your_talents (your_talents) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-06-21 17:25:00

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inactive - julian gallo, inactive - lisa graves, inactive - minnie

When Calling Someone A Freak, It's Important To Show Your Work
"Well Miss Graves, you're an interesting case study." Dr James Bradley, a.k.a. Dr Nemesis, commented, browsing through some data as Lisa got herself dressed again. Julian had been asked to wait outside the room they used for her exam, and once she was decent enough for anyone that might have been passing by, she opened the door to beckon him back in.

"Well that's encouraging.." She mutters in response to Bradley's analysis.

"Honestly, I was just making small-talk. I've seen much more radical and interesting genetic deviances than your personal stepping stone to reality tv stardom, oxymoron that that is, and a trendy new addiction. You're relatively pedestrian." He shrugs, tipping his hat slightly as he double-checks something. "You can come in whenever you want, corporate overlord. Your girlfriend's a tad edgy."

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hellfireprince
2011-06-23 02:28 am UTC (link)

Julian lets her sob, saying nothing as her anguish pours forth from her. There is nothing he can say that won't sound patronizing or a like a platitude of some kind, so he strokes her hair takes a deep breath, deciding that he's not going to accept the reality before him, in a sense.

He will create his own and drag Lisa into it, thereby making it /her/ reality as well.

"I'll offer you the chance to get a second or third or tenth opinion, Lisa. I'll have that machine installed at your apartment, regardless of cost.

What I'll /not/ do is watch you self-destruct and burn yourself to a crisp in order to underline some foolish idea of 'live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse'; the whole thing is utter nonsense. A good-looking corpse is still a corpse. Nor will I sit by and watch you shrink away into a shell of your former self because you don't know how to handle this." Julian says coolly, his tone brooking no argument.

"Doctor Bradley said one thing I agree with. You need to show an interest in living, if that is what you wish to do. Then we'll come up with a way for you to do that." Julian says, looking her in the eyes.

In his mind, he travels back to the day that Anton Howard told him that he had inoperable cancer.

Julian...I'd rather die that be less than the man I've always been, son. Living on borrowed time is no crime, boy. The crime is in living in /fear/ on borrowed time. Anton said then.

"What are you going to do, Lisa?" Julian asks.

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your_talents
2011-06-23 08:50 am UTC (link)

She's coherent enough that she hears everything she says. Eventually, she wipes her eyes with the back of one hand fiercely. He'd taken the 'live fast' line away from her, and it had hit deep. He understood that her powers defined her, definer her life and her habits. The idea of being without them was like the idea of going blind.

This... condition, would not define her. She would not let it.

"Today, I want to stop on the way back and buy a bat and something hideous and cheap to smash. After that..." Lisa swallows down her rage and fear and uncertainty. "--we're going to figure this goddamned nightmare out, because I refuse to burn out or step down."

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