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Tranquility; [tag: Kimmy]
Topic Started: May 29 2010, 06:16 AM (273 Views)
Jason Helio
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Date: May 16th
Time: 11:30 am


It was Sunday. Oh thank the lord. Sunday was the laziest day of the whole week. Saturday was weird that way. Jason always felt compelled to act on Saturday, like he had to either make plans or do something. Sunday he felt no such compulsion. If he wanted to not do his daily (Inner thought: this training regimen is ridiculous. Sunday should be a day to lounge around, but noooooooooooooo. Maybe there would be a lovely danger room session later. Jason was going to run away soon.) running at eleven o clock in the morning, then he could put it off that long.

He stopped briefly at the waterfall. It was probably the bright spot in his run. It was just... fascinating how massive the school grounds were. There was a damn waterfall. Also there had been a major fight involving... god over fifty people who had been throwing around serious power. It seemed so long ago. Jason thought he was crazy to stay here after all that, but it turned out to be an okay idea after all. He wondered who he would be if he hadn't found the school, hadn't stayed. Had just gone back out in the world, running. He much preferred the running he was doing now.

Jason didn't need a rest, he didn't need a breath. He was getting close to that point, feeling like he wasn't releasing any gamma radiation at all. After a while Jason hoped to actually be tired at the end of this, maybe breathe a little hard. Sweat even. The last time Jason had broken a sweat Apocalypse was trying to make hell on earth.

But though he didn't need rest, he did need to stop at the falls and sit down on a rock, and dip his hand in the water. It was a little warm, and the splash of cool water on his face was refreshing. He could afford to take a break, just for the sake of it. It was Sunday. He was feeling lazy right now. The waterfall kind of had that effect on him. Sometimes, he liked to stay here. Definitely a spot of major happening for Jason, but in a tranquil way now. Kind of a constant. He hoped no mutant terrorists ever destroyed the waterfall. He'd have to kick some ass then.
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Kim Parker
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It was no secret, thanks in part to Wither, that Kimberly's favorite spot was the waterfall. She had a deep connection to bodies of water, and here, when she was able to focus enough, she felt like she could feel all the water on the planet at once. It was a deeply moving experience, she wished she could let everyone feel that, then they would treat their home better. Even so, Kim was a little more grounded than she used to be, old Kim would jump up and write a song about going Green, new Kim just went about her day wasting less and conserving more. Every little bit helps.

The water fall was a place of importance for many reasons. It was where she decided exactly who she was. It was where she discovered she could push her power in amazing ways. It was where she had her first real important kiss, and where she made her promise to Tommy. It was where she received her codename, thanks to Jubilee. Lots of important moments. But now that she was graduating, she wasn't sure where she was going with life, and did not ever want to leave the school. She had thought she shook her fantasies of being a super-hero, but they were still there. After the Apocalypse, stronger than they were before. Stronger than any musical dreams, thats for sure.

On her usual hike to her usual spot she noticed a familiar face. Jason. He shared her connection to this spot, she knew it. Jason had been there that night with him and Jubilee. That was really the first time she understood the world she lived in. The consequences of everything.

Coming up behind Jason she quietly formed a ball of water and giggled quietly before shouting at the top of her lungs. "Tag!" The quiet ball of agua shifted suddenly and transformed into a geyser. It pummeled Jason, and had a bit of force behind it, from training sessions she knew exactly how much her friend could take. It pushed him in the direction of the water and Kim was hoping to knock him in.
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Jason Helio
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Jason turned to see the source of the exclamation only to get pounded by a torrent of water, bowling him over into the water. Jason's head broke water easily.

"Hey, no fair!" he shouted pulling his dripping frame back on dry land, "And me with no towel."

Jason hadn't expected to see anyone, let alone Kimmy, outside with him. The woods were often very solitary. The school had a treadmill, a full weight gym, and of course a hard-light hologram massive training room. Sadly mother nature was getting left out of the training schedule. Jason didn't feel one way or another about that. He liked people, liked training with other people. He was happy either competing or working with people to get something done. However he imagined it wouldn't exactly be a great time to have people see him suddenly smash into a tree or at best just go leaping into the woods when he lost control. He hasn't been losing control as much recently though.

The solidarity was not likely to change, so Jason just accepted it. Though he was always happy to see Kimmy. As usual she was cheery, and shoved him into the water with a fair amount of force.

"You've been practicing," Jason said, "That hit me like a truck. So that's what you've been spending the last year doing. And here the LA tabloids said you'd been plotting the downfall of the human race."

Jason shook his hair out, trying to think of a way to get back at her. He could throw something at her, but that would be a lot meaner than just a simple prank. He did idly wonder what she had been up too since he had left after apocalypse.
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"Yeah. Gives me an outlet. Not sure what I am doing musically these days." She snapped her fingers once Jason was out of the pond and the water sort of evaporated off his skin and from his clothes, forming in a ball above Kimberly's hand. "Who needs a towel anyway" She smiled at him softly before jumping onto the pond. Instead of falling in she bounced on the surface of the water like a trampoline and turned to face Jason. "Plus after all that happened here, I wanted to be stronger. So I could defend you and Jubilee if I ever had to again." The statement was surprisingly simple. Kimberly wanted to do everything for her friends. She was a simple girl.

"And if by plotting, they mean sitting around the institute drinking iced Coffee, then they are dead on." Kimberly had never really been bothered by the tabloids and news. They had ran out of interesting things to say about her after her little spat with Pyro in the park 7 months after she was revealed to the world as a mutant.

"And my last year... well I held a tidal wave above my head in Japan with bobby's help, fought zombies in Times Square, found a boyfriend, and discovered my parents were dead. It's been hard. It's been fun. A blast even sometimes. Sometimes though, I would wonder exactly where and what you were doing. I talked to Jubilee earlier this year, she is doing well by the way." She gave him another warm smile.

"Last year was hard. But it was my best yet I think."
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Jason Helio
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Jason was certainly glad to have the water off of him. It was cold. Jason could survive an unfriendly encounter with a car, train, wrecking ball, or a Boeing 747 but he was as likely to catch hypothermia as the next person. It wasn't cold enough to catch cold that much, but it was cold enough for him to shiver if he was damp. He hadn't remembered seeing any more singles from the blond mutant lately, so he wasn't surprised to hear she was confused musically. It would be hard, he imagined, being an openly mutant celebrity in this day and age. Fear of mutants was as high as Jason could remember it.

Jason could only nod in agreement at Kim's need to be stronger. When Jason had first come to the school he had felt like hell on wheels. Dirty wheels, since he had been homeless for a long time before, but still pretty bad ass. He hadn't lost a fight yet. He was introduced to a whole new level of power and focus since his time here and had reacted to it by trying to embrace it. One could call it a psychological problem really. The line of demarcation between his "human" life and his "mutant" life had been a dark line. All his old ties had been cut, his old life thrown away as had his former weakness and inability to defend himself. His desire to control and strengthen his powers came from two sources. He never wanted to give anyone his lunch money again, for one thing. For another, he refused to sit on the side lines when others with power exploited those without.

"Definitely know what you mean by that," Jason said, "Professor Wolverine has me doing danger room sessions until I run out of power. Haven't gone to bed physically tired since my powers manifested. Good tired though, you know?"

Kim recapped a year in record time, obviously hitting the high points. Or at least the exciting points. His face frowned in sadness with the news about her parents. He had almost lost his sister during apocalypse. The episode had actually brought him closer to his family, having him live in L.A. for most of the past year. With his newly repaired relationship with his parents it was much easier for him to feel Kim's pain.

"Sound's a little more interesting than my exploits, though I did tangle with Juggernaut for a little while in Idaho or somewhere. Lots of farms, wherever it was and then nearly fell into the ocean off a Hellicarrier. Not so keen on flying any more. After that I had to run back to L.A. to be with my family while my sister was in the hospital," He looked off into the distance as he said wistfully, "She's still there, but I had to keep a piece of a building from crushing a guy which SHIELD decided was a major offense so they put me in kind of house arrest here."

If Jason sounded bitter about this, it was because he was. It wasn't so much that he didn't like the school. More that he didn't like being forced to go anywhere. He was getting used to it, and in a way he liked the structure again. He had always felt alive here, like he was doing something that he was meant to.

"I'm sorry to hear about your parents, Kim. I know that must be rough."

Jason smiled at the mention of Jubilee. The three of them had escaped together and it hadn't been easy. Jason would always trust the other two more than some others. It's what happens when you survive that kind of thing.
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