coldestfrost (coldestfrost) wrote,
@ 2013-07-25 00:11:00

Here's an offer darling
"Your...counsel is here," the guard says to Calvin as he opens the door wider for the woman to enter. The pause there was because he'd never seen counsel who quite looked like this before. The woman entered a room like she owned it, and strutted with such confidence you couldn't question her. Not to mention that body and the fact that what she wore showed it off perfectly, a striking all white outfit, everything just a bit tighter than norm, the pencil skirt just a bit shorter than most were made...you couldn't take your eyes off her. And she knew it.

Well of course Emma knew all these thoughts running through the man's head as he opened the door for her, she didn't need telepathy to figure it out from the way he tried not to check her out. So she took just a bit more satisfaction as she'd come down the hallways with a tad more hipsway to draw his eye. There were so many ways to have control, owning your sexuality was one. It probably could've gotten her in just fine, but it'd been child's play to get past the desk sergeant, plant images of the proper paperwork and all the right suggestions to get her a meeting with one imprisoned youth. Always better to have that evaluatory period, especially since her targeted recruit would be cuffed for the meeting.

As she entered she reached into the guard's mind to get him to let them be until she called him back, she wouldn't have any time limits ruining anything.

"Calvin Rankin? I'm your counsel, we'll be discussing your situation." Clip clip of heels as she walked to the chair opposite the young man and took her seat, crossing her legs (just the right amount of leg showing) and nodding to the guard to dismiss him.

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1man5manband
2013-07-25 02:06 am UTC (link)

He meets her face now, looking at her suspiciously.

"The senator's lawyers were talking life imprisonment, and you think you can just get me out?" He's not sure he trusts this at all.

As the voices start getting louder, he struggles not to react. Too many ugly rumors already. Her voice gives him a central thread to focus on, and he locks onto that as best he can, trying to not let his mind drift with this new sense.

I don't doubt you can do it... what I really wonder is... why?

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coldestfrost
2013-07-25 02:29 am UTC (link)

Oh I know I can darling, she smiles but says the rest out loud. "It's not 'just get you out' of course, there are things you have to agree to in return. But it's reelection season, trying a minor, who didn't do much serious harm, as an adult...well, it wouldn't look good for the campaign now would it? You'll need to agree to attending a rather strict boarding school is Maschettusets in return but, far preferable to life imprisonment I htink we'd all agree."

She can feel his struggling with all the voices rushing in, and she makes hers clearer, the one most easy to lock onto amidst the chaos of thoughts.

Because we are mutants. You've had a taste of what humans think of us, I don't imagine you've been enjoying your stay here very much, but you know that...they hate us. These are the cards we have been dealt, and individually we end up situations like you have found yourself in. We have power, yes, but for most people like us it's uncontrolled, wild, never to quite hit its full potential. And because of that we will end up here, divided and hated. That's why I'm looking for students, exactly like yourself, who know the truth about humans, who have potential but are alone and young and in a bad situation.

That also meant youthful pliable minds, ones that might help her get back at the Hellfire Club, Shaw and Selene specifically. It was true, but didn't take away from the fact that she'd always wanted to teach, to guide, but only recently had she found a direction for it. Humans looked down on them so much, put them in terrible situations, persecuted them and why should she not look down upon them? Why not do what she could to teach others how to take advantage of their gifts and realize their potential, their superiority, that they didn't need to take all the abuse in stride?

That's why Calvin. Because we are better than this, and we don't deserve how they treat us. You don't deserve it. Why shouldn't we stick together? So that is my offer to you. Come to my school, I will get you out of this, have all charges dropped, and you will never end up here again. We are better than this, than them, than everything they take us to be. Don't squander it Calvin.

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1man5manband
2013-07-25 02:37 am UTC (link)

He ponders this a few moments. School and he had never really gotten along. There was always a lot of pressure, a lot of expectations.

But it has to be better than prison, right? Especially if what she's saying is true. Of course he deserves better than this. Better than dealing with an abusive drunk. Better than scrounging for food. And if she's a mutant, maybe she knows others. Maybe she can show him how to control what he does. She mentioned shielding... if he could stop all the other voices, this reading minds thing could be... amazingly useful.

He nods. "Where do I sign?" he finally agrees.

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coldestfrost
2013-07-25 02:45 am UTC (link)

It's not difficult to see the memories that pop up at thinking of his situation, she could have delved in more but refrained for the moment. Inexperienced as he was he stil might feel her rooting around his mind.

Far more than just mind-reading, darling. But we'll get there soon enough.

She opened a file folder, his file folder acutally, one she shouldn't have access to but then again, it was no effort on her part to get it handed over to her, and slid over a contract. "Just on the dotted line darling. I'll talk to the senator's team again to inform them you've agreed to the terms." Another smile, just a bit smug and knowing and implying that it wasn't just 'talking' she meant. Perhaps a suggestion or two to put in their minds...all so simple.

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	1man5manband 2013-07-25 02:52 am UTC (link)
	Calvin accepts the paperwork, quickly signing where indicated. For once, things are actually looking up. I'll be looking forward to it. This must be... quite the school. he replies, slowly feeling his way around this unusual form of contact. And finding, so far, he quite likes it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

coldestfrost
2013-07-25 03:27 am UTC (link)

She takes the paper back with that coy smile. "Wonderful. It will all get sorted out shortly, darling. Not much longer in here and we'll get you out." Of this terribly filthy place, she didn't even like touching the minds of people here.

It will be. She stood up and gave him a smile, before turning on a heel and walking out, hair flowing behind her and looking like a model on the runway with just a bit more hipsway as a rewarding view. It was all about being in control and having the attention on you. And now that he'd had a taste of the telepathy, a tease really, all the better.

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	1man5manband 2013-07-25 11:36 am UTC (link)
	Oh yeah, no question. She has him hooked. His eyes are on that hip sway, and from experience, he knows the power will fade soon - and he wants more. And he wants to learn to use it. To not be his dad's whipping boy, or anyone else's. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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