Cassidy Summers (sound_and_fury) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-06-24 18:48:00

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inactive - cassidy summers, sylvia mccoy

These Iron Bars Can't Hold My Soul (Open)
Cassidy Summers sits out on the porch behind the school, staring out at the forest behind the school. This place is bigger that the compound he lived in until a day or so ago, but his room is small. Too small. Some of the other students seem nice, others don't really say much to him, or ignore him entirely.

Do they know what he did in Georgia? Or what he did to Tina?

Could he get to the highway before someone caught him?

He doesn't want to be rude to Rose and the others, because he's glad they saved him from George and the others, but he's an orphan with a power he can barely control. Professor Xavier told Cassidy that he had an idea on how to help him with that, based on something done for an ally of theirs once upon a time, but that solution will take time to complete. For now, Cassidy has to wait.

That's the hardest part.

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	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 12:36 am UTC (link)
	Sylvie comes out swinging from the upper parts of the porch with a drumstick clutched in her lower left hand, tapping it idly against things. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-25 12:38 am UTC (link)
	Cassidy hears the tapping of the drumstick and watches for a moment, trying to understand what's going on. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 01:08 am UTC (link)
	Sylvie just continues giving herself a beat as she swings along, until she finally stops in Cassidy's vicinity and folds her lower arms, still hanging with the upper ones. "Hey there. Didn't mean to be a disturbance." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-25 01:22 am UTC (link)
	"It's no problem. I was thinking too much anyway." Cassidy says. "My name is Cassidy. And by the way, your mutation is pretty cool." he says. "How long have you lived here?" Cassidy asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 01:23 am UTC (link)
	"19 years this week. Just had my birthday. I spent a little over a year abroad recently, but this is home. I'm Sylvie, and thank you very much." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-25 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"Wow, nice to meet you, Sylvie. And happy belated birthday." Cassidy says. He doesn't quite meet her eyes as they speak, and his body language is a stiff, as if he's tense. "How do you like it here?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 01:34 am UTC (link)
	"Nice to meet you, too, Cassidy." Sylvie grins. "Well, I didn't come home because Firenze and Madrid were lousy. The people here are great. There's trouble sometimes, but we do what we can to make it through." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-25 01:41 am UTC (link)
	"That sounds really nice." Cassidy says. A place where people look out for each other and get along. The adults are pretty nice, too. "So, when are we allowed to eat?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 01:43 am UTC (link)
	"Depends whose cooking you want to wait on; there's some rotating schedules. If you're hungry now, I suggest we go make ourselves some sandwiches or cereal or something. I can whip up a little something in a pinch, if no one's moved the Good Stool." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-25 01:45 am UTC (link)
	"We could eat right now if we wanted? Like right now?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 01:49 am UTC (link)
	"Well, I can't make it to the kitchen in less than two minutes, but yeah, essentially right now." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-25 01:53 am UTC (link)
	"All right. Let's go. I'm really hungry right now, anyway." he says. "So, do you get to see your parents often? Do they come and visit or do you go see them?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 02:01 am UTC (link)
	"Sure. Let's go." And Sylvie will gracefully turn and start swinging back to the door. "My parents are here most of the time. Dad, Dr. McCoy, was one of the inaugural class, and Mom's Dr. Reyes, the school physician. Hence the living here pretty much my whole life." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-25 02:04 am UTC (link)
	"Oh, that's cool." Cassidy says. "Having your parents around must be awesome." "What's the schooling like here? If one doesn't have any money, is there assistance for stuff like books?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 02:26 am UTC (link)
	"I do have that fascinating breed known as the Cool Parent. Even if Mom's a little prone to panic. It's a very good curriculum; gets you as far as you need. The school handles any essential books or expenses. Multiple vast family fortunes funding the place and all." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sound_and_fury
2010-06-25 12:54 pm UTC (link)

"Oh, that's cool. I was a little worried there for a second." Cassidy says. He's one of those people with no money, and he doesn't want to get thrown out for being a leech.

"My parents...didn't like that I was a mutant. They...gave me up." Cassidy tells her. For some reason, he doesn't want to tell anyone that he was sold on the Black Market to a doctor who imprisoned him.

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	quadrimanial 2010-06-25 02:58 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm really sorry to hear that," Sylvie says earnestly. "It's not as rare a problem as it ought to be, in case you didn't know that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-25 11:05 pm UTC (link)
	"I guess it could be worse. I could be dead." Cassidy says simply. "What's your favorite kind of sandwich?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-26 12:02 am UTC (link)
	"Olive salad and pastrami." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-26 12:35 am UTC (link)
	His face wrinkles up a little. "What's pastrami?" He's not had this particular meat before, but it sounds like pepperoni. He tried that once. "Do you like root beer?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-26 12:52 am UTC (link)
	"Spiced and brine-treated beef brisket. Goes great with olive salad. There are many other fine sandwiches out there, such as pulled pork with garlic, and peanut butter and plantain -- or bananas, but that's less alliterative -- but that's the current favorite. And I most certainly do like root beer." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-27 05:40 pm UTC (link)
	"I love root beer and anything with bananas. I don't get to have them often, though. Never lived anywhere where I could." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

quadrimanial
2010-06-27 06:01 pm UTC (link)

"Well, as I happen to know all the necessary supplies were fairly recently acquired from the grocery store, the best solution's going to be to make a pastrami-and-olive sandwich, a peanut-butter-and-banana sandwich, and each take half of each."

And when they reach the kitchen, Sylvie will start climbing about to put that plan into action, setting her drumstick on the kitchen counter.

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	sound_and_fury 2010-06-27 06:36 pm UTC (link)
	"I like you already, Sylvie. You make great plans." Cassidy says. He'll help her in any way he can, keeping an eye on the walls of the kitchen. Did this room just shrink a bit? No. No, it didn't. "Oh...and there's root beer. Okay, today rules." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-27 06:42 pm UTC (link)
	"Why thank you!" Sylvie will provide useful information about various steps of the process, and soon, they each have half an pastrami and olive salad sandwich, half a peanut butter and banana sandwich, and a glass of root beer. "Viola!" Sylvie says, deliberately mispronouncing. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sound_and_fury
2010-06-27 07:25 pm UTC (link)

Cassidy laughs at the mispronunciation. Sylvie is the first person here, besides the people who rescued him, to speak to him for more than ten seconds.

He takes a bite of the pastrami sandwich and nods in approval.

"This is really good! I can't believe I've never had pastrami before." he says, taking a sip of root beer. This is probably the best food he's had in a long, long time and he savors every bite.

"So...what do people do for fun around here?" he asks.

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	quadrimanial 2010-06-27 10:21 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, plenty of opportunities for exercise. The gym in the basement, the lake, all kinds of options there. We've got a library, and collectively, a pretty good DVD collection. Then there's going into town or all the way into the city." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-28 03:57 am UTC (link)
	"You have a library here? Awesome!" Cassidy exclaims. He loves to read, and takes any chance he can to do so. The amount of activities that allow him to get out of the confines of the mansion also interest him and he nods. "Um...what about learning to control what I do? I...want to get a handle on being a mutant." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-28 12:17 pm UTC (link)
	"I've never had control issues, but it's happened to plenty of people, and enough danger room training sessions and other precautions generally provide a handle on things." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-28 12:45 pm UTC (link)
	"I hope they can help me. I don't want to go through life afraid." Cassidy says. "What's the Danger Room?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-28 01:32 pm UTC (link)
	"The Danger Room's a room in the sub-basement that's used to prepare people for all kinds of situations. And currently is just finished being repaired and cleaned up after somebody had a little accident." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-29 12:37 pm UTC (link)
	"An accident?" Cassidy asks, a little shocked. "Why does that sound like it's anything but an accident?" he asks. "Maybe you could show me this Danger Room sometime? After we eat?" he asks, taking another bite of his sandwich. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-29 02:07 pm UTC (link)
	"It was an accident. It's just that Ellie and Daniel weren't supposed to be in there unsupervised in the first place. They're too young." "I can show it to you, but I'd have to ask Uncle Scott before anything got turned on." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-29 11:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Is your Uncle Scott one of the teachers here? Is he nice?" Cassidy asks. He wonders if he has any uncles or other family out there. Would they care if they knew he was alive? He didn't know. He continued to eat, trying not to let the question bother him. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-30 12:45 am UTC (link)
	Sylvie smiles. "Uncle Scott's the deputy headmaster. And well, if we want to use a Sondheimesque ethical terminology pedanticness, it's hard to say whether Uncle Scott's nice, but he's often Good and-or Right. And to clarify, he's an Uncle By Consensus, not blood. He and Dad were in the first graduating class together here." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-30 01:48 am UTC (link)
	"You use big words and I still understand you. You're pretty cool, Sylvie." Cassidy tells her, finishing the rest of his sandwich. He then takes another swig of root beer. "So, then Mr. Scott is like extended family, then. Very cool." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-30 02:42 am UTC (link)
	"Mhm. I'm sure somebody's probably mentioned a Mr. Summers. That's him." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-30 04:04 am UTC (link)
	"Mr. Summers? That's pretty cool. That's my last name, too." Cassidy says. "How well do you know Professor Xavier?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-06-30 04:22 am UTC (link)
	"Neat. It's certainly a well-known last name in our kinds of circles. Occasionally thought to be cursed, but don't let it worry you; they're some of the best people." "Well enough. Why?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2010-06-30 12:03 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, just asking. He seems...kinda scary. He can talk to you without speaking. I knew someone like that. She wasn't very nice." Cassidy says, looking away. Virginia was terrible to him, probably the worst after Steve. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

quadrimanial
2010-06-30 02:03 pm UTC (link)

"Okay, Cassidy. Let me be straight here. Living at a mutant school, you can't make personal comparisons based on abilities. Some telepaths? Are nasty, nasty people. It's a fact. But you can't let every telepath you meet remind you of them before they're actually, you know, acting like it."

"I can't promise you that Professor Xavier will never, ever be a jerk. I can only promise that if and when he is one, it won't be for the purpose of being a jerk; it'll be for some reason he finds necessary, and whatever jerkishness may happen is a side effect."

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	sound_and_fury 2010-07-01 12:30 am UTC (link)
	Cassidy becomes red with shame. Sylvie is right. He's being unfair to the Professor because of how Doctor Milbury and Virginia hurt him. "I'm sorry, Sylvie. You're right." Cassidy says. He starts to get up from the table. "I should go. Thanks for the food." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	quadrimanial 2010-07-01 01:14 am UTC (link)
	"Hey, no need to rush. I was just trying to clarify the situation. And you're welcome." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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