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

[cutting_edgex23]

"Yes. I am--"

She pauses, searching out the words.

"--glad people came."

Beat.

"March 5 is important? As a date?"

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

Duo considers this. "Weeell. Nothing really horrible happened on it recently. There was this French guy, a good physicist that was born today. And a few hundred years ago- for me, anyway- they figured out there was enough water on the moon to support human life."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"Oh."

Beat.

"It was the postmark. On my mother's letter. To Logan."

You know. So Duo knows.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

He blinks. Kind of a lot. "I don't think you've mentioned your mom before. Logan, yeah, I remember him." (Remembers getting into a barfight with him. Aheh.)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"Doctor Kinney. Sarah. She made me."

X shrugs.

"Then she helped me escape."

This pause is longer.

"You have met Logan?"

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

"...we weren't really introduced. Maybe you could remedy that sometime!" Logan totally won't recognize him, right?

He'll hold off on the mother talk for today. Wouldn't want to ruin the party.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"Oh," X says.

"Okay. I do not know when he will be here."

And by here she means Milliways.

"We are not from the same time."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

He nods. "Whenever. It's not urgent or anything, but I always like meeting your friends. It's cool!"

Pause.

"Besides Stitch, maybe. Well, when he isn't harassing me, he's cool." When he's harassing 494 he's cool.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

X frowns. Slightly.

"You do not like him. Stitch."

Beat.

"You did not fight?"

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Nah, I like him okay. I'm just fooling around with you. He likes you, which is what really matters. He's just a little out of my realm of experience. Gotta get used to the guy."

Duo is well used to not being the weirdest one in the room. He's just not used to the weirdest one being covered in blue fur.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"Oh."

Beat.

"Food is useful. Sometimes. And he likes movies."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Movies, huh?" He wonders how you get Stitch to stay still long enough to watch. "How'd you find out?"

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"He asked me. To watch movies."

Beat.

"There were pod people. And aquatic aliens."

Invasion of the Body Snatchers and The Faculty, to be precise.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Sci-fi the way to go, then? I really need to watch more movies from other worlds. I mean, how often do you get that chance?"

Sometimes Duo forgets how plain awesome Milliways can be.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"I do not know. I have not watched many."

Beat.

"I like Westerns. And--action movies."

She says that carefully.

New terminology is useful.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Action's pretty awesome. It's fun watching big explosions and cool fights when you don't have to be anywhere near them, huh. I don't think I know Westerns, though."

The 'west' doesn't really exist as an idea when you're busy colonizing Mars.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

"Cowboys," X says.

Beat.

"The Man with No Name. There are gunfights. And horses. In the desert."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Desert, huh? Sounds a little like some of the stuff they did about colonizing Mars, and the Moon station in the old days. Oh hey- deserts in the Western United States, right? I get it! I think."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

X has to think about that a minute. Then she nods.

"Yes."

Beat.

"They have hats, too. Like Logan's."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

"I didn't notice the hat. But I think I know what you mean, the whole cowboy thing." 'Thing' is accompanied by a gesture that seems to encompass the outfit you might wear, were you a cowboy.

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

X thinks about that for a little while.

"I have not ridden a horse."

Beat.

"You have?"

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

"Oh hell, no. Horses are big and heavy and can't actually understand what I'm saying to them. I don't need that on my foot or chewing on my hair."

(He may or may not be a little scared of horses.)

"Heero has, he's pretty good, apparently."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

X looks slightly puzzled.

"You cannot dodge?"

Really?

Re: Hang out with X-23

[maxwellsdemon02]

He gives her a look. "Horses run faster than people. I could dodge 'em stomping on my foot, but not if they decide they really don't like me."

Re: Hang out with X-23

[cutting_edgex23]

X just looks back at him.

"Dodging is not running."

Beat.

"And you are small."

Compared to a horse, anyway.