xp_logs | Shatterstar and Kevin M.

Kevin M and Shatterstar have a horrible, no-good, very bad first meeting.

Kevin still didn’t like the house. It was big yes, but it was enclosed and there were too many walls between him and outside.

But Davey was inside in this thing he called an “office.” Kevin didn’t necessarily “need” anything - but he wasn’t keen on not being around the other man. He paced around the closed door- upset that it had been locked.

Shatterstar was also looking for Haller, wanting to talk to the older man about making post high school plans and looking for a ~~father figure~~ adult perspective.

There was someone also at Haller's door.

Not just someone, but the man who had been taking up all of Haller's time. Not, of course, that Shatterstar was jealous.

He refused to budge and stood in front of the other, glaring at him.

Kevin didn't stop pacing just because there was now a body in the way, he just slightly altered his course. A caged animal did not stop being caged just because there was now a second animal in the cage, after all.

Shatterstar stood right on the way and kept glaring. Petty enough to even keep moving into Kevin's way.

There were some things Kevin was known for. Confusion, his temper, his curiosity certainly. But definitely not his patience nor his manners. "Why are ye bein a cunt?"

"Why do you take up all of Haller's time?" Shatterstar said, with his own lack of patience and his own temper, his own hackles raised.

He knew he wasn't being reasonable. He hardly felt fully Shatterstar though.

Haller? Kevin's brow furrowed until he remembered that most of the people here seemed to call the man that.

"Davey, he's..." They weren't 'friends' exactly, Kevin didn't really know what those were and this Davey wasn't the Davey he knew. But- "He's all a've got."

"Get someone else too." Shatterstar said venomously. It might have been good advice, but the way he said it was far from advice.

He couldn't stop himself from the selfish jealousy; even though he had plenty of others. But Haller was the first person he had. And that had to count for something.

Kevin’s eyes narrowed, defensive. This place had been so different until now. What had he done to be hated? Exist? Finally experience connection? He’d been good. He’d followed all of Davey’s weird rules and hadn’t destroyed the house and had learned how to sit on a couch and that pillows and beds could be soft.

“I don’ ken how.”

Shatterstar hated him even more in that moment, for being as he had once been, as he still was. Unsure around others, unsure about himself, awkward and cagey. It was a bad reflection. It was one he wanted to get away from.

He lashed out, repeating things he had told himself a thousand times.

"Nobody knows how! They just do!"

Kevin glowed a bit though he didn’t do anything, just trying to make himself bigger. A defense mechanism.

“The people here? Where A’m from they killed me!” Kevin yelled. “People here think I’m bad, and I didnae do anythin’ but no understand!”

"That's all you need to do!" Shatterstar said back, voice raised and not fully himself. His hands were fists and the air wavered. There was noise rising.

He wasn't 'Star at all, really. He... He had to leave before they destroyed something. He couldn't get 'Star in trouble, even if he did want to fight this fully grown man.

He glared, young and angry and tried to remember how their powers worked so he could stop them. He didn't want to run away.

Kevin glared, arms wrapping around himself tightly even as the glow he was emitting got stronger- trying to make himself look bigger as he made himself smaller. “I didnae do anything to you!”

Haller would be so upset with them if they got in a powers fight with his little lapdog, but he (whichever he he was right now) couldn't remember how to tamp his powers down.

He didn't want to run away. But there was only one thing for it.

He shoved Kevin aside and ran, needed to get outside so he could release a wave of sound in peace.