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To: [em]
From: [s]
Subject: I've been a bad, bad man.

Hey, roomie.

I'm sorry I haven't done a better job of keeping in touch. I've been very, very bad, in that regard. Things have been.. things, but really, that's just more reason to call or write you. So, now I have a couple minutes (I'm taking a break from planning Intro to Shakespeare - shhh, don't tell), I thought I'd say hi. How are things up in the Great White North for you and Sensei Lo Logan?

I want to catch you up on what's been going on with me, but I warn you, it's a bloody insane mess - if you want to avoid the crazy for a spell, just skip down a ways.

Let's see. A little while after you and Logan moved out, Sarah and I left, too - stupid idea of mine, but we'll get to that. We went and stayed in the Tunnels for a little while, 'til my car got in from home, and we went out to Boston. Have no idea how long we were there.. a goodly while, anyway. The being on our own part was nice. The rest, not so much, in hindsight. I was helping her figure out who was responsible for what happened to the Morlocks, see, and.. did. Who they were, where they were, everything. They were military-trained, by the way. Americans perplex the hell out of me, sometimes.

So, while I was sleeping one night, Sarah snuck out and went to go do the vengeance thing - I didn't know she'd gone until Amanda got ahold of me, telling me Jono'd gotten a note from her and the X-Men'd gone after her, and that I should get back toot sweet. Lots of fast driving ensued. Get back, find out she'd died - died - in the process, after taking out three of the half-dozen. She got better, so I tried to focus on that, but still. Not to mention Alison'd gotten her leg zapped through. Scott really ripped into me, after Sarah had stabilized. He was trying to use the Leader Face, but you could tell he was furious.

He had pictures. From the 'rescue'.

At least he didn't kick my ass off the team. God knows I would have.

Anyway.

We've been back here since, and that was.. late June, I think. Other stuff's happened since - Amanda, Paige, Manuel and some others getting kidnapped to Asgard, for one. That was the first time Sarah came up out of the basement since being released from medlab, because Miles got nabbed with them. Then Moira got nabbed by Nate's old bosses, who in turn nabbed Nate, and I got a warehouse dropped on my head. My streak has ended - I spent a night in medlab. Nate's back now, conditioning-free, and he and Paul (did you ever meet Jean-Paul Beaubier? He's good people) dragged Hank out mountain climbing the other day. Shiro.. oh, Shiro. Went home for a festival, got disowned by his family, came back with his little sister, who is unGodly cute, and tried to burn his powers out. Which has worked, temporarily. I hope to high hell they come back soon, before anybody else gets any bright ideas. And someone busted into Angelo's journal yesterday, and wrote some.. very private things about him, and posted it up. He's a mess. We're trying to find out who did it, but the list of suspects is so miniscule, and of them, nobody would have done it, so I'm stumped. Argh.

I really wish you were here. Not even just for me, but for Manuel. He's been a big enough idiot recently that I just can't deal with him anymore, not for a while, and I know that probably isn't doing him any good, but the alternative is I beat the living shit out of him, and that would be even less good, so..

Wow. This is depressingly long. There have been good things, too, I swear. It's just hard to think of it all, with all of the above hanging over it.

Sorry this went from a 'hi, how are you?' to a 'here, have some WOE!', Em. I haven't been bottling, I swear. Guess I just miss talking to you.

Come for a visit soon?

-S.