New York - X-Mansion - Library

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Library






Located on the ground floor

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A little over an hour after locating Logan with Cerebro and Maeve's teleported trip to Kenya to recruit Logan

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Thursday, the day Charles and his crew meet Maeve and agree to help free Erik has come to an end.

Friday morning and afternoon pass and it is now around the time a normal work day ends.

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A couple hours have passed.

Charles, Jean, Logan, Maeve, and Peter had finished plans for breaking Erik out of Trask Industries.

Maeve has left a van from the cleaning company at the arranged landing spot with uniforms inside, ready and waiting for the rest of the team who'll be arrival shortly.

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[Ariel]

Peter felt like he was stalling, that he really should get things underway with telling Erik the truth. Yet, he was scared and the thought of the rejection that could possibly come along with Erik knowing he had a son was something that Peter wasn't so sure if he was capable of handling. Sure, he had gone this far without his father in his life. But now Erik was here, in the same building and Peter was feeling emotionally vulnerable. Unsure of what to do at this point, Peter figured that taking a walk to try and obtain a clearer mind on the matter might help him make the right decisions, at the right time of course. Peter had wondered where Hope had been, as he had been wandering the halls and rooms of the Mansion for a while now and she appeared to be nowhere in sight, yet the library was the least of expected places he had thought to find her as he mindlessly strolled into the room encased with books from floor to ceiling.

[The Jester Of Tortuga]

Hope was struggling with this time period. Sure some things were the same from time to time but even then those fleeting moments still felt different. Silences she was use to weren't from calm and stillness but instead through death and destruction. Ignoring the rare mutants they came across was easier when she didn't have to worry about a slip resulting in an entire school being blown up. The world seemed so much smaller before, then or is now when or even an if? Nate had chosen this time period as he thought it would be far enough back for her to learn more about her powers and control without damaging the timeline. Now she sat alone in the library trying to ignore all the power coursing through her body it felt like it was taking every ounce of her energy to control them and not let them take her over.

"I can do this, I can do this..." Her broken fingers from years fo damage dug into the arm chair as much as they could.

[Ariel]

A few steps into the library, Peter's gaze caught the sight of someone who had already been occupying an armchair. Whisking himself behind a nearby bookshelf in a slight panic, he brought himself to an abrupt halt as he did not want to intrude. Yet the person did not seem to be aware of his presence quite yet, so Peter allowed his gaze to peer around the corner of the shelf discreetly to get a better idea of what he was dealing with. In the distance, his eyes laid upon the side profile of a familiar red headed bombshell. Peter's lips couldn't help but to curl into a grin at this surprising discovery in the library, and he simply couldn't resist staying quiet for much longer.

"Fancy seeing you here, Red," Peter had cleared his throat nervously before boldly strolling past the shelf and in Hope's direction, "Hope you didn't miss me too much, just single handedly saved one of the most powerful mutants of our kind from a dangerous, high tech facility. No big deal...," Peter boasted as he finally caught up to the armchair that Hope had been sitting in. He nonchalantly propped his forearm up against the top of a neighboring chair as he was all puffed up with self-assured confidence, yet when his eyes dawned upon Hope up close, his expression softened into uneasiness as he took note of how tense she looked.

"Woah...," Peter slid his arm off of the chair as he sank his bottom into the chair next to Hope, "You don't look so good. Is something wrong?"

[The Jester Of Tortuga]

"Fancy seeing you here, Red,""Hope you didn't miss me too much, just single handedly saved one of the most powerful mutants of our kind from a dangerous, high tech facility. No big deal...,"

A voice... a familiar voice at that. Something she could use as an anchor for focus or atleast she hoped she could as she didn't exactly know him over well or for that long but when one is lost any known habour is safe habour right?

"Woah...,""You don't look so good. Is something wrong?"

Where to begin with that one, it was such a loaded question and Hope still had no real idea on how the whole timeline thing worked, if she talked about a butterfly does it effect the future?

"Here I... Here I was thinking... That you... You liked the way I looked." Hope focused on the words as she could feel the familiar bolts of speed passing through her body, it was comforting in a way she couldn't understand since she couldn't use the speed in any controlable fashion. Her fingers lightened on the arm chair as had something she could finally cling to, a life jacket in a sea of uncertain powers. "Could you tell me... Tell me about it... Please."

[Ariel]

"Here I... Here I was thinking... That you... You liked the way I looked." "Could you tell me... Tell me about it... Please."

"Really?" Peter raised his silver brows in slight shock before rolling his eyeballs left and then right to see if anyone else was around. Sure, he liked her. Even more than what he wanted to admit. But he was confused, and he wasn't sure if he was hearing her right. But Peter wanted to help her out of this pain in any way that he possibly could and being totally weak in the knees for this girl, he decided to roll with it.

"Okay well...," Peter peered down at his shoes for a moment as he uncomfortably shuffled his bottom in the worn in armchair before looking back up to her as he braced himself awkwardly, "I like the way you grin at me when I'm acting like a total dork...the corners of your lips do this little dimple thing, it's actually kinda cute...ah," Peter shook his head sheepishly, "I probably sound like a complete idiot." Peter chuckled nervously as his tone tried to mask up just how gushy his words had sounded.

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"Okay well...,""I like the way you grin at me when I'm acting like a total dork...the corners of your lips do this little dimple thing, it's actually kinda cute...ah,""I probably sound like a complete idiot."

Wait, what?

What?

He completely misunderstood what she had said, maybe she wasn't clear enough but he gave Hope the distraction she had asked for. Her cheeks begun to burn as he talked and Hope was positive that it wasn't some other power getting the best of her. Hopes fingers no longer dug into the arms of the chair she was in but instead kneeded them like dough.

"I-I-..." What do people normally say in this situation, is it even a normal one for people to be in? Fighting giant sentinels and cults seemed so much easier than this. "I was meaning about the superful mutant and high tech facility that was all you." she gave him a grin making sure the corners of her lips were making dimples letting him now he did a total dork thing.

"But thanks, I like the way you confidently boast about yourself, gives you an aire of grandjeur that says I know I'm just a little bit arrogant but charmingly so."

[Ariel]

"I-I-..." "I was meaning about the superful mutant and high tech facility that was all you." 

"Uuuhhh...," Peter's face immediately flushed a scorching tint of embarrassment the exact moment that he realized that he just made things awkward between them. Not that he hadn't done that before already, he usually was aware of the fact that he had boastful and foolish tenancies around women. Though, there was something different about his encounters with Hope than the rest and he didn't want to screw with that, "Yeah, totally. Psh, I knew that," Peter chuckled nervously in a sad attempt to back track the conversation, "I was just saying, ya know. If we were talking about feelings and shizz. But we aren't. Right...ahem," Peter lifted the base of his fist to his lips as he cleared his throat in an anxious nature before turning the subject back to the mission, "The team performed well, we almost died of course getting Magnet man out but I of course acted in the nick of time and the day was saved." Peter spoke with ease as he laced his fingertips together and pressed them forward and then up above his head in a stretching motion.

"But thanks, I like the way you confidently boast about yourself, gives you an aire of grandjeur that says I know I'm just a little bit arrogant but charmingly so."

"Well sister, if you're gonna talk the talk you might as well walk the walk. Today's mantra," Peter folded his clasped hands comfortably behind his head as he lay back in the armchair, "Feeling better?"

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Erik was successfully broken out of Trask Industries.

Friday has come to an end.

It is now Saturday, October 25, 1975, late morning.

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A few hours pass.

It is now early afternoon.

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The rest of Saturday passes.

It is now Sunday, October 26, 1975, late morning.

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