An Accomodating Change?

[Frostbite]

When Katana spoke in reaction to finding out about the switch, Lorelai raised an eyebrow simply at how weepy it was, and then watched her almost completely change from weepy to...whatever that was supposed to be. This is amusing..wow the switch will be good for her, Acolytes suits her better now anyways. I wonder how it'll go, she thought half smirking, half biting her lip. Her eyes rolled from Katana to Miss Frost as she spoke in turn and when addressed, Lorelai nodded. "Yeah he's cool," she said with a bit of a shrug.

As it was obvious that she could take her leave, Lorelai got up and did a mock curtsy. "Can do, Miss Frost, and thanks so much," she said, giving her a salute and a smirk before leaving, shutting the door behind her, very satisfied. B-e-a-utiful. Now all I have to do is give Colossus back the uniform and get a new one from Nightcrawler. Whoever doesn't like these changes can kiss my ass. The ones that still like me, well I'll still talk to them, simple as that. Now, I'll get this stuff taken care of before dinner...what a day, she thought as she walked off to get her uniform and get rid of it for a new one. After that was done, she'd go hang around in her room or the library until it was time to do something.

[Katana]

After Ms. Frost poured a large amount of milk into her tea, Katana quietly said "thank you" and then fell silent to let the headmistress continue, yet the whole time she stared at the floor as she had done before. Ms. Frost's assurances that Colossus had a big heart and that he and the Acolytes were a caring group did little for Katana. Right,a caring group. Right, Haven is the maniac who tried to blow us all up and now brutally attacks people....even if Rumble kind of deserved it. Diesel is her brutal man-puppy, and Hardlight hates my guts. Sure, the Paragons hate me but at least Nightcrawler has been on my side.

Yet somehow even her addled mind had to admit that Ms. Frost had been generous in giving her more chances after her running away with Jumper and Chase, getting Jumper almost killed and eventually pulled out of the school by his angry parents, the pizza party incident, this morning's drama class, and all her other crap over the past few months. She's trying. She could just expel me. She thinks this is best. I owe it to her to try it. She might even be right, Katana thought.

Thus, despite Frostbite's less than enthusiastic endorsement of Ms. Frost's kind words about Colossus, Katana decided to give it all she had and looking up from the floor even permitted herself a smile as the new Paragon mock curtsied and left to return her uniform. Then, with Frostbite safely out the door, Katana answered the headmistress's question a little bit too excitedly.

"It was good." she said about the tea. "I was on time for gym class, more or less, and kept up with all the exercises, first jumping jacks and then mountain climbers, so Wolverine let me play sports with the other kids instead of just running laps all period." This was a big deal for Katana as the main reason she was failing gym was because she spent all her time running laps for tardiness and goofing off during exercises. "So I played football with a bunch of the Hellions and the Corsairs. Ironclad picked me for his team," Katana left out the part where Ironclad made a point of telling Diesel, the other team captain, that he was only taking her to be nice to the Acolyte, "and he had me protect Puppy-Love who took the ball all the way up the field...Tune Up protected one side and I took the other and it was great!"

Leah paused now to get her breath as she had been talking so fast she had forgotten to breath. "We would have scored and had a great game had a fight not broken out...but you'll be proud of me. I didn't join the fight at all!" Finished with her story Katana was smiling broadly as she was very excited to be able to give her headmistress positive news for a change.

[Emma Frost]

"I'm so very glad to hear that. It seems that this is the beginning of a new chapter in your life Leah. I know your story has a happy ending, so don't forget that. Remember to that it's up to us to take our lives in directions we want to go, the fates conspire against us so we must perspire to best them... at their own game." she smiled at the young Acolyte.

"And yes, a lady never sweats...we perspire. Speaking of that, I don't want you to sweat this team change. You will drop your Paragon uniform off to Nightcrawler and then go and see Colossus. He'll get you up to speed quickly with the rest of your new team and give you your new uniform and practice schedule." Emma scooped up some papers from her desk shuffling them and straightening them up a bit.

"I will let them both know to be expecting you. Now hurry along and get right to that. I believe Kurt is in the library and Peter is in the garden." Emma smiled at the girl once again. "Good luck with this Katana, I hope you make the most of it."

[Katana]

"Thank you, Ms. Frost. I really do appreciate it. I'll give it my best," Katana said sincerely as she got out of the chair, waved goodbye to her headmistress, and headed gingerly out the door. She then headed back to the dorms to get her uniform, and uniform in hand marched off to the library.