[Illyana Test Thread]
Jul. 10th, 2015 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
just_a_phaseThe Red Room tries many things with many mutants.
Some of them--especially if there are complications, like DNA tainted by the Legacy Virus--fail.
Or, at least, the Red Room believes them to fail. Believes one particular attempt to bring back a mutant failed.
Magic--and Magik--can do amazing things, though, and is as much tied to a soul--to two souls, at that, soul mates without the romance, except as a might-have-been--as a body.
And in some cases, that can make a body.
And that body, once the soul is back in it, knows there's only one place to go. The soul needs its soul mate, and disoriented as Magik is, that's all she knows.
Kitty is busy in the workshop Piotr set up for her on their farm--and she'll never get over the fact that they have a farm, this farm--when she suddenly gasps and leans over, one hand flying to her chest. Flying to directly over her heart.
She's felt this before. Every time, though, it was tied to someone who she knows is dead. Knows is dead and mourns that fact.
--Except her last name is Rasputin, and her brother is a living example of the fact that death for mutants isn't always permanent.
"Can't be," she murmurs, but slowly turns around, watching the room.
Waiting, even if she doesn't realize it yet.
Some of them--especially if there are complications, like DNA tainted by the Legacy Virus--fail.
Or, at least, the Red Room believes them to fail. Believes one particular attempt to bring back a mutant failed.
Magic--and Magik--can do amazing things, though, and is as much tied to a soul--to two souls, at that, soul mates without the romance, except as a might-have-been--as a body.
And in some cases, that can make a body.
And that body, once the soul is back in it, knows there's only one place to go. The soul needs its soul mate, and disoriented as Magik is, that's all she knows.
Kitty is busy in the workshop Piotr set up for her on their farm--and she'll never get over the fact that they have a farm, this farm--when she suddenly gasps and leans over, one hand flying to her chest. Flying to directly over her heart.
She's felt this before. Every time, though, it was tied to someone who she knows is dead. Knows is dead and mourns that fact.
--Except her last name is Rasputin, and her brother is a living example of the fact that death for mutants isn't always permanent.
"Can't be," she murmurs, but slowly turns around, watching the room.
Waiting, even if she doesn't realize it yet.
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Date: 2015-07-15 02:30 am (UTC)And then her smile freezes.
Because they've guessed. They've suspected. But that's different from knowing. And it's too early to test.
"What?"
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Date: 2015-07-15 02:34 am (UTC)She suddenly wondered if she was the bearer of unwanted news so soon after she was a part of her life again.
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Date: 2015-07-15 02:39 am (UTC)It's not a shock.
It's just...confirmation that she wasn't letting herself even hope for.
So when her eyes open, they're a little shiny, but not upset, and she just rests her chin on Yana's head.
"We wondered. We can't--it's early, Illyana. Very early. I haven't tried a test yet." More quietly, "But we wondered."
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Date: 2015-07-15 02:43 am (UTC)"//I'm sorry that you were unprepared for the news, Kit. I just thought that you knew or else I would never had said anything.//"
Well, she would have said something, just not on this night of all nights. She would have waited a few days as they got everything else straightened out.
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Date: 2015-07-15 02:46 am (UTC)It's a lot. All of this is a lot.
But it's all, also, wonderfully, completely, entirely okay.
So she just wraps both arms around the smaller girl and whispers again, "It's okay."