WHO: Raven and Tonks
WHERE: Tonks's MAC apartment?
WHEN: Thursday Night, late
WARNINGS: None? Maybe some drinking.
SUMMARY: Raven and Tonks talk about suddenly arriving family.
FORMAT: Para to start then whatever.
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Middle of the night half-asleep chats are the best chats. )
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Raven was in a pair of jeans and a grey blouse, though whether they were real or shape-shifted was anyone's guess. She covered her mouth to stiffle a yawn and then grinned at her friend, moving to sit down on the couch without so much as a by-your-leave because standing up was exhausting at this point.
"So...your mom, huh?
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She sat down next to Raven. "Yeah, my Mum. You're lucky. It's just your brother." Tonks reached for her glass. "D'you know how far ahead he is or you are yet?"
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"Not a lot. Maybe a day?" Raven shrugged and took a sip from her glass. "What about you two?
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She snuggled closer to Raven. By the time she had finished talking, Tonks was out of it and asleep.
Raven could tell that Tonks had drifted off, but she stayed still for a while, letting the other settle into what she hoped was decent sleep before she tried to move. A bit of shape-shifting allowed her to stretch her arm out enough to find the remote for Tonks's television, and she turned it on and muted it, bringing up the closed captions ( ... )
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"Uh. Yeah, yeah I am. I mean, when I'm not...trying to be something else." She shrugged, not really sure what else to say and having no real idea how to interpret that little outburst.. "Blue is my...natural shape."-done-
"You were born this way? Wow. I wonder why blue and not some other color?" Tonks started to think about it and then swiftly realized she was being an ass. "Oh! Raven. I'm so sorry. I'm being a bit of a git about this."
"Only a little bit of a...git," Raven grinned faintly and looked down at her currently not-blue hands for a moment, fingers curling in on her palms. "I don't know. About being blue, I mean. Hank turned blue too. And that other mutant, Kurt, he's blue. It...could just be a mutation thing."
She knew Charles would've had some wonderful explanation about mutant genes and predispositions towards something-or-other that she didn't really understand, but to her, it was just probably a...thing. "Sometimes we're just born blue, I guess."
"I'm sorry for staring. I don't often see blue people. Well ( ... )
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"Who's Erik?" Tonks did not remember Raven having mentioned him before.
Raven didn't answer at first, considering what Tonks was saying. In a way it was tempting, really...to have someone else that she could completely relax around. On the other hand it was rather awful, really, if Tonks was just humoring her or being kind. Still ( ... )
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