I10DT - Danger Room - Let Slip

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 1:53 pm

Ms. McManus stood in the center of the Danger Room, awaiting the security detail that was leading Gideon there. He was being treated with a fair amount of dignity, without manacles or an inhibitor, but an escort had still been insisted upon.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:00 pm

"This is going to be enlightening, one way or the other..."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:04 pm

"I promised to give him a chance, aye?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:08 pm

"And I hope he doesn't squander it, but it's not hard to see him do just that still."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:20 pm

"Weren't you the one that wanted this?"

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:39 pm

"Yes but this isn't my decision now is it? I do believe he can do it but that doesn't quite mean he will."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:40 pm

"Is there irony in asking the priestess to have faith?" The corner of her mouth curled upward.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:42 pm

"No more than in the goddess taking advice from the priestess." she faintly smirks back at Sam.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:45 pm

"Only if you were my priestess, aye?" She chuckled.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:51 pm

"I do adore you but I don't think we're quite there." she laughs.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 2:52 pm

"If there's any worship here, it's entirely mutual."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 3:01 pm

"I'd hope so." she smirks, still standing still next to Sam with her arms behind her back.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 3:47 pm

"And I certainly don't see you complaining..."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 3:51 pm

"And I don't think I ever will." she smiles.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 4:05 pm

"Certain you don't want to leave your options open?" She smirked.

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 4:25 pm

"I've seen some of them. I think I'll stick with what I've got." she winks.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 4:27 pm

"I mostly meant on the complaining."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Thu May 03, 2012 4:35 pm

"Oh I'm sure I'll complain about some things. Just not that."

by **Gideon Rede** » Thu May 03, 2012 4:49 pm

The door to the Danger Room hissed as it opened and the security detail led Gideon inside. Gideon looked rather calm for somebody being led by guards. His eyes seemed to change color as he stared at the two Professors.

"Welcoming me home?" Gideon asked.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 4:57 pm

"Much as we can, aye?"

"Thought you'd been cooped up, and though this is somewhat a different kind of cooped up, it seemed time to let you unwind a bit," she said as she nodded to the escort and they filed out.

by **Gideon Rede** » Thu May 03, 2012 5:45 pm

Gideon seemed to relax a little at that.

"Unwinding would be nice as is being...well, in a much larger box," Gideon said.

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 6:25 pm

"What's at issue here is we rather need to get a grip on what you can do. An admitted ulterior motive to having you stretch your legs."

by **Gideon Rede** » Thu May 03, 2012 6:34 pm

"Understandable," Gideon smiled strangely. "I am your blade to wield, Headmistress."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 7:02 pm

"If this were just about giving you another hand to wield you, I should think we were rather doing you a disservice."

by **Gideon Rede** » Thu May 03, 2012 7:34 pm

"Would you?" Gideon asked, "You'd both be much more humane swordsmen than Apocalypse was."

by **Samantha McManus** » Thu May 03, 2012 7:38 pm

"I'm sure more than a few at X-Corporation would be happy just to hear that you can be controlled, but that's not how I operate."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:13 am

"Besides, there's no escaping responsibility by handing the reigns over. You'll redeem yourself on your own accord."

by **Gideon Rede** » Fri May 04, 2012 1:47 pm

"Redemption," Gideon said as if testing the word. "Is it strange that I'm not entirely sure I believe you? I'm still expecting to wake up one day forgotten in some cell beneath the University."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri May 04, 2012 1:49 pm

"Is that really what you think anyone's interested in? Leaving you to rot?"

by **Gideon Rede** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:06 pm

"I'm thinking that there is a rather small group of people who think I shouldn't be thrown to the wolves or locked away," Gideon said evenly, "Easier to simply melt down or bury the weapon that turned on you. Harder to reforge it."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:18 pm

"And it soon goes forgotten along with the lessons that may have been learned. We didn't get where we are by taking the easy way out."

by **Gideon Rede** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:46 pm

"Maybe not," Gideon said, "I'd still say that's the exception not the rule."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:49 pm

"You weren't meant to rust or go dull, Gideon. You might yet strike true, but that isn't for me to decide."

by **Gideon Rede** » Fri May 04, 2012 2:58 pm

"It isn't?" Gideon asked, "Would you rather I decided it on my own? We've all seen what happens when I use my own judgment."

"Or are we leaving it X-Corp? Or maybe the trustees? I'll walk this path willingly, but I don't think I get to decide when it ends."

by **Nailah Weaver** » Fri May 04, 2012 3:05 pm

"Your actions will, to some degree."

by **Gideon Rede** » Fri May 04, 2012 3:28 pm

"So you'll be letting me out of my cell?" Gideon asked.

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri May 04, 2012 3:30 pm

"Aye. We still can't let you leave campus, but we've arranged more comfortable quarters."

by **Gideon Rede** » Fri May 04, 2012 3:47 pm

"And you'll be giving me something to do?" Gideon asked. "Aside from attending psychatric and telepathic evaluations that is."

by **Samantha McManus** » Fri May 04, 2012 4:23 pm

"What do you want to do, Gideon?"

by **Gideon Rede** » Fri May 04, 2012 5:46 pm

"Want?" Gideon asked, "I want to be Paladin. Not the Paladin of the universe we visited, but the Paladin that this world needs. Maybe they'll be the same person, maybe they will not."

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