Back from the Hill

[ms_tique]

This is her third congressional hearing this week. Yesterday she was a twelve year old missing his lower legs, tomorrow she'll be a dock worker with fungus growing in his lungs, but right now, she's deliciously blue again.

The boys are out on assignment. She doesn't expect them back for another three days. For once, she has the entire lair to

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[thomas_small]

(( If this isn't locked... ))

Tom's been thanking a very good detail for memory that he can remember the phone numbers of who he needs to call. Speed dial and contact lists are for amateurs. He just hopes she's somewhere, anywhere near a phone when she calls.

[ms_tique]

((I feel so popular! I'll have her pick up after Graydon leaves. Flex time is fun!))

Her private line? What the hell now. She picks it up on the third ring.

"Uma's House of Fashion."

[thomas_small]

(( We've missed you! ))

"Shit!" But he holds on for a moment, checking the phone batteries again. "Raven, this isn't any time for jokes."

[ms_tique]

((*blushes* I had an unexpected chunk of free time and decided to use it for RP. This is making me very glad of that choice.))

"Thomas?" The boys know how to respond to the codephrase. "You sound like crap."

[thomas_small]

"I'm in a bloody mental asylum, it doesn't really allow much room for feeling cheery. I need a favor." He peers out the window in the door - nobody in the hall - and curls back up behind the bed (and out of the camera's sight).

[ms_tique]

"Again? Oh, Thomas." She starts packing before she's sure of the destination. She's not someone you call if you're hoping to get an extra pack of cigarettes smuggled past the guards.

"What state is it in?"

[thomas_small]

"Yes, again." He bites his lip. After his visits from Ororo and little Raven, he's not up to having his hopes shot down again. But Raven's more sensible than that. "New York, Our Lady of Hearts Mental Asylum."

[ms_tique]

"That place is ghastly." How the hell did they shanghai him into that? Surely he didn't volunteer. "You're calling from your cell?"

[thomas_small]

"I stole one of the nurse's phones. I'm not sure how well-charged it is. Yes, I'm in a cell now. I don't know for how much longer, they'll be coming back for me any moment now." He won't bother explaining that until she's there. Though she seems to be the only one who understands at all that he can't stay here and isn't coating it in 'they just want to help you'. Like hell they do.

[ms_tique]

"Do you have a rough idea where in the building your cell is located? And what kind of security you have?"

She pops a pair of bath oil beads in her mouth and chews meditatively. He won't be able to get through bars on his own, and the idea is not to draw too much attention. She packs her acid kit.

[thomas_small]

"No, I don't. I was pretty heavily sedated and just out of the hospital. I don't know anything more specific about where I am." He looks around. "Blue walls, three doors to the left of the nearest turn in the hallway. Security camera, at least two nursing assistants nearby and a security guard."

[ms_tique]

"What's your medication schedule? I'd prefer to do this right before a drugging rather than right after. I'll need your cooperation to get you out without any notice."

[thomas_small]

"8:00 a.m., 4:00 and 10:00 p.m. Normally not much more in the night, they don't feel the need to wake us up and medicate us unless it's special circumstance, and the nightly medications have sleeping drugs included. Mine do, at least." His voice is hurried with nervous excitement - God, he needs out of here.

[ms_tique]

"I need to scout the place before I break you out, so I can't give you an exact date. The usual caveats apply - if you go psychotic on me during the rescue, I'll shoot you in the face."

((I leave for a business trip on Sunday and will spend most of Saturday packing and cleaning house. I don't know when I can commit to a breakout scene. :( ))

[thomas_small]

"As I want to keep my face and quite like it how it is, I'll try not to." He doesn't know how much longer he has before they come back for him. "Please be quick."

(( Perfectly fine. I don't mind playing him in the asylum for a few weeks, and if you can't find time this was still fun. ))

[ms_tique]

"I'll leave tonight. Try not to gnaw through your own leg before I get there."