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Meg Ford ([personal profile] noteful) wrote2009-02-26 09:12 pm

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.
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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-01 12:13 am (UTC)(link)
"No. My teammates have them. Had them."

She frowns a little, considering.

"They are very loud."
raptorcanaria: ([young] worried)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-01 08:42 am (UTC)(link)
"Too loud?"
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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-01 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
X considers this.

"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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raptorcanaria: ([young] putting up with it)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-01 09:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I make loud music," Dinah says, tone suggesting that she's therefore rather bored of it.

"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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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-01 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Yes."

X falls silent.

This is--a little awkward.

But she is curious.

"What kind of music do you like?"
raptorcanaria: ([young] smirk)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-01 09:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Dinah hadn't noticed.

"A bit of everything," she admits, not having much specific taste in the area. "I like Iggy Pop right now."
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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-01 09:39 pm (UTC)(link)
X is often awkward. Subject changes and continuing conversations are not her forte. But she's getting better!

"Oh. I do not know them. You have heard Tom Petty?"
raptorcanaria: ([young] grin)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-01 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh yeah, he's good," Dinah says. "The Travelling Wilburys?"
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-01 09:59 pm (UTC)(link)
X looks blank.

"The Heartbreakers."

Beat.

"I do not know the Wilburys."

X is deprived. Clearly.
raptorcanaria: ([young] putting up with it)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-02 06:51 am (UTC)(link)
"He left them in my world," Dinah admits. "They're good, though."
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-02 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh."

X has already committed the band name to memory.

"I will look. For them."

Or music by them, rather.
raptorcanaria: ([young] smirk)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-02 06:30 pm (UTC)(link)
"Do so," Dinah says. "They're not bad."

Only... they've exhausted Dinah's ability to talk about popular music.

Um.
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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-02 06:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"Okay. I will remember."

X's ability is similarly exhausted.

She does not fidget.

"You are okay? At home?"
raptorcanaria: ([young] grin)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-02 06:39 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yeah."

Cheerfully. Everything's okay in that boring way. "..oh, I'm going out with Tommy now."
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-02 06:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Billy's brother."

X does not seem surprised. Maybe scent comes in handy sometimes?

"I have met him. Here. Not at home."

Beat.

"He likes poetry."
raptorcanaria: ([young] listening)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-02 09:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Does he?"

Dinah's not going to even think about smell.

"What kind of poetry?"
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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-02 09:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"Frost. But not Emma."

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.
raptorcanaria: ([young] grin)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-02 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"Robert?" Dinah brightens. "I know him! I had no idea Tommy liked him."

She's slightly worried this means she fails at girlfriend.
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
"I do not know what else he likes," X says, "About poetry. That is the only one he talked about."

She is trying to help!

But--that's really all she's got.

"Dating him is good? For you?"
raptorcanaria: ([young] listening)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-02 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Dinah nods.

"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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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-03 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
"It is good," X offers eventually, "that you like normal."

Beat.

"He does, too?"
raptorcanaria: ([young] grin)

Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-03 08:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Yeah," Dinah agrees. "For a given value of normal.

"He likes me, so that's enough."
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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-03 08:09 pm (UTC)(link)
There's a momentary silence.

Then--

"You do not fight?"
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Re: Hang out with X-23

[personal profile] raptorcanaria 2009-03-04 09:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Of course we..."

Oh wait.

"...not with each other."
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[personal profile] cutting_edgex23 2009-03-05 03:49 am (UTC)(link)
X doesn't laugh. If she were someone else, maybe she would.

"That is good."

Beat.

"Not fighting."

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