006 - Audio - Forward dated to November 6

[therightchoice]

 [ Two days. It has been two days of Jesse  waiting. Waiting for a certain someone to come to the apartment. The last time he seen him he was in an cold Sunday night, when both of them went to bed. The morning after, Bruce was gone and assuming that he went to work on something, Jesse's been waiting for his return ever since.

At first, he remembers an earlier talk and maybe figured that he got caught up and it was after Dark, so he decided to stay in someone's place. But as the nighttime hours have grown longer and the daylight hours shorter, Jesse cannot wait idly anymore. Two days are long enough to wait. 

He's not interested in showing his face today, for he has started to get the smallest of suspicions of what really happened to Bruce. But Jesse wants to know for sure.]

Where's Bruce Banner. 

[ The question is made a statement out of Jesse's slowly growing anger and worry, but it will be hard to tell, as a child who is not known to show any emotions at all.

If anything, he sounds cold, and the lights in his room are starting to flicker, unseen by the network. ] 

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[momchester]

[Oh, Jesse. 8( ]

His name vanished from the Network two days ago.

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[therightchoice]

I know that.

I want to know where he is.

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[momchester]

Jesse, that means he's not here. He went home.

[therightchoice]

[ The lights switched off in his room.

There's the smallest yet tensest of pauses. ]

How.

[momchester]

The Core. That's how it works.

He might come back. A lot of people do.

[therightchoice]

He won't.

[doctor_mccoy]

Take it easy kid, if Bruce went home then he got lucky. None of us want to stick around here forever.

I'm sure he didn't mean to just up and leave you though.

[Bruce had at least told him about the kid he'd adopted.]

[therightchoice]

I am not a kid.

[ He says this a little mulishly. ]

Not all of us can go home.

[ Like Jesse. ]

[doctor_mccoy]

Until you're older than me you are.

And you're right, no all of us can or will go home. I know he said he was taking care of you. You alright?

[therightchoice]

I fine.

[ Spoiler: this is a lie. ]

[doctor_mccoy]

You sure? Because I remember being pretty upset when my first friend here up and disappeared, and I'm pretty sure as an old man, I got my shit together a little better than you do.

[therightchoice]

You don't know what actually happens when I don't have it together.

[ He says this a slighted heated tone. ]

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[magnetic_magpie]

[Here's Magneto, knocking gently on Jesse's door.]

Jesse?

[therightchoice]

[ Jesse cannot help but bristle. He hasn't asked for company, he asked for answers. People really ought to tell the difference between the two.

He flicks the light on again and with a thought, opens the door. Doors don't ultimately matter if one can teleport anyway. ]

[magnetic_magpie]

[Magneto had come to offer answers, but didn't feel this news needed be to said over the Network.

He walks in, glancing around for a place to sit, leaning against a chair.]

Hi Jesse. Want to take a walk and talk a little bit?

[therightchoice]

[ For a second, Jesse has felt the impulse to do just that, assuming that Erik made one of those suggestions that aren't really suggestions. His parents were fond of doing that type of ordering around. But then Jesse remember that Bruce is Jesse's legal guardian, not Erik, and Jesse is not under any obligation to follow said suggestion. ]

No.

[magnetic_magpie]

[Magneto isn't fond of that type of ordering anyway. When he gives orders, there's no doubt it's an order.]

All right. Do you know how to work the Newcomer Directory on the NV system?

[therightchoice]

[ Jesse shrugs, maybe a yes, maybe a no.

While Jesse demands answers, he's in no mood to be fair and gives his own. ]

[magnetic_magpie]

[Magneto doesn't care - Jesse is hardly the first stubborn, independent preteen he's dealt with.]

Ok. Well, every Newcomer is listed there. Sometimes by a name, or a nickname, but they are there. Bruce isn't listen and I had the computer - Cerebra - scan the island for him. He's not here, so the Core has sent him home, the companies don't have him.

[He knows there are ways of disconnecting the NV from the Network and hiding your identity from the general population, which is why he checked Cerebra. Bruce wasn't here.]

[therightchoice]

[ Well. That's it then. ]

Cerebra tells you when he comes back?

[magnetic_magpie]

No, I'm sorry, she can't. She just works on the island.

[And he is sorry. He knows what it's like to lose a parent.]

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[symmachy]

He's not with you?

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[therightchoice]

No.

[symmachy]

[fuckfuckfuckfuck]

I'll search for him.

[therightchoice]

How?

[symmachy]

Every way I can.

[therightchoice]

Are you one of his friends?

[symmachy]

I am.

[therightchoice]

Like Tony?

[symmachy]

--Sort of.