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Tweak says, "Booo!"

k. p. (transiently) wrote in beyond_evo,
@ 2009-05-25 10:49:00

She'll come back as fire, to burn all the liars, and leave a blanket of ash on the ground. (Sadie!)
It wasn't that Kate didn't appreciate it: the fact she was allowed to stay here, the fact that the school had lawyers on her side, and the whole basically getting off blame-free for leveling Times Square. But the boundaries of the property were feeling more and more like a prison, and one she was trapped inside somewhat voluntarily at that - she chose, after all, to come back here. Not under these circumstances, but it was a choice she made herself none the less. As the school assembled for the memorial service on the lawn, Kate instead got dressed for another affair entirely.

The name of the game was anonymity: her face (along with Sadie's) had been plastered on the internet and television like they were celebrities, and the whole point of this 'sneaking out' thing was to basically avoid reality. To forget, for a little while, that they were mutants who had done a considerable about of damage to the city around them. Though it was a cool day, the air was still humid; jeans, a t-shirt, and a light hoodie would have to do. Sliding on a pair of ridiculously oversized sunglasses, Kate pulled her hair into a ponytail and popped her hood up, looking vaguely like some kind of bank robber. That was ironic. She had enough money that they could disappear for a very long time, but she didn't see it quite coming to that just yet.

< You ready to go? > Reaching out with her mind, she gently probed that mental link she'd gotten so accustomed to, moving out of her bedroom and into the hall, heading toward the room where Sadie was staying. The link with Nate had disturbed her, on some level, because he was very dangerous on a lot of levels. But Sadie was a normal girl - what trouble could she really cause, with gloves on?

[ Sadie, obviously! ♥ ]

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arteriole
2009-05-25 12:37 pm UTC (link)

Growing up on the road, in the back of vans and skeevy motels had a similar end result for Sadie, while she was secretly pleased that she could stay at Xavier's now that everything had gone to Hell and she was a freak once again with powers that turned people's insides to goop, she felt trapped. It was probably more to do with the suffocating media coverage than anything else, walking into the TV room to see her face accompanied by those of Adrien, Kevin and Kate every so often, or to hear reports on the radio about the plans to reconstruct Times Square was enough to make her want to ditch the whole thing. In the end of the day though she didn't have anywhere else to go, she knew that her Dad and Daisy would take her back on tour with them, but she couldn't look either of them in the eyes. Besides, hiding out in Xavier's was probably going to be easier in the long run than trying to keep her head down in every single city the band played in. Catch 22, or what?

Usually one for dressing in clothes that would be better suited for a vampire's crypt, she was actually looking pretty normal in black jeans, a pair of beaten up Vans, and a hoodie not dissimilar to Kate's, her fingers playing with the zip vacantly as she rooted around for her own sunglasses. It wasn't that she was trying to match or anything, more like a combination of ingratiated pop culture for going incognito and the psychic connection maybe. Who could say. Of course she was sporting a pair of gloves too, a soft cotton pair in black. < More than ready > Sadie returned casually as she scooped up a pair of glasses from the bottom of a rucksack and started for the door to the hallway herself. Funny how the telepathy had stopped freaking her out already, it didn't even bother her that she instinctively turned in the direction she knew Kate to be in once she was out of her room.

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transiently
2009-05-25 01:36 pm UTC (link)

< Taking the car is probably out of the question. > Kate had a nice car, but it was also safely stored in the school's garage - and with the situation being what it was, it was unlikely they'd make it very far off the grounds without being stopped. < But I've got an idea. > Her voice, through the telepathy, matched the sort of wry grin on her face. Truthfully, the telepathy was kind of cool. She didn't have to worry about Sadie being some uber-telepath who would/could root around in her brain, they just had an uncanny sort of link that she was starting to enjoy, despite hardly knowing the other girl.

From the hallway, Kate started toward the kitchen and the exit that led out into the yard. It was a long walk from their rooms, but it wasn't as though it really made any difference. If they wanted to get away for a little bit, walking was sort of what they signed up for - unless grand theft auto was also on the menu. Walking with her hands in the kangaroo-style pockets of her zip-up hoodie, she headed down the stairs and, somewhat randomly, laughed out loud. < I can't get over how small you are. > It wasn't meant to be an insult, but with nearly a foot of height between them? They certainly looked like an odd couple.

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arteriole
2009-05-25 03:33 pm UTC (link)

Now that sort of tone Sadie could recognise, many times she had said the words 'I have an idea' to her brother before launching some kind of mass attack on... well someone. It was true though, she wasn't going to go rooting around inside Kate's head, she actually did respect her privacy, despite opinions to the contrary and she kind of liked being able to hold a conversation no one else was privy to.

Sadie snorted, but in a good humoured way, wearing her own wry smile at that < Marijuana stunts growth > She was kidding. Sort of. Having slipped the shades she'd grabbed from her room onto the bridge of her now, she shoved her gloves hands into the back pockets of her jeans and schlepped along beside Kate, the slight slouch in her shoulders was hardly going to help the height thing, but she hadn't realised she was even doing that, something about wearing a hoodie always made her slouch and she didn't exactly have the type of parents who cared enough to correct her posture either. < So what's this idea? > Colour Sadie intrigued.

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transiently
2009-05-25 03:52 pm UTC (link)

When they finally made it outside, Kate didn't pause, instead continuing down the lawn until the woods around the property were getting close and closer. < Well, > she started, obviously somewhat amused by her comment concerning drug use that it carried over into a smile. < I don't really know where we're supposed to be going, but getting there won't be too bad. > She was thinking that flight, though somewhat dicey, wasn't out of the question. At least not to get off the property. Flying around in the actual city might be.. ill advised.

< There's always the mall, I guess. Unless you want to ditch this place for keeps, then.. I don't know what to tell you. > There was always Malibu - her mother would be thrilled to have the company.

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arteriole
2009-05-26 01:43 pm UTC (link)

Yeeeah, every stereotype of living on the road with a band was pretty much crammed into Sadie's childhood, smoking weed and drinking booze way too early were some of the more normal aspects actually. Flight holy crap. Since arriving at Xavier's Sadie had seen some pretty amazing things, severed arms and the like but flying was one of those things that she had yet to witness first hand properly. There was a general affirmative thought fired in Kate's direction to the idea of flying, a bit of a conspiratorial grin spreading over her features as she looked sidelong at her taller companion from behind her shades. < Mall's is good. Couldn't ditch without my brother anyway he'd probably die without me around to protect him and I'd miss him too much anyway > Aw shit. There was a stream of consciousness she hadn't really intended to let ip, she generally pretended to hate her brother. Sadie looked side long at Kate < Sorry. Too much information. >

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transiently
2009-05-26 04:07 pm UTC (link)

It was rare to see her smile so genuinely, but there it was. For whatever reason, though they hardly knew each other? Kate was taking a pretty fast liking to Sadie, likely in the little sister sense. She didn't have a lot of female friends, and they were a really unlikely pair, but the telepathic was certainly helping things out. Shrugging, she didn't seem too bothered by it.

Moving a few feet into the trees, she looked up and around, sighing with a little laugh. Sadie was small, so it would be no problem to carry her around while they did this.. right? < You've had piggy-back rides before, right? > she asked, making motion for the girl to hop up on her back and shoulders. C'mon!

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arteriole
2009-05-26 06:09 pm UTC (link)

Well that was good, because already Sadie had decided that she liked Kate and her attitude, and she rarely liked anyone so quickly really, generally preferring to act sullen and antisocial, but the telepathic link sort of automatically voided that as an option and really she didn't mind all that much because Kate was cool. You heard it here first, kids!

Sadie pulled her hands from her pockets and looked around too, a little surreptitiously. When she was convinced that no one was actually going to see her hopping onto Kate's back she grinned and went through with it, being very careful to make sure that her face wasn’t going to accidentally come in contact with any skin, given how they were both dressed it was unlikely, but she was still more than a little jumpy about it. Being Sadie though she liked to deal with things by grabbing them by the horns etc. < Don’t drop me if I get A Whole New World stuck in my head > Please? It really won't be her fault, Disney has saturated the pop-culture and there’s no escape.

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transiently
2009-05-30 04:52 pm UTC (link)

< Just so long as you keep all hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times, and try not to pull my hair. > Well, she could pull her hair, but that might take things down a somewhat different route. (Though hey, with 17 being the age of consent in New York .. ) Laughing to herself, she held on to the small girl on her back as well as she could, taking a few jogging steps before liftoff.

While it was certainly nothing new for Kate, flying was probably a little weird for her passenger. After years of practice, she was able to keep herself perfectly level as they reenacted a scene from something along the lines of The Neverending Story, with Kate playing the Luck Dragon and Sadie the intrepid, transportaionally challenged hero(ine). Staying low until they moved away from the property (and quickly at that), she rose above the trees and started toward the city, riding patches of warm air out of habit, arms outstretched.

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arteriole
2009-05-30 07:20 pm UTC (link)

Hey now. Sadie grew up in a very, very liberal family where drinking and drug use weren't really frowned on because the parent(s) were doing it too, there's not much she hasn't tried. < This is the most surreal thing that's ever-- > Then they were flying and Sadie's train of thought was completely derailed by all the flying.

It definitely was a little weird for her, and for at least the first few minutes she was clinging tightly to Kate with her face screwed up in an automatic reaction to not being firmly on the ground, by the time she actually cracked her eyes open to see where they were going they had well and truly escaped Xavier's and Sadie's thoughts got a little cleaner and less repetitive than 'oh my god oh my god oh my god', and her breathing evened out too. < oh my god this is insane I'm so jealous of your mutation right now what the fuck > SERIOUSLY. Some people get to fly and throw shit around with gravitational fields and others... well other make people's internal organs explode.

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transiently
2009-05-30 07:49 pm UTC (link)

Well, drinking and drug use are one thing, and pulling a girl's hair (and all that said hair pulling might entail) is something else entirely. Laughing aloud, though it was likely somewhat difficult to hear, Kate looped her arms behind Sadie's knees and held her a bit tighter as they gained speed and altitude. Even if she fell, it wasn't as though she'd die or anything - Kate could just you know, toss her around or something, but just to be safe the closer her passenger/soulmate/mindlink was, the better.

< I'd trade for the power to make people's insides explode, not gonna lie. > Maybe because she hadn't lived with it? But Sadie's powers seemed AMAZING. The flight wasn't terribly long, and it was only a few minutes until they were landing in another patch of woods, this time near the highway exit that led into the city proper, with it's shopping malls and everything. Rather than risk a super public landing, she flew them close to the ground and came to a stop, standing there a moment just in case Sadie needed a few to get accustomed to the ground again.

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