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[still-windrider.livejournal.com]

Ororo slips into the bar quietly, shutting the door behind her as she takes a moment to look around. She has not seen Kate the last two times she has been here, but tonight...

Tonight she does.

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[cutting_edgex23]

X continues to watch Ororo.

"I do not want to hurt them."

[still-windrider.livejournal.com]

"I believe you."

Ororo meets her eyes steadily.

"And I believe that we shall find a way to give you control over that, to undo enough of what has been done to you so that you no longer need to fear yourself."

[cutting_edgex23]

"I do not know."

How do you undo that much conditioning?

How?

[still-windrider.livejournal.com]

"I make no promises," Ororo says gently.

"But I have seen many extraordinary things happen in my time with the X-Men, and many problems solved that I had thought impossible. I do not despair for you, Laura. I would ask that you do not despair for yourself."

[cutting_edgex23]

"I do not."

This is very true.

There is no understanding of despair in her.

[still-windrider.livejournal.com]

Ororo looks at her for a long moment.

"No, you do not," she says finally, and there is a trace of sadness in the words.

"And neither do you hope."

[cutting_edgex23]

X-23 does not look away from Ororo.

She does not often give ground.

"No."

[still-windrider.livejournal.com]

Ororo smiles a little sadly.

"There have been times recently when I would envy you for that, Laura. But now... now I think I will just have to hope for you, since you do not do so for yourself."

[cutting_edgex23]

X-23 betrays nothing of what she might think of Ororo's words.

She just shrugs, ever so slightly, and says, "Okay."