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Nebula ([info]abluemeanie) wrote in [info]snapthread,
@ 2019-10-07 16:27:00

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Entry tags:nebula (mcu), remus lupin

Who: Nebula and Remus
What: A reintroduction
Where: The library
When: Today


She and Gamora had explored the town the day before, finding their way around and seeing what the situation was. Thanos was not in this place, of that much Nebula was entirely certain, but the rest was a little more difficult. The house they'd woken up in was theirs, hers and Gamora and the pink boy he was familiar too, but it wasn't his house. They lived here together, she and her sister alone together for the first time ever. Nebula didn't even have words for how good it was to think that maybe she and Gamora had gotten away from Thanos together, maybe they'd stolen a ship? Or maybe they'd been saved?

But by who?

There were still a lot of questions she had but she was more curious about the town than she was about the answers to things like that. As long as she got to stay here it didn't matter. Today she found her way to a building she hadn't noticed the day before and she pulled open the door carefully, she still held on to the baton she'd found in her room just in case this all turned out to be some sort of elaborate trick. It wouldn't be the first time Thanos had tried to trick her, but it was certainly more involved than any he'd done in the past.

What she found was a library, there were shelves and piles of books around and she stepped inside letting the door close carefully behind her so she wouldn't draw undue attention to herself and began to move carefully through the stacks to see what she might find there. Of course just a little explanation and she saw a man her first instinct was to run but Thanos had told her time and time again it was unacceptable so she held her ground clutching at the baton and holding it out like a sword in his direction, hoping this was not the start of another attack.



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[info]lonewolfen
2019-10-14 03:57 pm UTC (link)
Remus had a feeling that it would be hard to find anything about her home planet in the library, but not impossible. Nebula had not shared the name of her planet before to him, otherwise he immediately would have recognized the name had he ever seen anything about it. But, there was a chance because he had a few encyclopedia-like texts that he'd gotten his hands on while the doors opened up into that space-like realm. He'd managed to barter some books for others and brought back as many as he could. He'd wanted to expand their geography and historical sections and so, why not space? There were people in Starklandia from all over the universe and from different parallel universes. They should not keep their texts strictly to Earth stories.

If they were going to have anything about Luphom, it'd be in those books. "We're going to check this section over here, first. And if we cannot find anything about your home, we'll look for some adventure stories you might like, if that's alright with you, Miss Nebula." He thought about maybe squeezing her hand but also thought she might interpret that as some sort of act of dominance as opposed to affection so he just held her hand and walked her over to where he'd shelved those rather large and very different sort of books.

Remus let go of her hand. "One moment, let me get these down." He pulled his wand from his pocket and gave a little swish, which then had the books sliding out of the shelves and floating over to a table. "Let's go have a look, and see what we can find."

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[info]abluemeanie
2019-10-14 11:17 pm UTC (link)
She walked with Remus as he told her their plan of attack, appreciating that he laid it out for her, what they would do to find the stories she thought she might like, and if they could not find them there was a back up option that sounded good as well and she nodded when he asked her opinion. "It is a sound plan of action." She agreed with complete seriousness, even if Remus didn't seem like someone her father would employ as a teacher she wanted to be ready at all points in case she misjudged something and it turned out that she should have been worried all along.

They found the books that he wanted to check first and then she watched awed as he moved them down from the shelves and to a table with the wave of something he pulled from his pocket. She watched eyes darting back and forth between the floating books and the movement of his hand and the instrument he'd used before he suggested they go to see what they found.

"You have powers," She said softly approaching the table with him, she didn't know what to think of the powers. They reminded her some of the sort of gifts that some of the others had, those who worked alongside her father to bring about his will in the galaxy. She didn't think she needed to fear him and yet, those powers were different and strange and so often that meant pain for her as a result.

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[info]lonewolfen
2019-10-15 04:00 pm UTC (link)
Based on the friendship he had with her that he knew, and what he imagined was probably still true with her in child form, was that Nebula was very practical, very matter of fact. That was why he explained to her outright what he thought they should do. She could assess it that way, understand it, and then decide if she liked the idea or not. Even though it was quite strange that so many of the townsfolk had suddenly become children, Remus felt that they were at an advantage knowing more about them as adults that they could give good guidance as children.

He wasn't speaking down to her, regarding her as any less intelligent than he knew her to be simply because she was younger. That wasn't a tactic he thought was helpful to children at all. Just because she was a kid, didn't make her less valid. If she'd said she wanted to try something else, he would've listened and they could've figured out another way to find a book. It was just that simple.

"I suppose that could be a way to phrase it," he said when she observed aloud that he had 'powers.' He smiled a little. "I am what some would call, a 'wizard,' in that I can produce magic through spells." Remus often downplayed it; he was actually an incredibly gifted wizard in many ways, stronger and more capable to do very complicated magic including not using his wand and casting spells non-verbally. But he wasn't the type to show off; most of that was simply for his own health benefits for when he was too weak to use his wand and sometimes even speak.

"Would you like to help me flip through these books to see if we can find something about your home? There might be facts about other places and people in these pages that could interest you as well."

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[info]abluemeanie
2019-10-16 06:09 am UTC (link)
Remus put her at ease, very easily for someone who was in some ways a stranger, and yet Nebula felt like she could trust him. And though he should be someone she looked at with mistrust she found herself glad to be near him and listening to his plans for how they might find stories from her world, or at least stories that were interesting to her. And when he told her that he was a wizard, she found that to be something that set her at ease a little more as well - like the word was familiar even though she didn't think she had heard it before.

"And you are good." She decided to try that instead of some of the other things that were swirling around in her mind. She was constantly taking in external data, making decisions based on what she took in, but that seemed like the best place to start. To be sure that he was good and not like those who worked with her father. None of them would ever call themselves good. Even Thanos himself would not have claimed to be that. "You won't hurt us, my sister and me." She and Gamora were venturing from one another a bit more now than they had that first day, but she still worried for them both, fearing that at some point this all would be revealed to be some sort of trick.

She bit her lip, chewing on it as she deliberated a bit more, his offer to read through the books with him before she nodded. "Yes, I would." Even if there wasn't anything about Luphom in his books she thought she would like the added information. "You aren't - busy?" Time like this was a luxury she had not been afforded before, and she did not want to take too much and find that it had been a mistake.

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[info]lonewolfen
2019-10-17 09:34 pm UTC (link)
One of the things that Remus had noticed about Nebula was that she probably hadn't had much of an opportunity to relax in her lifetime. It seemed she always had to be on edge, always wary, always wondering if she'd be attacked or put through some sort of process that involved acts he did not wish to think of because her father was a cruel tyrant. If there was anything he could do to help put her at ease, then of course he wanted to do that. He'd tried to do so as an adult and he certainly would continue it while she was a child.

There were some who would say he was not good. That whole werewolf thing kind of threw a wrench into his good intentions and general peaceful, pleasant nature. But he wasn't going to go into all that just yet, maybe not ever. Remus didn't think child!Nebula needed to hear about the bite. Not when she was learning right now that she could trust him and that she could be comfortable in his presence.

"I would never harm you or your sister," he said. "I would help you, if you should ever need it."

He smiled a little when she inquired about if he was busy. Remus would never turn down the opportunity to read with her, or help her look for something that might be familiar or perhaps the chance to learn about where she was from. "I'm not busy at all, love. I'm very happy you stopped by."

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[info]abluemeanie
2019-10-18 02:19 am UTC (link)
She nodded when he promised that he would never hurt her or Gamora, that was important to her, that they were both safe. There had been times when it had been offered to her, her own well being over Gamora's but she had never been able to take it, needing her sister to be safe just as much as she was also. It was a small relief to hear that at least one person would not harm them in this place - she thought the strange men she and Gamora were staying with could probably be counted as well.

So strange to have so many that would help them if they needed it.

"Thank you," Was all she could say to his words after that, that he was happy she came by, and he called her love. Two things she had never heard since she had been taken in by the great Titan. But hearing them now she found she wanted to hold them close to her and keep them as long as possible, tucked away for those times when she knew she would need a reminder of something other than the pain and anguish that Thanos bestowed upon his children. For now though they could focus on the books together, they could see what there was there and maybe if she was very lucky she'd find just a little more of that feeling again.

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