Rooftop; Monday Evening

[ungue.livejournal.com]

As far as first school days, Laura had to admit it had gone pretty well. No dead, no maimed, nobody hurt in any way that she considered serious. It was a far cry from it being okay, but it sucked a lot less than Utopia and their unique brand of judgy teens. And she couldn't even blame Nori and company, but it was nice to be somewhere people didn't know her. Some kids would use the excuse to reinvent themselves; Laura just wanted the quiet. She could figure the rest once she hit the road again, back in her world. Her purpose of figuring out whether she had a soul or not was still strong in her.

At the time though, sitting by the edge of the roof to take in the evening breeze and gaze into the darkness suited her just fine.

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[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Fuck, it's cold." Eggsy was really regretting this whole 'get some air thing. He really should have brought his ridiculous and gaudy jacket with him instead of his other ridiculous and gaudy jacket.

Oh, hey there new person he hadn't met yet. "You plannin' on pulling a jumper over there?"

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Laura was wearing a black leather top, equally black leather pants, shoes... and that was it. Cold? Cold was for the weak and the non-mutant.

Looking down the edge, Laura shrugged. "It had not crossed my mind. Do students do that here?"

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Which Eggsy would cop to being half right about him.

"Dunno," he admitted, bundling his jacket around him. "You got a mood going there."

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Laura looked at him with a mix of confusion and... emptiness. More emptiness than confusion.

"I was just thinking." While sitting on the edge of the roof, looking sad. Right. "If it bothers you, I can move further from the edge. I have no plans to fall." Setting her bones right would be a pain later, not just literal.

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

While looking sad on the roof of emo. As long as she didn't start, like, monologuing, they were probably safe. Save those monologues for fights, Laura. They were free actions.

"You'd just let someone shove you off?" he asked, making a face. Because he was Eggsy 'FIGHT ME' Unwin. It was a thing.

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Laura didn't understand why people talked during fights. Weren't they trying to kill each other? She considered it stalling, which was stupid.

"If there was a good reason, perhaps." You wanted honesty? There you go.

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Welcome to the wonderful world of shit not making sense. Next start questioning how many times the goddamn Phoenix Force will fuck everything up. The answer: depends on how stuck the writers are.

"Yeah?"

[ungue.livejournal.com]

If there's a green eyes redhead with an attitude, there is a way. Seriously.

"It would have to be a good reason." This was Laura... joking? Kinda? Shrug?

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

...oh god, no one let it near Mara Jade.

Eggsy snorted. "You're so full of shit." But he was being cheerful about it!

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Sassiest Phoenix Force.

"I am not." She was not! "I can heal. Something like this would not kill me." Pain was a completely different matter, but pain and Laura... had a weird relationship. He still managed to crack that inexpressive face for a moment though.

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

NO. BAD, COSMIC ENTITY. BAD.

"Yeah, everyone heals," Eggsy shot back. "You an alien or something?"

[ungue.livejournal.com]

They would need the biggest newspaper roll in the multiverse.

"I am a mutant, and I once grew an entire arm back." Not something to be proud of, but hey, that had been an interesting (if emotionally scarring) week.

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

Now that sort of thing warranted a 'that's so gross, why would you share that?'

But, instead, Eggsy went with an impressed, "Like Raven then? She's blue sometimes."

And pretty hot.

[ungue.livejournal.com]

"I know who is Raven. I suppose her shape-shifting grants her a facsimile of a healing factor. I do it know if it extends to entire limbs." That opened all sort of interesting questions that would probably freak Eggsy up.

"I simply heal exceedingly fast."

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Yeah?" This time it was leaning toward dubious.

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Laura arched an eyebrow. "Do you need demonstration?" Because really, her healing was an important part of who she was. Better leave that clear.

[myfaireggsy.livejournal.com]

"Of seein' your arm grow back?"

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Laura frowned. "That would take two weeks." And she sort of liked having two arms, not to mention she would need to remove her bone claws and reinsert the adamantium ones... messy businesses.

"It does not matter."

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

After spending some time checking out the town, Skaar decided to return to the dorms. And that's why there was a big, green guy leaping from somewhere near the park, coming closer, closer, closer, annnnnnd landing on the roof.

"Huh. It is reinforced," he noted as the roof held up. "The building didn't even shake."

It was then that he noticed another person on the roof. "Settling in?" he asked with a nod of greeting.

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Nod of greeting received, and sending right back. Laura was so ever glad the roof was reinforced...

"I think so," she said, tentatively. "Are you? Settling in?"

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

"I talked to more people on Saturday than I've ever talked to on any day that didn't end with leading them into battle," Skaar said. "It was strange. But I'll get used to it."

That was pretty much a yes.

[ungue.livejournal.com]

"I... have said more words in a weekend that I have said in a few months." She counted. She really did. "If you ever want to fight, we can spar. They have... facilities for that here."

They would demolish the gym. That Danger Shop place, though...

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

"That's more like it," Skaar said. "Do they have anything around here that wouldn't get destroyed too bad if a Hulk and a Wolverine fought?" Besides the woods, or the Rocky Bits. Those were gimmes.

[ungue.livejournal.com]

"It is called the Danger Shop. Supposedly it is used to simulate scenarios, but is very durable as well. We could ask?" Because when Skaar put it the way he did, it sounded a lot more interesting.

[oldstrongest1.livejournal.com]

Asking. Hmm. Skaar hadn't ever bothered with that unless he needed to. Did he need to here? Sigh. Probably. "I have a class about hitting things this week. I could talk to that teacher about letting us in there. Call it extra credit."

[ungue.livejournal.com]

Laura nodded. She had seen the class, but she wanted to take it easy. She could have probably taken a lot more, but interaction was going to be taxing as it was. "Sounds good. As long as it holds it, the rest is not that important." She healed, he healed. Nobody needed to know how many times they would try to kill each other, right?