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No shit.

Oh I know, Jean-Paul. And the real rub is that I can't let myself even be happy.

Why not?

In the span of a year and a half, I have been engaged to two different men and broke it off with both of them. I started looking at my doubts and talked myself out of going through with it. Piotr was my safe bet. I know what I'm going to get with him. But I think it finally became clear to me that we are better as friends.

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Obviously.

Just date his sister.

DNA. It was never in your very DNA. Otherwise, you're just using Gambit metaphors and nobody needs any of that. [smirk] Maybe you should say that normal just passes right through you? Or is that too terrible?

But you complaining? I mean, you've been in space. With a psychotic talking trash panda. Not that space was always kind to you, given the whole presumed worse than dead stint you had there...but still!!

True, very true. The thought has occurred to me. Yana and me--we've always shared an intimacy that me and Piotr never have.

Well that too. What's wrong with Remy's metaphors? Occasionally they're funny. At least he knows how to keep the levity. [Laughs] Really not all that different from you, Hawk Guy. And that's fair. Normal does pass right through me. Hell, I'm not even in the same time zone as normal.

Um, which time? Worse than dead has happened to me a lot. This last time wasn't so bad. I came back cosmic. Yay me!

But I'm just feeling like once I'd like to be a little normal and marry the person I claim I love. But the more I think about it, I know not going through with it was the right choice, but still. I'm feeling that need for something different. Definitely not space this time but something a little...something, somewhere on this rock where I don't know anyone and hopefully they don't know me. But hey, with social media and a public identity that's probably gonna be slim to none.

Ha! [He laughs] Yeah. I just like to give the Cajun shit. I hear that's a time honored X-Men tradition, right? When in Rome...

[He can't help but smile at being called Hawk Guy. Letting Kate run with the Hawkeye mantle made him happy, after all]

I remember something about you phasing some kinda giant space bullet and then being stuck out of phase for a while. That had to be the actual worst.

[He nods] Yeah. I hear you. It was about time for Remy and Rogue though, so I guess silver lining? Anyways, given that you've been around the globe and traveled through space...I'd lean "none" on those odds. Unless you have a way into another dimension...

[pause]

..actually, I have a new team mate that may be able to help with that.

Understandable. I think he attracts that kind of treatment too. I hear one of my exes gave him a run for his money too. [Wisdom. She was talking about Pete Wisdom. Why did she attract all of the Peters??]

Oh yeah. I figured you meant that. [She also was thinking about the multiple run ins with the Brood cause that still made her skin crawl.]

The giant space bullet that was aimed at earth and I phrased it and got stuck like that for two years. [Another period of time she tried mot thinking about.] Magneto rescued me and I got put in a containment suit for almost a year. It's funny that it's the villains who come to my aid. Victor Doom got me back in phase the first time years ago I got stuck. But now that doesn't seem to be a problem.

[She laughs.] Funny you should mention that. I can in fact phase through dimensions now.

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I mean it's kinda gross, but whatever.

Ohoho! Now I need to hear that story! I swear, you X-types are better than any comic book. The Avengers have their fun, but it's nothing like what you guys get up to.

Hey, that's because you didn't have my card. I could always come to your aid. I am sure that between the two of us, either Kate or I has some kind of "Fix your phasing" arrow. And I'm only maybe 60% joking about that. Even I lose track of all the different kinds of arrows I have...

Whaaaat?! Holy crap. That's pretty much infinite adventures there. You must really like this one to stick around here...

The Soul Sword? Yeah. I thought so in the beginning too. Was more annoying when I'm minding my business and it showed up, with the armor, giving no warning. Yep, really normal.

Non, dating your ex's sibling.

Well, being mutants our lives do tend toward the more colorful. Not sure why. [She shrugs.]

I have no specifics cause it is classified stuff and Remy ain't talking. Okay so I used to date Pete Wisdom. He's Field Commander for MI-13, in the UK. Well Remy was off doing his own thing for a while, thieving, and ended up fucking with Wisdom's people. Well Wisdom stuck him on the most wanted list for a bit and apprehended him. It sounds like Remy now owes Wisdom a favour, which is not a position anybody would really want to be in. While Wisdom is now working for an above board intelligence agency but I knew him when he was with a black ops outfit. He knows how to play really dirty and do what needs to be done. Fantastic ally to have and terrifying enemy. We're on tense yet amicable terms now. [And she can't help it but she still has feelings for the guy and her voice carries a fondness.]

I appreciate that. Thank you. I'm glad The X-Men and Avengers are back to being on good terms. Though Tony probably won't be inviting me back any time soon after my dragon messed up some equipment that he was working on.

[She shrugs again.] In theory. I haven't exercised it, or even tested my new limits cause I'm a little scared to.

Oh. That....Well I know she's interested.

The WORLD knows that, Pryde.

She's not that obvious about it.

Maybe not to straights.

I didn't know for a while, either.

That is a newsflash to no one.

An if it was, you reckon you'd be happy? I'm gonna bet 'gainst that.

You're slow.

I've since realised that. I think I was having more of a relationship with her than her brother. The age difference was always of some concern to me. But now she really is of age so...dont Really have any excuse there.

I thought marrying my best friend would work and I couldn't go through with it.