10/16 Instance: Medlab Musings

[Ferguson]

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<Ankka> Ankka huffed as he sat on his bed, spinning Mjolnir in his hands just for something to do. He'd already finished the book Scott had got for him, and without Noriko here being stuck in medlab just wasn't fun. They'd insisted in keeping him in just to check there'd been no damage from being mind controlled...again.

<Ankka> He'd got over the flashback Rachel had dumped him into with only the smallest amount of whimpering and refusing to sleep, waving away any suggestions he go and see Dai. Finally, he gave up and decided to go and check on the other occupant of medlab. "Hey, Fabian, you avake?"

<@Fabian> Fabian was laying back, mostly asleep with one of the books that Cecilia had brought down laying open on his chest. "Hmm? Yeah, yeah I'm awake." He rubbed the sleep out of his eyes, sitting up a bit as he looked around to Ankka. "How're you?"

<Ankka> He slid in, pulling up a chair and sitting in it. "Bored. Vant out of here." He shrugged. "Also missing Noriko and Lukas, but nothing I can do about that short of trying to find vhere this clinic is." He smiled. "How about you? Took a hell of a knock, yes?"

<@Fabian> Fabian might not miss Noriko all that much but he nodded, wishing he knew were Lukas was, and Clarice. "Soon they should be able to write more openly at least." He chuckled slightly. "Yeah, that I did. I can see straight though so I seem to be fine enough."

<Ankka> "I hope so. Gods know vhat it's going to be like vhen they do though..." He trailed off, shaking his head. "Family keep asking vhere Lukas is. Not really sure vhat to tell them, you know?" Ankka ran his hand through his hair, smiling a little. "Vell, could be vorse...I could have landed on you. Again."

<@Fabian> Fabian wanted to say that Lukas' family should probably be used to not knowing where he was but he kept himself from snarking that just barely. "That wouldn't have been fun either. I figure I got thrown around enough to make up for that though."

<Ankka> It was more Ankka's own parents - he tried avoiding talking to Lukas' if he could, not sure he could bring himself to be polite to them. "Yes...really, I don't think ve had much of a hope in hell getting her. I know Darren's good, but...vell, look at vhat happened. You going to be okay though?"

<@Fabian> "I'm fine." Fabian assured him. "Everything's clearing up and the fracture isn't much at all, there's not much to do for it anyway so I'll be checking out today soon enough, McCoy's just rechecking to make sure nothing else was amiss."

<Ankka> "Some good news." Ankka grinned. "But I take it no drinking for a vhile in celebration, yes?" He shifted a little. "You know, I think I'm going to have to go to Professor Xavier for some tips. Am getting wery tired of being used as a tazer."

<@Fabian> "Yeaaaah, you could definitely use some shielding lessons." Fabian smirked a little bit. "I mean, first my sister and now Rachel, third time's the charm though so hey." He chuckled but groused at the same time. "Yeah, and I'm not going to be too happy about no drinking for a while."

<Ankka> Ankka chuckled a little and rubbed his face. "Is it wrong I don't feel guilty about it? I mean, I vas being controlled, so it's not like I had any choice...still, I didn't think Rachel vould do that." He looked up. "Vell, vhen you get better, I think vodka cake for all, yes?" That reminded him of the missing students again. "School feel vay too empty to you, by the vay?"

<@Fabian> "Why would you feel guilty about it?" Fabian asked, conrused at the notion of it. "She'll do whatever it takes to get to what she really wants to do. I doubt it was something on her list of things to do but there you have it." He nodded for the vodka cake and the fact that everything was much too empty. "I'm no big fan of it."

<Ankka> "Yes...I suppose so. Strange, she seemed like a nice person vhen I met her and vhen she vas in the school." Ankka rubbed the back of his neck. "I alvays see the best in people though, I suppose, that's vhy Rogue escaped." He shook his head. "Vonder if they vill be allowed to come back without powers."

<@Fabian> "She was, she is. It isn't fair to judge her for what happened in that fight. She's being an idiot but she's being manipulated into that role." Some people just needed shaking. "And that wasn't Rogue, either, though you did get played there."

<@Fabian> "Allowed isn't the question. Why would they want to be back here? They don't need the place anymore if it were to work."

<Ankka> "I suppose you're right, but still, I don't like being used to hurt my friends." Ankka shrugged, then looked at Fabian seriously. "This place isn't just about powers, you know. They're still our friends. If they vant to stay here, they should be allowed to. Noriko probably vill, she vants to stay here for me. And a few of them have novhere else to go, yes?"

<@Fabian> "But if they were human they'd have different opportunities as well, plus who's want to be here when they could leave and not be involved in everything that happens to this place? It wouldn't make sense. It might not be about powers but it's definitely about being a mutant."

<Ankka> Ankka snorted. "And for a few of them, ve are family and friends and partners. My girlfriend happens to be one of them. I'm pretty sure they von't just...drop us because they aren't technically mutants any more, yes?" At least he really hoped not. "Besides, if ve treat them badly just for vanting to be human, doesn't that make us as bad as the mutant haters?"

<@Fabian> "You can date someone and not be at school with thim you realize?" Fabian teased. "Who's treating them badly now? I might think it's disgusting that someone can be as self-loathing as to want to change something like that but them not being here isn't treating them badly. I'm saying it'd be safer for them."

<Ankka> Ankka was quiet for a moment. "I can see vhy Noriko vent. Her powers nearly killed her several times, scarred her best friend and she's never been able to have a proper life since. Clarice...vell...eweryone knows her as the Herald now. I don't think it's self-hate, Fabian, I think it's people vanting to be comfortable." He scratched a stubbly cheek. "Personally, I think it's up to them vhether they stay, yes?"

<@Fabian> "At the base of it it's self-hate, that's just symptoms." And Fabian wouldn't be convinced any other way which is why he was confused as to why Lukas had went. He thought he knew his best friend but then something like that happened.

<@Fabian> "And what would happen to them when someone as powerful as Rachel were to attack the school? Nur come back, anyone like that?"

<Ankka> "I know that, Fabian, I've thought about it. I think they have as much right to choose to stay as ve do - I think our encounter vith Rachel shows that even vith powers we're still as helpless as humans, yes?" Ankka sighed. "And I don't think the base is self-hate. You can dislike something about yourself and still like yourself as a whole, you know."

<@Fabian> "Not to the point of that, no. We are mutant. I don't see any difference in between curing that about you or curing anything else you were born as. Might as well open up gay cure clinics and bleach people white. And if they were here and we were attacked we'd more than likely lose any fight because we were too busy protecting them."

<@Fabian> "I mean, are you going to be able to do your part in a fight when you know a human Noriko is in danger maybe the floor under you? It's a liability."

<Ankka> Ankka thought for a moment. "I suppose, but still, if someone has a mutation that causes them or others pain because it can't be controlled..." He said finally. "Personally, I think it's their choice. I thought Nori vas okay vith hers now but..." Gods, he missed her. He shrugged helplessly at Fabian's next question. "So...vhat, ve just tell them to go home? Vhat about the ones who don't have one - you think Lukas vould vant to go to Finland? Vhat about Clarice or Adam, the ones who don't have homes?"]

<@Fabian> "Xaiver is made of money." Fabian pointed out. "What's the difference between giving them free college and helping them start out a human life? He wouldn't abandon a person, plus they have the skills they've learned here, transferable credits into another university, and a friend network."

<Ankka> Ankka was quiet for a moment. "I suppose." He conceded reluctantly. "I just..." Just what, didn't want Noriko to have a life away from him? She could go and take up her dream job if she wanted. He huffed, running a hand through his hair. "Still vondering vhy Jean-Paul, Lukas and the rest are there though. They vere happy, I thought."

<@Fabian> "You're definitely not going to get any understanding from me." Fabian assured him, shaking his head. He knew very well he didn't understand it. "You know any reason Lukas would have given, though?"

<Ankka> "Hell no, Lukas loved being...vell, him." Ankka frowned, shaking his head. "I mean, running avay from home just to get out from my shadow and become who he vanted? Besides, he loved playing vith his powers. I can't think of one reason vhy he'd sign up - keep expecting him to come back from some holiday and tell us he vas shitting vith us or something."

<@Fabian> "He had been doing better relating to people here than me, too." Fabian added, shaking his head. He didn't understand any of it but his head hurt too much to really think about it for too long.

<Ankka> "Vell, vhen they come back ve can ask, yes?" Ankka had been asking himself why for a while now, but they weren't getting any answers until they came home. "I svear, if it turns out that it's someone kidnapping mutants or something I'm going to invent a new meaning for Hammer Time."

<@Fabian> "Just as long as you learn your shielding beforehand, yeah?" Fabian chuckled, leaning back in his bed again, putting his book up on the table beside him.

<Ankka> That got a chuckle back. "I think Darren's planning on banning me from any team he's on. He always ends up the vorse off between us...did you know I first found out I could channel lightning by melting him?"

<@Fabian> "...please don't melt me." Fabian asked, snorting quietly.

<Ankka> "Unless your veakness is having a few thousand volts put through you - vait, that's pretty much everyone's veakness...nevermind." Ankka shook his head. "But no, I seem to melt Darren on a regular basis. Maybe I should buy him a rubber suit to vear on missions..."

<@Fabian> "Our uniforms basically are body condoms, Ankka, I don't think we need to buy him a special one."

<Ankka> "Needs more protection than that then obviously." Ankka grinned. "Maybe some kind of gel to absorb the shocks..."

<@Fabian> "Maybe just not getting electrocuted by the team would be a good thing." Fabian suggested with a smirk. "That way we won't have to stick everyone in a body condom."

<Ankka> "Aw, but think how much fun the fans vould have." Ankka grinned, before shaking his head. "I'll try harder in future. To stop being mind controlled, not shock, I mean."

<@Fabian> "Hey now, I don't have any fans yet. You've got to at least let me get out there before starting in on the gimp suits."

<Ankka> "...You don't vant fans. If you need any more reason, next time you have access to a computer type in 'Thor and Loki'." Ankka shuddered. "Oh god, the fanfiction..."

<@Fabian> "...now how in the hell has he got fans before me? I've been on more X-man business than he has?"

<Ankka> Ankka shrugged. "Because he's Lukas?" He smirked. "And probably because he can have an impressive rack if he vants. I have the whole Finnish pornstar thing going, vhat vith the hammer and all. I think I'll need to leak that ve're cousins though...unless that just makes it vorse." He shuddered.

<@Fabian> "Still though, that rack hasn't even been out there yet." Fabian narrowed his eyes at Ankka, wondering if he was somehow manufacturing these fans.

<Ankka> He wasn't. Someone else might be but Ankka did not want fans with that kind of imagination. "Hasn't it? Then I don't know." He rubbed his cheek, before chuckling. "That'll be my revenge vhen he gets out. He can have every single picture I can find planted in his stuff."

[puppygirl]

Clearly Fabian hasn't done a google image search with safe search off if he wants the sorta fans the others are getting

[tears~fall~like~glass]

Now I'm just imagining Darren having this suit:

[puppygirl]

Sel probably already bought him one