Deianira Athanasios

 None of her injuries were too serious, she got a couple stitches on her right cheek which where covered with tiny bandages, there were a couple of stitches on her stomach, but her back and knees were just skinned, nothing more than that. She wished she could say the same for her spirit. She was sulking.

The fact she'd gone out was trouble for her, but she didn't want to stay inside, it was cool out, and during the day she was stuck having to stay in the rec room or her room. The sun made it too hot.

She was standing in roughly the same spot she met Kurt in, in the gardens, near one of the fountains, sitting on the edge, gazing at the moon's reflection in the water.

Kurt Wagner™

"Why don't you go to bed?"

He asked quietly, from the doorway.

There would be hell to pay in the morning, after all. Xavier was told, and of course Kurt was absolved of most of the responsibility. Apparently keeping an eye on every misbehaving child and teenager in the mansion is more than any one mutant can do, whether they be telepath or teleporter.

But even so...he should have seen it happening.

Deianira Athanasios

She stiffened some and glanced over to him. "Because." For a long moment it was all she was going to say, but she tucked her hands under her legs and sighed. "I like outside, and the days are so hot. Now's the only time I can be outside and be comfortable." She almost added you should know that, but she stilled her tongue before it leapt off of it.

"I wouldn't be able to sleep anyway."

Kurt Wagner™

"At least you would get some rest..."

He muttered, rubbing at his ribs lightly.

"You know...I told you and Clarice not to go out at night. You're not even supposed to go outside of the mansion..."

Deianira Athanasios

"I know. I don't think sometimes. I get distracted by what I want instead of what I should do and know."

She was making an excuse. She just wanted to do something that she wasn't supposed to do, in reality. She wanted to rebel against something. She didn't think that anyone, including herself, would get hurt for it.

"I'm resting here."

She reached for the water in the fountain, let it fall over her fingers to make icicles dangle from her hand.

"I'm ..dumb sometimes.."

Kurt Wagner™

 "You made me dumb..." he replies.

"Outside of the circus I could never have a job, all I can do here is teach foreign language and play night watchman. Occasional X-Man. But I hate fighting..."

Deianira Athanasios

 She cast her gaze down to the water again, and just lifted her hand to wipe at her cheek, to hide whatever emotion she could.

"I didn't mean for any of that to happen." The ice splashed down into the fountain from her hand and she curled that hand into a fist.

"It's my fault he went away...now it'll be my fault you go away too."

Kurt Wagner™

 He thought about telling her that he's not going anywhere.

But that's not the truth, he might not be staying after all...

There have been visions...

"Who?"

Deianira Athanasios

She turned her head some, slightly, but she didn't turn her eyes to him, she just let her gaze linger on the ground for a few moments.

She took in a small breath to say two words. "My dad."

It was a long time ago, she couldn't even remember what he looked like anymore.

Kurt Wagner™

"I'm sure that's not true."

He clears his throat.

"And I'm...wouldn't go...because of you. I just don't want you to get yourself killed. It's not safe for us out there...I cannot count the number of times they've tried to kill me even since I was just a little boy. You have to be careful. And Sabretooth...from what I've heard, would try to kill you even if you were not a mutant. But that is the point, it's not just mutants, New York is a place with many evils..."

He winces.

"Sometimes I wonder why Xavier chose this place and not...some island. I have been told that New York is a place of integration, though, different kinds of people all coming together...and that's what he wants. I think all I want now is peace. I don't really care how..."

Rubbing the back of his neck, pausing.

"Mm. And that's why I'd go."

Deianira Athanasios

 "The whole world is...and any place is as good as the next, I guess. Might as well stay where it's at least mostly safe, though if I have it my way, I'm living in Antarctica with the Penguins all by my lonesome."

Because if there are no people to get yourself attached to, then there won't be any pain when they leave.

"And he didn't want to be tied down with a kid. Mom told me it's my fault. I know it is." None too stable was her house when she was young.

"Let's go live on an ice burg and feed the penguins."

The tiniest flicker of a smile was there and gone in a flash.

Kurt Wagner™

"Too cold for me."

He lurches forward as though to drop to all fours, but then winces and thinks better of it...so he just walks to the fountain and then sits down on the edge like a normal person.

"My mother and father rejected me as well. I have a foster family, though...so...I don't care. I'd rather have the mother that chose me out of unconditional love than the one that would have only taken care of me out of obligation. But either way we are off the subject...this is about following rules, that are there for safety. Nobody hates you, but they need you to listen."

"I'm sure Xavier will find a way for you to stay comfortable here...though, I imagine, he thinks that you could manage to do that yourself. Otherwise he would have."

Deianira Athanasios

"Wish I'd been so lucky, my foster parents weren't so great. My step-father is though, he's wonderful. He loves me like I was his."

Though the subject change made her frown some.

"I'm not like Bobby, I can't control my body temp." She folded her arms over her chest and sighed out softly. She had done a couple danger room sessions, so far she could hone her powers enough to do what she did against Sabretooth, but her own temperature was another matter. She felt scatterbrained enough as it is, to gather her mind together enough to control her body too might be too much to ask right now.

There was the cool aura around her, the temperature felt about fifty degrees right next to her, but keeping that up at all times was draining to her, especially in the heat.

"He's more powerful than I am. I'm not strong enough."

She felt like a failure, she had all her life though. Through school, and then in life when she got sick from heat so often, and now again.

Kurt Wagner™  

"Well then talk to the professor. I'm sure he can do something, we have cold storage on campus..."

Shaking his head.

"It's really not that difficult, or it shouldn't be. But there's no need to sneak out. We have everything here."

Deianira Athanasios

 "I know we do, that isn't why I left. I got restless, it's stupid, I know, the reason why I went out. I went out to prove I could but I was wrong and all I did was get myself and my best friend here hurt. I was wrong, and I'm sorry. I really am."

She pulled her knees up to her chest, looking down at the raw skin there with sad eyes.

"I've never hurt anyone before, he bled so much..." She hugged her legs tightly to her chest. "I don't like to fight either."

Kurt Wagner™

 "I forgive you."

He stands up.

"You should put that all behind you and go to bed...I'm going to, and believe me, Sabretooth isn't any worse off...at least until Wolverine hears about it."

Deianira Athanasios

"Kurt?"

She stood up too, smoothing her hands down her sides for a moment before approaching him.

"Can I hug you?"

Kurt Wagner™

"Softly."

He nodded, moving into her and wrapping his arms around her gently, tail spiraling around her calf.

Deianira Athanasios

She closed her eyes as she hugged him, gently, softly, and she spoke softly.

"Thank you, f..for saving my life."

She chuckled softly as she pulled back, a teary smile on her features.

"And...and just in time for my birthday."

Which was, of course, in about six days. Dei was nearly 17.

Kurt Wagner™

 "I hope I never have to do it again."

He replied, then released her gently, smiling.

"Now go to bed."

Deianira Athanasios

"I hope so too."

She finally smiled one of her usual smiles to him, and she passed him to head into the school.

"Good night, Kurt."

And with that she finally disappeared within and headed up to her room.

Kurt Wagner™

He watched her go...and then sat back down and rubbed his hands against his face and sighed.

"Ach..."
 

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