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Summary: Kael's splashing around, and Jill comes around. Then they chat while swimming.
Date: August 12, 2010
Log Title: Anticipating the School Year
Rating: PG
Xavier Mansion - Spuyten Duyvil Cove
This little cove leads off to Breakstone Lake. Students can go fishing, boating, and swimming in the fresh water. There is a small beach off to the side of the dock where students can also go sunbathing.
It's rather hot out today, probably a good upper ninety degree day at the Xavier's school. And one would think that there would be more than one walking, talking air conditioner around. But they seem to be in short supply! But that doesn't mean that there'nt other ways to cool off! The resident aerokinetic is flying around above the surface of the lake. Water spraying up around him as he changes direction. It seems he's been out here for a while now; he looks positively soaked from head to toe. On the beach, there's a small pile of effects. His cellphone along with his shorts and sandles.
Big sunglasses in place, another person approaches the lakeside from the direction of the school. A brightly colored beach towel slung around her shoulders, the distinctive blue form of one of the newer students pads closer to the water. Aaaaand she's not alone there. Jill lifts her sunglasses up onto her forehead and chews idly on something. She's got on a red tanktop and white shorts, her hair pulled up with a pink scrunchie. She squats down by the shore, content to just watch for a little while the aerial performance going on.
Hazel eyes drift over towards the beach as he floats, waving over towards her before he flies over there. Kael's feet touch down on the sand with no burst of wind as he walks through the shallows of the water. "Hey, Jill," says the teen happily as he smiles. One of the things missing from the boy's pile of stuff is a towel. "How're you doin'?"
"Heya," Jill calls, raising a hand in a lazy greeting. "Hot enough for you?" she answers with a question. One of her feet wiggles, shaking loose sand from her plastic sandals. Her eyes flick from the still faintly rippling waters of the lake to Kael's drenched clothes. "Quite a show. Still not quite used to seeing stuff like that on a daily basis, you know?"
Kael looks back at the water with a smirk, "It's kinda hot at the moment, I'm trying to stay cool while having fun and practicing." He shrugs his shoulders before he grins, "It's an interesting time here really. Just wait till school starts up once more. Then you'll see a good bit more in the training sessions." Or lectures with Scott. He looks back at the water and says, "It was interesting for me as well. I've been here for only a bit over a year."
"No kidding," complains Jill, slipping her sunglasses back down and fanning her face with a hand. "I didn't think New York even *got* this hot. Just not how I pictured the place." With a gritty sound, she drops back to sit on a dry portion of sand facing the water. "Is it fun? Flying?" she asks, tilting her head up to Kael and continuing to chew softly. A large blue bubble blossoms from between her lips, inflating with a slow breath.
Kael lets out a soft laugh. "Yeah, I never thought it'd get this hot either. Granted, I was born and raised in Texas. I'm kinda used to it." He steps back into the shallows of the water and smiles. "It's relaxing to me actually. And it's a great amount of fun." He looks back at Jill with a smile. "Tell ya what. When I get good enough to take others with me flying, I'll come find ya first. Alright?"
Jill's bubble bursts with a sharp pop and covers her chin with a thin film. It's just chewing gum, but the color is a little too close to home. She picks it off to clean her face. "I don't know," she waffles. "I'm not really scared of heights, but I am scared of falling. If you promise you won't drop me, then okay." After a moment of hesitation, she rocks herself back to a stand and holds out the beach towel to Kael, eyebrows raised in an unspoken offer.
Kael smirks as he turns around, declining the towel as he says, "I won't drop ya, I promise." A slight breeze whips up around Jill, swirling around her before it changes direction; blasting Kael from the side away from the girl, so she's safe from getting pelted with sand as the aerokinetic dries himself off. "I act as a good hair dryer as well." A wide grin.
The blue girl smirks and makes a soft 'heh' sound. Instead, she spreads the towel out on the sand and kicks off her sandals before stepping onto it. "If you wore a trenchcoat, you could always make it blow dramatically in the wind, like in the movies." Without ceremony, Jill simply starts unbuttoning her shorts and slides them off. Luckily, underneath there's a plain black one-piece swimsuit. "I guess you don't wanna swim, seeing as you're, ah, drying off there."
Kael smirks. "Eh, I won't mind a good swim. I had fun splashing around earlier." He lifts himself up off of the ground, the water under him swirling a bit as he says, "I could. I could look like Neo all the time." He looks back out at the lake before he sets himself back down. "How're you liking the school so far?"
Jill pulls off her tank top and bends her knees like a diver, straightening her arms out in front of her. There's a sound like a single flap of a flag in a stiff breeze and she's simply not there. Sunglasses and pink scrunchie drop onto the towel as a flood of blue stuff bounds toward the water, touching the ground only once and skipping like a Slinky down the stairs. It leaves an oblong impression in the sand before there's a brief splash. Jill surfaces a moment later, waist deep in the cool lake water and looking relieved. "It's real nice," she says without missing a beat. "Right now it's kind of like a summer camp or something. And I'm finally all caught up on exams and stuff so I can start the new semester without any worries."
Kael blinks a bit as the girl turns into a flood of blue… goop? and appears out into the lake. "That… was interesting." He hms a bit, and then bursts up into the sky; before he falls/dives into the lake near the middle of it. There's a moment or two before Kael resurfaces and he says, "Well, that's a good thing at least. I have to think about what I'm going to do /after/ this school year. Something that I'm really not looking forward to." Real world? Stay away, please.
"July says I kinda need to let loose like that more often," she explains sheepishly. The blue girl looks a little confused for a moment, tongue probing the insides of her cheeks. "I lost my gum somewhere." She crouches down in the lake's shallows so only her head is above the surface of the water. "You aren't gonna go to college?" she asks like she can't think of anything else somebody would do after high school.
Kael lets out a laugh as he pulls himself up out of the water, floating above it as he looks back over at the beach. "Might be back over on your towel." As for letting loose, Kael nods a bit. "It's good to let loose once in a while. Specially knowing how to relax yourself. You're probably gonna need it during the school year." He floats back over towards the shallows before he shrugs, "I dunno. I don't really have anything that I'm good at. Average really. Might just stay here."
Jill peers back toward the shore but gives up on the gum as a lost cause. "Oh, come on. It can't be that much more stressful than school back home." The blue girl sounds more like she's trying to convince herself of this. Squeezing her palms together, she squirts a little stream of water over at the older boy. "You don't have to be a genius or anything to go to college," she chides. Then hastily adds, "Not that you aren't smart, I mean."
Kael laughs a bit as the water hits him in the face, shaking his head a bit before he says, "I know. But I really don't have anything that I think I'd be good at. Unless college has 'Advanced Mutant Powers Training 101'." He smirks a bit before two blasts of wind collide into the water, exploding to send splashes against Jill. "Just wait till the training sessions start. Hope ya didn't like yer Saturday Mornings."
The girl squeals and throws up her hands, water droplets running off her skin like it was plastic. "No fair!" Jill pouts melodramatically and moves closer to the shore so she can sit down in the water. "If it's any consolation, I don't have any idea what I want to do after school either. And I think the training stuff sounds fun! Like an extra P.E. class or something. I can't wait. I think everybody keeps trying to scare me about 'em just because it's funny and I don't know any better." A handful of the lake's dark mud is scooped up and allowed to drip wetly between her fingers.
Kael laughs brightly. "Sorry, Jill." He looks around slightly before he stretches his arms up above his head with a soft grunt. "They're kinda like that, yeah. But, mostly they're drills to make us think on our feet. Think P.E. Extreme." He smiles a bit before he floats around in circles. Causing small crests of waves to form on the lake.
Jill considers this for a moment, gently washing the mud off her hand. "Okay, but it still sounds neat to me." She leans back and lifts her feet up so her toes break the surface. They don't look quite as correct as the rest of her. For one thing, they seem to lack toenails entirely. "And about that other stuff, you think they have this much money to throw around-" She gestures back at the school building and all the facilities it entails. "And wouldn't be able to offer some college or career advice or whatever? Yeah, right."
Kael chuckles. "I'm sure that they if you ask the right people. I just don' really wanna ask at the moment. I'm not a senior yet till the school year ends. I got a month or so before I gotta act like one." He peers at her foot a bit before he grins, the only odd thing about Kael is that his hair is pure snow white. "I'm sure Emma knows a good bit of people. If you were into business."
"Okay, okay," Jill relents, holding up her hands defensively. "I know. It's still summer for a little while longer and nobody wants to think about school unless they have to." She turns herself over with a soft grunt, floating spread-eagle on her stomach and craning her neck to keep her nose and mouth above water. A question occurs to her, but it takes a moment before she can muster the courage to ask it. "Do we *really* have to wear those uniform things for practice? They seem kind of… They don't leave a lot to the imagination, do they?"
Kael snickers, nodding as he floats around in front of Jill so she can see him. "Aye, we do. Sorry, but I know they ain't the best lookin' things. I swear Scott see's 'em as red and orange." He shrugs dramatically before he just drops from the air into the deeper water after he floats over there. A moment passes and he floats up on his back.
"Well they're ugly and if I have to wear one, I want it noted that I do so under protest." Jill lifts her hands to circle her eyes like a mock pair of goggles. "Because of the red glasses? What's up with those? I've never seen him *not* wear them." The blue girl doggy paddles out into the deeper water to follow Kael like a… well, like a dog.
Kael ehs a bit as he leans back up, treading water as he says, "He wears 'em so he doesn't blast holes in things. He has these eye beams. But from what Max has told me, he can't turn 'em off. So he wears them even in his sleep." He shrugs a bit, it's like normal to him now. "Believe me, they aren't the best thing in the world. But, they are nice to train in so we don't mess up our actual clothes."
"Dude, he's got heat vision? Like Superman?" Jill's eyebrows raise a notch with a bit of newfound respect for the headmaster, her advisor. "Maybe they were right and you *don't* wanna make him mad or else he'll zap your ass. And then you get expelled."
Kael laughs brightly. "Honestly, I think he can kick Superman's Ass. I mean, Scott is kinda awesome." He nods a bit, smiling before he says, "He's also one of the people who gave me actual confidence in my powers. Before that, I could barely bring a breeze up to speed."
"In what, like a year?" the blue girl asks, slowing to a stop and treading water with ease. "And now you can fly. *Fly*. That's pretty good progress, if you ask me. I know I've still got a lot to learn, but I'm hoping it goes as well as it has so far. It's only been about… four months since I first, uh, what's the word… manifested?"
Kael rubs the back of his head as he treads water. "I had a god bit of help. What with Storm helping me for a bit, and then getting help from another mentor." He smiles a bit, bashful of that before he says, "Confidence in your powers has a lot to do with it really. Just believe in yourself. Even if that does sound rather corny."
"Sort of a positive thinking thing, huh?" Jill laughs, kicking her feet with a splash to start swimming around again, angling towards the shore. "I don't know what I'm supposed to think positively about. I don't really have the kind of mutation you can measure in miles per hour or knots or whatever they measure wind with. I'd be surprised if they even knew what to do with me, outside of studying bits of me down in the medical bay."
Kael smirks. "I measure my powers in miles per hour. Last I checked, I can get pretty fast. Enough to rival a car on the highway." He hms a bit before he snaps his fingers, floating himself back up above the water as he looks over at Jill. "You can make yourself turn into a puddle, right?"
The blue kid reaches the shallows so she's able to put her feet back on the bottom. "Uh-huh. Even sometimes when I don't want to, like when I try to go to sleep. I have a *fish tank*," she says sourly. "I can still move around when I'm all melty, see and hear and all that stuff. I guess it's kind of my natural state, because it was a while before I could be human again." A pause. "Well, humanOID. And Connor pointed out something about density, since I have teeth." She flashes a smile in Kael's direction, showing off those pearly whites set into blue gums.
Kael smirks a bit as he flies over towards her, landing on the sand behind her with a soft thump. "Well, why don't you try and be like Mr. Fantastic. Form your hand into like… an orb or something. I mean, if you can make your body all humanoid, maybe ya can do other things?" He shrugs a bit, crossing his arms over his chest as he smiles. Imagination. His one true weapon.
Jill walks slowly out of the water, shaking her hair to fling a few droplets of water off. She doesn't look the least bit wet; her hair isn't even plastered down. "That's actually kinda hard to do. Doing the human thing just feels normal, comfortable, like an old pair of jeans or something you can just slip into. I don't even really have to think about it anymore except first thing in the morning." She pads across the sand and to the beach towel, stooping to pick up a sand-encrusted blob of blue bubble gum. "Huh. There it is."
Kael hms a bit and shrugs. Another warm wind swirling up around him as his hair flutters about. It dies down soon enough as he moves over to put his shirt back on, strangely enough; his hair is still white. "Maybe that's something you'll be workin' on. Who knows."
Rather than do anything flashy, Jill just picks up her discarded clothing and pulls them on like anybody else would. "Probably. But I don't think it's exactly like Mr. Fantastic. It's not stretchy, just fluid. I stay more or less the same size. Err, volume." Even though she probably doesn't need to, the blue girl still towels off her hair. Old habits die hard. She flicks the sandy gum out into the lake where it sinks quickly out of sight. "But that's why I can't wait for the practice stuff to start up. I wanna know this stuff."
Kael nods a bit as he picks his stuff back up, just holding onto his phone as he says, "You'll learn, don't worry. Scott's rather good at teaching us how to use our powers." He puts a hand on his stomach with a soft grunt, "I dunno about you. But I'm starving…"
Holding the scrunchie in her mouth while she bunches up her hair into a short ponytail, Jill shakes her head. "Nah me." She finishes tying it back. "Not me. I ate a huge lunch yesterday cause they had hamburgers, but I'll come with you to keep you company." Slipping into her sandals, she shakes as much sand from the beach towel as she can before folding it up. "And maybe some dessert. Just so you aren't eating alone, yeah?" An innocent grin.
Kael smirks. "Deal." He flips his phone open and sends a text real fast before he says, "I'll even let ya know stuff about the members of our little squad." He snickers a bit, "Just little bits and peices." With that, he starts to head off towards the school.
