Sam's Office: Reporting in from the Congo

[Anita Fernandez]

Anita heads up to Sam's office, still in her faded X-Corp gear, early in the afternoon on the day she arrived.

If Sam has a secretary she introduces herself and asks for an appointment. If not, she knocks on the door.

While she's waiting to be seen, Anita looks out the nearest window, eyes darting to watch the birds and squirrels on the campus.

[Samantha McManus]

"You can come in, Miss Fernandez."

[Anita Fernandez]

Anita walks in, comes to parade rest. "Specialist Fernandez, reportin' in, Ma'am."

[Samantha McManus]

"Is that where we're at, now? I thought you were enrolling, again."

[Anita Fernandez]

Anita laughs and smiles. "Yeahhhh, I know. Ya can't blame a girl fer tryin' though."

[Samantha McManus]

"I've got enough people around who think we're at war, given what happened back in the States," she smirked ruefully.

[Anita Fernandez]

"I don't wanna be at war, but I don't wanna sit one out if we've got one either." She shrugs, flops down in one of the chairs Sam has for guests and/or supplicants.

"But you know I wanna be an X-Man, woman, whatever. It's all I've wanted fer years. I just got done doin' some good work for X-Corp, I'm sure they set ya an email or a file or whatever. Stoppin' badguys but also real cool stuff like helpin' out small mutant and regular folk communities in the Congo. Helpin' em get set up with fresh water, an' crops, an' basic medicine."

Anita stretches vigorously. "I don't wanna stop doin' good work. If ya got somethin' that helps folks that needs doin', I'm inta it. If ya need a trained X-Operative, I'm here."

[Samantha McManus]

"How familiar are you with Mister Stanton?"

[Anita Fernandez]

Anita frowns. "I don't know any Mister Stan... oh shit, ya'll mean Will?" Anita grins. "I like him fine, whydya ask?"

[Samantha McManus]

"He's who I have heading up the teams right now. If there's room for you, he'd be the one to ask."

"If you wanted to help on a more direct level, Mister Gabriel and Miss Kaltiera have been working on a bit of a mentoring program for the younger students."

[Anita Fernandez]

Anita grins. "Hell yeah, I'm in. I'll go talk ta will, an' I love workin' with kids. There was this little mutant girl in a village called Bingre." She shakes her head and laughs. "She took the piss outta everybody 'round her. Got in trouble all the time. But that was mostly 'cause bein' a teenager an havin' some kinda animal controllin' power is hella confusin. She was a great kid once she got some one on one."

"Even taught her a little ballet." Anita leans back in the chair as she reminisces.

[Samantha McManus]

"Then I think things may work out for you, now that we've got the Institute's students here."

[Anita Fernandez]

"Yeah, that seems like it was a good call. Man, stuff is so messed up back in the states. I dunno what ta think 'bout it all."

[Samantha McManus]

"It made the school all but impossible to run, and they were thinking shutting down was the more principled thing. I offered an alternative, they accepted."

[Anita Fernandez]

"Well good on ya fer not lettin' them kids get dumped out in the cold. I dunno what I woulda done without that school. Saved mah life."