Third Floor Common Room [Friday Evening]

[longislandiceme]

The fact that Bobby was in the common room was not, generally speaking, cause for alarm. The fact that he was in the common room kitchen area with a box of brownie mix might be, though, depending on who you asked.

Kennedy didn't seem too concerned from her spot on the couch. She did, however, look pretty pleased with how the t-shirts that both she and Bobby were sporting had turned out. The t-shirts that read "I can't help it if the ladies know a good thing when they see it".

The gaggle of snow-angels that had been following Bobby around all day apparently agreed with the t-shirt's sentiment, at least from the way they sighed dreamily every time he glanced their way. Bobby was pretty sure he'd seen one of them swoon, even.

[ooc: open like an open thing!]

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[longislandiceme]

"Yeah. This has been going on all day," Bobby said, with a bit of exasperated amusement as he waved at the snow angels in question. Who jumped up and down and gave little squeals at the attention.

[glacial_queen]

Karla snickered. "You must be quite the charmer," she said, dimpling at him. "I bet if you blow one of them a kiss, you can get her to faint."

She wasn't egging him on or anything though. Perish the thought.

[longislandiceme]

Oh, now he had to take her up on that.

He grinned, and blew a kiss in the direction of the most vocal of the little group. And because sometimes he's not the smartest cookie in the tin, also attempted to send the tiiiiniest trickle of his power in that direction too.

Of course, crazy new power-levels meant 'tiny trickle' manifested more like 'sudden indoor cold snap'. It did, at least, have the desired effect, with the little snow-angel staggering backwards with one hand over her heart. Her friends all let out a collective 'oooooh' as they steadied her.

He grinned at Karla. "The shirt doesn't lie," he said, giving her a wink.

[glacial_queen]

"S-s-so I s-s-see," Karla agreed, teeth chattering. She'd been close enough to him to catch the bare edges of the cold snap and even that had her shivering. "Th-that was impressive, b-by the way. N-no wonder they l-like you."

She was so calling in a blanket. And wrapping a few hundred warming spells onto it.

[longislandiceme]

Bobby's eyes widened momentarily with just the slightest hint of panic. He hadn't meant to be that obvious...

"Part of my natural charm," he shrugged, trying to play oblivious to any reference to his powers.

[glacial_queen]

Karla just raised an eyebrow. "That's some pretty impressive charm, like I said," she responded. "I can only make ice when I'm really, really angry."

And then she caught a hint of what he was feeling through his psychic scent. "Oh...Oh! I get it--you don't--never mind. Forget I said anything."

[longislandiceme]

It didn't matter that he'd been here months and not one person had freaked out when they found out about his powers, it was still something he was used to thinking about having to hide.

"It's not really, um. Something I'm supposed to talk about," he said quietly.

[glacial_queen]

"Is your world like Dinah's then?" Karla asked quietly. "Mistrustful of those born...different?"

Karla could sympathize, but couldn't really understand. In her world, being born with powers was the norm.

...If one discounted landens, of course. As the Blood often did.

[longislandiceme]

Bobby nodded. "We're- mutants, I mean- seen as something of a problem, there," he said with a shrug. It didn't help that there were certain people who reinforced this particular notion, like Magneto and his Brotherhood of Mutants.

[glacial_queen]

"I'm sorry," Karla said, giving him a sympathetic glance. "Back home, the landens are afraid of us, too."

Occasionally with good reason, but details. "Is that why you don't come to Reserves? Because you don't like to admit you have powers?"

[longislandiceme]

"Part of it," he admitted. "I'm also, I'm not really- I don't really do the fighting thing, you know?" That was really only partially true. He'd fought evil and injustice a lot, as a member of the X-Men. He was just on a break from that, at the moment.

[glacial_queen]

The whole concept didn't make a lot of sense, what with the way males were at home, but if Bobby said he wasn't a fighter, Karla wasn't going to argue with him about it. "That's cool. It's not for everyone, really."

She was tempted to explain all the other things the Reserves did, but she didn't want to start preaching at the poor guy. Especially not after he just admitted he wasn't comfortable about being open with his powers.

"Besides, I would never dream of arguing with the male who is in charge of the brownies," she joked.