Logs:Blair Mountain, here we come

Blair Mountain, here we come
Dramatis Personae AJ, Leonidas	2024-05-15 AJ needs help finding her missing mom and stumbles upon Leonidas
Location <XAV> Rec Room - Xs Second Floor
School this may be, but life for Xavier's students certainly isn't all studying. Outside classes, this is a popular spot to find students in their downtime. An enormous tribute to slacking off, this room is a wealth of fun and relaxation. Comfortable armchairs, couches, and beanbags offer plentiful seating scattered throughout the room, and the cushioned windowseats by the high windows offer a cozy nook to curl up and look out on the grounds. The room is often filled with the noises of gaming -- whether it comes from the big-screen television (tall racks of DVDs beside it, if nothing can be found on the multitude of cable channels), tricked out with consoles from retro to the latest releases, or the less electronic clatter and thump of the pool table, air hockey, or foosball. For those a little more subdued in their gaming, the cabinets hold stacks and stacks of board and card games, ranging as classic as chess and go to as esoteric as Dixit, Catan, and Gloom. More days than not, there's some variety of snacks to be found on a table beside the gaming cabinet -- quite often in the form of fresh-baked desserts. AJ walks in, hugging her backpack to her chest. She hasn't really visited it before; mainly AJ goes straight back to her room after moat activities or goes to the pool. However, today she's on a mission, and it isn't to snatched up a hunk of fresh-made monkeybread. Shea looking for someone she feels like she can trust to help her. The noises make her shifty, as she hugs the backpack tighter and counts her breaths before spying him. Leonidas is sprawled out across an incredibly sturdy looking couch in front of the television, Battle of Blair Mountain by Louise Mosrie playing softly from it. The (literal) giant of a teenager is dressed comfortably, the button down he was seen in earlier in the day is gone, instead he’s just wearing a white undershirt, boot cut jeans, and a pair of orange and black Chainsaw Man slides. After a few moments he seems to feel Aj’s gaze and instead of getting up to look he simply rises a few inches straight up so he can look the new arrival over. “I know that look.” he drawls out mostly to himself, rotating mid-air so he’s upright and leaving a space open, which he pats a couple of times in invitation. “You don’t seem so hot, what’s up?” "Uhmm, well, see - I just don't know who elsr to ask and you've always been so nice to me so I feel like I can come to you for help ..." She sits down on the spot opened up, and then unzips the top of her bag, not making eye contact. "See inherited my powers a bit from my mother,," She pulls out a framed photograph of a beautiful woman with long dark greenhair and bright red eyes, almost glowing like AJ's hair. "She could make a hallucinogenic gas according to my dad. She went missing when I was five. They found her purse a block away but there wasn't any sign of her! And the police they just blew it off and asked if my mom was on drugs or something and they just never ... !" Tears are in the corners of hef eyes. Her cheeks are flushed. She's squeezing rhe edges if rge frame tight. 'I wanna know what happensd to her but I'm just me and no offense to the staff but i need to know what happened to her. Can you help me get the case files? And evidence from the cops who investigated? Please?" Leonidas just sits there is silence for a few moments, before blowing out the air from his lungs, lips flapping louder than probably necessary. “That is…. a mighty tall order.” He finally says, reaching up to scratch at the fuzz growing back on his cheeks. “I’m not sure if he’ll help me for free, but my dad’s a lawyer. Might be able to give him some money I’ll be getting for escaping Prometheus though and get him to request the files.” He falls mostly silent again, tongue clicking quickly as he thinks. “Might be able to get the band back together but you should be prepared in advance, the chances of her having ending up in a lab aren’t zero.” AJ pauses. "You're gonna really help .. ?" She now looked at the older student with wide brown eyes behind strands of neon hair. Then a smile broke across her freckled face. "Leondias I could hug you right now thank you thank you thank you!" She rapidly stomped her feet, hair shimmering with a brighter glow. “Of course dude. I’m not sure I can do much, but maybe we can at least find the path.” Leonidas reaches over to pat AJ on her shoulder if she allows it. “Hell, we tried breaking into a Prometheus compound for one of ours, what’s finding a lost parent?” "You're still doing do much more foe me than anyone has done for me about this before. I - wait you guys actually tried to break into a Peometheus compound?" AJ blinked owlishly. "Which one?" “Lassiter’s.” Leonidas says softly, his expression going dark for a moment. “We fucked up bad. People died. More people died trying to rescue us. Eventually Mr. Jax broke himself out of jail and showed up. Didn’t even have to raid it. Just stood there. Menacingly.” "Oh ..." AJ 's face screwed up into a grimace. "Geez. Uhm, okay, well, I promise that I won't let things go too far - I mean it's not like I'd confront a serial killer or break back into The Panic Room or something ...!" She gently put the framed photograph back into her backpack. "I can give you my phone number so we can text and you can let me know when or if your dad can help! And I do have some savings so I'll pitch in so you don't have to use all of your windfall money!" “Oh, no dude, he hates me. Ain’t no telling what he’ll charge me.” Leonidas rolls his eyes and leans back against the couch. “Hell, depending on government involvement he might be black bagged. Maybe we can trade, you get your mom, they get my dad. Win/win.” "Oh. I don't know if Pronetheus has my mom. Is that what you're saying?" AJ twists a lock of hair between her fingers. "Sorry I didn't get the best sleep again last night so uhm, I'm trying to follow. But if you've got any idea Ion how to help I - I cam try to make myself useful!" She stood up, tugging down her uniforms skirt and beamed at the older boy. "Thanks again. I uh, I know we don't talk much but you're seriously the nicest, sweetest guy I know. I'm lucky to know you! Oh, and I love Chainsaw Man too!" She pointed at his slides. "I have to go, but cone find me at the dorms or the pool or here when your dad gives you a price and I'll help! I promise!" With all of that dumped on the poor boy, she turned on her heel and darted out of the room. “Of course dude, I’ll message you later.” Leonidas lifts his hand in a wave as Aj darts out. After a few moments he kicks his feet back up over the arm rest and let’s out a long sigh. “First time anybody’s complimented me like that. Didn’t even have to fight Measurehead this time.”