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[cry-andletloose.livejournal.com]

WHO: Alex and Amara
WHERE: The X-Mansion
WHEN: Sunday night
SUMMARY: Alex and Amara haven't really properly met yet. So they do.
FORMAT: Qqqqquicklog?

[It's night-time and Alex has just gotten back from bodyguarding at one of Dazzler's gigs. He's venturing into the kitchen, intent on fixing himself up a late-night snack and maybe watching some brainless television- although constantly being on the ground at the music scene is starting to get him a little wary of entertainment and showbiz.]

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[Amara is sitting at the kitchen table, surrounded by books and papers. She always took her assignments very seriously-- if she was going to be teaching, then she was going to make sure she was prepared.

She is looking very intently at the high school science books and taking notes, little post-its here and there.]

[cry-andletloose.livejournal.com]

Oh, hi Amara.

[He should've known he wouldn't have had the kitchen all to himself, not with the number of people living in the mansion these days. Not that he minds, giving her a smile of greeting and veering over to the fridge.]

[turns-to-fire.livejournal.com]

[She looks up from her books, broken out of her intense concentration on the material. Most of the stuff she could teach from common sense about her powers alone, but, she had to be sure.]

Oh... hi. You're up late.

[It felt a little weird to be so familiar with him, talking with him besides customary hello's and goodbye's but Amara was at least attempting to branch out a little with the X-Men in general.]

[cry-andletloose.livejournal.com]

Just got back, actually. What're you doing?

[Huh. It said something about him that he was far more comfortable barking out orders on the field than making small talk. Amara wasn't someone he was too familiar with, either. But if they were going to be stuck here he wanted to at least get to know her a little better.]

[turns-to-fire.livejournal.com]

I'm making some lesson plans.

[She flips through another page, sticking a post-it in the place she wanted to remember to go back over. Amara was nothing if not thorough.

Should she ask him where he was or was that nosy? If he wanted her to know, he would tell her, she decided. Social etiquette aside, it was important to be curious but not TOO curious.]

I've taken a job as an instructor here.

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Oh. I considered that, but Alison hired me as her bodyguard.

[Alex abandoned the fridge for a bag of chips, his metabolic rate could handle junk food well. He wasn't sure he'd have made a good teacher anyway, he could be rather impatient- he did love kids, but teenagers not so much.]

What're you teaching?

[turns-to-fire.livejournal.com]

[Being a singer was probably very dangerous. Amara could imagine that having a bodyguard like Alex would probably be beneficial.]

Earth science, for one.

[It was kind of her specialty, if she did say so herself. Which she didn't-- but Amara was definitely thinking it.]

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[He perks up.]

Earth science? I love that stuff! I studied a lot of it in college.

[He might not have the mutant powers to go with it, but he'd sure studied loads of it and gone for a whole number of field studies.]

[turns-to-fire.livejournal.com]

[At that, Amara looks visibly surprised. While she found it fascinating, she didn't think anyone else would ever think it was worth studying. Not anyone around her age, anyway.]

Oh-- really? I started really learning about it after my powers emerged, since they are linked to the earth. It's fascinating, don't you think?

thank heavens for wikipedia

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Oh, definitely. I did a more specialized stream myself, and a thesis on geomagnetism for my masters, but I've studied data on tectonic plate movements, seismographs and the like. Those are really closely related to your powers, aren't they?

[HE NEVER THOUGHT HE'D USE THIS STUFF OUTSIDE COLLEGE. He's so psyched.]

8D

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[Well. Someone was excited. Amara can't help but smile a little.]

Yes. By moving the tectonic plates within the Earth's crust, that's how I can create earthquakes. Not enough to demolish a whole city but it can do considerable damage.

[And also linked to how she was feeling that day-- before she got a handle on her power.

Right.]

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[He nods, interested.]

It had to have something to do with tectonic plates, couldn't have been simple telekinesis. Not the way your quakes feel like.

[A pause.]

Will the students you teach get physical demonstrations?

[turns-to-fire.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure. Maybe. I don't want to accidentally hurt anyone.

[Sure, she could potentially show them how lava is formed but... a little dangerous.]

have fun with this

[cry-andletloose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it might not be such a good idea. Lorna and I went into an inactive volcano before, but only because her powers protected us.

i hate you

[turns-to-fire.livejournal.com]

[That was probably the one image Amara did not need in her mind. Good job bringing up her ex-boyfriend who died, tragically, in a volcano during M-Day. Claps for that, Alex.

She stiffens noticeably.]

I see. I've been in an active volcano before.

SORRY! back in action now 8D

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[Alex just nods, oblivious.]

Of course you have, what with your powers and all. You're immune to the heat and the lava, aren't you?