Birthday Party for Laura/X-23

[noteful]

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.

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Re: Hang out with X-23

[thursdays_angel]

Castiel nods.

"It makes things like friendship complicated."

Although, that leaves Castiel at something of a loss to define his relationship with people he has met here.

Were he anyone (or anything) else, he could claim them as friends without thinking twice.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"I do not know," X says, after a few moments of silence.

"I do not think it is like that."

Beat.

"For me."

But she--isn't sure.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[thursdays_angel]

"That is understandable. You are a person."

When your job has occasionally required you to assist in wiping out an entire town of innocents for the greater good of humanity, it makes you leery of getting too attached to individuals.

Fortunately, X does not have that problem.

At least, Castiel hopes she doesn't.

"I am not. A person. That makes it more difficult."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

An enclave, maybe. Not a town. And not for the greater good of anyone but the person paying the Facility for her services.

It's a different dynamic.

"You are a person."

She sounds--a little fierce about that.

"You do not have to be human. For that."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[thursdays_angel]

Castiel shakes his head gently.

"I cannot be both."

"I am an angel. I am not a person. That is simply how I was created."

"But that is okay too."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"Raguel is an angel, too."

She's not exactly mulish. Just a teenager. With issues involving identity and self-determination.

"And a person."

Whether or not Raguel would agree--

Re: Hang out with X-23

[thursdays_angel]

"I know."

They have met.

"I appreciate that you think of me as a person."

Semantics aside, he knows what she is trying to convey.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

There's a moment of silence as she looks at him, maybe weighing how much he means that.

Then she nods, relaxing faintly.

"Okay."

Beat.

"Good."