Monday: Garrison and Marie
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xp_logsBackdated to Monday. A day in the life of Garrison and Marie. They chat about something stressing Marie out and then are just kinda sweet.
Marie sat on the edge of Garrison's bed, her head dropped in her hands. She'd gotten back an assignment that she'd hastily put together hastily before the mission...apparently her efforts had been 'less than satisfactory.' "This is my first grade like this in college," she finally said with a sigh. "Ah don't want to screw this up."
"You know, while you can't actually tell the teacher you were out causing major world incidents just prior to your deadlines, you should at least factor it into your own thinking." Garrison said, lying back with his hands laced behind his head. "The X-Men are going to get in the way sometimes, babe. That's a fact that you'll have to live with unless you take a leave for a while."
"Of course you're going to be all logical on me," she said, twisting to smile at Kane. "And you know right enough Ah'm not planning on taking a leave from the team if Ah can help it. So Ah've...well, Ah've been thinking of stepping down as an RA. To give myself a little more free time, y'know? See if that helps."
"Makes sense. There's enough grads faffing about that they've got options to let people take over, and nicely cuts off the monumental 'I'm abandoning them' guilt I can already see brewing inside that very pretty and yet wholly deranged head of yours." Kane nudged her with his toe. "You know, there isn't a problem even putting the team on the back burner too, eh? We have sixteen active X-Men. Unless a giant crisis comes up, there's enough to take care of things without you leaping to the front line all the time."
"It's not like everyone else doesn't have responsibilities too though. And there's no one else with my particular skill set, 'side from Cain, and he doesn't fly." She looked at Garrison's face, saw the chiding there, and sighed. "But yeah, Ah'll keep that in mind." Flopping next to him on the bed, she poked him in the stomach. "You do know that just because your girlfriend is superstrong, you still gotta help me pack and move, right?"
"Pack and move? Move where?" Kane said, suddenly confused.
She tilted her head, a slight puzzled look on her face as Kane's confusion. "To one of the graduate suites...Ah can't stay in the RA suite if Ah'm not gonna be an RA anymore. Ah'll have to ask Scott and 'Ro about that when Ah meet with them."
"Seems kind of silly to me to move across the house for that. I mean, seriously, it's not like this is a five hundred person dorm. Or maybe I'm just trying to get out of moving those boxes of stuff you never can possibly part with." Kane yawned, letting his head flop back. "You considered a new codename, like say, PackRat?"
Leaning over to grab the pillow out from under his head, she smacked him with it. "Only if you go with a new one like LazyBum," she teased.
"Iran. Then conference. And I still have to go into work tomorrow." Kane shook his head. "The only way I get LazyBum is if the entire graduate populace of the school are refered to as 'Faffing About' Gang or something. Monet, at the very least. And maybe Tommy. Certainly John."
"You won't here any complaints from me," the southern girl said with a grin. "And maybe you should call in sick. Unfortunately, we're both too responsible to play hooky except for responsible reasons. Sucks doesn't it?"
"Speak for yourself. I just prefer to save my sick days for those times I'm disasterously hungover. Or still drunk. I love those days." He snaked a hand out and grabbed her behind the knee, pulling forward and flopping her on to her back on the bed. "That is, of course, unless you've got a better excuse to keep me in bed all day?"
It said something about the comfort level Marie felt with Garrison that she didn't tense up and pull away at that particular type of teasing. Instead, she winked at him, then rolled over to lay her head against his chest. "Of course Ah do. It's called sleep."
"Funny. That was exactly what I was thinking." Kane said wryly, looping his arm over her shoulders and resting his hand against the small of her back before closing his eyes.
Marie sat on the edge of Garrison's bed, her head dropped in her hands. She'd gotten back an assignment that she'd hastily put together hastily before the mission...apparently her efforts had been 'less than satisfactory.' "This is my first grade like this in college," she finally said with a sigh. "Ah don't want to screw this up."
"You know, while you can't actually tell the teacher you were out causing major world incidents just prior to your deadlines, you should at least factor it into your own thinking." Garrison said, lying back with his hands laced behind his head. "The X-Men are going to get in the way sometimes, babe. That's a fact that you'll have to live with unless you take a leave for a while."
"Of course you're going to be all logical on me," she said, twisting to smile at Kane. "And you know right enough Ah'm not planning on taking a leave from the team if Ah can help it. So Ah've...well, Ah've been thinking of stepping down as an RA. To give myself a little more free time, y'know? See if that helps."
"Makes sense. There's enough grads faffing about that they've got options to let people take over, and nicely cuts off the monumental 'I'm abandoning them' guilt I can already see brewing inside that very pretty and yet wholly deranged head of yours." Kane nudged her with his toe. "You know, there isn't a problem even putting the team on the back burner too, eh? We have sixteen active X-Men. Unless a giant crisis comes up, there's enough to take care of things without you leaping to the front line all the time."
"It's not like everyone else doesn't have responsibilities too though. And there's no one else with my particular skill set, 'side from Cain, and he doesn't fly." She looked at Garrison's face, saw the chiding there, and sighed. "But yeah, Ah'll keep that in mind." Flopping next to him on the bed, she poked him in the stomach. "You do know that just because your girlfriend is superstrong, you still gotta help me pack and move, right?"
"Pack and move? Move where?" Kane said, suddenly confused.
She tilted her head, a slight puzzled look on her face as Kane's confusion. "To one of the graduate suites...Ah can't stay in the RA suite if Ah'm not gonna be an RA anymore. Ah'll have to ask Scott and 'Ro about that when Ah meet with them."
"Seems kind of silly to me to move across the house for that. I mean, seriously, it's not like this is a five hundred person dorm. Or maybe I'm just trying to get out of moving those boxes of stuff you never can possibly part with." Kane yawned, letting his head flop back. "You considered a new codename, like say, PackRat?"
Leaning over to grab the pillow out from under his head, she smacked him with it. "Only if you go with a new one like LazyBum," she teased.
"Iran. Then conference. And I still have to go into work tomorrow." Kane shook his head. "The only way I get LazyBum is if the entire graduate populace of the school are refered to as 'Faffing About' Gang or something. Monet, at the very least. And maybe Tommy. Certainly John."
"You won't here any complaints from me," the southern girl said with a grin. "And maybe you should call in sick. Unfortunately, we're both too responsible to play hooky except for responsible reasons. Sucks doesn't it?"
"Speak for yourself. I just prefer to save my sick days for those times I'm disasterously hungover. Or still drunk. I love those days." He snaked a hand out and grabbed her behind the knee, pulling forward and flopping her on to her back on the bed. "That is, of course, unless you've got a better excuse to keep me in bed all day?"
It said something about the comfort level Marie felt with Garrison that she didn't tense up and pull away at that particular type of teasing. Instead, she winked at him, then rolled over to lay her head against his chest. "Of course Ah do. It's called sleep."
"Funny. That was exactly what I was thinking." Kane said wryly, looping his arm over her shoulders and resting his hand against the small of her back before closing his eyes.
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