shoplifter: (ONCE YOU POP THE FUN DONT STOP)
Laura | X-23-23 ([personal profile] shoplifter) wrote in [community profile] riverview2017-08-19 06:03 pm

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[Laura's been trying to adjust. Part of her wonders if coming here wasn't a grave mistake — she'd come thinking there are more like her, people who would accept her more willingly, and in a way, that's true. However... There are a few... annoyances. Grievances. Her rather overworked case worker Linda has been making sure she goes to school. Today isn't the best day for school, though. She's quiet and 'weird' and the other children usually aren't fond of her and her quiet but present danger.

And for Laura, well. She doesn't do well with anyone 'teaching' her. She's had too much of 'teaching' the last eleven years of her... eleven years.

She may or may not have punched another kid in the eye.

She may or may not have ditched school.

And now she sits on the top of a rather tall and dangerous brick-ish wall in the city, her feet hanging precariously off the edge. Close by, the shadow of a tram wooshes by, and somewhere out there, Linda the Case Worker is having a heart attack. Laura, however, seems more puzzled and annoyed than anything. She sits with a potentially stolen bag of mini-donuts, her favorite glasses pressed up on her forehead and her lovely albeit mildly damaged unicorn shirt clear and vibrant.]



Why do children have to go to classes? 

I can learn outside of school.


[There are mean children that exist. She's never ran into children who are so exclusionary; after all, mutants had to stick together.

And teachers aren't bad, but something about the set-up bothers her, in ways she's not sure how to explain.

Maybe it's harder to blend in than you'd think. Not that she had gone into this with any high hopes.] 


supersweet: (Superman is the most vulnerable)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-08-28 10:30 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon doesn't pick up those thoughts. Though if she had mentioned where her fears come from, Jon would have understood. His parents had been overprotective for those very same reasons. ]

Not all animals need to move fast. Plus, in a zoo, they don't really need to. A zoo is like . . . a luxury hotel for animals. They rarely need to do anything.
supersweet: (Or what powers you have)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-08-29 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, always.

[ Jon shifts the backpack on his shoulders. ]

I've never met a bad one. You can't work there unless you really love animals and know what you're doing. The same kind of goes for schools. Sometimes, they may not always get it but they're not there for the money.
supersweet: (They will race behind you)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-08-31 09:45 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon shrugs halfheartedly. ]

I'm not gonna trust them with my secrets or anything, but I trust they'll do right by me as a kid.

[ It helps that Jon is a walking lie detector. It doesn't always work, but being able to perceive the truth in someone's heart beat has helped him out a lot. ]

They just have fixed ideas of it. Doesn't mean they're deliberately trying to make things worse. Adults are kinda like that. They have their own ideas about everything. And sure, they listen but they don't always get it.
supersweet: (Superman took to the skies)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-02 08:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon pauses. That's an interesting thing for a kid to say. Especially someone close to his age. ]

Then you should learn how to protect them.
supersweet: (I guess I'll just have to trust you)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-04 08:06 am (UTC)(link)
No.

[ That much is true. ]

But that's not a reason to stop trying. Good people get involved.
supersweet: (The world only make sense)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-06 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon falls silent. ]

. . . Yeah.

But that's not a reason to give up. That's just a reason to get better.

[ But he shrugs loosely. ]

At least for me. People might get hurt around me, sure, but if I stopped then it would be even worse. It'd just mean I don't care enough to make something of it.
supersweet: (A man who will never let us down)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-07 09:19 am (UTC)(link)
A "maybe" isn't all that bad.

[ Though Jon is definitely on the naive side, he is Superman's son. His father's world is his own and there are some concepts you cannot fully divorce yourself from. But Jon was raised with a level head. ]
supersweet: (I found the hero I'd needed)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-10 02:57 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maybe is a good place to start when you lack direction. Jon knows that. ]

And we're here! I'll pay for your ticket.
supersweet: (Beyond your reach)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-11 08:53 am (UTC)(link)
Sure. I come by often when I can.

[ His allowance is smaller now that his father is gone. And Jon doesn't tend to spend money frivolously. After all, it's not like a farm makes a lot of money. Or being a reporter. ]
supersweet: (They get retroactively paranoid)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-13 10:00 am (UTC)(link)
[ Jon who can hear everything and everyone in Riverview merely blinks at that. ]

I . . . guess so? I can't really tell all that well.
supersweet: (I can trust with my life)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-15 09:01 am (UTC)(link)
[ Whoops. ]

I have . . . good hearing?
supersweet: (Now I had to be that giant for him)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-17 04:07 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, fine.

I have superpowers.
supersweet: (He will look like you)

[personal profile] supersweet 2017-09-17 08:54 am (UTC)(link)
No, it's a . . . long list. I can fly? And I have super strength . . . ice-breath . . . a bunch of others . . .

It's supposed to be a secret though.

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