Joss Miller's Room
Joss' room was usually neat and tidy but since Morgan had left he was taking less and less care of it. Clothes where strewn about the floor along with books and little wooden shavings. He spent a lot of time whittling now-a-days, making little wooden figures.
Joss' room
Something had been going on, but it was deathly silent in the room now.
damn. This wasn't good.
Mort crossed his arms... this was just... something was happening. He turned, moving away; he had to find a teacher, someone, anyone really. someone had to know.
Mort returned, holding Del by the arm and looking as serious as he could considering the lack of facial expressions. "Here. And I can't get in" he said, nodding as he stopped outside of the door.
"Ok, Mort, you gotta let go."
Del winced and twisted her arm from his grip until his hand gave her arm up. He had a strong grip and she rubbed her arm where he'd grabbed her. "Ok, now what's going on? Joss has been in a crabby mood since Genocia, if I walk in here and he throws a piece of wood at my head you're gonna get a week of danger room sessions with Logan."
Mort let out a small "hmmm?" noise, as if he hadn't quite heard del. This was obvious by the way he had taken two steps towards the door, then kicked it as hard as he could on the lock, putting his weight behind it as well as the force. He'd been taught how to open locked doors like that when he was on the streets... It slammed open, revealing the room beyond.
Del coughed when the wave hit her. Old dirty clothes, wood shavings, discarded food. Joss had not been taking care of his room like he used to. "Ugh..." She recoiled from the door and held her nose. "Oh God..." It wasn't so bad to a normal nose, but she could smell every individual scent and in a nose like her's it was multiplied. Wait a second... amidst the myriad of stench she noticed one thing that defiantly shouldn't have been there. Blood. "Don't go in." She told Mort. "I gotta see it before anything's disturbed..."
Mort nodded quickly, stepping back and letting Del step forward. He didn't really smell, so he wouldn't mess up the contents of the room. Judging from how Del was behaving, he had guessed right. Something had happened in this room. Something not good.
"Do me a favor."
Del told him. "Go find Kurt, tell him where I am and that I said to scan the grounds for Joss." She should have sent him after Emma, but Del still wasn't her greatest fan.
"Right, I'll... uhh... head back to the dining hall"
Mort replied, giving a short nod and almost running back downstairs. He did not like this one bit.
"He's not there."
Del told him. "He's in our room, taking a nap with Waya."
"Ok then"
Mort said, turning around adn walking in the other direction.
Del walked into the room and uncovered her nose. This was a mess. She'd been under the impression that Tom had spoken to him... apparently it hadn't taken. Through all the different ghastly scents she detected something coppery that could only be one thing. Blood, but not Joss... no there was something else that was Joss' at the foot of the bed. It accompanied the scent of sex... and she could see very well what had happened. Morgan had been here... Joss must have struck her, which was strange considering how fast she was. However they'd ended up... fornicating was beyond Del, but it had preceded their leaving.
"You rang dear?"
Kurt drawled from behind her, he was holding the baby in one arm, and the diaper bag in the other.
"I didn't mean for Mort to completely uproot you two..."
Del told him. She stood from her crouch at the window and stepped forward to take Waya. She lifted her lip and saw the white f the gum where her first tooth would soon come through. "Morgan came and took Joss." She told him. "Though I don't think she made him. There's her blood on the floor and his..." She didn't want to say the word in front of their baby.
Semen she continued. "I don't know what exactly happened, but someone had fun before they left."
"Well clearly it was Joss who had some fun."
Kurt said, smirking a little bit at Del's reluctance to say semen in their baby's presence. "So what do you need me to do?"
"See if you can find him."
Del told him. "If Morgan's come for him i doubt they're still within range, but it's worth a shot."
Kurt sighed and held Waya out to her. "Your turn. I've already told Emma, she's probably headed for Cerebra by now. But if you really want me to try..."
"Forget it then."
Del said propping Waya on her hip. "I doubt she'll be able to find them. Morgan's probably too fast for Cerebra to pin down."
"That's if they're running. The boy does have wings after all."
Kurt pointed out the possibility that they could be in the air. It didn't take a genius to see that as at the very least a possible scenario
"We'll see what Emma comes up with."
Del said, knowing that even though her husband's telepathy grew marginally every time he used it, Emma was a much stronger telepath. "She'll have told Summer's by now."
"I don't understand why you didn't."
Kurt told her honestly. "I know you don't like her, but still. She is the headmistress and we have a missing student now."
"Why when I can have you send her an instant message?"
Del asked. "What you want me to go take a flight and see if I can find them? It's not like I can make them come back."
"You know that Frost monitors the thought patterns of everyone in her vicinity. She claims to not snoop with it, but you know she listens in ever so slightly. The merest thought of her name and she'll respond."
Kurt explained, revealing really that all Del would have had to do was think of Emma and she would have gotten an answer.
"Your the only telepath that goes near my mind and she knows it."
Del told him. She and Emma had had issues with her particular brand of snooping in the past.
"There's a difference between entering and listening at the door. Believe me, Emma has 'ears' as good as yours hon."
Kurt told her with a grin
"Why are we arguing about this?"
Del asked. "Joss is gone. What are his parents going to think when they find out?"
"Cuz you know I get cranky when someone wakes me from my nap."
Kurt told her sternly, though there was a wide smirk on his face. He argued for the sake of arguing with her, knowing full well that she enjoyed it. "We should find out why he left with her. Joss is a pretty level headed guy, I'm sure he had a reason. And if it's noble enough, they'll understand."
"He's not been so level lately."
Del told him. "Not since Genosha. We should talk to Tom. He spoke to him a week or so ago."
"Everyone's been a bit off since then."
Kurt pointed out. Deadpool was still popping in from time to time as a matter of fact. It was beginning to get tiresome, despite the man's insane humor.
"Still... we should talk to Tom..."
Del told him. "Maybe he's some indication of where Joss might have gone."
"I suppose."
Kurt told her with a shrug. He couldn't help but yawn however. "I guess you're gonna want me to go and talk with Emma about all this, and you take care of the Tom part of it?"
"Daddy's pretty smart isn't he?"
Del asked Waya. She took the diaper bag from Kurt and pulled him down so she could kiss him on the cheek. "When your done report to the party. Kari put a lot of work into it with the girls."
"Yeah yeah yeah..."
Kurt told her with a sigh. He really wanted to get back to his nap, he got so few of them anymore....
"You sleep too much."
Del told him, tapping into her side of their little bond. "Go do something. Socialize with the kids like you used to."
Kurt looked at her, "Socialize? Like I used to? Please...I socialize more now than ever before." He told her wit a smirk
"Whatever."
Del said. "Go see if Emma found Joss. I've got to talk to Tom." If she didn't leave he would keep her up here, talking, sparing back and forth as he usualy did. "Say bye to Daddy." she told Waya.
Waya reached forward till she gripped Kurt's jacket. She made a sort of raspberry sound as she formed her lips around a sound that may have been understood as a fairwell.
Kurt didn't have much choice after that. He tosseled the girl's little bit of black hair and smiled down at her. She was as beautiful as her mother. He looked at Del and smirked, he'd have to see about them making another one of these little wonders.
Del would have rather spent the rest of the day curled up with him in their room, but Joss was missing and they had work to do. Sadly she kissed his cheek, left him there and went in search of Tom.
Mort was standing just out of sight past the doorway, poking his fingers together and gazing at the floor. He was so very quiet it was easy to miss he had been standing there, and since he hadn't had anywhere else to go he'd just... hung around.
"Go back to the party Mort."
Del told him as she left the room and saw that he was still here. Like Kurt he didn't exactly have a scent and both had an impeccable knack for going unheard. "There's nothing more you can do here."
"I just... rather... wanted to stay here... see if I could help"
Mort said softly even as he followed after Del, heading down towards the party and the others. What was he even going to do there?
"I can't even help really."
Del told him. "Kurt is going to see if Emma can find them with Cerebra and I'm going to talk to Tom and see if he's got any clue of where they might have gone. For now all we can do is wait."
Kurt sighed and slowly descended into the shadowss, off to find Emma
"I could have... I dunno, looked for any clues where they're going in small gaps or something?"
Mort said with a weak shrug. He wished he had a better power sometimes. Being dead wasn't that much of a help.
"I know you want to help Joss, but there's nothing we can do for now other than wait."
Del told him. "We'll let the telepaths handle it for now. If we leave to fetch him you'll be the first to suit up, how's that?"
"Okay... but I'm not sure what I'd be able to do past punch him between the ears and drag him back here"
Mort said a little glumly; he really had a crap super power. At least in his eyes.
"Considering Joss,"
Del began, "A punch between the ears would be just the think to incapacitate him." She patted Mort on the shoulder. "Come on, help me find Tom." Even though she didn't need Mort to find him, the boy seemed adamant on helping. She cued the elevator and the doors opened, the only thing now was to pick the floor that was best suited to lead her to Tom. "You have any idea where he might be?" She asked.
"Well I think I saw Mrs. Relman at the party... so at the party"
Mort replied, stepping into the elevator. How many of these things did they have around the place? He swore the walls were hollow and filled with elevators.
Del smiled as they stepped in the elevator. Tom and she had thought they were being clever by hiding their newly renewed romance. If Mort could see through their little games then that meant everyone else probably did too.
Stumble!