2267/Detention

Detention
Date of Scene:	31 August 2017
Location:	Xavier Institute
Synopsis:	Ellie is finally caught after skipping history class for a whole week, she's sent to detention with teacher Lara Croft. Big Guy comes to check in on his fav student (seriously! Ask him!)
Cast of Characters:	Negasonic Teenage Warhead, Lara Croft, Colossus

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Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Who knew that being forced to wear a dress and be a bridesmaid at a wedding wasn't the worst thing ever? Sure, Gambit was dead, the wedding turned out to be a trap, and Ellie got to taste her powers for the first time and has just recently recovered. That six armed bitch in a helmet? She's a bitch. Worst of all, someone finally was on to all those History classes Ellie simply didn't bother with, and now she was assigned detention to see the History class teacher, Lara Croft, after classes. Sure, Ellie might be a tad exaggerating with her rating system for disaster, but right now, not wanting to go to detention happens to be her biggest immediate concern. Teenagers, go figure.

The door opens without fanfare, Ellie fully decked in her super awesome blacks and chains and studs and spikes and most definitely not a dress, walks inside, casts a glance at Lara, and then mutters, "I'm Ellie Phimister, if you could just put a check next to my name, we can both say I was here, and get on with our busy busy schedules, right?"

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara was a fresh new face at Xavier's School. Invited here by the Professor himself, who'd sought her out after one of the students had expressed a huge fan-love for the archaeologist. Lara had taken the job after about three weeks of consideration, and one really exhausting trip to South America that made Lara want some time off from death-defying antics...

Now, seated behind her desk in the classroom that had been set up for her, Lara was writing something down in an old leather journal when Ellie came into the room. She looked up to the... stylish young woman and showed her a smile.

"There's the face I've not yet gotten to see." The British woman said in as calming and friendly a tone as one could have. "I was starting to think you'd decided to hate me without ever getting the opportunity to even meet me."

Lara had indeed heard her request and it made her smirk softly. She motioned to the student's desk across from her own. "Have a seat. I'm not mad at you, Ellie. I assume you missed the classes for a reason, I'd just like to know what it is."

Colossus has posed:
It would seem a little unecessary, a sort of disciplinary overkill, to have two teachers come and supervise Ellie's punishment, but that's really not why Piotr comes by. Although students missing class is hardly abnormal, and normally dealt with in a very typical school fashion, a student missing a ton of them on the back of a dangerous and tragic confrontation that also happened to be her first real battle? That sort of thing does tend to get flagged, or at least reviewed by the staff.

There's no immediate alarm here - for all her troubles, Ellie isn't obviously any worse than the average angsty teen with powers. But still, the Professor may have asked Piotr to go and check in on her just to make sure there's no deeper troubles brewing. And he knows Piotr is a useful person to do this because, well... he's the Professor. There are advantages to being the world's greatest mind, and not missing really obvious social interactions in your school is among them, if hardly near the top of the list.

Informed of where she'd be, he comes to check in, albeit... unobtrustively. Well. That word is difficult to really embody, when you're him. But he tries! Which emans just kind of standing at the door... peeking? At first. It's sort of adorably laughable, him trying to be at all sneaky.

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie is admittedly surprised by Lara's accent and tone, she's different, very different from any kind of teacher she happened by so far, leaving her a bit speechless for a moment as she looks at Lara suspiciously, "don't take that personally, I hate everyone, just ask any old lame loser. There's a bunch of them in all my classes."

"So we're going to do this...? Ugggggh," Ellie makes sure Lara is well aware how unsatisfied she is with a very audibly unpleasant groan, as she drags her feet on her way to the student's desk, plopping herself down, and looking over at Lara, "it would save you time to just put a mark I was here too, so it's not selfish, we'll both gain from that. Just wanted you to be aware of all your options, really, I'm helpful that way," Ellie offers with a mischevious grin. But then Lara actually wants the reason she's been missing classes, and Ellie leans back in her student desk, another groan follows. "Honestly, why do you even care...?" She starts, but then just as she was stretching her arms and about to say something, she notes Piotr peeking in and waves at him, "big guy, don't tell me they sent you after my ass too? Trust me, detention is bad enough, I know I should try to at least make it to class...but that wedding really sucked." Okay, so she has a very odd way of putting it, but she is keeping to her cool never fazed act. Did people notice it's an act? Please don't notice, she's tough as hell yo. Heard that? Hell!

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara hadn't yet noticed the sneaky peaking of PIotr out in the hallway, so he must be more adept at than he might've belived himself to be. But also, the new teacher's focus was on the sole student in front of her who'd just come in and sat down for the mandatory punishment for skipping an entire school week's worth of class.

Her style -and- attitude made Lara grin, it wasn't that long ago that she'd been in highschool herself. She'd known girls like Ellie, at least somewhat... Lara was an introvert in social circles though, so she hadn't really known many people on a personal level.

"Well, Ellie..." Lara started, glancing down at her journal before looking back up. "I just want a chance to get to know you a little before you completely write my class off. Which, I entirely understand if you do... History isn't for everyone. Most people only think forward in this world, rather than spare a moment to look backward." She showed a light smirk then.

"And to be entirely honest with you, this was my first week on the job. So I don't have a lot of pre-written speeches to try to convince you of how valuable my course will be to you in life, or how 'cool' I am and that you should come to 'hang out' with me." Lara gently shook her head then and glanced down to her hands on her journal, one of her hands was bandaged up all around it down to her wrist.

"I just--" She was about to continue when Ellie spoke to Piotr and Lara looked up and over to see him at the door. "Oh. Hey, Piotr, right? Please come in." She smiled at the 'Big Guy' and then looked back to Ellie. "What wedding?" She asked.

Colossus has posed:
"Ah." Spotted, in predictably little time. "No, no the Professor was not sending me to- ah. Well, he did." Piotr's not terribly great at lying or really covering things up in general. "But not to be putting you in any more trouble," he continues, his tone reassuring, though perhaps a touch too insistently so. "Only just to see how you are doing. I was wondering this on my own, in any case."

Since he's been spotted, Piotr at least steps out into the door frame to be fully visible, and then, after a momentary hesitation, steps a bit further inside. He smiles in friendly fashion as Lara turns and greets him. "Privyet, Ms. Croft." A slightly concerned, hesitant pause, and he goes on, "It was to be wedding of friends Anna-Marie and Remy. They are, hmm, one of biggest couples in our bunch, yes? Of early staff and members of team. And so was great excitement for everyone, to see them finally making things official. Many teachers and students attended... And so one of our enemies thought this was opportune moment to strike." There is a clear darkness even on his otherwise ever-stoic face, making clear how serious this was for everyone. And if it can affect Piotr so...

... then what of a student, newer to the whole thing? His glance shifting from Lara toward her would-be student seems to carry this very thought, this suggestion without even speaking it. Instead, he says more vaguely, "So, is troubling for everyone."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"Fine...I already introduced myself, Ellie Phimister, if I'm being humble, probably the coolest Sophomore in this lame school, besides that...? Not much to say, really..." she shrugs and then looks directly at Lara, asking, "so why shouldn't I write off your class? I mean, history classes are usually borefests about stupid people who died." To be fair, pretty much everyone mentioned in History classes are dead. Though not always because they were stupid.

Then Lara gives a line that actually has Ellie seeing eye to eye with her, if only for a moment, "well, if you check a Twitter feed, you can always go backwards. You can't delete stupid. It's up there for everyone to read, and laugh at you." She then notes the bandages and asks, "cut yourself reading? Paper cuts suck." Yeah, it's a mean comment, those she practices regularly.

Ellie crosses her arms behind her head and looks up at the ceiling when Piotr acknowledges he was sent by the Professor, "awesome. You can tell him I'm still not crazy." As Piotr insists he wants to know how she's doing, and well, to be fair, he is the one thing that made Ellie more or less 'fit' such as it is with the school, so she appreciates his candor. She knows him enough to say, "bitch hurt me, ok? I'm pissed I couldn't hurt her back...that six armed psycho freak..."

As if Piotr's input wasn't enough to illustrate how dreadful the whole wedding affair was, Ellie adds to Laura, in an aghast voice, "they also made me wear a dress for the wedding...a real one. Like, for Disney Princesses and shit." It wasn't really that bad of a dress, she just over sells it, also, to Ellie a dress by default is terrible on its own.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara's brown eyes traveled from the large Piotr to the comparitively tiny Ellie and she listened to them both speak on the wedding. "A day of happiness, turned into something... terrible." She said, gathering up what they'd said and adding it ontop of some rumors she'd heard whispered about in the school in the week she's been here. "I'm really sorry to hear about it... It sounds truly tragic..." She'd look away for a seconed until Ellie spoke on the dresses topic.

Lara looked back then and grinned softly at her. "I'm not one for dresses myself. My parents used to make me dress up for special occassions and I'd fight them, vehemently. I prefer pants and tanktops, leather jackets and leather boots." She showed a light grin before glancing down at her hand and the paper-cut remark made her smile.

"I wish it were that mundane, but no." She squeezed her injured hand inside that bandage-wrap and then looked back up to Ellie. "I was attacked as well." She glanced to Piotr for a moment, but looked back to the student. "I was in South America earlier this month. With a friend. She'd asked for my help in searching for a lost city deep in the jungle. There was a mercenary group. They captured us both." Lara gently shook her head side to side...

"History, Ellie... is important to some people who you might not expect it to be. And it holds secrets that some might whish to discover, and exploit." Lara looked to the chalk board behind her, some of her writings scribbled on it. "Boring, potentially in a setting like this..." And then she looked back to the both of them. "Far more interesting, when you go out and immerse yourself within it."

She hten held her injured hand up and wiggled it a bit, a sheepish smile showing. "If a bit dangerous, from time to time."

Colossus has posed:
"Yes, this I understand," Piotr answers, with little sense of judgment, only simple acknowledgment. "Our enemies are not good people - or they would not be our enemies! And so they often seek ways to hurt us. And sometimes, they are succeeding." Despite the grimness of that, he smiles. "Is part of what we do. 'In job description', yes? You should never be thinking that any of this will be easy."

Saying that, he continues his way into the room, and over toward where Ellie is seated, remaining standing nearby. "And is normal to be getting angry when this happens. No one enjoys losing. Everyone is angry to see a friend, comrade, hurt or worse. I was very angry also, and if there were not so many others there to protect, maybe I would have kept fighting and fighting." There is a momentary pause here, as he considers the point of all of this, and then simply adds: "Anyway, if you are mad, is OK. But important thing is to focus and not get too mixed up in such feelings. Go to training room and break things. Practice, train. We will be striking the foe that hurt us soon, but whether or not you can go depends on whether comrades Jean and Scott think you - and any other students - are ready for such things."

And here he makes the transition, to gesture toward Lara. "And you show you are ready by taking school seriously." Of course, he has nothing to say on the dresses matter, but does pick up on the Historian's own take on things. "History is more than boring dead people. Is lessons. History is full of war, full of villains, full of evil people who caused hurt and harm. Is full of stories of their victories and defeats. If you do not know, then *you* may do something stupid, da? Because you have not learned these lessons."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
When Lara finds common ground with Ellie on the dress hating aspect, Ellie flashes her a thumb's up. "Awesome, finally a teacher who gets it." Lara gets enough Cool Points <tm> for that remark, that Ellie actually lays off the 'paper cut' comment and listens to her, "so what attacked you? A freakin' bear?"

"Wait...hold the bus! You said captured? How come you're here then?" For once there's a history related story that doesn't suck. Squinting at Lara's suggestion, Ellie looks a bit weirded, "what? You mean like Indiana Jones shit?"

Listening to Piotr, it's tough to come up with biting remarks, the guy has a heart of gold and genuinely seeks to help. Even when he's being a dork. So Ellie just shifts her gaze upon him, stalls a moment, and then nods, "I get it...I really do." Spoiler alert: she really doesn't.

"If I see the six armed psycho freak again she's dead...I don't care who is standing next to her," Ellie asserts, convincing herself at least that she's just made a promise. When Piotr goes and supports Lara's point, Ellie just lets out a grumble. Yeah, she can't quite refute that, at least not without being stupid. And she's not stupid.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara looked to Piotr and his speech and ethical beliefs made her smile. "I take this school very seriously. In my... week here... I've already been able to easily tell that the student body, as well as the faculty, are attemping to do something that most others fear. And its for the greater good. Which I'm all for."

She'd hold that smile before looking back to Ellie and her question about her captivity. "Well... as Piotr here said... History is more than boring dead people... And it turns out that the jungles hide more secrets than we might think. We were captive, yes. Mercenaries, loaded with guns an foul scowls. But..." Lara held her hand up, the bandage was clean and fresh. "What gave me this wound, returned, and it returned in force. From the past itself. A sabretooth cat... the size of a pickup truck. It raided the mercenary camp. Sent them fleeing for their lives and amidst all the chaos, my partner and I escaped with the loot the men were attempting to smuggle."

Lara shifted her weight in her chair with a soft grin. "I've learned from History, how to nagivate it and survive through it. But the value in history is not always just knwoledge, and thats why there are evils out there still trying to gain from it. Which is where my associates and I come in, we've tried to intercept them before they can do this."

Lara's other hand was lifted up and she shoed her pointer finger and a little cut on it. "This one though, this one is a paper cut from a book though." And she smirked.

Colossus has posed:
Whether Piotr believes Ellie understands as much as she says or not, he nods all the same. She's not going to grow up in a day, definitely not in a lecture. "I was not coming here in first place to yell or berate you," he goes on. "And I will not do it now. I am understanding your anger. Is not wrong. But is up to you what to do about it." Here he makes a wide, sweeping gesture. "Being angry teenager, well, there are no shortage of these, da? Is OK, is normal, but is nothing special either." As ever, he is bluntly honest.

And yet, if it is even possible, Piotr seems to stand up a little taller, arms crossed over his broad chest, as he continues. "But this school does mean something. Is not like fake nonsense on TV show. Is something to be proud of. We teach normal things, even sometimes boring things first, da, so are ready for *abnormal* things after."

Ellie's obviously improving impression of Lara also earns a full deep laugh, and glancing over as the woman shares her recent adventure, Piotr seems to share the appreciation. "I said same thing, when we are first meeting, that she is like this man from famous American movie!" A broad grin. "Ms. Croft is impressive woman. And this is why I say, school is special. We are not hiring just anyone to teach history, or anything else here. Everyone here has something important to teach. Is up to you, if you wish to learn, but if you chose not, you will be less strong for it, I promise this. And stronger you are, the less you are having to fear from six-armed woman or anyone like her. Because even when she is gone, there will be more."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
"A sabretooth cat? What the fuck? Those are extinct!" Ellie snaps, all of a sudden getting quite a bit of interest, at least in that aspect of history, "can we have a class field trip to see it?" Not the response that would first come to mind, at least with most people, Ellie thinks it's quite awesome.

Ellie smiles at Piotr, and goes as far as to admit, "I knew that, you're one of the good guys, big guy. You're not a lameo like Scott, ugh."

When Piotr goes as far as to tell her she's not special, Ellie sticks her tongue at him, before blowing a raspberry in his general direction, "stuff it, I'm special alright. I'm the one who fucks up everywhere she goes, and then winds up on a weirdo school, what's not special about that?"

She grins at Lara's shows an actual paper cut, and mumbles, "I'll come to next History class, ok? Now can I go?" But she soon becomes all throny again when the six-armed woman is mentioned, and she glowers at Piotr, "I'm not scared of that bitch! I'm not!" Mostly because Spiral isn't here right now. That meeting was the first that Negasonic didn't finish with a bang.

Lara Croft has posed:
Lara was commonly compared to Indiana Jones, and it didn't bother her... she'd met him, brought him back to society a few months ago and had helped give him a job with SHIELD... the world at-large believes him to be dead, or a myth all around, but she knew otehrwise and considered him a friend.

Lara just grinned at them both and then would shrug her shoulders. "We should probably start with a trip to the Natural History Museum, where I can show you what my partner and I brought back from this latest trip." She grinned then. "We'll talk about trips to the southern hemisphere sometime after that."

Lara reached out to take the slip that Ellie had sat down and she checked it off and then handed it back to the student. "Thank you for coming to see me, Ellie. You have good people here who want you to be happy, no matter what it takes to get you happy." She nodded to Piotr. "Clearly he's one of the better ones too. I know its frustrating at times, but keep giving us all chances. We're all weirdos in somewhats, but... thats not a bad thing at all. Its something to be proud of, in fact."

Lara would grin. "Sappy time over. You're free to go."

Colossus has posed:
"We do own hypersonic jet, so some... excursions are possible," Piotr points out, adding a little bit of positive reinforcement to the whole. "But only where they are reinforcing our curriculum, da? Teaching important lessons. And for that, you do still have to pay attention to the other parts." OK, maybe more like bribery!

Also, he has one further contradiction for Ellie: "You are special, but not because of dark makeup and jewelry. Is still very special place, this school, and the people in it." Still, Lara and her seem to have come to an understanding and Piotr brings his hands together in a clap of finalilty. "I am glad it is settled." Though Lara's praise of him is met with a simple shake of his head. "I am not so different than anyone here. Even comrade Scott. He is, ah, a 'lameo' sometimes, maybe, but is because leading is hard. Is far easier for me to be 'nice guy.'"

With that he will start back toward the door, though he glances back along the way. "Scared or not, you will train!" This is just stated as immutable fact. "This is only way to be ready for the sort of foes we face."

Negasonic Teenage Warhead has posed:
Ellie at this point just looks and listens, which is a remarkable improvement over her usual look and chirp. She gets up when Lara says she can go, and goes as far as to say, "you are better than I thought." A big win for Lara Croft, she just doesn't know it yet.

A big thumbs up goes Piotr's way, "I'm down. You're the best, big guy." She snorts at the suggestion her unique look doesn't make her special, "as if, did you see Tabitha? Going all bimbo like? I'm way more special," so yeah, she's being a bit flippant. She doesn't wait for additional quips, simply shooting, "Ellie out," and practically rushing out of the classroom.