Who: Sam and Paige NPCs: a few mentioned but none played When: Monday week 7 Where: xaviers What: chit chat Rating & Warnings: " U "
Paige had been in a sort of, lazy mood today. There was something about the weather changes that always made her feel blah and not like doing anything. Normally she'd just watch television or sketch. She'd been doing the former earlier, which had led to her falling asleep on the couch. She was curled up underneath a blanket, one arm stretched out over the edge while the other hid her face.
Sam had been doing what Sam always did, well not really, he’d been taking a beginner class in swimming, and that had not been the highlight of his day, due to one of the young students thinking it would be fun to make all the water in the pool turn into some kind of green goo. Amusing for the kids as it meant they didn’t have to have the class, not so amusing for Sam as he then had to get the whole thing emptied out and get all the filters cleaned. Only to be informed a couple of hours later, that the child who had done it could have reversed it. So basically he’d spent all the morning wasting his time. He’d came up with the need to have lunch, but had wandered into the rec room and recognized one of those toes sticking out, so grabbed it, and said, “you’ll want to wake up some sleepy head?”
Feeling someone grabbing her toes, she kicked out, muttering. "Go 'way." She didn't realize it was Sam, didn't remember that she was crashed out in the rec room. Hell, the blonde was taking up the whole damn couch. But she was busy dreaming. And she liked it when she could dream and not have nightmares. Nightmares were the reason she had a bottle of sleeping pills hidden in one of her teddy bears.
“Is tha’ any way to be talkin’ to yah older brotha?” Sam drawled out in an amused way but did leave her toes alone, and walked around to the front of the couch, peering down at her. “Yah have a room to be sleepin’ in Paige,” stating the obvious as only an oblivious older brother could. One that really did not have the time to be a typical teenager, but sort of wanted his younger siblings to be able to have what he did not.
When Sam had gone to work in the coal mines, Paige had gone to work at home. She had no more time to be a kid than he did, but she wasn't bitter about it. What had to be done was done and she was proud to call Sam a brother. Hell, she was proud of her whole damn family - with maybe the exception being Joelle. Lord knew that girl could be sucked into anything.
Hearing Sam's voice though, she removed her arm from her face and sighed, opening her eyes. "Hi, Sammy. What're you doin' in here? An' why do ya smell funny?"
Sam really was easily led too, he’d just been lucky that it was the X-Men that had found him when his mutation had became the talk of the news papers for a few weeks. He also tended to just forget that no matter that things were better now, Paige had grown up fast and she was not going to be a kid just because he seemed to think she should be acting like one. “Ah smell?” He said with a grin, hadn’t realized that, so sniffed himself and rolled his eyes a little, “a little mishap in tha swimming pool, yah still not telling me why yah are laying around in the rec though … any reason fo’ it?”
Sitting up, the curvy blonde stretched her arms over her head and yawned. "Just feelin' lazy," she replied with a shrug. "Cain't Ah nap without bein' asked why?" She was tired, and it showed, but she was always tired in one way or another. Smiling at Sam, she patted the couch. "Come sit. Ah thank Ah can withstand that smell fer a little bit longah. What's up? Is Josh all settled in?"
“Ah don’t know.” Sam owned up too with a kind of guilty looking expression creeping over his face. He had been busy that was true, he’d been doing what he was meant to be doing, but that did not really excuse the fact he’d not got around to finding out how their younger sibling was getting on. Sam had only arrived a few days ago himself, so he was sort of surprised that Jay had followed quite so quickly. He did however plonk himself down to sit beside her and fling one of his arms around her slim shoulders, “ah think he’ll be feelin’ bettah if I just avoid him fo’ a few days anyways.”
"Ah think he needs his family, Sam. Maybe not in big doses, but in like, tiny little ones. We drop in every now and again but allow him his space. That was how he always was at home, at least." Settling into Sam's side, she sighed and closed her eyes. It felt nice to have some form of home near again. "How have you settled in?"
Paige was probably correct on that score, Sam found it difficult in a lot of ways to figure out any real kind of relationship with the younger ones, he was nearly ten years older than Jay, which put him in a different generation group almost. He would try to be supportive but unlike Paige, Sam tended to see them all as children due to missing so much time around them all. “Ah’ll do m’best, on that score,” he grinned, tweaking a few strands of her golden blonde hair, as his hand lay on her shoulder, “me? Apart from feelin’ like ah’ve wandered into takin’ on more than ah can handle pretty damn good.” It was true, he’d got his teaching degree thanks to Xavier, so it was only as a sports teacher, but seemed to him that the kids here, really didn’t need such if he were honest and it may well be better for him if he gave up on the whole idea and went off and tried to get himself a job in either a normal school or back in the mines.
"Ah think yer doin' just fine," she chuckled. "Ya just gotta remembah that some of tha kids here are more... rebellious than tha ones yer used to. Ah'm glad ta have ya here, too. It makes me feel less lonely." She smiled up at him, reaching up to ruffle his hair. He may be older than her, but he was still her brother and she could tease him all she liked.
Laughing lightly, Sam was pretty sure he didn’t quite agree with Paige’s statement, he was doing a terrible job, but oh well he’d only been back less than a week, he was sure he could work out a better way of dealing with all the pranks than he had thus far. Maybe he’d speak to both Kurt and Logan and see if they had any tips about sorting it all out, but on second thoughts, he kind of thought it be worse going to them, as then they’d merely join in on the pranks and then it be ten times worse. “Ah’ll try t’keep that in mind.” He grinned, “yah really feelin’ lonely honey?” Came out of Sam’s mouth only moments after the grin, which automatically faded and a look of concern replaced it.