Jessica and Tandy: Hotel Thanksgiving

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While Rogue and Julian are away, Jess and Tandy will play...cards.



"Hungry?" Tandy got off the bed and walked over to the menu next to the phone. "They don't have much but the burger sounds okay." They had been let behind at the hotel waiting for Rogue and Julian to return. "No milkshakes though."

"Starved actually." Jessica answered as she floated over toward Tandy, looking over her shoulder at the menu. She shrugged, too tired to do even the lightest of reading, and she quickly backstroked back over to the bed before collapsing onto it. "No milkshakes? Lame. I'll have whatever you're having. Not original, but I'll take it." She answered.

Tandy picked up the phone and ordered two burgers and ice cream with some soda. After hanging up the phone Tandy turned to her roommate, "Twenty Minutes. Want to play a card game?"

"Name the game, Tandy." Jess replied as she floated up and off of the bed, stretching her arms out to grab hold of a deck of cards laying nearby. She moved back into position and carefully placed the cards into her companion's hand, her stomach rumbling uncontrollably.

"Poker? War? Old Maid? Go fish? That is all I got." She shuffled the deck and looked over at Jessica. "Any of those?"

"I'm a sucker for war. Haven't played that since I was a kid." Jessica replied with a smile.

"War it is." She finished shuffling and started dealing out the cards. "I haven't played in awhile either."

Jessica palmed her cards and flipped the first away from herself, revealing a three of spades. She yawned a bit before brushing a hand through her hair.
"So, I wonder how the other two are doing? I know that Rogue didn't want all of us going and I'd be more likely to start punching people out left and right, but I can't help but worry a little." She asked as Tandy collected the two cards, apparently having won their "confrontation."

"I think they will be fine. Rogue seems like a tough cookie. And if she comes back in tears we will go and beat them up okay?" She smirked as her 9 beat Jessica's 4. "They should be back in a few hours. Maybe sooner, maybe later."

"Beating people up? Awesome. So, Tandy, what made you come to Xavier's? I gotta say, when Julian told me that you were the gal for him, well, I just had to meet you and know more about you." She answered as her jack beat Tandy's measly two.

"Uh - well. My powers manifested and I put several people in a coma. One woke up, the others I think haven't woken up yet. That was two and half years ago. You?" Tandy smirked as they got the same number, pair of fours. "War."

Jessica flicked down the three cards necessary for the confrontation before she began to flip them over in tandem with Tandy. "That...sounds like a bummer. Being a coma itself isn't so bad, you know. I don't remember being in mine. It's the waking up and wondering where all the time has gone that's the disorienting part." Jessica replied, cursing as Tandy won the war and took all of the cards. "As for me, I've had my powers for about eight years now, but I've never really learned my limits or a way that I can use them to help others. Rogue's mentoring me in the former, and I'm hoping that being at Xavier's can help me with the latter." She finished.

"You were in a coma before?" Tandy let out a little cheer when she won the cards. "Yes. It can. I passed out when I manifested. Don't remember much but I ended up at Xavier's a week later. So you can fly too? I am totally jealous. All I can do is throw pointy things."

"My, uh, family died in a massive highway pileup when I was about thirteen. I'm invulnerable to a degree, so I didn't really get hurt so much as the whole thing scared me into not waking up for a while. And yes, I can fly. I figured that out later, and not without causing quite a bit of property damage. So what are these 'pointy' things that you speak of? My mad detective skills tell me that it's a little more complicated than that." She finished.

"I am sorry." Tandy knew what it was like to lose family. "Well yes. Complicated. I don't think your invulnerable will save you from my daggers. I don't hit the skin. I sort of hit the life force of a person. That is what I am calling it anyways. Anything living is affected. Non-living is okay."

"I didn't say it was absolute." Jessica answered, flicking down another card. "I've been hurt before." She added, a bit more quietly. The silence between the pair was interrupted by a knock at the door, the sound of which caused Jessica to grin. "Food's here!" She cried as she floated off of the bed and flew the short distance to the door, planting her feet just as she pulled it open. The food was ushered in without much fanfare and Jessica quickly closed the door before she brought the cart that the food had been brought on toward the bed. "Light daggers, huh? Kinda cool. A little different, to be sure." She finished as she tore into her burger.

"But it is still cool that most thing can't hurt you." She waited until after the hotel room service left before looking at the food. "Yea. I can control them. Before couldn't. I can kind of move them as they are flying through the air to their mark. I rarely miss. So I got ice cream and soda so we can make soda floats. The next best thing for not having milkshakes."

"True. I've been before. Not pleasant, but also not life threatening. Also, sweet, ice cream." Jessica answered as she proceeded to mix the ice cream and soda together. The burger was both hot and salty, and Jessica was suddenly quite parched. "So how do these daggers of yours affect a person? I mean, you said they get hit in the, what was it? Their life force?"

Tandy took a bite of her burger and chewed it before speaking again. "Well, when the New Mutants went up against the internet meme, the tall guys in a suit with a white face, they turned into black scrambled eggs. When my daggers hit humans so far they went into a coma. When they hit a person all that it leaves is a burn mark but not much life left in someone. I hit plants and they all died right away. It is the only thing I can think of that it is called."

Jessica's eyebrows rose. "Internet memes? Seriously? And I'm not knocking your name for it. It's your power, you can call it whatever the fuck you want." Jessica replied with a grin. "I'm just a curious sort of gal, one who's trying to get a handle on the fuckery that goes on around Xavier's. Plus, it's pretty easy to imagine me lifting a car, but throwing daggers of light? That's seriously cool." She finished, punctuating it with a bit of her burger.

"Hungry?" Tandy got off the bed and walked over to the menu next to the phone. "They don't have much but the burger sounds okay." They had been let behind at the hotel waiting for Rogue and Julian to return. "No milkshakes though."

"Starved actually." Jessica answered as she floated over toward Tandy, looking over her shoulder at the menu. She shrugged, too tired to do even the lightest of reading, and she quickly backstroked back over to the bed before collapsing onto it. "No milkshakes? Lame. I'll have whatever you're having. Not original, but I'll take it." She answered.

Tandy picked up the phone and ordered two burgers and ice cream with some soda. After hanging up the phone Tandy turned to her roommate, "Twenty Minutes. Want to play a card game?"

"Name the game, Tandy." Jess replied as she floated up and off of the bed, stretching her arms out to grab hold of a deck of cards laying nearby. She moved back into position and carefully placed the cards into her companion's hand, her stomach rumbling uncontrollably.

"Poker? War? Old Maid? Go fish? That is all I got." She shuffled the deck and looked over at Jessica. "Any of those?""Poker? War? Old Maid? Go fish? That is all I got." She shuffled the deck and looked over at Jessica. "Any of those?"

"I'm a sucker for war. Haven't played that since I was a kid." Jessica replied with a smile.

"War it is." She finished shuffling and started dealing out the cards. "I haven't played in awhile either."

Jessica palmed her cards and flipped the first away from herself, revealing a three of spades. She yawned a bit before brushing a hand through her hair.
"So, I wonder how the other two are doing? I know that Rogue didn't want all of us going and I'd be more likely to start punching people out left and right, but I can't help but worry a little." She asked as Tandy collected the two cards, apparently having won their "confrontation."

"I think they will be fine. Rogue seems like a tough cookie. And if she comes back in tears we will go and beat them up okay?" She smirked as her 9 beat Jessica's 4. "They should be back in a few hours. Maybe sooner, maybe later."

"Beating people up? Awesome. So, Tandy, what made you come to Xavier's? I gotta say, when Julian told me that you were the gal for him, well, I just had to meet you and know more about you." She answered as her jack beat Tandy's measly two.

"Uh - well. My powers manifested and I put several people in a coma. One woke up, the others I think haven't woken up yet. That was two and half years ago. You?" Tandy smirked as they got the same number, pair of fours. "War."

Jessica flicked down the three cards necessary for the confrontation before she began to flip them over in tandem with Tandy. "That...sounds like a bummer. Being a coma itself isn't so bad, you know. I don't remember being in mine. It's the waking up and wondering where all the time has gone that's the disorienting part." Jessica replied, cursing as Tandy won the war and took all of the cards. "As for me, I've had my powers for about eight years now, but I've never really learned my limits or a way that I can use them to help others. Rogue's mentoring me in the former, and I'm hoping that being at Xavier's can help me with the latter." She finished.


"You were in a coma before?" Tandy let out a little cheer when she won the cards. "Yes. It can. I passed out when I manifested. Don't remember much but I ended up at Xavier's a week later. So you can fly too? I am totally jealous. All I can do is throw pointy things."

"My, uh, family died in a massive highway pileup when I was about thirteen. I'm invulnerable to a degree, so I didn't really get hurt so much as the whole thing scared me into not waking up for a while. And yes, I can fly. I figured that out later, and not without causing quite a bit of property damage. So what are these 'pointy' things that you speak of? My mad detective skills tell me that it's a little more complicated than that." She finished.

"I am sorry." Tandy knew what it was like to lose family. "Well yes. Complicated. I don't think your invulnerable will save you from my daggers. I don't hit the skin. I sort of hit the life force of a person. That is what I am calling it anyways. Anything living is affected. Non-living is okay."

"I didn't say it was absolute." Jessica answered, flicking down another card. "I've been hurt before." She added, a bit more quietly. The silence between the pair was interrupted by a knock at the door, the sound of which caused Jessica to grin. "Food's here!" She cried as she floated off of the bed and flew the short distance to the door, planting her feet just as she pulled it open. The food was ushered in without much fanfare and Jessica quickly closed the door before she brought the cart that the food had been brought on toward the bed. "Light daggers, huh? Kinda cool. A little different, to be sure." She finished as she tore into her burger.

"But it is still cool that most thing can't hurt you." She waited until after the hotel room service left before looking at the food. "Yea. I can control them. Before couldn't. I can kind of move them as they are flying through the air to their mark. I rarely miss. So I got ice cream and soda so we can make soda floats. The next best thing for not having milkshakes."

"True. I've been before. Not pleasant, but also not life threatening. Also, sweet, ice cream." Jessica answered as she proceeded to mix the ice cream and soda together. The burger was both hot and salty, and Jessica was suddenly quite parched. "So how do these daggers of yours affect a person? I mean, you said they get hit in the, what was it? Their life force?"

Tandy took a bite of her burger and chewed it before speaking again. "Well, when the New Mutants went up against the internet meme, the tall guys in a suit with a white face, they turned into black scrambled eggs. When my daggers hit humans so far they went into a coma. When they hit a person all that it leaves is a burn mark but not much life left in someone. I hit plants and they all died right away. It is the only thing I can think off that it is called."

"Seriously. I was told if I say their names too much they will come back. I don't want them to come back." Tandy stood up and walked a bit away from Jessica. Holding out her hand, she was able to recreate one dagger before tossing it to the wall. It disappeared as soon as it hit it. "Normally I toss five at a time but also learned how to just create one."

Jessica nodded, impressed, before she hopped off of the bed herself. She clapped her hands together before rubbing them for a few moments. "Alright, watch this." She stated with a grin as she leaned down and grabbed hold of the bed. She pulled upwards, easily lifting the queen sized structure up off off the floor. She continued to lift, holding it above her head for a few moments before she easily set it back down. "Rogue's sure as hell been a good teacher. I'm guessing Angel's been helping you out?" She asked.

"Hungry?" Tandy got off the bed and walked over to the menu next to the phone. "They don't have much but the burger sounds okay." They had been let behind at the hotel waiting for Rogue and Julian to return. "No milkshakes though."

"Starved actually." Jessica answered as she floated over toward Tandy, looking over her shoulder at the menu. She shrugged, too tired to do even the lightest of reading, and she quickly backstroked back over to the bed before collapsing onto it. "No milkshakes? Lame. I'll have whatever you're having. Not original, but I'll take it." She answered.

Tandy picked up the phone and ordered two burgers and ice cream with some soda. After hanging up the phone Tandy turned to her roommate, "Twenty Minutes. Want to play a card game?"

"Name the game, Tandy." Jess replied as she floated up and off of the bed, stretching her arms out to grab hold of a deck of cards laying nearby. She moved back into position and carefully placed the cards into her companion's hand, her stomach rumbling uncontrollably.

"Poker? War? Old Maid? Go fish? That is all I got." She shuffled the deck and looked over at Jessica. "Any of those?""Poker? War? Old Maid? Go fish? That is all I got." She shuffled the deck and looked over at Jessica. "Any of those?"

"I'm a sucker for war. Haven't played that since I was a kid." Jessica replied with a smile.

"War it is." She finished shuffling and started dealing out the cards. "I haven't played in awhile either."

Jessica palmed her cards and flipped the first away from herself, revealing a three of spades. She yawned a bit before brushing a hand through her hair.
"So, I wonder how the other two are doing? I know that Rogue didn't want all of us going and I'd be more likely to start punching people out left and right, but I can't help but worry a little." She asked as Tandy collected the two cards, apparently having won their "confrontation."

"I think they will be fine. Rogue seems like a tough cookie. And if she comes back in tears we will go and beat them up okay?" She smirked as her 9 beat Jessica's 4. "They should be back in a few hours. Maybe sooner, maybe later."

"Beating people up? Awesome. So, Tandy, what made you come to Xavier's? I gotta say, when Julian told me that you were the gal for him, well, I just had to meet you and know more about you." She answered as her jack beat Tandy's measly two.

"Uh - well. My powers manifested and I put several people in a coma. One woke up, the others I think haven't woken up yet. That was two and half years ago. You?" Tandy smirked as they got the same number, pair of fours. "War."

Jessica flicked down the three cards necessary for the confrontation before she began to flip them over in tandem with Tandy. "That...sounds like a bummer. Being a coma itself isn't so bad, you know. I don't remember being in mine. It's the waking up and wondering where all the time has gone that's the disorienting part." Jessica replied, cursing as Tandy won the war and took all of the cards. "As for me, I've had my powers for about eight years now, but I've never really learned my limits or a way that I can use them to help others. Rogue's mentoring me in the former, and I'm hoping that being at Xavier's can help me with the latter." She finished.


"You were in a coma before?" Tandy let out a little cheer when she won the cards. "Yes. It can. I passed out when I manifested. Don't remember much but I ended up at Xavier's a week later. So you can fly too? I am totally jealous. All I can do is throw pointy things."

"My, uh, family died in a massive highway pileup when I was about thirteen. I'm invulnerable to a degree, so I didn't really get hurt so much as the whole thing scared me into not waking up for a while. And yes, I can fly. I figured that out later, and not without causing quite a bit of property damage. So what are these 'pointy' things that you speak of? My mad detective skills tell me that it's a little more complicated than that." She finished.

"I am sorry." Tandy knew what it was like to lose family. "Well yes. Complicated. I don't think your invulnerable will save you from my daggers. I don't hit the skin. I sort of hit the life force of a person. That is what I am calling it anyways. Anything living is affected. Non-living is okay."

"I didn't say it was absolute." Jessica answered, flicking down another card. "I've been hurt before." She added, a bit more quietly. The silence between the pair was interrupted by a knock at the door, the sound of which caused Jessica to grin. "Food's here!" She cried as she floated off of the bed and flew the short distance to the door, planting her feet just as she pulled it open. The food was ushered in without much fanfare and Jessica quickly closed the door before she brought the cart that the food had been brought on toward the bed. "Light daggers, huh? Kinda cool. A little different, to be sure." She finished as she tore into her burger.

"But it is still cool that most thing can't hurt you." She waited until after the hotel room service left before looking at the food. "Yea. I can control them. Before couldn't. I can kind of move them as they are flying through the air to their mark. I rarely miss. So I got ice cream and soda so we can make soda floats. The next best thing for not having milkshakes."

"True. I've been before. Not pleasant, but also not life threatening. Also, sweet, ice cream." Jessica answered as she proceeded to mix the ice cream and soda together. The burger was both hot and salty, and Jessica was suddenly quite parched. "So how do these daggers of yours affect a person? I mean, you said they get hit in the, what was it? Their life force?"

Tandy took a bite of her burger and chewed it before speaking again. "Well, when the New Mutants went up against the internet meme, the tall guys in a suit with a white face, they turned into black scrambled eggs. When my daggers hit humans so far they went into a coma. When they hit a person all that it leaves is a burn mark but not much life left in someone. I hit plants and they all died right away. It is the only thing I can think off that it is called."

Jessica's eyebrows rose. "Internet memes? Seriously? And I'm not knocking your name for it. It's your power, you can call it whatever the fuck you want." Jessica replied with a grin. "I'm just a curious sort of gal, one who's trying to get a handle on the fuckery that goes on around Xavier's. Plus, it's pretty easy to imagine me lifting a car, but throwing daggers of light? That's seriously cool." She finished, punctuating it with a bit of her burger.


"Seriously. I was told if I say their names too much they will come back. I don't want them to come back." Tandy stood up and walked a bit away from Jessica. Holding out her hand, she was able to recreate one dagger before tossing it to the wall. It disappeared as soon as it hit it. "Normally I toss five at a time but also learned how to just create one."
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"I wonder if we could re-organize the room and leave the people here scratching their heads on how we did it." Tandy smirked. "No. Not Angel so much. Mr. W has, with throwing daggers. I don't really practice on others cause I can't control how much life force I put into my dagger. One day maybe."

"Oh my god, we totally should. Let's get Julian in here too, these beds should be big enough for his TK to work properly." She agreed. "Also, Mr. W? Sorry, I still haven't met like half the people around here." She asked. "And, if you're curious, I know what it's like to not have control. I was deathly afraid of turning people into paste when I was a kid. Seriously, it just takes a little time." She added.

"Oh sorry. Wade Wilson. He isn't a professor or anything but it is like extra training. And yea..Julian. Don't think he need much convincing."

"Wade Wilson. Got it. I'll have to say 'hi' to him sometime. So, want to keep playing?" Jessica asked, gesturing to the pile of cards that had thankfully been left undisturbed by her power lifting the bed. "So what do you do for fun? I mean, training's necessary, but it's not always fun." She added.

"Sure." She grabbed her hamburger and walked back over to the bed. "A number of things. I go to fashion shows a few times a year and shopping a lot. But mostly I help my uncles church. He runs a homeless shelter in the basement near District X. Mutant friendly and all."

"Mutant town? I've got some contacts there." Jessica replied. "That's...great that you're doing that Tandy. The world's not so kind to anyone, especially people like us." She finished.

"Do you? It is the best I can do giving the circumstances. Many people don't like rich girls helping out. Some think I am only doing it for publicity."

"Yeah, during the whole Apocalypse debacle, I was there with other mutants, separated from my parents. They really helped me out. And hey, fuck everyone else. You do what you do for you. To hell with them." Jessica answered with a grin.

"I want there for that. My uncle was and he won't talk about it. But yes." Tandy lifted up a soda can "To hell what people think."

Jessica chugged the remainder of her ice cream float, her head tingling in slight pain as a brain freeze made itself known. She did her best not to cringe, and quickly brought out the cards once more to resume the game.
"Be glad. It obviously wasn't the best. I was just a girl back then, didn't know much about anything. So, did you know Rogue before we planned this trip? I know that I hadn't met you yet, but our sassy Southern gal is a bit more social than I am." Jessica joked as she took one of Tandy's cards for her own.

Tandy looked down at the cards being played. "I met Rogue after..." She paused and bit her lower lip. She met Rogue after hanging out with Julian. "She let me stay in the art room after taking a dip in the lake. She was very nice."

"I have a serious girl crush on her, I tell you. It also helps that she's, you know, tough as shit and can instruct me on how to be such." Jessica replied as she popped a few fries in her mouth. She scrunched up her face. They needed salt. "So you and Julian. How'd that get started? We met at Catseye's place." Jessica replied.

"I don't blame you." She smirked at Jessica's confession of a girl crush on Rogue. Her smirk faded as she flipped another card that set off another war. "We-uh. Meet on the roof after I was possessed by a demon."

"Demonic possession? Really? So did he swoop in in save you like some cheesy flick?" Jessica teased, hoping to make the situation little lighter.

Tandy got a little chuckle out of that one. "No. Amanda and her students did most of that. SWORD and SHIELD were there as well. We met after that fact and me feeling bad because I killed --Dweller killed, some innocence." She pulled down her shirt to reveal her shoulder that had the mark on it. "His mark."

"Amanda? She's the badass witch lady right? SWORD? SHIELD? I guess I don't really need to know. And...I'm not going to go into details. We just met. But...I know what that's like. Obviously, my situation wasn't quite the same but...I feel for you, Tandy. I really do." Jessica answered, her voice slowly growing softer until it was just a whisper. Her bone crushing hand was gentle as she patted Tandy's arm a few times, hoping the gesture was one of understanding rather than a condescending one.

"It was a party." Tandy reflected. "And you really don't want to know the details. Though I think the New York Times made an article on it. 'New York Invaded by Demons!'" She looked at Jessica. "Thanks. I hate demons. I am taking some magic lessons with Amanda, though I don't have a magical bone in my body it is just good to know what I am dealing with. Just in cause they decide to pop up again in my life."

Jessica smiled.
"Definitely get what you mean. I'm hoping my time here at Xavier's will prepare me for whatever shit may go down in my life from here on out." She replied. She held up the little bit of soda that she had left in the can from earlier, as though to toast. "Here's to being prepared and getting our shit together!" She cried with a grin.

"I can toast to that." She raised her soda and toasted to Jessica.