17488/Cards with Cajuns

Cards with Cajuns
Date of Scene:	25 March 2024
Location:	Recreation Room
Synopsis:	Members of Xavier's school get together in the Rec Room
Cast of Characters:	Remy LeBeau, Patty Sloan, Monet St. Croix, Kitty Pryde, Jubilation Lee, Noriko Ashida

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Remy LeBeau has posed:
     It's early-afternoon at Xavier's and the recreation room is yet to be overrun by students done with their classes, giving Remy some time in the room by himself before the mad rush for entertainment starts. The Cajun has situated himself at the bar, up on one of the stools. A bottle of some amber liquid sitting on the bar next to him along with a glass quarter-filled with the same liquid, and a block of ice. In front of him are cards spread out in a typical Solitaire pattern. Today the mutant is dressed for relaxation, ditching the normal getup of body armor and coat that he tends to wear even on his 'off' days, and instead lounging in a pair of shorts, t-shirt, and some tennis shoes. A toothpick juts from the corner of his mouth in perhaps a placeholder for a cigarette, the tip of it moving this way and that as his tongue flicks the other end within his mouth.

Patty Sloan has posed:
Today was mostly morning classes for Patty Sloan. She had attended each class and then went back to her dorm where she did her work so she wouldn't have to do it later. Then she grabbed a light lunch before going out for a run. Patty circled the lake and is now back and winded. She would go to her room and grab a towel before heading to the rec room.

Quietly she walks in and gets herself a zero sugar soda. She quickly drinks it up before getting a bottle of water. "What a run! I am still trying to get used to exercising regularly. If I am going to do what I am planning to do, I need to be in my best shape!" She smiles. "Hi I'm Patty. Nice to meet you." She introduces herself to Remy.

Remy LeBeau has posed:
     Hearing someone else come into the room, Remy glances over with the ruby-pupiled eyes and gives the arrival a quick once over and a brief as he plasters on the charm and smiles, "I don' know, petie. Seems to be in pretty good shape already, non? What is it dat you plannin' to do?" Remy reaches over and picks up the glass of amber liquid, shimmies it slightly in his hand so that the ice rattles against the sides before lifting it up to his lips to take a sip. "Remy LeBeau."

Monet St. Croix has posed:
Glancing in over as she would enter, Monet would nod to Patty, "Greetings, I hope that your event went well." Monet would completely not go to something so pedestrian. Th girl had her reputation of being a walking, talking ego after all. Remy is met over with a completely flat nod.

Kitty Pryde has posed:
The sound of short heels on a wood come down the hallway as someone approaches. Kitty Pryde walks into the room, wearing a pair of slacks and a white blouse. She has a bag over one shoulder, and an earbud in an ear with the little microphone lit up. Lockheed is circling her excitedly.

"Yes, I just finished my commute. So plenty of time. I'll give it an hour and then go check the results of the build. You bet. Alright, thanks, will let you know how it looks then," Kitty says as if talking to herself, but really talking to someone on the other end of the phone. She presses the button to disconnect the call and then lets out a sigh. "Hey Lockheed. What a nice welcome home," she says with a laugh, catching the flying dragon to give him snuggle. After which he gets relocated to one shoulder, while Kitty removes the strap of her bag from the other.

"Hey guys," Kitty says, turning her attention to the others in the room. "How is everything?"

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Patty Sloan. Nice to meet..." She pauses and raises an eyebrow. "Remy?! You're the one who messed with the Danger Room when I accidentally wondered into there. You made Wonkula!" She facepalms and rubs her head a little. "I didn't know what was real in there. It was my first time there. I haven't been back in there since. Though I think that largely has to do with not having any faculty to take me down there for testing." She pauses and smiles. "Oh I am wanting to join SHIELD."

She looks over to Monet and smiles. "Oh yeah! It was great. I think I burned most of my money though. It was a lot of fun. Turns out using wind to skate is So much fun!" She giggles happily.

Turning to Kitty she smiles and gives a polite wave. "Hey Kitty. How are you today?" She asks politely. "I just got done with my run."

Remy LeBeau has posed:
     Remy puts a little bit of a smirk on his face, "Ah...dat was you. Thought you looked a bit familiar. Wonder if Jubes is still looking to remove ole' Remy's head from his shoulders...but hey, Wonkula was inspired! I can't help dat people just don' see de genius."

     The toothpick in his mouth twitches slightly as his tongue plays with the other end, shifting his eyes from Patty to the other two who have made it into the rec room.

     "Well, my game o' solitaire very quickly has become less solitary." he replies to Kitty with a little snort of humor, "'Sides that, on par with how it always is round dis place."

Monet St. Croix has posed:
Monet St. Croix would glance at Patty, "And what exactly is your reasoning for that beyond initial impulse? You don't seem the type." Maybe it was just one of those carefree teenage impulses, the way a child might want to be a movie star, an instagram model, or an influencer. Nothing particularly important. Children would have impulses after all.

"Katherine, I hope that all goes well." She would bow her head over politely. "And how is your job going?" She would fold her heands together and then glance at Remy over somewhat cautiously - she hadn't had many interactions with the man, but he did have a bit of a reputation.

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty Pryde replies to Patty, "Good, thanks for asking. Was in the office early today and decided to make the trip home before rush hour since there's a build that will take about two hours to finish," she says. She sets down the bag, and undoes her pony tail, ruffling her fingers through her hair. Quite literally letting her hair down as it were.

She grins over to Remy. "More fun with more people right? What have you been up to? Besides pranking people?" Kitty asks. She glances over at Remy's bottle and motions to it as if asking if she could have some.

Monet gets Kitty's attention next. "Well enough. Work is interesting. I hear we have some major snow coming soon. Maybe one last blast of winter. Or, non-Ororo non-Bobby winter at least."

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty looks at Monet and smirks. "Actually I have thought a lot about it." She smiles. "I learned a few things about myself since coming here. Namely that I am stronger than I thought I was. Not my powers but me. I thought I was just a weakling. A target for bullies. A punching bag if you will, but then I dealt with a fifth dimensional imp, There was an explosion and a shoot out and I was willing to put myself in the line of danger to help others. Then there was the bank last week where it was being robbed and I tricked the burglars into thinking the bank was haunted. I'm not the helpless little girl I was before I came here. That's why I wanna join SHIELD."

She looks at Remy. "Looking back it was funny. Still was terrifying at the time. I didn't know Vampires were real before that. Especially Dracula!. Now I do and I've been having trouble sleeping since." She snickers. "Not really but I'm still kinda freaked out you know."

She turns to Kitty and smiles, "Speaking of home, I need to find someone to give me a lift back to my home in PA so I can get my car and get more clothes from my home. I can drive back here then and hopefully work on my car some more because that thing has problems."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Remy won't need to wait long to get his answer. The heavy wooden door to the recreation room swings open, unable to hold its ground against the force of chaos known more commonly as Jubilee. She has her hands full -- a retro-inspired Trapper Keeper in one hand and an oversized plastic insulated mug in the other -- so it's not immediately clear how or why the door opened like that. Jubilee's eyebrows rise a little, peeking up over her dark Ray Bans, as she spots Monet and Patty and Kitty and, of course, Lockheed. They disappear behind the lenses when she spots Remy.

    "How's it going, you guys?" she asks cheerily as she makes her way over. Her supernatural grace makes it almost seem like she's gliding. As she makes her way across the Recreation Room, Jubilee makes a point to grin-at, knuckle-fist-bump, and up-nod at anyone she passes. Some even get personalized greetings. "Lockheed. You poop on anyone good, lately?" she wonders, not even waiting for a response.

    "Patty, you settling in, okay?" Jubilee asks as she passes. "Vampires, huh? Sounds made up." A glance is given to Monet just as Jubilee settles in near Remy's card game. She doesn't look at him. Doesn't talk to him. Jubilee just smacks both hands down on top of the spread and starts swirling them around. "...People will believe anything these nights, huh?" Jubilation adds, shrugging her shoulders a little as she gives the 'vampires don't exist' argument a try just to say she did. She keeps swirling the cards around, smiling over at Kitty, Patty, Lockheed, and Monet.

Remy LeBeau has posed:
     Looks from Kitty to the bottle and back with a shrug, "I ain' your mom, Kitty. You a grown ass woman last I checked, do as you will." He slides the bottle of amber liquid over towards Kitty with a bit of a chuckle and shrugs, "'Fraid I don' have another glass though. I wasn' expecting to share." He lifts his glass to his lips to take a sip, clucking his tongue against this teeth after. He returns the glance over at Monet, staring just a bit longer than he probably needs to before giving a little smile and returning his attention back towards the others with a chuckle. "Now chere, it wasn' a prank. More like...unexpected twist in the program. Liven t'ings up a bit, you know. Laissez le bon temps rouler, and all." He looks over to Patty with a shrug, "Road trip to PA? I don' know, could be a good time, non? What's dere to do in PA?"

     And then there is Jubes, walking over and messing up his game of solitaire. The look of surprise lasts a brief half-second before it is replaced with a guffaw as he watches Jube do her thing. He plucks the toothpick from in between his lips, gives it just enough charge to glow slightly, then tosses it casually at Jube like it is an afterthought.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
As others come in, Monet moves to the side. "Ms. Lee, I hope that things go well over with yourself and your fiance." There had been the clearing of the feral nest, but nothing else that had had her interacting with Jubilee for an extended time or catching up on whatever gossip was going about. A low smirk rising in her lips as Jubilee would go on about vampires. And Monet would make sure to not give up any spoilers.
    "And I'm sure that there are plenty of other weather themed individuals that could bring down blasts of cold. If anything a significant number with abilities related to it." She would glance at Patty. "Well, then I'm sure that someone at the Institute could give you a reference."

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty Pryde grins back at Remy, and then goes into the kitchen to get a glass. Returning, she pours a finger into the bottom of the glass and talks a sip before letting out a sigh.

Jubilee got a smile back from Kitty, and a few tail swishes and a single wing flap from Lockheed. Kitty grabs her bag and pulls out a tablet, turning it on and tapping away on it a bit, while keeping one eye on the conversation. Anyone looking at the tablet might notice the Stark Industries login screen before she's logged in and accessing this or that.

"Maybe the kids will like to go sledding one last time. Before we get Bobby to let us do it in the summer?" she comments on the coming winter storm.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"True, There aren't many that can mess with the wind and stuff but Its amazing how many places have Air Conditioners or fans. Both move air and thats how I was able to trick em." She laughs a little. "Equipment like that breaks and I can make it seem like those pesky machines are broken."

She smiles at Jubilee. "Right. They don't exist. Of course." She doesn't sound convinced. She then turns to watch Jubilee mess up Remy's solitaire game. She has a little chuckle over that before responding to Remy. "My car and my stuff. I didn't exactly get to plan for my trip to New York. Nor for my arrival at the school. I kinda got a ride up here via space ship?" She laughs. "Those don't exist either though, do they Jubes." She smirks playfully.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Space ships exist," Jubilation adds, slipping into a pretend moment of absolute seriousness. She flips open the cover of her Trapper Keeper, revealing one of the various forms used by the Xavier's resident life department -- this one seems to be concerning Patty Sloan. Jubilee uncaps a gel pen and brings the tip to the paper. "Really, though, how are you settling in? Scale of one to five. 'Five' being...your room assignment is your literal definition of heaven... And 'one' being... what the floor of Remy's car must be like..." She seems ready to circle one of the numbers on the form based on Patty's answer.

    Though fictional, vampires are often thought to have superhuman senses, able to pick up on fictional details that would go unnoticed by other fictional characters in the various works of fiction they share. It's just an awful coincidence or, perhaps, acoustical aberration that allows Jubilee to hear Remy's attempt to explain his totally-not-a-prank-prank. When the glowing toothpick is flicked, Jubes goes out of her way to dodge it in an overly dramatic fashion, trying her absolute best to hide the little grin that she can't hide when there's even a tiny amount of screwing around going on.

    "You can't be throwing sharp pieces of wood at me, LeBeau!" Jubes announces, throwing up her hands in a dramatic demonstration of her ability to protect herself from ....toothpicks. The goofing is cut short by Kitty saying the magic word...sledding.

    "YES!" Jubilee almost shouts in Kitty's direction, leaning forward across the table suddenly. "I wanna get my sled on! Seriously, we need that fresh powder... but..." Her enthusiasm fades a little as reality sets in. "...When you said 'the kids' .... You didn't mean /only/ the kids, right?" The thought is enough to sober Jubilation up a bit.

    "Don't have one of those, Monet," is Jubilee's answer to Monet's question about her and her fiance, short and to-the-point as though it ought to be obvious. Her discomfort is worn on her sleeve.

Monet St. Croix has posed:
Monet St. Croix would look over to Kitty and let out a sigh, "You make it seem like it's merely a last time for sledding. I'm sure if one of the staff particularly prefers it there will be others. And there will be spring break. Or are there no plans to take the student body anywhere this year?" She would be cautious. "Or hopefully fi we make it a trip ensure that there is not some sort of eldritch abomination there?" She was kidding, right? She had to be kidding.
    "And it's a very, very broad world." To Patty. "You'll get to experience many elements of strangeness during your stay here." She would smirk. "Perhaps you might even no longer find a thrill in things."

Kitty Pryde has posed:
"Of course not only just kids," Kitty tells Jubilee. "Though if you ask Logan, I'm sure he'd say both of us count as kids still," Kitty adds with a little grin. She takes another sip from the glass then, letting out a sigh. "Even getting on the road before rush hour, New York traffic is not fun. I sometimes wish I was a flyer," she says with a soft sigh.

Looking to Monet, Kitty responds, "I'm not sure what spring or summer trips are in the works right now. If we were sledding then would probably be here courtesy of Bobby or Ororo. We often have an ice slide in the summer at some point," she points out.

Lockheed gives a few flaps and heads for the kitchen. "Bring me a blueberry muffin would you!?" Kitty calls after the purple dragon.

Remy LeBeau has posed:

     "Jus' keepin' you on your toes, mon ami." Remy chuckles to Jubilee as the toothpick with the kinetic charge pops in a small but harmless explosion like a little firecracker. The Cajun starts to gather his cards, pulling them all into one big pile and getting them situated as he hops down off the stool and drains the last of the liquid from his glass. "As far as de floor of my car? The floor of my car is de road, petie. I have a bike...so I guess dat would be a one, oui." He snorts as he preps to leave, "Still, you want a ride, Remy will give you one."

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty smiles, "I might take you up on that Remy." She smiles and stretches a little. She stands and twists her body a bit, recovering from her run. She turns her attention to Jubilee and smiles to her. "I give it a 5. I don't have a roommate though so I am just kinda alone." She shrugs and smiles a little. "Its really cool though. I am loving the estate.

She turns her attention to the others and smiles. "I am just excited to be here you know? I don't know a lot about things here but I am learning. I'm also growing which is more than I can say was happening in my home town."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "There's some pretty nasty stuff on the road," Jubilee tells Remy, signaling that she's not going to press the issue by shrugging one of her shoulders. Patty's answer needs to be recorded. "A five...." Jubilee repeats under her breath as she concentrates on the form. She circles the 'five' with her gel pen and waves her hand over the ink to give it a little help to dry. "A five is a perfect score....There's a chance that this might go into my annual review and inevitable raise, so, let me just make sure this can't get smeared or anything...." She's about to cap her pen but then Patty elaborates, recapturing Jubilee's attention.

    "You want a roommate?" she confirms. Her eyebrows rise over her Ray Bans again as she thinks about that. "...I'll see what I can do." One side of her mouth curls upwards into a smile. "Nothing better ....or worse.... than a roommate! /Trust me/ on that..."

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Lockheed comes winging back into the room shortly, clutching two plastic-wrapped blueberry muffins in his front paws. He drops them into Kitty's hands before landing on her shoulder again. Kitty opens one and offers it to the dragon. "Try not to get crumbs on my blouse," she comments to him, before opening up her own muffin and tearing off a piece to eat.

She is listening in on the conversation though, waving to Remy as he prepares to leave, and to Monet as she does. Looking back to Jubilee and Patty, Kitty gives a small grin. "Yes, roommates can be a lot of fun, even a godsend. Though having a room to yourself can be too." She tears off another piece of muffin and eats it. Meanwhile Lockheed is totally spilling crumbs on her blouse.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Sure if someone needs a roommate I am game. It might be fun!" Patty smiles a little as she Watches the dragon eating the muffin. "Huh. That's kinda cool." She giggles. "How did you come upon a dragon, Kitty? He is really cool." She laughs a little and stretches. "But yeah I am really happy about my stay here. I mean I haven't had any trouble yet." She smiles and stretches again feeling pretty good.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "I'll draw up a list of names. You gotta let me know if you're pro-snoring or anti-snoring...." Jubilee adds. She stares at the form in her Trapper Keeper and draws a line underneath the roommate section, marking it for her attention later on. After giving the line a couple of seconds to dry too, she slams the Trapper shut and fastens its velcro. "And you're asking the wrong questions here, Patty. It's not 'does someone need a roommate.' What you should really be asking is 'does Jubilee need to free up your room so she can keep it for off-the-books activites?" Jubes grins a little as a way to signal that she's just joking. Or is she?

    After the Trapper Keeper is shut, Jubilation looks up and stares forward. "...What did I come in here for, anyway?" she asks herself. Her eyes lower as she tries to remember. Jubes shrugs after giving up. "Whatever it was...I'm sure it was...something."

Kitty Pryde has posed:
Kitty reaches up to pat Lockheed. "Well, we were on this Sleazoid planet in space. All of us had alien eggs implanted in us to turn us into Sleazoids. Though Logan healed his. And I was being attacked and he came and saved me. And led us to the dead queen of this race of giant space-dwelling creatures called the Acanti. And Jean was able to free her soul and sterilize all the Sleazoids on the planet and nearby space, including what was in us. So we owe him our lives," she says.

Lockheed finishes his muffin and just sits there looking at Patty and Jubilee as Kitty tells the story. Modest or something.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"That sounds... Really disturbing. Sleazoids? They don't have a very good name do they." Patty comments as she tries to follow the story. "Logan sounds like quite the person. His name has come up several times over in different stories. I've yet to meet him but I am looking forward to it."

She looks to Jubilee and smiles. "Well if you can't find anyone I am fine being alone. As for snoring or un-snoring, Doesn't everybody snore?" She asks curiously. Both of her moms snored so its not like it was that big a deal to her.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Jubilee leans forward to give Lockheed a little scritch-scratch under his chin. "She just likes saying Sleazoid," Jubes jokes.

    Patty's non-committal position on the roommate situation widens Jubilee's eyes as she looks upwards, a facial maneuver that's just about as close to an eye-roll as you can get without actually rolling them. "C'mon, girl. Take a stance. Roommate. No roommate. I gotta know! If you're hoping that the cold, unfeeling bureaucracy throws its institutional weight around and makes the decision for you, don't hold your breath. That's not how I do things." She says this casually, as though she has been doing this job for more than a few weeks.

    The Trapper Keeper's velcro complains as Jubilee rips it apart, re-opening it to Patty's form again. "No, not everyone snores. Some people don't even breathe," Jubilee answers as she uncaps her gel pen again. After a moment or two, she looks up from the paper. "...I mean...like...I heard that somewhere..." She breathes. Totally. Pinky promise.

    She doesn't.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Really. So I should just make a no air zone around around people to find out if they can breathe or not?" She smirks. Can she actually do that? She doesn't actually know. It is something she's been considering as a possible attack but she really needs to practice first. After all, There is a fine line between knocking someone out and actually... you know... killing someone. "I am kidding of course."

She looks at Jubilee and then at Kitty and nods. "Oh. Okay. Well I guess aliens that dump their eggs in others to reproduce would be a really sleazy thing to do. So I guess Sleazoid is an alright term for them." She laughs a little and just smiles.

She then looks at Jubilee again. "It could be nice to have a roommate but if you can't find anyone its okay. I would like to have a roommate." She smiles and grabs another sugar free soda. "MMmm. Better." She cracks it open and sips it slowly.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    Jubilee's pen moves from one side of the line on the form to the other as Patty see-saws about her opinion on a roommate. "Okay," Jubilation decides. "I'll be on the lookout for the loudest, snoriest /breather/ in my list of single residents..." She means single-occupancy, of course, but it's enough to loosen up a memory and draw out a little smile. "...Ha, this is like that time Iara wanted me to find her a boyf." If 'boyf' is some cutting-edge slang word for boyfriend, Jubilee isn't going to circle back to explain it. She's already on to the next idea as her brain lays new track for her train of thought.

    "Just don't make one around me," Jubilee replies absently as she writes something down on the form, playing along with Patty's joke about creating oxygen-free zones, furthering the lie that she'd be in any way inconvenienced by that. Halfway through whatever word she's writing, Jubilation's attention is captured by the unmistakable sound of a soda being opened. She looks up to take a look and scowls. "What..." is all she says at first, her tone almost angry at the soda for having the nerve to exist without sugar. "....are you doing?" She can't believe her eyes.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Okay! Bring it on! Don't blame me if I silence them with a pillow though!" She winks mischievously. "Well you don't have to worry about me asking for help finding a boyf. I don't really swing that way." She laughs. Patty takes a long sip of her soda, enjoying every drop of it.

"I'm drinking a soda. Its Zero-sugar. I switched off of regular soda a few years ago because of the stuff in it. I still drink real sugar soda from time to time but that other stuff that High Fructose stuff? That is nasty. It made me feel really nasty. I didn't even know til I switched. I feel better now that I am off of it." She smiles. "Would you like a soda? Any kind I mean, not a Zero Sugar if you're not into that."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "Patty, no offense, but if someone was taking bets on this, I'd be putting my money on you being the one getting silenced with a pillow, Miss Doesn't-Everybody-Snore," Jubilee answers, bringing the end of her pen up to her mouth. It dangles dangerously close, just barely on the brink of getting chewed. She stares in near-horror as Patty takes a long sip of that sugar-free soda. Jubilee's mouth forms a line of disapproval. "...But....You....Why....When...." Jubilation tries to work out this unthinkable problem. How could someone who is able to eat and drink waste that on a soda that doesn't even have sugar? Does not compute.

    "Gross, no!" Jubilation shouts as instinct takes over. She blinks a couple of times, looking around at the attention she briefly drew from the students and staff trying to enjoy the recreation room. Jubes lowers her voice, remembering the reputation and identity she's built up over the years. "...I mean...um....uh..." Jubilation hesitates, even managing to accidentally make eye contact with a student watching to see what she says.

    "Uh..."

    "Yes," Jubilee answers, raising her voice so it carries across the recreation room. "...Yes, I, Jubilation Lee, would like to drink a soda." She stands up straight, almost like she's posing for everyone's memories.

Remy LeBeau has posed:
     Making his way back into the rec room from the hallway, Remy wanders back in changed into a different set of clothes. Gone are the short and t-shirt and in their place are jeans and a long sleave polo, buttons undone. His hair is pulled back away from his face into a ponytail. "Hey," he calls into the room as he looks around, "When you said you wanted to go to Pennsylvania, did you mean tonight, or were you jus' talkin' 'bout eventually? Does Remy need to get his bike all gassed up? I wasn' sure."

Patty Sloan has posed:
The blonde snickers. "Its okay if you don't want a soda." She grabs a regular soda and hands it over to Jubilee. She snickers a little bit. "Again, I will drink real sugar in a soda. Its that fake sugar that I don't like. The stuff almost every brand uses to sweeten these days. Real Sugar, I will be all over like a fly on Garbage!" She giggles a little bit.

Then Remy walks back in. She smiles to him and shakes her head. "Not tonight. Its like a four hour drive to where I live. I would hate to have to drive that tonight. Wouldn't wanna put you through that either." She smiles a little. "Better to wait for day time. Plus its better for me when I pick up my car. That thing is a pain in the neck!"

Remy LeBeau has posed:
     "Nah, chere, de only pain in de neck 'round here is Jubes," Remy says with a wink towards his victim, already backing up to get the hell out of the room before the glampire comes after him. "You just tell Remy when it is you want to go, petie, and we go, non? I'll be 'round."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "That's crazy talk!" Jubilation insists, slamming her Trapper Keeper shut. "Get a load of this girl...saying I don't want a soda..." She looks around at the sets of eyes that have started to pay attention to the spectacle. When Jubilee was alive, she was famous for her love of all things sugary and high in fructose and red dye number five. Of course, Jubilee is still alive, so, nothing's changed in that regard, right?

    Jubes waves her hand dismissively at Patty's continued chatter about fake sugar and real sugar. "Yeah, yeah, yeah," she says, even talking over her where she can. "We get it, we know. Give that to me." Jubilee takes the /regular/ soda and stares at the can. "...Coca-Cola Classic..." she announces, awkwardly saying the whole name of the brand. "There's nothing I like more at the end of a long, uh, /day/ ... of..." Jubes hesitates. "...normal stuff....than one of these beauties. A hundred and forty calories of..."

    "...Deliciousness..." Jubilee's totally going to drink the soda since it's a perfectly normal thing for a perfectly normal girl to do. Wait a second! Here's Remy to take the attention off of her.

    ~* de only pain in de neck round here is Jubes *~

    Jubilation's eyebrows rise over her Ray Bans while the rest of her face falls flat. She stands there in stunned silence, hesitating a little in that way that sitcom stars do when they're waiting for the live studio audience to pipe down so they can say their next line.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"Four hours?  That's nothing," the blue-haired speedster notes from the doorframe suddenly but oh so cavalierly.  "Hey," is the only other warning that is given before she blurs past with a little gust of air before a clckshhhhh of a soda can be heard.

After another blur, she's standing next to Jubilation and leans to give her a little kiss.  Then she looks down at the soda in Jubes' hand and tilts her head in obvious confusion.  She squints over to Remy, then to look at Jubilation, then to Patty as if she is trying to figure out what is going on.

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty just looks at Jubilee. Of course anytime else she would just ignore her and her antics. If she didn't wanna drink soda, she didn't have to drink a soda! Patty of course didn't know any other Jubilee than the one she met in the present. "Are you alright?" She asks as she looks at Jubes. "If I didn't know any better I'd say you couldn't drink the soda. That is fine. I can get you a water or anything else." Patty doesn't know the rules of Vampires or that Jubilee is a REAL Vampire. She did see the display in the Danger Room though. The one where Jubes took down the fake friend of Blade.

She turns her attention to Remy and she gives a polite smile. "Will do. We can go on the weekend if you'd like. That way I don't miss school and you are good to do whatever it is you do." She smiles. "Including terrorizing people in the Danger Room." She snickers.

Patty then looks to Noriko. She gives a polite smile to her. "Hey Noriko. Hows it going?" She asks curiously.

Remy LeBeau has posed:
     "Sounds good, petie. We make a day of it, no? I'm sure I can find something to do in Pennsylvania. Dat's where dey keep dat bell, non? Maybe Remy go visit." says the Cajun before he glances over to Jubes and give the little vampire a wink. "Maybe find a nice museum to spend some time in, too. Dis ol' Cajun likes spending time in museums..."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "What are you talking about?" Jubilee contests, her tone sounding very much like she's not really asking Patty to elaborate. "...Nobody drinks more of these babies than I do." Just in time to feel that little burst of wind announcing the arrival of Noriko Ashida. "...Except maybe her," Jubilation adds, directing her thumb in Nori's direction. "But she doesn't count. She's got that speedster metabolism. Hi." As if my mysterious vampire mind-reading or simply just that she knows Noriko really well, Jubilation answers the speedster's question before she has a chance to ask it. "...Patty thinks I don't want this soda," Jubes explains, gesturing to the unopened can of Coke in her hand. "And they're planning some stupid trip to Transylvania or something." She sounds a little annoyed.

    Wait.

    "Pennsylvania!" Jubes corrects herself before anyone has a chance to. She hesitates a little and mutters, taking out her frustration on the poor people of the Keystone State. "...Dumb name."

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"Hey Patty-Oh she definitely wants that soda," or want-ed, at some point.  "Maybe longs for it is a better way of putting it."  Noriko crushes the now empty soda can with her gauntlet. "Can I?"  She juts her lower lip out to pout at Jubilation.

"Tran-Pennsylvania?  Why are people going to Pennsylvania?  What's there?  More land?"  Noriko's eyes immediately return to the soda in Jubilation's hand pleadingly, as if even the break from thinking about it to say all of these words has been agony.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Pennsylvania." She says in time with Jubilee. "Transylvania? You got vampires on your mind or something? You're not going batty are you?" She asks being a little bit of a smart ass. She smiles and cracks her back.

"We are going to Pennsylvania because I need stuff from my home. Things like my car, clothes, and a few things for my dorm room." She smiles to Noriko before turning her attention to Remy. "Well the bell is in Philadelphia. That is the opposite direction from where we'd be going. Philly is the South east corner of the state. Where I lived is the North Central part of the state. Jersey Shore. The city named on a joke."

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "It's all the same," Jubes decides, apparently unwilling to learn the differences between one part of Pennsylvania and another part. She shrugs her shoulder and turns the fresh can of Coke over to Noriko. "Go ahead," she says. "I probably already had too many, anyway." Jubes does her best to sound annoyed, as though paying the soda tax is just something people have to deal with when a speedster is around, but gives Noriko a parting grin as she reaches for her Trapper Keeper. She grabs the handle of her oversized thermal mug with her other hand and takes it over to one of the free couches overlooking the television.

    "Yeah, I mean, Remy's dude from the Danger Room," Jubilation answers Patty. "Seemed pretty vampirey to me." That's her excuse. It's not horrible.

    Jubilation vaults over the back of the couch and sprawls out as soon as she lands on the other side. The mug's straw is brought up to her mouth and Jubilee takes a nice, satisfying sip of whatever's inside that thing. "The good thing about Remy helping you to get your stuff is that he might already have some of it!" Jubes calls out, grinning to herself as she reaches for whichever remote is closest.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
"Thanks," Noriko takes the can with both gauntlets so it doesn't go shooting out of her grip.  She just grins at her bounty, allowing her eyes to drift quickly to meet Jubes' for a moment, directly her soda-grin Jubilation's way.

"He also knows what's the good stuff to take and what to leave behind," Noriko assumes, without saying why.  She just blurrily pads over to snag a bag of chips before she steers herself back towards the seating.  She flops down next to Jubilation before tearing into her chips.  "What bell?"  But almost immediately, Noriko realizes she shouldn't have asked that question.  She looks to Jubilation and then stuffs her mouth with chips.

Patty Sloan has posed:
"Well there is a big difference between the two. Most importantly, I am from one, The other I am not." Patty Snickers. "Also there is the size. I mean Transylvania is supposedly a small country. Pennsylvania is a large state." She sighs and giggles a little." Then Jubes mentions the Vampire from the Danger Room. "Okay, yeah. That is fair. You were Swooning pretty good over him so that would explain why he is on your mind."

She walks over and joins the two at the TV. "Anything good on?" She asks curiously as she takes a seat in a chair away from the two.

Jubilation Lee has posed:
    "I meant Philadelphia and... the rest of it," Jubilee explains, waving her hand in the air as the universal sign for 'Pennsylvania.' She leans forward and takes another long sip from the plastic straw sticking out of her very-covered, very-insulated, very-oversized mug. Ron Jon Surf Shop. 64 oz.

    "Mmm," Jubes agrees, nodding her head at Noriko while finishing up her sip. "Yep, he totally does. Don't have time for junk." After she finishes taking her sip from the mug, Jubes smacks her lips and...

    ...Maybe it's a trick of the light, but it almost seems like some color has returned to her cheeks. Her hair is just a little shinier and there might even be fewer flyaways, too. Weird.

    As the couch cushions shift to accomodate Noriko's arrival, Jubilee seems to relax, signaling a strong sense of comfort with her. She grins a little and leans back into the speedster, even though doing so puts her ears just a little closer to the loud sound of chip munching. But then Patty says what she says about how she was swooning over the would-be Dracula in the Danger Room. Jubes stiffens a little, shifting away from Noriko and sitting up straight on the couch. Her shoulders rise a little as awkwardness fills the moment. "I was not!" Jubilation insists. She was. She totally was. It's complicated.

Noriko Ashida has posed:
Noriko manages to get her soda to a surface before leaning back, still for the first time since she entered the room.  She happily and noisily crunches her chips, but now that she's at it, it sounds like a constant little chipmunk motoring on some food.  The rattle of the chip bag is just getting to be rhythmic when it goes empty, and Noriko's gauntlet is left greasy but she shows no desire of moving from her spot.

Noriko tries to throw her empty chip bag at Patty after the swooning remark, but even with all of the force in the world, physics thwarts her and the bag drops to the ground, not even hurting a fly, even after a brief and dramatic flight for about half a foot.

"Well-"  Noriko sounds like she might admit that Patty has a point, but doesn't, wisely.

There are some things on the TV.  Some weird WB show that is intensely popular with some segment of the population.  That's what it has settled on for now.

Patty Sloan has posed:
Patty snickers and just giggles a little. "Sorry. I was just playing." She smiles. "I mean no harm." She then looks at the bag on the floor. A gust of wind lifts the bag and moves it to the trash can. "There are perks to being able to use my powers! Like not having to get up to throw away an empty chip bag.

She looks at the TV and sighs. "This show ended like four years ago. Why are they still airing repeats of it?" She asks curiously. She pauses and takes a deep breath. "I dunno if you heard earlier but I am planning on joining SHIELD eventually. I think I can do some good." She smiles a bright smile.

Quietly she stands up. "I should go to my dorm and wind down for the evening. Also, I should get a shower. The run earlier really had me sweating." She smiles.