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<td valign="top">[[Image:MoA Mockingbird.png|left]]'''Moment of Awesome - [[Barbara Morse|Bobbi Morse/Mockingbird]]:''' ''[http://x-logs.livejournal.com/3870747.html Bobbi Morse - party animal?]''
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<td valign="top">[[Image:MoA Meltdown.png|left]]'''Moment of Awesome - [[Tabitha Smith|Tabitha Smith/Meltdown]]:''' ''After witnessing a mutant hate crime, [http://x-logs.livejournal.com/3794623.html Tabitha talks things over] with [[Xavin Majesdane|Xavin]], but neither has any answers.''
  
  
"I said the music is a little loud in here, isn't it?" Bobbi shouted at Warren as they danced in one of the resort's several night clubs.  
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Tabitha rested her cheek against her knees. "I just wish they'd teach us how to be useful against that bullshit. As much as I'd like to just blow everything up, I don't think that's got long-term potential."
  
She had a drink in one hand (which was not Bobbi-like), she wasn't quite sure what time it was (also not!Bobbi), and she didn't care (not!Bobbi x 100).  
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"I don't think I can be useful," Xavin muttered, arms crossed tightly. "I don't do anything useful."
  
The drink in her hand may not have been her first of the evening.  
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"Pfft, dude, do you know the pockets I could pick with your power? I'm sure it can be used for less ..." Tabitha struggled for an adjective here.  
  
Warren grinned and shrugged, pointing to his ears. Telepathy would be a handy skill right now. A few moments later, he realized what she was saying. Maybe
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"Oh my god, are you serious? No." Xavin took a couple of steps across the room to flop on the bed. "Quentin's a dickbag, too."
  
"Is this too much for you?," he shouted back. The crowd was a bit younger than he'd anticipated, but when Paris Hilton was the guest DJ, it brought out the young people. "We can go?"  
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"If you don't like picking pockets, we can always do a long con?" Tabs suggested hopefully. "But completely agree with you about Quire. Think he about gave himself an aneurysm."  
  
"No no no, this is the best part, wait... here, this here!" She pumped her fist into the air in time to the song, David Guetta's Titanium, which was just hitting the post-chorus wub-wub-wub part.  
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Xavin snorted. "I'm not robbing anyone with you, okay? Quire's a jerk but maybe he's right and we shoulda done more."
  
Bobbi may have spilled a little of her drink at the same time.  
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Tabitha sniffed and looked out the window. "I thought about it. I thought I could distract them with a series of tiny bombs going off, like fireworks." She clenched her jaw. "But then I realized what would happen if I did that."
  
Warren expertly side stepped the spillage, more amused by anything. "I didn't think you knew how to really enjoy yourself," he commented. In fact, this trip was really making it apparent to him that he actually barely knew Bobbi.  
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"Don't. Don't ever...." Xavin whispered. "You know how police act if they think you've got a gun. If they think you're a mutant and going to hurt them, they'll kill you." Xavin rubbed their eyes. "I just - why did they have to beat him up like that? It's not right."
  
"I have no idea why you agreed to come but I'm glad you did."  
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Tabitha nodded, lips cold. "It's like they're not even human." She shivered. "Who's next?" The words were almost a whisper.
  
"Me either!" she shouted back in reply, a little awkwardly as the building part collapsed back into another verse, but she didn't care. "Hey, you want another drink? It's on me!" Bobbi raised her glass and then laughed, seeing that she kinda spilled some on the new dress Warren had bought her, but most of it was on her leg thankfully. Tomorrow she'd feel like total crap about that but she wasn't feeling anything like that just then.  
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There really wasn't anything to say. Xavin reached over and rested a hand on Tabitha's shoulder.
  
 
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Revision as of 14:28, 4 April 2016

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Moment of Awesome - Tabitha Smith/Meltdown: After witnessing a mutant hate crime, Tabitha talks things over with Xavin, but neither has any answers.


Tabitha rested her cheek against her knees. "I just wish they'd teach us how to be useful against that bullshit. As much as I'd like to just blow everything up, I don't think that's got long-term potential."

"I don't think I can be useful," Xavin muttered, arms crossed tightly. "I don't do anything useful."

"Pfft, dude, do you know the pockets I could pick with your power? I'm sure it can be used for less ..." Tabitha struggled for an adjective here.

"Oh my god, are you serious? No." Xavin took a couple of steps across the room to flop on the bed. "Quentin's a dickbag, too."

"If you don't like picking pockets, we can always do a long con?" Tabs suggested hopefully. "But completely agree with you about Quire. Think he about gave himself an aneurysm."

Xavin snorted. "I'm not robbing anyone with you, okay? Quire's a jerk but maybe he's right and we shoulda done more."

Tabitha sniffed and looked out the window. "I thought about it. I thought I could distract them with a series of tiny bombs going off, like fireworks." She clenched her jaw. "But then I realized what would happen if I did that."

"Don't. Don't ever...." Xavin whispered. "You know how police act if they think you've got a gun. If they think you're a mutant and going to hurt them, they'll kill you." Xavin rubbed their eyes. "I just - why did they have to beat him up like that? It's not right."

Tabitha nodded, lips cold. "It's like they're not even human." She shivered. "Who's next?" The words were almost a whisper.

There really wasn't anything to say. Xavin reached over and rested a hand on Tabitha's shoulder.