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Post by StormHawk on Aug 7, 2009 20:23:56 GMT -5
"Hey," Gavin said and pulled her to the side out of the crowd. His hand went to her face and he tipped her head up to wipe the tears gently from her cheeks. "It's alright, you don't gotta stay. C'mon I'll take you home." He grabbed her hand and pulled her through the crowd, wondering what got to her. Truth is that Heather had more stones than people gave her credit for. She could take hits pretty well for someone as small as her and she didn't let every dirty look get to her. In fact, this was probably the first he had ever seen her cry since he knew her.
Gavin found Ian across the arcade and waved to him, pointing to the door and nodding at him. He'd see the guy later anyways, but he figured that keeping the girls apart from now on would probably be their best option. They managed to weave their way through the crowd and out the door with a bit of difficulty since the place was packed on a Friday night. He tugged her out on the streets of the lit up town, where they would have to walk out of town until it was a safe distance away that he could take off his jacket and fly them home.
He walked down the streets of town with her slowly, giving her a second to get herself together. "Look I'm sorry about Niki, she took it a bit too far. I thought this evening would go a lot smoother but heh, shows how much I know," Gavin said with a short laugh and shrugged. He squeezed her hand lightly and tilted his head to look at her. "You gonna be okay? I'm here to talk if you need it," he said softly.
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
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Post by Aqua on Aug 7, 2009 22:02:48 GMT -5
Heather sighed and tightened her grip around Gavin's hand. She was feeling a bit better but her night was officially ruined. Haven was no longer her issue; her father's report on current events was circling in her head over and over again. But she was happy that Gavin was being so great with her and being there for her, she couldn't help but smile. "I just feel so bad... about... everything," she replied. She thumbed his hand and looked into his eyes. "But she just got me so mad... I.... I just couldn't take it anymore." She looked back in front of them and watched the sidewalk. She didn't want to start telling people her problems but she learned the hard way that keeping in anger would only increase it in the future.
"I called Dad after Haven..." she had to roll her eyes and snicker. "Kissed me. I needed to just talk to him and cool me down. Plus I had to call him back from yesterday." She sighed again, allowing the news to spread. She was getting use to it but it still hurt a lot. "He's divorcing my mom," she continued with a shrug. "And I think it's a good idea. I just can't believe she became so difficult... all because of me." She bit her bottom lip and inhaled deeply. Thinking about her mom always brought anger and sadness. It was incredulous to Heather that her mother could actually hate mutants so much when her own daughter was one. It bothered the New Mutant immensely and now she just felt bad for her father.
Tilting her head up, she looked up at the sky and how beautiful the stars looked. The cool April evening calmed her down and Gavin made her feel even better. She smiled softly at him and shrugged again. "It's for the best really. Dad couldn't stand her anymore. Every time I called she would give him shit and I would just tell him I would call back another time so she would stop. Why are people so mean?" That question was definitely directed to more than just her mom. But in truth, Heather could deal with Haven now that she told her off. It felt good actually, and it only made Heather's new found confidence grow. But on the other side of the coin, she didn't want to have a consistent feud with Gavin's best friend. It was wrong and made him have a difficult position as well. "I'm sorry I shouldn't be talking about this," she said after seeing his face. "It's not making the night any better."
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Diesel
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Ian Larks
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Post by Diesel on Aug 7, 2009 23:57:00 GMT -5
Ian waved at Gavin as they left and sighed slightly. He was a bit bummed too that things turned out the way they did, but it happens. Heather looked a bit upset, and he knew she was never one that would get Niki's sense of humor. Ian sighed and sat in the chair for need for speed, taking over Gavin's game.
Last time I give an idea. I think I'll just stick to chilling with Niki and Spitfire, he thought as he raced the car on the raceway, waiting for Niki to find her way back to him.
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Niki Sanchez
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Post by Haven on Aug 8, 2009 2:03:18 GMT -5
It was the final straw. This night had been an exercise in aggravation, a test of Niki's integrity. A test she all but passed until the end, when she decided, for whatever reason it was...the rage now clouding her memory, preventing her from thinking back to the look on Ian's face... that she was going to be a sweetheart. All she could see was red. "I am going to kick that girl's flat ass." she promised herself, saying it aloud made it a reality.
Niki stood for a minute, collecting herself. She felt like a complete fool for even considering trying to be kind to Aqua. The kiss was funny, and mean, so that was fine. It was the coming into the ladies room and trying to talk that was really grinding her gears. She couldn't believe she was standing there and talking about herself to some weird girl who wasn't even the right weird girl she wanted to talk to. Worse than that was that she didn't even want to talk to Aqua, she didn't even want her along tonight. It should have been Ricki, or Kat or I don't know Ivy...hell even Kevin should have come along but not her...anybody but her- oh shit even Lorale- uh, no... forget that. Niki made herself smile a little and turned to look in the mirror once more before going out. "Hot and fierce, mmm-Hmm." she whispered to her reflection.
As her hand grabbed the door handle she wondered for a split second where Aqua'd gotten off to, but then the image of that face, Heather's stupid slack jawed face, came into her mind's eye and she knew there was gonna be a fight in the parking lot. Niki was going to 'pound tar with face' as they say. She was going to find her and vent her rage and frustration. Grab her around her head and introduce those soft tasty lips of hers to Mr.Gravity's partner... Planet Earth.
Walking back into the main part of the arcade she expected to see Heather at the table crying still, or leaning her head against Gavin and him stroking her hair. Whatever the position or location she knew the girl was so weak she would need her team mate, her friend to console her. It was all that dumb blond's fault anyway, Niki tried to convince herself well... actually, no. No, I guess... Aw hell this sucks! Now that I said it out loud I know it was me all that time, Goddamn admitted it, that was stupid. The reality of it was harsh, but Niki was a realist and a stand up kinda gal.
She didn't want to be wrong, who ever did, but in this case she had been. Oh sure there was plenty enough times when Heather had tried it with Niki, or at least that was how Niki saw it, but she was realistic enough to know that it had been her own issues that had set the domino's to falling. At that moment she felt a huge wave of exhaustion wash over her. Her mind was a churning swirl of recollections and past wrongs done to her. So many things in her life that hadn't been anything that anyone would ever ask for. They all had made her the person she was and she was tired from the struggle. Her life had been a heavy burden to bear and she sighed in defeat.
It wasn't truly as if life had beaten her, but right at that moment she felt pretty beat down by it and decided there would be no fight in the parking lot. She also understood now that she couldn't blame the bimbo for being stupid or different or even blame her for not taking a shit while Niki decided to have a talk. She raised her eyes to look for the rest of her group and couldn't see any of them. They all left me? What in the- oh wait ..oh there's Ian. Her heart filled at the sight of him, but then it deflated. Niki realized she had ruined the evening with her hard as nails attitude and razor sharp tongue.
Plopping down in the seat next to her man she said "I don't know where she went. I thought I was talking to her in the bathroom, but it turned out to be some other girl in the stall." She sighed and rubbed her forehead with her fingertips and then cradled her head cupping her cheeks in her hands. "I messed up Ian. I feel like shit. I was telling that girl why I been so mean and all to her, thinking that the whole time it's Heather and then it wasn't and I was so friggin pissed, but I'm thinking 'why?'..." she looked over at him there and her heart was heavy for what she had done. "I was a real nasty bitch to that poor dumb blond for a long time and it was never her fault, not really. My life's been kinda crap ya know? I guess I was... well no guess about it, but yeah I was taking some serious stuff out on her. She took it all for so long, she's pretty tough ya know."
Niki looked back at their table and saw that other people had moved in to sit down there. She looked over at the fighting games and the air hockey, then the pinball machines, but she didn't see Gavin or Heather. She looked back to Ian, his face a map of his own struggles that she saw there then. She knew her own actions had added a line or two to that map tonight. Sweetly she asked "Where'd they go?"
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Post by StormHawk on Aug 8, 2009 17:52:04 GMT -5
Gavin let out a low breath, a slight grimace at the news. "Oh man Heather, that's pretty rough," he said not really knowing how to deal with this sort of thing. His parents weren't thrilled that he was a mutant but they never openly rejected him. He talked about it to Iceman before, who had also been in the same boat with his folks, told him to just give them time to accept it. He knew that Heather's family situation was messed up when she became a mutant, and now it looks like it finally took a road that though drastic, it might make some things easier.
"I don't really know what else to say but that, I'm sorry it all came to that," Gavin said feeling slightly uncomfortable cause it wasn't something he'd know how to deal with well. He wasn't that great with the emotional stuff, and in truth it made him pretty uncomfortable. "Look the nights not all ruined, its more my fault it was anyways. I shoulda told Ian from the start that going on a double date would be a bad idea. Sorry for that." Gavin squeezed her hand slightly as they reached the edge of the main road and turned onto the narrow road that led to the school.
He looked down the dirt road and behind him to make sure no cars were coming. "C'mon we gotta get to a clearing, I don't wanna take any chances." He chuckled slightly as he helped Heather through the trees and down the dirt path to the small clearing he found one night when he was flying around at night. "It'll be okay alright? I'll fly you back and I promise I won't make any more double dates in the future, okay?" Gavin said with a slight smile when they got to the clearing.
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Diesel
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Ian Larks
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Post by Diesel on Aug 9, 2009 1:33:31 GMT -5
Ian was in the middle of the race when Niki sat down, but he saw enough from the corner of his eye to knew what was up with her. "Gavin took her home a couple of minutes ago. She looked kinda out of it," he said glancing at her for a moment before getting back to the game, turning the wheel rapidly to follow the game. He ended the race in third place and sat back as the credits rolled to look at his girl. A soft smile came on his face, looking at her pretty face looking pained and slightly defeated.
"Aw babe..." Ian reached over and grabbed her hand, lacing their fingers together. "I knew you'd realize it babe, I mean that's just how you are. You needa come to your own conclusion on stuff cause I can talk your ear off 'bout something, but it don't do nothing babe. Hey at least you got it," he said with a slight smile as his thumb brushed the soft snow white skin on the back of her hand. His girl was like that, she was so hardheaded that there was no talking to her when she felt she was right. Ian liked her hardheadedness, it was part of the reason why their relationship was so interesting. They had fights when they would scream at each other at the top of their lungs, but they always made up. Niki was fiery and passionate, and one tough chick, but she had her moments when a wave of realization would hit her about something that she would show a softer side that no one else saw.
His thumb brushed gently over her hand and a crooked grin was on his face. "It'll be cool babe, I mean Gavin's kinda bummed out cause he wanted to chill with us, but you know that's gotta happen in relationships. I had a girl once that hated Eric, and I made it a two months without chillin' with him all that much before I broke it off with her. Still though, for awhile I thought we mighta been together for awhile and stuff so I was preparing to make that sacrifice, but I couldn't do it. My point is that we all make sacrifices when we get with someone we like," Ian said in a plain out voice. "Gavin and me, we know how it goes babe. I mean so do you in a way. You and Spitfire can't hang out as much cause she can only stand me for so long. Or people in general really. Still though you know what I mean by all that." Ian was just telling her straight, not even going for the making her feel better factor. He always had enough respect for Niki to just give it to her as it is and let her come to her own conclusion on it. "Ya dig babe?"
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Aqua
New Mutants
Heather McCarthy
Using powers with style.
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Post by Aqua on Aug 9, 2009 11:54:06 GMT -5
Heather tilted her head to one side and shifted her weight. "It wasn't you're fault, or Ian's," she replied. She really wanted to put the blame on Haven. However that wouldn't have been fair. All four of them knew that it could possible lead to a bad thing, and look what happened. So in Heather's head, it was mostly she and Haven who should have taken the blame. They knew what their relationship was better than the boys did. "It was just a bad idea on all of our parts I guess. No biggie," she said with a shrug. "I'm honestly over that shit with Haven. It's my dad I'm worried about you know?" She looked into his eyes, smiling slightly. He was being there for her like he always had been. And even though he wasn't very good with how to make someone feel better, he knew how to listen.
"Thanks," she said while giving his hand one last squeeze and a soft kiss on his lips. "And I'm sorry again. I just needed to get out of there and clear my head." And she wanted to just go home. Her whole thing with her parents was enough to take the wind out of her. She had no relationship with her mother, that she was certain. Heather McCarthy finally understood what it was like to loath her parent. The very person who gave her life. It was an odd feeling and something she wasn't able to take in all the way. However with that hatred, she did still love her, very much. Heather didn't believe she could ever stop.
Erasing her thoughts, she tried to make her current situation at least a bit better. "Hey at least no one can say I'm a prude. I got kissed by a chick," she said with a smirk. But her face only grew serious again after she remembered that the kiss led to where she and Gavin were standing right now. With a deep sigh, she shook her head and smiled wide. She didn't want to cry anymore or show how upset she was. That was something to do alone and not worry Gavin with. "Ready when you are captain," she finally said.
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