The universe is...not-sucking. ...This is not something mutants are prepared for. Plz send help.
Hank is eyeing her in a way that Kate would be annoyed at any other time.
Hank has also given her a shot of...something, she's not quite sure what, because she really did start hyperventilating when his words finally registered to her ( Read more... )
Hank has also given her a shot of...something, she's not quite sure what, because she really did start hyperventilating when his words finally registered to her ( Read more... )
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Which means that reassuring was not quite what he achieved. (Even if they've known each other for more than long enough to know what this is an emergency sounds like, and that that wasn't it.)
Which means that no matter how long it might feel to Kate, it's only a few minutes before Piotr appears in the doorway.
His eyes cut worriedly between both of them, but it's Kate he moves immediately towards. "Katya?"
Is something wrong?
(In their lives, something's always wrong. And Kate looks --
'off-balance' is not a look Kate Pryde wears often.)
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It is an interesting door.
It looks much like the original. Does Xavier have them stock-piled, somewhere, so when the mansion is destroyed he can replace it with an identical one?
She should ask him this.
...Rambling in head again. Really, she needs to stop.
Hank is saying something cheerful in the background as he backs out the door. Coward, Kate thinks sulkily, and decides to blame her panic on him.
Yes. Totally on Hank.
"--Um," she says, and pauses, thinking on what to follow that with. As um is not really appropriate on its own.
"Well, good news, honey, we don't need to deal with those injections and pills and things we were talking about!" is what pops out a moment later, and Kate realizes the people who have made remarks about her mouth and the size of it may have had a point. Points. Things.
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Reassuring is not what Kate is achieving either. For the record.
Neither is explanatory, though.
Piotr's face says, patiently: Um. What?
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Also, she thinks Hank maybe gave her a little too much sedative. Or whatever it was. She's going to blame not having a clue what to say on that, too.
"What's today, Piotr?" is what she finally goes with, in a surprisingly patient tone.
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