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Time to Burn; Tag // Ariel
Topic Started: Sep 1 2014, 11:34 PM (226 Views)
Sarah Vale
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Saturday, August 23
Pool at the Institute, 11AM



She regretted this decision. So much. Well, partly at least. The part of her that knew it was only seventy five degrees out didn’t mind, but the part of her currently feeling every degree of humidity that made the air feel like soup was really disliking this. Fortunately, that was why they had a pool, or so she assumed. Long hair in a braid, Sarah sat at the edge of the pool with her feet dangling in the cooler water, seemingly looking off into nowhere. In truth, her tablet was sitting on one of the chairs a few yards away, and she was connected to it thoughtfully, running through a few things. For all her mental complaints, it was nice to get out in the sun for a bit, and she had enough sunscreen on to make it safe. The tankini she wore was just a simple blue halter and shorts, and she splashed her feet in the water before tugging them out, flopping back onto a chair.

Duma, the mechanical cheetah-like feline she’d built, paced alongside the water, glowing green eyes scanning with a sniff, before sitting beside her. She wasn’t very good at being idle, as evidenced by the flickering tablet next to her…And the book in her bag, and the set of knitting needles and ball of yarn sticking out of the bag a little bit. That last one usually caught people off guard, but sometimes she just needed to occupy her hands. Stretching out in the sun and managing to ignore the fact that Duma was rolling around on his back on the grass nearby, she tugged a ballcap down over her eyes, glancing over and snorting in laughter. That was what she got for building a cat.

Flipping onto her stomach, she pulled the tablet closer, not really needing to see the screen to run her fingers over it, tapping absently. To anyone, it probably looked like she was doing something important, busily working on something for the mansion. Then again, the glare from the screen made it difficult for anyone to really see what she was doing. Because she actually had a game pulled up, a mystery seek-and-find storybook game, and she had carefully locked her powers out of the game, because there wasn’t much fun in playing if she cheated. So instead, she was staring at it, carefully tapping a pattern on the screen in order to pass a test for an item.

There were probably better things she could be doing, she was sure. But it was hot and lazy out and she couldn’t bring herself to do any actual work. It was much nicer to not have to worry about concentrating in this kind of heat. Of course, she could have gone inside, but that would defeat the purpose of getting sunlight, something her sister insisted to her that she needed more of. And she could admit, Jess was probably right. Sarah wasn’t ghostly white, she had some color, but vitamin D was something she could probably use more of, since most of her activities took place inside. Jokingly taking out her phone, she rolled over, raising her arms to take a picture of herself squinting into the light, and texted it to her sister. Laughing when her sister sent back a smiley wearing sunglasses, she tucked the phone back into her bag, going back to her game with a grin.
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Ariel sighed as she walked around the grounds of the Xavier Institute. She had just visited Julian, said hi to Lucy, greeted some people and stopped by Rahne’s to say hi to the little guy. Now there was nothing to do and the blue skinned girl was bored out of her mind. She knew she could always just leave, go home and play some video games with Alex or maybe call her cousin to catch up on all of the gossip. But she wasn’t feeling like anything, the hot sun was making her tired and weak, despite only wearing a bikini top, a sheer white halter top cut beneath the chest and a white scarf wrapped around her waist and bikini bottom.

As she walked cursing at the sun and the season they were soon to pass, she noticed a shiny thing playing around in the horizon just by the pool. Coming closer, she realized that it was that metal wild cat that Sarah had built long time ago. Smiling she walked up closer knowing that if the cat was there, so would Sarah be and maybe she could help rid the ice mutant from her boredom. She raised her brow seeing Sarah roll around taking pictures and playing a game, “If you’re out to seduce me, you’ll have to wiggle that butt of yours a bit more.” She grinned and sat down beside Sarah.

“How’s it going nerd?” she asked laying back enjoying the shade from one of the big parasols that was set up around the pool. “Goddamn I hate spring and summer. Will it be winter soon?” she asked in her fake whiney tone, “When are you gonna dump this place and come play with me at the labs?”
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Duma clued her in to the fact that she was about to have company, a small chirp of recognition exiting his throat, green eyes locking onto Ariel, despite being on his back in the grass. Through his eyes, Sarah could see the blue-skinned mutant, wearing barely any clothes, approaching with a grin. At Ariel’s comment, Sarah rolled onto her side, arching a brow at the redhead with a playful smirk.

“Damn, you caught me.” Sarah deadpanned in response, before grinning at the complaining mutant, shrugging a single shoulder and rolling her eyes. “Whine, whine, whine – can’t you just be happy for those of us who aren’t as tolerant of cold, to let us enjoy not having to wear ten layers of clothes?” The technopath teased with a laugh, before glancing over as Duma stood, shaking grass off his shiny skin and padding over to sniff Ariel, rubbing his cheek against her arm for a moment.

“Ah, the usual. Keeping the Danger Room and security systems running. Training, building – You know we had a field trip to Atlantis earlier this month? Talk about amazing, man, you can’t even imagine.” Smiling brightly at the memory, she raised an eyebrow at the mention of the labs, glancing at Duma’s smooth metal coat, rippling like real spotted cheetah fur, if cheetah’s came in silvery metallic coloring. His green eyes blinked and he chuffed, shaking himself out and loping back over to the grass, where he flopped over and rolled again.

“Hey, I’ve been playing at the labs plenty, you just haven’t been there! I was there last month, Doctor Bradley helped me upgrade Duma to his current lovely metal fur. I also met Mr. Hammond. Not my fault you avoid me when I come in. You’re ashamed of me, I knew it.” Sniffing dramatically, Sarah grinned, giggling at Ariel. “How bout you? Anything fun and exciting in your life I should know about?”
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She grinned widely at her friend and wiggled her brows ”I always do, babycakes. I always do” she put on her sunglasses as she said it. “No. No I can’t. The world revolves around me and so it’s not fair that I have to suffer for like 2 – 3 months a year, while you all have an awesome time. Can’t you see this?” she grinned and sighed, “It’s just that so much of my power goes to making sure I don’t die, so if I got mugged I’d have to use my actual fighting skills and not just my powers.” She leaned back in the shadow and itched her leg with the other.

She rubbed Duma’s head and scratched it behind the ears. This was one of the only animals that didn’t care about her cold, but rather enjoyed it because of her cooling down its machinery. Not that it needed it, but she knew computers and she knew this cheetah liked her. So she put two and two together and decided this was the reason. “You seem to be too busy to be out here, Sarah. Getcho ass back in tha’ lab, Biatch. An’ make meh a sammich” she said as ghetto as she possibly could and puckered out her lips before laughing. “I kid. It’s nice seeing you have some free time for once. You’re becoming a workaholic like Lucy. And let’s be honest for a moment; you don’t want to end up like her, right?”

Ariel watched as the cheetah played around in the grass and smiled slightly. She had really missed these lazy days where nothing big happened and there was just time to appreciate the small things that the world had to offer. “Actually, I’m always at the IT department, working my ass off. You do know I’m head of IT security right? Like, I’m a baws.” She grinned big and stretched, “Augh, you caught me! I am so embarrassed of you! You just don’t have what it takes to cut it in the real world, Sarah. You’re just not good enough a technopath to work with me.” She took her sunglasses down the back of her nose and winked at her friend. “Nothing much. Just chillin’. Pun intended. You remember Prodigy right? Him and I are working really close now, if you know what I mean.” She smirked, knowing this might make its way back to him and have him act weird for maybe a whole week. It'd be perfect to tape and then edit into a video for him. He was such a dork.
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“Good, keep those skills sharp before you lose ‘em.” Sarah remarked drolly at the mugging comment, eyes flashing in entertained amusement as she dipped a foot into the cool pool water, flicking a few droplets towards Ariel with a grin. “Here, cool yourself, Olaf.” The technopath teased, calling Ariel by the name of the goofy snowman from Frozen. The mechanical feline gave a metallic purr at the mild cooling sensation through his systems, long tail flicking and curling up over his back in a happy motion. Rolling her eyes at the workaholic comment, Sarah shrugged a single shoulder uncomfortably, snorting.

“I’m not a workaholic, I just…Like to keep busy. Designs, games, whatever. I like to be productive. I’ve got a few side jobs for extra money – fixing things and stuff. But I have plenty of time to myself, it’s not like I work constantly.” Well, it wasn’t like she could turn off her powers, so she was usually monitoring the things around her in some corner of her mind. But not always in a work-related manner. Grinning as Ariel explained her exact job position at the Labs, Sarah shook her head.

“Of course I know you’re in there. But most times I’m there, I’m there to work on projects, I’m not usually just shooting the shit. And you’re usually working, and I’m not gonna bother you at your job.” After a moment, Sarah raised a teasing, almost prideful eyebrow at the icy mutant, and she made sure to put a heavy dose of false snootiness into her tone with her next comment.

“Oh? So I’m talented enough to work with Dr. Bradley and get an invitation to the Baxter Building by none other than Dr. Richards’ himself…But not good enough to work with you?” The broad grin on Sarah’s face belied the haughty tone of voice, before she raised an eyebrow at the mention of Prodigy. She was a bit surprised that Ariel was obviously friends with him, but glad nonetheless. “You are? Good, I’m glad he’s making friends. Friends other than me, cause I’m pretty sure I still scare the piss out of him at times.” Sarah tried to look ashamed, and failed. “I’m just a terrifying individual, don’t you know.” God, that thought was hilarious to her. Which was probably why she insisted on constantly pranking the shit out of poor David. One of these days, she was going to give him a conniption.
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Ariel laughed as the water was splashed on her and she crossed her eyes looking down at her nose and within seconds a carrot nose and two large front teeth formed of ice on her. “Some people are worth dying for” she said in her best Olaf expression and blinked her eyes in an endearing way. “I always saw myself more as an Elsa. Living in a big ice castle, making deadly snowmen and having men chasing me down.” She chuckled and watched as the nose and teeth melted away fast in the warmth of the sun.

She nodded at Sarah and rolled her eyes “Yeah, yeah. I’ve heard that before. Come on honey, you know you have to start being more relaxed and stop overheating that mechanic head of yours. I mean, one day you’ll be the one needing me to cool you down and not Duma over there.” She said and pointed at the mechanic feline with her thumb.

She made a frustrated sound and flopped a little on the chair “Haven’t I taught you anything yet? I’m like a boss. I have people working for me. Like beneath. I can take off any time I want, if you poke your head inside and say ‘Ariel. I need you. Now. In the supply closet. Rawr’. You know me, I’ll always be at your service.” She said and traced her tongue over her lips.

“You forget. I work with Dr. Bradley every day. Heck, we’re even on first name basis and shit. I call him old man and he calls me young lady. You can’t beat that my dearest.” She said in her most formal and royal tone she could muster. “I attend meetings with SHIELD and I’m sure I’ve met Richard without noticing, because I honestly can’t stay mentally there at all these meetings. I’m just there as a pretty face.” She laughed and shook her head. “Yeah. I was ready to kill him when he walked in the door. I mean I was totally fine with going to jail for killing the guy who almost killed you. But then I looked into his eyes and I just fell in love with him right there and then and took him in as kind of a pet.” She chuckled, “I’m sure I terrify him too. I bring him cake and all that. He seems suspicious sometimes.”
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