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Lorna Dane ([info]metal_and_lace) wrote in [info]no_good_deed,
@ 2011-03-04 12:45:00

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Entry tags:incomplete, old pc: cypher, old pc: polaris

Lunch Time~.
Who: Lorna, Cypher and possibly Open (ask me first? I don't bite.)
What: A conversation during lunch
When: Friday Afternoon, forward dated slightly
Where: Cafeteria/Room where lunch is eaten (me spek good)
Rating: PGish

Yesterday had been a bad day. She hadn't meant for it to be, but it had ended up like that anyway. She picked at her food, finding that she wasn't really hungry. After months of barely being fed, the initial knee-jerk reaction of wanting to eat everything had faded. Now it was back to what it had been before her life had been turned upside down.

And when things went downhill, so did her appetite.

She was mostly ignoring the salad in favor of her math work. Back at her old school she had often worked ahead, which gave her more time to read things she'd rather be reading. She wasn't quite to that point here, still playing catch up from her headaches. But she was trying. It beat spending too much time thinking about what an idiot she could be.



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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 04:44 am UTC (link)
He grinned and pulled her plate over toward his and began shoveling in mouthfuls from each. After a few of these, he paused long enough to look at her book and ask the most obvious of questions, "Working on math, huh? I'm pretty good at that... sometimes."

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 04:46 am UTC (link)
"Sometimes?" Lorna asked, tapping her pencil on the paper, "How can you only be good at it sometimes. Either you know what you're doing or you don't," she said simply. At least that seemed to be the case with most people she knew on an academic level. Either you got it or you didn't.

She had always been very good at stuff like this. Even as a kid.

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 04:49 am UTC (link)
"Um.. only when it's being used as a way to communicate," he mumbled, head lowering as he picked at his food in slight embarrassment at being called out like that. "I'm not very good at more than the basics when it's just being used to calculate things... I take it you're pretty good at it?"

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 04:52 am UTC (link)
Lorna nodded once, "I always have been," which was good, as you kind of needed math for any field of science, and doubly so when you added the word "physics" to it. Geology wasn't just rocks, and geophysics wasn't just about those aforementioned rocks.

As it was, she was just glad to be back in school, she thought, "You don't need help with it or anything, do you?" she asked. She really wasn't the best tutor. Tutoring required you be able to relate to people, and she never quite could. Or she did sometimes, but more often than not it failed. Hard.

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 04:55 am UTC (link)
He grinned a little and shook his head, "No. Anything I can't figure out, Warlock will do for me."

Doug gave a half-hearted shrug of his shoulders and shoveled a couple more bites into his mouth.

"So... um... where are you from?"

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 05:00 am UTC (link)
"California," Lorna said, still tapping the pencil as she worked over a problem while having the conversation, "Outside of San Diego. Or France, depending on how you look at it," she muttered the last, writing down some numbers and then caught what he had said.

She looked up, "What's Warlock?"

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 05:05 am UTC (link)
He set his fork down and scooted his plates forward enough to bring his left arm up on the table. Doug pushed his sleeve up and showed her the 'watch'.

"This is Warlock," he replied in a quiet voice, very hush-hush conspiratorial-like. A few seconds later, the 'watch' moved and WARLoCK stood up to give a bow and a soft greeting like the trill of a fax machine.

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 05:07 am UTC (link)
"Oh my god, is that thing a part of you?" Lorna asked, not quite jumping out of her seat. It wasn't like she saw stuff like this every day. But she had heard some of the doctors talk about stuff like this. It was surprising what people talked about when they thought you were being filled with too much electricity to hear them.

Or that some people could have such 'normal' conversations while torturing someone.

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 05:10 am UTC (link)
If it was physically possible for the little robot to pout, then WARLoCK was doing so. And Doug looked equally offended.

"He's not a 'thing'. He's my friend. And yes," he replied very defensively. "He is a part of me." For all the bad that had happened, WARLoCK was not the one to blame - the little guy was his best friend and only companion for a very long time.

"Look. You hurt his feelings. You should apologize." So what if he sounded like a nine year old? It was true!

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 05:13 am UTC (link)
"It's a machine," Lorna pointed out, "I have a bad habit of accidentally breaking machines," no it wasn't a threat. It was just a statement. Besides, how did one go about apologizing to a computer that was...attached to someone?! The last part made it sickening when she thought about how it would have to be attached in the first place.

"Not that I'll break it, but I might not be the safest person fror it to be around."

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 05:18 am UTC (link)
Doug eyed her for a moment before WARLoCK went back to it's standby mode and he rolled his sleeve back down to cover the little guy. "You kind of have to purposely break him... he's tied to my nervous system, so you'd have to be giving out an EM pulse specifically created to interfere with a human's neural network. And last I heard, you couldn't do anything like that..."

Well, he'd heard rumors from the guards as they escorted him around the facility... something about having to keep him away from her cell after the procedure because of sensitive equipment and metal and all. But nothing concrete.

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 05:20 am UTC (link)
That got her attention, "Last you heard...?" she echoed, "Where would you have heard anything that I can or can't do?" Now this was curious. She didn't know this kid, kid because he couldn't be much older or younger than her. Her green eyes fixed on him, trying to place him somehow. And failing. Not that she was ever good with people, but she liked to think she remembered faces.

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 05:24 am UTC (link)
He picked at his food some more, taking another few bites and delaying his answer for a bit. He wanted to say it properly and had to think out the specifics first.

Slowly, quietly, he replied, "There was this place I was in... until a few months back... Someone blew it all to hell and released a lot of kids like you and me that didn't really want to be there... There was this one girl the people running that place kept locked away in a special room..."

Doug's eyes slid over to her, "She had green hair and her name was Lorna."

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 05:27 am UTC (link)
Lorna was glad she wasn't eating, because she would've choked right then. As it was she almost did. She definitely did a double take. "I... you were there too?" was all she managed. The tone of her voice was one of understanding and pity.

"The box is gone. That whole place is gone, thank God."

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 05:30 am UTC (link)
"It's not gone."

Doug picked at his food again, twirling a fork in the lettuce, "The building might be, but the people who were running it? They're not. They re-captured a lot of the others. They didn't get me because..." he signed, "because I hid and my powers aren't the flashy kind... Lucky me, I get by because I'm completely not dangerous in a fight."

He took another bite and spoke as he chewed, "Don't go spreading it around, okay? I just... I'm glad to see someone else got out and up here too."

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 05:33 am UTC (link)
"How many people did they have there?" she asked, morbidly curious. It wasn't like they let her out to mingle. Her only visitors were doctors who liked testing ways to inflict pain on her. So they could inflict it on someone they thought was a lot more dangerous, apparently.

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 05:37 am UTC (link)
Doug shrugged, "At least a hundred. Probably a lot more. I don't know exactly. My powers are so passive that I could be walked from my cell to the other rooms without being drugged first... mostly. But it was a lot bigger, and a lot deeper than the floor I was on. Your cell was on the first floor, way far away from all the other cells to keep the metal from being usable to you. I used to be able to go past your cell's viewpoint... until they put this in me."

He lifted his left arm slightly.

"Then there was too much of it... of the metal... in me for it to be safe. I didn't hear much about you after that."

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 05:41 am UTC (link)
"Oh. I'm... sorry," Lorna said, and she meant it. No one should go through what it was that they liked to do to people there. She didn't know what else to say. The doctors running that place were monsters. If it was the doctors in charge. She always thought it seemed vaguely military, but she was never sure. Whenever she had guests, after all, she was either getting beaten or having tests run on her.

"At least though, they let you out sometimes," she said ruefully.

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 05:47 am UTC (link)
"Oh, yeah... being walked from your featureless white cell to a room where the sat you down in front of a computer all day to do their dirty work for them until they decided you just couldn't type fast enough for their needs so they march you down to a sterile room and cut you open..."

He stabbed at the lettuce on his plate and the little robot under his sleeve moved a bit, letting out a 'soothing' series of electronic fuzz.

Doug sighed and murmured an apology to the thing, "I don't blame you, Warlock..."

He turned his head back to Lorna, "And Warlock's right... I'm not mad at you... It's just... knowing that you aren't worth drugging because you're no challenge to them really doesn't make actually getting to walk around in that place seem any better than being stuck in a cell all day. It was just a different kind of prison."

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 05:54 am UTC (link)
Try pounding on plastic walls until your hands bleed and being left completely alone except when they came in to torture you, Lorna thought dryly, but didn't say anything. A 'who had it worse' argument wouldn't accomplish anything, and Lorna didn't really feel like talking about what she went through.

Who would, really? She still had nightmares.

"You're right; I'm sorry," she said, apologizing, "At least they haven't found us yet, right?"

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 05:57 am UTC (link)
He nodded and a genuine smile cracked over his face again, "Yeah. I think maybe... even if they did know we were here... they wouldn't be able to touch us directly. The School is protected by the government, you know... even from the government."

Doug spun his fork around some more and chewed his bottom lip, "So... if it's okay if I ask... um... what's it like being tutored by Magneto?"

He might be working for the great man himself, but it wasn't the same as being taught by him.

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 06:01 am UTC (link)
"Somehow, I wouldn't put it past them to try," Lorna said dryly. She wasn't a fighter, not really, but she was NOT going back. Of that she had decided and she knew she could do some decidedly nasty things to people now. Even more when not in a sterile plastic room. Not that she liked to, but to keep herself away from them...

"And it's... hard work, but I think he saved my life," she said simply. The headaches had been very, very bad.

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 06:08 am UTC (link)
Doug slumped in his seat, "I... I'm a little jealous... To have that kind of personal attention. I mean, I know it's probably a rough time... but that's such a great opportunity."

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 06:17 am UTC (link)
"It's a lot of hard work," Lorna repeated, "And I'm making a lot of mistakes," she admitted, "It's... really hard sometimes, but at least he knows what he's doing right. I mean, what were the odds that my powers would be so much like his."

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 06:22 am UTC (link)
"Probably 1 in a million," he replied. "But not impossible odds... People with no relation to each other are born with blue eyes all the time... it had to get started somehow, right?"

Doug slid her plate back toward her. It was right round half-eaten, but there was enough left if she could bring herself to chow down.

"You should probably have something. I need to eat a lot because of what they did do me, but I bet you need to eat well too..."

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 06:25 am UTC (link)
"I'm fine," Lorna said, "really, you can have it. I'm not hungry at all. And blue eyes are a bit different than this, but stranger coincidences have happened," she said, "Like us both ending up here, I suppose."

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-04 06:27 am UTC (link)
"Where else would we end up?" he chuckled, trying to make her feel a little better than she sounded. "This is the only place that publicly accepts mutants - it's the only known safe house, right?"

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-04 06:31 am UTC (link)
"It's a large country," Lorna noted absently, "And a bigger world. I mean, the rest of the world can't be as bad as here. I always wanted to go to France," she mused, or back to, as the case may be. "There has to be more than one place, but I'm glad I ended up here. I mean, I wanted to go back to school."

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[info]cypher_warrior
2011-03-07 12:57 am UTC (link)
"It doesn't change the fact that this is the only known safe house accepting mutants. Publicly - which makes it easy to find. You could have gone to France or another part of the world, but you didn't," Doug pointed out with a shrug. "You came here. Because it was the only one you actually knew of. That's the problem with secret safe houses... they're secret and therefore, hard to find."

He grinned at that and finally set down his fork to offer his hand in a proper greeting, "I'm Doug Ramsey. I should have probably done this sooner."

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[info]metal_and_lace
2011-03-07 03:30 pm UTC (link)
"Actually, I was brought here by the person who got me out," Lorna said, "If I hadn't been, I don't know what would've happened. I might still be there, or be dead, given how that building met its maker," Lorna mused.

"Nice to meet you, Doug. You already know my name," she finished. It did put her at a bit of a disadvantage, but that was okay. He seemed friendly. From what little she knew. It wasn't like she was any expert in how boys acted.

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