Log: Sarah and Yvette, Tuesday afternoon (backdated to June 5th)

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Sarah stops by to check up on Yvette once they're back home. They catch up a little and talk about changes in their powers since Genosha.


Sarah hadn't had a chance to talk to Yvette after the immediate fallout of Genosha, mainly because she'd been spending the vast majority of her waking hours with her girlfriend. She'd heard that the other girl was alive, which was the main thing, but now that she was home and apart from Layla for a bit - she'd gone to visit North to bring him food - she decided to pay her friend a visit.

Yvette had been spending a lot of time in the woods, getting used to the new ranges on her powers and working with her new 'battle form' away from where she would frighten people. But she did have to sleep and eat occasionally, as well as shower, and so it was that Sarah caught her having just cleaned herself up. She was towelling off the short fuzz that had grown on her scalp, grimacing as she inadvertently shredded the towel without thinking, when Sarah knocked on the door. "Come in!" she called, picking bits of towel fluff off herself.

Opening the door, Sarah carefully peeked her head inside before entering all of the way. She smiled a little as she saw Yvette, waving at the other girl as she slipped all the way into the bedroom and shut the door quietly behind her. "Hey there, Yvette. How are you doing?"

"Sarah!" Yvette dropped her towel and went to hug her friend. "I am so glad to see you!"

Hugging her back tightly, Sarah let herself enjoy what had recently become the rare treat of smiling as she held onto her friend. "I'm glad to see you too, so very glad." It had been took long since she'd spent time with her, after all, having spent so much time with Layla since their return. "Sorry I didn't come by sooner, I've been a little busy and recovering and stuff." Which Yvette had to go through as well so likewise she understood why the other girl hadn't been by to see her. Besides, more often than not she'd have been at Layla's place at any rate.

"You have nothing to apologise for," Yvette admonished, pulling back from the hug but holding Sarah's elbows lightly to stop the girl from pulling too far away. "Not to me, Sarah. I understand, yes?"

Sarah nodded but still felt a little bad for not having checked in until now. It was clear that Yvette understood, however, since she'd gone through the same thing herself. So she just smiled and then leaned in for another quick hug before pulling back again. "How've you been holding up?"

"As best as you can imagine," Yvette replied lightly. "I have been spending a lot of time in the woods. My powers... they are different somehow. I have been trying to work out what I can do, without breaking the house." The last was said with a wry little shrug. "And you?"

Her eyes went a little wide at Yvette's mention of her powers being different. "Really? Like how? I've noticed mine are different too, kinda, but I'm not sure how either." They'd seemed to be easier to use, at least, and maybe the changes Yvette was noticing to her powers would give Sarah some insight into what might have happened with her own. "I'm doing as well as can be expected, I suppose. Spending time with Layla has been helping." She grinned a little at the thought of all the time the girls had spent together.

"I have more... range?" Yvette gestured for Sarah to sit down on the desk chair as she moved to sit on the bed. "When I relax, as you can see now, I can go softer, my hands are more normal." She waved her hand at Sarah to show her fingers that were longer than usual, but not sharp. "But when I... spike out, as Kyle calls it, it is much stronger, more spiky and jagged. Like a monster." She sighed a little. "It seems I cannot have the good without the bad. But I will learn to use this, eventually - I know it is possible now. And it is good that you have someone to help you with this, so the the shoulder to lean on. You and Layla are the cute couple."

Moving over to the chair to which Yvette had indicated, Sarah sat down and listened intently to her friend. Her eyes moved to Yvette's hands, watching the demonstration of how her powers had changed. "You will, I know you will Yvette. Like you said, you it's possible now so it's only going to be a matter of time." She was happy her friend and even though she hadn't seen her spiked out form, as she'd called it, she hoped that the good outweighed the bad for her. "Thank you, I'm glad too, it's been a big help having Layla around." All of her friends had been supportive of course, even when she'd been beating herself up on the journals, and she was grateful for them all, but of course her girlfriend got top billing as it were."

Sarah frowned as she thought about her own recent development with her powers. "Do you suppose it's some side effect from what they... what happened over there?" She sincerely hoped that if it was that there'd be no other surprises in the form of her or her friends losing control again.

"I do not know," Yvette replied honestly. "I think there must - from what I can understand of the reports, there were a lot of changes made. But all of the 'extras', the powers that were not ours? Those are gone." She sighed. "I suppose without all of our normal problems and thoughts and such, there was more... space, to use our powers? Less distraction? From what I have been able to find out, we all had very good control."

"They are, and I hope they never come back." Sarah shuddered at the thought of what she'd been able to do as a mutate. There were no memories of what she did, thankfully, and she didn't want to know what they'd given her, she just wanted to be sure she couldn't do anything like that ever again. "That makes sense, Yvette. I know my control over my own abilities is definitely better now since coming back, and kinda... I don't know about stronger but I can use them easier on things, I guess?" As a demonstration, she pointed over to a radio across the room, which she used her powers to turn on and mess with the volume a little as an example, before turning it back off again.

"You did not have to talk to it?" Yvette looked surprised - Sarah had always had to verbally prompt her powers. "And you can do it from the distance? That is the improvement!" Trust Yvette to find the silver lining in being made a mindless slave.

"I know, right?" Sarah allowed herself a small grin at Yvette's surprise. "I can't do anything super complicated, really, but just being able to use my abilities without having to talk, or touch, it's kinda neat." She was trying to find the silver lining herself and this was it, it seemed. One of these days she was going to talk to Jean or someone about it but for now her main focus was feeling better, so that could wait for a while.

"It is very neat," Yvette agreed. "And useful, also. During the X-Men training, they try to teach those who have the not physical powers not to use the gestures - a gesture crutch, Mr. Summers calls it - because there might be times you cannot use your hands. Of course, my powers are in my hands, so it is not something I can do."

Sarah nodded, considering what Yvette had said. "Yeah, that makes total sense. Like, if you were tied up or something, or if you hurt your arms or hands, you could still do stuff if you didn't rely on using gestures all of the time." It was definitely food for thought, and something Sarah would try to work on herself in the future. "Thanks, Yvette!" She gave the other girl another hug for that, and partially because she was still glad to see her friend again.

"Any time, Sarah," Yvette replied, returning the hug carefully. Old habits died hard, after all.