Email to Lorna

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To: [Lorna]
From: [Nate]
Subject: a thought...

I was talking to Julio earlier this evening, and it struck me that you might be a good person to talk to him about some of the theory behind what he does. It's what you study, after all. He didn't quite perk up at the suggestion - Julio is not a perky boy these days - but he did look interested. I think. Hard to tell without the telepathy.

Anyway - any basic textbooks you could recommend to him, maybe?

-N.

Comments

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To: [Busy Body]
From: [Geo-girl]
Subject: Julio

I'm happy to help him out, I think I still have my books around here. I'll send him off and email. It'll give me a good chance to practice my very rusty spanish too.

I'm going to pretend I didn't read that bit of wistfulness that you can't invade his head just to check on his mental state.

Lorna

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To: [she who likes to practice telepathy via text-based communication]
From: [he of the long email mask-things]
Subject: re: Julio

Thank you. I think he'd really appreciate it. It's too bad that we can't provide him with a similarly-powered teacher, although I have to wonder if you're not going to get enlisted in some fashion come fall. How many people do we have who really understand the effects his powers can have?

And you know, you'd think you would be able to resist comment when my telepathy is nonexistent and hence even if I was wistful, it wouldn't make any difference whatsoever.

-N.

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To: [Lobotomy Boy]
From: [Perceptive even without psionics as a crutch]
Subject: re: Julio

I can help even out the seismic waves, I think. It's just a theory but there is some really fantastic work going on at Berkeley that suggests the EM overlap isn't just a coincidence.

I'm a phil teacher as well. It's creepy and invasive to want to do it just as much as it is to do it and if your telepathy ever comes back, I'm going to hit you regularly for being creepy and invasive.

--Lorna

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To: [Polaris]
From: [Cable]
Subject: re: Julio

Good to hear. I suspect he'll take all the help he can get.

-N.

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To: [Benched]
From: [Active Duty]
Subject: re: Julio

I'll be sure he gets it.

-L

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To: [Lorna]
From: [Nathan]
Subject: ...

Point made. Should I just refrain from making powers-related suggestions, and devote my time to sitting here and hoping that if any of mine do come back, it's the socially acceptable one?

-N.

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To: [Nathan]
From: [Lorna]
Subject: re: ...

Possibly yes. Unless you plan on learning to respect the boundaries of people who can't shield you out. Though I'm not above making you do shots for emo-muppetry either.

-L

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To: [Lorna]
From: [Nathan]
Subject: re: ...

Just... never mind, all right? I'd appreciate it if you could do what you can to help Julio. His father's a good friend, and he's a good kid.

-N.

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To: [Nathan]
From: [Lorna]
Subject: re: ...

I'm rolling my eyes in your general direction. Rolling, I say.

I'll help Julio. You don't have to give me reasons to do so.

-L

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To: [Lorna]
From: [Nathan]
Subject: re: ...

Well, enjoy. I'm perfectly aware that I make a pretty laughable figure in general these days.

Thank you.

-N.

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To: [Nathan]
From: [Lorna]
Subject: re: ...

Laughing, not so much. Rolling eyes in exasperation at your ridiculous self-pity. Oh no, I have the perfect family, two stable jobs and more friends than a man has the right to hope for but I can't look inside the heads of scared students anymore, boo hoo.

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To: [Lorna]
From: [Nathan]
Subject: re: ...

You know, I should be able to come up with the formal name for the stupid argumentative trick you just pulled, but I'm getting another headache coming on and I'm drawing a blank.

But maybe you're right. Maybe I shouldn't have even wanted to have some way to tell if Julio really was interested in talking to you about seismology. I don't think, however, that I am entirely out of line in, say, wanting to have been able to tell when Rahne and Sooraya were being spirited away in the middle of the night in Afghanistan.

And maybe I'm an ungrateful son of a bitch - in fact, I probably am, because hell, Angelo's right, too, and I should be grateful enough after the life I've had to have what I do and still be around to enjoy it, and I am, and not want everything, but I feel wrong, Lorna. I walk around and everything feels wrong, and I'm still getting post-lobotomy migraines twice a day, and I cannot get it out of my head that this is one last kick in the teeth from Mistra... and maybe that makes me childish, but right this second I don't care.

I'm sorry.

-N.

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To: [Nathan]
From: [Lorna]
Subject: re: ...

Yeah, I've been there and done that. We've covered how sick and wrong the world feels without powers. You know what? The whining doesn't help. It doesn't make it better.

Jesus, Nathan.

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To: [Lorna]
From: [Nathan]
Subject: re: ...

You know, to hell with this. I will get back to sucking it up once the migraine goes. Sound good?

-N.

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To: [Nathan]
From: [Lorna]
Subject: re: ...

Oh for the love of God, Nathan. YOU. AREN'T. BROKEN. It feels like you are and it hurts like you are but how about you realize that you're still a thousand times more capable than ninety percent of the people in this world? You helped save an entire city and all you can think about is what you've lost? Gimme a break.

Go nurse your self-pity if that's all you think you're good for.

--L

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To: [Lorna]
From: [Nathan]
Subject: re: ...

... the African violet on my desk just flew across the room.

-N.

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To: [Nathan]
From: [Lorna]
Subject: re: ...

Good, maybe now you'll stop being a little bitch about it.

-L

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To: [Lorna]
From: [Nathan]
Subject: re: ...

Shut up! Ororo's going to kill me. Oh fuck my head feels like it's going to blow up.

-n.

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To: [Nathan]
From: [Lorna]
Subject: re: ...

I'm calling Amelia.

-L