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xavierrud:

iamthefirechild:

“Oh, no!” An embarrassed laugh turned into a cough. “What’s going on? Is she going to be okay?” She shook him a little bit. “You just have too much emotional stuff going on in your life! Poor Xavier.”

“Tried to commit suicide,” he pursed his lips but gave a slight smile, a mere tilt of the corner of his lips. “Not my sister, his. I helped him bring her to the hospital but… He’s been quiet since then.”

“Oh, good grief.” She shook her head. “You should definitely be there for him. Trust me, I’ve been there too. Just letting people know that you are there if they want you, it can make a huge difference.” She thought about the number of times when that was /all/ she could do. Sometimes, being an empath sucked; she was capable of just fixing people, but knew that in the long run that it wasn’t going to be a real solution. People had to find their own strength.

xavierrud:

iamthefirechild:

She gets up and goes over to him, putting an arm around his shoulders and hugging. “I’m glad to help. You better tell me how it goes, though, I’m going to be eaten up with curiosity!” Smiling into his eyes, she goes on, “I assure you, from the perspective of my vast age, even a little time with someone you care about is worth it.”

[ ❧ ─    ”Thanks a bunch, Summer. Don’t think you know how much you’ve helped me out here.” He returned the hug happily, features alighting with a smile of his own. “I’ll probably tell him all of that later, though. Ehm, sisters in the hospital.”

“Oh, no!” An embarrassed laugh turned into a cough. “What’s going on? Is she going to be okay?” She shook him a little bit. “You just have too much emotional stuff going on in your life! Poor Xavier.”

xavierrud:

iamthefirechild:

“Well, look, I don’t know — I’m not — ” Summer clears her throat. “Without talking to Tony, I don’t know for sure that he likes you,” a partial truth at best, but using her gift by rummaging around in people’s lives is not — it’s just not okay, really, “but it wouldn’t surprise me. People do that. They think they’ve gone too far, committed too much, and they pull back. He’s probably afraid of hurting you. But if you want him, if you want this, you need to put that out there. It’ll always hurt worse not knowing.”

[ ❧ ─     “I… thanks, Summer.” Xavier gave the other a grateful smile. So it was possible that Tony liked him then? After all, he was the one who told the younger boy to stay away for a while. Just until he was ready to talk to him again, of course. “I’ll – I’ll do that, promise.”

She gets up and goes over to him, putting an arm around his shoulders and hugging. “I’m glad to help. You better tell me how it goes, though, I’m going to be eaten up with curiosity!” Smiling into his eyes, she goes on, “I assure you, from the perspective of my vast age, even a little time with someone you care about is worth it.”

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the-stonem:

iamthefirechild:

“Wha — Oh!” Summer blundered to a stop in the middle of the chorus, laughing at herself and turning round. One hand punched the power button on the speakers hastily, so they could hear themselves talk. “Well, thank you. It’s been a long time since I had any training; I just like to sing.” She stood up, offering a hand. “I’m Summer. I guess since you’re here, I must be disturbing everyone on the floor?”

Tony’s slight smile turned into a full-on grin when the girl finally noticed him and he took a step forward, letting himself into her apartment as if he had any right to be in there. “I can see that,” he offered, surprising himself when he found that he genuinely meant it. “Tony,” he said then and shook the proffered hand, “Not exactly a disturbance when you’re not half-bad, yeah? More like a free concert, really. And I was just bored, so I figured I should check where that was coming from.” 

“Ooh, flattery will get you everywhere.” Summer winked. “It’s a good thing I’m in here alone, my ego will need the space if you keep that up.” She gestured to the loveseat. “You’re welcome to hang around, I wasn’t doing anything important. Do you sing?”

flatmate!au

” — well, no, you don’t really get to know who your neighbours are before you move in, Sam!” Summer laughs. “But I lucked out. I seem to have landed in a whole group of kindred spirits, it’s just a shame most of them are already paired off to each other. Seriously, it’s like incest or something.”

The people on the other side of the voice chat speak, and she grins and laughs again. “Fine, fine, I won’t use that word. But there are a lot of cute people here and I can’t touch! Merlin and Mordred are together, and let me tell you, I would be in that sandwich in a heartbeat. /Doc/ would be in that sandwich. I’m pretty sure Tony and Xavier are going out, too.” She sighs. “Yeah, I know, but there is one straight couple! … are you serious? I would go out with any of them in a heartbeat. Aithusa, Arthur — maybe not Sherlock. I’m not sure Sherlock has a libido.”