Something Spooky This Way Comes (Open to all at Xavier's)

[hauntingyou]

It had been a long journey, but finally, she was here. She wasn't tired, exactly, she wasn't sure she could get tired now, at least not in the same way as before. But, she was mentally weary and glad to have reached her destination.

She passed through the metal gates protecting the entrance and paused to admire the random and colorful pattern that appeared on the monitor embedded into one of the posts. She stuck an intangible finger through the screen and dragged it around, watching the pixels swirl and follow. It was pretty. Much prettier than the considerably lower tech ATM she was playing with... when was that? It was so easy to lose track of time, now. That ATM had bleeped and blooped and spat out a snowstorm of twenty dollar bills. Pity she couldn't use them now, or even touch them, but it was fun to watch the crowd of people scrambling for them.

She drifted away. The monitor flickered and flashed, then displayed a rebooting sequence. She moved further in to the mansion grounds, invisible and intangible. There were people here. Maybe she could make one of them see her.

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[marvel_boy]

"Gah!" Topher yelled. Okay. No. That was not right. He'd been listening to the Bangles. "It's a Small World" had never been covered by the Bangles.

Ever.

Deep breath. Deep breath. Deep breath.

He closed his laptop shut with a quick movement.

Deep breath.

"Uhm. Halp," he whispered.

[hauntingyou]

This was not going as planned. Julia stamped her foot, and of course, it went right through the floor, but there was an alarming cracking sound from the old rafters in the library ceiling.

She threw up her arms and thought "Aargh!" Unfortunately, that came out as audible. It was a hollow sound, like an old stretched out cassette tape varying in speed and pitch.

"AaaaaaAAAAAAAArrrrrrrrRRRRRrRrgh-h-h-h-h-h-h"

[marvel_boy]

It's cool. This was the Institute. He'd grown up here. He could leave his stuff in the library and come back for it in the morning.

That was fine.

What wasn't fine was the thing in the library.

The thing that Topher was running from.

Because he'd totally just lost his cool.

"Ghooooooooooooossssssst!"

[hauntingyou]

Julia watched him run, her invisible lips twitching. She didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

That really hadn't gone well at all.