children waiting for the day they feel good (complete)

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WHO: Cable (holycablechrist and Boom Boom (ohexplodable). With cameo by dream Sam!
WHERE: X-Force HQ.
WHEN: In relation to current events. Backdated is also fine.
WARNINGS: Slight sexuality.
SUMMARY: Tabby has been acting strange. Nate tries to figure out why.
FORMAT: AIM.

CABLE: [ He had been watching Tabitha for a few months now. In the past month alone, her mind was becoming more disturbed. This, on top of having to keep an eye on every other personal threat in the city, ate up a lot of Cable's time and was driving him into cabin fever. He roamed around the hospital, fingers itching to get out and travel. He took a risk by going to Haiti just a few weeks prior (that was an emergency), but he came back to find Tabby even worse than before.

It was the middle of the night and he was sitting in his makeshift den, on a tattered couch they found on the side of the street. A book on the 1930s economy lay forgotten in his lap as he reached out with his mind to Tabitha who was sleeping soundly in a far off room in the hospital. ]

BOOM BOOM: [Tabby hadn't ever slept well, but recently she'd been much more restless than normal. Her dreams were... weird, to say the least, full of blood and horror and furry blue pandas. So of course, tonight she was dreaming about something nice.]

Mm, Sam~ ♥

CABLE: [ Cable found himself standing in a meadow as bright as the sun. It seemed to go on for miles without any forseeable end. The sky was bright blue, the clouds fluffy and white, the sun shining. He could feel the warmth fill him up as he took careful steps through Tabby's dreams. ]

Mmmmmm, Sam.

[ He paused, cocking his head at the moans coming approximately twenty feet away. Carefully, he crept closer until two figures came into view--Tabby in a flowing white dress and Sam in overalls kissing between her legs.

Cable stood over them and glared. ]

BOOM BOOM: [In her dream, Tabby's fingers were in Sam's hair and her eyes were closed, so she didn't notice the intrusion until the warmth of the sun was blocked. She frowned, upset by whatever was blocking her light... and then saw Cable.]

OH MY GAWD!

[Screaming, she scrambled back... and fell back into her body in the middle of her bed.]

FUCK!

CABLE: [ Perhaps he should have taken a more subtle approach. ]

Tabitha? You're awake?

BOOM BOOM: [Oh god, Cable intruding just as she finished dreaming about him? Is not what she was wanting.]

GO AWAY.

[She slammed up whatever mental walls she had... which weren't really much considering the fact that her mind was rather tattered right now. Cable might not even notice that the walls are there.]

CABLE: [ It was a weak effort. He slipped through the cracks effortlessly. ]

Tabitha, we should talk.

BOOM BOOM: Dun wanna. Go away.

[She knows she's going to have to talk with him eventually, but she's going to delay as much as possible. ]

CABLE: [ It was a good thing Cable was a stubborn son of a bitch. ]

There is no use in trying to go it alone, Tabby. I've already tried.

BOOM BOOM: [And Tabby's just rolling her eyes]

Whatever, man. I'll do what I want.

CABLE: [ He can sense that too. ]

You're only going to fail. Come back to us.

BOOM BOOM: [Oh that was the wrong thing to say, Cable, You only made her angry.]

Screw off. You're not my dad, y'know. I can do whatever I want to!

CABLE: No, I'm not, but I am your team leader here and right now you are posing as a threat to the team.

BOOM BOOM: What team? We don't have a team, dude.

CABLE: Despite the living arrangements, we are still in operation.

BOOM BOOM: And what are we operating?

CABLE: Same as before--X-Force.

BOOM BOOM: But what do we have that no one else has, huh?

CABLE: History, teamwork, training. We're still going.

BOOM BOOM: If you say so...

CABLE: Let me help you, Tabitha.

BOOM BOOM: I don't need help, Cable. I'm fine.

CABLE: That's not what I read.

[ Cue more mind probing. ]

BOOM BOOM: Stop that! [winces and starts getting a little shrill] No seriously, stoppit! That hurts!

[And it does hurt. It's not an icepick to the brain, but more like a million little shards of glass are bouncing around insider her skull.]

CABLE: What is happening to you...

[ Curious musings as he picks apart the metaphorical shards of glass. ]

BOOM BOOM: I- I don't know...

[Tabby curls up into a ball and holds her hands to her head, biting her lip.]

Stop it... STOP.

CABLE: You know I can't.

BOOM BOOM: [Tabby bites her lip and keens softly, then a part of her brain just buckles. Her hands glow bright, hot white and she screams. The room blows up.]

CABLE: [ The explosion throws Cable out of his psychic hold. He stands up sharply, his book falling to the floor as he hears the explosion on the other side of the hospital. Tabitha can survive the explosion, but can she survive the madness enveloping her mind?]

BOOM BOOM: [Whatever it was that happened in her head, it bent, but didn't break completely. Everything is hanging together by threads, but it's hanging... mostly. Tabby's world view is splintering-- The darkness of the night flashes to candy neon colours and bright music rings in her head even though she knows that she blew up any stereos in the area.] Fuck... ffffuck.

CABLE: [ Cable searches for her again. ]

Tabby? BOOM BOOM.

BOOM BOOM: [She gets up from the rubble and staggers a little, then stands up slowly, pulling to her full height with a huff, muttering to herself.] Okay. Okay, I'm good.

[Her eyes narrow and she tries to mind-shout and... fails. It hurts like hell, so she shies away and just shouts as loud as she can.] FUCK YOU CABLE. I'M GONE.

CABLE: [ Cable gets it. He tries calling out for her again, but she's shutting him out stubbornly. He retreats. She'll come back.]