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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[telekinetic_badass]

Julian scoffed.

"No one'll care if you add a few more scratches to it."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"It's still not abandoned. I don't want to make you leave... whatever you were doing." Wyn points out, sitting down on a chunk of concrete and letting the gun drop gently to the ground. "What was this place?"

[telekinetic_badass]

Julian shrugged nonchalantly. "I used to live there."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Pre- or post-air raid?" Wyn asks, possibly a little too flippantly. The buildings probably would have been beautiful, but there wasn't much left to tell by at this point.

[telekinetic_badass]

That got a rather annoyed side-long look from him.

"Both." Considering the place got bombed every three weeks, it seemed.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"... both?"

Have a rather incredulous side-long look right back, Julian.

[telekinetic_badass]

"Do you not understand English?" Its not a complicated answer to understand.

"Both."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"My English is a hell of a lot better than your Gaeilge, let's put it that way." Wyn snaps. "And I was wondering why you'd stay, not what you said."

[telekinetic_badass]

He shrugged. "Not like there was anywhere safer."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Nowhere safer than a ruined building." Wyn says, nudging a smaller piece of stone with her toe. "Right."

[telekinetic_badass]

"When you first met me, someone had slapped a power inhibitor collar on my neck that was booby trapped with explosives and locked me in a cell, only to take me out to torture me for a few hours." He doesn't say it out loud, but the words you dumbass were obvious in his tone.

"There was nowhere safer than that, and it still got blown up once every six months."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Maybe this is just me not understanding English again--" Yeah, like that comment wasn't going to come back and bite you, Julian. "--but that is not safe. I'm sorry you got tortured, and right now I'm really f%$kin' sorry I removed that collar, but calling a place where things like that happened to you 'safe' is just... baoghaltachd."

[telekinetic_badass]

"Anywhere else and I'd be dead, or captured and tortured again, so my options were kind of limited, honey."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Wyn shrugs. "I'm still not going to shoot it. Honestly, it's not close enough to the neighborhood where reality warps for what I'm trying to do, anyway."

"... you must know my name by now."

[telekinetic_badass]

"Yes." He raised an eyebrow. "What's your point, honey?"

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"Would it kill you to use it?" Seriously, she'd even take Cally at this point.

[telekinetic_badass]

"I prefer calling you 'honey'."

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"So I've noticed." Wyn says, rolling her eyes. "I probably don't need to ask why, do I?"

[telekinetic_badass]

"It suits you." And he enjoys the reaction it gets him.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

Wyn shakes her head. "I don't think so."

The second (unspoken) reason sounds much closer to her original theory.

[telekinetic_badass]

"Then what do you think?"

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"I think that you just like being an arse."

[telekinetic_badass]

"Only to some people," he pointed out. Though 'some more than others' would have been a more accurate description.

[madeofwyn.livejournal.com]

"I feel so special." Wyn says, her tone implying that she's not exactly thrilled by the idea.

[telekinetic_badass]

"You should," he stated. "I'm rather picky about that sort of thing."