9753/So what are we going to do tonight Doug

So what are we going to do tonight Doug
Date of Scene:	25 October 2019
Location:	Rec Room - Xavier's School
Synopsis:	And a house plan is made
Cast of Characters:	Cannonball, Cypher

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Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie is sitting in t he rec room, tv is off. He is in one of the corner chairs with his legs crossed and a tablet in his hand. He has a thoughtful look on his face, and seems to be swiping to the side on something of the tablet. He does have a cheerwine soda beside him, and light music on in the back ground.

Cypher has posed:
Doug has one of his rare moments of downtime - he walks over and drapes his arms over the back of the couch, and says, "You look more relaxed than I think I've ever seen you." He looks up, and cocks an eyebrow. "Salieri?"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie 's brow raises and looks over to his friend "Salieri?" He will ask him, and says "What's what?" He hmms and sets the tablet down for a moment, and says "Am looking through some ads online seeing if I can something that is right for me."

Cypher has posed:
Doug says, "...Something what." He leans in a bit. "Oh, apartments, huh? Gonna strike out on your own? You know, Berto owns some Mutant Town real estate - there's residential space above X-Corp, too."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie nods, his head, and says "Ah plan on keeping my room here, but today pointed out that I might need to look into having a place in town as well. I sorta got a date to make dinner for this woman, and realized, Ah aint got a kitchen to do it in.

Cypher has posed:
"You know," Doug says, "You COULD bring her here. Serve her dinner in the private dining room. It's very romantic." He arches an eyebrow. "You have a *date*, huh? Who with? Do I know her?"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie chuckles and says "Oh yea, bring a girl who knows nothing about us back to the mansion with this group, what could go wrong." He chuckles a bit "She is a street musician and detective out of Mutant town. Ran into her one day talked to her about playing at the club, and coming to listening to her play over in the theater district. Well happened to see Andrea stopping in at the shelter in town, and thought I would see what she was doing. Well Alexis, that's the girls name. She was there playing for the kids. Andrea was impressed with her and finding out I knew her and being there thought Alexis was a mutant, turned out she is actually. Don't know her powers, well anyways before I know it Andrea is setting me up to cook dinner for Alexis.

Cypher has posed:
And then Doug quirks his mouth. "Sam." Doug says, "...Can you cook? I mean, even when we were at the school as kids, we had a cook. And I *can't*, it's almost comical when I try. I'm good at just about everything... except cooking."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "I can cook a few things. While dad was sick before I went to work in the mines, I picked up a few skills. Ma taught me to make fried chickens, tater salad, gravy, biscuits stuff like that. And Andrea bragged on my fried chicken so I don't have to try to make anything fancy or anything at least."

Cypher has posed:
"I do like your mother's burgoo, but that's maybe a little heavy for a romantic dinner." Doug muses over that. "I mean, I usually just order takeout, but some candles, a little wine--" He looks upward, and then says, "*I* always thought you should've gone out with--" Then he shakes his head. "Nevermind."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie looks to the other and says "Go ahead you started it finish it spill." He tells his friend. "I wanna know at least what your thinking."

Cypher has posed:
"Well," Doug says, "I..." He thinks about it, and then clamps his mouth shut. "...Choose not to say. I went out with Illyana a couple of times, did you know? Recently. But--" He says, "We're both too busy with our different stuff. It was fun, though. We had a good time... I'm glad I did it."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie looks to his man and says "Well looking back at who we know, and such... Ah would think it would have to be one of two if it is someone in our circle, and one of those two only really got along with you thought of the rest of us as X-babies."

Cypher has posed:
Doug thinks about that. "Well, Kitty only ever had eyes for Piotr." He quirks his mouth and then says, "Well, I mean -- MAYBE I shipped you and Dani a little bit, but I was never gonna say anything to either of you. People gotta figure things out for themselves. Or not." He shrugs his shoulders.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie looks to the other man and says "Well Ah will admit there was a time or two Ah thought about it, but Ah sorta always thought she had a thing for Jimmy, a bit of the bad boy and having things in common with him.

Cypher has posed:
Doug gives a light shrug, and then says, "That's neither here nor there." He leans down, and points. "That one's kind of nice. And only four thousand dollars a month, practically a *steal*."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie winces a bit and says "Ah still try to send most of my cash home... Hmmms two bedrooms, maybe Ah could find a roomate. Ah doubt Ah would be there often to be honest. Wanting to spend time with a girl, or tired after work would probably be the time Ah spent there the most.

Cypher has posed:
"It'd be nice not to crash on a cot in the X-Corp office." Doug admits. Then he laughs. "I remember when it was really just us in the house -- course, unlike you guys, I went home on the weekends. Was there ever a night where something didn't go off in the middle of the night?"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie chuckles and says "Maybe about four years ago, the third Third Thursday, no wait I think that was the night Berto had a nightmare and knocked his end table through the wall.

Cypher has posed:
"Yeah." Doug says. "Scared the hell out of Warlock, who insisted on spending the rest of the night with me. I almost suffocated. Why did he even need his own room anyway? Do you know what he did at night, Sam?" Doug pinches the bridge of his nose. "He'd *turn himself into a bed*."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie smirks, and says "I just sorts figured he plugged in to top off on some energy and watched tv all night. sorta figured that's how he was trying to learn more about us/ We were probably not the best examples."

Cypher has posed:
"No. He turned into a bed." Doug says. "With himself sleeping in it." He rolls his eyes, and says, "You know, I--" He laughs. "Heh. Nevermind."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie lookc to the other and says "Well to be honest not much would surprise me with him." He grins thinking about his friend and says "So, you want to be roommates, who seldom stay at their place?

Cypher has posed:
"I was actually thinking the same thing." Doug says, before he says, "I mean, Berto lives out of a hotel I think, he travels so much. But I mean--" He laughs. "...Heh. I wonder. I mean, he pays me really well. I think--" He says, "...Why don't we ask him if he wants to go in on a place in the city, all three of us, just as a place to hang our respective hats for the time being. We're all always traveling, we'd never be there at the same time anyway."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie hmms and says "We can, but think we would actually get him get a place where us pitching in is going to count, or you think we would just basicly be staying in his fancy ass place?"

Cypher has posed:
Doug gives Sam a *look*. "Sam, that man has dressed as Thomas Magnum every Halloween that I can remember since the time I've known him, and I assume he did when I was dead. His tastes aren't *half* as posh as he likes to pretend."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie chuckles a bit and says "One yea he was Indiana Magnum." He tells the other man. "He hires someone to set up his home for him I thin, but yea we can talk to him. Just want to make sure not to big, you know brining a girl back to a mansion that aint a school might give her the wrong idea something fierce

Cypher has posed:
Doug sighs, and then says, "As for me -- looks like I'm back into the dating pool." He sighs, and says, "Well, let's ask him. It might be fun, for awhile--" He muses over that. "You ask him."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie chuckles a bit and says "Ah will see what I can find out, Ah actually was also thinking about asking Terry out at some time." He tells the other. Talked to her about coming to the club and hanging out sometime.

Cypher has posed:
"Terry, huh?" Doug rests his chin in his hand. "She's a pistol -- but you were always attracted to wild women." Doug mulls over that. "As for me?" He says, "...Heh. I dunno. Hard to judge from an insider perspective."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie hmms and says "I aint sure, but maybe get you out to the club in purely a fun mode sometime, if you think you can still have fun there maybe we can find someone you find interesting.

Cypher has posed:
Doug rolls his eyes upward, and then says, "Still too much to do." He shrugs, at the thought. "But maybe sometime soon. In the meantime," He says, "Let's keep looking at apartments, and you can make your pitch to the third musketeer."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "Oh thought I would let ya know, Shannon has been working on some apple brown betty, from ma's recipe, your liable to find some with your name on it, just to help her figure out how to get it to be the way she wants it."

Cypher has posed:
Doug gives a faint grin. "Really? That's sweet! I mean, half the reason it's so good is because I filch it out of your care packages though, it wouldn't be the *same* otherwise. So if we get an apartment together, you do the cooking, because my culinary skills only end at finding the best deels on Doordash."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie chuckles and says "Well how about ah do the Sunday cooking and other than that we alternate between take out and frozen." He looks over to the man and says "Oh don't think you would without reason, but if you see Jay and Andrea don't give them any grief, trying not to make to much of a deal of it.

Cypher has posed:
Doug raises his eyebrows. "...Sam, I barely know your brother. I'm not going to make his life *difficult*." He shakes his head, lightly, and then says, "Is that what you think of me?"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie looks to the man and says "I expect you might tease him a bit cause he is my brother, more than anything Doug. To be honest though you could probably tell not to. He has been going through some rough times, and Ah am just worried about him you know"?

Cypher has posed:
"Of course you are. You're his brother. Just like how you fret over me, and Berto, and pretty much anybody you know who skids out. It's in your nature." He pats Sam on the shoulder.

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie looks over to Doug and offers him a smile and says "Ah am just glad he seems to be fitting in. He was not to happy to have to come up here. Luckily Andrea and he have hit it off, but think she is falling hard for him.

Cypher has posed:
Doug rolls his eyes. "Women falling hard for Guthries. What a *shock*." He opens his mouth, and slaps his cheek with a techno-organic hand. "Somebody call J. Jonah Jameson, this is front-page stuff!"

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie chuckles and shakes his head, and says "Hey you can't put the whole Guthrie rock star on me this time, but I do believe Jeb might be hoping the pattern sticks. He chuckles and says "We talking about having the family up for Andrea's concert at the club.

Cypher has posed:
"That's awesome, Sam. Show your family the big city, they'll have a great time. Maybe let your mother take a day to herself, go get pampered... you know." Doug shrugs his shoulders, and then looks away. "Spend more time with your mother, Sam. I know I miss mine like crazy."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie nods, and says "Ah plan to spend time with her, but you know your welcome to spend time with us too. Ma, wants to make sure you know you ever need her, she is there for you.

Cypher has posed:
"I appreciate that, Sam, and your mom's great. I love spending time with her, so does Berto, you know that--" He shakes his head, and says, "...I know everything about everything my parents have done for the past four years. Where they moved to after they split up-- my mother stopped practicing law when she had me, but she's back with this big lawfirm over on the West Coast. I'm glad--she always talked about going back to work when I went to college."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie nods, and says "You know she thinks of yall as hers too. If I could do anything to make it better you know I would." He hmms and shows the man a nice brownstone and says "What ya think of this place?"

Cypher has posed:
Doug peers. "You want to rent a whole house? Well I mean if Berto went in on it we could afford it for sure, he'd probably just buy the whole thing--" He looks back at Sam, and then says, "There isn't any fix to it. To them, I'm a golem -- some... mud-thing in the image of their perfect dead son."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie looks to the other man and says "Ma, knows Jay came back from the dead, and you came back, but she does not know Ah came back." He admits to his friend.

Cypher has posed:
Doug glances to Sam, and then says, "...Sam, I don't wanna make light of what happened to you, but you were down for a few minutes. I was dead for two years. I'm living with it... but my parents?" He shakes his head. "It's just too much for them, and that hurts."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie looks to the man and says "I didn't mean it is quite the same Doug, what I meant is more Ah can understand the awkwardness. I know you want to see them, but don't really know how to convince them that your you. We live in this crazy world that is hard for those not in it to believe can be true.

Cypher has posed:
Doug looks up at Sam, and says, "Yeah, and I have to live with it. But this is my life now, and that life is theirs." He mulls over it, and says, "Exposure to the incredible makes you incredible by osmosis. It makes sense to me." Then he says, "Anyway, enough navel-gazing. A house would let us all go to neutral corners when we can't stand each other."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie nods his head a bit and says "Yea, and when someone tries to come beat our heads in, we don't have to worry about hurting folks above or below us just to the sides. " Yes says when not if.

Cypher has posed:
Doug sighs. "I need to step up my fight training. As I am right now, I'm a liability. Danger Room programs only do so much, I need a live teacher."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "Thought you had a friend you were working with. You been working so much not been doing that with him?' He will ask"

Cypher has posed:
Doug sighs, and then says, "I was, yeah, but he's got other things going too --" He shakes his head and says, "I haven't been able to get down there for weeks. When he needs my help I usually just teleconference in."

Cannonball has posed:
Samuel Guthrie says, "Dude, go see him, you make new friends you need to spend time with him, besides he may have desserts you can steal from him too." He jokes."

Cypher has posed:
Doug looks up, and then says, "...Keep looking at places, Sam. I'm going to go scavenge and see what's leftover after dinner that falls within my diet plan." He finger-guns, and walks out.