2015...

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

With apolgies to aliciam and indiana_j, and well, everyone, because I seem to have come up with a nightmare future here, if you read between the lines...


"Oh for fuck's sake! How bastard stupid is everyone?" Pete ground his cigarette out, and turned back to his keyboard, muttering under his breath.

"No, you do not get to do that in my school. No fucking chance. I'll see the bloody lot of you in my study this afternoon..."

There was a knock at the door.

"It's bloody open!" Pete yelled, not looking round.

"Mom said you had to get away from the computer. She said you'd hurt your eyes if you didn't take a break."

Pete turned round, smiling, to look at the young redhead who'd let herself in, but didn't move away from the computer.

"That's not what she said, is it?"

Rachel giggled. "No, she said 'Tell that useless sassenach that if he doesn't get some fresh air today, I'll use th' special instruments the next time he needs a check-up'". Her imitation of her mother's accent was spot on.

"And what do we say to that?" Pete aked as he used one hand to turn his chair around.

Rachel checked the corridor behind her, looking round conspiratorially.

"Naff off, you addled Scottish baggage, I'll take a break when I'm good and ready!", the pair of them said in unison, laughing.

"Alright, sunshine, if she sent you, she probably means it. I suppose I'd better take a break. What d'you think to keeping me company on a stroll round the grounds?"

The ten-year-old grinned at him impishly as she walked over. "What do I get in exchange?"

Pete rolled his eyes. "You have entirely too many aunts, and every last one of them is a bad infulence, you know. In exchange, I will tell you what happened when your Dad was first introduced to my big sister."

"Deal." Rachel grinned, took hold of the handles of the chair with her mind, and, walking beside him, wheeled Pete out of the room.

Comments

[x-cyclops.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* Oh dear God...

Too busy laughing to log out and back in, sorry...

[rexlapinii.livejournal.com]

Someone get this man a ratty old shower cap. Bonus points if you give Rahne an extremely unflattering haircut at the same time.

[x-dazzler.livejournal.com]

Betcha his wheel chairs have smileys with evil grins and ciggies and whatnot on 'em.

:: wise nod ::

(Brilliant. :) )

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

Shower cap? Baldness run in his family, and he's going to be closing on fifty by that point. He'll have started shaving his head, just to keep some dignity...

[deathpixie]

*dies* A nightmare for Pete, definitely, all the cute. *eg* This was adorable and my girl's a melty puddle in my head. ;) Which is good, considering.

[x-siryn.livejournal.com]

*dead*

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

It was this, or something depressing in a graveyard, and I hope at some point he'll have earned a happy ending...

[rexlapinii.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but the first time we see him in a chair in the comics, he's got Moira's shower cap on thanks to what must have been a very odd painkiller cocktail. :)

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've never been quite able to figure out a way to get a good homage to that scene into a log yet without entirely breaking the tone. One day, though.

(It's a shame he's not going to be back for Halloween, now I think of it. I have this horrible image of Charles and Pete conspiring to turn up to the Halloween party as each other...)

[silensy]

(It's a shame he's not going to be back for Halloween, now I think of it. I have this horrible image of Charles and Pete conspiring to turn up to the Halloween party as each other...)

Okay, I nearly choked on my starburst just then.

[rexlapinii.livejournal.com]

Oh, now, that would be priceless. I bet Charles could do a scarily accurate impression, too, as long as nobody asked him to stand up.

[alasdair.livejournal.com]

Oh, definitely. Pete'd wind up stuck as the straight man the whole night once he'd done "To me, my X-men!" and a couple of Star Trek gags...

[rexlapinii.livejournal.com]

Well, there's always next year.

[deathpixie]

*grins* That's what we get for the big complicated ARGH! plots. ;) Still, a month to go and it's all over bar the coming back and trying to convince people Pete was only a _bit_ evil. ;)

Which reminds me - need to poke Dyce and remind her of that bit with Meggan and her Rescue Man.

[indiana-j.livejournal.com]

*is dead, completely*

[frito-kal.livejournal.com]

Oh, THAT's easy to fix. Conspiracy between Charles and Jean or Nate. Telekinesis!

[x-jeangrey.livejournal.com]

Heh, you get the happy ending and I get the... not so happy ending.

Excellent ficlet. Love it muchly.