[continuations with tiny!Charles]

[mind_over_metal]

[so short and tiny and cute etc.]

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[godwinner]

[ watching just as closely, but not moving a muscle ]

Nowhere.

[mind_over_metal]

*freezes when the book snaps in his direction but doesn't draw his hand back. waits a moment, then takes another step toward it and slowly lowers himself into a crouch*

That's impossible. You have to be somewhere.

[godwinner]

Right now, I'm sleeping over the cabin where the rest of the mutants live, but it's temporary.

[mind_over_metal]

Santo said that they all live together! And you're there, too!

*scoots forward close enough to touch -- and the book flips around to snap at him-

-so he full-body tackles it*

[doctorquincy.livejournal.com]

They're all dead now for one reason or another.

[mind_over_metal]

*with more understated sincerity than a kid his age should probably have*

I'm sorry.

At least you're still a family, though.

[godwinner]

[ that startles a laugh out of him ]

[mind_over_metal]

*rolls over onto his back, hugging the book tightly to his chest with both arms -- and looks up at Erik, a little surprised in turn, before bursting into a grin back at him*

[godwinner]

What're you going to do with it now that you've caught it?

[mind_over_metal]

*apparently, he could smile even more brightly than that*

Keep it. For a while, at least. It's a library book, I can only borrow it.

[godwinner]

It won't let you read it.

[mind_over_metal]

It's alive. There's more to it than just reading it. Besides, maybe it will let me, eventually.

[godwinner]

I suppose you could try being nice to it.

[mind_over_metal]

*one arm loosening enough so that he can rub his hand soothingly over the book's back cover, like he's stroking a cat*

Well, I'm not going to be mean to it, whether I can read it or not.

[doctorquincy.livejournal.com]

[there's a slight pause, and then he smiles faintly]

Yes.

[godwinner]

It might not make a difference either way. You don't know that it's truly alive.

[mind_over_metal]

Does it really matter?

[godwinner]

...how do you intend to keep it under control while you have it? I doubt it'd survive an encounter with Leto.

[mind_over_metal]

I'll figure something out.

[godwinner]

If you insist.

[mind_over_metal]

*clambers onto his feet, his one arm still wrapped snugly around the book and scooping up the sex manual from where it had been dropped with the other*

So why are you on top of their cabin?

[godwinner]

[ matter-of-factly ]

There's a robot called a Sentinel there that's designed to kill mutants.

[mind_over_metal]

Who put it there?

[godwinner]

Whoever or whatever makes these things happen here. The same thing that made you like this, I think. But it comes from our world.

[mind_over_metal]

*and as logic finishes constructing a new thought from the information that he'd been given...*

Why are you out with it? You're a mutant, too.