xp_logs | Jubilee & Manuel (Reply)

Jubilee catches Manuel in the pool and they muse over early awakenings.

Jubilee eyed the sleek lines of the man who was currently facing away from her, heading toward the far end of Xavier's outdoor pool. She'd been over to use the better appointed gym and had decided to take a bit of a swim to cool down before she headed back to New York. It was a pity she'd sworn never to go there again, because Manny was still one of the nicest looking guys she'd met.

"You still wear speedoes? Your students must totally love you," Jubilee called out, a grin showing perfectly white teeth.

"They are unable to pull themselves from bed to see me this early in the morning, therefore I am safe," Manuel countered over his shoulder. Early morning swims were necesscity if he was going to be able to walk in the day, a routine he was not easily able to dump off, lest his hip joint make him pay for it later. "Similiar could be said of you."

"That I'm unable to pull myself from bed, or that the students would entirely love me?" Jubilee asked, slipping into the water and starting a slow freestyle stroke toward him, although in her own lane.

"That you are able to put yourself together at all." Manuel stepped down into the steps and paused, setting his cane down on the floor. "Are you here only for a swim or is there other business?"

"Just usin' the gym, it's got more stuff then the one we've got in New York, and while jumpin' around the city is good practice sometimes I just like doing the traditional gymnastics as well," Jubilee noted, lazily swimming a lap and then heading back toward him. "And I get up early just fine, sort of. You were just always one of those evil 'morning people', and thus never saw me at my best."

"Clearly I am seeing you at your best now," he replied drily. "How are things at snowvalley?" It didn't hurt to talk, did it?

"Oh, this isn't even close to my best, dude. My best would be a fancy cocktail dress, and a party somewhere," Jubilee noted, doing another lazy lap up and down the pool before answering his question. "And they're about the same, danger, explosions, paranoia, you know, about normal. And you? White Court functions keeping you busy?"

"Insufferably so," he mused. "If it were not for Emma, I would not have the pleasure of being so sane. THere is only so much emotional swimming you can do before you tire and crave personal time. It seems she likes to keep us all busy, on both sides, courts and snowvalley alike."

"She probably thinks we'll get ourselves into trouble if she doesn't," Jubilee noted, resting her arms against the edge of the pool and looking up at him. "She wouldn't be entirely wrong either, we've all got a fair history of being unbelievably easy to get into trouble."

"Speak for yourself. I am trying to shed my old reputation for a new sparkling one. Although you have to agree, she does gift us with the most elaborate christmas bonus."

"Is that what the kids these days are calling it?" Jubilee said with a teasing grin, she'd enjoyed Cammie and Kyle's conversation on the journals, reminded her somewhat of the old days. "And she does at that. What did you get this year?"

Manuel's smile was positively evil. "It had a bow on it. That is all I am permitted to say."

"Tease," Jubilee replied with a grin, before pushing herself out into deeper water. "Race you?"

"One minute. Allow me to get my cane so I can get a headstart."