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[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Okay, I feel like I'm completely out of my depth.

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[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. What's up buttercup? Need help with something? Burying a body? Is it burying a body?

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Thank god, no. It's this new guy, the one I brought back with me after the mission with Gar and Kurt. I just...I keep saying the wrong things around him. I didn't warn him about the potential problems...like demons...I forgot to tell him I had telepathy and then I just was like 'heh, I'm psychic' and now I'm about to meet with him to tell him...God, I feel like I'm a teenager again.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Wait... is this guy over 21? Cuz... dude. It seems like you TOTALLY have an itch for him!

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

WHAT? No no no no no no. No. It's not like that at all. First of all, I'm extremely married. And he's 10 years younger than me.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

So? Gar's nearly ten years younger than me. Younger men have stamina. Why are you so nervous around this guy if you don't have an itch?

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

And there go the mental pictures again...

I don't know. I didn't tell him about the potential danger coming here...I feel like I should have. This place has become like a giant flashing neon sign for trouble. Yes, people need somewhere to go but...at the cost of their own potential safety?

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Sorry!

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, and it seems pretty clear that as mutants, we're not normal people, and bad shit's going to happen to us wherever we are. At least at the mansion we can help each other.

Don't tell anyone I said that. If you do, I'll say I was shit-faced.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

I know you can't help it.

I try to tell myself that...but I guess...after the Fury, seeing my students...former...students...nearly killed, it makes me regret being one of the catalysts for getting them into this life.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that makes sense. And hey, there's another argument in the Pros section of my Pros and Cons list for quitting teaching!

Spa day this weekend?

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're quitting teaching? Did you tell me and I forgot...if so, I'm sorry. I think I'm forgetting a lot of things lately.

Yes. Please. With wine.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

No, you didn't forget. This is a new thing. And I don't know yet, but I'm thinking about it...

Oh yes, wine and pizza. And brownies.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

What brought this on?

Chocolate too...I'll bring my sweatpants. You really know how to say the right things to a girl.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

I guess it was the realization that I'm never actually going to be the 'normal' person I've been trying my best all my life to be, hiding my powers and hiding out at the mansion while people I care about are out there having awful things happening to them and maybe I could have helped more if I hadn't been teaching.

We know how to do spa days right, don't we?

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

So you're going to go into active duty, then?

Damn straight.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. X-Men are a little more physical than I'm comfortable with most of the time. I mean, I'm not really good at the offensive stuff. My powers aren't really suited to it enough for me to be an active member, I don't think?

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Well, X-Factor's been pretty much defunct with Vanessa and Bishop off doing whatever they do, right?

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

That's pretty much how I'm leaning right now, yeah. Part of me just wants to keep hiding out at the mansion, but the other part won't shut up about how if I was in the city every day, using my powers, maybe I could help catch or even prevent crimes against mutants. I think transferring to X-Factor full time might be a really good fit for me if I keep feeling this way.

But I'm not going to ditch out on teaching now that the term's just started, either. So I'll see if these feelings blow over as we get closer to the end of first term, and look at my options then, I guess.

At least it looks like Gabriel's happy to be here? So hopefully you can feel better about your part in getting him here?

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Perhaps you could try balancing it at first? Do teaching part time and X-Factor the other part of the time? That way you could start slow and ease into it.

Hopefully he'll stay happy. I think I'll get over this feeling I just...that mission really shook me, I guess.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

That's how I used to do things, but it's very difficult now that there's no one running the office. Used to be I could teach all day and then spend my evenings working cases, but the cases would just be handed out to me, y'know? I'd get my assignment and head out, no fuss no muss. But with there being no one there anymore, I can't do that. I'd have to put the time in answering the phones and meeting with clients and such. And I just don't have that time while I'm teaching.

The mission to pick him up?

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Makes sense. Well, whatever you decide you know I'll support you on.

The Fury mission.

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

Thanks. That means a lot to me.

Ahh, the one that roasted Garrison like a coffee bean?

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

You're welcome. What are friends for?

Yeah...I will admit I smirked at the coffee bean comparison, though. He doing okay?

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

He seems to be alright, yeah. I think he's going to win our baseball fantasy league, so I'm assuming he'll be insufferable for the next... ever.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

If it gets too bad I do have sedatives...

[x-adrienne.livejournal.com]

I may take you up on that.

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

The privileges of being a doctor. :D