May 26th: Where There's a Will...

by **Will Stanton** » Sun Apr 10, 2011 5:50 pm

"Oh, you're not the same," he said. "You're not interested in that. It's the McDohls of the world who take advantage."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:05 am

"And you're going to let a few bad apples dictate what kind of person you want to be?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:06 am

"Yes!

...maybe! When you put it like that it sounds bad!"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:36 am

"Just be who you want to be, not who you think you should, that's all I want."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:41 am

"But that's what gets me...taken and stuff. Wouldn't you rather me be like all the other guys? Safe and sound?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:45 am

"Sometimes I would, yes. But then we'd also be safer if we weren't attending this school or weren't mutants to begin with..."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:50 am

"Yeah, but I could just kinda hide it, you know? Most mutants can't do that."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 2:56 am

"Yeah, but hiding who you are is terrible. No one should have to do that."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:00 am

"Well, yeah...

...well, what would you have me do? If I be myself I get grabbed, and you get worried! That's just what HAPPENED. Look at all the problems that have come from me 'being myself'--stuck in people's heads, sent to the dump, trapped in awkward situations, kidnapped and....r.raped. I'm not an idiot; I can recognize patterns."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:07 am

"It... just... Of course I don't want bad things to happen to you! Not because I get worried but because I don't want you having to go through those things... I'm just worried you wouldn't be happy about hiding who you are. It's like the telepaths wouldn't even have to mess with your head to affect your life. It's not fair!"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:12 am

"It may not be FAIR, but isn't it just...is? If I shift, then I'm a target. Period! What good could possibly come of it."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:18 am

"Think of how many people you've helped with your shifting or how much fun we've had. TWO people out of how many are on campus alone abused your trust and your playfulness. Two. One of which is locked up and if the other so much as glances your way ever again..."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:21 am

"How much fun? The last time someone had some fun with me shifting, I ended up in the damn hospital--and I don't think either Professor Weaver or Professor McManus have looked at me the same way since."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:25 am

"They've been through the same thing. At least Professor Weaver... I'm sure it's not easy for them either. But what happened doesn't mean we didn't have fun before, right?"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:27 am

"When you were humoring me, aye," he grudgingly admitted.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:31 am

Sara just looks at Will in stunned silence for a moment, looking hurt. Possibly because there's an ever so tiny bit of truth to that, but mostly because of the fact that Will would accuse her of that.

"M-maybe sometimes... But you know I can be a bit... prude, I guess and that I sometimes need to be pushed into doing something fun. That doesn't mean I don't enjoy it!"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:35 am

"You get squeamish! Even before you were squeamish, always disturbed at...at what a freak I am, at where my twisted mind goes, and that's why you stopped encouraging it, and now that you know what other people were doing with me, what CAN be done with me, you'll be even more squeamish now. 'Cause that's all it's REALLY good for, in the long run. Appeasing the freaks."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:40 am

"That's not true!" she says, pushing herself up. "I was never disturbed at the things you did!"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:42 am

"Oh yeah? You really are gonna claim that? How many times did I get twisted up or folded or something, and you said no, just no? Huh? I can be a LITTLE weird, just to humor good ol' Will, but beyond that? No, it's just wrong."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:49 am

"I never said it was wrong!" she says, tears forming in her eyes. "It's not easy for me to deal with that! It was new to me and it wasn't 'normal' but I always tried to be supportive. You know that I have limits and it's not fair to blame me for that!"

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 3:59 am

"Yeah, YOU have limits. You're a normal person, a nice person, a person who can be respected when they walk down the street. What the hell am I? All I'm good for are evil people to get their jollies with, or for cruel people to humiliate. I'm a toy for the twisted. That's what people see me as--that's what EVERYONE sees me as, now. It's been proven."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:02 am

"That's just not true! Something horrible has happened to you but that's not your fault! It's because that woman is a terrible, terrible person and no one else would even think of seeing you like that." she cries.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:08 am

"Sure they do! That's what the endgame is--that's where the logical power development leads. And, let's face it, Sara, I'd be perfect at it--that's why they grabbed me, and not Sam. And that's ALL. That's what people see me as, on some level."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:14 am

"No they don't! Go ask anybody! You're their friend, not some... plaything. And did you even listen to Sam? It was her she wanted. She didn't care about you or McDohl or Professor Weaver."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:16 am

"Yeah---I was a tool. What a lovely device I was, with multiple uses!

Don't tell me you didn't see this endgame coming--you dropped all your research pretty damn quick when I got distracted. YOU saw where things were headed. You're smart, I was dumb. And, boy oh boy, are my eyes ever opened now."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:23 am

"What? I stopped because we were busy and because you're not allowed to work in a biological lab when you're pregnant."

"And she used Professor Weaver as a tool just as much as you. You're not... destined to be abused because of your power. Why would you even think that? And if I had thought this to be true in any way why would I have let you run into it!?" she cries, tears streaming down her face. Out of everything that's probably what she feels is the worst accusation he could have made, even if it might not have been intended that way.

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:25 am

"Because you were afraid! That's perfectly normal, and OK! You were scared of telling me, and you were scared of taking over! You were scared. How can I blame you for being scared? I can't! But the fact remains!"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:29 am

"I wasn't scared! But now I am because you're so paranoid you almost sound like this was something that was 'supposed' to happen..."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:33 am

"Maybe it was! Maybe it's my true calling! Maybe I'm not really a person, just...just a bunch of goop that THINKS it is, when it would be so much better served as rocket fuel or something! Or maybe I'm supposed to be lots of people, or just one really powerful person, and everyone is just kinda looking at me terrified! I don't know! And it looks like I never will, because we're all too afraid or squeamish to actually see what the fuck it is I can do! And then, the only people who AREN'T see me as a toy, and so maybe that's the mixture of personality and power that works! Maybe that's all. Maybe that's what my destiny is."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:22 am

Sara just looks at Will after that outburst, quivering. Why did they always end up having these kind of talks after they had sex?

"W-will..." she says after a while. "The only reason I'm too afraid to see what you can do, to experiment and all that stuff, is because I don't want to treat you like that. Because you're a person and don't deserve to be treated like that and the only reason those people treat you as a toy is because they don't care. Because to them no one else counts as a person but just because they treat you like that doesn't mean that you are nothing but a toy."

"Why do you think I had a problem with all that 'playtime' stuff... It was hard to treat you like that because you don't deserve it. Maybe I don't get it or whatever but you're so worried over who or what you are that I was scared to be pushing you in exactly this direction. Why do you have to know what you can do when you've already found what you are. You're Will, a good friend, a little goofy, a super hero, trusting, a loving husband, wife, father and mother. Isn't that enough? Because it should be..."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:13 pm

"I just don't know anymore, Sara...everything I've wanted to do, they took it from me, and...and they twisted it," he sighed, collapsing onto the couch again.

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:41 pm

"Everything? How could they have taken everything. You have me, you have Robin, you have your friends. And as much as they might have tried to take that from you, you still have yourself."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:48 pm

"Do I? Do I really? I don't think I do--they cut out a huge part of myself."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 4:56 pm

"You still have that part. You just think it's dirty and awful right now, but we can clean it up again. I promise."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:13 pm

"How?"

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:19 pm

"We just... do something that's harmless and fun."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:21 pm

"Don't strain yourself," he sighed. "I'm not gonna freak you out."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:23 pm

"Well I guess then you need to see that it doesn't freak me out too."

by **Will Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:30 pm

"I've SEEN, Sara."

by **Sara Stanton** » Mon Apr 11, 2011 5:31 pm

"No you just think that because right now anything that has to do with it seems horrible to you." she says, wiping her cheeks with the back of her hand.

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