Homecoming...

Mar 03, 2011 08:23

Who: thelittlestbub and YOU
When: March 3rd - 6th
Where: HoA, specifically, her bedroom
Summary: Jubilee is home, and people are coming to visit
Warnings: Probably not beyond swearing, but I'll update as needed.

Never going away again )

magneto, hitsugaya toushirou, jubilee, claudio kilgannon, franklin richards, raven, charles xavier, gambit

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March 4th, early afternoon icy_heavens March 5 2011, 06:22:59 UTC
It wasn't exactly for altruistic reasons that Hitsugaya decided to come here. He didn't hate Jubilee, but he couldn't say that he liked her, either. This wasn't an investigation of her well-being.

No, there was something else. Another disapperance that had flown under the radar in all of the recent chaos. He had to know what had happened, and what it might portend.

He did the courteous thing by knocking on the door and waiting until she approved of his entry. But the first thing he said to her was neither courteous, nor even a greeting.

His eyes took in her sorry state, the fact that she was still hooked up to an IV, and the very first words that flowed out of his mouth were, "You still look like hell."

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thelittlestbub March 5 2011, 14:13:36 UTC
"Tactful." Jubilee didn't look up from her cross stitching. "Perhaps you'd like to go kick puppies or steal lunch money or something?"

Jubilee looked up through dark bangs, completely unimpressed with him. She knew how bad she looked, thanks.

"So, since you didn't come here for my astounding beauty, what do you want to know?"

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icy_heavens March 5 2011, 18:51:24 UTC
Even Hitsugaya would admit that he lacked something in social graces. He'd never been the greatest at making nice. Oh, he could do it, but it often took a great deal of effort on his part. In a way, he was glad that Hinamori tended to laugh off his attitude; it made it easier to be there for her, even though he did try to use some tact with her.

He returned the unimpressed look. Okay, that hadn't been the wisest thing for him to say, but he was not apologizing. Jubilee had given as good as she'd gotten, so he couldn't find it in himself to feel guilty; that only happened when the person before him crumbled.

"I just want to know what happened." He wasn't heartless though, thank you very much; his tone wasn't harsh, and he didn't want to make her relive any horrors she'd experienced. So he clarified a bit. "I'm not asking for all the details of what was done to you. Just what you remember of the circumstances and whoever took you."

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thelittlestbub March 5 2011, 19:20:49 UTC
She waved at a chair. "Have a seat, icepop." She sighed and put down her work, rubbing a hand over her face. "Sorry. I get annoyed and I start becoming my dad."

Not something she could explain further, really.

"I was out after sirens with Remy. He and I split up. I went to go see She-Hulk about a 'powers demonstration' or something." She waved in the vaguest directions of sector eight. "Got caught by a group of mutates. Was in a running fight. Once they were gone..." She sighed again. "This guy, Kenny warned me about them. Pink hair, glasses, real thin. Managed to own me at hand to hand, and took he back to a lab. I don't know where." She rubbed a hand along the arm that wasn't tubed. "Shot me full of things, and I don't know what they were. That's pretty much it."

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3rd | afternoon azarathmetrion March 5 2011, 06:35:57 UTC
Raven pulled open the door, shaking her hood back and trying on a smile for size.

It didn't fit. Particularly not with Jubilee looking like such a mess. She sighed, instead, and walked over to her bed. "Hey," she said shortly, and held out a present, somewhat shoddily wrapped in blue wrapping paper. "Uh, this is for you."

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thelittlestbub March 5 2011, 14:15:38 UTC
"Ooo! Presents!" Jubilee grinned and patted the bed. "Come have a seat. Keep me company."

She leaned in, smirking. "I think they're going for the whole 'princess in the tower' thing, but I'm only going along with it until I figure a way to spring myself outta here."

She began unwrapping the present.

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azarathmetrion March 5 2011, 16:11:21 UTC
Raven obediently went over to the bed, sitting down where she'd indicated, and examined Jubilee as unobtrusively as she could. It was an odd contrast, between the normality of the room and the strange hollowness in her appearance. What had they done to her? But it wouldn't do to be entirely the normal gloomy Raven here. She put on a happy face--well, a neutral face--and fidgeted as Jubilee opened her present. It was a copy of The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann.

"It's about a bunch of tuberculosis patients," Raven said, "who are cooped up all day and start to get hypochondriac. Well, that's not really an adequate summary, but"--she smiled--"you can make your doctors read it, and maybe they'll let you go. Or at least you can throw it at them, because it's huge. You don't, um, have to read it or anything."

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thelittlestbub March 5 2011, 19:24:55 UTC
Jubilee flipped through a few pages. "This was written in German, originally, wasn't it?" She vaguely remembered hearing about it in a literature class in Paris. She grinned. "I doubt they're letting me go any time soon. And I'm going to read it. I love being given books that are different." And not required reading.

She settled back against the pillows. "So, how's things?"

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