FOREVER RED

He looked up at her without really comprehending the terms she was using, remaining quiet as he continued to write on the piece of paper before folding it and handing it to her.    —“ I have labelled their purposes according to the numbers allocated to the section, their medical names are after, incase you need to refill them.”  He explained, exhaling lowly as her put away the note pad.   This was a strange conversation to have as he pondered on the possibilities she had provided him. He barely concerned himself remembering the faces of his staff, their names all elude him even at this moment - but the interactions he’s had with them all were never personal, although Ruvik recalled some of his staff providing enough sensitivity to be hospitable to him. “ I haven’t had sex, but I wouldn’t doubt most of the people working under me to be sadists.“  He admitted. He had no time to indulge in something so arcane when there was so much work to be done. He would have no luck attracting someone to bed him either with his sutured and heavily grafted covered body. “ I would not rule out the possibility of them taking me out, once I run out of use. “  And there was still that cockroach, Jimenez, who published his work under his own name. How he would make an example of him, if only he had the chance. 

She was no expert on medicine by a long shot, but even Natasha could tell that this was some heavy medication. He had two or three different pain-killers, and she wasn’t entirely certain whether he was truly abiding to the respective perscriptions, or whethever he believed he knew it better than the fabricators and used his own dosages. 

“Just a heads up. If you kill yourself, my mission is considered a failure. So we gotta make sure that your co-workers aren’t murdering you, that they aren’t hiring someone to murder you, and that you are not overdosing yourself on your pills.” She gave a nod at his instructions. It was good that everything was labeled, but it had to be locked away too. He took out her phone and added some notes.

                not as tough as what  YOU’VE  been put through, she almost said, but decided  AGAINST  it. jubilee wasn’t in any place to look into the woman’s  PAST,  especially since they’ve only just met.   ❛    ain’t as hard as it  SEEMS  unless you haven’t gotten the  HANG  of your power, or if your power’s something like rogue’s.   ❜  she paused for a beat.  ❛    what’s tougher is how the rest of the  WORLD  sees us.   ❜ 

That’s why the mutants had to stick together. ‘How the rest of the world sees us’. That was quite heartbreaking. Natasha had the option of going undercover, keeping it low. Disappearing was one of her specialties. But a young mutant in this hateful world, what options do they have. “I can’t speak for all the Avengers. But I’m pretty sure they agree with me when I say, you and your friends are always welcome with us.”