Detention, Depths of the Castle, Tuesday

[cracking-wonder.livejournal.com]

Another bright, shining, and pink day had begun for the prisoners guests being held in detention, and while the morning started off the same as the day before, there was a strange sort of feeling in the air once people began waking up. A kind of... musical feeling, in fact.

Umbridge might have taken over the island, but the island still had a mind of her own, thank you very much.

[No, the barriers of detention cannot save you from Once More With Fandom Day! The OCD is up, so have at it!]

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Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/24]

[cursednotbroken.livejournal.com]

"And if I can ever help, let me know how," Jack requested, and glanced over to the visitor area. "Funny. Talking about mutant issues always makes me wonder if Emma's going to show her face."

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/24]

[bloodyspitfire.livejournal.com]

//She's got spectacular timing that way,// Jonothon noted, glancing that way as well. //Never know if I ought to hide when she comes around or not.//

Really, hiding wouldn't do any good, anyhow.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/24]

[cursednotbroken.livejournal.com]

"And you didn't bloody sleep with her," Jack pointed out, sounding disgusted with himself. "... don't tell me if you did, I don't want to know. I just don't understand how she knows what she knows and still does what she does."

Or, rather, he understood it but didn't like it.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/24]

[bloodyspitfire.livejournal.com]

//She's a survivor before all else,// Jono replied, looking about as sympathetic as he could manage. //Someday, she'll fancy herself a Queen. I hope some other version of me, whichever one ends up going to that school of hers, sees her for what she is and gets out before it's too late.//

Just so long as he didn't come here.

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/24]

[cursednotbroken.livejournal.com]

"Or just doesn't go to the school to start with," Jack suggested. "Cleanest all around."

He rested his chin on a fist. "She's always talked about that," he said. "Being queen, being ruler -- you'd think watching what the power does to Umbridge would break her of it."

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/24]

[bloodyspitfire.livejournal.com]

//She thinks she's immune,// Jono theorized. //She's seen the inner workings of minds like that, she knows what makes them tick, and she's decided that there's no way she could possibly make those same slips, herself. Emma Frost can do no wrong.//

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/24]

[cursednotbroken.livejournal.com]

Jack snorted. "It's an act, but heaven forbid she admit that," he said. "It's like being on a tightrope -- you know, you fall when you look down. She stops being Emma Frost for long enough to doubt herself, and ... she's down here with us mongrels."

Re: Chat With Your Fellow Prisoners [07/24]

[bloodyspitfire.livejournal.com]

//We, the dregs of society, throwing our tantrums and refusing to see sense, see the world as it exists according to her.// Jonothon shook his head. //And we're all th'better for it. We're flawed, but so help us, we're still human.//

Werewolf, mutant, it didn't matter. In the end, they were what they'd always been. Jono couldn't say the same for people like Emma.