Rooms

[During this.]

Um, did anyone find a ring? Heavy, gold, fairly hideous?

[He includes a sketch of the etching on the ring.]

[Tony S]

Please tell me that this is just a backup reactor!

[Public, just in case. Anon.]

I'm looking for somebody who knows Tony Stark. [Struck through after not-dead Tony shows up.]

[The first note makes an appearance wrapped around one of Ronan's pencils with the belief that he'll see it when he uses them next at school. The message is simple: I'm thinking about you right now. The second appears a few days later, this time tucked into his wallet; the message, again, is a simple one: I love you. The third one, placed during the night, is wrapped around his toothbrush and reads: I dreamt about you last night; ask me what it was tonight over dinner.]

[In celebration of the happy news, and after taking af ew days to find the right glass and supplies she needs, a little something is hand crafted for Ronan and delivered in a plain, white box. A little note inside (amidst a flurry of tissue paper) reads only From Elya and in small print Keep this one!]

Saving Private Ryan or Black Hawk Down?

[After the reports of this come out.]

[Public]

No matter what the news reports, I feel the need to reiterate that not all mutants are terrorists.

[Individual locks: Faol R, Ronan X, Pepper P, MK R, Wanda M, Billy K]

I need to know that you are safe.

[After the conversation with Sam and spotting the return of Tim and Kara. As Hels.]

[Bruce W]

Are you looking for Iris' kid?

[Gwen S]

[She starts, stops, and deletes several times. Eventually there's just the blinking cursor.]

[Seven M & Marta F, separately]

How are things over there?

[Ronan X]

They found out, but it worked out really well for a few months.

[Babs was in need of some fun that didn't include skinning deer or crafting leather armor. Skyrim was a great way to blow off steam and clear her head, but she was only 21 and she needed a reminder of what real fun looked like. With all her friends pretty much gone from Burnside and her bat family unfamiliar at best, she couldn't ask any of them to go dancing with her without constantly worrying about stepping on toes (figuratively). She needed to make new friends and some in the other door would be even better.

And for the record, she did make shirts. No, they weren't the highest quality or even the best thing to have on your shirt when going out for a night of partying, but Barbara didn't care. If they could have a good time being goofballs, they could get dressed up next time. She was wearing her shirt with some cute jeans and her red hair curled to look flowy and princessy (which contrasted the TRASH lettering on her shirt nicely). And she had Ronan's shirt wrapped up in some dollar store wrapping paper with purple stars all over it. She thought that (plus buying him a few drinks?) would make up for taking a sabbatical in another door.

She waited near the Marvel door and tried not to look nervous. It didn't really work. When was the last time she made friends, anyway?]

Ring!

[Dick G.]

Hi.

[Bruce W.]

double h I'm back. Hi.

[Jason T.]

You know, for someone who yelled at me for hanging up gangsters by their toes...

[Hels]

Trouble?

[Stephanie B.]

Miss me?

[Public]

Possum club reactivate?

[Telepathy: various Mutants in Marvel]

[Good morning, Marvel mutants (X-gene and Pulse mutants, alike)! Jean is playing with Cerebro today to find yooouuuu~ (IMPORTANT NOTE: Not all mutants show up with Cerebro due to whatever reasons. If you'd rather not be found, Jean can't find you. That simple. :D) She forgoes telepathic communication to the mutants that wouldn't handle it well, and notes to meet them in person instead. To the others, the opening statement is roughly the same for everyone:]

Don't be alarmed. My name is Jean Grey. I am acting Headmaster of the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. How are you doing today?


[Telepathy: MK Robinson]

[The voice is clear in MK's mind, purposeful. This is no idle whisper of surface thoughts. Jean is making her presence very known. The warm tendrils that webbed into her frontal lobe was less of a knock and more of someone wandering in to your house and making themselves comfortable on your couch.]

Good morning. Are you feeling better today?

[Delivery: Ben S]

[Left on Ben's side of the bed, carefully wrapped in white tissue: a framed and matted print of a photograph taken when his family visited post-Valentine's wish. Parents, siblings, and Ben and Ronan in the middle of them all. Tucked into one corner is a white card printed with painstakingly neat handwriting:

happy anniversary,
- r ]

[Text to Elya D]

I didn't have to pretend I was injured.

[Marta F]

Hi. [...] I heard you guys talked. Was it totally Maury Povich?

[Hand-wavey timeline, a short while after this.]

Hey, baby. You got a minute?

[Locked]

Do you have a sec?

[Text to Ronan X]

I haven't heard from you since before the party.

[Marta F]
[Deep breath. Loooots of deep breathing.]

Hello?

[Public, anon.]

There was a boy in the park who heard a girl that no one else could. Thank you.

[Ronan X]

Just checking in.

[Public]

I found that wymyns dream interpretation book I won in a completely legal bet. Anyone looking for some meaning? I will warn you, it appears to be that most dreams are nothing more than impending slavery to dicks or that you're about to start your period.

[The Bards]

I can hear that sneezing all the way from the ladies locker room. Who is it? I don't need a cold right now. I feel like I'm getting a sore throat.

Also, we SHOULDN'T do a HxC title promo at that VERY PUBLIC funeral on Monday, right?

[Text: Hal J/"Bat Facts"]

[From a burner phone she picked up at the sketchy bodega downstairs. Flood of texts incoming.]

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We had some french fries.

You want to talk?

[Locked]

Still up for some dancing?