We're Painting The Roses Red

by **Wanda Johansen** » Wed Aug 29, 2012 10:48 am

Wanda walked through the rose garden, carrying several large bags of material. She set them down in strategic places for the grounds staff to make use of. She set the last one down and stopped for a moment, stretching.

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by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:51 am

"Need some help?"

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 7:59 am

"I''m good for the moment. They don't like lugging these things around, so they ask me to put them out here ahead of time. Gives me time to admire the garden, so it all works out," Wanda said, turning to face Sara.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:03 am

"Yeah, I like coming out here for some peace and quiet."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:17 am

"I like the open air. Things always feel a bit cramped inside, so I'm out here whenever I have time. Not looking forward to winter."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:20 am

"It's not so bad if you don't mind the drizzle." she chuckles. "Did they at least give you a fitting bed?"

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:25 am

"Yes, the thing's huge, but then so am I," she said with a chuckle of her own. "It does take up a substantial part of my bedroom though."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:31 am

"Yeah, the dorms aren't exactly spacious. The alternative is living next door to the professors, which is... odd sometimes."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 8:50 am

"I'll pass on that for now. We'll see how things go with my roommates this year, but I'm not overly worried about that. Being around the professors would just be too strange."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:00 am

"It's a strange school." she chuckles. "And hey, it means Robin's as safe as she could possibly be."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:02 am

"How's she doing? I saw her at the party the other day. She seemed to be going to town on that pizza."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:10 am

"She's great. When she wants to be anyway. But she's still the best thing that could have happened to Will and me." she smiles.

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:50 am

"I'm told a lot of children are like that. Good when they want to be, terrors when they want to be."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 9:53 am

"Doesn't help that she's learning how to reach up to tables and counters."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:00 am

"Has she started climbing yet?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:08 am

"Oh, no no. She's been learning that she can stretch her arms out and Will has done his best to encourage her."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:18 am

"Shame on him then," Wanda said with a laugh.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:36 am

"Well in his defense, it is adorable." she smiles. "And I do hope she can grow up never having to think she's weird or different for it."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:42 am

"We'll all do what we can to help in that regard. I think all of us who eventually want children want that for them."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:46 am

"That's the amazing thing about this place. She has so many aunts and uncles. I mean what two year old can say she knows actual dragons and angels and giants." she smirks.

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 10:54 am

"Not many," Wanda said, chuckling. "Although I imagine there will be more as time goes on."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:03 am

"It really is one big family here. Mostly."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:14 am

"Well, we have to look out for each other. No one else seems particularly eager to... not without trying to use us at any rate. Though like most familys, we've had our share of bad apples."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:18 am

"I don't know about bad. Sour maybe."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:24 am

"Better choice of words," Wanda nodded.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 11:59 am

"And I guess we have to stick closer together than ever now with that MRA non-sense in the US."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:04 pm

"I don't understand the Americans really. They make little to no sense. But I thought that before the MRA nonsense."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:16 pm

"I'd say something but then again her Majesty's finest built dozens of Sentinels 'just in case'..."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:20 pm

"I'm sure Sweden has under-the-table agreements with the Americans and the British to get help to deal with a 'mutant problem', whatever that means for them."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:24 pm

"Sometimes it feels like 'existing' is halfway over the line already."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:30 pm

"I think it ultimately all boils down to people being afraid," Wanda said, "with the occasional truly evil bastard who's just out to use the situation."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:34 pm

"Yeah... Yet anyone can grab a gun and shoot someone but somehow that is about freedom over there." she sighs.

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:39 pm

"Yeah, kids wearing collars and stuff like that? That's public safety right there," she said with a frown.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 12:55 pm

"It's just ridiculous. Genetic screening? Guess we're officially a genetic defect now."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:06 pm

"Well, they were already thinking it, now they have license to say it," Wanda said, picking up a stray stone and working it in her hand.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:16 pm

"Well I'm gonna prove them wrong. Not that those kind of people listen to science and reason but still..."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:26 pm

"I suppose it should phase me less, since people already thought I was a bit of a genetic freak even before they found out I could bench press a truck, but it still irritates me," she said, crushing the small stone between her hands with an audible crunch.

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:31 pm

"Growng up with it doesn't really excuse it though."

by **Wanda Johansen** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:35 pm

"Well, no," Wanda allowed, "but you'd think it wouldn't still make me quite so damn angry."

by **Sara Stanton** » Thu Aug 30, 2012 1:40 pm

"Nothing like a bit of righteous anger..."

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