#alex 002

She hadn't really expected to stay in town for this long, but with the feeling that there was still unfinished business with Alex, and with herself, Jiya had found herself in a short term rental and unwillingness to return to New York. With that came frequent visits to Valentina's yoga classes and taking her up on a few visits to the park where they were able to practice in nature, with Jiya putting her feet in the grass for more than five minutes for the first time in a long time.

As the class waited for their instructor to arrive, Jiya quickly smoothed out her workout top. She might be about to get hot and sweaty with yoga, but there was no chance anyone would see her not perfectly presentable to start with. Reaching up to re-tie her hair, she could only sigh as the elastic snapped when she tried to twist it. "If Valentina arrives, can you tell her I'll be just a second, I need to go and grab a hair tie from my car." She asked someone else waiting and as they nodded, Jiya grabbed her bag and headed out to her car. Yet another addition to her life in the small town.

It didn't take her long to find another hair tie in the glove box of her car and after fixing her hair into a high ponytail, Jiya locked the car and made her way back across the parking lot. As she neared the entrance, Jiya smiled as she saw the instructor, raising one hand in a wave until she clocked who Valentina was with. Her body froze as she spotted Alex, her face dropping and she was pretty sure, for a few seconds at least, she stopped breathing. She wanted to scream. If she was honest, she wanted to throw things. But instead, she was frozen, just watching them in silence as, for now, she went unnoticed.

It was all just so much so fast. The stinging and the memory, what happened with the mega hornet and Tej, the mass grave next to the medicenter... She couldn't deal with all of this all at once. She was amazing at compartmentalizing, though. For now, she was dealing with one thing she felt like she could - finding Alex.

"What the hell is that?!" she snapped the moment she found him, no greeting, no preamble, jumping right into things. "A mass grave?! And you couldn't even give some kind of warning?"

Mister Sinnier had underestimated the second Summers but Madelyne was not the person to profess that to him. There were ways though, ways that only a telepath could use and ones that he couldn’t use his powers against her. It was the middle of the night and Genosha was quiet, at least for now. His dreams were easy to access and Madelyne, the way he seemed so lost in them... she was envious. “Now that’s a way to make a lady feel welcomed.” She made him dream of her, in her blue dress and shorter red hair, it was almost as if they were replaying memories of their past affair. “We’ve both been hurt Alex,” She whispered in his ear, her voice low and sultry. “We can make the pain go away, just for a moment.”