The Park: Early Evening

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie lead Guido and Rahne out of the throng that is the "Meet and Greet" to the open and less crowded park where they can have a regular conversation.

Well... as regular as it gets with Guido and Rahne.

[ooc: Open]

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[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

"Marie seems nice," Rahne said a little awkwardly. "Though the red streaks in the hair is a little different than the usual white streaks. Weird how alternate realities play out."

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

Guido nodded. "Defnitely not the same Rogue we've known. She did quite well with the teasing though. I approve."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie gave his friends a curious look. Despite the ribbing he got earlier the mood these two were was not natural. "All right guys. What's going on? You look like someone ran over your dog and then served him for lunch. By the way? Stay away from the cafeteria."

[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

Rahne looked briefly at Guido before beginning to talk. "Something happened back home Jamie. Something horrible. Nobody knows what happened but almost all of the mutants in the world have lost their powers. Right now there's only a couple hundred of us left."

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

"And that hasn't made the human/mutant relations any easier, either. We'd have contacted you sooner, but. . . ." Guido shrugged.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie looked at the both of them in shock. "You can't be serious. I don't hear from you guys in weeks and you decide to show up here and play the worst practical joke ever?"

[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

Rahne shook her head. "No Jamie. It's true. The last week has been insane. A lot of the members of the X-men have lost their powers with no explanation. Humans with a score to settle have rioted. Earlier this week students at Xavier's who lost their power were blown up by an extremist group and-"

Rahne's voice choked up and she turned away.

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

Guido reached out a hand to rest a comforting hand on Rahne's back. "Even we wouldn't make this up, Jamie."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie shook his head in disbelief. "That's insane. Who could do that? You don't just wake up one morning and-"

Jamie snapped his fingers.

"Everything is different. Nobody has that kind of power! How did this happen? What are we doing about it?"

[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

Rahne reached over and touched Jamie gently on the shoulder. "Nobody knows anything Jamie. We've tried to find out but right now we're just barely hanging on. Rictor tried to kill himself earlier this week, the X-men had to close down all the X-Corporation offices and now the mansion has practically become a refugee center for mutants who still have their powers. We haven't had time to really find out what has happened."

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

"Not too mention the little girl who's appointed herself our secretary and mixed up all our files,"

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Layla? Is that her?" Jamie asked with a dark look. "What's her deal? I've never met her before and she seems to know everything about me."

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

"She's Layla Miller. She knows stuff. And is pretty creepy about it, while she's at it. That's . . . really all we know."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"You guys now in the habit of adopting people off the street?" Jamie replied with a nasty tone of voice. "What the hell is this?"

[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

"Jamie. Take it easy," Rahne said in a pleading tone. "This is hard on everyone."

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

"You're going to want to chill out, right there."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"This is insane!" Jamie yelled. "How do you lose millions of mutants in a day?! And all you guys do is hang out in the office with a snotty know-it-all?"

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

"Okay, that's about enough." If Jamie wasn't going to chill out, Guido would just have to do it for him. He grabbed the front of Jamie's shirt to toss him without ceremony into the nearby pond.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie flew into the pond with a giant splash where he stood up only to have himself slip and fall again into the pond.

Then a duck attacked him.

"Okay," Jamie said pushing a duck away. "I might have deserved that."

[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

Rahne couldn't help but snicker. "Well it's good to see that you can control duplicating better now."

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

"Are you ready to actually listen to us? Because you know I can do that again."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, yeah, yeah," Jamie said glaring at a duck who was trying to peck him. "I'm listening. So... Not to sound pessismistic but basically we're screwed, right?"

[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

"Ach. Jamie you should know better than to give up hope," Rahne said in her polly-anna type way. "We just need to keep working and hope for the best."

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

Guido's expression probably indicated in no uncertain terms that he was rolling his eyes, though with his goggles, you couldn't actually see it. "Well, maybe not quite that, but we're doing what we can."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

Jamie's eyes were not hidden behind goggles and were definitely rolling. "Yeah well maybe the best thing we can do is just enjoy the weekend. I haven't talked to you guys in a month. Believe it or not I've actually missed you hassling me."

[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

Rahne rushes over and hugs the stuffing out of Jamie. "Ach! I know we see you every day but we miss the wee Jamie hassling big Jamie."

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

"He's getting almost complacent without you around to knock him down a few pegs. But back to what we're really here for. How's school?" This last question was asked in a patronizing, father-knows-best kind of tone, while Guido smiled.

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Oh yeah," Jamie replied as he rolled his eyes. I'm a model student. Every week I get detention from the same teacher. He's a bit of a grump and doesn't appreciate my efforts to cheer him up. I'm doing okay in my other classes though. For instance in Health class today? We learned about sex and the importance of foreplay."

Yes. This last statement was for Rahne in particular.

[rahne-sinclair.livejournal.com]

Rahne flushed a deep color of red. "That's not the type of thing you should be learning here!"

[paintmeplaid.livejournal.com]

"Oh, I don't know, Rahne. I think that's important information for a young man like Jamie."

[multi-madrox.livejournal.com]

"Lord know Guido could always use some tips," Jamie grinned. "Come on guys. I'll take you back to the dorm so you can see my room. I just got a complete collection of Space Battles drinking glasses from Moobyland."

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy heard a splash from over in the direction of the duck pond, and headed in that direction.

[l1ttle-billy.livejournal.com]

Billy went for an evening stroll in the park. He tried to think of a safe place to talk with his visitor about this place. The radio squirrels seemed to see everything.