dear_mun | On mun's giving in and reading New Warriors v4

Sofia.

What happens there? I have not heard of you in...a while.

You're Laura, right?

[She hasn't actually met Laura yet from her canon point, but she's heard about her around dear_mun.]

Apparently sometime in the future I lose my powers and run away to the city to work as a waitress. I'd rather stay at the Institute and keep my powers. Not to mention all my friends.

[And Julian, but from what she's heard Laura knows all about that particular person so she's just conveniently not going to single him out like she would otherwise.]

It is not easy, to feel powerless. If you can remain like this, then you should, as long as that is what you want.

'Abandoned me'. Nice choice of wording, there.

[Sorry Sofia, he's trying to be civil but it doesn't just come naturally to him.]

How many times are we going to have to have the same conversation, Julian? You said you were going to give me a chance, were those just words?

[And because it's Sofia who's a nice girl when it's all said and done.]

I'm sorry, I should have said that better.

...Nah, sorry. You're right.

You sure she won't canon-update you?

I'm glad. [That he was going to try giving things a chance anyway.]

She would not. If she decided she did want to play that other me she would just play us both.

[He gives her a little shrug]

Guess that's okay. In a way at least. I... [He makes a face. Julian isn't the best when it comes to wording feelings, and right now those feelings are pulling him in completely opposite directions. Which is kind of his default mode when dealing with Sofia.]

I'd still like to know why you left. And I could ask that to the 'future' you.

The powers don't make the hero, right?

Of course they don't.

[But as far as Sofia's concerned, they're a big part of who she is. So having that taken away from her is pretty much the opposite of okay.]

[she offers a faint smile] So the world might not be that bad. Even if...part of it is missing.

I wish I could believe that, but it sounds terrible. Too many people die and too much goes wrong for me to believe that world isn't that bad.

[Some things even Sofia can't give a silver lining.]

Pretending it didn't happen won't get you anywhere.

It is a future that I will never live. Is it wrong to wish to avoid it?

[A future where she loses her powers, abandons her friends, and abandons him? Why would she want that?]

You don't know that.

I thought I'd never live out my future. That's changing.

I'd like to think she wouldn't do that to me.

Don't you get tired of pretending it works out okay? It's a lie anyway.

There's a chance. There are different, alternate universes. Why can't one of them be a happy one?

Would it be better if I were angry and bitter about it instead?

[The "like you" went unspoken, but it was certainly there.]

[ So she still sees the good in everything.

That's not how his head works. ]

Because it isn't happy. It never works out that way. You should get angry about it. I don't get why you aren't. I don't get why everyone isn't.

[She likes it that way.]

Because that's not who I want to be, Julian. I don't want to become that bitter, distrustful person who only sees the bad in things. That's not who I am.

I know. [ For a minute his voice is gentle, because he remembers.

Then it hardens again. ]

But it's who you become.

No. That's who she became. I'm taking a different path, things don't have to be like that for me.

[At least not yet.]

[ Quiet for a minute. ]

Then what do you want, Sofia? What are you looking for, if moving on's off the table?

I don't know.

[There's a pause and then she sighs.]

That's not true. I just... want things to be like they were.

I used to think like that.

[ Especially right after she left. He looks away. ]

It's too late to go back.

If I went back right now it'd still be the same. I'd wake up in the morning and it'd be just another day at the Institute.

[With a time limit, because obviously that ends.]

But I know what happens next, and I'm not sure if I can deal with that.

Where I'm from you already have.

I guess, anyways. It's not like I ever see you again. [ Yeah, there might be bitterness creeping in there again. ]

Maye not there, but there's always here.

[There she goes finding silver linings again.]

If time and universe don't matter here, then that means anything can happen. Maybe even seeing each other whenever we wanted.

[ It's what she does best.

And one of the things he's worst at. ]

You wouldn't want to see me where I'm going.

You're wrong. I'll always want to see you.

[She manages a small smile.]

Someone has to keep you in line and who'll do it if I don't?

No one keeps me in line, you know that.

You tried.

[ This stuff is exactly why he spent so long missing her. ]

I keep you in line for the most part and you get me into trouble. Isn't that how it's supposed to work?

[Poor, poor Julian. Sofia can't apologize enough for what her other (or at least older) self did.]

That's how it used to. [ He smiles, slowly. As if it's grudging.

Which it kind of is, because he doesn't exactly want to reminisce. But he always found it hard not to smile around her. And right now it's like she stepped straight out of his memories. ] But I never got you into anything you couldn't handle. We knew what we were doing.

[ Apologies would never be enough anyway. He never believes them. This is better. Being normal again is better. ]

We knew what we were doing?

[The smile she gives him this too has a decidedly amused feeling to it.]

Like the time we were going to break Kevin out of FBI custody? David was right, that was beyond stupid.

[Actions, not words, right? She can do that.]

A friend of mine is never gonna be locked up because I wouldn't do something about it.

And David and his mutant brain get into more trouble than I do on a regular basis. [ That is such a lie. ] You and me were always good together. David had nothing on us. He only ever beat me when he had you with him. [ Less of a lie. ]

It worked out okay in the end didn't it? [That time.]

Yeah? How many times has David got into trouble? [She doesn't buy it.] We make a good team. [That part she believes.] But I'm pretty sure that's not why he beat you.

I'm pretty sure that was exactly the reason, beautiful. [ Did he just call her that...

Okay moving swiftly on. ]

You were always too good for him anyway. You should've been with me from the start.

We make a good team, but the New Mutants do too.

[And that's all the concession she's going to give him on that one.]

David's smart, brilliant even, and I think you'd both like each other if you'd only learn to get along.

It's never gonna happen. If you saw him now you'd understand, he's a fucking idiot. He thinks he's the next Cyclops. He's sticking around Utopia to play soldiers and end up as meat in the grinder. He's canon fodder, Sofia. That's all he has left.

You can make your own future, Sofia. You don't have to go with the path other people have set for you.

It's not so bad, Sofia. Powers or no, you're a tougher gal than most. I've seen it myself.

On mun's giving in and reading New Warriors v4

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Can't really use Winddancer for a NW Sofia anyway now could I?

nope xD

oh my gosh sofia!!! <3

A very out of practice Sofia at that I'm afraid.

that works well with a pretty new tatiana

Aren't we a pretty pair then?

hello again!

Long time no see <3

<33

<3333

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Have a fashionably late, post-NW Jono =3