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for reqrittenhqs. penned by hayley.

harry osborn ! intro

he raised his hands in defense. “i would never,” he lied. that wasn’t what he was doing, but he absolutely would. “all i’m saying is, i think you would do better, thrive even, at stark industries. that’s all! your talents are being wasted. you have way more potential than your dad will ever let you explore, because he risks being accused of nepotism. me? no nepotism here. and if i play favorites, no one’s gonna say a word,” he shrugged. tony couldn’t help but smirk a little. he had this kid hooked. “very flexible. it’s more about what you get done, less about when or how you get it done. as long as you don’t start clocking in 60 hours a week because you don’t want to leave the lab, we’ll be okay,” he said with a smile. “you can use our resources for that project, too. and funding.” it’s a good deal, there’s no denying it.

harry clearly wasn’t buying tony’s lie, but again, he found himself respecting the move. “you do have a good point,” harry admitted. it was hard for him to even pretend like he wasn’t interested, even just a little bit, in tony’s offer. it was a great offer, an offer he would be stupid to refuse, even. and honestly, the more he heard, the more he wanted to accept. but he didn’t know if he could without even mentioning it to his father first - but asking for forgiveness was easier than permission, or so he’d heard. “i won’t... unless you’ve got a lab that makes it hard to want to leave,” he joked, already surprised at how easy it felt to agree with tony. this can’t be the same man his dad had been bashing for years, can it? “this is all really tempting, mr. stark... could you give me 24 hours to get back to you? i’ve gotta sit on it.. maybe get some things in order...” it wasn’t entirely a yes just yet, but it certainly didn’t sound like a no.

“new  york  does  have  so  much,”  karolina  agrees,  eyes  wide.  california  did  too,  in  its  own  way,  but  it  had  nothing  compared,  not  even  close,  to  the  variety  of  anything  new  york  could  bring.  “wouldn’t  it  be  a  nuisance,  to  work  so  far  from  where  you  live?”  she  questions,  slight  pout  on  her  lips.  “well,  it  wasn’t  quite  my  choice,”  karolina  started,  not  knowing  how  much  she  could  tell  the  other.  “see  i’m  not  from  around  here,”  and  this  last  part  is  slightly  whispered,  and  karolina  leans  in  a  little  so  laurie  could  hear  her  properly.  she  isn’t  quite  sure  the  other  is  going  to  understand  but…  it’s  worth  a  shot,  right?

“as long as you’re willing to wait for the subway, you can pretty much find anything you want,” laurie mused. then again, she hasn’t been too far from home, afraid to venture too far out into the world until she met her friends. now, with them gone, she’s at least grateful to be somewhere familiar. “i guess?” laurie shrugged. “but there’s more space out there, so i guess people are fine with working far from home if their home has what they want.” she’d never really questioned it, living nearby her whole life. “what exactly do you mean?” laurie replied, her own tone hushed as she leaned in to meet karolina.

“it’s  fine,  thank  you.”  jon  says,  voice  small.  “it’s  a  big  city,”  he  nods,  trying  to  appear  a  bit  more  cheerful.  “it’s  kinda  like  new  york,  actually.  but  the  people  are  heaps  nicer.  and  i  don’t  really  need  the  subway  to  get  around,”  and  jon  terribly  missed  flying,  but  he  wasn’t  sure  it  was  safe  enough  to  do  so  yet  -  would  he  alert  someone,  perhaps  the  person  that  put  him  here,  of  his  presence?  it  was  a  terrifying  idea.  “uh…  delaware.”

“really? i’ve never heard of it,” harry answered, surprised he didn’t know of a city as big as jon describes it. “what do you use to get around then?” harry couldn’t imagine a city without a subway, but then again, he figured maybe this place doesn’t have the amount of traffic new york does. “oh, delaware? heh that makes sense... i dunno a lot about delaware. but at least you’re not too far from home!” harry tries to be optimistic. “if your family’s back there, there’s probably an amtrak train or a greyhound bus or something that can get you there.”

“i think i can manage that. thanks, h,” he teased back, nudging him. honestly, peter wasn’t really bothered. this was nothing compared to what he usually did in a day, but his feet were a little sore. nothing he couldn’t handle, though. “oh, thanks. you’re always looking out for me,” he said, rolling his eyes, a smile painted on his lips. he appreciated the reminder. it was so easy to not get a lot of sleep, especially with fun toys like this lab to play with. “i’ll do my best, but no promises,” he said with a grin. peter nodded, his arms crossed over his chest. “let’s see it,” he said. he raised his eyebrows as he explained, thoroughly impressed. “shit, harry, that’s so cool. where are you gonna put them?” 

“of course i am,” harry replied with a grin. “what are friends for?” he also happened to share a similar drive to peter, and knew that for as much sleep as he lacked, peter was probably lack just as much (if not more). “right? the biggest hurdle is figuring out how to filter the air and what to do with the filters - i don’t wanna make an even bigger pollution problem with those,” he sighed. “or i could convert the toxins into something after they get filtered, but i dunno what yet.” the possibilities were endless, but honestly, if he could just get the filter right, he’d be on a good track. “i’m gonna put them everywhere i can! they’d probably go on top of buildings, and it’ll probably depend on how big of a radius they can filter from, but i’ll build as many as it takes.”

 she  doesn’t  expect  the  sudden  eagerness  from  the  other  mutant  .  “  that’s  good  .  ”  illyana  and  dani  didn’t  get  off  on  the  right  foot  when  they  first  met  .  that’s  partially  on  illyana  .  but  overtime  they’ve  become  friends  of  the  sort  and  she’s  come  to  respect  dani  .  “  what’s  your  team  called  again  ?  ”  she  can’t  help  but  ask  .  the  blonde  couldn’t  tell  if  dani  was  joking  when  they  last  spoke  .

laurie wasn’t quite aware of the history between illyana and dani, and if she’d known, she probably would have had a more casual answer from the start. “um, the new mutants squad,” laurie answered bashfully. “creative, i know. it wasn’t my idea.”

Reading usually helped Peggy de-stress, and she had decades of new titles to catch up on. She walked the corridors of the nearest book store, looking for something that caught her attention, but there were so many options she didn’t know where to start. With her bad turned to the corridor, facing the science fiction shelf, Peggy didn’t see someone coming until she felt the impact. A huge pile of books collided against her, and the kneeled to help the girl pick up some of them. “It’s no problem at all, but would you like some help carrying them? This is quite the collection.” Peggy took a moment to read one of the titles she picked from the ground, wondering if it would fit her own taste.

“um, sure, even just to the counter? thank you,” laurie replied, feeling flustered as she tried to gather up the books again. she wasn’t sure how she ever got them in her arms as she struggled to hold even a fraction of what she had earlier. “i couldn’t decide on what i wanted... so i thought i’d get it all. i needed to start my collection anyway...”

          “  i  recognize  all  of  you.  "  granted,  it  was  odd  to  see  all  of  them  back  in  2012  when  she  had  still  been  getting  her  bearings  of  being  a  part  of  the  x - men,  but  in  their  present  timeline  she  knew  exactly  who  laurie  was,  even  if  she  had  been  a  bit  too  busy  to  train  with  her  personally.  ororo  sent  her  a  warm  smile,  gesturing  for  her  to  come  closer.  "  i've  mastered  the  selfie  now … or,  at  least  i  had  in  the  other  timeline.  if  you  pass  me  your  phone  i'll  take  it  for  us.  ”

“well, it’s just me here, i think,” laurie admitted, meaning she was the only one of her squad in 2012 as far as she knew. it was nice to at least have some other familiar faces, but she would be feeling a lot more sure about what to do around here with her team in the same situation. she giggled at ororo’s welcoming words, coming closer to her and passing her phone over. “the only thing is, phones here don’t have as nice of cameras as they do in the future! i took some pretty awful selfies in 2012, i’d know.”

bucky wasn’t a big fan of trains, nor was he a fan of closed in spaces, but sometimes the subway was the best way to go. he was on a mission, after all, and while it wasn’t time sensitive by any means, that didn’t mean he wanted to drag his feet either. he should really just give up on all this and to stay in the tower with the rest of his friends, but he was still pretty undecided about the whole thing. as he was going down, he was headed off by a young woman. “oh? that’s a shame. i guess i should catch a cab. where were you headed?”

he seemed to agree not to go down there easily enough, which filled laurie with enough relief to avoid accidentally setting off her powers. there were plenty of people in this city who would have just ignored what laurie said and gone down there anyway, because they were stubborn or they were curious or they didn’t believe her, only to either find the remnants of what she’d done or at least find that she was telling the truth. “yeah, they put out an announcement not too long ago,” she shrugged. “um, just downtown to some market. why?”

Though many questions had been answered with the recent revelations about who was behind the attacks on the city and the time displacement, neither the X-Men nor the others were any closer to figuring out why Mutant X and his hammer-wielding friend were doing this, or how to stop them and return home. They still had a lot of work to do, where exactly to start not entirely clear yet. Logan sighed, exiting the bar and making his way back to the Institute. He sensed the bicycle approaching moments before he spotted it, stopping the vehicle with one hand and avoiding the young brunette crashing into him. Her scent was instantly familiar, but…Logan was having trouble placing her. Was she one of his students? The mutant frowned at the other as she apologized, eyes narrowing at her choice of words. What the hell was that supposed to mean? “Yeah,” he said, a matter-of-fact tone to his voice. “Also add being aware of your surroundings to that list.”

There was intimidating, and then there was Logan. Laurie knew she was timid around plenty of people - it was an easy defense mechanism, being too timid to attract attention had its perks when you were actively trying to avoid manipulating those around you, but it wasn’t just some sort of act. Her own mother’s reclusiveness had bled into her own shyness, making this just her personality. Opening up to people had been hard, but the Xavier Institute had helped. Logan, however, had always scared Laurie, with his strong presence and gruff attitude he was a force you could sense a mile away. It’s why she was so flustered to realize she hadn’t seen him coming, and was even more embarrassed and nervous seeing she had caught him in a bad mood. “I’m so sorry,” she replied, looking down at the ground. “I should have been, you’re right. I don’t know what happened.” This was the sort of thing that probably would have gotten her ass handed to her in training, too. “A-are you okay?” she asked stupidly.

Billy was waiting as his order was being baked when another person walked up to the counter. He had stepped aside, giving room for anyone who would’ve come to order after him. What Billy hadn’t realize was that there was only one employee, so as long as they were busy making his order, Billy was left alone with a complete stranger in awkward silence… With not even his phone. Thankfully, the other spoke first, taking the burden off Billy to break the silence. “The city that never sleeps, right?” he jested with a light chuckle and a shrug of his shoulders. “Maybe.. I also might’ve ordered a whole one for myself,” he confessed with embarrassment. 

Usually, it was customary to mind one’s business in a situation like this, but Harry was feeling talkative after spending the entire day with his head down in his notes, and this guy didn’t seem too hostile to the idea of small talk. “Yeah, but there’s something to be said about those of us who don’t sleep,” Harry commented with a chuckle. “Honestly? I respect that. I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t. But I’ve got shit to do still and I don’t need to risk a food coma, you know?”

         tara  was  going  to  have  to  add  that  to  her  list  of  things  to  check  out.   after  all,  flying  back  and  forth  on  rocks  wasn't  exactly  subtle,  and  she  didn't  want  to  attract  any  attention  to  herself.  “  is  that  not  what  it's  called  ?  someone  called  it  a  loop  !  i  guess  like  a  loop  de  loop  ?  like  you  feel  kind  of  disoriented  ?  "  she  felt  a  blush  rise  on  her  cheeks,  positive  that  she  wasn't  making  any  sense  at  all  now  that  she'd  said  it  out  loud.  ”  i'm  from  jump  city  !  it's  not  anywhere  near  here,  i  don't  think.  “

“is that not what what’s called?” laurie asked, confused. she wondered if tara might have been referring to the thing that sucked laurie back in time, but she didn’t want to say it first and sound crazy if tara happened to be talking about something else. she’d yet to admit to anyone what she’d experienced, actually, worried about the consequences of confessing to the wrong person. “oh, i don’t think i’ve heard of it! where’s that?”

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          ah,  she  knew  this  face.  one  of  the  newer  members,  not  one  that  she'd  gotten  to  talk  to  very  much  but  known  to  her  for  various  reasons.  ororo  sent  her  a  smile,  giving  the  little  one  in  her  arms  another  big  hug  before  placing  them  down  so  they  could  run  to  their  parents.  “  i  don't  think  a  picture  was  going  to  be  in  our  future.  you  can  come  closer,  laurie.  contrary  to  popular  belief,  i  don't  bite.  don't  let  them  tell  you  otherwise,  "  she  chuckled  with  another  wink.  ”  would  you  like  a  picture  ?  “

honestly, laurie was surprised ororo knew her name. she was used to fading into the background, for being the one forgotten. it wasn’t like she minded that - it was safer that way. plus, this told laurie something important: that ororo had gotten pulled back in time just like she had. in 2012, a younger laurie hadn’t even met the xmen, let alone trained alongside some of them. these things brought her some comfort, allowing her nerves to shed a bit. “i, um, i didn’t realize you would recognize me,” laurie admitted, her cheeks a bit red. “um, sure, thank you.”

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