WHO: Cable, Polaris, Marvel Girl, Deadpool. Gambit and Scatty?
WHERE: Los Padres National Forest, California, USA.
WHEN: Sunday morning, 10 AM.
WARNINGS: --
SUMMARY: Cable's crew gets deported. Fists, yelling, and girl-on-girl goes here.
FORMAT: TL;DR and then quick!
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It's oh so quiet. It's oh so still. I'm all alone and so peaceful until... )
A now-familiar scent caught her attention, though, and she couldn't resist bending her steps towards the source.
The other woman's green hair blended nicely with the foliage around them, but she was still quite visible to the vampire. Scathach cleared her throat, announcing her presence well before she was within frightening range, and slowed as she approached. The redhead raised her hand slightly in greeting; she knew that she and Lorna still weren't on the best of terms, but she thought that overall the trip had done them good. Somehow.
"Hey," she said, her Irish accent just a tad more pronounced than it had been earlier. Stress could do that to a person.
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Stiffly, Lorna spoke. "Hello."
She was pleased no one on the mission had been hurt, but she couldn't help the anger that was boiling inside her. Lorna had far too many issues at this point in her life, and sometimes hanging onto her sanity was almost a job.
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"The mission went well, yes?" she started, casually enough. "We did what we were meant to." In her book, that was a very definite success.
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It didn't make her feel better, however.
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They were, of course, considered to be "at large" now, which was not something she had anticipated. But, at least, none knew their identities.
"Something troubles you," she said after a short pause. Scathach didn't have to be an emotion-eating vampire to sense Lorna's spiraling emotions. She didn't know Lorna very well at all--and might have even held something of a bit of jealousy herself--but that didn't mean she had to be outright rude. "Perhaps I can help?"
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Of humans. Of Genosha. What all of this was going to lead to if they didn't do something.
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"I did not think you were," she said lowly. Time to be frank, apparently. "Though, I expect he will ask to be with you again within the next few months." She paused for a moment before continuing; whether or not this was what Lorna wanted to hear, she'd tell her. "I felt him falling out of love with me," she said. "I don't think he really ever did love me, though. Not the way I thought he might. Of course, I wouldn't know--I've never felt that particular emotion, myself. But I could feel that he wanted someone else, and I knew it was you." There was no pain in her voice, no anger; just a calm acceptance. It wasn't the first time she had been spurned, and it likely wouldn't be the last.
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Ignoring that possibility of Alex wanting to be with her, too. Lorna knew it on some level, but she was not having that conversation, and she didn't want to think about it.
Though, she couldn't help the small flicker of pride. She liked when Alex was single; it was just better that way.
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"He knew exactly what he wanted the moment you arrived in this world," she said, making sure her voice kept the same calm, controlled timbre. Inside she was boiling, but her outside was the same as it had been just seconds before.
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"You really are better off, you know," Lorna decided. "But I am sorry if he hurt you. I do know what it feels like."
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But she refused to be the one to start such a battle. Not today. "I don't think anyone is really 'better off' being left in such a way."
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"Why? Otherwise, you would have just been left with him apparently just feeling for me, like you said. It's better not feeling constant hurt from that, don't you tink?"
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