Going "Home" Again

[apache_banshee]

Sean had never been crazy about planes. Then again he'd never been crazy about heights period. He probably would have driven if it were more practical. Frankly he was glad to finally be on solid ground again. He had to admit he had some butterflies in his stomach after being gone for so long from the institute. Not the X-Man part, that had to be done as far as he was concerned. The part about seeing all the familiar faces he hadn't seen in..sheesh, how many years had it been? Eh, no point in ruminating. He made his way, trying not to get impatient at the disembarking line.

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[apache_banshee]

That made him chuckle. "I swear you are one of the only people I know that can say "keister" with a straight face." His tone turned a bit more serious. "Well hopefully after I reorient myself and go through the necessary stuff i can help you."

[wild_child]

"I reckon you can," Rose said. "Nothin' else, I could use a cabana boy."

She frowned, ever so slightly. "Still feels like we're waitin' for the other shoe to drop."

[apache_banshee]

"My dream job," he said only half-kidding.

Her statement made him quiet. "You want to talk away from the crowd?"

[wild_child]

She gave him a shrug. "I'll tell ya about it on the way back to th' school," she said.

[apache_banshee]

"Sounds good." he picked up his suitcase and followed Rose back to her car. "That a new one?"

[wild_child]

Rose laughed. "Nah. 's just one of the School cars. Didn't figure you'd want to ride on my bike after last time."

[apache_banshee]

"Oh you mean when you tried to "accidentally" kill me? I can't imagine why I'd feel that way," he said sarcastically.

[wild_child]

"Oh, please," Rose mocked, as she opened the trunk for his luggage, "you weren't anywhere near close to dying and you know it."

[apache_banshee]

"As the woman with the massive healing factor, I don't think your definition of near-death is the same as mine," he insisted.

[wild_child]

"Uh-huh," Rose teased. "You keep tellin' yourself that."

She climbed into the drivers' seat.

[apache_banshee]

He grumbles half-heartingly as he puts his suitcase in the back before moving up to the passenger side.

[wild_child]

It wasn't long before they were on the open road, Rose going just slightly faster than the speed limit.

"Don't get me wrong," Rose said, "bein' hated and feared a little bit less is a good thing. But we've been down this road before. Things get a little better... and then somethin' happens and it gets worse again."

[apache_banshee]

"Promise not to laugh, but..I came because of a vision-quest," he admitted.

[wild_child]

There was slight eyebrow arching.

"My roommates a clone, our headmistress is part cosmic firebird, and we have a portal to a demon dimension in our backyard, and that's where you think I'm gonna draw the line?"

Her lips drew back in a smile. "Though you don't exactly seem like the vision-ing type. Unless it involves women."

[apache_banshee]

"True enough," he conceded. "Normally I'm not, but lately I'd been feeling uneasy and I wasn't sure why. Dad sent me a friend of his, kind of an expert on Apache culture. He recommended I go on one. Considering that nothing else was working, I did." He sat back and thought back. "It worked. I saw..violence..destruction..but I couldn't make out specifics. I just feel like..something..is going to happen. I felt I had to come back."

[wild_child]

Rose frowned again. "Well... that ain't good."

"...You're not being possessed by a future version of yourself, are you? Because it's been done."

[apache_banshee]

"If I am they haven't let on," he said seriously. "Hoping it was just desert heat, but..I felt I had to come back."

[wild_child]

She nodded. "Well, ya been missed, Irish. It's... slightly harder to get into trouble without ya."

[apache_banshee]

Neither of them were good when it came to moments of genuine affection.

"I missed you-all of you," he quickly amended, "but..wasn't the same without you around either."

[wild_child]

Words were not Rose's strong suit in general.

A car suddenly cut them off and she slammed on the breaks. "Oh fer... Where'd ya learn ta drive, pal?! The Savage Land?!"

[apache_banshee]

The moment officially ended, Sean allowed himself to chuckle a bit at Rose's choice of words.

"Somehow I imagine the driving would be much worse. Still I won't argue about them bringing their fashion sense over here."

[wild_child]

Rose snickered at that. "You would, Irish," she teased. "Still, if yer volunteering to go around in a loincloth..."

[apache_banshee]

"You know if I could get away with it I would," he said with a smirk, not kidding.

[wild_child]

"I say ya do it anyway," she told him.

She turned off a street. "Almost there."

[apache_banshee]

"Touche."

He nods. "Starting to recognize the area again."