Peaking back into the world

[magnetic_magpie]

Who: Magneto and to be updated
When: Week of 4-10 through 4-15
Where: Mostly the HoA, a few others
Summary: Mags is talking to people again. A few people want to see him in person
Warnings: Will be updated
Other: Tag in with when you are meeting/where ok?

He'd made appointments with various people. He was going to keep them. But even still, he was looking entirely well. He'd lost a little weight, was tense, and mostly very still. Except his eyes. They never stopped moving.

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[southernreaper]

Kevin snorted. He didn't believe that for a minute. "Ya always Magneto. Jus' like I'm always Wither. Jus' another name." A shrug. He wasn't worried about it.

"Figured somethin' was goin' on."

Kevin paused, not sure how to put this, but then decided blunt and up front was the way to go. "I disposed o' one o' them things." He really hoped that Magneto remembered why they were meeting.

[magnetic_magpie]

"It's a code name. It doesn't define you."

It came close to defining him personally but that was because he had no other name for so long.

"When? What happened?" Yes, he remembered. Quite well. He couldn't help the stab of anxiety over it.

[southernreaper]

Kevin let it go. a lot of people kept telling him that, but he didn't believe it. He was Wither and that was all there was to it.

"A day afore I texted you." Kevin shoved a hand through his hair, pushing it out of his face. "Dunno what happened, but got called down there an' they had one o' them things out on a table, it was dead an' they'd... autopsied it. Wanted me t'dispose o' the rest." He took a deep breath because he still had nightmares. "Dunno how it died, or why, but it... ain't sure how t'describe it."

[magnetic_magpie]

He took a breath. This wasn't going to be easy. For either of them.

"Try. Start with size?"

[southernreaper]

Kevin frowned. He leaned his head back against the wall. "Weren't any bigger'n cocker spaniel." He shrugged. "Had weird prickly growth all over it. An' then, there were them wing things, which looked all broken." It was very malformed and they'd dissected it before he'd gotten there. So, he was really guessing a lot.

[magnetic_magpie]

"A full grown one?"

He was scrambling to remember what one looked like, size wise.

"Eyes, ears? Mouth? Hands, feet, fingers, toes? Was is red or some other colour?"

[southernreaper]

Kevin didn't want to remember. Nightmares, waking up in the middle of the night with Mimsy whimpering at him and licking his face streaked with tears. No, he didn't want to do this. Couldn't they just go in and stop it?

"By the time I got to it, there was a lot o' blood. They dissected it afore I destroyed it." Which meant that he wasn't even sure of his information. "Didn't notice the feet, but the hands looked normal, like a human's. There was somethin' weird 'bout the mouth, but.. I didn't look." And no one was going to make him either.

[magnetic_magpie]

His face softened, and his gut twisted. He longed to reach over and pat Kevin on the back, to whisk him away from all of this, to protect him and he couldn't. Not any of it.

"All right. It'll be all right." Some how. Even if he had to get Emma involved. "Did you see if there was more? Or the staff?"

[southernreaper]

Kevin shrugged. "Saw a couple o' the top genetic guys, only recognized their names. They got some sorta neonatal guy down there." And he only knew that because the guy had dropped his badge and Kevin had handed it back to him.

"The coroner or whatever weren't a person I ever seen." But that was about it.

[magnetic_magpie]

"One a pale woman with red eyes?"

His voice lowered with hatred and fear. That women sent echos through his memory so badly he could barely deal with her. And she knew he was afraid of her.

[southernreaper]

Kevin knew exactly who he was talking about. "She's the one tha' told me t'destroy it." His accent got even thicker than normal.

He avoided that woman at all costs. She gave him the creeps, always asking about his powers and wanting to take samples, and asking if she could study the way his powers worked. Luckily, his contract said he didn't have to submit to her requests. He used that to his full advantage.

[magnetic_magpie]

He suppressed a shudder but barely. "She's." His voice tightened. "Trust your instincts with her."

"Anything else? Is this still in the same place you saw it before?"

[southernreaper]

"I stay outta her way." Even though she'd cornered him more than once, and the last time was when she'd ordered him to the lab to destroy whatever that corpse had been.

"No, they moved it. The buildin's close, but it ain't part o' the main complex any more." Kevin had been surprised, but then it made sense, because they were trying to hide it. "Think they reduced the staff a little bit. No janitors, or plain techs, or low-level folk. I had t'be let in by someone with the proper clearance."

[magnetic_magpie]

"Good." He'd kill that woman, at some point.

"Where?" That sharpened his interest. "That can help us." But also, that was frightening. What were they playing with, that even the normally mostly secure SERO labs wasn't enough?

[southernreaper]

"Still in Sector 2, jus' away from the main buildin'. C'n get ya a better location later. Gotta go by there again an' I'll mark it on the map fer ya." Kevin didn't want to deal with that right now. Even though he knew he'd go by there tomorrow, just to get it over with. He'd take Mimsy for a walk or something.

[magnetic_magpie]

"That's fine. You have my encryptions right?"

Buried in the encryptions was a hologram map of the island that Kevin could mark.

[southernreaper]

Kevin nodded. "I do. Been usin' 'em now an' again." Because he sometimes needed to get things to people without the chance of them getting intercepted. "I'll probably get it t'ya tomorrow. Walk Mimsy along that way or somethin'." Because, no one thought anything of him walking his puppy. People loved her, and she loved exploring new places.

[magnetic_magpie]

"Clever." He smiled, pleased and proud. Young or not, inexperienced or not, that was something to proud off. "Very clever."

Kevin would make one hell of an X-Man when he grew up.

"If she does something especially cute, take pictures or video."

[southernreaper]

Kevin snorted. He planned on it. "Probably get a video o' her trippin' o'er her feet." Because, she did that a lot. And if he accidentally got pictures of the place, well, that'd just have to be shared too, now wouldn't it?

"I'll be sure t'send ya the pictures o' her tryin' t'chase her tail."

[magnetic_magpie]

"I look forward to them. She's a cute little thing." He didn't know how he'd feel when she grew up, but for now, he liked her.

"I might have House make her some treats or something, if you don't mind?"

[southernreaper]

Kevin raised his eyebrows so they disappeared under his hair. "That'd be right nice o' ya. I'm sure she'd appreciate it." And probably try to eat them all at once like she did now, anyway.

[magnetic_magpie]

"House enjoys fussing after people. That's what it was made for." He wasn't sure Kevin got the message he was trying to deliver but trusted him to figure it out.

"Is there anything else to report in on?"

[southernreaper]

Kevin shrugged. He didn't need people taking care of him. Or, any houses, really. He was handling things well enough. Besides, he had other places to squirrel himself away but he'd keep it in mind.

"Not tha' I know o'. Figured you needed t'know 'bout the thin'." He pushed himself upright. "Anythin' ya want me t'look inta?"

[magnetic_magpie]

"Basic floor plan would be good. Can you take you NV inside, when you are called in? Or do you have to hand it over?" Floor plan would be excellent actually.

[southernreaper]

Kevin shook his head. "I ain't been allowed t'take m'phone inta work, ever." He shrugged. "Was part o' my contract. I c'n take in m' SERO phone in, bu' they c'n monitor tha', an' that ain't safe."

He wasn't sure how closely, but he figured they were monitoring it and that made it dangerous enough.