4th floor common room, Thursday afternoon

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Lana wasn't back yet.

Twitch.

Twitch.

Jim was trying to distract himself with hockey, even if the Philadelphia Flyers at the Pittsburgh Penguins was a little more alliteration than he usually liked with his winter sports.

[[I don't have an exam tomorrow! Distract me!]]

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[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"oh, I see a hocky game broke out at the fight again." Billy said, not deliberately using ninja stealth.

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Supersenses for the win. Jim heard him coming.

"Yeah, I hate when that happens," he deadpanned.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Only cause it wasn't Snake-Eyes or Storm Shadow. Or, y'know, Batman.

"So, who's playing, and who's winning?"

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

"The Flyers and the Penguins, and because the game isn't actually on yet no score yet." He sighed and stretched out, nodding in the vague direction of a chair.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy sat. "How goes it?"

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Twitch. "Okay."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

"You sure? You seem a little twitchy on edge."

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim cracked his knuckles a couple of times. "I am."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy sensed he might be on dangerous ground but...let's face it, that's nothing new to him.

"Not because of the hocky game is it."

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

"No." Jim leaned back against the couch and ran a hand through his hair.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy decided it was time to shut up about it. He was apalled he'd pried as much as he had.

"How's Lana?" he asked, changing the subject. Dumb ass.

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim's jaw worked for a moment. "She was fine last time I talked to her."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

Jim's cell phone rang.

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Not for long. "Lana?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Hey, sweetie," Lana said a little dreamily. "How are you?"

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

"I'm fine," Jim replied, his brow furrowing a little at the note in her voice. "Where are you? Is everything alright?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I'm in a really big place," Lana said happily. "Like a castle or a mansion, but not exactly, where they brought us after we sort of wrecked the Statue of Liberty last night, except not me, 'cause my arm hurt but it doesn't right now."

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Okay, she was either high or . . . high. Jim went with the latter. He dropped his head into his hands, suppressing a groan. "You wrecked the Statue of Liberty and your arm hurts? Lana, what happened?"

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy made a silent...well just look at the icon.

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I'm really sorry and you're going to have to wrap me in bubblewrap, I know," Lana said a bit sadly. "I kind of dislocated my shoulder when the really fast woman kicked me in the shoulder. I was really slow after she punched me in the stomach. And she was really fast. Did I mention that? But, oh hey! We saved Marie and we're coming home!"

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

"Lana!" Jim choked back his anger, taking a breath. "That's nice, but I thought you said you were going to stay out of trouble. Are you okay now?"

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"I know," Lana said, still sounding sad. "And I tried, I really did. I didn't fight at all, but then I heard Marie screaming and there was no one to help her because they were all fighting because I wasn't, so I went up and rescued her, but then the fast woman showed up. But Marie touched her and then I tasered her and we escaped. Except the magnet guy nearly got us so Willow and Phoebe did a spell and then the whole Statue of Liberty thing happened and then we got out and the good mutant people brought us here."

"And they gave me really good drugs," she added as an afterthought.

[sensitivejim.livejournal.com]

Jim groaned and dropped his head back against the couch. "God save me from heroic women . . . where are you now? A big castle with good drugs, right. With good mutant people."

[lovelylana.livejournal.com]

"Mmmhmmm," Lana said, happy that she'd explained herself clearly. "And they're going to fly us back tomorrow morning, except that Bel said I had to walk, so I'm not sure what's going to happen to me for sure."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy boggled at the one sided conversation he was hearing between Jim and Lana.