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It's her first evening away from home, and even Papa's strong mental presence has left her range by now.
It's lonely.
She knows that humans aren't lesser than mutants, per se, but she's still used to a different flavor of minds thrumming against hers when she's trying to go to sleep.
She and Emily aren't the only mutants on campus, though. There aren't a lot of them, but there's one other, at least...
She reaches out to them.
Hello?
"Yeah, well, I'm not an asshole. This just makes not being an asshole a little more worth it."
"Even if you were an asshole, I--
I don't want you to feel like--like you have to be afraid of me, I like you."
He nods.
"...it'll chill out in a second. I'm just not used to trusting people, and, like...you could put me on a bus home, if you wanted to, and I wouldn't even know."
Quickly:
"I know you don't want to. And you wouldn't."
He is, by all appearances, telling the truth.
I don't expect you to trust me. We've only known each other a few days.
yeah, but...
i like you. and i really want to trust somebody.
and you showed me my own brain.
Definitely.
They find somewhere conveniently out-of-the-way and tape the jerk to the wall and she shoos his friends in miscellaneous directions before waking them up.
He admires their handiwork.
"We should probably get out of here before we wake him up, right?"
"Probably, yeah." She blows a kiss to the unconscious jock and sashays out of the room.
"...You're okay, right?" she asks after they've closed the door behind them.
"I mean...getting stuck out somewhere without clothes is the kind of shit that I figured would happen to me when I got here."
After a second, he nods.
"Yeah. That's fair. Just feels weird, I guess, since I...y'know, had fun with it."
"...I will admit I also kind of had fun with it. But that's just a feeling, right?"
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