14293/Cat's in the Bathroom with the Silver Spoon

Cat's in the Bathroom with the Silver Spoon
Date of Scene:	01 March 2023
Location:	Second Floor Landing
Synopsis:	In a night which starts with Catseye taking over her bathroom and leveling it, Emma then has to deal with the ever sneaky Norilee (Or Nubes as she calls herself) totally being a completely normal Jubilee as Tabitha finishes up the evening with margaritas!
Cast of Characters:	Emma Frost, Tabitha Smith, Sharon Smith, Noriko Ashida

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Emma Frost has posed:
The place? Emma Frost's guest room at the Mansion. The time? About two or three in the morning as Emma Frost comes in towards the guest area. WHether it'sa fter a mission or a late night review of finances and classes, she's out in the hallway and looking rather tired, and forwards to some alcohol and other vices.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
Tabitha on the other hand had been stuck helping some of the younger kids with less academic or end of the world stuff. Mostly this meant most of the day shopping and driving kids because she's the one with the cooler van that the drab boring default the school owns.

She'd just finished helping carry stuff to some of the girls' rooms and finally managed to escape. Yellow jeans, red XAVIER's hoodie, knee high lace up, wedgeheeled faux combat boots. That spiky leather set of collar, belt and wrist cuffs an glasses in as much the same colour. Though her laces are more yellow to contrast the red, Her cateye glasses red rimmed and yellow tinted as well. It's not the loudest she dressed but it beats humdrum gray sweats of depression. "You know Emma, that 'I need booze' look is almost as loud as the stray thoughts of the human kids at the mall. Different kinda thirsty though." she jokes. In the months since her telepathy awakened, she learned way more of an appreciation for what Emma or Jean, and Betsy all put up with.

Sharon Smith has posed:
An eerie fog wafted hall from the master bedroom. It seemed distinctly like steam, carrying a humid, muggy tang to the air. Did Emma leave the shower on? It seemed unlikely at this hour.

The real culprit was heard long before she was seen. "This place is huge!" Catseye holared. The uninvited guest emerged wrapped in what one might suspect are *all* of Emma's towels, as well as her robe. She had a towel on her head, around her toso, waist, and topped it all off with the obligitory towel over her shoulders. "How is your bathroom so big? You need to try the shower. It is amazing!" she beamed, as though Emma hadn't ever tried her own shower in her OWN house.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost is looking over at Tabitha, "Dear, there are different types of booze. Me? I just prefer some light wine. Just something to soften me up before I pass out and then have to face the trials and tribulations of the enxt day when I got o my personal spa and.." Wait, personal spa?

Then the door opens and Emma Frost can't help but blink and stare over. "Ah, hello Sharon. How did you.." Get in?

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"Like you don't think, damn I need shots." Tabitha teases and grins. "You're a teacher. Of teenagers. And sometimes a few of us young adults." she states and chuckles. She's also well aware of how much stress she sometimes causes but hey, if she didn't keep doing that stuff the place would get so boring.

"Catseye hon, a lot of the private bathrooms are huge. The mansion was built and renovated and rebuilt on old money. A few special adjustments had to be made." she embelishes just a little.

"My own is pretty big too. But I used to live with someone in there and well. It was Jimmy Proudstar. No one showerhead could cover even one of his pecs. Now all eight detachables are mine. ALLLL MIIIIIIIIINE!" she explaisnand gloats almost like a supervillain. But chronologically I think we established evening.

Sharon Smith has posed:
Sharon Smith pointed vaugely down the hall in answer of. How she got in. It wasn't a very specific answer, but at least it gave her a vague idea of which direction she came in from. "Why are there so many soaps?" she asked. "They have so many smells." she descirbed, sniffing her pale arm through the robe's sleeve

"Oh." Catseye stated, pursing her lips. "I'll try yours next." she warned as she walked up to take a seat on the a table. She could have sat in a chair like a normal person, but the tabletop was higher.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would go to rub at her temples, "Well.. Just what were you doing in.." THere's a wreck where Emma's very, very expensive and custom designed bathroom was. And yes, it was a very nice and large one. Nowhere near as nice or as big as Jean's jacuuzi.

"I see you've redecorated while you were there as well." With Catseye over on the table, Emma turns to maintain eye contact. SHe can only really blame herself for this.

"And I'm very much not a 'shots' lady, Tabitha. I want to appreciate hte taste of what I consume. Not consume enough of it for the taste to not matter."

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Life was much easier when she was just Noriko Ashida, hater of everyone, able to speed away after a mean look, or thought, or anything she didn't want to keep entertaining with more time.  But now, things aren't so simple after swapping bodies with her vampire fiance.  In fact, shouldn't she be holding court right about now or something?  Instead, with an unearthly glide and a pair of shades the vampire known as Jubilation Lee is gliding along when she is drawn to the loudness of activity piercing her senses.  With an almost snarl of a smile, Nubes (the Jubes formerly known as Noriko), redirects her trajectory from the instinct of the kitchen to the a real pantry.  Sniff, sniff.  People.  Blood.

The pale skinned beauty appears on the peripheral of a shadow.  She has a WWJD bracelet on which she begins to snap against her wrist.  Without any blood to respond, her skin does not pink.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"Would a pitcher of Margarita be better then? Salted rim on the glass?" Then offers. "We may need to raid the sublevel lunge for the triple sec." she adds and hmms. "But you definitely need a buzz. And people to vent at." she says suprisingly warmly and makes a snappoint with her fingers before turning to grin at Sharon Smith.

No relation.

"Just knock away on my door. But if you clog the drains you're cleaning it hon. I don't have as many fancy soaps as Emma. But they do smell nice. At least until I take three steps away from the shower. She was always paranoid about her smell. Turns out she usually just smells like really fresh air which may or may not be a good thing in and of itself.

Bioleclectricity igniting plasma.

There's also, since this is tabitha after all probably more than a little smell of blood, the girl does tend to take more than her share of beatibgs and injuries as part of her life as an X-Man.

"Up at the crack of dusk Jubes? Haven't seen Nori yet today. But I'm sure she'll turn up." she greets the shortstack vamp.

Sharon Smith has posed:
The bathroom was more of a mess than anything. Most of it was soap, it was as if Sharon's idea of putting on soap was to squirt it wildly in the air and see where it landed. "I might have gotten carried away." she partly agreed, but still smiled, reminicing her adventure. Whatever chaos she'd gotten up to in there seemed unimaginable, but the result was messy... except for Catseye. She looked squeaky clean underneath the excessive cocoon of towels.

She blinked with surprise at the ease that Tabitha sacrificed her bathroom, or perhaps she was surprised that she was supposed to 'knock.' Her silence left her thoughts a mystery.

Emma Frost has posed:
the approach of Jubilee has Emma blinking. She's never seen the young(ish) vampire duchess look so twitchy before. "When was the last time that you ate.." But wait, there's more! Her body language is decidedly -not- Jubilee here. The girl does seem at  least a little off to her.

"I hate to say it Ms. Lee but you seem to have gottne even more pallid than usual. And what are you doing up and out of your coffin? It's not even close to dawn yet and you always seemed the type to loathe to get up early."

Emma wouldlook over at Catseye and then sigh, "So, did you at least enjoy your.. Shower? And I take it that I shouldn't ask about anything else?" There's a level of ruin tow here her bathroom was. But Catseye seems to be rahter clean.. Which is what is improtant for her!

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"I'm playing hooky, so I thought I'd make the most of doing nothing.  The court is so droll," Nubes explains with a flourish of her hand.  A little twinkle of a sparkler end comes out of the tips of her fingers and she mumbles, cursing under her breath.  "I don't remember the last time I ate.  Are you saying I look peaked?!"  Well she isn't lying.  She causes a flush to come to her cheeks, but it's a trick she's seen Jubilation do before.  It makes her stomach growl with impatience for all the sustenance swirling around her in these dumb fleshy capris sun suits...and the toweled one.

Nubes still hasn't gotten used to her thoughts being sooooo damn slow.  So much happens while she's just sitting there, thinking of all these elaborate fantasies that she no longer needs to fill the time...yet, time, time might be what she does need to fill again.  She stares off during this reverie.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
At least some influence from training with the professor and other telepaths beside Emma left an impression. She doesn't poke in people's minds without permission. So that the Asian girl driving, is not the Asian girl that normally drives that perky form is somewhat lost on the natural blonde. "What, like we're the same people before we had out morning coffee slash tea slash whatever." she points out to Emma.

The 'Blush of Life' gets a giggle. "You just made Emma and I both jealous. And we can make people think we look that good." she adds and giggles. "There's worse things I'd say about most of them. I mean your almost ex-harem sisters might be hot but they still bitches." she points out. Though by then Norilee is staring and off with the faeries. Tabby hmming and waves a hand in the girl's face. "Yeah, that's some low ass bloodsugar right there. We gonna need to have a kid bring some bagged blood up here like last time?" the trailer park girl treating vampirism almost like diabetes. "Jubilee here is a Vampire. Blood, cute fangs, runs a local nest, court, whatever they call themselves as a group. Lives next door to me and Rahne." she adds with a snap of her fingers to maybe try wake the Vampiress up.

Sharon Smith has posed:
Sharon Smith grinned brightly. "Yes. It was the best. I said I would show you I'm the best bath taker." she proudly reminded Emma. "Ask me what else?" she asked with confusion, but still decided "You probably should not." in a whimsical warning

She loosely followed the conversation, making a 'hook' with her finger at the word. "Ex-harem sisters? I thought it was called X-men. They keep changing the name. It confuses me." she complained.

Emma Frost has posed:
Emma Frost would just look over at Norilee and then just shake her head, "You just look like someone taht's having to sober up at five am and realizes that they're just about ot hit the dawn, have a flul day of work, and no caffeine darling. So by all means, do feel free to continue to not look like you're sizing us up for a meal while talking about politics. And if you didn't want to take over the duchy, then you should have considered that before you ate the last individual in charge of it."

The term was 'no givebacks', as far as Emma was aware. "I'm not sure that you've met.. Catseye." She would point to the girl that had emerged from Emma's wrecked bathroom fluffy towel in hand/paw. "I'm not particularly sure that's the best way to put it, Tabitha.." Or that Sharon cares

Noriko Ashida has posed:
The young vampire can't be anything but more than 18 years age.  She lifts her hand and wiggles her pale fingers at Sharon in greeting.  "What?  I'm here.  I'm here."  Did she fall asleep?  Can she fall asleep?  She duskdreams until she realizes Emma is speaking at her.  "I was kidnapped."  There is a real part of her bristling under the surface that would very much like any excuse to rip into Emma's throat, but she's resisting it valiantly on all fronts.

"I'm sorry for having /a night/.  You know, I think I will have one of those blood packs," but she has NO IDEA WHERE THEY ARE, because Noriko has always thought of herself as Jubilation's backup Popeye slurpee no matter how many times Jubilation insists she isn't food.  "Can you get me one?  Pretty please?" she opines to Tabitha.  Her sunglasses slip a little and she suddenly straightens up, pushing them up on the bridge of her nose.

"Catseye?  Is that like Cats Eye, first name last name, or just all one thing?"  

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"Averted harem. The guy is dead. That's still the current status of that asshole right?" Tabby enquires with a scrunch of her eyebrows begind the rims of her glasses. "Hands up who hasn't been kidnapped and or trafficked by perverts." she states and shrugs.

There is a rub of her own temples and a grin. After a pause from her last comment mainly because she has had a bunch of that done to her. She also knows how old Jubilee actually is. That girl gonna look eighteen for decades even if she wasn't a vampire. Being hot and Asian does have perks.

"I pinged someone downstairs they'll raid the lab, and the lounge for some good booze. Just don't get crappy if the blood isn't Nori's I don't keep track of that stuff down there. I jsut make sure mine is because having a fresh bag of DNA is like just safe prepwork incase I have like dinosaur relapses. Or cows. Mostly unaltered DNA and blood can save lives." she states and leans herself against a wall via her side and shoulder. "I think it's one word Catseye? Like Wolfsbane. Our other neighbor in Monster House."

Sharon Smith has posed:
Sharon Smith wiggled her fingers in return to Noriko's gesture. "Yes." she answered unhelpfully. Was she choosing all of the above? She could have been a little more specific.

Catseye promptly raised her hand at Tabitha's call, and then slowly lowered it as she remembered. "I was an imaginary friend once..." pondering to herself, as though debating whether being an imaginary friend fit the category. She sat in a long, thoughtful silence. It was hard to tell what she was thinking. Even Emma would have a difficult time reading the fickle mutant's brain even if she tried, since her thoughts changed so rapidly to different subjects. "Ex-harem sisters" Catseye snickered. "I think I will find some clothes... thanks for the shower!" she chirped. In almost an instant, there was a pile of towels and fluffy robe where Sharon had been sitting. A small, black cat leapt out of the discarded mess to dash back down the hall.

Emma Frost has posed:
Something is definitely off here. Emma's not sure she really wants to know about the particulars as Jubilee starts to go over with some sort of rather hybrid level pun instead of her normal banter. "Thank you Tabitha." Emma would offer. Then glance over at Norilee. "Very well, do forgive me. I simply blame it on the fact that those of us who have not evolved to your level of being able to appreciate the best time of day."

Sleep will not come soon. She has to wake up and then start on finding someone to re-panel her entire bahtroom. She can't just leave it to the Mansion's construction budget. The discussion of how to put Sharon's name properly has her look partially amused, turning over to see how Sharon would reply. Or at the very least for her nightmares of damage control to cleanse.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"Yeah."  To be honest, Nubes is having a real hard time concentrating with all these circulatory systems around her, and as Tabitha goes on and on, she takes comfort in the fact that BLOOD IS COMING.  "Uh."  Nori's blood?  Oh yeah.  "Well whatever.  As long as it isn't old," or...yeah she has no idea what to say.

"I can't help it if she tastes good," Nubes shrugs and tries to let the moment pass.  So weird.  "A vial of unaltered blood definitely can save lives," she says with a little unconscious lick of her lips afterward.

"Catsyeye.  One word.  Cool....Well, nice to meet you Catseye."  Nubes finds herself extending her hand as if she half expects it to be responded to, kissed?, and then lowers it awkwardly only to tilt her head at Sharon becoming a small cat.  "Got it."  She turns her shades on Emma.  "It happens.  Anyways, a little blood and I'll be right as rain and stop checking out everyone's necks okay?" she says with her hands up for a moment and a fangy smirk.  There's just something reminiscent about her expressions.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
It wouldn't be fast, not everyone has the speed of Nori classic so having to juggle a bag or two of blood and some alcohol and sneak past any adults. Tabby likely will get chewed out for the booze. But she's also twenty one so she should be fine.

"Look, you okay? You usually get shirty at the idea of like someone else's blood besides Noriko's." she says and gives a frowny look to Emma as Sharon pads off to probabably lose Emma's expensive towels.

"I'm sure she does. The electricity is probably like making out with a battery. Still think you should lighten up on that. Can't be good for Nori, draining her and she has energy level issues too, and if all we have fresh is ours instead and you're in need. Beggars can't be like choosers. I been hobo girl long enough that food is food when you starve." she points out.

Emma Frost has posed:
The general modicum of Norilee's mind bouncing about is enough to make Emma presume that it's just Jubilee hasn't fed over in awhile. She's rapidly decided that it's too late to really bother that much. "I don't think I've ever quite seen you so cheerful, Ms. Lee, particularly on an empty stomach. You seem positively jubilant."

Sharon has gone back to the shower to claim whatever's bits of it are leftover as her own. She would sigh over at Tabitha, "And I'm sure that she didn't need that particular visualziation when it came to her food, Tabitha. She might appreciate it not being fast food."

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"Well - wait so first it's are you okay because I'm okay to branch out and then it's lay off her?  She's /my/ fiance Tabitha."  As if that somehow makes any of the behavior Tabitha has mentioned okay.  "I don't take from her any more than a clinic would if she could donate anyways," which they all know, with Nori's blood, it's just too risky to try and use in anyone else or possibly even to retrieve.  "Not that it's any of your business.  Besides, -wait, did she look unwell?!"  Sudden terror shudders through the vampire's core.

"What?!" Nubes says to Emma in sudden shock.  No one has ever accused Nori of being cheerful.  The wonders this body can do, she thinks cynically and admirably.

Apparently no light is shed on whether making out with Noriko is like making out with a battery.  But there is this decidedly un-Jubilee-like response that finally comes.

"Do /you/ like making out with batteries?"

Tabitha Smith has posed:
Tabby has to quuickly math up Norilee's response in her head, swaying index finger like she was doing eeny meeny miny moe. "Believe it or not shits are given about you both. I get there's a juggling act. I dated a demoness and Illyana and I had juggling acts of our own."

That maybe gets a slight blush out of her. How much you drink, and recovering from as much blood taken as a clinic would. There's a reason they don't let folks go home straight away. The free cookies and orange juice is nice though. And Nori's got that jacked up metabolism. It feels just, risky for her." she actually sounds very concerned.

"And I get you don't want to hurt like any of us by feeding. But really. Juicebags in the lab fridges. You're not hurting any of us by that. And in a pinch like say you get wrecked in a fight and Nori is not around. We'd let you feed directly in an emergency. We want you both up and around as normal as this school allows. And less loopy or likely to sprint splat into walls.

As for the battery thing. That does get another flash of red. "I own a TENS unit." she admits.

Emma Frost has posed:
The back and forth between Tabitha and Norilee has Emma amused. THe sudden spike of terror rising up in one girl has her looking over and then it's back to normal. "You seem much peppier htan usual. So apaprently whatever you're sleeping in is having some effect."

The sudden very un-Jubilee like bit has her attention ever so softly, and Emma purses her lips. Enough oddities, enoug little changes in body language..

A quick attempted mindprobe is sent the way of NOriko. Something is off here, and Emma's annoyeda t it being very late night to actually breach a bit beyond normal ethics rather than just ask or let it slide.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Audible sigh.  People care.  Shits are given.  Noriko wonders briefly if Jubes gets more of this kind of stuff because people perceive her as friendly or because they perceive her as constantly thirsty?

"I don't let her get lightheaded like that.  And it's not like she's not always snacking."  There's a little bit of possessive defensiveness over /Jubes/ and how much concern is flying around that Nubes is aptly trying to hide as annoyance.  "I may not be like a thousand years old, but I know what I'm doing."  Jubes sure does!  Nubes?  Maybe not.

"I don't need to know about you and your units and what you date or eat or anything.  Please."  The mind probe knocks up against something more familiar at /speed/...full of familiar ghosts of impressions of patterns of thoughts usually buried in other noise.  But the shell of that mind is stubbornly, paranoidly thick, as if already wary of telepathic intrusions.  It so easily resembles the noisy wall that is Noriko, but so exquisitely NOT going a billion miles a minute.  Though still, all over the place.  Her mind is still darting this way and that, chasing down a thousand fragments of thoughts as if she has time to delve in such things.  There's a reason she looks so hungry.  She keeps activating her speed internally, an instinct to go faster and faster and faster than this body and this brain could ever support.  Like caged wild rabbit.

"I just missed a snack is all," Nubes says as if maybe this is supposed to make everyone calm down on their concern.

Tabitha Smith has posed:
"That damn speed has beaten me to a lot of those snacks around here. Does she even really need them if she's also absorbing ambient electricity? Including mine?" Tabitha says and mock pouts. "I get the need to eat like all the time. But just, like totes be careful. And you don't have to lean on her for everything, especially your own dietary needs." she adds.

Right as a kid of about seventeen emerges from the staircase and with a little huffing and puffing hands over soee expensive looking bottles of tequila and triple sec, and some lime juice. There's also a bag of blood the sort normally used for transfusions with that little hose that could make a hell of a crazy straw.

That gets passed from the girl to Tabitha and then to Jubilee, or the girl that looks like Jubilee. The booze and lemon juice get claimed and set on a nearby shelf for the inevitable making of margaritas. Where the glasses and ice needed for it remains to be seen if Emma's post Sharon room is in the state it's in.

Emma Frost has posed:
It's that rapidfire twitching over of Noriko's brain that Emma picks up that settles thing rather quickly. Ah. Emma would go to rub at her nose for a moment and then speak, "It's all right, I know. Someone very close to me is going through the exact same thing." Those words might sound -really- weird over to Tabitha coming out of nowhere. But everything makes sense now. Emma can't even try and sort through everything giong through Norilee's mind, nor does she try to parse it.

She just knows how the girl's thought patterns are to identify her, and how Jubilee's are in turn. "It's all right, you don't have to pretend." Emma would offer that up again that might make even less sense.

Emma does not reach out for any sort of alcohol in her room, despite the damage, despite the sheer necessity of it.. And the clear want in her eyes as Taibtha goes to make a mix-drink.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"She can transform one energy into another energy.  That doesn't mean she can turn any of that energy into a hamburger."  Hamburgers.  Life used to be so simple.  "Honestly though I don't know about all of that.  It's just how she gets hungry and how she gets sick."  Nubes shrugs nonchalantly.  "I'm careful.  And she is not food to me," she says darkly.  The kid arrives just in time.  Her eyes slip to a neck briefly before settling on the blood bag.  She casually tries to figure out how this straw situation is going to work.  She just sticks the tube into the side of her mouth and sucks.

It's true, she does have a tiresome mind, but at least the strange fritzed electrical storm subsides a little when she starts sipping.  "Huh?"  She realizes Emma is speaking to her, is saying those words to her.  "Yes.  I do...I should probably go get more presentable before someone finds me and drags me to court or something."  Yeah because drinking that blood in polite company has nothing to do with it.  "But both of you are just worried because of sleep deprivation.  I'll be right as rain after this."  Way overdoing it on the chipperness.  Even her inner Nori recoils at it this time.  But then, it is very Jubilee like to get more chipper when hiding something, so at least she's on the right track in a way.  Slurp noise.  "Sleep!" she calls out between sips before gliding out.