oo8. sort of open.

[forgodssake]

CHARACTERS: Charles Xavier and Nuala; Emma Swan; Captain Hook (Killian Jones); Severus Snape; Ilde Knox; Cassandra Anderson; Alex Summers; William Tsang; Claire Bennet; Nuala; Erik Lehnsherr; the Winter Soldier; others as they happen.
LOCATION: Medical bay; science department; level 5, holodeck, passenger quarters; media library; laundry facilities; oxygen gardens; level 14; others as they happen.
WARNINGS: Descriptions of body horror.
SUMMARY: Jump cycle thirty-five happens, and Charles continues to exist. Basically.
NOTES: Monthly catch all! This is only partially open because I'm not providing a fixed narrative thing to reply to. Hence, please let me know if you'd like to do anything, and I'll be happy to set up a thread (unless you feel ambitious).

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[darkart]

"I am." Discretion is, in fact, one of the things he holds sacred in the work he's doing here. Probably has something to do with being a spy. Severus continues: "But you haven't been, about your current state. I can't help you repack Pandora's box."

People have noticed that Charles has been off his game. Cases have been closed, forward, and changed; patients have been shuffled, colleagues have been promoted, Professor X's students have made loud and disapproving noises. This is not a secret.

[forgodssake]

"I know."

No meaningful or hesitant pause, there. Charles knows and is happy to confess as such before Severus might imagine he needs convincing. A look away, zigzagging attention over computer monitor as blunt nails scrape through the bristle at his jaw. He hadn't gotten two steps from his locker before Summers had grabbed him and demanded to know who died.

"I'm not sure what recovery's supposed to look like." He hadn't even really termed anything in that word, but if he is a patient, then a recovery must be on the horizon. "Or what bad days or good days will look like, but I can't promise I won't have either one."

[darkart]

"As long as you're even considering it I'll call it an improvement," Severus says gruffly, because there is no kind emotional support happening here. He'll acknowledge Charles's progress but it's not enough. It might never be, for Severus, but that's not the point.

With that said, he doesn't have anything else. All right. Good teamwork, motive, etc.

He'll be going now.