#xavier1

[dinah-davenport]

Dinah left The Armory after dropping by to see her brother. She wanted to make sure that she knew the workings of the place, and that it hadn’t changed since the last time that she had been back in New York for longer than a week. Apart from perhaps increased security, everything was running as well as she left it. Despite not having a job title there, due to her working on the medical staff team The Sanctuary, she liked to make sure everything was running as smoothy as possible. It was just as she was about to begin her walk him, preferring to walk under the stars from time to time, that she felt someone else’s presence with her. “Can I help you?” she called stopping and turning around to face the source of the noise. 

@hunter-in-the-pack

[craftylittlea]

You have it in writing || Xavier & -A

Xavier Elliot. Baberton native. Born here. Will probably die here. Writing a book about Annie Pierce. -A went through the information she had about Xavier in her mind as she made her way to the Coffee Bean. She knew about the book, though nobody else did. Xavier seemed to be keeping it under wraps due to the press and the hype or something... which was a clever move. But Xavier was just like the rest of them, in her eyes, as useless and stupid as they were. The book worried -A for a couple of reasons. What information had he managed to dig up. Was there something in there about her? Something that, even without him realising, could lead back to her? She didn't know and she hoped not... killing somebody else wasn't on her agenda for the time being but she would have to find that out for herself.

She pushed open the door to the Coffee Bean, looking around for Gemma Harris first of all, but of course she wasn't working today. She'd had that 'accident' at the school, when -A had caused that light to fall on her, knocking her unconscious. It was a shame she hadn't died really but Gemma was fun to play with so.. maybe it was good that it only served as a warning. Deaths were messy. Accidents were much easier to sweep under the rug, to write off as simply that. Accidents. Did Gemma even remember? Did she still have that bracelet and the hospital records? -A felt that she would find out soon... but Gemma wasn't her focus today. Her focus was Xavier.

She pranced up to the counter, leaning on it while she waited to be noticed. Waiting to be noticed was something she did often, and it never happened. Which was lucky because she wouldn't have been able to get away with any of the things she'd gotten away with if she was noticed, if she was popular. Or maybe she would have. -A was sneaky. Very sneaky. Nobody had figured her out because she made sure they wouldn't.. it was like there was two of her. -A and the stupid, pathetic, other part of her. The one that nobody noticed or cared about. But everybody noticed -A. Everybody cared that -A was lurking... though nobody really spoke about it to anybody else. It wasn't like the whole town knew that she was tormenting them all. That was the fun part. "Oh, um..." She pretended to be taken by surprised when somebody finally turned to ask her for her order. "Just a black coffee please." She smiled sweetly and waited, tapping her nails on the counter as she scanned the room.

[ruby-peterson]

This is fact not fiction ll Ruby & Xavier

Ruby had so much going on in her mind that she didn't even know what to do with any of it. Didn't know how to sort any of it out and normally.. she'd probably have turned to alcohol by now but she hadn't. Ruby didn't want to drink alone anymore and... asking Kelly to go drinking with her again seemed out of the question. Ruby was still concerned about her friend though, she was trying to hide it because she knew Kelly wouldn't want her to be. She just -- she couldn't help thinking that Kelly wasn't really okay. The more she thought about it.. the more things that seemed off but it wasn't her place to be on her about anything, was it? She didn't really know.. friends were there for each other, right? Still... Ruby always had trouble with the whole prying thing.. how much was too far into things that weren't her business? Did it matter if Kelly was really in trouble? It shouldn't.. right? Respecting their space, and privacy, and all that.. ugh. Ruby blew out a sigh of frustration because she didn't know. It felt like she didn't know anything anymore but she refused to touch on the thing -A had sent her about Charlie. She was pretty much going to forget all about that because it was stupid and pointless. She'd been stupid... she'd believed the wrong thing and... it hurt but it wouldn't be the first time. Look at how well things had gone with Connor... and his friends. His disgusting friends who had pretty much cheered him on. Who did that? Honestly.. it was just wrong and she wasn't thinking about any of it. She would focus on something else, something positive. Like the fact that Mason had gone a whole day without putting anything into her shoes, trying to get gum in her hair or throwing a book at her head. It was progress... or else.. she suspected he was just busy making her mums life hell. It seemed more likely than him actually giving up because.. what were the chances of that? It sometimes seemed like he was trying to kill her with the way he did things like put oil on the stairs but she knew he meant well... sort of. He was just being a boy, isn't that what her dad always said? If that's how boys acted when they were that age well... she was glad to be a girl. It couldn't be that much fun coming up with ways to mess with people, could it? Then... look at -A so maybe it wasn't something you grew out of because.. what were the chances -A was a thirteen year old boy? Ruby pushed those thoughts aside, running a hand through her hair to smooth it down as she approached the house Xavier had said he lived in. She was nervous about going to his place, not because she thought anything would happen but.. Ruby was just a nervous person. She was awkward and... shy so it surprised her that he'd wanted to hang out with her but he seemed nice. She thought it was interesting that he wrote real stories.. not that she had anything against people who made things up but.. still. Ruby took a deep breath as she moved to knock, tugging on her sleeve after she did. Had she knocked loud enough? Ruby was told she didn't knock very loudly but she didn't want to seem pushy and knock again. Ugh.. why was she always doing this? Over thinking something as simple as knocking on the door.