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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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[ 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. ]

[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.]

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.

[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.]

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

Thank you.

I should have said sooner.

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

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

Don't do that here. Please.

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

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

Erik.

I'm so lost.

Will you meet me back at the ship?

I'm still here.

Good.

[because that's the last message he's sending now. instead, he's on his way again, his own issues getting set aside for the time being.]

[ Hope's just curled up with The Dog outside the ship cause you asked her to be, Erik. ]

[what's that coming over the hill? is it a mutant? is it a mutaaant? yes, there he finally is, hours after she first arrived. things came up, alright. they still haven't been dealt with, but hope's comment was enough to have him ignore his own issues to focus on hers.

she always has been more important, and it has nothing to do with her being the so-called mutant messiah.

the sight of her and the dog has him smiling a little now that they're finally right there and in person. but he doesn't say a word yet. instead he just crosses over to join them, dropping a hand to the dog's head to give him a scratch behind the ears, and taking a seat beside hope.]

[ She caused the things to come up okay! Honestly she had been in BN so long she kind of forgot about home sometimes. She forgot to really tell him about any of that sort of stuff. She was kinda more preoccupied with helping him at the time anyway.

Hope knows he's here, though, the second The Dog takes off for him. He may be loyal to Hope, but he's loyal to Erik too. He knows him and missed him and is glad for the attention too.

Hope's knees are pulled up to her chest as he sits down. ]

Thanks. [ For coming. ]

[the dog gets the attention he wants, at first. it's a distraction, and one he's all too willing to take. he'd already spent the entire journey over trying to work out what to say, and he's still left with no idea of where to even start.

when he finally decides to approach the subject, his voice is low, and there's a caution there that he's not used to having. he's not meant to second guess himself.]

Tell me what's changed. [back home, mostly. he knows that's where all her biggest problems are.]

At home?

Nothing changed. It all just escalated. People still hated me. Then my friend turned on me and tried to kill me.

Then I found out I'm marked or something for this big cosmic bird thing. Everyone's scared of it, and scared of me because of it. Apparently it's going to kill me or drive me crazy.

[ A little firmly. ]

I'm not Jean. I can take it.

[ Usually she doesn't show this with anyone. Anger and fighting is her remedy. But Erik means more to her than she cares to openly admit, and she feels comfortable around him. ]

[well. that catches him off-guard. despite those few details that hope had shared with him back in bete noire, he hadn't been expecting things to have degenerated so much, so quickly. she'd been given that title for a reason, and he's seen more than enough already from her to know that it's one she's perfectly capable of living up to. so it makes no sense that those she's closer to, even her own team, aren't able to see that too.]

They're underestimating you. [that's what it all boils down to. they're scared because they don't know hope as well as they think they do.]

It doesn't matter what they think. You'll prove them all wrong when the time comes. [though first-] Tell me about this bird.

[ See. Erik gets it. He doesn't sit there and tell her she's the messiah and then tell her she's going to fail the first challenge. He knows she can do it. That's all she needs is some reassurance... ]

I don't know much. They were trying to hide it from me. I did learn some, though. It's something cosmic that either destroys or gives life to things.

And they really think that you'd let it destroy life.

[it's a quiet reply; one he doesn't follow up on straight away. instead, he's weighing up his words now, knowing that this is one time where he can't afford to make a mistake. but when the words don't come as quick as he wants, he instead lifts a hand to rest on hope's shoulder, squeezing slightly. another few moments and finally-]

They're fools for not believing in you.

[ Maybe she couldn't handle it. She didn't know. Honestly, she was Hope. She was stubborn and forceful and she had it in her mind that she could and she would. Failure wasn't a word in her vocabulary.

That didn't mean she didn't need the support, though. That Erik squeezing her shoulder and offering faith in her didn't help relieve the pressure a lot.

She swallows hard and nods her head. ]

You know me. I'd die before I let anything else bad happen.

Let's just make sure it doesn't go as far as that. [losing one important person in his life is enough. he gives her shoulder another squeeze, before pushing himself up onto his feet again.]

You're strong, Hope. I doubt you even realise just how much. [he knows they likely aren't anywhere close to resolving the problems hope's dealing with. but he still gives her a nudge to stand up so they can get moving, back to the room he's taken over since arriving. the sheer amount of metal surrounding the building brings him a certain level of comfort, and if he manages to get hope to come back with him, maybe the same'll be true for her too.

it'll doubtlessly help that jocelyn will be close by too. sometimes it's easier to get a point across without words.]

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AND THEN FOUR HOURS PASSED

ONE HOUR LATER CAUSE SHE HATES LIFE

30 MINS BECAUSE CLEARLY THIS IS A CONVERSATION OF DELAYED REPLIES

THEY SUCK AT TALKING!!!!!

SOME THINGS NEVER CHANGE

them. never....

dumbasses

biggest idiots ever. like an hour later again.

WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS

YOU STARTED IT I DID NOTHING!!!!!!!!!

THAT IS A LIE

IT IS NOT AND THIS IS ACTION NOW

WELL FINE THEN LET'S DO THIS

YOU WILL DO IT AND YOU WILL LIKE IT

and break hearts in the process T_T

especially mine ;~;

gdi hope have a less tragic life already

she's trying okay!!!!!!

can erik please just take her home and never let go?

uh. YES PLEASE

snuggle time

ahhhhhhh why are they so adorbs?!

there's something in the water!

I SAID BABY THERE'S A SHARK IN THE WATER

GET OUT