Leaving the Office

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:41 pm

When Callie got to the gardens, she got control back.

"Well, fuck," Callie says, miserably.

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:43 pm

"Rough day?" Mallory asks from where she's sitting on a bench not far away.

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:46 pm

"Not a great one," Callie says, "How was yours?"

by **Victoria Valentine** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:47 pm

Victoria came out the door toward the other end of the building, glancing once at Callie and then heading (angrily) toward the dorms.

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:48 pm

"Could be worse. That was quite the psychic outburst I felt in there." she says, looking Vickie's way and following her with her eyes.

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:53 pm

"Yeah, well," Callie shrugs, "Valentine's pissed off at me, but what else is new."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 9:58 pm

"This about the little community-building you're doing in Maldon?"

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:00 pm

"You heard about that?"

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:04 pm

"You might want to take a look at the school network." she says, pulling out a smartphone and bringing up the page Cal had put online to show it to Callie.

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:07 pm

"Wonderful," Callie says, "That's totally going to not provoke a reaction."

"God, I suck at this."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:14 pm

"So why are you here then. Spying on the enemy?" she chuckles.

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:15 pm

"Well, technically I'm here because I still require trained supervision," Callie says, "I'm basically on parole."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:17 pm

"Ah, so they're forcibly saving your poor criminal soul."

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:24 pm

"Sort of," Callie says, "I'm a 'dangerous mutant'. I was on Muir Island for six years."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:31 pm

"How unfortunate. What makes you so much more dangerous than everyone else here?"

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:40 pm

"I would uncontrollable explode and kill everyone around me."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 10:45 pm

"So not dangerous but rather uncontrollable then." she nods. "And why the Brotherhood of Disgruntled Teens?"

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:04 pm

"After that, I can understand being scared of the Institute," Callie says, "I was terrified and angry for years. I had to be locked up and I hated it. I blamed everything on X-Corp and the Institute."

"These kids aren't bad. They're scared, angry, and don't know what to do," Callie says, "They feel trapped. Only the Institute has the resources to help them, but they don't trust them or can't bring themselves to go to the Institute because they're afraid they'll be locked up or brainwashed or even just rejected."

"I just want to help them before they fall in with someone who will manipulate them and use them."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:09 pm

"Sounds like a miserable place to be. Looks like one too."

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:10 pm

"It's not exactly ideal," Callie admits.

"...Plus it really pissed of Valentine, which is really bothering me for some reason."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:14 pm

"Too easy. I'll just let you figure that one out for yourself."

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:16 pm

"It's not what you think," Callie says, rolling her eyes, "I've just known her for awhile. And even though I hate her, she's still the closest thing I have to a friend."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:17 pm

"Of course not. Have you slept with her?"

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:19 pm

"Frequently," Callie says, "And violently."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:21 pm

"So which emotional void are you trying to fill? Parents is the classic, I believe."

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:22 pm

"Well, then I guess I'm a traditionalist," Callie says, "My parents never really had time for me. And that got even worse after I was a mutant that murdered six kids."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:31 pm

"So what you're saying is it's exactly what I think."

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:33 pm

"A series of amazing sexual encounters defined by a need for negative attention?" Callie says.

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:36 pm

"You should probably seek therapy for that." she says, pulling out a pack of smokes, offering it to Callie after fishing out a cigarette for herself.

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:37 pm

Callie takes one, "I tried therapy."

"It didn't take."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:41 pm

"It's not for everyone. So now you're trying to atone by helping the... let's say 'less fortunate'?"

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:43 pm

"Something like that," Callie says, "I know what happened was an accident. I'm at peace with that."

"What I really want to atone for is the kind of person I was before it happened."

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:51 pm

"Well it's commendable. From what that video showed they don't seem the kind to really fit in here."

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:52 pm

"They really aren't," Callie agrees.

by **Mallory Davis** » Wed Apr 03, 2013 11:57 pm

"Do they know you go to school here?"

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:00 am

"Yeah, they know," Callie says, "Some of them don't like it, but they need my money so they deal."

by **Mallory Davis** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:07 am

"Seems like quite a few people don't agree with this whole arrangement."

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 12:09 am

"Yeah, I hear a lot of complaints," Callie says, "Not many suggestions though."

by **Mallory Davis** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:24 am

"Well what exactly are you trying to achieve here. Turn them into productive members of society?"

by **Kaliyah Shah** » Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:03 am

"That's a bit of a stretch," Callie says, "I'd settle for 'getting them to their twenties without ending up dead or in a prison cell'."

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