IM log: Nathan and Domino

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LadyLuck13 signed on at Wed Apr 7 12:01:24 2004
GunForFire signed on at Wed Apr 7 12:35:02 2004
LadyLuck13: Nate! Why aren't you resting or something?
GunForHire: Nice to see you too, tiger.
LadyLuck13: Don't 'tiger' me, you utter jackass.
GunForHire: ...what did I do?
LadyLuck13: You scared the shit out of me!
GunForHire: Yeah... I know. I'm sorry. But I'm doing better, really.
LadyLuck13: Really?
GunForHire: Yeah. I bit the bullet and asked Xavier for help.
LadyLuck13: ...you're voluntarily letting another telepath in your head? Okaaaay.
GunForHire: My options were getting distressingly few.
LadyLuck13: Yeah, I could see how cardiac arrest would make you reevaluate what you're prepared to do... Are you okay with it?
GunForHire: I'm coping. He's very...understanding, I guess you'd say. Takes me being twitchy more or less in stride.
LadyLuck13: Still. Hell of a stretch, for you.
GunForHire: I'm starting to wonder about that, you know.
LadyLuck13: About what?
GunForHire: Why I never wanted to develop my telepathy. Why the Mistra instructors never made me.
LadyLuck13: Always sort of wondered about that myself, babe. Not like telepathy isn't ultra-handy in our line of work.
GunForHire: Guess it's not a question I'm going to get answered anytime soon.
LadyLuck13: Probably not.
LadyLuck13: Are you sure you're doing better? Heart's still beating on a regular basis and all?
GunForHire: Yeah. Not going to delude myself into thinking that progress is a straight line, though. Got too depressed the last time I did that and then found out the universe is a bitch.
LadyLuck13: Now there's the pessimistic bastard I know and love. I was beginning to wonder.
GunForHire: Witch.
LadyLuck13: Moron.
GunForHire: Shrew.
LadyLuck13: Drama queen.
GunForHire: ...I beg your pardon? [laughs] Dom, if we were in the same room I would so be throwing something at you right now.
LadyLuck13: No, you would be trying to throw something at me. I would be ducking and laughing at you.
GunForHire: Right. So where are you?
LadyLuck13: Berlin. Flew back over to meet GW. We're plotting how to get into the States as discreetly as possible.
GunForHire: Moira told me you were coming...
GunForHire: Also told me the two of you have a ceasefire?
LadyLuck13: [snorts] Did she use that exact word? But yes. We do. I am occasionally an adult, you know.
GunForHire: Don't get snippy with me. And don't get me wrong... I'm glad.
LadyLuck13: Yeah, before you know it we'll be one big happy family.
GunForHire: Scary thought.
LadyLuck13: Sitting around the dinner table, asking each other to pass the peas...
GunForHire: OK, now you're just getting disturbing.
LadyLuck13: I do my best.
GunForHire: I know. Hey, you wouldn't want to stop on the way here and do something, would you?
LadyLuck13: Define something.
GunForHire: Steal a car?
LadyLuck13: ...
GunForHire: It involves screwing Shaw?
LadyLuck13: ...this has something to do with that son of his you said was there, right?
GunForHire: Shinobi, yes.
LadyLuck13: Mmm. I could be convinced.
GunForHire: I thought you might.
LadyLuck13: You know me too well.
GunForHire: I try.
LadyLuck13: So modest... Are you really feeling better, Nate?
GunForHire: Yeah, I am.
GunForHire: I think part of the problem was how futile it all seemed, you know? That this was something happening to me and there was nothing I could do about it...
GunForHire: Charles is pretty confident there is, though.
LadyLuck13: And you're really okay with him being in your head?
GunForHire: Well, I wouldn't say that. But it's not making me want to go hide in a corner, or kill things.
GunForHire: It helps that he's so clear about what's happening, every step of the way. He makes sure I understand what's going on, why we're doing what we're doing. To be honest, it's kind of interesting...
LadyLuck13: Pity we're meeting in New York. I'd love to meet the man who's convinced you to do something other than clam up and glare when the subject of using your telepathy comes up.
GunForHire: Dom...
LadyLuck13: Or run away shrieking like a little girl...
GunForHire: Dom!
LadyLuck13: Don't 'Dom!' me, oaf. It's always seemed so ridiculous to me.
LadyLuck13: Never understood how you could be so fucking scary a telekinetic and yet such a wimp when it comes to your telepathy.
GunForHire: Old hang-up. [glares]
LadyLuck13: [glares right back] Good excuse.
GunForHire: ...I miss you, you know.
LadyLuck13: And here we see the patented Dayspring Subject-Change. [grumbles] I miss you too, you big goof. I've decided I'm not going to shoot you, by the way.
GunForHire: ...oh?
LadyLuck13: No. Like I said, I am occasionally an adult.
GunForHire: You're really starting to scare me, you know.
LadyLuck13: Pbbbth.
GunForHire: I should probably go. Haven't eaten yet today.
GunForHire: I'm supposed to be not forgetting to do that, and getting as much sleep as possible.
LadyLuck13: Moira's orders, or Xavier's?
GunForHire: Both. Apparently it's not helping that I'm as run-down as I am.
LadyLuck13: Makes sense. So, send me the details about that car, and I'll send you flight details, when we have them?
GunForHire: Deal. Say hi to the others for me.
LadyLuck13: Will do.
GunForFire signed off at Wed Apr 7 13:03:02 2004