MacKenzie Rider (fleetfootmac) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2010-11-14 16:21:00

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Since coming home, Mac had spent some time with the family, especially Mom (who was a little clingy for a while). He helped with the cleanup wherever possible. It was hard to believe HYDRA had pulled something like that.

He didn't plan to stay long, but it was still good to be back. Besides missing Mom and Grandmother and Namor, He'd missed the city and his old underwater workout and training routines. It was also really good to have a bigger family now -- even aside from the semi-guilty little dance in his head at the fact that two perfectly nice girls were now standing between him and the job he'd always known he wasn't cut out for.

Mac finished his initial workout and wondered about making arrangements for when it was time to go to New York.

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	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 05:09 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh. Well, yeah, I guess you definitely would then." The only thing Mac can really think of when he hears 'Emma Frost' is the horror stories of what the woman tried to do to his honorary aunt's mind. So he's...just not going to think about it, 'cause getting into that can't be good. "Heavy lifting I can totally do." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

little_mermaid
2010-11-15 05:12 pm UTC (link)

Telepathy was a curse, particularly any time she was around her Atlantean family. They all thought more loudly and while Kassi wasn't a particularly powerful telepath, she heard things well enough. And everyone had a negative view of her mother.

Someday she was going to sit down with her mom and find out the full stories.

"You're going to need a lot of upper body strength for this. Since being down here I've changed sizes. I literally have nothing to wear that isn't Atlantean garb. Shit, it snows in New York."

Kassi wasn't a fan of cold on the surface.

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	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 05:16 pm UTC (link)
	"New winter wardrobe it is, then." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 05:49 pm UTC (link)
	"Indeed. I think I can live with this." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 05:52 pm UTC (link)
	"So how much school have you got left, anyway?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 05:54 pm UTC (link)
	"A lot. I'm only sixteen." And yes, she beat up a doombot. Source of pride. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 06:03 pm UTC (link)
	"You're...probably thinking college for the long run, too, huh? Mom and I don't totally see eye to eye on that one...." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 06:27 pm UTC (link)
	"I hadn't really considered it yet. I was too busy trying not to get in trouble at school and also to run away and come back here to think about it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 06:30 pm UTC (link)
	"Sounds like it'd keep things busy," Mac acknowledges. "Sounds like it's been a heckuva year and a half for pretty much everybody." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 07:56 pm UTC (link)
	"I think that might be the understatement of to end them all," she said. "Maybe things will even out now." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	Mac shrugs. "Here's hoping. And we'll keep each other on our toes, just in case. I'm no Doombot, but I'm sure we can give each other a workout, and I've picked up a lot of handy tricks out with Dad." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 08:40 pm UTC (link)
	"What sort of handy tricks?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 08:44 pm UTC (link)
	"Y'know, gauging stuff and using people's momentum and all that. You gotta pay a lot attention to angles and stuff in space than you do here, and its' good practice, in its way." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 08:46 pm UTC (link)
	"Better than just beating the snot out of 'em with brute force? Or throwing them? Because I have that down." Kassi knew it wasn't the correct or even more effective way about doing things. The Kassilines had pointed as much out to her, but really, that's all she knew. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 08:59 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, that was the other thing. Brute force on Dad's usual beat...everybody's got it. So you've got to know what you're doing." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 09:20 pm UTC (link)
	"How hard is it to know what you're doing?" Kassi was already imagining early morning trainings and while it wasn't the worst thing in the world, it just didn't sound like much fun. She'd gotten spoiled. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 09:22 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, depends on the circumstances and stuff, but practice makes perfect and all that." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 09:23 pm UTC (link)
	"You've been plotting against me with my dad, haven't you?" Kassi was starting to suspect that Mac was either that laid back or he had in fact been conspiring with Namor. A distinct possibility. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 09:35 pm UTC (link)
	"Huh? I'd make like, the worst conspirer ever." That wasn't even the right word, was it. Oh well. "But your dad did embarrass the heck out of me pretty much once a week every summer until I left, so yeah, he's into the practice stuff, too." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 09:55 pm UTC (link)
	"What are the War Games Dad was talking about? I've never heard of these before." She figured Mac would know. He grew up here. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 09:56 pm UTC (link)
	"Pretty much what they sound like. Official formal demonstrations of Atlantean badassery." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 10:09 pm UTC (link)
	"We have a festival for this? Really?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 10:15 pm UTC (link)
	Mac nods. "Practically everywhere with any military or defensive concerns has some kinda war games sometimes. We're just a bit oldschool and flashy about ours." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	little_mermaid 2010-11-15 10:17 pm UTC (link)
	"I like flashy. C'mon, what's not to like about fit Atlantean men running around in...very revealing attire?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	fleetfootmac 2010-11-15 10:23 pm UTC (link)
	Mac smiles and shrugs. "Equal opportunity ogling, you've got to give us that as a people. It's not just the heroines in the scanty stuff." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)