13323/A morning check-in

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A morning check-in
Date of Scene: 18 May 2021
Location: Rosie's Room (East Halls), Xavier's School
Synopsis: Rogue catches up with Rosie to talk some things out further and give the student some reassurance
Cast of Characters: Rogue, Antigravity




Rogue has posed:
There is a very confused southern belle trying to piece together events from the other day. Events she wasn't really a part of until she was sent to go find a missing student. Things that transpired from there have been interesting to say the least. However, most important on Rogue's mind in the moment, is the fact that Rosie seemed so...scared? Upset? Unsure? ...all of the above really.

So even though it's morning, there's never a time where sweet tea and talking ever did a southerner wrong. As such, Rogue approaches Rosie's room with a pitcher of tea and two glasses in hand...and she knocks gently on the woman's door. "Hey Rosie? It's Rogue. You in?"

Antigravity has posed:
    The door swings open at the knock.
    Rosie was not in bed. She was not in either of the big chairs by the fireplace. No, she was wrapped up in a blanket, sleeping sitting-up, by the window, facing the door. There were books piled up all around her, notebooks open on top of piles with notes on gravity and the behavior of different items in masses and non-neutonian substances. Her arm was cushioning her head, against an open physics book, a history book open and bookmarked with highlit notes for a final report.

     Rosie's hair was sticking up all over the place from a mixture of static and just being up late studying. She has a bright pink stuffed bean-bag unicorn behind her head.

Rogue has posed:
Rogue walks into the scene and gives a tilt of her head before shaking it slowly. Moving, she sets pitcher and cups on a free spot of a table before she turns to go back and slowly, quietly, shuts Rosie's door. Then she turns and walks forward, moving to begin picking up the books surrounding the woman and places them back on the bookshelves in some sort of scientifical order. Maybe rearranging books will give Rosie something else to focus on later.

Still, she's trying not to wake the woman just yet. Perhaps not even at all. There's no telling when Rosie fell asleep, and if the books are any indication, someone spent a long time yesterday studying after coming back to the mansion.

Rogue does take note of that picture of Rosie, Gray and Jeremy - picking it up to look it over and smiling. Still in the process of cleaning up books, whether this stirs Rosie or not is anyone's guess.

Antigravity has posed:
    "Mrmmbl--alarm!" Rosie sits up suddenly, reaching to her side and not finding an alarmclock there, looks dazedly confused, and then she looks around the room and -- Rogue is putting her books away. She pauses a moment, and then she sits back against the window silly, blanket still wrapped around her shoulders, and she looks at Rogue with mixed confusion and then rubs the back of her hand accross her eyes "Sorry, I musta fallen asleep -- what time is it, Miss Rogue?" she questions, rolling her shoulders a moment and looking blearily about the room.

Rogue has posed:
"Ah...little after mumble mumble..." Rogue offers the time, and then lifts her shoulders in a shrug. "Don't worry, I don't think anyone expected you to show up to classes today. Are classes even going today? I don't know.." She continues to put up books, likely keeping herself busy. "I wanted to come by and see how you were doing. You didn't seem too happy last night when I showed up. Wasn't sure if that was just because you were scared or...over all unhappy?" One last book shelved and then Rogue turns to face the floored Rosie. "That can't be a comfortable position... I brought some of Sam's sweet tea. Want a glass?"

Antigravity has posed:
    "It's Sam's /sweet/ tea and not Miss Carr's /not sweet tea/, right? 'cause I accidentally poured a glass of that and it was the most bitter an' uncomfortable thing I ever drank."

    The blonde straightens, and she breathes out as she settles back down against the wall, right next to a vent. All the warms.

    "... I suppose I... didn't know what was going to happen. Back home, if I messed up, I paid for it. If I messed up an order at work, my pay got docked or I had to tip out a larger share." she replies quietly, one arm going up to her shoulder.

    "Jeremy said I grew up in a cult. 'Cause of how we were raised in our church, but Jeremy... is kinda biased an' blunt, ain't he?"

Rogue has posed:
"I assure you, this is Sam's sweet tea... I make sure Sam puts the pitcher in a very particular spot..and I've already had a glass this morning." Rogue offers as she moves and pours a glass for Rosie and herself. Then she moves and sits cross legged in front of Rosie, offering one of the glasses to her.

"Jeremy's blunt...but I think it's more honest blunt than bias. He could be a bit bias though..." Then again, Rogue listens to what all Rosie offered before and she shakes her head. "We don't deal out punishments like that, Rosie. We handle it, with words and training. Had anything significant come out of that, we have ways to handle that too. Make sure nothing happens to you. On any angle. Otherwise, there'd be a lot of us dead or in jail..."

There's a pause as she thinks on things. "I talked to Miss Munroe this morning. She...doesn't seem to remember anything. And I have plans to talk to Jeremy..." She stops. "But if there's anything I can help you with. Anything at all... questions or whatever...do let me know. I ain't here to be nothin' more but a friend. Okay?"

Antigravity has posed:
    The teenager accepts the sweet tea, and she gives a osft sound of disturbed thought, her eyes drawing downcast.

    "Whenever somethin' went wrong 'round the house, my gramma, she'd switch me. Said it was her duty since my daddy decided to up an' leave my momma before I was born to raise me right. Dependin' on the transgression, there'd be more or less." Rosie states, and she shrugs out of the blanket, pulling the shoulder of her shirt aside and showing the deep, old scar tissue around her shoulders and upper breast. She breathes out.

    "When she found out I was responsible for a football player breakin' his collarbone and shoulder on a locker, an' then throwin' up all over the hallway from vertigo, if she'd found out I was a mutant, she would have brought me to the church. They aould have tried to exorcise the demon inside, maybe, or purge The Devil from me. Ah saw them do it to another girl they thought was taking congress with demons, 'cause the Preacher said that mutants are dark nephelim, born from human woman and demonic powers."

    She experimentally sips the tea.

    "Janey, she ain't guilty of nothin' other than having a Teen Beat magazine 'cause she fancies one of the actors. She didn't deserve the starvation, the beatin's. She was as sweet a girl as ever was, but durin' the day she was locked in the church closet and told to pray, an' they'd give her a spoonful of milk and a spoonful of vinegar. God told the Preacher there was a mutant, and a traitor, in his congregation, an' they assumed she was pregnant with one 'cause of the magazine."

    "... but it was me. I even called the child endangerment line an' got them to come out and take her from her home, her parents, so that she wouldn't be sufferin' on my behalf."

Rogue has posed:
Rogue watches Rosie for a moment. A long moment. She watches and she listens as that story is laid out. About Rosie's upbringing, and what happened in her church. Sipping on her tea while she takes it all in, she rattles her glass a bit, trying to sort out what she might want to say as any sort of response to it.

"I was born to a hippie commune. My mom disappeared when I was little, so my auntie raised me. Though... she was really strict... and beat on me several times. Cause I reminded her of my mother - her sister. Who was gone. My daddy didn't do much to stop it either, and in fact, sometimes if I try to rightly remember it all, I think he encouraged a bit of it."

Another drink of that tea taken, and she looks up and over to a blank spot on the wall. "Cody didn't deserve to die. He didn't deserve to be my boyfriend, wanna kiss me, and then end up in a coma he never woke up from... and I ran. Cause I had to. Cause I was scared." She tosses that in and then looks back over to Rosie. "See? You ain't evil. An evil person wouldn't care about the fate of another. They wouldn't have called someone to help out the innocent. An evil person...would have been glad that they weren't the ones bein' treated like Janey was. Used it to their advantage. You didn't. You helped her." Adding this in, and then she offers a soft smile.

"Religion is so fucked. I mean, believe what you want... we all have our faiths... but I think religion as a whole is stupid. And just exists for people to use as an excuse to be assholes and fuckwits."

Antigravity has posed:
    "... no, I still let her suffer because I didn't say it was me." the girl replies quietly. "If I had come forward, I coulda taken the punishment. Who knows, maybe it would have worked out better." Rosie replies quietly, and then looks up to Rogue with a small, sad smile. "Ain't no degrees of evil, is what the Parson would have said. You are either with The Lord, or you're against The Lord. An' the lord speaks through him." she takes a deep breath.

    "... how's your brother take your stance on that one, Miss Rogue?"

Rogue has posed:
"Kurt? Well..." Rogue actually has to stop and think about it for a moment. "I dunno. We don't ever really talk about it. But see, Kurt's ways are wrapped in his faith. Faith is fine. You can have faith in whatever you want. God. Satan. Loki. Zeus. What matters is you have faith in something. The difference is religion. I feel it's a thing man made so they could further decree how people should live their lives. Prime example. Ain't a damn thing wrong with bein' a mutant. And it ain't the work of a demon, nephilim, or whatever the hell else they think we spawn from."

She stops herself after a moment. "Sorry. I'm rantin' and it ain't the point. At the end of the day, Rosie, what do /you/ believe about yourself. About all of us mutants. That's what matters. And you can't change the past, goddess knows we would if we could. The moment is now, my friend." A pause. "For the record, the girl was healed and survived...wasn't sure if you knew..."

Antigravity has posed:
    "... Gray mentioned they called Foley an' Shannon was there... but... I figured I'd done too much to her, and he was trying to get me to come back so I would..." she pauses a moment, and shakes her head.

    "It don't matter what I beleive about myself, Rogue. Who I am never matches who I ought to be, everyone's got an idea a' who I am... except me. An'... that's okay. Just gonna cause grief to some while it all gets figured out, ain't it?" she asks, sipping more of that sweet tea before she turns back to Rogue.

    "... Loki an' Thor do make it pretty hard to limit to the 'one god' thing, don't they?"

Rogue has posed:
Well that's just going to take them around in circles, so Rogue decides to not say anything further when it comes to having a 'realize yourself' moment. She takes another drink of tea and then gives a chuckle. "When you got two people who walk around claiming to be gods themselves? Yeah. It does kinda make you wonder don't it?"

"So this...man...you were staying with. He found you in a cabin yeah? Did he tell you much about himself?" Not that Rogue is going to mention just yet that she recognized Sinister.

Antigravity has posed:
    "He said he followed the destruction. He... looked different. White, with red eyes and this red gem in the middle a' his forehead." Rosie recalls quietly. "... I thought I was dying of hypothermia. The fire'd gone out, and the cabin was getting real cold. He said... he could take my powers away, and I would be normal, and then I could... I dunno, go home maybe." Rosie states. "He offered me the chance to learn some things... and he made me sleep as we went through the air. I woke up in the mornin' and he fed me tea an' a ham sandwich, told me I was kinda dumb for beleiving in what the PReacher said, and disappointed that I thought he'd drop me if I was asleep?" she frowns a moment, and then rubs her left arm. "He was real eager to prove I couldn't hurt him."

Rogue has posed:
Rogue nods a little. "Sounds like he took care of you and kept you safe.." Offering this a moment and then she gives Rosie a smile. "Listen. Folks here care about you. If you dunno where you wanna go in life yet, that's fine. But there's a lot of people here who want to support you in whatever you do." She motions to the desk then. "Gray and Jeremy being two who are pretty important in your life yeah? Sam too?"

Antigravity has posed:
    "Gray and Jer are... my... boyfriends. Kinda. It's complicated. So stupidly complicated." Rosie complains, and she gives a smile. "An' Sam is special... it... takes a real decent fella to get launched through a tree an' then apologize for it." Rosie points out. "Everyone here is so kind an' nice to me... I guess that's why I ran. I was scared of disappointing people. Like 'Oh we put so much work into this girl an' she just launches boulders at people and squishes their guts'." Rosie adds.

Rogue has posed:
"Don't seem so complicated to me. You like who you like...be it one person, two people, a whole harem..." Rogue quips with a chuckle and then shifts to stand. "Some of us could be so lucky..." Then she shrugs. "And yeah. Sam's good people. Everyone here is. I ain't gonna stand here and say that there won't be moments of disappointments here and there. Ain't a one of us perfect... but we learn and we grow." She taps her nose then. "Feelin' any better? Even a little tiny bit?"

Antigravity has posed:
    "I do." Rosie states, and turns up to Rogue. "Thank you, Miss Rogue. For havin' faith in me." she gives an honest, genuine smile, even if it's half crooked, her freckled nose wrinkling a bit.

    "Ah'm sorry I worried folks here."

Rogue has posed:
Rogue nods and smiles. "M'glad you're feeling better. I'm also sorry if I, ah, messed up any of your books... I didn't want you to startle awake and maybe tear one or two of them." This and she returns the smile.

"We'll get over it. Especially since you're home safe. I suspect you should maybe get some better sleep in bed. Let your boyfriends know you're here safe. And we'll all move on." Then she smirks. "You should meet Jeremy's new kitten. He named it Geronimo."

Antigravity has posed:
    "... won't it try to eat Gray's rat?" Rosie questions, and she purses her lips. "Now I really miss Elijah--" Rosie pauses, giving a long yawn, and a soft 'bleh'. "... never did get that dog housetrained."

Rogue has posed:
"Jeremy can likely train it to not do such. He's just a little kitten. Found him abandoned in Hell's Kitchen yesterday. Figured he'd make a nice pet for Jer." Rogue shrugs. "Alright you. I'mma let you get some more sleep. But hey...you ever need to talk...at all. Come talk to me, okay?"

Antigravity has posed:
    "Yes'm." Rosie gives a smile as she hops to her feet, and then takes a breath.

    For a moment it looks like she might go in for a hug -- but she doesn't. She just folds her hands behind her and says:

    "Thank you again, Miss Rogue."