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2013-06-02 Kai remembers important things, and teacher is called to help. (Part of Them! TP) |
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<XS> Gymnasium - B1 | |
For a mutant school, this is a pretty standard gym, even if its sturdy construction to handle mutant powers is less standard. Still, it is designed along normal lines; setup for a basketball court, standard equipment -- punching bags, rubber mats, standard assortment of balls, weight training equipment, the usual fare. It is large, and as well-appointed as the rest of Xavier's tends to be. There are usually a few students around the gym on the weekend; either practicing for their sport, working out, or just letting off steam. Today, though, there aren't very many. And what few there are seem to be involved in a 3-on-3 pickup game of basketball. Their shouts and calls, along with the echo of the ball's bounce fill the gym with a happy noise. At the other end of the gym, there is less happy noise. Kai is at the punching bags, dressed in his Xavier's athletic gear (white t-shirt and navy shorts), the thin young man is...well, it's probably supposed to be /fighting/ one of the heavy bags, although with no actual skill, it looks more like a frantic and unfocused flailing of limbs. A flailing accompanied by a a series of soft grunts and mad-sounding noises. Take THAT, stupid bag! Down in the gymnasium, Faelan is engaging in pursuits of bodily health. Dressed in exercise shorts of a navy blue with the customary X logo on the right thigh, and a plain grey teeshirt instead of the normal white, there is a slight bit of perspiration on him from his current set of laps. He's taking his laps around the perimeter to stay out of the way of the people using the more sturdy pieces of equipment, but his gaze does dart towards the ball game and the grunting at the heavy bags occassionally before his path takes him closer to each group. Checking his wrist at the time of it, he slows his jog down to come to a stop near the flailing Kai. Kai doesn't immediately notice Faelan, caught up as he is in his assault on the heavy bag. His thin arms land open-handed blows to the leathery surface, and his spindly little legs come up to strike largely ineffective kicks at its lower portion. Eventually, fatigue insists on a break, and the boy steps back from the bag, panting heavily. His eyes look strange under his furrowed brow when he turns, yellow flickering along the rims of his irises like trapped lightning. It's only then that he notices the watching Faelan, and he tilts his head a bit. When he speaks, his soft voice sounds ragged. Maybe from the heavy breathing. "Hello, Faelan." "Hello Kai," Faelan says with a smile, and looks to the heavy bag. "Are you doing training? Or just don't like the bag very much?" He tilts his head, and plucks abit at his shirt so it wont cling so much. "Want to get some water? You seem pretty tired and all from that." He points over to the water fountains to help make the point. "I am not training," Kai replies, looking back at the bag with a glare. "I am pretending that it is a thing that I am unhappy with, and beating on it. I have heard that it is a good way to get rid of the feeling." He wrinkles his nose. "I do not know how good a thing it is, though. I do not feel less angry. Only tired, and hot." At the offer of water, he nods, and begins walking in that direction, glancing at Faelan as if to make sure he's coming along, too. Walking along with Kai, Faelan nods at that. "Yeah, I think they call it sublimating. Or something like that." Standing next to the fountain, he gestures to let Kai go first in taking the drink. "Its supposed to let you direct the negative feelings towards something safer than the other thing. So I'm guessing someone made you upset then?" He frowns at that, looking in concern to Kai. "I hope it wasn't anything too bad? Was it at the dance?" Shaking his head he sighs. "I knew it was a good idea not to go." Kai steps forward when Faelan indicates, leaning forward as he mashes the button and lowers his face into the stream of water. He doesn't immediately respond to the other boy, drinking for a long moment before he steps back, wiping the back of his hand across his mouth. "It is probably safer than the other thing I could do," he admits, and there's the tiniest hint of frustration in his voice, as if option B is just out of his reach. "There are many things which are making me angry right now," he says. "The dance is one of those things, but there are others." He makes a noise that sounds almost like a laugh when Faelan expresses his relief at not attending, and lifts a shoulder. "It was very pretty, but I should not have gone, either." Leaning down and drinking his fill next, Faelan gulps abit like a fish. "Well, I probably could have. Megan said there were people who wanted me to ask them. I don't know why they didn't just ask me instead." He frowns and shakes his head at that idea though. "Past now, no point in worrying. Are you mad about Ivan running away then? Or whatever it is he disapeared with. I've had people asking if I sent him away again, but I haven't seen him since before the dance." Sighing, he leans down for another couple gulps of the cold water till the chiller kicks back in with a whirrr. Kai listens as Faelan speaks, and his brow furrows. "Yes. If they wished you to go with them, they should have asked. That is a thing I have realized, recently. But I am new to these things, and did not consider it. Perhaps it is the same for these people." He lifts his shoulders in a bit of a miserable shrug. "I am very mad about Ivan leaving," he says. "He did not even tell me where he was going. Just that he was leaving." He exhales heavily, and his shoulders slump. "He was acting strangely, but I was...still mad from the dance, and did not try hard enough to find out why." He tilts his head, then, and juts his lower lip out a bit. "I do not know why he would do such a thing as leaving, though." "At least the next time you can ask since they don't think about it." Faelan nods wisely at that, then sighes about the missing Ivan. "Maybe he was upset about others leaving him. Or maybe there was something off campus he needed to go. It is really inconsiderate, but we don't always think clearly when we're upset about stuff." He gently sets his hand on Kai's shoulder, not sure how well physical touch is accepted by the other boy. "It is not something to blame yourself about. From my experience with him, he does things without thinking." Kai frowns, a bit at Faelan's suggestions about Ivan, and shakes his head. "No. He was acting oddly," he insists. "Like he does when he is lost in the bees." His brow furrows, as he struggles to remember something. "Like he was lost in the bees," he echoes, and frowns DEEPER. "That seems like an important thing. He did not have any bugs with him, but..." he waggles a hand in the air, his eyebrows shooting up at the other boy's assessment of Ivan's impetuousness. "Faelan. Ivan has made mistakes in the past, but he does not do many things without thinking, unless Peter," this comes with a small darkening of his expression that fades slowly, "is with him. This is different. And troubling." "Hrm. You are right about him being that way when Peter is involved." Faelan nods, recounting personal experience. "Maybe there were bugs you didn't see? He keeps plenty of moths in his pockets after all?" Frowning as he starts thinking on the matter himself. "If you think its important, maybe we should tell it to one of the teachers. They may know if he'd recently ordered any new bugs? Or we could ask Peter, they are room mates." Kai scrunches his nose. "Usually, if Ivan has bugs around, they will show themselves. They are a very good way to tell how he is feeling. But if he had any with him, they did not appear." He furrows his brow. "I told Mister Jackson what happened, but I do not remember if I told him about Ivan being like he was lost in the bees." Now he sounds regretful, and shifts his weight uneasily. "He did not have any /new/ bugs," he says. "Except for Baby Santeria, and she is a bug that I gave him." The mention of talking to Peter gets a sharp shake of his head. "You may talk to Peter, if you wish," he says. "But I do not wish to speak with him for a bit, yet." His jaw sets, and there's that flicker around the edges of his eyes again. "But I do not think he knows what happened. Mister Jackson said he and Rasa were the ones to notice that Ivan was really gone." Nodding at that, Faelan smiles. "Then we have something we can do to help. Its more than they knew before after all." Patting his shorts a moment, he looks perturbed. "I put my phone in the locker room, so I'll have to get it to call. Though, what is he like when he's lost in the bees? I've only ever seen him with his spider and moths, and he never really seems any different." He does however at least notice not to mention Peter again. Kai nods as Faelan offers to call the teachers, and wrinkles his nose. "When he is in the bees, he forgets to speak," he says after a moment. "And sometimes, he will forget to speak in English, when he does speak. It is like he is..." he frowns. "What is the word when you cannot focus on a thing, because another thing is getting your attention?" "Distracted? Preoccupied?" Faelan bites his lip, looking to Kai but seeming one of those two words himself. "He's kinda a bug telepath right? Maybe he was being talked to by a bug and well its not like anyone else would notice." Nodding as if that made plenty of sense, he smiles to Kai. "I'm sure that must be it. So if we find the bug talking to him, then we'll find him. Er... that sounded stupid didn't it.." "Distracted!" Kai latches on to the word with a grateful look. "Yes, that is the word. It is like he is distracted." He frowns. "He does not /talk/ to bugs, like Ducky talks to birds," he says, furrowing his brow. "It is more as if he feels them, and can make them do what he wishes. But if there are many bugs, like in a bee hive, he will sometimes get lost in them." He folds his hands behind his head, lowering his chin to his chest. "I do not know if the bug could control him in return, though." His eyes are almost hidden, the furrow of his brow is so deep. "I think we should tell a teacher," he decides. "It is too big for just us to make clear." "Yes. Lets go get changed, and I'll call some teachers. Jax would probably like the additional information. Dr. McCoy may know about the bugs too. I can email others too, just in case." Faelan nods as they have a goal in front of him as he starts towards the changing rooms, glancing back over his shoulder to make sure Kai is coming. "If your right we may be able to find him easier if nothing else. We need to see about large bug swarms. Like, aren't there supposed to be like millions of cicadas this year?" Kai follows, pursing his lips as they near the locker room. "I do not know if Mister Jackson is still at the school today," he says truthfully. "But I am sure Doctor McCoy or Professor Wagner may be around. But yes, you should do the email, too. Just to be sure." He scrunches his nose. "I do not think that a swarm of cicadas would do that to him," he says. "But it might. I do not think it would be enough to make him wander off, though." He falls into a thoughtful silence, after that, his anger forgotten, perhaps, in light of this new information.
Kai nods as the pair enters the changing room. "That is a very good idea," he says. "I am sorry that I did not remember it when I spoke to Mister Jackson. But I was tired from being in the woods all night, and was not in the mood to be helpful." He frowns, clearly troubled about his selfishness in this matter. "I hope Ivan will be all right," he murmurs. "He is my very, /very/ good friend." "Its okay, thats why they always show investigators going over things many times in the shows. Something that doesn't seem important, but actually is." Faelan gives Kai a reassuring smile at that. "Alright, I have the number in my address book so it wont take too long." Finding Professor Wagner's contact, he pushes the call button and holds the phone up to his ear. "I hope he's on campus, he probably is though, I think." It does not take long for Kurt to answer the phone, his voice cheerful as always. "Hallo, Kurt Wagner, how can I help you?" "Oh good. Um Professor Wagner, its Faelan." Taking a large breath, he proceeds to rapidly blurt it out. "I was talking to Kai in the gym, and well, now we're in the locker room. Anyway he thinks he remembered something important about the night that Ivan disapeared. So I called because it was important." He nods with the phone against his ear, though its abit silly nodding to someone who isn't there yet. "I will be right there, never fear." Kurt says to Faelan, and then he's hanging up so abruptly it's almost rude. Of course, a second later the teacher is appearing in the gym in a cough of purple smoke, still in his Sunday Finest. Immediately Kurt straightens a little, trotting to the locker rooms to poke his head in. He still has his phone in his hand. "Hallo-ooo?" While Faelan is talking to Kurt on the phone, Kai busies himself with changing. Not fast enough, apparently, since he's just in his jeans when the teacher appears, and he instinctively (and modestly) lifts his shirt to his chest protectively when he hears the older man's voice. But, since it is a man, and a teacher, there's no need for such shyness, so he attempts to turn it into pulling the garment over his head. "Hello, Professor Wagner," he says through the material, jerking it down over his head. The green shirt is a little big on his frame, and the Green Lantern insignia on the front is ridiculous-looking on his thin chest. "I have remembered a thing. About Ivan." Maybe he didn't hear what Faelan said. "I'll let Kai tell you about it, since its his news. But if you think its important then we can tell Jax and the others too about it." Faelan sets his own phone down and pulls his clothes out of the locker to set it on the bench. "I mean it at least gives us a good idea. Well, I think its a good idea. It probably means something though." He gestures for Kai to tell, since it was his idea so he can get changed too. "Hallo, Kai, Faelan." Kurt repeats, stepping the rest of the way into the locker room. His tail pulls the door closed. "I'm certain it is at least useful--all information is in one way or another. Let's hear what you have to say, alright?" His lamplight eyes turn to fix on the skinny young man now in the Green Lantern shirt, not without their own warmth and kindness. Kai looks a bit worn. Beyond the fatigue of his unusual workout, there's something strained in his features as he looks at Kurt with a solemn nod. "It may be very important, though," he says. "When Ivan came to tell me he was leaving, he was acting oddly. I did not think about it when I was speaking to Mister Jax, but I was telling Faelan that when he asked, I was tired and not in a very good mood, so I did not think about it." He swallows, and reaches up to rub the scar on his chin. "But when Ivan came to talk to me, he was acting much the way he does when he is lost in his bees. Very distracted, and forgetting to speak." Kai frowns. "He did not say much. I think he was having trouble listening. That is also a thing which happens when he is lost in the bees." Pulling on his own trousers, Faelan nods at Kai's words. "Thats why I thought it was so important. Since its related to Ivan's powers, and its something he's done before. I was thinking it was maybe the cicadas, but if theres lots of other insects around? Well maybe something started to effect Ivan." Hopping as he finishes tugging up his pants, he sets about swapping shirt as well to get out of his light work out colors to his darker normal attire. "And so you think, perhaps whatever is controlling these giant ants has also gotten into Ivan's mind due to his motation and his affinity for insects?" Kurt clarifies a little, his tail switching back and forth thoughtfully. Did they even know about the giant ants? Well now they do. Nightcrawler lifts one hand to rub at his chin thoughtfully. "Well, that makes a terribly frightful amount of sense, I should think." Kai's brow slams into a deep V. "Giant ants?" His tone says no, he didn't know about /that/. "There were giant ants? At the school?" He chews at his lip, thinking about something VERY HARD. CONCENTRATE, KAI. "In my book on bugs, it seems like bees and ants are very much alike. They work together, and talk to each other, and there is a queen in their nest, who is very important." Then the V of his brow snaps into a dismayed arch. "And there are many of them /in/ a nest! Perhaps Ivan sensed them, and tried to go to them!" Blinking, Faelan looks to Kai questioningly as he finished tugging on his shirt. "Giant Ants?" Looking back to Kurt he raises a brow. "No, I hadn't heard anything like that. When were there giant ants?" He nods as Kai goes through the rest of his thoughts for him. "But yes, if we know where the ants are, that is probably where Ivan is." He smiles to Kai "See, it was important." "Nein, in Grover's Mill? We went to investigate, some students and also some of the faculty. You heard of the sinkholes, perhaps?" Kurt glances between Kai and Faelan, his expression very worried as if he's sharing information he isn't certain he should have been sharing this information. "It is a giant ant nest. Enormous, meters wide and tall, I would say. And they /spoke/. I will tell the others immediately, I think this is very likely where Ivan has gone." "They spoke?" This is the sticking point Kai hangs on. "In English? With words?" His eyes widen, and he nods his head at Faelan. "Yes. It was /very/ important," he agrees. "But now they will go and bring Ivan home, and it will be better." He /almost/ buys into that, until a thought brings him up short. "But if they are still there, they could get Ivan back, could they not bring him back again?" "We were going to call Jax since Kai had talked to him first about it, but hadn't brought it up. So I can call him too if you think it's a good idea? And we were going to call Dr. McCoy too." Faelan decides to not dwell too much on the fact that he is glad he missed that field trip. "I guess we should not tell the other students though? I mean, talking giant ants seem like a bad thing, yes?" He looks to Kurt as if he's already pushed the responsibilities of the matter off to the teacher. "Yes, they spoke, in English, with words." Kurt tells Kai, very grimly, his tail twitching. "I wish I could remember more of /what/ they said, but I pushed myself too hard just trying to get us all out of of their way before they killed us. They did not seem /friendly/." Nightcrawler sighs a moment later, his head shaking. "Some of them were there. Stanton, the twins, Bobby...but we do not want to spread panic. Use your discretion, being a teenager does not completely ruin that, right?" This last is clearly meant to be a tease. "We are very responsible." Faelan gives a serious nod at that and looks to the phone thinking. "Do you think that they could reach Ivan all the way from New Jersey? Or did they maybe follow us home? Ants I think are very good with senses of smell, so maybe they sniffed back here?" Looking a touch worried he frowns at that. "I don't want sink holes up here, it would do a lot more damage, theres lots more people up here." He may or may not know the population densities in comparison. "Do you think Ivan will be safe? You said that they were trying to kill you, and well Ivan can't escape as easily. What if he can't control them, or he forgets he can." Kurt spreads his hands, there, almost helpless. "I know ant tunnels can go very far. Perhaps they followed us, perhaps their tunnels go a great distance. I ... can make no promises abotu Ivan. It seems to me it is possible that they think he is one of their own, if they called him or came to get him. But I can promise we will do everything to get him home safely." Smiling at Kurt's reassurance, Faelan nods. "Alright. We'll do what we can to help, though I don't think either of us two could do quite much. But we'll make sure that the people who need to know, know about it." Looking to Kai, he shares the smile with him. "Alright, we aren't accomplishing much standing here. We need to make some calls and emails, and maybe knock on doors before its too late in the day." Kurt nods, and inclines his head a little, offering what he hopes is an encouraging smile to Faelan. "Thank you for telling me. I will let the others know immediately, but just in case somehow I don't get the word out, please also make sure you tell all the faculty you can. Best we make sure this information gets to the right ears, ja? If you do not need anything else, I think I shal start now..." "That is all we needed sir. Thank you for taking care of it." Nodding again at that, Faelan tosses his stuff into his gym bag to head back upstairs to the dorms. "And we'll be careful about who we tell. Otherwise Peter will probably try and get to New Jersey tonight." Frowning at that, he shakes his head then slings the bag over his shoulder. "I am starting to think the talk of giving us tracking chips may not sound so silly. And leaving campus seems like worse ideas." | |
