Owner	Pose
Kitty Pryde	Kitty is sitting at the kitchen table. She has two laptops in front of her. Well, one to the side, and one in front. One is showing progress of some sort of data analysis. The one in front of her, Kitty seems to be surfing a job posting site. She has a bowl of cereal in hand, eating it slowly as she reads one of the postings in a section labeled IT Projects. Lockheed is curled up around her neck, the purple dragon just watching the screen quietly. "Boring, and too long," Kitty murmurs between smacks of cereal. She skims through the subjects of some others and clicks on one before beginning to skim it. "Boring, but shorter," she says, giving a little side to side bob of her head as if that's better than the last. Kitty clicks on to look at another one. Lockheed lets out a little puff of smoke. "Yes I'm being picky. Don't want to spend a bunch of time if it's not worth it. Too much to do. Especially with the Sentinels," she says. Lockheed rests his head back on her shoulder, not arguing the point apparently.
Erika Kristasdottir	Souvenir stalks in walking pretty close to silently, she's still practicing that. She looks up and lets a deep breath out. Still looking like she's really upset, but apparently you are the light at the end of the tunnel for now. She has a flannel jacket on that conceals what they are, but.. bumblebees underneath. "Hey, Kitty. You have confidentiality, right? You aren't going to go talking to the rest of the teachers? I really don't want to make things even more of a mess." She walks over to see what you are doing, still visibly fuming.
Kitty Pryde	Kitty glances up, giving Erika a smile before catching wind of the teenager's expression. At the question, Kitty sits up a little straighter. "Well, yes. There are a few things I'd have to bring up. If you were planning to hurt yourself, or someone else, things like that," Kitty says. Her head tilts to the side a little bit. "Did you want to talk then?" Kitty asks quietly. She pats Lockheed's head. "He rarely talks, I think you're safe talking in front of him." Lockheed gives a little nod and rests his head back down, accepting Kitty's pats amiably enough.
Erika Kristasdottir	Souvenir nods. "Yeah. I am so pissed right now, and I can't even talk about some of this stuff." She fumes some. "So. Chronological, right. I go out and visit with my, well, I guess my girlfriend now, she totally earned that getting shot at.. And then I go for a run. Because sometimes? I want to feel like kind of a real person? Even if I am trying to work out and get better so I can feel safer? And I get kidnapped. The guy even complimented me on how well I did on trying not to get grabbed, he said I did everything right if he wasn't basically like Colossus." "But Scott got hurt. So I go down there to tell him I was hoping he would get better soon, and he basically unloaded on how it was all my fault for wanting to go outside sometimes and how I'm lazy and I don't do anything to keep myself safe." She makes a couple fists. "I might have gone off on him a little bit."
Kitty Pryde	Kitty Pryde listens quietly, her cereal bowl set aside and the job posting laptop closed. The other continues to run quietly, though Kitty's attention is on Erika. "Well, I haven't heard the conversation. Scott's probably in a bit of a bad way with the injury and from worrying. I mean, kind of like a parent when one of their kids gets hurt? They can kind of see red when it comes to keep them safe," Kitty suggests. "It sounds like it was pretty upsetting. But maybe give it a chance to cool down. Might be he's still dealing with a bit of emotion from it," Kitty suggests. She motions towards a seat at the table, offering for Erika to sit down with her.
Erika Kristasdottir	Souvenir sits and fumes quietly. "So, like, Andrea is bitching at me because I want to learn how to deal with this stuff when it goes wrong and she thinks I'm obsessing and I need to be a kid, Scott doesn't want to let me go outside anymore, I'm trying to learn stuff from Gambit that I can actually do that I'm suited for, and he specifically doesn't want me to tell Scott, I'm trying to sort out how to fit it all together and make it look like, you know, *me*, and not make everybody treat me like they treat Gambit but worse, and now Sam wants me to get a pilots licence which would be cool and I was going to get to it at some point but it kind of made Andrea flip out and.." She takes a deep breath, because she kind of ran herself out with that bit of rambly frustration, and she figures someone is going to tell her to 'breathe' in a moment, so she does it first.
Kitty Pryde	Kitty listens quietly. "Yeah, it's kind of a rough time of life in general. And with the life we lead? Really doesn't make any easier, Erika," Kitty agrees. "Right now on the heels of what happened, might not be the best time for those conversations. It sounds like you know what you'd like to do. Maybe there's a better time to speak with them about it though?" she suggests. "Everyone is pretty worked up about what happened. I think you're running into some of that now."
Erika Kristasdottir	Souvenir tears up. "I was doing everything right!" She starts ticking points off on her fingers. "I made sure somebody knew where I was; I was watching all the choke points and everything the whole time I was out; I wasn't relying on other people's skills; I looked all around when I got to the fountain, and I was listening and paying attention." "I reacted as soon as I heard some movement, then I got grabbed from behind! James said if he was an ordinary person I would have broke his foot and his rib and got away, he said my training was awesome." "And I get back and nooo, it's all my fault and he's disappointed in me for putting everybody at risk and being careless. Oh! Oh! And he got on my case because I said I was probably going to need a few days before I tried to do anything with getting out of zzzz... of the stra-..." She visibly shivers and squeezes her eyes closed. "The.. wrist.. thingies. I-I can't even look at them right now, and I cry if something goes around my wrists. It's getting better, but like.. I just can't yet. I need some time first. it's like how I freaked out about pencils for a week after the vampire thing. I'm okay with them now."