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Charles Xavier ([personal profile] balancingminds) wrote in [community profile] milliways_bar2012-03-22 01:41 pm

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Charles has been taking advantage of the fact that time stops in Milliways to do work and learn more about the people who pass through here. There's such a variety to the minds and experiences that if he didn't have to finish his editing, he'd probably spend most of his time with his eyes closed and just listening.

As it is, one of his sections isn't going as he'd like and he keeps going back over a certain sentence until he's quite lost track of time.

When he finally gets it right, he looks up and realizes that took a while and allows himself a break, so he leans back in his chair and observes the Bar.

Tiny tag: Charles Xavier, Antinoos
OOC: If you approach him while he's working then he's not mentally listening except quite passively. After he's stopped working, he is actively listening to the conversations and minds around him. Feel free to interrupt him or wait until he's on a break. Please let me know what he'll encounter in your pup's mind. Thank you.
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 09:52 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a momentary flicker in X's mind.

A bald man, tall and not in a wheelchair, dead and then not, but always on the periphery.

Cyclops has been the only team lead that X knows. Cyclops and Emma, that is.

Then there is a beat of silence.

Two.

"Your world has mutants?"

It is an important question. For several reasons.
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"I am, too," X offers.

It only seems fair.

Then --

"You are okay?"

He is, after all, holding his head.

She worries.
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"People are afraid?"

She sounds like someone who is hoping the answer is no, but is fairly sure the answer is yes. (That the answer will always be yes. Even if there are worse fates.)

"Of mutants."
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"I do not think you can."

X says that very carefully.

"It is okay."

Beat.

"It is good that you try."

It is always better to try.

Even if fear is useful. Sometimes.
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 10:24 pm (UTC)(link)
X shrugs, one-shouldered and quick.

"You do not have to be."

Beat.

When she gives him the year, it's somewhere in the early twenty-tens.

Marvel time is nebulous time.

"I am allowed to ask when it is? For you."
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 10:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Sometimes it is difficult to know," X offers.

Again, she says it very carefully.

Then --

"Your sister is not named Cassandra."

Cassandra Nova is not a good . . . . not-person.

X has heard stories. And run up against her altered Sentinels a time or two.

It sucks.
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 10:50 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh."

Beat.

"Okay."

That is kind of a relief, inasmuch as X is ever relieved.

"You said she comes here too. She likes it?"
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"It is not uncommon," X agrees.

And, because this seems like a conversation that will continue, X gets up from her chair and moves over toward Charles.

"Being from different times. Or timelines that do not overlap. I do not mind."

Beat.

"You do?"
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"I have been coming here since I was small."

Never from the labs, though. Just on a mission.

Or two.

It was both more and less confusing when she lacked the capacity to understand.

"It is not confusing to me."
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 11:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do not be surprised. Or afraid."

That is important.

"And do not be angry when people will not answer your questions."
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-22 11:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Her nostrils flare, checking his scent.

Biochemical tells are more useful for her than verbal or facial cues.

Go figure.

"It is easier when you know timelines do not overlap. Or worlds."
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2012-03-23 12:28 am (UTC)(link)
X blinks.

Twice.

"You will not affect your own past, then. If you make a mistake."

Beat.

"And other people being careless will not affect your future."

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