⊗ 01 [voice]

[fledgeling]

So I guess now that I've sort of settled in [Again. Moving happens to her a lot] - are there any other X-Men here? Or, well - different timeline and all that junk, maybe a different name. Mutants.

[oh right - introductions. For once not everyone in the world knows who she is.]

I'm Hope Summers.

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voice;

[slightlyoffchilt]

Hello, Ms. Summers. [A beat.] I knew someone associated with the... X-Men.

[voice]

[fledgeling]

[There's a slight pause as she processes that. Knew. Not dead, from what she's been told about this place. And, well, knowing X-Men. Gone, then, or good as.]

Who?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Did you -- by any chance, did you know an AI named Danger?

[fledgeling]

Yeah - we were on a team together.

[slightlyoffchilt]

She was here, until a little bit ago. Last month. She was -- ah. [He clears his throat.] A close acquaintance, in many ways.

voice;

[notdaredevil]

Summers, as in Scott?

[fledgeling]

Yeah. Technically he's my grandfather but that's still a little weird.

voice

[khajidont]

I dunno how many are still around, but the school's all set up. Xavier's School, that is -- that's an X-Men thing, right?

[fridgeflower]

I wasn't ever an X-man, but i definitely meet the mutant criteria.

Hi, Hope. I'm Laurie.

[fledgeling]

Yeah. I mean, Logan's calling it something else now but - that's at home.

Has it been destroyed a bunch of times? Nathan always said it had a really bad track record for that.

[fledgeling]

Hi, Laurie! I have a friend named that - she's a mutant, too.

[fridgeflower]

It's probably not a very uncommon name.

Are you related to Mr. Summers? Um... Scott Summers, I mean. Cyclops.

[fledgeling]

Uh- [Look, she's met Danger. Danger is more than a little terrifying] I probably don't want to know the details of that, do I.

[that's a lie]

[fledgeling]

We'll, you're the only only other one I've met!

And - yeah. He's my grandfather? Sort of? [you can practically hear the 'it's complicated' in her voice]

[fridgeflower]

I can believe that. A lot of strange things happen with the X-men. I guess it's part and parcel to the whole mutant super-team thing.

Are you from the future or something, then?

[fledgeling]

Yeah, I guess so.

I grew up in the future, but I wasn't born there. My dad - Nathan Summers, Scott's son - sort of did the same thing, I guess? So he's older than Scott and it's kind of weird. And I'm adopted anyway.

[welcome to the Summers family history, Laurie]

[slightlyoffchilt]

A patient. She was a patient of mine. [And, yes, an intimate partner -- but he won't say that here, such a relationship definitely violates the psychiatric ethics Chilton knows he should have, for appearance.] I'm sure we both have stories to share.

[Or he hopes.]

So this isn't unusual for you? Universe hopping.

[fridgeflower]

Oh. I see. [ She doesn't actually see, but whatever. X-men. ]

I was a student at Xavier's, but I guess it was a while ago, so...

[fledgeling]

Not really. I've time-travelled, and sometimes that like a more complicated universe hop.

[fledgeling]

[It's cool, she tries to forget she's related to Scott, too]

I have friends there - though Logan renamed it. It's the Jean Grey School now.

[fridgeflower]

Ah. I never asked a lot about what happened, back when David was here.

Do you know David?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Your experience might be useful to those imPorts who've been traumatized by the transition.

voice.

[selfequipped]

Emma Frost is here. [That could be good news or bad.] And they've got Xavier's set up.

[Xavier's. Not the Jean Grey School or anything like that.]

But I think in terms of "mutant population," the numbers are a little slim.

[fledgeling]

Prodigy? Or a different David?

[fledgeling]

What, as an example that you can time travel and not be a total nutjob afterwards?