS PASSED

[lehnsherr]

[four hours spent breaking things and thinking. and all he has to show for it is a single text response.]

Thank you.

ONE HOUR LATER CAUSE SHE HATES LIFE

[messiahed]

I should have said sooner.

30 MINS BECAUSE CLEARLY THIS IS A CONVERSATION OF DELAYED REPLIES

[lehnsherr]

I don't blame you for not telling me. You had no reason to.

THEY SUCK AT TALKING!!!!!

[messiahed]

I told your Charles some. He didn't take it well. So I stopped talking to any of the mutants in BN.

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE

[lehnsherr]

Don't do that here.

Please.

them. never....

[messiahed]

I'm not really meant to be friends with mutants. [ Or anyone really. ]

dumbasses

[lehnsherr]

Yes, you are. And not because of the position you've been forced in to.

biggest idiots ever. like an hour later again.

[messiahed]

Erik.



I'm so lost.