xp_logs | Log: Tandy&&Topaz: Monday Afternoon

Tandy goes and see Topaz again, this time she is armed with ice cream and a movie.

Despite Tandy’s attempts at this morning trying to be social with French fries and friends, she couldn’t keep up on conversations and ended up zoning out several times.

The blonde walked up to Topaz's suite door and knocked on the door again, "Topaz? It is I, Tandy. I brought ice cream and a Disney flick." Tandy's eyes were puff and circles were starting to form underneath them. "I need help." Placing her forehead on the door hoping Topaz was willing to experiment on her again.

Topaz was lying on her bed, her head hanging over the edge so she was looking at the room upside down. She lifted her head at the sound of the knock and Tandy's voice. Ice cream and a Disney flick? She dragged herself off the bed, tugging at her hair as she made her way out into the common area. She opened the door to find her exhausted, distressed classmate standing on the other side. She didn't need to ask what the blonde needed help with. "You didn't need to bring bribes," she told Tandy dryly as she stepped aside to let her in.

"Not bribes. Figured that we both need a little picker uppers after what had happened." Tandy noticed that Topaz looked just as bad as her as she walked into the suite. "Not sleeping either?"

Sleep? Who could sleep? She couldn't even stay in her room at night, she had to turn off the lights so Molly could sleep. It was too dark. "I'm fine." Of course, she would never say that out-loud. She led Tandy straight to her room, closing and locking the door so they could have some privacy before looking back at Tandy, really focusing on the girl for the first time. "How bad is it for you?" Not that she couldn't guess.

Tandy placed the ice cream and movie on a nearby dresser. "Pretty bad. If it isn't about D'spayre then it is about that fucking Slenderman...did you know that it licked me? I can still feel it like it just happened. " Wiping her cheek with her shoulder as she thought about it, "It is like a nightmare you can't wake up from...can't sleep....can't eat."

"....It licked you? How - never-mind." Topaz decided she really didn't want to know. She suppressed the shiver that threatened to go through her at the thought of the Slenderman. Wait, those weren't her thoughts currently dancing in her head. No Slenderman had been licking her, after all. "Oh not this again," she mumbled, running a hand through her hair.

"Don't ask. It is a vision that you don't want to know." Tandy said to the other teenager. "What is wrong?" She asked, genuinely concerned about Topaz. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, fine," Topaz replied without much thought, rubbing the back of her neck. "Strong emotions, sometimes I can hear the thoughts that go with them. Kinda like telepathy, but not really. I dunno. It doesn't matter." Why was she still talking? "You're not here to hear about my powers."

"Well I don't know much about your powers so I am kind of interested. Also just making sure you are okay." The blonde said to Topaz running her own hand through her hair. "I mean we don't hang out or talk much and I don't want you to think I am just talking to you for help."

"It's fine if you are," Topaz replied with a shrug. "You don't have to pretend to be my friend, I'll still help you."

"Actually...I am not." Tandy whispered softly and then shook her head. "You can believe what you want. Shall we?"

Not what? Topaz opened her mouth to respond, then closed it again. She was awful this. "Yeah. Fine." She closed her eyes, reaching out to Tandy and siphoning off the offending emotions without much thought. Probably not the best thing to do given her own current emotional state, but she'd deal with that later.

"I get it, ya know," she said finally when she was done. "Having things you can't deal with. Just wanting your emotions to disappear."

She closed her eyes and the familiar feeling of Topaz working her magic and then suddenly nothing. "You do? I guess we all have skeletons in the closet." She sat down on the bed and smirked slightly - but mainly because she was numb now. "What happened with you? I mean you know about my demon troubles..."

Topaz turned away, locking both her hands behind her neck. Well, Tandy was right. And fair was fair... "Short version - my mother - adoptive mother, actually, I'm adopted - was murdered by a magical clan - I found the body - my father went insane with grief and dragged me into a revenge plot that almost got us both killed - actually, it did get him killed. The clan's still runnin' around somewhere, I ended up here after Amanda and her mates - those guys that saved us the other day - saved me." And that was the short version. It all seemed so odd to say out loud..

"I am sorry." Tandy couldn't imagine the feeling of finding your own mother dead but she could imagine a father going insane. "It seems like a common occurrence for students here to lose their parents. Living in a mutant world is quite dangerous and really I am sorry about your parents, whether they were your real ones or not."

A shrug. Topaz still didn't turn to look at Tandy. "M'Over it." Whether or not that was actually true remained to be seen, but Tandy didn't need to know that. "Thank you," she added after a moment.

Tandy opened her mouth to say anything but closed it right after a few seconds - not wanting to upset Topaz. "I'll leave you be, unless you want company to watch this movie."

Company? No. She didn't even want to watch the movie, really. But... "Watching movies isn't very much fun on your own, is it? I think the ice cream is melting." She'd been rude enough to Tandy already. And anyways, hadn't Haller said earlier she needed to spend more time with people? Not something she exactly agreed with, but it was just Tandy. And an emotionally numb Tandy at that.

And maybe she didn't really want to be alone anymore.

The blonde teenager smiled at Topaz, "You are right. It isn't. And I apology if I glow a bit...happens." Tandy picked up the movie and the ice cream and walked out to the main area to set it up.