Log: Tandy, Roxy, Monet, Bobby and Julian - Snowball fight || Bowler Reunited

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Tandy comes across a few of the Gen X kids while looking for Julian.



She had been told that he would be outside with a group of teens called Generation X. Sounded more fancy than New Murants. Bundled in Adri's winter jacket and boots, she made her way into the woods out back. Tandy didn't get far when she came across a snowman, "Hello?" She must be close.

Roxy was crouched behind a bank created by snow and undergrowth, the whole thing partially obscured by a copse of trees. She nearly fired a snowball when she saw the young woman arrive but when she called out her greeting, Roxy held off. Another combatant wouldn't announce themselves, right? So chances were good this was an innocent bystander. But maybe she'd better check first. "Friend or foe? State your business or prepare to die!" she yelled playfully, still hiding.

Loud snickering came from the snowman, who, if one were to look closely, could be seen to be visibly shaking along with the snickering. Bobby wasn't the best at keeping secrets, sadly, but he tried his best to remain quiet and wait to totally surprise them with his awesome disguise.

"Prepare to die?" Tandy smirked and added playfully back. "Going to snowball me to death?" Hearing a noise coming from the snowman. "Did you build this snowman?"

Monet rolled her eyes at the situation. She was outside and though she couldn't feel the cold, the endless white coloring was really starting to get on her nerves. More than that, she just couldn't understand what joy could be found in pelting one another with spheres of frozen water. Still, the other Gen X kids had decided to participate, and Monet was hardly one to pass on a chance to be competitive. She bent down, careful not to get her designer jeans wet, and quickly balled up a mass of snow in her hands. She'd been told that this was a powers free exercise, but they'd hardly know if she added just a bit of extra force. Not enough to do any damage, but just enough to give her throws a little extra oomph. She bent back, careful to be quiet, and tossed the ball forward, aiming for the young woman in the clearing.

Tandy froze for a moment, it was the same sensation she had when about to be ambushed - thanks Baldr. She moved out of the way as the snowball hit her shoulder instead of her chest. "Now it is war." She smirked and picked up snow and threw it back, with her well placed aim. Now she had to be careful, because she might had just started an all out snowball fight.

Roxy had been staring at the snickering snowman, frowning contemplatively. But then there were snowballs flying and she couldn't let Monet have all the fun. Unfortunately she wasn't great with hand-eye coordination so none of her pre-made snowballs actually hit their mark, but it was fun to help add to the chaos of the whole scene with the little missiles flying everywhere.

Unable to stand it anymore, Bobby finally gave in to temptation and let loose with his powers, exploding snow outward and revealing himself. "SNOWBALL FIIIIIIGHT!" He spun around in a circle, arms outstretched and flinging out snowballs in random directions as he did so, clearly in his glee.

Monet cursed loud and long as Bobby's snowballs sailed through the air around her. She threw herself up into the air to avoid being hit, all while gathering snow off of a nearby tree.

"Robert!" She called, annoyed. Hitting Tandy be damned, Monet couldn't resist tossing a snowball Bobby's way. His powers probably protected him, but it sure made her feel better. Monet remained hovering, before she looked down to see her roommate below. "How you hangin in, Rox?" She asked.

Roxy was squealing with laughter as she was hit with some of Bobby's snowballs and looked up at Monet flying overhead. "So cold!" she yelled, though she was grinning. "Bobby! We're gonna get you for this! Monet! Can you pin him down? New chick! Can you... do something? I don't know what! Flanking? Is that a thing?"

Tandy held up her arms to shield her face from the onslaught of snowballs. "It totally is a thing. Take to the right, I'll go left. He can't get his eyes on all of us." Tandy moved through the snow with ease as she gathered up a few more snow and pact them to make snowballs before unleashing to the boy who was once a snowman.

"THERE IS NO ROBERT, ONLY ZUUL!" he exclaimed while cackling. "Feel the wrath of the snowpocalypse!" Forming a large ice shield in one hand, he continued shooting out snowballs with the other. Once he'd thrown a few dozen or so he leapt into the air and started making ice trails, zooming around the area to present a moving target to them.

Monet took off after Bobby, dipping down low to gather up some snow in her hands. She quickly compacted it in her strong grip and began to rain down snowy, icy death toward her charge.

"Must you move like a jack rabbit in heat!? Stand still!" She cried, a bit of a laugh in her voice. She turned to her other teammates. "I get that you're all stunned by my perfection, but perhaps it's time to pick up your jaws and help!" She called.

"I'd help if I could freaking hit anything!" Roxy responded grouchily, throwing snowball after snowball but missing each target.

"Ol’ Zuula you nut." Tandy commented back at the boy named Robert. It seemed like had frost powers and Tandy already had plenty of experience fighting Frost Giants. Picking up some snow and she watched as he zoomed around before letting one go, while dodging the snowballs he had thrown.

Bobby continued flying around on his slides until Tandy's snowball hit him. It didn't really affect him and he threw his head back and laughed at the impact. "Hah! That's like throwing water at a, uh. A water monster!"

As he laughed he stopped paying attention to where he was going and he doubled back toward one of his own ice ramps, banging his head on it and falling to the ground.

"OW DAMMIT." He was ok but he was now a sitting duck, whoops.

Monet pounced then, mentally urging herself to fly through the air and land atop the fallen Bobby. She easily hauled him to his feet, careful to mind the bump on his head, and quickly put him into a full nelson.

"Alright Drake, prepare to get it." She whispered in his ear as a sly grin came onto her face. "Hey guys, I've got him! Come take a free shot. The little loser deserves it." She called, half-playfully.

Sound slowly faded away as the sky grew dim. A massive green and white globe of snow was floating overhead, suspended in the air over Monet and Robert as they tussled about on the ground. The orb sagged slightly then the green energy containing it fell away, and the mountain of snow fell- fortunately, loosely- upon the students.

Behind the giant ball of snow, Julian suppressed a smirk, floating in the air, bundled up for the winter(ish) weather as he did his very best Scott Summers impression- arms crossed over his chest and a very stern look on his face. "Was there a part of the activity that was unclear, Mister Drake? Perhaps the part about no powers being used?"

"What? I didn't hear that part." Bobby said, perhaps not totally honestly. Using his powers even as he said that, he cleared away the vast majority of the snow around himself and got back to his feet. "Besides, you seriously can't expect someone like me to not use powers like these in a situation like this, can you?" If you did you probably didn't know him all that well.

"Yeah, c'mon, Keller," Roxy called out, trying to hit Julian with a snowball as she slid down one of Bobby's ice ramps but missing by several feet, "you can't expect Bobby to actually be mature when it comes to snowball fights. Besides, we've got extra participants everywhere now. First the hot blonde, now Bobby. I think this thing's descended into a free-for-all at this point. I say, anything goes!"

"I don't care who shows-" Julian had noted the presence of a stranger when he was descending toward the chilly chaos of the snowball fight, but had written her off. "It can't be..." he said too softly to be heard by anyone without super-senses or telepathy. She was dead...how was she here? A shapeshifter perhaps...but how would a shapeshifter know to take that form? "Bow?" The world around him suddenly went dark as he felt a sinking feeling pressing down on him.

Unbeknownst to the now unconscious instructor, he was sinking- falling fast toward the powdery snow below. He hit a snow bank with enough force to cause a flurry of snow to dust up around him.

"Julian..." Tandy moved through the snow with little effort thanks to her training. She knelt down beside him and looked to the rest. "Sorry guys. I made your instructor faint." She pulled off her glove and gentle patted his cheek. "Hey you can't do that in front of your peeps. Wake up."

Monet stared from her position floating above the snow battered teens. She watched Julian fall, but did not descend herself until a few moments later. She padded over to him and knelt next to the blonde.

"I do not believe that you and I have had the pleasure of meeting. My name is Monet St. Croix, lovely to meet you. Obviously, Mr. Keller seems to have fainted. Perhaps we should bring him inside, where he's less likely to attract both frost bite and embarrassment. I could easily carry him for you." She offered.

Tandy looked over at the younger girl that approached her and she smiled, "Tandy Bowen. Nice to meet you." She looked at the other two and nodded in recognition. "Yes. We should bring him inside. There is a boat house that is closer. And you can carry him?" Tan looked back at the fainted Julian. "I think embarrassment has already happened." She stood up and looked in the direction of the boat house.

"Boat house?" Roxy asked, confused. She followed the hot blonde's gaze. "That place? Isn't that the art therapy studio or something? And shouldn't someone go get a doctor?"

"A bit of both. Is there a teacher there currently?" She looked at Roxy with a tilt in her head. "I don't remember the schools schedule..." It has been too long. She quickly looked over him and saw no blood or bruising forming. She then lifted on of his eye lids and formed a dagger in her hand and started to wave it in front of him, careful not to let her dagger touch his skin or he would really need to go to the hospital. "He'll be fine." The dagger disappeared from her hand, "But we should get him to somewhere warm."

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"Alright mates, let's get a move on." Monet stated as she lifted up off the ground, carrying Julian toward the boathouse while gesturing with her head for the others to follow.




Julian finally wakes up from his fainting and he and Tandy share some alone time.


Tandy watched as the rest of the kids walk back to the mansion and closed the door. "They seem nice." She turned to face Julian, "You have no idea how happy I am to see that you survived. I would had come to you sooner but had to see Adri first and shower."

The shock of seeing his dead girlfriend alive again was starting to fade, "They are good kids," he responded- avoiding the elephant of an issue that she'd not come right to him. "As for the other thing, we aren't supposed to talk about it...and some of them have very good hearing." He drew the curtains on all the windows with his telekinesis.

"Do they?" She looked back at the door and mad sure it was really closed. "Yea she mentioned that." Tan had to remember not to say anything. "Man. Remember we took shelter here when we went skydiving and dove into the lake. It seemed so long ago." She unzipped her jacket before turning to face him. "I am guessing this is a shock...on why I am not dead, why I look older and yet still remember everything."

Julian nodded, "Sue didn't remember a thing...oh, she's my BFF by the way. Friends since childhood." He shrugged and started the small gas furnace in the center of the room, then grabbed a stool and sat down next to it, waiting for the room to warm up- silence filling the vacuum.

At the mention of Sue her hand went to the necklace around her neck to a small blue stone next to the charms Julian had given to her at Christmas. "I see..." She whispered and walked over to stand beside him. "Are you okay? I mean seeing me like this?"

He didn't answer at first, then, "I want to be." Julian paused again, then turned, finally meeting her eyes, "You were dead...I've been...mourning you for weeks."

"I should had died but Paige owed Valkeryies a deal and I ended up in Asgard as a Thrall for four years. Would had been longer but Loki is an asshole and it ended up letting us stay here." She knelt down beside him. "And I grieved for you and everyone. I had no idea what happened or if Earth still existed."

Her voice sounded different, was there a hint of an accent? "So," he closed his eyes, "you spent years on another dimensional plane or planet or whatever? Surrounded by immortal gods...and you had no idea what was happening here?"

"Well one god mainly. I served under him...Kind of like his padiwan. Four years...four and I come back and it has only been two months. Mind blown." She even animated her mind being blown. "But I never stopped thinking about you...about the last time I saw...you."

Julian was speechless...more so than he'd been so far. "When was the last time you saw me?" he asked suddenly- he had to be certain this was Tandy, and not some trick of Xorn.

"When you left that note so you can sneak off to India and I am so grateful that I ran after you. Then the mansion..." Memories flooded back to her as her eyes started to water again. "I thought I wouldn't see anyone again." Looking down at the ground unable to face him.

His eyes were open again, now focused on her entirely. Her one-time boyfriend reached out and brushed the back of his hand against her cheek, there was a familiarity in the touch, "I know. I saw." He didn't want to force her, but he needed to look into her eyes.

When he brushed against her cheek, she leaned into it. She forced those emotions, ones she came to terms with, back down - her skin was glowing slightly. Finally she looked up at him, "I am me."

He smiled weakly in turn, "You are. And...I'm still me. The first night we met was at my welcome Julian Keller to New York party- we danced...and got photographed dancing together." He reached down and took her hand, "You're my age now then?"

"Bowler." She nodded remembering. "I think so. Time is all screwed up for me at the moment. Like majorly so. I can get over the fact that two months only has gone by."

"What has Adrienne told you?" he looked concerned for a moment, then took a quick step forward to embrace her in a tight, inescapable hug. "Never mind, I'm just so glad you're alive!"

She didn't have time to answer before she was pulled into a hug. Tandy closed her eyes and hugged him back, "You did promise me you would come back, what kind of girlfriend would I be if I went and got myself killed before you could fulfill that promise?"

Julian guffawed, pulling back and looking into her beautiful blue eyes, tears welling up in his. "There were so many things I wanted to say to you after...everything. But only one jumps out in my mind as important." He paused, "I'm sorry I left."

She shook her head, she reached up with both hands and placed them on his cheek, "Don't. You kept your promise and that is good enough for me. We are here now and in a way we got a second chance."

Their lips met again, longer, only breaking when Julian rested his forehead against hers, and whispered, "I love you."

She smirked a bit and leaned in and gave him another kiss. "I know."