Flights of Meh-ncy [Open]

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

Pixie darted around the skyline of the city, quite honestly bored with herself. She supposed that she could have gone to the media library, but really wasn't something she was feeling all that moment, and one could only groove to so many Dazzler tunes in the Sensoriums before getting bored of that as well.

Exhausting all of her resources (and convincing herself that it would be improper to sell people her hallucinogenic pixie dust), Pixie had instead decided to play Tinkerbell. Sure, it was immature, but she had wings, and what better thing to do than circle around this castle or that, pretending to be the famous fairy that Walt Disney had made his mascot so many years ago?

A lot, actually, Megan, Pixie thought to herself as she circled around the Gotham Clocktower before coming down in the statuary.

She hadn't actually seen this place before either, now that she came to think of it. Hopefully, none of the statues here would show her things she would rather not know. She'd had enough of that upstairs.

She landed in front of Luke Skywalker and flipped a switch at its base. Nothing. She flipped it again. Still nothing. Pixie then backed away and sprinkled sparkly pixie dust on the statue. Still nothing, but at least it looked pretty?

Pixie sighed.

She needed something...adventurous.

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[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"And Julian," Pixie adds, sad that Gambit is gone. He was amusing.

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Julian can suck his own balls." Sofia said sharply, without thinking.

Oh wait, did Stacy actually translate all that?

Oops.

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

Pixie's black eyes bulged and her mouth dropped open.

"Sofia! Language!"

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Sofia winced. "I'm sorry, Megan. I did not mean to say that." Erm. "I know. Let's go flying together. We can race each other to some place."

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"That would be great!" Pixie exclaimed. "But first? We nee to talk about what's going on with the cursing and the everything." That was her stern face, Sofia. You better listen or she'll "accidentally" dust you.

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Sofia sighed. "I'm so sorry Megan. It will not happen again. I must have picked up some more bad habits than I thought."

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"You don't need to apologize to me, luv. But you do need to tell me what's going on?" She tilted her head. "Did Julian do something moronic again?"

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

She rolled her eyes. "When is he not? Though I thought even he wouldn't-" She took a deep breath. "He either made out with or slept with this girl who broke my rib. I don't know which and I don't want to talk about it. And he told me I wasn't just some cheap fuck." She muttered that last bit.

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

Pixie's eyes widened at the curse again, but she ignored it beyond that reaction. Instead, she reached out and pulled Sofia into a tight hug.

"I'm sorry."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

Sofia was in shock for precisely five seconds before she promptly burst into tears. She buried her face in Pixie's shoulder.

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

Pixie held Sofia closer. She gently patted Sofia's head with her hand. "It's alright, sweetie. Let it out. Just...I'm here for you, okay?" she gently whispered, her heart going out to her friend. As much as she liked Kara, and as much as she liked Julian, she hated seeing Sofia like this. Sofia had been the heart of the younger X-Men. The soul. And to see her crushed like this... "It's okay,' she repeated. "It's okay."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"I am-" Sofia sobbed. "I am- so mad at myself."

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"Because...?" Pixie gently coaxed Sofia. She didn't want to ask any specifics, in case it made Sofia feel worse. Because that would just be all kinds of wrong.

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Be-" Sofia sniffled. She turned her head so she could rest her cheek against Pixie's shoulders. She didn't want to pull away, even to talk. "Because I fell for it, Megan. All of it. His lies, him saying he cared about me, that I wasn't just-" She closed her eyes. "And worse, I fell for him. Even after everything. I should have just- I knew this would happen. Damn it. That's why I never said goodbye in the first place!"

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

Pixie frowned. "None of this is your fault, sweetie. You didn't plan on any of this, you didn't intend for it. And I know that won't take your anger away, but you can't blame yourself. Things just happen, against one's best wishes. Take it from someone who lost a piece of her soul." Pixie kissed her fingertips and lightly touched them to Sofia's cheek - the only sort of sisterly kiss she could afford to give her friend just then. "You have to remember that. It's not your fault."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"No, it is my fault. A lot of things have happened that I couldn't stop- that none of us could stop- but this was all on me. It's because of how I act or how impulsive I am or- or-" She paused before finally stammering out the next words. "Or because I'm not pretty enough. There has to be SOMETHING!"

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"Tch. Sofia. You're plenty pretty. All the boys back home thought so," Pixie gently said. "That has nothing to do with it. And the other stuff - - it's really less you than it his him. And you know Julian. Remember that time he came to the dance with the three surviving Cuckoos? Which is really for the better, if all five had been there, I'm pretty sure that Esme would have tried to kill him. You shouldn't blame yourself, and I won't let you."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"I-" Sofia pulled back and wiped the tears from her eyes. "I just want someone to love me for me and not what mutant gene I have or don't have. Or what grades I get in school or how big my breasts are or any of that."

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"Oh, sweetie. You'll find that guy. You will." Pixie reached out and placed a gentle hand on her friend's shoulder. "And if you thought that a guy like that didn't exist in your world, well, guess what? We're in a melting pot of alternate universal cultures. Maybe your guy is somewhere here already?"

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Maybe. But the best I have managed is, well, second best." She took a deep breath and looked up.

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"Oh honey. If I thought it'd cheer you up any, I would throw a handful of dust in your face." She brushed back her hair. "But it wouldn't." Pixie thought about that. "Just because you came in second best now, doesn't mean you will again. At some point, you have to be first best."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"If it was just once or twice- but my whole life." Sofia's lower lip trembled. "Sometimes I wish that Stacy left me to die. It was fine with me. I was- it was not a bad way to die."

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"I really wasn't kidding about the dusting you," Pixie warned. "Really."

[ayasofia.livejournal.com]

"Sorry. Sorry." Sofia held up her hands in a 'please don't dust me' gesture. "I just... why did it have to be her? If it was someone else that would be fine but..."

[sniff-my-dust.livejournal.com]

"...not someone who goes by the name Supergirl?" Pixie asked.