Sanity is an Illusion

[sofiawind]

WHO: Sofia, Charles and Julian
WHERE: Sofia's place in the MAC
WHEN: shortly after Charles' video
WARNINGS: Insanity
SUMMARY: Sofia got driven mad by Emissary during the battle and Charles has come to help with the problem.
FORMAT: starting as paragraph but it may change

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[grooviestmutant]

Charles would be entirely glad for Julian when he arrived, and even moreso since he had not expected it. He finds no reason to knock upon the door and he enters the apartment with ease -- though not without a short feeling of rudeness washing over him, even with how ridiculous that truly was in this situation. He could sense Julian's presence; though at first he was not familiar with the mind.

"Hello?

[ex_julianhe]

Julian left Sofia's side when he heard the voice. She wasn't exactly in a position to tell him what was up anyway, so he wasn't even expecting Xavier to be there. The last time he'd met Charles Xavier in person, he'd been talking to an older guy with a hell of a lot less hair. He was glad he'd had enough videos with this younger model that it wasn't weird anymore.

He didn't know why Xavier was here, though. He hadn't been able to get that out of Sofia.

"Hey, Professor."

[sofiawind]

"Porpoise," Sofia murmured from the other room.

[grooviestmutant]

Charles only seemed momentarily uncomfortable as he heard her voice from the other room. There would be no question as to the state of her mind; he sighed, and he faced Julian with an apologetic expression once he came face-to-face with him.

Normally and under any other circumstances, Charles would have extended a hand in greeting and a proper introduction to a man who knew him as someone else entirely. These, however, were hardly those circumstances. "How long has she been affected?" he asked, nodding his head in his greeting -- forgoing his standard options.

lol I fail I'm sorry

[ex_julianhe]

Julian was kind of glad for the straight to business thing. Both because doing formal introductions with a guy he already knew was made for weird, and because Sofia needed help. And if that's why Xavier was here, he was all for it. He moved back and pointed towards the other room, starting to head back there at the same time.

"Since the fight," he said. "We got separated, ended up fighting the big guy. I don't know what it did to her. She's not injured, but...I found her after and she thought the world had ended."

[grooviestmutant]

The frown on Charles' face was impressive. He sighed and he ran his fingers through his hair momentarily, before he was seeking out Sophia's mind -- something he'd avoided doing originally, out of fear for what he might find there. He made his way into the other room cautiously but with his mind open. Charles was both curious and somewhat nervous himself, something he hoped that would not echo off of him in the way he felt it might.

When he caught sight of her, he paused, swallowed. Stopped in the doorway and closed his eyes to concentrate only on her mind. "I had been skeptical," he murmured. "I'd not thought it possible for a creature to drive anyone to madness; not really."

[ex_julianhe]

Julian followed him in and then hovered in the background to let Xavier work. He was watching Sofia all the time. This entire thing had freaked him out badly. He wanted her back in her right mind.

"Professor, you can fix it, right? You can bring her back."

[grooviestmutant]

Julian's question and the tone to his voice made Charles frown further. He cleared his throat for a moment, his worry evident, though he did not let it distract him completely.

"I am confident, yes. I imagine it will be... a struggle, but not impossible."

[ex_julianhe]

"A struggle." Yeah, that wasn't exactly what he wanted to hear. "Why, what is it? What happened to her?"

[grooviestmutant]

Charles frowned even further, and he hoped he'd not discouraged Julian with his words. Clearing his throat, he took a few steps toward her -- though not without giving her plenty of time to adjust to his presence. It was not necessary that he be entirely close, but he thought it wise; it would strengthen the healing he was capable of, after all.

"Her mind has been... severed, in some ways. Not impossible to fix, though it has undergone some shocking.. damage that I have not seen before. Not to this degree," he finished.

[sofiawind]

[ooc: sorry with the late replying, I hope you want to continue]

Sofia looked up. Porpoise. She had associated him with the safe animal. She unfurled slightly from her position and held a hand out towards him.

[grooviestmutant]

(( ooc: Of course! Backtagging is always welcome with me! :3 ))

Sofia's openness surprised Charles at first, though he could not help but smile. He took a few steps toward her, though now his cautiousness was in her interest instead of his own. "Sofia," he said, voice soft; safe, he certainly hoped.

He knelt down to face her more personally, leaning himself on one knee. He was relieved by her trust -- or at least, what appeared to be trust, and he was suddenly quite a bit more at ease himself.

[sofiawind]

"Real?" she asks uncertainly. It's all jumbled up in her mind. She isn't sure what she sees is real, or the feeling that is was all gone, that there was nothing. The idea of nothing made her shiver all over again.

[grooviestmutant]

Charles' eyebrows knit and he tried to touch her hand there -- gauging her emotions as well as he could before doing so using his mutation. He bent toward her, reading through her broken mind with a sound of shock. "I am real," he assured, not intending to spend any time without speaking. It was better to keep her as close to reality as possible, and he hoped his voice would help.

[sofiawind]

Sofia did not pull away from the touch on her hand, she looked up at him. "Warm touch." The touch of his mind felt warm too it was not cold and broken.