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From: Blaire, Alison
To: Wisdom, Pete; Gavin, Jake
Subject: It's only fair...

Hello gentlemen,

Seems only fair of me to do this, considering I got you both in the position you are now, really. Once a month (or twice perhaps, depending on the amount of crisis involved), pick a place of your choice and I'll take you out. High class restaurant or stinky dive, your pick - but always my treat.

Fair's fair and all.

Alison

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x-courier.livejournal.com

Fucking right it's only fair!

Do you know what I'm doing now?
I'm preparing a "I'm your guidance counselor, my door's always open' schpiel to give later today as the classes start!

~~Though, thank you for finally giving me something to do. I was going crazy. ...But I'll deny it to high heavens if you bring it up.~~

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x-dazzler.livejournal.com

Are you now? Well, it'll be fine spiel, I don't have a single doubt. How's the scheduling coming along? Notes on the files I tranferred to you make sense?

~~You've very welcome. Won't breathe a word of it to anyone, secret's safe with me.~~

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x-pete.livejournal.com

Cheers. There's this bar full of Russian sailors I know in Brooklyn...

No seriously, a decent dinner somewhere out of here will do me.

I have this feeling that Jake's much more scared by it than I am. I'd be tempted to get some of the more - I dunno, obnoxiously teenage - kids to descend on him with ghastly fictional problems and watch him shit himself and die of fright, but I don't think I should need to - if the little bastards aren't bright enough to see the fun in that for themselves, then I'm going to be sorely disappointed. (Suddenly, I'm seized with the urge to watch him give Sarah birth control advice, or explain her first period to Illyana.)

Of course, if they do it to me, it won't be funny in the slightest. No.

Pete

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x-dazzler.livejournal.com

Gotcha - I know more than a few places, so will draw up a list and let you guys pick when you decide you need out.

Jake is scared stiff, and I think more than a few of the kids have spotted it and are circling around him like sharks. I think he may surprise them though. Speaking of which, I'm pretty sure he'll have the gut reflex to try and scout out potential employees for Infonet among the kids. Not that I have any great objections in terms of "hey, not everyone has to join the leather-clad happy party crew" and all, but I'm not sure about Infonet itself as a company and if that's where the kids would be happiest. Not that my opinion will have any bearing on their decisions, mind. :p

(And funny. I was thinking of inflicting the girl talks on you when I first heisted you into this. ;) )

Course not. Think they'll figure ~~that~~ out, bright as they are?

*g*
Alison

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x-pete.livejournal.com

I'm not terribly fond of Infonet, I have to admit - half through professional irritation, and half through the fact that they'll try and make a buck off anything, and if there's no money in it, they don't care. I'm not much for mercenaries. I live in the slightly naieve hope that we can train that out of Jake, though. And if he hasn't approached Doug and Kitty already in some regard, he's not half the man/woman I think he is.

I knew you were planning to try the girl talks on me. But come on, I'm thirty five years old, was a professional intel op until last year, was a worse delinquent than any of these toerags has been so far when I was there age, and have had many girlfriends of varying degrees of insanity. Biology and bad behaviour are not complete mysteries to me. Dull as the truth is, short of inventing an entirely new gender (in which case, I'll just refer them to Jake anyway) there's probably not a lot these kids are going to do that will actually freak me out. Surprise me, give me headaches and a hard time keeping up, yes. Infuriate, exasperate and astonish, yes. Freak me out in they way they're going to do to Jake? No.

I will, of course, be made to eat these words within in a week, when one of the kids that isn't Marie-Ange develops a crush on me.

Pete

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x-dazzler.livejournal.com

Yeah, Jake told me all about the company credo when I took him out last week. And well - that combined with other small things I noticed likely sort of explains a lot about how he thinks. I'm thinking the counselor gig might actually help in getting him out of that frameset, although I'm not laying firm odds on that alone doing it. So. Doug & Kitty huh?

You'd have done the same - as shown by you cackling over how Jake will react to it. ;) And man oh man, you just jinxed yourself with that one. I don't even want to think of what they might come up with now.

... heh heh heh. Ahem.

Alison

ps - Working on a post to let the kids know not to blab about Miles' abilities. I think I may be too, er, stern in the first version. Erk.

From:

x-pete.livejournal.com

Yeah. There are a few others here I think he'll want to approach if and when he thinks about it and/or they're a bit older, but Doug and Kitty are the really obvious choices.

And of course I'd have done the same. I have to get my laughs somewhere.

And yeah, I probably have jinxed myself, but it's either going to be fun finding out what kind of craziness they come up with, or it's going to be so horrible that everyone in the building will have to deal with it, and I won't be alone in my suffering.

If you want a proof-reader for that post, feel free to chuck it my way.

Pete.

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x-dazzler.livejournal.com

Hrm. Well, s'long as we're aware of it, though bottom line won't be our choice to make, after all. If it comes down to that, at least you can make sure the kids know what they're getting into.

Can't say a word to that, me. It's what I do. ;)

I honestly hope it's the former. That way I get to make popcorn and watch. Betcha Jake will either join me or even sell tickets... or try to run to your rescue.

Don't mind if I do. Put it in attachment. Any suggestions or additions are more than welcome.

Thanks!
Alison

[begin attached file - about_miles.txt]

Most of you know this by now, but I figure with the influx of newcomers it might not be a bad idea to state this again.

Miles power is to negate mutant powers, within a certain range. It is currently always on and can't be controlled. Those of you who have active abilities that can't handle being "shut off" without warning, or that might leave you in a dangerous situation if shut off unexpectedly should be careful of this when in his vicinity and in general. Miles knows well enough to check the hallways and stairs before running off blindly – in fact, he's been insistent on knowing who he should ask before approaching, a habit you've all likely notice he still sticks to even now. That's because he was being used to negate other children's powers when he was being held by the freak show owners in Mexico. So now that he has a choice on the matter, he likes to exercise it, and then some. But he can't make certain 100% - he might be looking out a window and a flyer goes by, or leaning on a wall when someone is doing something on the other side.

That was the general part of this post.

Here's the more specific one.

I'd like to ask you all to keep the nature of Miles' power to yourselves. When interacting with friends or people who don't reside at the mansion, be it in person, phone or by email, please don't bring up the subject of his power – even if its' someone you know and trust. If you're talking with someone from the outside and somehow the conversation ends up turning to that subject (as natural as the conversation seemed), change the topic – and also let one of the staff know ASAP.

Thanks,
Alison

From:

x-pete.livejournal.com

That reads fine to me.

Pete.

From:

x-dazzler.livejournal.com

That was the fifth draft.

I still think the line about "you'll wish you'd been mauled by a rabid bear, trust me" was good. Thanks, posting it up now!

Alison