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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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"Sometimes. Pixie likes loud music. And Santo."
Beat.
"There are clubs, too."
This pause is a little longer, and she studies Dinah carefully.
"You like loud music?"
She's not judging, if so. Just--super-hearing, even with filtering, makes constant loud bass kind of--distracting.
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"I mean, I don't mind it, but noise doesn't do anything for me. I'd rather have a decent tune."
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X falls silent.
This is--a little awkward.
But she is curious.
"What kind of music do you like?"
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"A bit of everything," she admits, not having much specific taste in the area. "I like Iggy Pop right now."
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"Oh. I do not know them. You have heard Tom Petty?"
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"The Heartbreakers."
Beat.
"I do not know the Wilburys."
X is deprived. Clearly.
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X has already committed the band name to memory.
"I will look. For them."
Or music by them, rather.
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Only... they've exhausted Dinah's ability to talk about popular music.
Um.
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X's ability is similarly exhausted.
She does not fidget.
"You are okay? At home?"
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Cheerfully. Everything's okay in that boring way. "..oh, I'm going out with Tommy now."
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X does not seem surprised. Maybe scent comes in handy sometimes?
"I have met him. Here. Not at home."
Beat.
"He likes poetry."
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Dinah's not going to even think about smell.
"What kind of poetry?"
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Beat.
"It was about woods. And traveling. And sleep."
X has a very good memory, but metaphor leaves her in the dust. She's trying, though.
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She's slightly worried this means she fails at girlfriend.
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She is trying to help!
But--that's really all she's got.
"Dating him is good? For you?"
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"He's really sweet," she says. "And it's nice to do something that's normal. With someone who understands the non-normal things."
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Beat.
"He does, too?"
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"He likes me, so that's enough."
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Then--
"You do not fight?"
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Oh wait.
"...not with each other."
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"That is good."
Beat.
"Not fighting."
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It is. Dinah can't stop grinning.
"How are you at home?"
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Beat.
"I have been helping clean up. The city."
She hesitates, just for a second.
"My neighborhood. It is not hard."
Hard work, yes. But not--not complicated. X can go with it.
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