The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
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Posted by Cold Steel on Jun 6, 2010 21:26:49 GMT -6
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”YEAHHH!!!!” Sam called out as a few people gathered around him getting ready for another round of shots. Haley his most recent girl tugged his shirt in closer to her so she could lock lips with him. She along with a few of her friends from a few weeks before laughed and made a few cat calls as Haley’s hand reached down to Sam’s rear. She was drunk, he not so much the curse of having a higher tolerance and forty to fifty pounds on a girl you were dating. Three empty bottles of beer and three shot glasses sat in front of him at the bar as the rest of the group joined in a round of shots.
Some of his friends came and went a few stuck around and were throughout the bar mingling with others who even he didn’t know. Somehow Haley convinced him to meet up at a bar closer to her apartment than Mike’s he did however spend most of the day with a few mansion members and officers he had befriended during the training academy. He was finally twenty one and he was now actually legally allowed to drink without using his old T.A.T. I.D. that said he was twenty three (now twenty four) even though he no longer had any need for the card he still kept it on him for nostalgia’s sake.
Once the kiss ended Sam looked up to the bartender and grinned, ”Another round!” Haley and a few others threw their hands up and cheered as the bartender smirked and nodded his head. It didn’t matter that it was his birthday Haley knew the bartender and somehow she managed to get him a discount (maybe one of the contributing factors as to why he was there even though he cold drink at Mike’s for free).
Looking at the clock seeing the hour hand at ten and the minute hand on the twelve Sam smirked. A bit early to be getting drunk but it was a good as a reason as any. In a way he was drinking to forget, a year ago Ghost, Luke and Shin had decided to throw a party for them. With Luke gone, Ghost married and Shin doing his own thing he felt a little more alone at the mansion even though friends surrounded him. Another memory crossed his mind from a year ago along with the party. He looking down in a pair of blue hypnotic eyes they looking back up at his. He was happy despite being his usual sadness on his birthday.
He shook his head to forget about the one that left him back in Romania with bits and pieces of his heart. A hand reached to another bottle of beer, followed by a shot followed by another swig of beer. He wanted to forget her but couldn’t even with Haley so close to him. She kissed him again getting the feeling that something wasn’t right, ”Come’on let’s dance!” she said grabbing him by the hand and pulling him away from the bar and those he didn’t know that well to be replaced by the repetitive sound of the dance floor his new girl with her arms around his neck eyes locked on his.
For 19 years of her life it was just another day. In 2009 it was a reason to smile. In 2010 it was a reason to stay as far away from the Mansion as possible. Away from Sam.
That wasn’t that difficult, really. She’d spent most of the day in town. Today’s activity was threatening an employee or two from Jacobs & Jacobs Security Firm. Alexandra was satisfied with herself as the day turned out to be productive. In the oversized bag on her shoulder were resting the blueprints of the security system installed in a mansion not far from Xavier’s Sister School. Today’s achievement, and the blueprints of the mansion itself (that she already possessed) meant that she would pay a visit to Roland quite soon.
Sighing half-happily, half-tired, Alexandra pushed the door of her car closed with her hip and after the familiar sound that signaled that the doors were safely locked she started to walk toward the bar. Although it didn’t have a name, the small building that hosted the bar had become something close to a second home to her in the past weeks. Rather than go into the mansion and dedicate herself to reading, she preferred this location.
Although she wasn’t a fan of visiting a location several times, was perfect for her needs. Of course, the fact that it was mutant friendly was a bonus. That, and the fact that it was quiet. Well, most of the times anyway.
Tonight it wasn’t one of those times unfortunately. She could hear the loud music inside even from the parking lot. C’est la vie. She had enough time to study the blueprints she had obtained. Upon opening the door, her suspicions were confirmed. The bar was far from empty, far from quiet. Of course, she didn’t pay too much attention to the crowd of people that were dancing. Instead, she went around the group and stopped at the bar, hopping on one of chairs and letting the bag on her shoulder rest on her lap instead.
“Hey Alex. What can I get you?”
“Hey Josh. The usual.”
With Josh nodding and turning his back to get her a Coke, Alexandra looked over her shoulder at the dancers. “What’s with all these people?” She asked, turning around lazily. Josh looked over his shoulder too before looking at Alexandra. “Birthday party. The birthday boy’s girlfriend lives in the same apartment building with me.” Josh explained as he walked back to the bar and placed the Coke in front of Alexandra.
Meanwhile, Alexandra’s curiosity had been piqued. She nodded at Josh and looked over her shoulder once again. Birthday, huh? Now, that was…
Too. Much. Of. A. Coincidence. Two guys had decided that they had danced enough and decided to walk toward the bar to get themselves some drinks. Her eyes now rested on the one the birthday boy. However, he was probably too busy to notice her with the female next to him locking lips with him. Alexandra’s eyes narrowed as she wasn’t sure what exactly what struck her. Jealousy, anger… no, she wasn’t sure. She just knew that things would probably end badly.
“Josh. I changed my mind. Bring me some whiskey.” That being said, she turned around looking at the bartender with the same narrowed eyes. Josh didn’t question her request. In a few seconds a glass filled with whisky was replacing the coke.
“Something wrong Alex?” Alexandra shook her head. But, contrary to her answer, she picked up the glass and poured all of its content into her mouth. Because, yeah, she needed that kind of impulse for what she was about to do. “Everything’s fine, Josh.” She answered while slamming placing the glass back. “Get me another glass, please.” She gestured toward the glass as she hopped off the chair with a sigh. “And excuse me for a moment. I have to bring troubles in paradise.”
Josh’s mouth opened to ask what she was talking about. Alexandra however was already walking toward the birthday boy, not very interested in providing explanations to Josh. Making sure that Sam would end up right behind Sam’s dancing form and without him seeing her until she decided so, Alexandra stopped a few inches away from her ex-boyfriend’s back.
A hand rose slowly in the air and tapped the icemancer on the shoulder. And, as soon as he was facing her, the other hand went up too and both grabbed his t-shirt tightly as she pulled him toward her. Her lips locked with his for a few seconds before she stepped away, her hands too letting go of his shirt. “Happy Birthday, Sam.”
And, with a devilish grin, Alexandra spun on her heels and walked back to the bar.
Posted by Cold Steel on Jun 21, 2010 13:23:51 GMT -6
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She wasn’t her and he now realized that this wasn’t going as well as he could have hoped, he wasn’t planning on breaking up with Haley anytime soon seeing as she was one of the greatest girls he had ever met it’s just that… it isn’t Alex… he couldn’t have her he knew that now and it would be a long while before he could truly be over her but Haley so close to him, throwing herself at him… well maybe she could distract him till he was finally over her?
Even when he thought about the situation in his head he knew it wasn’t the healthiest way to start a relationship but he knew Haley was in the same boat after all she snagged Sam when she was on the rebound as well. Something that he was all right with seeing as Haley was his rebound girl, one that was doing a fantastic job of distracting him. Hand on her waist and neck craned forward slightly as he felt himself being pulled closer he was about to lock lips with the girl who threw all of this night together.
Leaning forward Sam felt a finger touch his fingers, turning his right eye in the direction of the tapper Sam blinked with his good eye and released Haley to turn full around completely surprised at who was before him. Before he could question to why she was here he had an answer both hands of hers were placed on his shirt and pulled tightly again not responding in time he felt himself being pulled forward and with his good eye he saw what was coming and for a brief moment his heart skipped a beat as his memories triggered a dozen flashbacks of the familiar entrance to a kiss.
Her lips were locked with his, something he longed for a brief connection with the shattered pieces of his heart the ones that Alex carried with her all the time even if she wasn’t aware of it. It was so right and at the same time so wrong. His right eye closed for a second as he tried to figure out what was going on and as abruptly as it started it ended. He opened his eyes and was looking back at the devilish grin that he missed and then she turned and headed back to the bar.
She left him again this time he was watching her walk away this time she left him there, again he was surrounded by so many and at the same time so alone. Another hand on his back brought him back to reality. Turning his headfirst then his body his head jerked and he felt a slap across his face. It wasn’t a hard slap but it was more of a ”What the hell was that!?!?” Haley asked her voice clear as day to him now that his attention was focused on her.
Before he could respond she added, ”I thought she left you? Why the hell did she kiss you?” Haley asked her emotions visible on her face as a mixture of confusion, fear and love were on her face. ”I… don’t know….” Sam said not really sure how to respond.
He linked again as his thoughts raced, ”Let’s go back to Mike’s this place is too crowded!” he said not really sure if it was the best way to handle the situation. ”No! We are here now and then we are going back to my place!” said Haley as she stepped closer to Sam and wrapped her arms around his waist. She was drunk he could tell she always hugged like this when she was drunk. She was to short to reach around his neck without standing on her tip toes and lifting her arms all the way to reach him so she stood flat footed and reached her arms under his to hug him. He sighed and nodded his head, ”Alright… We can go back to your place… it’s just… I need to talk with her real fast… I need to let her know that I’m with you and no matter what she tries it won’t change the fact…”
Reaching his hand on Haley’s shoulder and breaking the hug Sam leaned over and kiss her, ”Go to the bathroom or something, I’ll be ready to leave with you in a few minutes… don’t worry… you’re the one I came with and you’re the one I’m leaving with… promise…” he kissed her again and left her on the dance floor.
He knew she wasn’t happy with him and she shouldn’t be really but he needed closure, closure would help him move on that was the only way he could get over her. Hell maybe he could even take back what she stole from him. As he got closer to her he felt his legs grow weak, he was scared to tell her what was on his mind, scared as to what might happen.
She was sitting at the bar now her back turned, was she drunk? No, maybe? Sam was drunk enough for both of them now even if he could still articulate words and phrases without slurring them, even if he could still walk straight, he was talking to her, that was how he could tell he was drunk. Sitting at the bar next to her he looked to Josh then gave him a nod and then looked to Alex, ”What do you want with me?” Sam asked not really sure why he picked those words instead of another phrase.
You see, there were times when Alexandra wished she would have a third eye, placed somewhere in the back of her head. Like now for example. Still, although she wanted to see the outcome of her actions, Alexandra didn’t turn. A lazy smile rested on her lips as she approached the bar. No she couldn’t see what happened but judging after the ‘ouch’ that Josh muttered, she dared to think that love wasn’t floating in the air anymore.
So she didn’t try to hide the fact that she was pleased with herself. Hopping on the chair, she took the glass that Josh had refilled while she was busy shoving her devil tail in Sam’s new relationship and, after swirling the contents around for a second, she sipped delicately from it.
“I don’t think I want to ask what was that…” Josh commented while pretending to be busy wiping some invisible dirt of the counter while looking somewhere behind Alexandra. She assumed he was watching Sam and his girlfriend. Tongue itched to ask for details. So Alexandra bit it and instead continued to smile lazily at the bartender.
“Uh-oh. Romeo is coming here. And he doesn’t look happy.” Her body twitched as the first response to this new piece of information was to turn around and confirm what she had learned. On second thought, Alexandra decided against it and continued to sport the relaxed attitude. “I’m not worried.” Wink. “I can tell when someone is enjoying a kiss.”
Josh simply shook his head, smiling slightly. “Oh well, I should go now. Romeo is close. Call if you need me.” Alexandra nodded. She doubted that she would need him.
”What do you want with me?”
Cricket, cricket.
At least for a few seconds. And only after a few seconds she moved her hand, taking the glass to her lips to take a sip out of it. When she turned toward Sam, glass and hand resting now on the bar, her face was the epitome of innocence. “I gave you a birthday present, Sam. Is that bad?”
Posted by Cold Steel on Oct 8, 2010 10:00:28 GMT -6
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It was a look he used to welcome and the look made his heartache for a moment before he realized where he was and the situation he was in. It was her look of innocence one that often meant she was guilty, guilty of what he knew she knew and everyone that was in the bar who saw her kiss him knew.
She said it was a gift, there was a problem though, he couldn’t return it. It was a kiss after all and no matter how bad he wanted to get a follow up present from her, the fact of the matter was she left him in Romania hurting bad. Something he still hasn’t fully gotten over. ”Yeah, it came from you…” Sam said staring her down not buying her look of innocence.
”Why would you do that, you know that I’m with Haley now right?” Sam asked making the assumption that she had heard something about him dating someone. Rumors did spread like wild fire around the mansion, it only made sense that Alex would have been kept up on everything, even if she did come back from Romania after them.
”So let me ask you why would you do that?” he frowned slightly and narrowed his eye, ”And quit with the look I know your not fooling anyone!” even though he didn’t want to see the look end, it had to. He had to move on, she left him, she left him.
So Sam didn’t buy the innocent look. Good, because she didn’t try to fool anyone. Yes, she did want to see a fight between him and Haley, and, if possible, a break-up too. Yes, she wanted to see Sam hurt because that only meant he was starting to pay for just how much he’d hurt her. Innocence flew out the window and it was replaced with a ‘if looks could kill you’d be six feet under’ look.
“Sammy, Sammy…” – and of course she knew how much he despised being called Sammy, which was why she used it – “Don’t make me laugh, really.” Alexandra turned her whole body around, a hand furiously pushing the hair away from her face.
“I don’t know who are you trying to fool but I know pretty well when you like something. In this case, my kiss. So quit blabbing about how much you were offended by it. ‘kay?” Arms were folded now and her chin was held high as she continued to confront Sam.”And second: Please… please, I think I’m so impressed with your love and dedication to Haley that I think I’m starting to have teary eyes. Come on Sam, you’re coming here to tell me this sh*t because you know that’s what she wants to see. If you weren’t such a coward you’d be the one kissing me.”
There. She felt so much better. And now, it was time to hear Sam again.
Posted by Cold Steel on Oct 8, 2010 12:34:42 GMT -6
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Team Leader of the X-Men Teacher of Self-Defense
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The sound of the bass from the speakers echoed in his ears for a second after Alex called him out on his feelings and things he was attempting to hide. It was funny for so many years he kept most of his feelings hidden, fear, love, all of it hidden behind a fake smile and an even faker laugh. It was odd to him, after so long she was the one to see through his lies like they were nothing, then again she could just be swinging in the dark but at this point Sam didn’t care. She hit the nail on the head, but that didn’t mean he was happy about hearing Sammy.
He blinked once with his good eye and his fists clenched together as she called him out. ”Maybe,” he said quietly before he raised his voice again, ”You’re the coward, we had it all we were happy but you just walked away, you were scared… “ he paused and leaned over and pointed at his covered eye, ”THIS!” he lowered his hand so she could get a good look at the patch, ”Isn’t your fault so quite blaming yourself!”
He looked over to the bathrooms to see if Haley was on her way out from the bathroom yet and he was relieved to not see her, this was the first time she would have seen him yell at anyone, it sucked it had to be Alex but he needed to make his feelings known. ”Maybe, if you didn’t end things in Romania you’d be the one I came here with and the one I was going home with but that wasn’t how things went down.” he paused for a second and frowned again, ”Call me a coward, fine but we really know who the real coward is.” he paused and bit his tongue for a second debating.
”I’m trying to move on… maybe you should do the same…” Sam said as he spotted Haley coming out of the bathroom still looking flustered and making her way over to where Sam was.
Her mouth dropped a little. Little as in she closed it back before Sam could notice. He wanted to turn this into a fight between the two of them? She was perfectly fine with it. After all, she needed to get some of the venom out. So she started to yell too, not really caring that there already were a few people that have quit dancing and stared at them.
“Well excuse me that I didn’t want you to get killed because of me, you IDIOT!” Not really being able to stay seated anymore, she hopped off the chair, eyes still throwing daggers. “I don’t know why the hell did I think you could understand what sacrifice means when you’re always hiding every emotion you feel behind this macho attitude!”
Her fists clenched at her sides – God, she wanted so much to punch him, hurt him – do anything that caused pain. In the end, she chose words. “ Stop being the hero with me. I wanted so much to see you how you really are – a friggin’ human being, not a robot! Put yourself in my place! If I was the one with an eye missing because of what you did would you be able to look at me and believe when I say ‘It isn’t your fault’? You can’t be perfect Sam, it doesn’t matter how much you try so accept it, for God’s sake.”
Her eyes shifted for a second to the bathroom’s door before they snapped back to Sam. She laughed briefly. “And you’re telling me that I should move on. Yeah Sam, if I get every man that lays his eyes on me into my bed it means that I moved on… Careful Sam. You’re trying to lie to yourself, and from experience I tell you – it doesn’t turn into the truth with time.”
Alexandra sighed, looking at the approaching Haley. “And since we are being truthful: trust me, I don’t want to be the one you take home if I have to be like her to accomplish that. And that means stupid and blind.”
Posted by Cold Steel on Oct 8, 2010 13:37:43 GMT -6
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HE was ready to snap back before Haley returned so he was going to get his licks in if he was going to take a beating like this, ”What you think I would have died?” he raised his hands up in the air, ”Still here still breathing!” he lowered them, ”And you think you’re the only one with skeletons in the closet?” he thought of T.A.T. and his temper flared, ”Trust me, your not the only one and whatever you did… it pales in comparison…” Sam said as he childishly took this argument into a pissing contest, one that he knew he could win, because really who says they killed someone when they were a kid?
”I don’t know how much more human I could have gotten! I told you I lov….” he chewed the words off and clenched his fists again the room started to get chillier than it was seconds before. He wasn’t aware his mutation was taking effect until he saw his breath and then he released his hold on it. ”I still don’t blame you…” Sam said averting his gaze from Alex to Haley. He blamed the camps and his dumb ass for everyone getting placed in there.
She continued to stab him verbally making him bleed out on the floor when she took turns insulting every girl he had been with after her. Granted he’d be the first to admit they were dumb as rocks but still not all of them were like that, Haley wasn’t like that. ”The hell do you mean blind? How are any of them blind?” Sam said his voice raising slightly again, ”And you can sleep with whoever you want, the days of me worrying about what you do is long over!” lied Sam trying to make himself feel a bit more powerful in this argument.
Yeah. She should have known that it was going that way. She didn’t know what Sam did but she hated the fact that he talked without knowing her secrets. Not that she planned on sharing and she was sure that he wasn’t going to do it either. But he shouldn’t have compared anything. “I don’t know what skeletons you have in your closet but you don’t know mine either. So don’t give me the ‘it pales in comparison’ reply! Don’t turn this into whose past is worse because you don’t know mine as I don’t know yours! I know just one thing Sam: whatever skeletons you have, none has to do with me! What happened in the camps haunts me every single night and that –“” Alexandra pointed to the eye patch with a quick motion. “That is a constant reminder of what I did.”
She took a short pause, breathing quickly before the next round of sharp words and death glares came. “As for your supposed love… what, you think that saying it really proves it? Sam, just how many days you waited to get another girlfriend after we broke up? That’s love? I was hurt enough… if you loved me that much why did you hurt me again?”
Alexandra tilted her head to the side, sighing. “ And yeah, Sam, blind and stupid. They do believe when you tell them that you’ve gotten over me. You can yell that at the top of your lungs and I still wouldn’t believe it. Because, if you would have been over me, you wouldn’t be standing here. You could have walked away after I kissed you.” A smirk appeared on her lips as she turned her attention to Haley – the girlfriend who now was close enough to hear. “And yet he didn’t. Right Haley? What did he say – that he will talk with me really quickly?” The smirk widened, her head turning back to a straight position. “That’s what they all say.” She looked back to Sam, her eyes dark, a hint of disappointment showing trough the anger the dark blue reflected. “And here I thought that you were different. Shame on me.” Another sigh left her lips. “I don’t know if you loved me or not Sam, but I’m certain about one thing – you’re not over me. And she-” She looked at Haley briefly. “-should know that.”
Posted by Cold Steel on Oct 8, 2010 18:55:42 GMT -6
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Team Leader of the X-Men Teacher of Self-Defense
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She didn’t know the skeletons in his closet and she didn’t know his, ”Whose fault is that? I would have opened up…” would he have? Leila reacted it to it well but would Alex have reacted the same? Or would she have been worse? A second passed and Alex made the accusation that he wasn’t over her, it was right but he wasn’t going to admit it. ”I’m here cause you need to move on!” he paused for a second and looked at Haley who was now in earshot and heard a majority of their yelling.
Pausing for a second he noticed that Haley was inching to Alex making it look like she was ready to take a swing at her. Quickly grabbing Haley’s hand and pulling it close to him he turned her around so she was facing him. Looking down into her eyes filled with anger he kissed her once on the forehead and then said sternly, ”Go wait out side, I’ll be finished in a second… I don’t want you to see me like this…” as he said this his mutation took hold of the temperature again and Haley shivered as a chill ran down her spine.
“Alright…” Haley said reluctantly as she shot Alex one last look and then stood on her tip toes to kiss Sam on the lips for longer than an average kiss with that she gave Alex one last look and then walked out the door furious that she was being kicked out of the situation. What she didn’t know was that Alex could have torn he apart without much of a thought, something Sam wanted to avoid for several reasons.
”You need to stop Alex!” he said as the nearest glass bottle frosted over do his mutation. He was a bit drunk and this wasn’t the best time to have such a conversation, ”You left me! I never said I moved on, I said I was trying to move on!” he paused and looked to the door where Haley was walking out, ”She makes me happy, something you used to do!” he paused and took control of his mutation when he noticed his breath was becoming visible, ”I was messed up when you left me, bad! She pulled me out of the rut and I’m happy with her!” he looked to Alex one last time before turning his back to her, ”I don’t want to go back to that place when you think you’ll hurt me again, I won’t…”
Sam turned around and waved his hand and yelled, ”Conversation is over! Good Bye Alex!” Sam said as he headed to the door wishing and dreading her to try and stop him.
Alexandra knew that she was no expert in relationships but she guessed that sharing with someone the fact that you killed your parents in cold blood was no relationship booster. Especially not when your significant other was the leader of the X-Men. Once again, Sam assumed a few things without knowing the full story. And since the full story wasn’t available, she really wished him to be quiet.
She rolled her eyes slightly at the comment that she needed to move on. Mainly because she was tired with this charade and to a lesser extent, because she was starting to get impatient. And in her case impatience led to anger.
And while a very touching scene was unfolding in front of her eyes – aka Haley’s departure – Alexandra ran a full analysis of the situation. The result of this analysis was the following: Sam needed to learn how to lie with his actions too. Example #1: sending Haley out. If he felt whatever he was blabbing about then why didn’t he leave with her? And, example #2: why on Earth would he kiss her on the forehead? Wasn’t she supposed to be his girlfriend and not sister/daughter/whatever? So he was stubborn. Fine. He couldn’t have been more stubborn than her.
So Alexandra watched half-amused how the girl kissed him on the lips… to prove what? That he was hers? Looked more like ‘desperate’ to Alexandra. Meanwhile, the other half wanted to claw out the opponent’s eyes. An urge that grew when miss Haley decided to throw her dirty looks. She wanted to laugh at the stupidity. Did this girl know just how easy she could kill her? A snap of the goddess of molecules’ fingers and she’d be laying on the floor with a knife in her back. Alexandra looked back at the girl, eyes slightly narrowed and for a moment, behind the blue contact lenses, the irises turned brighter. Just for a moment, as when she looked back at Sam, her eyes were back to normal. Sure, slightly darker, but normal. No sign that she had used or was planning to use her mutation.
Cold eyes shifted from Sam to a bottle that caught her attention. He was using his mutation. The blue turned even darker. Did he really want to go there? Her eyes snapped back. And they grew darker with every word that left Sam’s mouth. That is, until he wanted to leave. Then, they turned brighter and brighter. Until one could realize that those were no normal human eyes. With the corner of her eye, she followed Sam’s steps. And more importantly, the floor beneath his feet. The bar’s floor was usually covered perfectly with carpet. No sign of the concrete underneath. Today, however, where two parts of the carpet met, a small patch of cement was visible. It was enough, really.
The concrete popped out just as Sam was getting there and quickly made its way around his feet. There was one thing he didn’t know: no one, absolutely no one walked out on her. And she was planning to let him know that. From her pockets, she pulled a few bills and threw them on the counter. Josh was already there, watching a bit worried the scene. “Alex, maybe I should –” A simple look silenced him. Quietly, he pocketed the money and retired. Alexandra picked up the bag she had tossed on her chair at some point – she couldn’t remember exactly when- and stomped her way to where Sam was trapped.
“Let’s make one thing clear Sam. No one walks out on me. Not when I have something to say. I started this. I end it.” She inhaled deeply. Mostly to calm herself. She looked down for a moment and took another breath. When she looked back up, something was slightly different. Her free hand moved up and stopped at Sam’s collar where she clenched it, pulling his shirt down to get him to her height. Once he was there, she moved her own body so that now her lips were resting near his ear. “Sam… there is a part of me you really don’t want to see. You have no idea how much I changed for you… You have no idea on what the camps did to me and how much I fight to keep that change.” Her head moved again, lips brushing slightly against his skin as she shifted her position. Now, her face was a mere inch away from his, so close that she could feel his breath. For a second, she closed her eyes and enjoyed the feeling – one she had missed so much.
“Go ahead Sam. Be happy with her if you say you can. Forget me if you can.” A smile that should have been smug appeared on her lips. “But I know for sure that that isn’t easy.” And then, she should have let go and walk away. But she didn’t.
Posted by Cold Steel on Oct 8, 2010 22:32:14 GMT -6
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”Thank God this night is almost over…” thought Sam as he headed to the door no fully aware the repercussions having an ex-girlfriend meant. He blinked once with his good eye and mentally sighed and proud how he was able to handle the situation without making a fatal mistake like kissing Alex and trying to get back together with her, because he knew how much he wanted to do that, but then again she left him and he had to keep remembering it.
”Remember!” Sam thought to himself before he noticed that his feet were becoming incased in cement. The floor was trying to eat him… no doubt due to his goddess’s mutation. He closed his eyes and mentally cursed to himself as he debated breaking free right away, but she needed closure right? If that was the case he’d be willing to wait for a moment so she could say what she needed to say before she would hopefully walk out on his life so maybe, just maybe the shattered bits of his heart could repair it’s self from he shattering it like the ice he so often shattered.
He blinked again and breathed and then felt himself being pulled down slightly so Alex could be eye level with him. He opened his eyes and locked with hers and he waited for her to say what she needed to say. He didn’t fight anything this needed to happen. She moved closer to his ear and he shivered when he felt her breath on his ear. A place where she used to be welcomed, but no longer it was becoming harder and harder to stick to his story that he was trying to get over her, what if he didn’t need to get over her? Maybe the reason she was so adamant about being this close was because she wanted to… ”NO!” screamed Sam’s thoughts as he blinked at the side of Alex’s head, ”She left you!”
His spine chilled when he felt her lips brush against his face and his eye closed from it. This wasn’t turning out how he wanted it to. His nostril’s flared as he got a whiff of Alex’s shampoo, her perfume… it was everything and at that moment memories flooded his mind and most of them were from the times he held her in an embrace never wanting to let go. His fists tensed and he opened his eye in time to lock it with hers.
She was right, it wouldn’t be easy… but he had to try at least. Her being there made him question everything, was he happy with Haley? Were he and Alex really done? Sam closed his eye and sighed and reached his hands up and wrapped them around hers and lifted them till her hands were cupped in his. He looked deep into her eyes and his mutation was focused on the cement around his feet.
The cement cracked when he moved his feet free and he focused on Alex’s gaze, ”I’m sorry…. I need to see how things turn out with Haley… she helped me…” he paused and let go of her hands, ”Maybe one day…” Sam sighed… ”I got to go…” with that he attempted to leave again.
Or better yet, she should have kept whatever feelings she still had for Sam locked somewhere in the back of her mind instead of letting them leak out and become a weakness. Sometimes she wished she should have had more experience in this domain: men. Perhaps if she did, she wouldn’t have felt broken when she and Sam went on separate ways.
Her face, that at some point had become softer, turned cold. Not angry, just cold. If she was disappointed, she didn’t show it. After all, that was something she was good at: lie, hide, pretend. If Sam suspected anything she didn’t offer any confirmation.
When Sam had unclenched her hands from his shirt, she was already pulling them away, predicting what followed, and took a small step back. “I did move on, Sam.” Alexandra replied, not really caring if he heard or he was already gone. If she had said that minutes ago, it would have been a lie. Now she was speaking the truth… or half truth, or a fraction of the truth. She spoke what she felt at the moment, something she wished she would feel tomorrow too.
But tomorrow didn’t matter now. Alexandra looked around for a moment. It was time to go.
