Nicki looked over Central Park. Kaz had insisted that she get out of the mansion and do something outdoors so he had dragged her to Central Park...and she would never tell him so but she was actually kinda glad that he had. It was a beautiful day in the park...perfect weather for being outside and comfortable. It was amazing.

"Excuse me?"

Nicki turned and looked over the man standing in front of her. That hair. That height. And she would know those eyes anywhere.

"Damian?" she asked, her mouth slightly gaping.

Kaz had just left the cart vendor when he noticed some guy sitting next to Nicki. Clad in his 'White Outfit' as he calls it, he made his way over to them. He knew from personal experience the vendor he just came from made the best hotdogs in all of Central Park. Coming up from behind Nicki he held a pop and a hotdog in one hand as he leaned over and kissed her on the cheek. "Here ya go love." Moving around to the front of the bench he looked at the guy who had hugged Nicki before he had arrived and quirked an eyebrow at him. "Cute kid." Kaz said in a semi-dry tone.

Nicki ddin't hug him, didn't kiss him, she was barely understanding what was going on. When she felt Kaz's kiss she was shocked back to reality, though she barely registered that someone else had joined this mix up of a family reunion.

"Damian what are you doing here? Why aren't you in Dayton?" she asked, her brow furrowed, her voice reflecting her confusion.

Kaz stood silently as the man spoke. Damian, she called him. From Dayton. <Isn't that where Nicki's from?> Kaz took Nicki's reaction as being uncomfortable and not just confused. <Another Mutant Organization....Popping up everywhere nowadays.> When Damian asked who the pretty boy was Kaz couldn't help it. "Who wants to know." If he was making Nicki uncomfortable, he would have no problem in getting rid of the man. Besides, no one gets to be that familiar with HIS Nicki, except for Kaz.

"Okay boys, lets tuck them back into our pants and zip up now okay?" Nicki spat, her acidic voice sounding out of the ordinary when compared to her usual sweet one. "Kaz, this is my brother Damian. Damian, this is my boyfriend Kaz and if you don't watch your tongue I'll hurt you" Nicki threatened, looking to Damian and then to Kaz. "Both of you"

Nicki turned back to Damian, her hand slipped into Kaz's. "What do you mean you're in a mutant orginization? The last time we spoke, DAMIAN, you were talking about how mutants were an abomination to the Lord!" Nicki spat.

"Nice to meet ya Pretty Boy. Can I talk to you privately while Nicki meets my son?"

Kaz's eye twitched as Damian spoke. <First he seems annoyed and overbearing. Then he insults you TWICE! One by talking down to you, and then by...> He didn't even finish the thought. He was annoyed.
"No." He said flat out in response to Damian's question. "If you can't speak to me in front of Nicki, then there's no reason to waste my time listening to you." He gave Nicki's hand a slight squeeze. "And the name's Kaz. Not 'Pretty Boy'. If you can't say my name correctly. Don't bother addressing me." Kaz calmly took a sip of his pop, and then a bit of his hotdog, which were both in the same hand. It looked quite odd to do both with that one hand.

"Damian, I'm not five anymore and you have no right to tell me to run along and let the adults talk. You got something to say, say it!" Nicki spat, her voice angry. "And don't talk to the people I care about that way. I wouldn't let him act that way so I won't let you act that way" Nicki shook her head.

As Aaron was thrust into her arms, she felt a certian amount of her anger slightly leave her. The boy was adorable. He looked a bit like his father but definitely had Sabrina's nose. He was giggly and sweet, already leaning his head on Nicki's shoulder. She smiled down at her nephew...the first happy moment she had had the entire meeting.

Kaz visibly twitched. He dropped and hotdog on the ground with out a second thought and held his hand up palm facing Damian. Shaking his head. "You must think so little of Nicki to talk of like that." Closing his hand except for his index finger which he held up straight. "You've insulted her three times in as many minutes. Before you open your mouth to speak again, think about what it is you want to say." Kaz's voice was perfectly calm and collected. There was no hint of anger or a thread in his words, just cold truth. Think before you speak. Kaz really hated Nicki being insulted, especially by this swine. He didn't care if he was her brother or not, it didn't change the fact he was a low down dirty swine.

"Boys! Chill out!" Nicki hissed a little, her finger still captured by her nephew. "Damian, will you just freaking talk to me before you go off and start threatening people? What do you mean Sabrina died? How long have you known about your powers? How long have you been here? Will you get your priorities straight for crying out loud?" Nicki spat, angry for having to ask for the information. Aaron cooed up at her, gurgiling happily.

Nicki was happy she had her arms filled with her nephew or else there was a really large chance that she would have lunged at her brother. Since he was 13?!? He had kept it a secret for almost half his life?!? How could he never have mentioned this to her? Did he even struggle with that idea or was it as easy to lie to her as it was to tell her that mutants were evil freaks that deserved to be killed. Nicki looked down to her nephew, trying once again to let his pure joy melt away her anger.

And Sabrina was dead? Nicki knew Sabrina for such a long time...hell Sabrina had been like an older sister to her in a lot of ways. Even when Damian seemed to have gone a bit crazy, Nicki could always find a way to talk to Rina about everything. How could she be gone?

"Do mom and dad know you're a mutant?" she asked, looking up to her older brother. She wasn't ready to suddenly start talking about her boyfriend and how they met. There were things she needed to know about the life she had left behind. Did Mom help Damian as much as she had helped Nicki? Was Dad still in the dark? Did Damian know what Nicki was?

"Then why the hell did you say all that stuff about mutants if Dad already knew you were one?!? Why didn't you pull me aside and tell me! Why didn't you act like a FREAKING OLDER BROTHER AND TRY TO PROTECT ME INSTEAD OF MAKING ME FEEL LIKE I HAD SOMETHING DESPERATELY WRONG WITH ME!" Nicki couldn't help her voice as it got stronger and stronger. "Do you know what you did to me?!? Do you know how much time I spent a lone, praying to have this taken away from me?!? Do you know how much it would have helped me to have you say 'Don't worry, I'm one too'!! You were my fucking hero Damian and all you did was hang me out to dry! And now you expect an apology to make that all okay?!?" Nicki's face was an expression Damian had never seen. She had never been this angry with anyone and she had certainly never shown this side of herself to her brother.

"And will you stop trying to make this feel like it's a normal freaking family reunion! It's not!" Nicki added as an after thought as she looked down to her nephew, who was still gurgling away. She moved her eyes to Kaz, who was smiling ever so slightly. Her boy.

"Well Damian?" she asked, turning to her brother, considerably calmer. "You have answers for all those too? You have a way to just magically make all that extra pressure disappear from the most stressful time of my life?"

Nicki stood up, putting her nephew in his stroller and leaning down slightly, kissing his forehead. She then turned to Damian, her voice icey.

"First off, Mom didn't SEND ME WAY" Nicki walked slowly towards Damian. "Do you understand that? Mom didn't put me in a box and ship me off like I was some diseased rodent. She HELPED ME ESCAPE! She got me out of there because she knew what Dad would do if he found out I was a mutant. And just for your information, I might loathe Dad but hearing that you hurt him doesn't make this any better and it doesn't make me think of you any higher."

Nicki never acted like this. In fact, the only time she even remembered acting like this was when she was channeling someone over at the Order. She stepped closer to her brother, standing inched from him.

"Tell me one thing Damian: Mom obviously told you where I was when she told you I was a mutant...what the hell took you so long to come and see me? Huh?" Nicki asked, her hands fisting into tight balls. "What took you so damned long to come and see me?"

Nicki stepped out of his reach. "I'm not ready for that" she said simply, unapolegtically.

"I can absorb information. From books and computers and stuff. And from people...it's kinda like telepathy" she said, her arms folded. She looked over to Kaz. "He can do almost anything" Nicki responded, looking up at Damian. She was still angry, wouldn't take a mind reader to notice that, but more than any of that she was hurt. She was hurt that after everything, after all she had said, after all she had stood up for herself, he was still talking to her like she was five. Still expecting her to be that little puppy who followed him around like he was some sort of god. 'Everything I did for you was to help you'. she recalled his words. Bullshit.

(((EXCUSE ME DAMIAN!!!!! YOU TALK FOR ME AGAIN AND I'M GOING TO RIP YOUR HEAD OFF!!!!!


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31 Jul 07, 12:13
Damian: Nicki: Kaz said that it was alright if you posted in the park. I agree. You ccan answer the questions or whatever that I asked you

I NEVER said such a thing! Don't even try and deny it, I have this saved on my computer desktop. I can put a quote of it all if you doubt me.

I didn't save it when you said it, 'cuz I thought you'd be smart and listen to me when I warned you twice before. Don't talk for Nicki either. Don't tell me she's annoyed that I haven't posted or that she told you she wants me to post. I know Nicki well enough that if she really said that, or wanted me to post, she'd tell me herself. Via PM, IM, or email.


I refuse to RP with you anymore, NEVER again will I join a thread you're in, or otherwise interact with you by default.)))

(That's what happens when mess with two people who are ACTUALLY FRIENDS! How dare you say things to him that *I* didn't say! I knew it was a mistake to let you play my brother. You're gone in my eyes as well).