22 - Alpha Librae - Video

[fireincarnate]

[Jean's up late, because she doesn't dare sleep. She doesn't want her mind to pull her back to a different life; a life full of gushing blood and twisted metal.

It's not worse, exactly, than feeling D'Bari die. But knowing she's capable of it without any influence, any corruption - it makes her feel sick inside.

Her fingers twist in her hair as she speaks, solemnly pensive.]

It's funny, isn't it? How one little change can turn us into something we've been fighting most of our lives. [All it took was Magneto finding her first.]

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[neuropathy]

Not when you're born into it.

[ It's almost funny, when he thinks of how many people have tried to leave Haven, and how that never seems to work out.

(It's not funny.) ]

[private]

[fireincarnate]

You can try to ignore it, but... [She shakes her head. She thinks of Dazzler, who only ever wanted to sing. Kitty Pryde, who can never just be a teenage girl.]

Charles wanted that. For people to be able to lead normal lives, one day. For it not to matter how you were born.

[private]

[neuropathy]

Wasn't exactly his M.O. when I met him.

[ Still, he knows Charles as he is here, at least a little. Enough that the complications from the Mirror Barge discomfit. ]

[private]

[fireincarnate]

[A wry smile.] No. He changed the same way I did, more or less.