Cassidy Summers (sound_and_fury) wrote in marvel_nextgen,
@ 2011-08-14 22:24:00

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inactive - cassidy summers, inactive - nell st. croiz

Reporting for Work (Nell)

(Backdated to June)

Cassidy shows up at the Consulate to speak with Nell, per Andrew's suggestion. He's given it some serious thought over the last few days, and helping Andrew and the Genoshans feels like the right play to him. He's been thinking over what he wants to do with his life and now, he knows.

Right now, though, he's here to speak with Miss St. Croix about how he can help with her work and, in turn, Andrew's.

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i_got_nothin
2011-08-15 01:16 pm UTC (link)

Nell was surprised at how things were working out. People and corporations were actually somewhat on board with the plans she'd been proposing--though she suspected that many were doing it for tax write-off purposes and expected things to fail. She didn't mind that so much; things were not going to fail. It was, for her, that simple and she attacked the project with that in mind. There was only one thing giving her grief and that was the library.

Nell was stewing over the library issue when she hurried into the Consulate a) late, b)without her bodyguard (whom she'd managed to ditch long enough to sneak to a Starbucks for coffee and c) muttering to herself about her drink only having one pump of mint when she'd asked for a 'lethal' dose. When she got to her office and discovered Cassidy there, she was more than a little embarassed.

"Oh crap, how long have you been waiting for me?"

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	sound_and_fury 2011-08-15 11:58 pm UTC (link)
	"Not long, actually. I just got here." Cassidy smiles. "Are you Miss St. Croix?" he asks (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-16 12:05 am UTC (link)
	"Nope," she said with a hint of a smile then took a drink of her coffee. "I'm Nell. Miss St. Croix is way too formal. You're...Cassidy, right?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-16 12:51 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, I'm Cassidy Summers...Andrew's brother." Cassidy nods. "I'm here to help however I can Miss...Nell. I want to help the world become safer for mutants and humans. Not only that, but someday, I'd like to be a lawyer and make sure that /everyone/ gets a fair trial, especially mutants." Cassidy tells her. "Sorry, I'm rambling. What do we do first?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-16 12:56 am UTC (link)
	His rambling was actually very valuable for Nell. It gave her insight to who he was which would in turn help her figure out how to best utilize him. "Well," she said, "we need to get a library going." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-16 01:31 am UTC (link)
	"A library? Okay. Where is it? And where are the books going to come from?" he asks. Then he looks around and still sees just the two of them. "Will it be just us?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

i_got_nothin
2011-08-16 11:31 am UTC (link)

"The space is already set aside over in the new 'square' but the rest of it...I'm having some issues with the books. Firstly, no one wants to help and secondly...it's just us. Andrew's given me some funds. We're going to have to buy books ourselves. No one wants to fund the library for the freak town."

Frowns.

"I also have my own money. We aren't telling Andrew about that. I hope you're strong."

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	sound_and_fury 2011-08-16 11:30 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm pretty strong and we'll make this happen one way or another." Cassidy tells her. "I wish people would just see that humans and mutants are different sides of the same coin. Are we staying here or heading to the building?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-16 11:45 pm UTC (link)
	"We're actually hitting a publisher's distribution center in the city. I rented a van. I'm picking up a few thousand books today and then some older books will be coming in the mail in the next week. One way or another, we're having a good library. It's that simple." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-17 12:17 am UTC (link)
	"I'm ready. Let's go." Cassidy says, looking around for the van in question. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-17 12:27 am UTC (link)
	"Follow me." Nell lead him out to the parking lot and up to a big U-Haul van, climbing up into the vehicle and behind the wheel. "I'm glad you're here to help." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-17 12:29 am UTC (link)
	"Glad I'm here." "So, are you from Genosha, too?" Cassidy asks her, looking out the window. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-17 12:37 am UTC (link)
	"Not really." She paused. "I'm a flatscan, Cassidy." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-18 12:13 am UTC (link)
	"You're human? That's pretty cool." Cassidy says. "You know what? I think you're the second human I've ever actually hung out with. I've only been around mutants my entire life so far, that I can remember, I mean. But don't call yourself a flatscan. It's about as derogatory as the N-word and a few other slurs I can think of." he says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-18 12:16 am UTC (link)
	"Yes, but it's the term most often used for what I am and I don't find it to be terrible. It's accurate. A term can really only be derogatory if you let it be and considering that I'm around mutants all the time, I don't let it be. I'm just human. It's what it is." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-18 01:16 am UTC (link)
	"I respectfully disagree. A derogatory term is derogatory, no matter how accurate it is or isn't." Cassidy says. "Acceptance of a term by the general populace doesn't make it acceptable." Cassidy says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-18 01:23 am UTC (link)
	"By your own logic, mutant is a derogatory term, Cassidy." She shook her head. "We give words too much power over us. How does a word get its connotation? It gets that way based upon how people elect to use and understand it. I refuse to see 'flatscan' as a term of hate just as I refuse to see "mutant" as a term of hate." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-18 11:39 pm UTC (link)
	That brought Cassidy up short. He couldn't really refute the logic behind it. "Homo Sapiens Superior is a both a mouthful and a bit...elitist." Cassidy says. "Human has less letters and syllables than that other word." he says finally. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-18 11:54 pm UTC (link)
	"I personally just like the term 'people' because ultimately, that's what we all are. Even if I think mutants are cooler." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-22 12:35 am UTC (link)
	"Well, mutants are just people. I can't see what makes us cooler than anyone else...especially when you run the risk of being shot or worse hanging out with one." Cassidy says. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-22 10:31 am UTC (link)
	"The coolness comes in because mutants can do things that those of us who aren't mutants can only dream of. The truth is, baseline human beings could learn a lot from mutants if we worked together instead of freaking out all the damn time. Besides, the element of danger's kinda hot," she teased and obviously so. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	sound_and_fury 2011-08-23 12:17 am UTC (link)
	Cassidy laughs at the teasing, thinking that Nell either liked mutants more than she should or that she was just a good-natured person that wanted to help people. He believed it was the latter, but with a dash of the former thrown in. "So, what do you think of the people my brother has surrounded himself with?" he asks. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-08-23 01:25 pm UTC (link)
	"They seem pretty cool. Rikki does not like me, not even one little bit but that's really not all that weird. He's got a good team. And Sengai's really interesting. What do you think about them?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

sound_and_fury
2011-08-24 11:18 pm UTC (link)

"Gio is really cool and so is Angelo. I don't know how they all manage to eat all of the good food he cooks and stay skinny." Cassidy says.

"Sengai...is interesting. I don't know him that well, but he seems like he's a bit culture shocked. I'm hoping he makes the transition okay." Cassidy says.

"I'm not sure if I met Rikki, but why wouldn't she like you?" he asks.

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i_got_nothin
2011-08-25 10:33 am UTC (link)

"My guess is that she doesn't like me because I'm a baseline human, Cassidy. It may surprise you a little but the disdain goes both ways in the world. She's probably had a slew of negative experiences with humans. Now she hasn't said or done anything, but there was just this look on her face when Andrew assigned her to be my bodyguard.

"I always feel a little weird about being the lone squishy."

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sound_and_fury
2011-08-28 03:56 am UTC (link)

"Well, then you should take precautions...like not ditching the bodyguard that could help us with this." Cassidy sends mildly.

"Andrew thinks you're important enough to warrant a bodyguard, then you shouldn't throw that back in his face by trying to push her away. If he thought she wouldn't do her job, he probably wouldn't have assigned her to you.

But he thinks keeping you safe is a good plan, so that means you're important." he smiles.

"Just one way to look at it, I suppose."

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	i_got_nothin 2011-09-03 12:39 am UTC (link)
	"I just feel like I'm not properly carrying my weight sometimes. No one else needs a bodyguard. So I have to work harder to be better. It's not that big of a deal." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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