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Birthday Party for Laura/X-23
It's a pretty low-key party, all things considered, and not significantly different than the one Parker or Meg would have thrown in a dorm room for a friend at home, not-exactly-traditional menu not withstanding.
There's music, low enough to talk over (and maybe with a little more folk in the mix than one expects to find a party). Balloons and streamers in purple and blue and red. A place to leave presents. People to meet or catch up with.
And, most importantly, a chance to wish X-23 (or Laura) a very happy birthday.
There's music, low enough to talk over (and maybe with a little more folk in the mix than one expects to find a party). Balloons and streamers in purple and blue and red. A place to leave presents. People to meet or catch up with.
And, most importantly, a chance to wish X-23 (or Laura) a very happy birthday.
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She's pretty sure she doesn't know anybody here except Laura.
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And so, in attempt to warm it up again, Elle raises her hand and fires a few sparks from her fingers.
All this really accomplishes is to leave the bread slightly burnt. But it is rather eye-catching.
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Already the smell of too-toasted bread wafts over.
"You, uh, like your garlic bread well done?"
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After finishing: "It's okay."
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Even if it is slightly burnt.
"You're not a friend of Laura's from back home, are you?"
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"Nope. She's just like me."
Beat. "Sorta."
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She turns to look over a little more fully. To say she's not exactly used to people displaying powers or whatever is kind of an understatement.
"Bet you could give a purse-snatcher a hell of a surprise."
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This is usually because most of the people she's ever around already know about her.
"Do people not do things like that in your world?"
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With a crooked smile and raised eyebrows, she shakes her head.
"If anyone does, I've sure never seen it."
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"That doesn't mean it doesn't happen."
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Her smile's still kind of skeptical, though.
"But how long can you keep that kind of thing a secret from everybody?"
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She gives a small shrug. "And we've been around for a while."
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In her experience, secrets often have a habit of coming out eventually.
"Must be pretty hard. If I could do something like that, I bet I'd be tempted to do it in public sooner or later."
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Beat.
"Because he doesn't age." Er. In case that wasn't clear.
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She hesitates for a second.
"Is it that he can't be killed?" Because you'd think that a guy who doesn't get in any life-threatening situations in over three hundred years is incredibly lucky. "Or is it only that he doesn't age?"
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Elle talks about this as though it's a fairly normal occurrence. "And he doesn't really get sick."
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Crazy. But the person who just toasted her own bread with sparks from her fingers probably isn't gonna think so, is she?
Her lips press together. "What about you? Were you born being able to do that?"
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Her attention had turned to the bread at this point, but she looks up to add, "But it takes longer to start up."
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"Guess you're not doing things like that" -- she nods to the bread -- "much in public when you're not here."
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"Nope," she agrees.
She also doesn't go out in public all that much, either. "Most of us who know about it don't."