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| Topic Started: Oct 5 2009, 02:01 AM (207 Views) | |
| Lorna Dane | Oct 5 2009, 02:01 AM Post #1 |
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Date: 27th August Time: After midnight Lorna & Alex Lorna let the front door to X-Factor close quietly behind her as she stood in the hallway, listening for the sounds of any of the others moving around downstairs. The whole place seemed fairly quiet though, for which Lorna was quite grateful. She was exhausted and didn’t feel like making conversation with anyone, all she wanted was Alex’s arms around her, to keep her safe. There were, however, things they needed to discuss and she could not really put it off any longer. Pulling off her jacket, Lorna hung it on one of the pegs, placing her keys in the pocket and then making her way through the lower half of the headquarters, making a beeline for Alex’s office. Since Pietro had left and Wanda had disappeared, Lorna had barely been able to stay in the headquarters, consumed by worry for her sister and not a small amount of guilt. She shouldn’t have let this happen, she should have spent more time with her sister, she should have done... something... anything to making this better. Forcing Pietro to stay would never have worked, but maybe she could have offered another alternative or simply left to join the Brotherhood before he could. Reaching Alex’s door and seeing the light still on, spilling out from the edge of the frame, Lorna knocked lightly on the wood and then pushed it open. Alex was seated at his desk and she moved immediately towards him, feeling the instinctive need for him sweeping through her. She leaned into kiss him and then crouched down next to his chair, one hand moving to rest on his thigh, just above the knee, the other seeking his hand to hold. “Hey.” Lorna said with a tired smile. “Any luck? I found nothing, all day, not even the slightest hint or lead. I hate this.” He was in his office, pouring over several dossiers Hodge had sent him. There was so much to be done, even just being one cog of a wheel. Jesus, how did Scott do this by himself? Yeah he had the committee behind him, but shit trickled upwards, and Scotty boy overlooked every paper, every report, paid every bill, ordered every supply. Alex could barely keep up with reading the daily SHIELD state of affairs email. He was more than ready for a break by the time Lorna came in from her patrol, her search really, and he glanced up at the clock, surprised to see that time. Last he remembered looking it was dinner time. Now, it was after midnight. She crouched beside him and he pushed his chair away, pulling her up into his lap. "Not a glimmer," he said, "Been staring at SHIELD reports of mutantactivity all day. Nothing points to either of them. No clue where Wanda is, and if Piet's being groomed in Daddy's image, they haven't unleashed him on the world yet as far as I can tell." He rested his head against her for a moment and then kissed her shoulder, "We'll find them and bring them home, babe. We'll do our best at least." Alex pushed his chair back, pulling her into his lap and Lorna moved eagerly towards that destination, settling against him. She closed her eyes as he spoke, her head dropping to rest against his shoulder. The higher temperature of his body was comforting against hr tired limbs as she hugged her arms tightly around him. “Pietro doesn’t want to come home. Even if we find him, he won’t come, his mind is made up. If Wanda and Avery aren’t enough to keep him here, we’re not going to have any luck. I don’t how we’re ever going to find Wanda without him though....” She paused and sighed softly. “I promised him I’d look after her.” "I don't think that it's a question of them not being enough," Alex said, noticing that she didn't add herself in as a reason for Piet to stay, "I think you are all a reason for him to go. He's doing this because he feels it's right. I know your brother enough to know that he doesn't do what feels wrong. He's a hard man to get to know, but that part, he wears like a light on his chest. I don't know, maybe Magneto isn't a lost cause. He's angry and filled with hate, but that's what happens when you're afraid. I know, Lorna, believe me on that one. Where Piet's concerned, we just need to give him some time, and Wanda... I think, I think, when she wants to be found, she'll let us know. Wanda's a lot out there, but she's not a stupid girl, and she's not so damaged that she's helpless." “It feels different this time.” Lorna said softly. “Like time isn’t going to make a difference to his decision. You should seen him... heard what he was saying.” She paused, feeling the tell tale tightening in her throat and smarting around her eyes, tears closer to the surface, worn out as she was. “I know Wanda can look after herself, but she shouldn’t be alone, she should be here with us. I really hate to think of her so upset, with no one she knows around....” She felt a tear begin to work it’s way from the corner of her closed eyelid and down her cheek, soon followed by more as she turned her face to bury further in the material of Alex’s shoulder. He wrapped his arms around her and held her while she cried, idly stroking her long green hair, "I know, babe, I know. But this isn't your fault, it's no one's fault. I don't think, no matter how upset he was, that if he'd known Wanda would disappear he'd still go to Mags. There's nothing we could have done, for either of them. She knew she still had a place with us, she knew we would have taken care of her. This is something they have to do, themselves, I guess, and they have to do it alone. It sucks for those of us who love them though, doesn't it?" Alex continued to stroke her hair and back, "It's going to be ok. They're going to be ok." Listening to Alex’s soothing words, his arms tightly around her, Lorna gave into the tears that seemed to have been building for a long time. She was safe here, safe to let down her guard, with Alex she didn’t have to keep pretending to be strong and determined. Her body shuddered lightly with sobs, tears soaking into the material of Alex’s shirt as she held him tensely. After a while her tears slowed and stopped but Lorna didn’t move from her position, only turning her head in against his chest, lifting a hand to wipe her eyes, sniffing. “Sorry.” She said softly, with a slight laugh, feeling that weird lightness after crying, accompanied by a vague headache. “I just hate this... I really hate it. It seems like when we get on an even keel, something goes wrong” "This isn't us, honey," Alex said softly, stroking her green hair. "It's them, it's Wanda and Piet, mostly Piet. That trial, that whole fiasco, even his leaving doesn't have as much to do with me and what I did as War as it does his own anger, his own misery. No disrespect to your brother, Lorna, but Piet has a lot of deep rooted problems that no one has ever helped him with because he won't let them. I'm in AA because I have problems. You've let me help you with your cutting. Piet doesn't let anyone help him, and he doesn't let anyone but him help Wanda. There's nothing we can do until he's done this thing, on his own. But it's not us, honey, we're still good, aren't we?" Lorna nodded slowly as Alex spoke about Pietro, knowing that he was speaking the truth, but not wanting to acknowledge that she wasn’t able to help her brother in some way. “I know, I just I thought he would get over it, I thought he would get past his anger over everything.” She said quietly, falling silent at his question about their relationship. There was no way she could in all honesty say yes and that was incredibly painful. “I don’t know...” Lorna whispered finally. “I don’t think we can get married... not while Piet’s with our father and Wanda is gone.” He rested his head against hers and said, "We can't get married, now," Closing his eyes, he was silent for a moment, "I told you before, I would marry you tomorrow, I'd marry you in a year, I'd marry you in a century. You still love me right? You still want to be with me?" Lorna lifted her head and kissing his throat gently. “Of course I still love you.” She hugged her body closer into his, wondering how to vocalise what she was feeling. “I’m just confused right now, I feel like everything is out of control. I hate how what should be the happiest moment of our lives has become the catalyst for my brother and sister leaving. I suppose it’s just knocked me sideways, after everything we’ve been through, and it makes me wonder if this... all of this is really something I want.” He'd had no doubt she loved him but it made him happy to hear. Alex loved her with all of his heart and he had a flush of anger at Pietro for making her feel this way. What a selfish bastard Maximoff was. But he didn't say as much, because it was not what Lorna needed to hear, not now, maybe not ever. He sighed and said, "If you want control, Lorna, then I think you're going to be very disappointed. Normal people don't have controlled lives, people like us, who make a living dealing with disaster, we can only hope for a semblance of it. We've been told since we were kids that you grow up, get married and have babies. That's the way things are supposed to be. I want that for you, I want that life for you, even if we have little explodey babies with bright green hair." Sighing heavily, he said, "But if that's not something you want, I don't really have much of a say in it, do I?" Lorna frowned as she realised that she hadn’t made herself entirely clear and shook her head slightly, straightening so she could look at him properly. “I want to marry you, Alex, I just don’t know how or if it’s going to work with the life we’ve chosen. I know it’s selfish but part of me wants something else for us.” Despite rarely going the conventional route in life, Lorna couldn’t help but feel a certain happiness when Alex spoke about the two of them starting a family. At the moment however it just seemed to throw up more questions than anything else. “I want little... explodey babies with green hair too.” She said with a short laugh, despite the seriousness of the conversation. “but how would that would that even work? Where would we live? What would happen when SHIELD send us on to some random corner of the world? Think what kind of waves a grandchild of Magneto would make...” She trailed off and sighed. “I guess I’m over thinking things...” "Who says we're working for SHIELD all our lives?" Alex shrugged, "Who said we're going to be heroes forever? It's what we are now, and by working to make the world a better place, we're helping to make it possible to have that white picket fence and those 2.5 children." Nuzzling her, lovingly, he said, "And, honey, like it or not, Mags is your blood daddy. Doesn't mean that he has to bounce our babies on his knee. I think you should be more worried about the kind of trouble Uncle Cyclops will be, to be honest. He's a hell of a lot more hands on than Magneto ever will be." A light jab to lessen the tension. “Whatever happens, I don’t think either of us will be happy with a white picket fence. And I was thinking at least three or four children. None of whom will be trained in the art of stoicism by your brother.” Lorna as she leaned into kiss Alex briefly, smiling and allowing him to lighten the mood. In a way it had helped to simply vocalise the swirl of thoughts and worries that had been triggered by her brother and sister’s disappearance, feeling some of the tension dissipate. However, she still didn’t think she would be able to contemplate marriage until Wanda at least was back with them. "Three or four?" Alex clapped his hand to his head, "Then, definitely we should get as many SHIELD paychecks as we can until then, because they're all going to need braces, and prom dresses, and cars when they're sixteen. Oh, babe, you want to run me to the ground," Alex smiled, kissing her happily, "I'm willing to wait forever for you, Lorna. I'm not going anywhere. I'm really not. I know things keep getting in our way, but we always find each other again. That has to mean something more than co-dependence. I've never loved any girl the way I love you, ever, and I can't deny it, I couldn't fight it if I wanted to. You're stuck with me, babe, even if it means waiting for the rest of my life." Lorna laughed and rolled her eyes in playful annoyance. “Run you into the ground? I’m going to be the one doing all the real hard work.” She smiled softly as he said he would wait for her, however long it took. “I know, baby, I feel the same way about you. I’m sorry I let things get to me. It’s not really about us, it’s everything else confusing things.” He wrapped his arms tighter around her and said, "I do feel bad for you though. I mean I have this amazing gorgeous goddess to spend the rest of my life with, you just have me. I'm pretty sure you could do better." “Because you’re such a horrible beast.” Lorna replied wryly, pressing into him as his arms closed around her. “Maybe both of us could do better, but I think we would both get very bored and sneak off to see each other and have sex in motels. Or... we could just stay together and head upstairs now.” She pointed out, her hands sliding over his shoulders and over the t-shirt clad muscles of his back. Alex picked up a remote from the desk and the automatic lock he'd asked Box to install on the door to keep things private clicked closed. "Who says we have to go upstairs?" He stood up, still holding her in his arms, "One of the perks of being the boss is you get the comfy couch in your office." He kissed her deeply as he carried her to the aforementioned piece of furniture. |
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