Reading outside (Issue 1, downtime week 4)

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:40 pm

Ms. McManus had some time between the classes she taught and had by this point handled most of her backlog. To celebrate, she'd picked up some sandwiches and tea from the cafeteria and gone out to a bench in the quad to read the newspaper.

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:48 pm

A clear pink ball bumped into Sam's feet and she would probably hear a string of delightful curses in the ensuing moments. On closer inspection of the ball a tiny girl would be revealed, nursing her head and angrily kicking the plastic walls.

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:50 pm

Surprised, Ms. McManus folded up the paper and looked down. She quirked a brow.

"...why, hello there."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:56 pm

Tink blinked and gave her head a shake, looking up with a smile. In a few moments a hatch popped open and the pint size girl was dangling out the top.

"Top of the morning too you Gulliver!"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 8:57 pm

"Don't believe we've met. I was away from the campus for awhile. I'm Ms. McManus."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:04 pm

"Tink R Bell, at your service Ms. McManus!" Tink pulled herself up so that she was sitting on the lip of the hatch, her legs crossed.

"Did you go somewhere exciting then?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:05 pm

"No, mostly drudgery. They can't all be winners, aye?"

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:17 pm

"Me fathers a Minister, our holidays consisted of trips too mass in a different county! Don't even get me started on the Christmas feast!" Tink chuckled cheerily.

"Least you are back where the parties at now, eh?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:20 pm

She chuckled.

"Sounds like when I was younger, and I had to convince my cousins to take me clubbing in Dublin. There just wasn't much to do in Wicklow."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:26 pm

Tink chuckled at that.

"The villages aren't all that bad, could be worse - could be living in Wales."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:29 pm

"I think I can appreciate it a bit better now in hindsight, but for a number of years I just told people I was from Dublin, because most of them knew where that was."

"Of course, now I'm 'that red-haired superhero from Ireland. No, the other one.'" She smirked.

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 9:35 pm

"Could be worse? You could be the evil mutant supremicist who brought the Devil to a school for heavily influential children." Tink offered helpfully.

"Why not just hand out Go Team Evil tshirts and be done with it?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:07 pm

"...that would be someone I used to date, unfortunately."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:12 pm

"Ouch! Thats got to hurt! " Tink pulled a face and shook her head sympathetically.

"What was that like? I can't imagine Lumis as being..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:13 pm

"I was a teenager, and he was a pretty, pretty boy with a belly full of fireflies."

"Beyond that? He accepted me when I didn't quite have a handle on my powers yet."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:21 pm

"Its always the pretty ones, huh? They seem to do a girl the most damage." Tink nodded sagely.

"I never really had the troubles some do when they mutate. Apart from the shrinking thing. I was lucky."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:23 pm

"Can always change. I certainly had no idea what things would be like for me in the end when mine first manifested."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:33 pm

"I'm sorry to appear rude Ma'am but could you tell me what your manifestation is?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:35 pm

"Telepathy, shapeshifting. When I started out, I merely shifted into what people around me were thinking about."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:38 pm

"Seriously? That would be hard to deal with... especially at this school - the amount of pervs around.. that would just suck."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:40 pm

"I got a handle on it well before university. My mum and dad sent me to Xavier's across the pond after I accidentally turned into a nightmare my little sister had been having. I was a recluse my first year, for the most part."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:48 pm

"I just went to a human school, where I had always been, I was lucky like that. No one in my life has ever been that put off by the change - if anything this made me more popular." Tink smiled.

"I can't imagine what I would have done if I had been sent to a school oversea's - you must be very brave."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 10:54 pm

"Bit miserable for awhile, but it was probably the best thing for me. There weren't really any schools for mutants but Xavier's back then. The Academy of Tomorrow didn't open until after the attack on Genosha, and I was already enrolled at that point."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:15 pm

"Sometimes it can be hard to see the best thing for us until after the fact. You look like you turned out pretty good anyways."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:17 pm

"Aye. You likely will too. Mister Taylor may be acting administrator, but this is still one of the Xavier's Institutes. That means something."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:20 pm

"Its very difficult to remember that, that this is one of Xaviers institutes. Its almost just like its a name that was taken on but doesn't really mean anything... " Tink mused.

"I haven't met Lumis, don't know if I would like too - sometimes I just don't know when to keep my mouth shut."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:23 pm

"There's enough different viewpoints on the faculty that this isn't about to become the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants Band Boosters anytime soon, aye?"

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:29 pm

"What can any of you do though? If Lumis and Binary decide that they want to send us to Magneto for some sort of weird training and make us all evil and stuff, what could the faculty really do about it?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:32 pm

"We go to Charles. That's the thing, even Dom has someone he answers to, as far as the university is concerned."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:37 pm

"Professor Xavier? I mean, I guess that makes sense, kind of hard to imagine him bothering with us though..." TInk shrugged.

"Do you think they remember they aren't the ones in total control?"

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:39 pm

"This university is a flagship program for X-Corporation. You can bet your arse if it becomes an embarrassment Charles will intervene."

"Barbara and Dom aren't stupid in the least. I doubt they'll run the place into the ground."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:43 pm

"Thats not really what I meant but I take your point." Tink considered this for a moment.

"Its more likely to be covert ops and dodgy deals and things isn't it? There are a lot of students that wouldn't question what they were asked to do if the right person was to ask them."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:45 pm

"I wouldn't worry about it too much. I've known Barbara and Dom longer than anyone, and I do still consider them friends, in spite of their faults."

"I don't think the sky is falling just yet."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:48 pm

"Yet? That has to be the most ominous word in our language."

"I'm not afraid, thats not really who I am, I'm a tank."

by **Samantha McManus** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:50 pm

She smirked.

"So we're going to be mounting tiny artillery on that ball?"

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Mon Jul 27, 2009 11:54 pm

Tink laughed happily, her chiming sounds echoing across the Quad.

"I like you Ms M! You are a good 'un!" She flitted up to perch on the bench, grinning. She raised the back of her hand to her mouth and stage whispered.

"And for the record my brother Elijah is making me my own tank."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:06 am

"Pink like everything else?"

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:12 am

"Well the hair is part of my mutation and the boys, thats my brothers, always liked to remind me I was a girl even when I didn't want to act like one - so I suspect Pink camoflague will be the order of the day." Tink grinned.

"Its okay though - got to rock what you got and people expect the crazy from me now, can't let down my fans."

by **Samantha McManus** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:14 am

"Reminds me of my love/hate relationship with the color green."

by **Trinity Cleaver** » Tue Jul 28, 2009 12:18 am

"Being a redheaded shamrock weilding Irish woman in green couldn't get much more cliche, to be sure!" Tink chuckled cheekily.

"Though we all need a gimmick to attract sponsors."

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