I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:40 pmSome time after the ill-fated 'talk' in the rec center Nailah knocks on the door to Nate's office before stepping inside. "Got a moment?"
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I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
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Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:40 pmRe: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:43 pm"That will entirely depend on why you're here," Nate said with a smile, setting his work aside.
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:49 pm"Mostly to apologize. Sam... Well she embraced certain things a little too much. It takes some getting used to." she says, staying a little vague since she doesn't really know how Nate stands on that whole topic in general.
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 12:58 pm"I wondered what was up. She was being weird when she was in my office, but I couldn't put my finger on exactly what was bothering me."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:09 pm"Let's just say she embraced a part of herself she used to hide from. She knows nothing was going on."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:14 pm"Oh," Nate said, rubbing his chin in a troubled way as he considered the troubling, to him at least, implications. In the process, his wedding ring was obviously visible.
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:19 pm"It's not like you think. She's still herself."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:29 pm"Well, it's hard to say what I think at the moment," Nate said with a shrug. "Just another situation to be assessed and accounted for at the moment is really all I know."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 1:36 pm"You're a feral shifter, right? Think of it like something similar to that, I suppose... But that's probably something she should explain to you herself."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:12 pm"Just a little more serious where Sam is concerned, but you're right. That's for her to talk about."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:17 pmShe nods. "Anyway, she did have a point sending you off after me, I suppose even if that ended a little... unfortunately. Not that I thought you'd... but yeah... issues."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:27 pm"Thought I'd...?"
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:31 pm"You just... pushed a nerve, set off a trigger, whatever fancy therapist-speak there is for it."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:53 pm"I've never been much for fancy therapist-speak. I like for things to be more... straight-forward."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 2:56 pm"Well you know what I mean. I wasn't thinking clearly and freaked."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:03 pm"Understandable. I probably pushed a little harder than I had to."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:08 pm"Wasn't your fault..." she shakes her head to clear it.
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:11 pm"I think we can skip fault. Sometimes unfortunate things happen," Nate said. "So what did Sam tell you about me?"
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:19 pm"Not much, really. Except that you had gone through something similar."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:38 pm"No dimension hopping on my part, but I did some very bad things. Helped manipulate things to push mutant registration in the States."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:44 pmShe frowns. "Wouldn't have thought you to be the type for that."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:53 pm"I'm not," he said. "Lost my memory in an accident that also radically altered my powers and got picked up by the bad guys. It went downhill from there. I was a floating ghost, not working for either side when Sam finally found me."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 3:56 pm"That... sounds more like something that'd leave it's marks..."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:08 pm"I've managed to reconstruct a lot of the memories thanks to time and patience from my wife. And let me tell you, burning out nearly all your healing factor hurts like hell. I used to look like this," he said, pulling up a picture of a huge black werewolf on his tablet and showing it to her.
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:18 pmShe winces looking at the picture. "I can imagine." she says and it doesn't really sound like a stock phrase.
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:28 pm"Coming back to a life you left behind... it's... maddening. After the stuff I'd done, I wasn't sure that they'd want me around."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:31 pm"I was convinced Sam wouldn't want me back..."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:46 pm"But her not wanting you is not any more true than my wife and family not wanting me back. But it takes time and I couldn't go right back to doing what I was doing before I left. I used to be a history teacher. That just wasn't possible. So I found other things to do. Ways to be useful."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 4:53 pm"And you never did go back to that."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:01 pm"No, I didn't. I'm not saying whether it's possible for you to do what you did before. What I am saying is that don't feel like you have to be constrained to that."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:07 pm"I suppose you're right. Not that I really have any other options right now..."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:08 pm"Sometimes you make your own options," Nate said. "That how I eventually ended up working for X-Corp."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:29 pm"Probably not the right time to worry about this now." she says, just not wanting to worry about that now.
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:34 pm"True, just remember to keep your options open. Right now, just focus on being glad you're back. And that there are plenty of people here who have your back."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:40 pm"Trying to, but there's also a lot of 'Oh you'll be fine' optimistic drivel that's getting on my nerves."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 5:58 pm"You'll never be fine," Nate said bluntly, "But you will reintegrate yourself in some way if you let yourself."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:07 pm"That sounds more like how it feels. Hard to see the point right now but I guess it helps having something to hang on to."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:15 pm"That's the most sensible way to approach something like this. Well, as sensible as anything gets when dealing with this sort of thing."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:27 pmShe sighs. "Fucking sensible. And the worst part is I can't even tell. It's all just the same blur of bullshit when I try."
Re: I8DT - Nate's (Temporary?) Office
Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2011 6:32 pm"Then don't try. Deal with things as they come up and spend time with Sam. Go out and do stuff. Get used to the world as it is again. And let the optimistic bullshit slide right off, because while you can't fault them for wanting to help, it doesn't help anybody if you let it irritate you."