ITP: Chess and Other Games

[mind_over_metal]

[--oh oh oh man, it’s the worst feeling, like one of those slow-motion disasters in the movies, where you walk in on something and you immediately know that you’ve walked in on something, the awkwardness hits before your foot touches the ground for your next step but it's too late for you to turn around, the inertia is already carrying you forward

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[fuckyeahseateen]

[taking a look at the chess board as she shuffles a deck of cards]

Hmm...

[mind_over_metal]

Do you play?

*nods toward the chess board*

[fuckyeahseateen]

Not really. This is more what I grew up with.

[shakes the cards]

[mind_over_metal]

Ah, card games. I'm no expert at those, but I do know a few...

[fuckyeahseateen]

I'd suggest Go Fish, but it might be a little obvious.

[mind_over_metal]

There's nothing inherently wrong with obvious.

[fuckyeahseateen]

Yeah, but I wouldn't wanna turn into a one-trick pony.

See? I even deliberately avoided replacing that with "seahorse" to prove my point.

[mind_over_metal]

I admire your restraint.

*extends a hand to her*

Professor Charles Xavier.

[fuckyeahseateen]

[handshake!]

Lorena Marquez.

[mind_over_metal]

You're a friend of Rogue's?

[fuckyeahseateen]

Yeah, we hang out and spar and stuff sometimes.

[mind_over_metal]

That's wonderful. For all that we're trapped here, I'm glad that people are able to at least get some good out of it.

[fuckyeahseateen]

It definitely makes things a little less sucky.

So are you like her? Got a special power and all that?

[mind_over_metal]

*nods*

I run the school that she attends. Or, rather, some version of me will run the school that she will attend. The alternate world version of me in the future.

[fuckyeahseateen]

Ugh, please don't get into that. Do you have any idea how many Aqualads and Robins I've met? My brain can't handle much more of this stuff.

[mind_over_metal]

There seem to be a particularly large number of Robins...