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Summary: James and Robyn each leave Xavier's for a bit for different adventures.
Date: August 13, 2010
Log Title: Overdue Vacations
Rating: PG
Xavier Mansion - Courtyard
Surrounded on three sides by the school, a large courtyard forms the front yard. The courtyard leads right up to the door of the mansion. Yellow square stone slabs cover the ground where the grass would be. The most noticeable thing about the courtyard is the large statue of Jean Gray, aka Phoenix, in the middle as a memorial. Benches surround the outside of the statue so students can sit and hang out in the courtyard. There are two paths leading off the courtyard, one to the left and the other to the right.
Within the next hour or so Robyn's parents should be at the school to pick him up. He would have left as soon as he could have last night but neither parent could come to get him so he packed up this morning and is now sitting on one of the benches with his duffle bag next to him. After him and Connor had a few…words…last night he's been hiding till he could leave. He even spent the night on the floor of one of the classrooms last night.
Carring a duffle bagor 12of his own, James walks through the area on his way to a yet undisclosed location. Stopping next to Robyn, he drops them on the ground and shoves his hands in his pockts, "Waiting for your ride, eh?" He takes a seat next to the boy, "I'm about to head out too. Give me a call if things get boring."
Robyn looks up at James and gives him a small smile. "Yeah..I will. You too. It's weird…I haven't even left yet and I'm not looking forward to coming back." He says with a sigh. He looks at all of James' back and smiles. "Wow…aren't you prepared. Which bag is the kitchen sink in?" He jokes around with his friend before just blurting out. "Connor's such a jerk."
"I'm roughing if the 2 weeks," James says with a mock grin, "This only accounts for about 1/3rd of the food I'm taking." There's a sigh as Robyn mentions Connor, "Yeah, well…I heard you both arguing from my room — not like I can help it. I hear everyone argue. Drawback of being a mutant. I dunno what his issue is — I visited him. But, whatever. I think he's just PMSing. And, seriously, doesn't know who I am anymore? Dude never bothered to find out who I was ever. Been my biggest complaint about him. And I dunno where he got the idea for you moving rooms, but if it's going to be an issue, he can have the new guy."
"So you heard all that?" Robyn says as he didn't mean for anyone else to hear it. "Honestly I don't know. I don't want to see him right now, I just don't get it. I know this school is stressful but he's just being an outright jerk. Maybe I should have visited him but…fuck." Robyn says shaking his head as it does bug him. "I honestly don't get what he wants me to do, I can't fix his problems for him. I guess cause I have mental powers I'm supposed to be a telepath too."
James shrugs, "You can't visit all of the people all of the time. If you did, you'd spend your entire day down there and miss all your classes." To the rest, he shrugs again after crossing his arms, "I dunno…but…hey…big plans for the week?" It's an attempt to change the topic.
"No real bit plans." Robyn replies taking the change of topic and going with it. "Rashmi and I are gonna hang out one day but that's the only real plans. My parents talked about hitting a museum or something or going down to New Jersey for a day but who knows. I just…I need to get outta here for a bit. I'm going crazy here and it's like every fucking time I start to feel better, more shit happens."
James kicks at one of his bags, "Same here. First time out on my own, I get to drive myself and everything." He sounds more than happy to be claiming that, even if he's missing out of the DR practice, "Though I dunno what Kenta's gonna do while I'm not around to be babysat constantly. Probably call me every 5 minutes to make sure I remmberd to wipe my bum." He smiles wodely.
"I've gotta do that, learn how to drive. I've never driven before but then, you don't really need a license in the city." Robyn says as it's public transportation for whatever you need. He took a subway to school everyday. "Just put your phone on silent and say you dropped it into the river? Besides, you should turn off the phone unless you need it. You don't need anyone calling you call the time while you're trying to enjoy yourself. I think Rashmi's the only one I really wanna see while on vacation, I even need a break from your mug James." Robyn teases as he doesn't really need a break from his friend.
"You're jsut upset because I'm prettier," James says with a smile. Wait…is that a beetle embedded in his teeth?! "And I gotta leave it on…it's part of the deal I made with Emma so that I could go unsupervised. Phone. Image inducer. And nothing that causes legal issues." He shrugs, "Dunno…maybe she's not so bad. Gave me a chance." But, then again, he likes direct approaches, and she handed his request with one. "Make sure you tell Rash I said Hi, okay?"
"Of course, she's been wanting to catch up with you…and…you have something in your teeth…" Robyn says as he notices the bug, whatever floats James' boat. "Image inducer too?!" He knows his friend doesn't like that thing and Robyn doesn't really like it when James uses it either cause it just doesn't suit his friend. That's now how he looks to him. "And if she's giving you a chance, it's cause you earned it. If anyone needs to just relax it's you."
James closes his mouth, runs a tounge over his teeth and then picks out a mostly unpopped popcorn kernal, "Got it." To the inducer, he shrugs, "She never said I had to have it on…I think…just that I had to have it. Hunters and crap. Not like I'll have to worry much, but hey…maybe I'll go looking for them! So, Rash make Avenger yet?"
Robyn chuckles at the last note. "No..not yet. I give it a year, year and a half tops." And he's not fully joking at that. "Yeah well I pity the hunters that run into you. So…what's it like camping? I've never been. It always looked kinda cool. So where abouts are you heading to go camping?"
"I dunno…never been," James says with a grin, "Not like *real* camping." Which is slightly contrary to what he told the staff. "I used all my unspent allowance to rent a cabin in someplace called Pittsburg, New Hampshire. It's basically next to Canada. It's like…7 hours from here." He grins again, 'bug' missing, "MAybe next time you can go."
"Maybe, I think that'd be fun, just going on a trip with friends or something." Another thing Robyn's never done before. "So you're renting a cabin..cheater. No tent and 'roughing' it." He teases but then again if James is in a cabin he wonders what the deal with hunters might be, oh well. "Hopefully I can get a bit of sculpting done while I'm home, I need to catch up on lost time."
James shows soem teeth when Robyn kids about him cheating, "So says the city boy." He pokes at his bags with a foot, "You notice that this team thing hasn't taken off yet? Wonder if they're waiting for the new school year. And…have you seen Selene around? She's *still* here. No one really knowsor is sayingwhy. Dunno how I feel about that."
"I know how I feel about it." Robyn mutters and there's a bit of bitterness to his voice. He doesn't want her to stay around so she can just try to kill them all again. "Yeah, I don't know what's going on with the team, Lucas seems excited about it, which is cool. Who thought I'd go from having Lucas be the first person I've ever punched to my team teacher."
James nods as he tries in vein to do the small talk thing; something he almost always fails in. "Yeah, we'll…we'll see. He's running jack at the moment. But, he still has a some time before school starts."
"Seriously thought, why the fuck are they keeping her here? It doesn't make any sense. Rashmi told me to just 'trust the adults' but you know what, I don't trust them. Especially after this. It's just stupid James. After what she did to you, fuck them James." He's pissed about hearing that she's still around. "Just another damn reason I gotta get out of here for a bit before I lose it."
James pins his ears back a little and lets out a slow sigh, "You know…I hate to say it…but she might be right." He clicks his tongue, "Not that it's wrong that she's right, but that she's right abotu this. But, I still dunno. It's that, and other reasons I'm taking off for a bit. Get some headspace." Perspective. "Emma wanted me to go back in for a post-Selene scan after the first…but I never did. In part because I still don't know if I trust her too. But, you know what, she never came looking for me either. But, what if it's not that she forgot and that she 'might' be leaving it up to me? Which kinda begs to be asked, she else isn't like it seems?" Either good or bad.
Robyn shakes his head. "I really don't know James. The one time I talked with Emma it was her asking me what they could do to have us trust them again. It seems kinda a joke now." He just needs an outlet, something to hate, to blame and it's all on Selene right now. "I hate all of this James, I hate feeling like this, I hate that Connor's doing..what ever the hell he's doing, I hate that she's still here. I need this James…to get away. For as long as possible."
"Well…look at it this way," James says with a shrug, "If you survive this last year, that's it, right? I mean, art school isn't that far off for you." There's a momnet of thought, and a clear directive, "How about you not bring her up around me for a bit. Just…personal reasons." He leaves it at that and leans down to grab some of those bags, "When;s your ride here?"
Robyn is all to happy to agree to that as he doesn't want her brought up at all really. "I gotta start putting a portfolio together and I have to make you something new and hope you don't break it this time." He says with a small smile. "Should be here any minute actually." And almost as if on queue a car pulls up to the gates. "Actually now. James.." Robyn says standing up and in a rare moment goes to give his friend a hug. "See ya when which ever gets back last. Take care out there and…call me if you need to for anything."
James uggghs and moves his hands out of the way, his movements *barely* returning the hug. He's not one for the touch side of things on the best of days—especially with his detection power now working on people — and today isn't one of thosebest days. And as the unofficial leader of Xavier's Lost Boys, he also doesn't do family meeting, reunions, and conversations. So it's probably a surprise that the second Robyn takes his eyes off the 7' hyena, he's simply *gone — bags and everything.
