Memories Left Abandoned [Open]

[telekinetic_badass]

After his confrontation with Sofia, Julian wandered around for a while. He didn't really pay attention to where he was going, and in his travels, he wandered into the area of the city that contained several ruins. He didn't really pay them any mind, at least until he stumbled across one that he recognized.

The Xavier Institute for Higher Learning.

Even as it was, he'd recognize the place. It was his home, once. But like most everything else in his life that he thought he could count on forever, it was reduced to nothing more than ashes and rubble.

For a moment, he wondered if this was the Nightmare King's doing, but he knew the truth. He knew exactly who he was and where he was. He scoffed at the bitter irony of the situation.

"Who needs nightmares when this is your life?"

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[magictrkswwater.livejournal.com]

"I don't know. There could be worse places."

From behind him was another voice, that of Irma. There was probably a hint of annoyance in her voice - she recognized that sort of building. Another school. Greaaaaaaaaaaaat...

"So, what brings you here? And what's with the blah in your voice?"

[telekinetic_badass]

"You'd be surprised."

There was more than a hint of annoyance in his voice at being disturbed. If anything, both his tone and his stance shifted to a stance of excuse you

"Who the hell are you?"

[magictrkswwater.livejournal.com]

"Irma." she replied flatly. If he wanted to go the all-high and mighty stance, then that's fine by her. She's dealt with it.

"And lemme guess, you're King of the World, aren't ya?"

[telekinetic_badass]

He should be King of the World. He was practically the Prince of Mutantkind. But his Kingdom was razed to the ground before he inherited it.

"Something like that. What do you want?"

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Is that a rhetorical question?"

Nura is standing a few paces behind him, floating in mid-air. She had been flying around the city for a while to shake the cobwebs from her head, when she spotted the young man. A vision later, and she was right there.

She tilts her head, and looks softly ahead. "I miss my home too."

[telekinetic_badass]

"I don't," he practically spat out. He missed how his home used to be. How it was before he showed up here... well, by that time he didn't have much of a home left.

"And that was a rhetorical question."

[foreseen-future.livejournal.com]

"Mhmhmmm..." Nura let's the snark in his voice go on ignored. She's used to dealing with emotionally complicated people.

"But you must have had some good memories at least." She shrugs, floating over and touching down near a pile of rubble. She sits down. "I'm sorry if I am prying, Julian."

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian scoffed. Any happy memories he had were so long ago they seemed like another lifetime.

"I doubt that," he muttered, in response to her comment about prying. "Let me guess, teleapth?"

[powersurge.livejournal.com]

"I was just wondering the same thing." A voice that would be familiar to Julian drifted out from behind one of the wrecked walls, a moment later followed by the Japanese girl with blue hair. She hopped down off the ledge and walked over, her brow slightly furrowed.

"Are you okay?"

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian was quiet for a moment. He didn't really know how to answer the question.

He finally turned his head to look at her. "I'm surprised you and Sofia aren't having a little girls night out."

[powersurge.livejournal.com]

Nori just arched an eyebrow at him, tilting her head slightly to the side while one gauntlet clad hand came up to rest on her hip.

"You and I both know that's not really my kind of thing. Besides, it's much more exciting hanging around dilapidated ruins." She glanced away from him, back at what was left of the front door. Truthfully, she hated seeing the place destroyed. It had been the first real roof over her head, the first place where she'd been allowed to feel safe, since she first ran away from her family, after her father rejected her mutant abilities.

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian smirked a bit.

"Yeah, plenty of excitement to be found around here." Nothing said fun quite like a bombed out wall.

"Though I figured you'd be happy to see her." Nori wasn't exactly his favorite person, and he definitely wasn't hers. But he assumed she and Sofia were still friends, and it would be nice to have a friend around.

[sooraya.livejournal.com]

Someone was sitting there, looking up at the ruined building.

"Hey," Sooraya said with a bemused grin on her face. "At least you're a bit more used to it than I am."

Sure, he wasn't the same Julian she knew and loved to antagonize. But he was close enough.

[telekinetic_badass]

That got an annoyed look from him.

"Lucky me," he muttered. "What do you want?"

[sooraya.livejournal.com]

"World peace," she quipped. "But I don't think that's possible, given how it blew up..."

"You know, I get that we're technically strangers. And that's a little weird, but at the same time it's quite nice. You don't want to kill me, apparently..."

The other Julian... some days, it seemed like that's what he was after.

[telekinetic_badass]

"Give it time," he responded. He may grow to dislike her, yet.

"So why'd your Julian want to kill you?"

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Wyn has been searching the City for a relatively abandoned place to test the modified percussion gun she carried strapped across her shoulders. The ruined school in front of her seems like a pretty good place to start... except it quickly became apparent to her as she rounded a corner that it wasn't abandoned at all.

"Oh. Um..." Wyn freezes, noticing who was standing in the wreckage. Well, this is awkward.

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian glanced at his guest, but looked away a moment later.

"Something I can do for you, honey?"

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Wyn sighs, pinching the bridge of her nose. She looks exhausted, even compared to the rest of the crew; the past couple of days have obviously taken a lot out of her.

"No, I was looking for someplace abandoned or a building no one would care about if I accidentally rendered it unusable for a while. This is neither, so..."

[girl-of-steel.livejournal.com]

"For some people, this might actually be called...pleasant."

Wow, Julian, there's a face you haven't seen for awhile.

Kara smiles shyly at the mutant, her hands behind her back and her feet gently touching down on the ground.

"At least the whole place didn't explode," she added. "Hi."

[telekinetic_badass]

"Kara...?" He really hadn't seen her in a while.

"Hey..." Just give him a second, he'll be suave after he processes this.

[girl-of-steel.livejournal.com]

"I know. I've got to stop disappearing into the ether." She turns to look at the ruins and frowns. "This building means something to you, doesn't it? Home?"

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

Behind him, someone picks up a piece of rubble. He likely doesn't hear him approach, but then, when you can fly, even when you're walking, your footsteps tend to be light.

"That's funny," says a familiar voice behind him, "but last I checked, this wasn't exactly your life."

[telekinetic_badass]

That got something of a snort out of Julian. He turned his head slightly towards Kon, but didn't actually look at him.

"Then what is this?"

[so-pregnable.livejournal.com]

"The past."

He adds, "See, 'cause the present involves friends like me, crazy end of the world crap, and more tentacles than a Japanese schoolgirl can handle."