xp_logs | Log: Dani & Yvette

Yvette goes to see Dani regarding her grounding and what it entails. There is also tea.

Yvette waited until she was sure Jan wasn't in the RA suite before going to knock on the door. She needed to talk to someone, but she wasn't willing to risk another person who had no idea of what they were talking about taking umbrage on someone else's behalf. Not that she was sure Miss Moonstar wouldn't be angry at her, but at least she had no personal issues to push. That would make things easier for her to end the conversation if it got difficult.

Dani had been studying when the timid knock on her door came and she climbed to her feet to answer it, "Hey Yvette," Dani said once she opened the door and looked down at the tiny girl. She had heard about what had happened and had planned to approach her about it after dinner. "What's up?" Jumping into a lecture wasn't her style, especially if she only came by to borrow a deck of cards or something. Opening her door to let the other girl in, she went to close her textbook, marking the page with a bookmark first. She was never going to be as academically inclined as Forge or well, half the people at Xavier's, but she tried.

"I am sorry, to be interrupting your study. Perhaps I should be trying again the other time?" Yvette was heartened by the welcome, but she didn't want to be any more of a bother than she already had been. "I had the question, to be asking."

"Nah, it's fine," Dani liked breaks and interruptions, that may have been part of why she wasn't the best student, "I like breaks. Want anything to drink?" she offered, moving her things off the couch. "I think Jan has sodas or...." she headed towards the little kitchen area, "I have tea."

"Tea, please?" It would take longer to drink, but Yvette didn't want to give Jan any more reasons to be angry at her. "How is the school?" she asked, voice a little nervous. She wasn't good at small talk.

"School," Dani replied with a shrug, accepting that Yvette didn't want to bring up whatever had brought her here for the moment. She didn'tpush often, people would talk when they talked. Setting two mugs in the microwave she set them to heat and took a couple Lipton tea bags out and the little sugar container - a recycled plastic margarine bowl. "You like milk in your tea?"

If she could have wrinkled her nose, she would have. Her powers were working overtime lately, however, with the stress. "No, thank you," she said almost primly, taking a tentative perch on the edge of the couch. "The sugar is okay for me."

When the microwave beeped Dani dropped the tea bags in and handed a mug to Yvette then joined her on the couch with the sugar bowl. "How's it going for you, then?" she asked, knowing about the little unauthorized field trip she had taken. Just because she was grounded from that did not mean she was having a bad school year so far though.

"I have had, how you say? The better weeks." Yvette cradled the mug between her palms, unable to hold it properly with her long fingers. "I am being grounded, for the two weeks."

"I heard," Dani said nonjudgmentally. She didn't know it all since she was not on the team, but she had heard enough to get the gist of it, "You have any questions about it? Why or what have you's?"

"I know why," came the almost defensive answer, and Yvette's hands closed tighter on the mug as she took a sip, apparently not noticing the temperature of the freshly-boiled tea. "I was wondering... I have not been grounded before, Miss Moonstar, and I am not so sure what I can and cannot be doing." Her glowing blue eyes were slightly dulled as she looked up at the RA.

Bad choice of words there, of course she knew why. That hadn't been what Dani had meant but it was too late to take it back now, "Ah," Dani made a little noise in the back of her throat as she took a sip of the hot liquid, "Ain't so much, no leaving school grounds except for school related things and not without a chaperone. Other students cannot be chaperone's. No going out on the weekends," she was fairly lucky actually. A lot of student ended up doing their penance in the med lab scrubbing floors and emptying bedpans when they got in trouble. The nature of Yvette's powers prevented that though.

"So it is all right, to be in the woods? Those are the school grounds, yes?" It was asked almost desperately - the thought of spending the entire two weeks confined to the house was too close to certain memories of what her mother had done after discovering her daughter's mutation.

Dani's heart broke a little at Yvette's tone. Smiling, she nodded, "The woods are fine. Just check in with Cain every so often to see if he has anything you can do," he usually did. Contrary to some students popular belief, the staff at Xavier's were not entirely cruel and heartless. Sometimes though, students had to be disciplined and that was that. "I go running in the mornings if you want to join me, just a couple miles, but I go off campus sometimes."

Yvette began to say no, it was all right, she didn't run, but something made her change her mind. Perhaps some insight into just how much trouble she was in and how much a kind gesture would mean in the face of so many angry and disappointed friends. "If you do not mind, perhaps I will, yes," she replied instead. "I do not run like the normal people. It is more, how you say...?" She waved one hand slightly. "With my hands, also?"

That didn't matter to Dani one whit, "Ain't no one around really and those that are know what the school is," Salem Center was not a large town and with the volume of obvious mutants in town, they had figured it out long ago. So long as they didn't do anything too strange or against the law, most people let them be. Not all though. The school was far enough out of town though that few came down the road past them and if they ran on it there were bound to be some looks, but not many. "I'd like the company too."

"Then perhaps I will be seeing you, yes?" Yvette finished her tea even though Dani's was still scalding hot - temperatures did not bother her as much as they used to. "I should be going, to be making the study and to be keeping Angel the company. Since I was making her to be grounded also."

Dani nodded and rubbed the girls arm reassuringly, "Sounds good. And if you ever want to hang, I'm here and I have tea," the point of being an RA was to be there for the students and she tried to be. Certainly she was not always home, but that did not mean she wasn't there for them.