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Anna Marie Adler-Darkhölme ([info]_canttouchthis_) wrote in [info]tensor,
@ 2011-03-13 17:22:00

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Entry tags:anna-marie_adler, wicked_keona

Wicked
Anna had a surprisingly small amount of work to do that weekend. She'd finished all of her actual homework on Saturday, and aside from some studying, she didn't have a whole lot else to do before class on Monday. She had been close to going to look for someone to bug, probably Piotr or Clint, but then she'd spotted a hello type post from a new kid and decided to introduce herself. The girl was in high school, but Anna really didn't have anything better to do, so she'd decided to go meet her. Her powers were definitely something that Anna wanted to check out, partially because of a morbid curiosity about how they worked.

They were supposedly ghosts, and even though Anna wasn't really sure she believed in anything like that, she knew for a fact that certain parts of people could be present even when people themselves weren't physically there. It was possible. She stood outside of Pierce hall, ignoring the majority of the students who passed her but keeping an eye out for someone she didn't recognize. It was a huge campus, and there were a ton of kids she didn't know, but hopefully the girl who called herself Wicked would find her instead of making resort to talking to random children.


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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-13 10:43 pm UTC (link)
Wicked wasn't hard to spot. Especially since as soon as she headed outside, she summoned a pair of spirits. She was dressed warmly, in her wool swing coat, hat and mittens. Damn,it was cold here.

She looked around, the ghosts flanking her twitching lightly with her agitated and shivering. Black uniform, streaked brown hair. Hmmm.

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-13 11:02 pm UTC (link)
Even though she'd pulled her hair back, the wind was still just present enough to blow her bangs back into her face, and she pushed them back with a gloved hand as she spotted... what appeared to be two things that she definitely would have classified as green incorporeal entities on either side of a girl who looked like she was dressed for an arctic expedition.

She headed toward the girl, giving her a small wave. "Hey."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-13 11:05 pm UTC (link)
Well, it was cold here!

Wicked smiled brightly when the older girl greeted her. "Hey," she replied, as she crossed over. She started to hold out her hand until she spotted the red band. That meant no touching. Oops. Instead she waved back. "You must be Anna Marie."

She inclined her head towards the two ghosts. "These are them. Well a couple of them. I can summon more, but it gets kind of crowded."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-13 11:14 pm UTC (link)
Anna caught the movement as Wicked decided against shaking her hand and smiled faintly. Safe was good... but she wasn't about to absorb her through two separate pair of gloves. "I am. And for the record, my powers can't hurt you through clothes."

She looked the ghosts over as Wicked semi-introduced them. They were... weird, definitely. Interesting, too. They were pretty much exactly what Wicked had described, and Anna couldn't tell if they were anyone specific. "Do... are they different depending on where you are?"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-13 11:45 pm UTC (link)
"Oh cool," she said. "I didn't want to assume." Wicked shrugged and held out her hand. "It's nice to meet you."

She nodded. "Yes and no," she admitted. "None of them ever look exactly the same, but they're all pretty much this green color and insubstantial unless I tell 'em to go solid."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-13 11:49 pm UTC (link)
"You too," she replied, taking the girl's hand and shaking. "And no, that's good. That's why they make me wear brightly colored jewelry. Better safe than sorry."

"They can go solid?" That seemed like a whole new level of power, and she considered the ghost nearest to her. "Can they talk or communicate at all?"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-13 11:53 pm UTC (link)
"Yeah," she said. "Although I can't but totally think of The Scarlet Letter when I see one. Which is probably dumb, especially since you didn't do anything wrong and wear it to keep other people safe."

Wicked nodded and silently willed the two with her to go completely corporeal. They were still green and see through, but solid. Then she shook her head. "Not that I know of. They've never talked to me. Communication is pretty much one way. I feel their physical pain if they're hurt or destroyed, but I've never felt any emotions through the link."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-13 11:59 pm UTC (link)
Anna cringed slightly. She had definitely done something wrong. She'd almost killed two other students. She'd almost drained them enough that they would have had nothing left. Of course, she'd had the ID bracelet before that too. "Well... nothing on purpose."

"Okay." Anna nodded. She wasn't really sure what she'd expected, though a part of her had definitely hoped that Wicked would be able to actively communicate with people who had passed. She had a few questions for her mother that still hadn't been answered... though knowing her mother, she'd probably find the answers someday, hidden away in something in her room.

Anna didn't have a whole lot else she really felt needed to be asked just then, but it seemed rude and abrupt to just leave, so she decided to change the subject. "So... you got in last night?"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 12:10 am UTC (link)
Wicked felt bad. She hadn't meant to imply that at all. Accidents happened after all. That was one of the reasons she'd warned people publicly about her ghosts. She'd end up in the infirmary if somebody tried to ghostbust one of them out of shock. It wouldn't have been on purpose, but it would have sucked.

Better to just move on to answering Anna Marie's questions. She sort of wished she could talk to them, but then that would open up a lot more creepiness for other people to be upset about. Especially if the ghost turned out to be someone they knew and loved.

"Yeah," Wicked agreed. "Super late. My flight got laid over in San Francisco because of a thunderstorm. Long flight from Honolulu."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 12:25 am UTC (link)
"You're from Hawaii?" That explained the layers. Anna nodded, smiling. "That's a pretty big time jump. Weather, too."

"Have you had the tour yet?" Anna wasn't entirely sure how they handled new students that came in mid-semester, but she was pretty sure that all of the official tour guides had Sundays off, so there was a good chance that Wicked hadn't seen much of anything yet.

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 12:30 am UTC (link)
Wicked nodded. "My last foster home was in Honolulu," she told her. "And it is. Although I'm just kind of sad I showed up too close to spring to learn to snowboard this year."

She shook her head. "No, they sort of took pity on me and took me straight to my room," she told her. "So I pretty much haven't seen anything."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 12:40 am UTC (link)
"There's a kid here who would probably jump at the chance to teach you how to snowboard, even in the middle of the summer," she replied. "He can make snow."

"Well..." she glanced at her watch. Yep. Tons of time. "Want one?"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 12:47 am UTC (link)
"That'd be awesome!" Wicked exclaimed. "I'll have to hunt him down later. Because I totally want to learn."

She smiled at the offer. "Yes," she agreed happily. "That's really nice of you."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 12:56 am UTC (link)
"Bobby Drake." She nodded. "He lives in your building."

"Not a problem. I probably know the place better than their tour guides do, anyway." She started walking toward the student center. "So that's Pierce," she pointed over her shoulder, then glanced at the obvious next building to visit. "Do you want the whole history behind the names too? Or just basic stuff? Or something in-between?"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 01:01 am UTC (link)
"Bobby Drake," she repeated. "Cool, I'll look him up."

Wicked smiled even wider as she followed Anna Marie. Better than the tour guides. "Whichever you have time for," she said, dismissing the two ghosts that were trailing behind them. "I'm sure the history behind them is cool, and I have tons of time."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 01:05 am UTC (link)
"I have all kinds of time," she nodded. "We don't have training today, which leaves me with so much free time." She could do some history, then. Pointing toward the student center, she squinted slightly. "That's the Darkhölme Student Activities Center. We're heading there first."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 01:16 am UTC (link)
"Training?" she asked. She knew people trained in their powers at school, but it was Sunday. Nobody had classes on Sunday, did they?

Darkholme Student Activities Center. "As in Raven Darkholme?" she asked. That named she recognized, because of the powered rights' movement she'd researched when she first got her powers.

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 01:23 am UTC (link)
"Yeah. I'm a cadet with SHIELD, hence the," Anna gestured at her uniform. "It's sort of like ROTC on steroids."

"Yep," Anna nodded, smiling just a little bit. It was a big joke, that the place was named after her mother. Mutti had left a big chunk of money to the school when she died, but had left it such that they would only be able to use it if they put it all toward the student center and then named it after Raven... which, Anna realized, was only really funny if you actually knew her mother. "She's stationed up at the SHIELD base up the hill, so you'll probably see her around sometimes."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 01:25 am UTC (link)
"Oh yeah," Wicked said with a blush. "Duh. I forgot about that. What's it like?"

"Really?" Yeah, she was impressed. "I hope I do. She's always seemed totally awesome from everything I've read about her."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 01:31 am UTC (link)
"It's a lot of work, but I love it." It helped that it kept her busy enough that she didn't have as much time to sit around and worry about herself or her powers. Plus... she liked having pressure put on her. It kept her moving.

"She's... she's pretty awesome, yeah." The conversation having taken that particular turn, it seemed pretty rude to not be completely honest, and Anna glanced over at Wicked and added, "She's also my mother."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 02:20 am UTC (link)
"Hey, if it works for you," she told her. Wicked wasn't certain she could deal with that kind of strict regimen. She liked her free time and wasn't all that military minded.

Wait..Raven Darkholme was her mom? Wicked laughed and shook her head. "That's pretty cool," she admitted. "Is that why you've been here so long?"

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 02:31 am UTC (link)
Anna shrugged. It did work for her. It helped that she wasn't by any means the first in her family to go into SHIELD.

"Yeah," she nodded. "They started me here when I was old enough to be in school. My brother went here too... and now he teaches here. You might have him for class, maybe. He looks a lot more like momma than I do"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 02:34 am UTC (link)
Wicked nodded. "That's cool," she said, which was repeating herself, but so far everything Anna had told her was really...cool. "I've never been to a powered school before. I hid my powers, because I was afraid people wouldn't accept them." Yeah, the world was a lot more progressive, but people were justifiably weird when it came to ghosts and dead relatives and she hadn't lived in a very progressive part of Hawaii either.

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 02:45 am UTC (link)
"Not everyone here is powered," Anna pointed out. "There's a lot of students who aren't. But yeah... it's one of those places where someone comes in thinking they've got the weirdest thing ever, and everyone just accepts it."

"Which is nice," she nodded, pulling the door to the student center open and gesturing for Wicked to head in. She pointed at a small display on the wall and offered, "If you felt like reading the bullet points of Raven Darkhölme's life..."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 02:47 am UTC (link)
"That'd be so awesome..." Wicked admitted. "Having people just accept it. I had trouble just accepting it at first. Because it's so...random."

Wicked headed into the center with a thanks, since Anna was nice enough to open the door for her. "I can read it some other time. Where's your favorite place in here?"

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 02:53 am UTC (link)
"People are still going to be really curious about it, but that's probably not surprising."

When Wicked decided against reading the display, Anna smiled. Had the girl actually decided that she wanted to read it, Anna was planning on finding an excuse so that they didn't have to stand there in front of it. It wasn't something she was fond of doing.

"My favorite place in here is a place that you can't go... but there are other cool places. There's screening rooms in the back there, and they show movies pretty much every night. The bookstore, TV station, residence life... they're all over there. Upstairs there's a couple of lounges and a food court, plus all of the offices for the different activities."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 03:02 am UTC (link)
"Really curious would be kind of awesome," she admitted. "That is totally not the reaction I was expecting at all. Which is also kind of awesome."

Wicked nodded as Anna explained the layout some. "What kind of movies?" she asked. Probably just random general ones, but it was worth asking. Maybe they were student produced or something.

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 03:09 am UTC (link)
"It depends. There's a list outside the rooms, and they take suggestions. Sometimes it's first runs, sometimes it's old movies, sometimes it's random little things. I think they had a Full House marathon last year." They did a pretty good job of keeping it a nice random selection.

"There's also big TVs in the lounges if you just want to have your own screening of something. And in the dorms."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 03:36 am UTC (link)
"Cool," Wicked said. "So a good variety. I like that." It wouldn't be any fun if it was just first runs or old movies. "Do they show student productions too?"

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 04:09 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, sometimes." Anna nodded. "There's also a student TV station, if you're interested in that."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 04:11 am UTC (link)
"Only in watching," she admitted. "But it's different you know? Fun to see what the other kids come up with."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 04:28 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, definitely," she agreed. She didn't really watch it... ever, but she was sure that there was something interesting. Maybe. "Did you want to check anything else out in here?"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 05:13 am UTC (link)
Wicked shook her head. "Nope," she told her. "You're the tour guide. I'm totally trusting your judgment here. Especially since you practically grew up here, it sounds like."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 05:18 am UTC (link)
"Practically," she agreed, nodding as she headed back toward the door. It was probably easier to take her from where they'd started out. "I was either here, in NYC or in Austria."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 05:22 am UTC (link)
"Austria?" she asked. "Wow, I've never been out of the US except for the six months we lived in Samoa. And that was still a US territory." Austria was totally different. And cool.

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 05:26 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, Salzburg." Anna nodded, pushing the door open and heading back outside. She'd spent a lot of time there when she was younger, including a big chunk of her time after the accident. It helped to be somewhere that neither of the new, stronger psyches were familiar with. She'd even had a proper little Austrian accent when she was younger... but it was mostly gone now, even though it was still evident if you were really listening for it. "Both of my parents are Austrian, originally. So we still have a place there."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 05:28 am UTC (link)
"Cool," Wicked said. Really, she had quite a few questions about Austria, but they could wait until later. For now, she was just enjoying Anna's company. "So what's next on the tour?"

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 05:33 am UTC (link)
Anna glanced down the path to the cafeteria and past it, toward the high school. "You don't look like you're starving to death so I'm guessing you already know where the cafeteria is, right?"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 05:34 am UTC (link)
"Yup, found that earlier," she said with a laugh. "Way better food than my last like..five schools."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 05:50 am UTC (link)
"Yeah, it's pretty good." She frowned thoughtfully for a moment, then looked at Wicked. "How are you with flying?"

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 05:57 am UTC (link)
At first, Wicked though she meant in an airplane, then she realized Anna meant she could fly. "You can fly?" she asked anyway. "Hardcore! Sure, let's go for it!"

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 06:01 am UTC (link)
Anna nodded at the question and then smiled when Wicked decided that she definitely wanted to go the flying route. "It's a lot faster than walking, and you'll get to see more."

It didn't sound like Wicked really wanted too much of an explanation, though, so Anna moved in to scoop the girl up, then pushed off. "Hold on and try not to squirm too much. And let me know if you want to go down."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 06:22 am UTC (link)
"Awesome," Wicked agreed instantly. Really, who would say no to flying?

Nope, no explanation needed. She was all for the whole flying thing. Holding on was no problem either. "Go down?" she asked, genuinely confused. "Can I ask to go higher too?"

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-14 06:25 am UTC (link)
"You can, but once you get up a certain height, it gets really cold. So you might not want to." Especially if Wicked was already cold, being up really high was not going to be helpful.

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-14 07:42 pm UTC (link)
"Okay," she said. That made sense in a way. "This is totally awesome," she added after a second. "I don't know why you don't fly everywhere."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-15 12:04 am UTC (link)
"It is pretty cool," she agreed. "I fly lots of places, but people tend to get cranky if you just leave them to walk alone."

"So," she pointed, "Cafeteria. That's the high school back behind it. Over there is the administration building."

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[info]_ghostwhisperer
2011-03-15 02:43 am UTC (link)
Wicked laughed. "You mean they don't beg you to take them flying with you?" Seriously, this was the coolest thing ever.

She nodded and followed the directions. "Cool."

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[info]_canttouchthis_
2011-03-15 06:35 am UTC (link)
"Sometimes. But I'm good at saying no." Usually.


"There's the Worthington Performing Arts Center, and that's the Student Services Center." Anna pointed again as she passed over that area of campus.

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