Petronella "Nell" St. Croix (i_got_nothin) wrote,
@ 2011-06-04 09:44:00

Good Causes (Test)
Getting up at the ass-crack of dawn wasn't something Nell was down with. Her mother had often commented that she had to have gotten that particular feature from her father's DNA because sailors could be up all night and still greet the day with a song. Nell wasn't certain if that was true or not, but she was certain that the only reason to get out of bed before ten willingly was for a good cause. This morning she had a very good cause.

Working on her fourth giant mug of coffee Nell showed up at the Habitat work site in Mutant Town, hammer hanging from her pocket, bright red t-shirt with "MUTIE POWER" printed in huge white letters on the front.

"Sweet Lord Magneto that house needs work."

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	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 06:37 pm UTC (link)
	"Well he's used to it, not like he doesn't know, but the family are always a little weird about it, and the connotation -- wait. Sorry. I'm in America. Why do you swear like a Genoshan? And while you're doing that, can you help me with prying this board off? I can't reach both sides at once." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 06:40 pm UTC (link)
	"My mom's friends with Mags himself so I've spent some time in Genosha." Nell shrugged casually and put on work gloves before setting to the requested task. "He's really awesome." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

burnwithlight
2011-06-04 06:46 pm UTC (link)

Gio blinked in the middle of trying to do her part. "Yeah, he is. ...They must be pretty good friends. We don't tend to let people waltz right in visiting. And not many people want to. Did you... ever meet Andrew? He'd probably have been the little kid with the book, depending on when you came." Working together, they get he improperly-done board off, and Gio, used to a limitation of supplies even among the excess and luxury of being the Heir's personal assistant/bodyguard/girlfriend, starts trying to extract the nails to recycle them.

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	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 07:00 pm UTC (link)
	"I might have, though I was too busy being disappointed that my mother's relationship with him didn't work out. My mom's crazy." Nell pried as hard as she could, grunting a little. "Having powers would make this sooo much easier on some level." Switching tactics, she tried using the hammer a different way to get the thing to budge. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 07:01 pm UTC (link)
	Gio's trying to process this, then just says, pleasantly, "My father was a late bloomer, too. Giovanna Bennet. Nice to meet you." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 07:08 pm UTC (link)
	"I wish it were that simple for me. Petronella St. Croix. Nell, if you please. NIce to meetcha." She paused. "Waitaminute. Bennet<>? As in...omg," (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

burnwithlight
2011-06-04 07:17 pm UTC (link)

"St. Croix?" She blinked. "And you're...not Algerian."

Gio was vaguely familiar with the American St. Croixs. They were what the public thought Xavier was -- a 'mutie-lover,' as the bigots so articulately put it. Father believed Old Louis St. Croix was obviously some kind of latent or otherwise power-impaired mutant. It was the only way the things he was willing to say in public made any sense... and his nephew had married ...someone, hadn't he?

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	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 07:23 pm UTC (link)
	"Nope. I'm American. Louis St. Croix's grandneice, next in a long line of mutant supoorters which is why I'm here. There's also the hope that if I hang out with mutants long enough something will rub off but...I'm pretty sure the St. Croix line is as flat as flat gets. I love my Dad, but really..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 07:25 pm UTC (link)
	Gio blinks again. "Well, it's... very nice to meet you. And yes... those Bennets. I work at the Genoshan Consulate." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 07:26 pm UTC (link)
	"I have instant envy." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 07:31 pm UTC (link)
	"Oh, yes," Giovanna says in good-natured puzzlement. "That's us. Stuck breathing New York air, surrounded by politicians, having to worry if one wrong move will ruin all the babysteps towards the legitimization of our country... we're real enviable." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	"Yeah, but you're Genoshan. You're special. You're fighting a battle relevant for yourself and the future. I'm...just a t-shirt wearing slogan screamer." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 07:44 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, at least they're the good slogans -- could you pass me that other hammer?" Gio thinks. It's a lot to wrap her brain around, and who on earth was this girl's mother? It was one of those edge-of-the-brain things... "Would you like to have dinner with Andrew and me when the work's done today?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 07:45 pm UTC (link)
	Nell grabbed the other hammer and handed it to Gio, nearly dropping it at what the other woman said next. "You're shitting me. Really?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

burnwithlight
2011-06-04 07:56 pm UTC (link)

"Well, I have our schedule clear this evening," which she'd done to free up a romantic evening, but she had a hunch Andrew'd really like a chance to talk to this girl at length. "And my instincts are that you're not a threat -- and trust me, my instincts aren't biased to lean that way, in the circumstances -- and even if they're wrong, I think I can take you. Andrew'd probably enjoy talking to you. He likes talking to people, when he has a break from talking to politicians, who qualify less for the term."

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	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 07:59 pm UTC (link)
	"I'd hope you can take me; it'd be embarassing for you to be taken down by a flatscan. Though Grandma Forrester did teach me an excellent left hook..." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 08:02 pm UTC (link)
	"Forrester! That was it. Your mother is Captain Aletys Forrester! He dated her during his 'playing it their way' phase!'" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 08:13 pm UTC (link)
	Nell blinked at Gio for a second. "...look lady, I don't know what you know about my family but my mom's a lot of things. A phase isn't one of them, yo." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 08:16 pm UTC (link)
	"I'm just relating things to the timeline as I know it. His living at Xavier's was a phase, thank anything. And it was around the same time, right?" (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 08:22 pm UTC (link)
	"More or less, but phases and their kid usually aren't welcome into the post-phase era. Now my mom and Cyclops...that was a phase." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 08:26 pm UTC (link)
	"The kind everyone's allowed, though. There are few good things I have to say about Cyclops, but Summers men are well built, at least." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 08:53 pm UTC (link)
	"No kidding. Here's to hoping there's some in my generation running around that aren't female." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 08:54 pm UTC (link)
	Gio smiles. "Well, you can't have Andrew -- he's Cyclops's nephew, not that they have much to do with each other, and he's mine. But you're welcome to any others." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 08:56 pm UTC (link)
	"I'll start getting out little 'property of Nell, bitches' labels posthaste." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 09:00 pm UTC (link)
	"Well, that's one way of going about it." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 09:02 pm UTC (link)
	"Hey, it's effective. And might start a fistfight, but I figure I can hold my own in that. Aforementioned lefthook and all of that. And a bonus. I'm not utterly useless." Nell seemed to think about this for a moment and with a sudden surge of determination, she smacked the offending board with her hammer and it popped loose. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-04 09:05 pm UTC (link)
	"Victory!" Gio proclaims with relief at the blasted board's giving in. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-04 11:43 pm UTC (link)
	"Hot damn! 'Bout freaking time! Now there are only...like ten more to go. Feh." (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	burnwithlight 2011-06-06 01:11 pm UTC (link)
	"Progress never happens as fast as it should," Gio sighs. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	i_got_nothin 2011-06-07 01:58 am UTC (link)
	"You could say that again and it'd still be twice as true. Ugh. But we'll get there. Eventually." (Reply to this)(Parent)

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