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Don't Play That Song [Open]

Sofia had gone to one of the Sensorium rooms to try out several ideas for prom. She still needed to call everyone together to organize the event, but she wanted to try things out by herself just so she'd have an idea.

She'd all ready gone through several versions with different themes. From elaborate and intricately decorated ballrooms to simpler ideas. Right now she was done to the bare bones of the room, clearing it before going to the next idea. There some tables in the corner, a buffet (with no food at the moment), and balloons scattered around the place.

Sofia looked around, her expression blank at first but then hardening. The air around her swirled, picking up speed until it could be heard. And then she lashed out. The balloons were tossed around, soon joined by the tables and chairs, and then the buffet itself. There were loud popping sounds as the balloons collided against the chairs and tables. Then the wind ripped the furniture apart. The storm didn't stop until everything was ripped into pieces. Sofia let it all fall to the ground. She stood in the middle of the wreckage. Silent.

Alone again.

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"But isn't losing control the whole point?" he teased.

"Just have it ready." Sofia turned away from Julian. She looked at the forest and frowned. Well, this was all simulated.

She reached out with her hands. It may not have been necessary but it was always easier that way. She closed her eyes, feeling the patterns of the wind until it felt like it was flowing through her. And then she changed it, making it go faster, but not where they were- only in the forest. She had it go faster and faster, and then changed its direction. It turned in circles. Now it was no longer audible but visible- and starting to bend the trees.

She opened her eyes to check her progress. Good, but she knew she could do better.

Her mouth thinned into a line. She narrowed her eyes and started to clench her right hand into a fist.

Come on.

The first tree was ripped from the ground, followed by another, and another.

"Come on." She spoke in Spanish but Stacy translated.

A part of her was thinking she could have done this before she lost her powers and that just added one more disappointment to her long list.

She used to feel so in tune with everything. Sometimes it was like she could feel the air as if it were an extension of her breath. Even when she had to hide it, asked to by her mother, or uncle, and then her father- it was always a part of her. Until she lost it. Until it was taken from her.

From miles away the wind howled. There were loud cracks as half of the forest was ripped from the ground. The trees slammed against each other in midair.

She'd blocked out many of her memories. She couldn't remember most of the hitchhike back to New York, but she could still remember Emma Frost and Scott Summers not asking but telling her to leave. Having to leave her friends and home.

How badly things went those first few days at her father's house. So many hopes that her father had changed. That now that she wasn't a mutant he would love her. That something good would come of this. But it became clear that she was an orphan and had been since the day her mother died. Since her uncle gave up on raising the niece he'd loved and cared for just because she'd had powers.

When Miranda Mantega had died she hadn't just lost a mother. She'd lost her uncle and cousins. She'd never had a father to lose, but she had had hopes. She lost her home and her friends, first when she was forced from Brazil and then at Xavier's.

And then it wasn't just her who had lost her friends but everyone. They were dead. Dead. And whose fault was it that she didn't get to say goodbye? Frost's? Summers'? No, it was too convenient to blame them. She knew whose fault it really was. She ran away. Just like she'd run away from her father, from her old life, from who she'd used to be. Like how she'd run away when Jubilee offered her one more chance to be the person she used to be. She'd kept running and running until she couldn't any more.

At least in the last moment of her life- before Stacy had saved her- at least then she had been herself. She'd done something she could be proud of, even if it cost her life.

And then she'd come on board Stacy. And what had she done then? Ruin every second chance she'd ever been given. Waste it all.

And now Laurie was gone and she might never see her again.

By now the entire forest was gone- along with a large portion of the soil. It was all careening through the air in a large windstorm- one that was very swiftly approaching the two mutants.

Well, Sofia had finally let go. She could feel the first few tears fall down her face and it only made her angrier. For being so weak in front of someone she couldn't afford to look vulnerable in front of. Her face twisted into a grimace and the trees swirled up into one massive tornado but she couldn't control everything and the rest of the debris scattered for miles around.

Julian let out a long, low whistle at the sight. That was... impressive.

"Not bad," he told her, and he was about to say something more when he noticed the tears. He stopped, not sure how to handle this. She didn't look to be in any kind of physical pain, so...

"Sofia?"

"Wait." She was rapidly realizing just how little control she now had over the storm. She tried to slow everything down but it was so widespread, she kept forgetting about one area- which pushed into another and another. It had a life of its own now and she was too drained to stop it. So she let it all go, giving it one final push in the direction opposite of them. Hopefully that would keep it away. If it didn't then she could always end the simulation.

Now that she was no longer concentrating Sofia realized just how exhausted she was. Her shoulders hunched over and she took a deep breath. She didn't bother to wipe the tears from her face or turn to Julian, instead watching the storm move off.

Julian stood just off to the side of her, watching the storm as it went off on its own. He didn't say anything for a while, not sure of what to say.

Sofia quickly wiped the tears from her face and took a few moments to compose herself. She smiled and turned to Julian. "That was cutting loose."

Julian shrugged with his eyebrows, and nodded his head towards the storm a bit.

"Feel better?"

Sofia shrugged. "A little." Not nearly enough.

He placed his hand on her back again, figuring that that was safer than trying to hug her.

"Don't worry about it too much."

"Thank you." She said softly. "What about you? It's your turn now."

"I don't know if you can handle it," he teased.

"Then why don't you- what is that saying? Put your money where your mouth is." Sofia teased back, easily falling into their usual banter.

Reeeeaaaalllly now?

"Okay then. Come here."

And just as quickly as she'd slipped back to how things used to be, her smile vanished. She took a step back. "Why?"

Sorry Julian, it's not you it's... O.K., it kinda is you.

"Because if I'm really going to cut loose, the safest place for you to be is as close to me as humanly possible." And he meant that in the most literal sense.

Her eyebrows raised at that. She paused ever so slightly but then stepped closer. "As long as you do not try anything, please."

"Would I ever do-- ...yeah, I can't get through that with a straight face. Of course I would, but, for you, I won't." He then promptly placed his hands on her hips, then pulled her close until her body was flush against his.

"Now wrap your arms around me and hold on tight." And, yes, this was him genuinely not trying anything.

~~Well, that was arousing.~~ "Are you sure you're not trying anything?" She didn't try to pull away but she hadn't put her arms around him.

"I'm sure." His hands weren't on her ass ~~yet~~, after all.

"Though, seriously? I need you to trust me on this. If you don't, you could get hurt." Though trust has always been an issue in their relationship.

Trust and trying to read each others languages.

Sofia sighed and put her arms around his shoulders. "I do trust you- at least that you won't hurt me. Physically."

He leaned back a little and looked off the side. He planted his tongue firmly in his cheek to keep from responding immediately, but he had to admit that that stung a little.

He took a breath, and decided to let that go for the moment. ~~Its not like anything he could say would change her mind anyway.~~ Instead, he let his powers slowly flick to life.

As they were both surrounded by the green light of his powers, he looked at her a little strangely. His powers were something like an extended sense of touch, and the more energy he started to draw out, the more he could feel her.

I mean, yeah, she was pressed up against him, so he could feel her plenty, but there was sense of true depth there with his tk. She would probably only feel something akin to a breeze that was going right through her. But he could feel her heart beating inside of her chest. He could feel the blood circulating through her veins. He could feel every time molecule of air as she took a breath. He could even feel her kidneys working, which was both fascinating and disturbing to him.

Still, he had never really seen or felt someone like this before.

She hadn't actually wanted to hurt him. Well, perhaps a small part of her did, but really it was the truth. There weren't any illusions here. They both knew why it wouldn't work.

Of course, she was only ~~mutant~~ human. Julian could feel her heart beating faster than normal. Three guesses as to why, and the first two didn't count.

Sofia wasn't actually looking at Julian but at the light around them, her eyes wide in wonder. She'd seen his power but it was clear that some things had changed since they were at Xavier's.

Eventually, his powers started passing completely through her, passing through the gaps between atoms, which is what he wanted. He basically had just tricked his mind into thinking that, like his own skin or his own clothes, her body was part of him, and thus not to be damaged by his powers.

And that she was safe, he smirked a little.

"Just watch this, beautiful."

The forest had reset, only with the two of them in the middle of it this time. He surrounded them in a sphere of energy, and he concentrated, pouring more and more of his power into it. It was just a ball of concentrated force, and it was agitating the air around it so violently that the wind it kicked up was already starting to flatten the trees nearest to them.

He continued to pour more and more energy into the sphere, as much as it could hold. And when he couldn't contain it anymore, he let it all go.

He went off like a nuke, an explosion that was as deafening as it was blinding, unleashing a burst of pure force in every direction, with them at the very center of it all. And when it was over, they were still standing...

...well, more like floating, as the ground beneath them was flattened to a blast crater. And the forest?

What forest? There wasn't anything left for over a quarter-mile in every direction.

Yeah, Sofia was more than a little awed.

"I had no idea you could do that."

"Yeah..." Neither did he, really.

He looked around at the damage for a moment, then looked back at Sofia, and he was keenly aware that she was right there.

Don't Play That Song [Open]

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