#instievent

“Yeah I’m not a fan of overnight trips,” Hank mutters as he does his third headcount since they’d gotten on the bus. He didn’t trust that one of them wouldn’t find a way to slip out of a moving vehicle undetected. 

When they finally stopped the bus, Gideon didn’t bother waiting to exit the front. He knew how to open the emergency exit in the back, so he did so without a second thought. Just to be civilised he didn’t bother to close it, instead he held out his hand to help the person behind him out. “It’s faster this way, innit?”

This entire summit pissed Lorna off. Listening to self-righteous humans stand up and talk about how she was a threat to their children and their safety infuriated her. Listening to Raven and Charles pander to the bigots didn’t feel much better.

The motion of the bus was beginning to make Doug’s eyes feel heavy. He’d stayed up most of the night before, not realizing he’d signed up to go. He needed to stay busy and talk to someone. “So,” Doug began, turning to the person beside him. “Have you read the act?”

Ophelia watches a little boy she recognizes from the school run past her, nearly knocking her over. She smiles though, it didn’t bother her when kids were rambunctious. She’d done more than her share raising her siblings, and Isla was a bundle of energy. Up ahead she spots the sign in front of a little alcove, telling her the snack machines were near. She shakes the change in her palm, listening to it jingle as she steps up to one of the machines and taps her chin. “Who charges three dollars for a bag of Cheez-Its?” she asks the other person perusing their options.

To see the Professor hovering in the background made Scott grind his teeth. The Professor was the geneticist who could explain to them how small of a change set people apart, how even something as small as heterochromia was technically a mutation. The x-gene was different sure, but it’s not like people wouldn’t judge them for having some kind of brand on their id’s similar to organ donors. As the minutes tick by, he’s itching to just leave because this was becoming an attack on mutants. Apocalypse saw himself as a god, he was only one mutant and the institute stopped him. Why were they being punished because of one guy? Wouldn’t that just lead to mutants acting out of fear and desperation?

Being the irresponsible adult child that he was, Wade went to a liquor store (that was in the middle of being robbed) and took a couple of bottles with him after handling (killing) the thief. He wasn’t exactly nice, but he did sort of apologize for taking the bottles when he left by saying, “I don’t have pockets... and I just saved your ass. Call it a hero for hire fee.” When he got back to the shared hotel suite, Wade was a little pissed to see there were already bottles opened in the room.