http://jono-stars.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] jono-stars.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] xmutanthigh2010-09-23 02:43 pm

[scene/open log] An impromptu class trip

Characters: EVERYONE! Really. Jump right in.
Setting: The mansion.
Content: After talking with Ali and having an emo-regression (as she called it), Jono suddenly realized that he could not leave this situation with his ex-girlfriend unresolved anymore. He has to get this cleared up. So he goes and asks Josh to accompany him to London so that she might be healed, but before Jono can anticipate it, the vacationers begin to grow larger and larger in number...
Status: Open and incomplete. Please do tag in and make threads if you want your character to come along! Also note: Crystal has stated that there will be an appearance by an old enemy of Laura's... Currently, this trip to London is being "planned," and the actual trip will occur after the run-in with Kimura. Just getting the ball rolling!



There was an insistent pounding on Julian’s and Josh’s shared door. When Julian opened it, he was met with Jono’s distressed face.

“Here early for happy hour?” Julian asked. “Nowhere Special is having a pretty good happy hour tonight,” he said. “Nowhere Special” was the name of their favorite pool hall.

“I need to talk to Josh. Can I come in?”

“The homo?”

“Josh. Let me in, Julian.”

Julian barred the door with his body and began to use his telekinesis to block Jono, too. “You mean the homo? What do you want with him? You haven’t blown yourself up today... yet.”

Joshua, you brat, his name is Josh. Now stop doing that!” Jono’s hands swatted around in the air, useless against Julian’s powers.

“Not until you say ‘homo’!” Julian teased in an annoying sing-song voice. When Jono growled, Julian added generously, “I’ll also accept ‘fag’.”

By now, Josh was standing behind Julian, and said to Jono, “Why don’t you just talk to me like this?”

Jono shrugged, stopped struggling against Julian’s powers, and spoke over Julian’s shoulder. “I feel like such a bloody fool asking you for this, but, I’m just going to say it straight out. My ex-girlfriend Gayle. She... well, you know the gist. She broke her back because of me when my powers first appeared --”

“Yeah, yeah, cry a little more on your handkerchief, Starsmore, we know,” Julian interrupted.

“She refuses to speak to me. But I can’t just let this go unresolved anymore. I think she’s just so afraid of mutants... she thinks we’re all dangerous. She doesn’t know there are mutants like you,” Jono continued on.

“Okay. This is boring. I’m bored now,” Julian announced, and walked back into the room, letting go of his powers.

“Will you come back with me to London, so we could show her that she could be healed?” Jono said to Josh.

“To London with you?!” Josh exclaimed.

“I know, I know it’s such a huge favor to ask, but --”

“AWESOME!” Josh cried. “Dude! Vacation! It’s gonna be awesome! Big Ben! The double-deckers! Those funny cops with those hats! That cool subway with those Mind the Gap things!”

Now Jono was starting to look annoyed. “The tube, you dolt. We call it the tube. And it’s not a vacation. And even if it were, we’d be calling it ‘holiday’.”

Josh was still grinning. “This is going to be awesome, Jono. We’re going on vacation!”

Going on holiday,” Jono corrected, his British accent becoming snootier by the minute.

“Did you know I’ve never even been out of New York?! Well, except for New Jersey, and that doesn’t really count...” Josh rambled.

Jono looked thoughtful for a moment. “I’m sure the staff wouldn’t mind me saying I needed to go back to the motherland for a week or so...”

==

Logan was watching a game on TV from the kitchen island, and drinking a beer. He didn’t look too pleased by the interruption by the two boys who came crashing into the room.

“Game’s on.” It was common knowledge that Logan hated being interrupted during CFL games, they were so sparsely broadcast. “In and out quickly.”

“That’s what she said...” Josh snickered under his breath, foolishly thinking Logan wouldn’t hear.

“We need staff permission,” Jono said by way of explanation.

“To do what, exactly? Hurry up, commercial’s almost over!”

“I need to take some personal time,” Jono said. “Back home to London. Maybe a week or so. Do you think you can give me the okay for it?”

Logan gave a small grumble and looked away from the TV for a brief moment. “You know, the school might be able to take care of the costs for you if we log it away as a ‘class trip.’ Thing is, you require a staff chaperone for that...”

Jono looked hopefully into Logan’s eyes. “So? Will you... go with us?”

“Kid, I don’t take requests. I go where I wanna go.”

Jono and Josh gave Logan their very best puppy-dog eyes. Finally, Logan caved. “Oh, fine. Move outta the way. You’re blocking the game.”

==

Ali was trailing after Jono in his room as he threw some of his things into a suitcase. “But what am I going to do without you?!” she kept repeating.

“I dunno. Whatever,” Jono said.

“WHATEVER?! I thought we were friends! You don’t just whatever me!” Ali said with a rage that Jono wasn’t sure was mocking or not. He turned to face her.

“I’m going to be gone a week! You won’t even notice me gone!”

She rolled her eyes. “I’ll notice all the extra food still lying around.”

“Hah, hah. Extra hah. You’ll see me in a week,” Jono said flatly.

“No, I want to come too!” Suddenly, Ali gasped. “You could find us somewhere to book a gig! Kevin can come and we’ll play a show or two!”

Jono threw up his hands in disgust. “Fine! Whatever. Everyone goes. I get no privacy around here.”

“Hey! We’re all one big happy family here!” Ali said brightly, now that she had her mind set on accompanying her band-mate to England.

“Yep. Exactly like a family, complete with all the squabbling. That’s why, if Julian agrees to go, I’m drawing up a seating chart to put him and Josh on opposite ends of the plane. I’m putting him in with the baggage if that’s what it takes!”

==

“Bobby, you have to come. All the cool kids are doing it,” Josh said to Bobby who was in the middle of his afternoon routine of eating ice cream in the kitchen.

“Excuse me? Where?”

“We’re going to London! And you should come too!” Josh couldn’t contain his excitement.

“You’re going to London? What? Why?” His exclamation was slightly garbled around the mouthful of ice cream he’d just scooped up.

“Oh, Jono just wants me to do some thing,” Josh said, waving a hand dismissively. He seemed far more excited about eating fish and chips and riding on top of a double-decker bus than concerned about Gayle.

Jono was dragging his suitcase down the stairs and called out, “Josh, this is serious!”

“Okay, okay. He wants me to spring a surprise visit on his old girlfriend who he put into a wheelchair for life so that she might forgive him and they can have creepy little mutant babies together afterwards,” Josh told Bobby.

“Not. True,” Jono growled. “Well. Partly true. I’ll tell you the details later,” he said to Bobby.

Bobby raised an eyebrow at Jono. “Are you sure it’s a good idea? I mean, mutie surprise visits don’t always go that well,” he said, thinking of his last impromptu trip to Boston.

Jono gave Bobby a sort of nervous look. “Yeah, I remember you telling me about that... Well, hopefully this will go a little smoother, because I’m hoping she’ll be too distracted going, ‘Why do you have your whole face?!’ and I’ll say, ‘Because! I was healed! And you can be, too!’”

Bobby laughed but his expression immediately turned sour when Jono began to make a move for his ice cream. “This is yours, actually,” Bobby told him. “You ate mine. So I’m finishing off the other carton.”

“Sounds fair to me!” Jono replied. They had a very special arrangement when it came to ice cream.

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:04 am (UTC)(link)
Logan hated traveling. He hated packing. He didn't mind the rain, or London, he supposed--he had been worse places in his life, and England did still have soverignty over Canada and all that. Still, he hated flying commercial.

He loathed chaperoning. Even thinking the word made his skin crawl, and here he had volunteered for the job. What on earth was he thinking?

He was grumbling to himself as he trucked into the kitchen, grabbing a beer for himself and downing half in just one gulp.

[identity profile] scholarlywisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:08 am (UTC)(link)
Hank was still in the process of moving a few of his things into the mansion. At that moment, he was in the kitchen putting away his Slim-Fast snack bars into the cupboards.

"Something wrong, Logan? Other than your usual general irritation at the student body?"

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I let myself get wrangled into chaperoning Jono's excursion to England. Something about...healing his old girlfriend or...I don't even know, really." He swallowed the rest of his beer and fetched another from the fridge. "I was ambushed during the football game, and now it's not just Starsmore and Foley, it's more like half the student body."

He downed his second beer in similar fashion to the first, going for a third. "There'll be no peace for me the whole trip."

[identity profile] scholarlywisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:19 am (UTC)(link)
"You don't want to go? But, Logan, dear friend, I thought you only go where you want to go!" Hank said with a barely-suppressed grin. He and Logan went way back. It was a line Hank had heard countless times, in many situations.

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
Way back they did go, and Logan could only shake his head at this.

"I sat through an afternoon with Stark to help out that kid, you'd think it'd be enough." He sighed, cracking yet another beer and drinking it a little slower this time. "I must be gettin' soft in my old age, Hank."

[identity profile] scholarlywisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
This made Hank laugh heartily. "Oh, Tony's not so bad. A brilliant mind, really." He grew a little more serious. "You know, 'that kid' does look up to you quite a bit. They all do. I think it's wonderful you've offered your services as chaperone."

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:29 am (UTC)(link)
"Hn." Logan grunted, not commenting further on Tony. "I don't understand why exactly. Don't make much sense, someone lookin' to me as a role model."

[identity profile] scholarlywisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:39 am (UTC)(link)
"Best we set good examples then, hmm, Logan?" Hank finished stowing away the last of his Slim-Fast bars, and then sat at the counter for a beer himself. "There's been a lot of talking about the trip in my classes today. Are you sure you won't want to find another staff member to accompany you?"

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:43 am (UTC)(link)
"Volunteering, are we?" Logan raised an eyebrow, pointing to a better cupboard to stash his Slim-Fasts. In a pinch, Ali or Jono would eat them even if they were diet bars. "I could use all the help I can get. Blaire's booking her band a gig, god knows what kind of trouble that'll cause."

[identity profile] scholarlywisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
Hank's eyes practically bulged out of their sockets. "Oh, my stars, no, no! I've been put on the schedule for the synchotron! I can't possibly be out of town while waiting to use the particle accelerator. My crystallography work can't wait. Well, I suppose it could, but I'd rather not..."

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
Logan chuckled. "Backpedal any faster and you'll go through the wall, Beast. If you're that against going, I'm sure I can handle it myself."

[identity profile] scholarlywisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 01:58 am (UTC)(link)
"Perhaps Scott or Emma may wish to indulge in a little sight-seeing," Hank offered. "I myself have been anxiously awaiting my turn at the synchotron." He was now following Logan's advice and hiding his diet bars in a better location.

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 02:19 am (UTC)(link)
"Whatever," Logan was still chuckling at the Beast's hasty decline to his invitation. "You can just say no, Hank. You don't have make up something sciency as an excuse."

[identity profile] scholarlywisdom.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Hank seemed truly offended. "I assure you, the synchotron is very real."

OOC

[identity profile] never-too-cold.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
AAHAHAHAHA, oh Beast. Oh Beast, I love you and your science and your diet bars!

Re: OOC

[identity profile] sleepall-day.livejournal.com 2010-09-24 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
I'M SO GLAD :D

[identity profile] queendediamonds.livejournal.com 2010-09-25 12:44 am (UTC)(link)
Emma entered into the kitchen not long after Logan, an unopened bottle of red wine in hand. She nodded in greeting but was quite intent on grabbing a wine glass from one of the higher cabinets and settling down to open the bottle. It was a good Italian vintage and she had every intention of throughly enjoying it.

"Something on your mind, Logan?" she asked without turning as she poured herself a glass.

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-26 07:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Starsmore's got some diplomatic healing quest to England. Needed a budget to get Foley on a plane, not it's spiraled into me and half the student body hopping the pond."

He extended one claw, reaching to open the bottle for her.

"Feeling masochistic? Wanna join?"

[identity profile] queendediamonds.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
She moved the bottle out of his reach. Fine wine bottles require corkscrews, not claws. She took her time, drinking several sips of wine, while considering the matter.

"Perhaps. I haven't been to London in a few years." She drank a bit more and then smirked. "How on earth did you get yourself roped into all this, dear?"

Ahhahhaha! Oh Emma...Oh B! I<3U

[identity profile] canadamantium.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 01:47 pm (UTC)(link)
"I was ambushed." He grumbled, sheathing his claw. "Watching the Roughriders. They were pestering me during a commercial...I really gotta start going to sports bars again."

[identity profile] queendediamonds.livejournal.com 2010-09-27 02:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"I thought you were banned from the one in town... Something about a little brawl, yes?" she asked innocently (or as innocently as possible for Emma Frost) while she continued the mull the matter over.