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Post by aidenglutz on Jun 6, 2011 16:41:29 GMT -5
Aiden, aka Index, walked into the courtyard with his most loved possession, his laptop. He glanced warily around it, avoiding eye contact when at all possible. He slouched his shoulders, as if hiding himself from the world and wandered to a bench not far from the entrance to the school, an easy escape route if the situation presented it self. He rubbed his darkened eyes from another sleepless night, sat a rather large backpack next to him on the bench, and opened his laptop, all the while chewing on his bottom lip.
‘Hello Computer, time to wake up.’ He thought to it, sending it a command to start up with his mind, and it followed exactly what he wanted, as it always did. Perhaps he was crazy or too dependent on his technology but he would swear, if asked, that it responded to him in words; what he heard was ‘Greeting Index, how’re you today?’ He responded and a small smirk spread over his mouth. He waved a hand over his waist, covered in various types of hand-made gadgets that did a variety of different things and they lip up, hummed, whirred, and buzzed their greetings back to him. These were his friends and his family, the only ones that seemed to care about him.
He sat his beloved laptop next to his backpack and positioned himself so that he could maintain eye contact with it. Programs opened and closed as if by themselves as he began to lose focus of the world around him. This isn’t unusual for him, to seclude himself away from the noise and mayhem of everyday life and focus completely and utterly on his technology. He wasn’t as most teenagers, and the internet pages flashing before his eyes didn’t include facebook. It was a “social-network” and anything including social didn’t quiet end well for him.
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Post by Nickolass Elensar on Jun 6, 2011 20:19:13 GMT -5
Nick smiled as he walked down the stairs and outside a bright orange basket ball in his hand he was going to shot some hops today mostly because he couldn't stand being inside anymore today. Nick was whereing a wight t and some black sorts and sandals .
when he got to the court he dribbled the ball a few times looking at the hoop he saw a kid on a lap top neer where the court was Nick didn't pay much attention to the kid just the fact that he had a lap top. Nick made every shot not because he was the best player but he used basket ball as a way to train a little better and every once and awhile when he saw he wasn't going to make a shot he'd use his powers to make sure that it got in so every once in the wile the ball would hang in the air untill Nick made it go in.
Nick was enjoying him self a little to much after a wile Nick lost track of what he was doing and the ball flew out of his hand and started heading toward the kid on the bench
"Heads up kid"
Nick yelled unable to stop it with his powers becuase it was moving a little to fast.
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Post by aidenglutz on Jun 6, 2011 21:33:18 GMT -5
Aiden hadn’t heard the kid yell, or the basketball flying towards him. He was too obsessed with focusing on what he was doing; shuffling through web pages and programs, his mind completely engulfed in the processes of it all. By the time the basketball did register in his mind, it was too late. The ball bounced off his head, and he barely just caught it before it touched his laptop. His ears rung, his face stung, and his head throbbed. He stared at the ball for a moment in his hands before looking around to see where it came from. He noticed the guy standing there; obviously he had tried to warn him so it wasn’t thrown on purpose it seemed. His hand rotated the ball in his hands for a moment, obviously with a touch of awkwardness.
His lifted his arm up and threw it back to the kid, obviously it wasn’t a very good throw and it would stop short. His put his now free hand to the side of his head and looked at the kid, muttering softly between chewing on his lip, “Sorry… I wasn’t… paying attention… Is your ball okay?” ‘Is your ball okay?’ He repeated this to himself, realizing how dumb that sounded; he hoped that the kid didn’t hear him but he knew he wasn’t talking that soft. He eyes went instantly down to the ground as they always did when he was nervous, his hand flashing over his waist again and a gadget blinked, reading off information in his mind that registered in binary in his head.
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Post by Nickolass Elensar on Jun 6, 2011 21:50:14 GMT -5
the ball did fall sort or it whould of but Nick saw that it was going to fall sort and made the gavity around it lighter so it landed perfectly into Nicks hands Nick gave the kid an odd look when he asked if the ball was o.k Nick looked down at the ball and then back at the kid.
"ya the ball if fine"
The speech padern of the kid was off and the ball had hit the kid hard in the head Nick set the ball down and step to the kid " are you o.k that ball it you really hard, I'm so sorry" The guy wasn't in to sport at lest playing them Nick new that buy the way he threw the ball but the kid looked tried almost to the point where i looked like someone beat him in the eyes and then his odd way he acted by asking if the ball was o.k Nick love for younger people kicked in he never new why he trusted younger people then he did people his own age just something he lurend to deal with.
"I can get you an icepack if you want or something or umm" Nick gave a small smile to the Kid "I'm Nick by the way"
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Post by aidenglutz on Jun 6, 2011 22:08:58 GMT -5
Aiden glanced up quickly to face the guy when he was talking to him, but when it was Aiden’s turn to reply he looked back at the ground. “I’m fine…” He chewed on his lip some more before continuing, “I’ve been hit harder… I’ve got ice covered.” As soon as he spoke the words, the gadget that spoke to him earlier gave off a small beep. He reached down, unclipped it from his waist and placed it on it’s head, the metal slightly frosted. “Advanced ice pack… think… portable freezer.” He looked at the kid again, “I’m fine…” He repeated to the kid, rubbing his eyes absentmindedly again, followed shortly by a small yawn he attempted to stifle.
“I’m… uh… Index. Aiden really… I don’t like Aiden though.” He slipped into a an awkward silence and he half divided his attention to his laptop for a moment, closing off of all pages and programs before shutting itself down and closing. His eyes still glued on the ground below him.
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Post by Nickolass Elensar on Jun 6, 2011 22:28:16 GMT -5
When the kid said he was fine Nick looked him over again...and then he said that he'd been hit harder Nick folded his arms and sighed. "You've been hit harder most people have, but dude most guys would be pissed" The fact that the kid had said he had been hit harder Nick kind of wanted to know by what yea the danger room hit harder then any basket ball could do but it still the guy didn't really act like he spent hours in the danger room and he wasn't the physical so being hit harder could be anything.
Nick looked a little surpized when the kid pulled out some odd thing and then said it was an icepack Nick blinked a few times "and why do you have a portable freezer with you" Nick smiled a little but it disapeared when he said he was fine again.."Are you sure your fine you do look like you need a nap or something"
When he said that his name was Index nick nodded Index that was differnet Nick didn't ever ask why people chouise there other names and to him it seemed that most mutants didn't go by there birth names.
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Post by aidenglutz on Jun 6, 2011 22:58:57 GMT -5
He looked up again, as the other kid started talking once more. His hand was getting cold, so he switched hands, awkwardly holding his arm across his body. “I don’t get angry… Not when it was an accident. You didn’t mean to launch the ball at my head… or at least that’s what I assumed.” He gave a small awkward shrug due to the position of his arm and the slouching posture he held. He watched the kid’s facial expressions, noting the way they looked and coming to a conclusion of what was on his mind, “The danger room is no sweat. At least not at the level I’m taking it. I just don’t… show off. My gadgets protect me.” He wasn’t aware that he stopped chewing on his lip, or that he managed to keep his eye contact away from the ground for the most part.
“I’m a technopath. I deal with gadgets, I get them. I understand them. They understand me. I guess you wouldn’t really understand unless you were connected to them like I was. A phone is just a phone to you but I give it a personality, I understand it completely and it tells me how it works. I can’t explain it better than that. I just… can’t. I know how things go together to make something that I want made, and I can’t not make it. It’s an impulse thing.” He realized he was rambling and his eyes stared into the concrete flooring once more and his teeth automatically began chewing, it was a wonder his lip wasn’t bleeding as well.
“The freezer… it comes in handy. I said I was used to getting hit. This holds off the swelling. I made it a few months ago after a… rough encounter. I’m not the type of person someone befriends, I’m the weird kid. It’s easier that way…” He trailed off again.
“Index, it’s the home page of every website, most people don’t know that, but it is. It’s also a guide or a point of reference, it’s a number derived from a formula. It’s mathematical and technological, it’s… me.” He added quickly after saying his name was Index, and never, ever Aiden.
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Post by Nickolass Elensar on Jun 6, 2011 23:40:36 GMT -5
"no i didn't just it not a normal teenage boys reactsion to just shug it off" or at least thats what Nick belived when nick was just a little younger then this kid he was in a ruff crowd the kind that got mad and did dumb things when ever they got the chance. Things where like that for him untill the Xmen found him and broght him to the school and then Nick at first was a bully and tryed but over time and many teacher yelling at him he turned around.
Nick looked at him a little shocked almost like the kid had read his mind "...well that good then.." the kid was opening up a little more and talking more then he was before now so nick just lesioned letting the kid talk when he started to ramble nick smiled so the kid was a technopath that made scene "Ok thats cool well i may not beable to understand fully the idea of an understanding an inadamite object but i guess its like the fact that people can someone understand there pets but more cool because you can really understand them" Nick loved animules he had 2 pets that he kept in his room and he loved very much and it was the best he could realate to Index.
Nick was smiling that was until Index said that he was they weird kid that was some rough encounters Nicks eyes narrowed "Thats not cool" around them it would of felt a little hevery like there was a heavery weight that suddenly was on there shoulders. "People shouldn't pick on others at all Index I'm an X-men and adult hear and if anyone ever picks on you again tell me I will make sure it doesn't happen again" this was a sore spot of Nick he didn't like people picking on students normally and if someone felt like they where the victim all the time Nick was tence he didn't even hear as Index explained why he went by Index and not his normal name.
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Post by nixnight on Jun 7, 2011 1:30:34 GMT -5
*can I pop in? If you don't want me then say and I'll delete this*
Nix walked slowly out of the back of the school with her hands deep in her dark combats pockets and her hair hanging loosely around her face. She had her eyes closed as she walked and a smirk on her face and she twisted to avoid a plant in her way, she laughed quietly to her and and then snapped open her eyes and walked over to one of the school benches in the shadows and sat up and shrugged her back pack off and dropped it beside her.
She bent over it and unzipped it on one side and dipped her hands in and pulled out a black notepad and a pencil and then rested them both on her lap as she zipped the bag up again. She leaned back on the bench and looked around and spotted a pair of boys talking over near the basketball hoop and nodded to herself and then picked up her pencil and opened her notepad. She flicked though the lessons notes until she got to be back and her endless pages of stories and then paused. She put her pencil down and shrugged off her black leather coat and hung it over the benches arm and then ran a hand through her hair and leaned back on the bench itself again and looked around herself a second time
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Post by aidenglutz on Jun 7, 2011 16:39:28 GMT -5
((It's fine with me :D ))
Index continued to ice his face, swapping between both hands as he held the cooling device to the spot where the basketball hit him. “I’m really not a normal teenage boy, I fight when I have too... if I can.” He chewed on his lip, pulling off a small piece of skin, not enough to for it to actually bleed but enough to be sore. “It’s not usually fair on my part, but if they get to use their powers, then I get to use these.” He again motioned to his waist, which held many different gadgets, “It’s only fair that I get to use my powers.”
He paused, listening to him compare pets with inanimate object, “It’s different though, I mean unless you have a mutation that actually lets you understand and communicate with them, or one that allows you to command them. It’s just… different.” He wasn’t a big fan of animals, he thought they were too messy, loud, and overall just dumb. He wouldn’t voice it though, at least not to someone who was a bit more intimidating.
He felt the pressure pushing down on his already slouching shoulders, and looked at the kid in front of him, “It’s fine… Really… Can you… not do that?” He focused on the ground again after speaking, obviously nervous about asking him to turn down his powers. “People pick on others all the time, it’s human, an animal nature.” He said trying to relate to what Nick said earlier about pets, “We have to have a pecking order, and the easiest way to show dominance is by inflicting pain.” He looked around the courtyard, obviously trying to avoid any eye contact with the kid in front of him.
He spotted a girl, not too far away, obviously writing something in a notebook, his first thought was how very primitive that was. He accidentally made eye contact with her, sent her a small smile, and looked down at the ground again, waiting for one of them say something.
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Post by Nickolass Elensar on Jun 7, 2011 17:30:38 GMT -5
(i don't care the more the marryer)
"I don't care if its the natural pecking order or human nature it's not right" Nick was yelling at Index not because he was mad at index but he wanted to get the point across some how and this was a very sore topic for nick in gernal. Nick calmed down a little just enogh so there wasn't any persure around them anymore but that didn't stop him form yelling. "Look Index your a nice kid I can tell but don't ever, look at yourself as weeker or that you are at the bottem of the pecking order. you have a kick but power i bet there isn't a guy out there that can beat you at videogames."
Nick was so mad that he didn't see the girl at the other bench and he didn't care anyway he wanted Index to know that someone cared even if it was someone who was 25 years old that he didn't need to just take the hits. "Index if anyone ever picks on you come find me or some other xmen or teacher we can take care of it for you thats one of the reasons where hear, are school doesn't take bullying kindly.
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Post by nixnight on Jun 8, 2011 1:52:55 GMT -5
Nix raised her head at the sound of voices and turned and looked over at the two boys who were now standing closer together and seemed to be talking quickly, she paused and tilted her head to one side as they spoke and she shook her head. She tucked her pencil in the rings of her notepad and then then turned back to her back pack and unzipped it and dropped her notepad inside and heard it drop onto the wood of the bench and then zipped it up and picked it up by it's handle and stood up and the picked up her coat and dropped it over her arm and then paused and took a deep breath. She started walking over to the two boys and then looked over them more closely, the boy on the bench had a laptop sitting on his lap and the one still standing has a basket ball resting against his foot, but what struck her first was the the taller boy was pressing down on the other shoulders and she felt her fingers tingle with warmth which set her on edge within only second, her hands balled up into fists and she felt the warmth run up her side and she started walking quicker over to the pair ,"hey mate, get off him, I'll bet your hurting him" she called over with a private thought to herself of what she'd do to him if he was doing it on purpose
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Post by aidenglutz on Jun 8, 2011 2:14:18 GMT -5
Index looked up at the kid, not worrying about avoiding eye contact or chewing on his lip. He couldn’t help it, no one had actually told him that he might be better than the others. That he could possibly be stronger than he gave himself credit for. A small smile appeared on his face but his head turned sideways in confusion. “I don’t understand you.” That was all he could manage to say, in his mind his computer buzzed words to him but he shut that part of his brain down for the moment. “Just as I assume you don’t understand me…” He blinked, shaking his head slightly.
“People don’t care. I don’t understand why you do… I’m not a rat…” The very last part came out in a small whisper; he may have been a punching bag, or a nerd, but he would never rat someone out. “Besides, it really doesn’t bother me. If I turn someone in, it’ll only get worse the next time. This is easy for me; I’ve dealt with this my whole life. I know the routine.” He broke eye contact again, staring off just in time to see the girl walking towards them, and hearing what she was saying.
He let out a sigh. “Is it ‘National Save a Nerd Day’?” he muttered to himself quietly before turning his attention back to the advancing girl, “I’m fine… really…” was all he could think of saying.
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Post by nixnight on Jun 8, 2011 2:32:51 GMT -5
Nix hears the boys remarks as she walked over to him but kept her opinions to herself for a moment as she walked up beaide the bench and stopped and leaned back on one leg with her hand on her waist. She looked down at the smaller boy and rolled her eyes ,"yes, they announced it on the radio this morning at 8, didn't you know?" she said with a small smirk and then turned and looked at the other boy ,"I'd lean back now" she said in a low voice and felt her fingers tingle again but she shook her hands. She walked to the end of the bench and dropped her coat and then shrugged off her back pack and dropped it on top of her coat and turned to face the pair again. "there's no harm or shame in ratting someone out, if they need to be taken down or shown up or made to lose then it's fine" she said with another smirk and then ran her eyes over the second boy and lifted a hand and ran it through her messy hair ,"going to step off or going to need a hand" she asked him ,he may have been trying to be nice or friendly ,but crushing someone's shoulders was just rude and most likely annoying, no matter what your were trying to say
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Post by Nickolass Elensar on Jun 8, 2011 3:07:31 GMT -5
"Index lesion to me" Nick had placed his hands on his shoulder just to get his atension a little bit this kid "I may not understand you, but your a person and you don't need to be picked by anyone"
Nick sighed a little when he said that he didn't want to be a rat...no he didn't get it "Fine you don't have to tell anyone but at lest..." Nike had to think for a second if the kid didn't want to be a rat he still needed to not get picked on "at lest next time it happens find me...I won't ask who did it sometimes it best to just talk or ummm...i don't no chill play video games with someone"
When he said people didn't care Nick almost lost it again but he was trying to keep cool this kid needed help he may of not known he needed help but he did "I care so am i not a person Xavier care he cares about everyone is he not a person people care you just have to find them and i'm standing right infront of you saying that I god dam care"
When the girl snaped at him Nicks arms shot up out of reflex and droped them to his side "What do you mean am i hurting him...I haven't hurt him...o wight that was my ball that hit him in the face sorry about that again we where just talking um..." o crap she didn't know her name Nick needed to get better at this name thing.
he quickly turned back to Index "SHE cares see!!" nick really trying hard to let Index see that he was not alone in this world people cared even if he didn't think so
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