Shiro & Alex, backdated to Tuesday
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xp_logsAlex finds Shiro in the library on Tuesday afternoon, reading the reports that Scott assigned. Alex wigs out just a bit when Shiro tells him that he's a trainee, but they drop the subject and instead talk about cross-dressing.
Shiro usually did his homework in his own room, because he liked the privacy and lack of intrusion. But now he had a million or so things that Scott had assigned him to read, and his room was proving too distracting. It was hard to resist the call of e-mail sometimes. So he had taken a handful of reports and settled in the back of the library, forcing himself to concentrate. "Tsumaranai . . ." he moaned, finishing up one about a petty thief named Avalanche from a couple of months ago and picking up one about the team retrieving Remy for the first time well over a year ago.
Alex had wandered into the library to pick up some books for Lorna and couldn't miss the familiar curse of Japanese coming from the back corner. Sticking his head around the bookcase, he grinned when he saw Shiro. "Hey Shiro, whatcha reading?"
"Apparently there is a mutant whose power is to bite people and kill them," Shiro replied. "Mister Kylun slapped him with his sword to knock him out. And he called himself Mad Dog. What a sick bastard."
Frowning Alex moved so he could look over Shiro's shoulder. "Umm dude, why are you reading the X-Men mission logs?" He had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach but he had to know.
"I want to sleep but have run out of pills." Although this report was getting almost interesting. Remy did quite a number of the retrieval team before they managed to subdue him.
"Haha, have I ever mentioned you not funny? Seriously dude...they don't usually let students read those..." Alex settled down in a nearby chair, sitting backwards so he could lean on the back.
"They never let students read these, my friend, unless the students are training for the team." Shiro couldn't help but grin as he said that, and looked up from the report to look at Alex, hoping for a positive reaction.
Alex bit the inside of lip to prevent him from saying anything rude, which was his first response. "Oh...so you’re a trainee now huh?" He couldn't help but add Shiro to his list of people to mother hen now.
"I spoke with your brother on Friday, and with Professor Xavier yesterday. As of this morning, I am an official X-Man trainee," he announced proudly. But he sobered when he noticed Alex's expression. While he wasn't openly disappointed, the fact that he was not jumping for joy with Shiro clued him in to his feelings. "I am not going to get myself hurt, you know."
Alex shook his head, realizing his thoughts were clear on his face. "I...I know." He closed his eyes and sighed. "I'm happy for you Shiro...I really am. It's just hard for me to show it when another person I love is going to be in danger...Selfish I know, sorry." He gave Shiro a weak smile, which is as much as he could manage. "So, they trying to bore you to death with those reports?"
"I am not going to get myself hurt," Shiro repeated, saying it slowly and looking intensely at Alex, before sitting back in his seat and closing the folder. "I believe that your brother is using these to test my dedication. If I can actually read everything he assigns, then I must really want to be an X-Man."
"Are you reading all of them, or just ones he assigns?" He couldn't help but sound nervous. He knew there was a report about him in there and while he didn't mind Shiro reading it, the thought of the other trainees finding out exactly what happened made him nervous.
"He is assigning all of them," Shiro said wryly. "Even the performance reviews that Alison, Dayspring, and Mr. al Rashid wrote about me from Muir Island. I am keeping those for last, though. My pride cannot suffer such a blow just yet." He blinked, picking up the tension in Alex's tone. "Why do you ask? You sound anxious."
Looking up at him through blonde bangs, Alex chewed absently on his lower lip. "I'm just wondering how detailed my rescue file is...I mean, has it been updated with new information since. It's not exactly information I want the other trainees seeing...you I don't mind of course, you already know anyway...but the rest of them...I don't know..."
"Mr. Summers" - it was really odd referring to him as such around Alex, but Shiro could not bring himself to utter his first name - "told me that many of the files he gives me are incomplete because they are ongoing investigations. Yours is one of them, because we have not yet ultimately dealt with the Black Queen. So I probably know more already than Paige, Doug, or Colbert do, just because the White Queen and I were the ones to rescue you, and because you have told me about what happened."
Alex visibly sighed with relief. "Thank god...And you know what detail I'm worried about right?" Alex didn't think he could take the other teenagers knowing exactly what had happened. Then he shook his head. "Enough talking about that. What other tortures does my brother have you doing?"
"You can ask your brother if that particular detail is on the complete file," Shiro suggested, "If you are that worried about it. But as far as I am concerned, it stays between us. And this is all I have so far. The actual training does not begin until I make my way through all this."
"Ick, seeing if they can bore you to death first...I'm sure Paige had a ball with this first step..." Alex tried very hard to lighten the mood, grinning as he laughed softly. "Bet you can't wait for the real training to begin..."
Shiro grinned. "I just have to keep reminding myself that the reward for suffering through this is great. I am not looking forward to training with others, but it is something that everyone has tried to get me to do. Well, certain others, at least. I imagine that running a simulation with Cyclops would be invigorating and rewarding, if not exhausting as well."
Shaking his head at the use of Scott's code name, Alex laughed softly. "Oh I'm sure Scott is going to run you ragged. He's been working with me in the danger room via Hank's orders so maybe I'll get in with you too every once in a while."
"It would be a good chance to see how our powers interact, yes. I wonder if I could take you on missions to be my personal battery," Shiro teased. "You can even have your own uniform. And a dumb codename like Commander Kaboom. You know that Marko thinks I should be called Captain Napalm?"
Alex couldn't resist the temptation to stick his tongue out at Shiro. "You know I want no part in your little super hero gig. And better that than what the girls had planned for you, I heard Lorna giggling about Usagi something earlier..."
Shiro rolled his eyes at that. "Your brother titled the post on the X-Men message board something about bunnies, and Colbert thought that I ought to be called Usagi-chan, which is Japanese for bunny. It is also Sailormoon's real name, so Lorna thought I should dress up in a sailor uniform." He shuddered at the thought. "What is it with her and trying to get men to wear women's clothing?"
"Don't ask me, she hasn't tired it on me yet. She just has an affinity for dressing me up as super heroes...she even brought me back an Indiana Jones hat from Disneyland, for her own amusement of course..." Alex grinned a Shiro. "You know Clarice would help if they decided to do it..."
"Has she put you in leather yet? No wait, do not tell me. I did not ask that." Shiro randomly picked up another file and opened it. This one was from over two years ago, when Storm and Cyclops found Logan and Marie and brought them to the mansion. "Hmm. Clarice would have too much fun with that. Let us never give her the idea."
"I'll try to make sure Lorna doesn't get the idea into her head..." In other words, Alex was going to be dropping clues all night. "And no pervert, no leather."
"I will blow up something important if you tell her," Shiro warned, skimming over the short report. Logan's RV crashed, one of Magneto's men attacked, the X-Men fought him, the RV exploded, the end. Not riveting. "Or I will tell her to make a fuku for you as well."
"You wouldn't... The Charlie's Angels comparison was bad enough!" Alex gave Shiro a teasing pout. "Come on, it would be funny..."
"Do not doubt for a minute that I would," Shiro returned. "If I have to suffer in a skirt, then you do as well. I am not going about that alone."
"Meanie." Alex stuck his tongue out. "Now I'll make sure Lorna hears about this, I'm not above hiding behind my girlfriend."
Shiro mock-glared at Alex. "You will be sorry if you do. Remember, your girlfriend knows how to dress well. But if I sic my girlfriend on you, then you will be purple and covered in sparkles. I like that in a girl, but I doubt that you like that in yourself."
Now Alex really did shudder. "Like I said, you are an evil, evil boy..." Swatting at Shiro playfully, he stood up and scooted the chair under the table. "I guess I'll leave you to your report, don't fall asleep now, ya hear?"
"And just think. I will be even more evil once I have begun proper training and adopt your brother's tactics and strategies." Shiro grinned menacingly. "I will see you at dinner," he called, randomly picking up yet another file.
"I'm not worried, I have Cyclops, Beast and Polaris to protect me from the evil Usagi-Chan!" Alex threw over his shoulder as he went to get the books for Lorna.
Shiro usually did his homework in his own room, because he liked the privacy and lack of intrusion. But now he had a million or so things that Scott had assigned him to read, and his room was proving too distracting. It was hard to resist the call of e-mail sometimes. So he had taken a handful of reports and settled in the back of the library, forcing himself to concentrate. "Tsumaranai . . ." he moaned, finishing up one about a petty thief named Avalanche from a couple of months ago and picking up one about the team retrieving Remy for the first time well over a year ago.
Alex had wandered into the library to pick up some books for Lorna and couldn't miss the familiar curse of Japanese coming from the back corner. Sticking his head around the bookcase, he grinned when he saw Shiro. "Hey Shiro, whatcha reading?"
"Apparently there is a mutant whose power is to bite people and kill them," Shiro replied. "Mister Kylun slapped him with his sword to knock him out. And he called himself Mad Dog. What a sick bastard."
Frowning Alex moved so he could look over Shiro's shoulder. "Umm dude, why are you reading the X-Men mission logs?" He had a bad feeling in the pit of his stomach but he had to know.
"I want to sleep but have run out of pills." Although this report was getting almost interesting. Remy did quite a number of the retrieval team before they managed to subdue him.
"Haha, have I ever mentioned you not funny? Seriously dude...they don't usually let students read those..." Alex settled down in a nearby chair, sitting backwards so he could lean on the back.
"They never let students read these, my friend, unless the students are training for the team." Shiro couldn't help but grin as he said that, and looked up from the report to look at Alex, hoping for a positive reaction.
Alex bit the inside of lip to prevent him from saying anything rude, which was his first response. "Oh...so you’re a trainee now huh?" He couldn't help but add Shiro to his list of people to mother hen now.
"I spoke with your brother on Friday, and with Professor Xavier yesterday. As of this morning, I am an official X-Man trainee," he announced proudly. But he sobered when he noticed Alex's expression. While he wasn't openly disappointed, the fact that he was not jumping for joy with Shiro clued him in to his feelings. "I am not going to get myself hurt, you know."
Alex shook his head, realizing his thoughts were clear on his face. "I...I know." He closed his eyes and sighed. "I'm happy for you Shiro...I really am. It's just hard for me to show it when another person I love is going to be in danger...Selfish I know, sorry." He gave Shiro a weak smile, which is as much as he could manage. "So, they trying to bore you to death with those reports?"
"I am not going to get myself hurt," Shiro repeated, saying it slowly and looking intensely at Alex, before sitting back in his seat and closing the folder. "I believe that your brother is using these to test my dedication. If I can actually read everything he assigns, then I must really want to be an X-Man."
"Are you reading all of them, or just ones he assigns?" He couldn't help but sound nervous. He knew there was a report about him in there and while he didn't mind Shiro reading it, the thought of the other trainees finding out exactly what happened made him nervous.
"He is assigning all of them," Shiro said wryly. "Even the performance reviews that Alison, Dayspring, and Mr. al Rashid wrote about me from Muir Island. I am keeping those for last, though. My pride cannot suffer such a blow just yet." He blinked, picking up the tension in Alex's tone. "Why do you ask? You sound anxious."
Looking up at him through blonde bangs, Alex chewed absently on his lower lip. "I'm just wondering how detailed my rescue file is...I mean, has it been updated with new information since. It's not exactly information I want the other trainees seeing...you I don't mind of course, you already know anyway...but the rest of them...I don't know..."
"Mr. Summers" - it was really odd referring to him as such around Alex, but Shiro could not bring himself to utter his first name - "told me that many of the files he gives me are incomplete because they are ongoing investigations. Yours is one of them, because we have not yet ultimately dealt with the Black Queen. So I probably know more already than Paige, Doug, or Colbert do, just because the White Queen and I were the ones to rescue you, and because you have told me about what happened."
Alex visibly sighed with relief. "Thank god...And you know what detail I'm worried about right?" Alex didn't think he could take the other teenagers knowing exactly what had happened. Then he shook his head. "Enough talking about that. What other tortures does my brother have you doing?"
"You can ask your brother if that particular detail is on the complete file," Shiro suggested, "If you are that worried about it. But as far as I am concerned, it stays between us. And this is all I have so far. The actual training does not begin until I make my way through all this."
"Ick, seeing if they can bore you to death first...I'm sure Paige had a ball with this first step..." Alex tried very hard to lighten the mood, grinning as he laughed softly. "Bet you can't wait for the real training to begin..."
Shiro grinned. "I just have to keep reminding myself that the reward for suffering through this is great. I am not looking forward to training with others, but it is something that everyone has tried to get me to do. Well, certain others, at least. I imagine that running a simulation with Cyclops would be invigorating and rewarding, if not exhausting as well."
Shaking his head at the use of Scott's code name, Alex laughed softly. "Oh I'm sure Scott is going to run you ragged. He's been working with me in the danger room via Hank's orders so maybe I'll get in with you too every once in a while."
"It would be a good chance to see how our powers interact, yes. I wonder if I could take you on missions to be my personal battery," Shiro teased. "You can even have your own uniform. And a dumb codename like Commander Kaboom. You know that Marko thinks I should be called Captain Napalm?"
Alex couldn't resist the temptation to stick his tongue out at Shiro. "You know I want no part in your little super hero gig. And better that than what the girls had planned for you, I heard Lorna giggling about Usagi something earlier..."
Shiro rolled his eyes at that. "Your brother titled the post on the X-Men message board something about bunnies, and Colbert thought that I ought to be called Usagi-chan, which is Japanese for bunny. It is also Sailormoon's real name, so Lorna thought I should dress up in a sailor uniform." He shuddered at the thought. "What is it with her and trying to get men to wear women's clothing?"
"Don't ask me, she hasn't tired it on me yet. She just has an affinity for dressing me up as super heroes...she even brought me back an Indiana Jones hat from Disneyland, for her own amusement of course..." Alex grinned a Shiro. "You know Clarice would help if they decided to do it..."
"Has she put you in leather yet? No wait, do not tell me. I did not ask that." Shiro randomly picked up another file and opened it. This one was from over two years ago, when Storm and Cyclops found Logan and Marie and brought them to the mansion. "Hmm. Clarice would have too much fun with that. Let us never give her the idea."
"I'll try to make sure Lorna doesn't get the idea into her head..." In other words, Alex was going to be dropping clues all night. "And no pervert, no leather."
"I will blow up something important if you tell her," Shiro warned, skimming over the short report. Logan's RV crashed, one of Magneto's men attacked, the X-Men fought him, the RV exploded, the end. Not riveting. "Or I will tell her to make a fuku for you as well."
"You wouldn't... The Charlie's Angels comparison was bad enough!" Alex gave Shiro a teasing pout. "Come on, it would be funny..."
"Do not doubt for a minute that I would," Shiro returned. "If I have to suffer in a skirt, then you do as well. I am not going about that alone."
"Meanie." Alex stuck his tongue out. "Now I'll make sure Lorna hears about this, I'm not above hiding behind my girlfriend."
Shiro mock-glared at Alex. "You will be sorry if you do. Remember, your girlfriend knows how to dress well. But if I sic my girlfriend on you, then you will be purple and covered in sparkles. I like that in a girl, but I doubt that you like that in yourself."
Now Alex really did shudder. "Like I said, you are an evil, evil boy..." Swatting at Shiro playfully, he stood up and scooted the chair under the table. "I guess I'll leave you to your report, don't fall asleep now, ya hear?"
"And just think. I will be even more evil once I have begun proper training and adopt your brother's tactics and strategies." Shiro grinned menacingly. "I will see you at dinner," he called, randomly picking up yet another file.
"I'm not worried, I have Cyclops, Beast and Polaris to protect me from the evil Usagi-Chan!" Alex threw over his shoulder as he went to get the books for Lorna.
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Date: 2005-04-14 07:36 pm (UTC)I think Mars is a better fit for Colbert. They both have prophetic visions, and they are both
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Date: 2005-04-14 07:38 pm (UTC)Rei has black hair. Or are you talking about the general color association?
Storm is Jupiter. Lightning powers, yay!
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Date: 2005-04-14 07:40 pm (UTC)I think that you and Ms. Munroe tie for Jupiter. She has the lightning powers, but you are green and love to cook.
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Date: 2005-04-14 07:47 pm (UTC)For that matter who should be Uranus and Neptune?
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Date: 2005-04-14 07:59 pm (UTC)Neptune, hmm, prissy, musical, water powers...I got nothing.
Uranus, tomboy, racer, earth powers... I still got nothing. Paige? You know, without the lesbian part?