reactive adaptation.

“Maybe its instinct based. God knows they have an… emotional connection.” She says with a roll of her eyes before pausing briefly. Though she craved to understand other’s powers to help her better understand her own; she wasn’t exactly ready for everyone to know about her abilities. Quickly slipping in a lie to cover herself. “Or at least thats what others have said when I ask them. Its actually refreshing to not hear someone talk about that part.” 

gaze flickers up from the magazine resting in her lap, quick to focus on the words being spoken. truthfully, cassandra had never even tried a resolution before. “i’ve always admired people who dedicate to their resolutions but i’ve never made one myself if we’re honest.” she admits. “but hey, it’s the new year, maybe i could start.” 

“right – i’m daisy. nice to meet you.” she took the offered hand with slight caution. her last instance in time travel hadn’t involved a friendly welcome wagon but he seemed kind enough. “so this is the normal around here? people just show up from different times? whose doing it?”

“I can’t make people be nice. But I can make it possible that your fellow applicants do worst than you will,” Domino said. “Once again, what’s in it for me?” She said as she put her feet on the counter.

darwin nodded as she explained it. it didn’t sound too bad, as long as it got him what he needed. “well..” he paused, thinking. “i can.. i don’t know. what do you want me to do for you?” he asked, stumped on what to offer the other. it wasn’t like he was rich - in 1973 or otherwise.

asking for too much was an understatement and truly raven understood his place to question, it’s something she’d do herself and frankly wouldn’t step down unless given answers. but darwin wasn’t that type, which she was a lot more grateful for. he was the type to clue in on her actions and knew to back off just as quickly as the question came out, it’d been an odd thing to be grateful for in a person– some would literally just call it human decency but raven hadn’t been around the best of people the last few years. “ food sounds amazing. ” she let out a pleased sigh, peering over at the other with a small feeling of reassurance that she’d enjoy some aspects of being back here. “ you assume right– whatever way we can stop them right? ” the realities of her words leaned more so on whatever way than she lead on. raven wasn’t about to throw out her entire reasonings with darwin, they’d just been reunited and perhaps she’d save the whole ‘you’ve changed’ talk for another time. 

“ what you missed? okay well how much time do we have, an eternity? ” she joked, giving a nonchalant shrug with her words. raven wasn’t about to be the person to tell darwin all that he missed, especially with a majority of the points only being directed at ‘ we’re all done with each other and surely some of us perished shortly after. life sucks but hey you’re back? ’ there was a small bit of effort though, her attempt at pulling some sort of normalcy between the two was off but what could one really do a the moment. raven wasn’t one for breaking the news to darwin, especially with whatever views or thoughts he might’ve held of her– she knew, at the end of the day, she wasn’t the same person he last saw. 

the entire moment felt far too unreal, even with the time change raven held no vision of seeing or hearing about darwin. to be frank, his loss ( or so they thought ) of life was more of a guilty memory to her, one she worked hard to suppress and pretend hadn’t troubled her during dark times in her life. “ i– how? we saw you.. i saw you- ” her words were jumbled, just as her thoughts were and really could anyone in her place fully put together the mess of words in her mind currently? peering down at his hand, a small breathe escaping her as she stepped forward once more to pull the other into her embrace. it was weird, she could admit and possibly not something she even partook to these days. but in the case of darwin she needed to make sure– it was real, he was real, this was real, his death had taken such a toll in all their lives and to think that he’d wandered alone or for the most part to her, raven couldn’t help but wonder what could’ve been between the original group– had the entire incident never gone down like it did. her embrace was short but very much needed, her arms naturally fell back as she adjusted herself back to her original stance. “.. you’ve missed a lot,  ” her attempt at redeeming the moment itself, was it okay to even act normal at this point?