Chapter Text
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Alex
Hank
Bobby
Armando
Raven
October 17, 2016.
[8:32 a.m.]: Hot or cold?
[8:33 a.m.]: Cold.
[8:33 a.m.]: You?
[8:33 a.m.]: Light or dark?
[8:34 a.m.]: Hot
[8:34 a.m.]: Dark probably, you?
[8:34 a.m.]: Sun or Moon?
[8:35 a.m.]: Light.
[8:35 a.m.]: Moon, you?
[8:36 a.m.]: Sun
[8:36 a.m.]: Would you rather explore the ocean or the stars?
[8:37 a.m.]: The stars.
[8:37 a.m.]: You?
[8:37 a.m.]: Would you rather be an artist or a writer?
[8:38 a.m.]: The ocean
[8:38 a.m.]: It’s a Hawaii thing, I think
[8:38 a.m.]: I don’t remember Hawaii all that well
[8:38 a.m.]: But I remember surfing with my parents
[8:38 a.m.]: Anyway
[8:39 a.m.]: Artist, you?
[8:39 a.m.]: Coffee, tea or hot cocoa?
[8:40 a.m.]: Don’t remember it that well?
[8:40 a.m.]: Didn’t you grow up in Hawaii?
[8:40 a.m.]: Writer.
[8:40 a.m.]: Tea and coffee, you?
[8:41 a.m.]: I grew up in Hawaii til I was about eight
[8:41 a.m.]: Scotty was six
[8:41 a.m.]: Our parents died and we were relocated
[8:41 a.m.]: It’s nbd
[8:42 a.m.]: Anyway
[8:42 a.m.]: Coffee and hot cocoa
[8:43 a.m.]: Okay, it’s nbd.
[8:43 a.m.]: Movies or books?
[8:45 a.m.]: Movies /and/ books, fuck you
[8:45 a.m.]: You?
[8:47 a.m.]: Okay wow.
[8:47 a.m.]: Books.
[8:48 a.m.]: Movies have the tendency to make me anxious.
[8:48 a.m.]: Feels like I’m not doing anything.
[8:49 a.m.]: Favorite animal?
[8:50 a.m.]: Everything makes you anxious, Hank
[8:51 a.m.]: Rude.
[8:51 a.m.]: Cats probably? Maybe dogs. Domesticated animals, really.
[8:52 a.m.]: You?
[8:53 a.m.]: Vague as fuck, but I’ll allow it
[8:53 a.m.]: I like cats
[8:54 a.m.]: Do you wear glasses?
[8:55 a.m.]: Okay, not our usual brand of questioning.
[8:55 a.m.]: I do, actually.
[8:55 a.m.]: Do you?
[8:56 a.m.]: I wear reading glasses sometimes
[8:56 a.m.]: Anyway, aren't you supposed to be in class right now?
[8:57 a.m.]: I swear you had class when we first started texting
[8:57 a.m.]: and it’s Monday again
[8:58 a.m.]: That was my Sunday class.
[8:58 a.m.]: A rarity as classes go, but I cultivate them.
[8:59 a.m.]: It means I can convince Bobby to tell Raven we shouldn’t go out sometimes.
[9:01 a.m.]: Sneaky, Bozo
[9:02 a.m.]: Why in the motherfuck would you ever want to find out if that was even a thing tho?
[9:03 a.m.]: You kids these days with your slang.
[9:04 a.m.]: It’s because Charles help me set up my entire curriculum, as well as part of Bobby’s, and so we got stuck in some weekenders.
[9:05 a.m.]: As in Xavier? So you rlly do go to university here too
[9:06 a.m.]: If here is Bard, then yes.
[9:06 a.m.]: Charles teaches one of your classes, if memory serves.
[9:07 a.m.]: Ew god stop calling him Charles it’s so weird
[9:07 a.m.]: Call him Prof or Prof X or Xavier like everyone else
[9:08 a.m.]: But he’s my friend?
[9:09 a.m.]: If you would be more comfortable, I can call him by his last name.
[9:10 a.m.]: Nah, suit yourself, Bozo, it’s just weird
[9:10 a.m.]: Like somebody calling their parents by their first names
[9:12 a.m.]: I think there’s a Daddy joke here, but I don’t want to make it.
[9:13 a.m.]: Delete my fucking number.
October 19, 2016.
[7:38 a.m.]: Good morning starshine, the Sun says hello!
[7:40 a.m.]: What in unfiltered fuck
[7:41 a.m.]: My mom texts me that nearly every morning, and someone else had to experience it.
[7:42 a.m.]: And it had to be me?
[7:42 a.m.]: None of my non-texting friends have class this morning, so you’re the only one I knew was probably up.
[7:43 a.m.]: You lowkey woke me up, but I highkey needed to be up anyway
[7:44 a.m.]: You’re welcome?
[7:44 a.m.]: Shut the fuck off, Bozo
[7:45 a.m.]: I’m sure that’s a meme of some kind, coming from you, but not one I’ve ever heard.
[7:46 a.m.]: I actually got it off of a youtube comment, so jokes on you, memelord
[7:47 a.m.]: I send you a nice good morning text and this is what I get.
[7:48 a.m.]: What were you expecting?
[7:48 a.m.]: Kiss emojis and a picture of a handwritten letter?
[7:49 a.m.]: Well certainly less sass.
[7:49 a.m.]: But I should know better than to expect that of you, Alex.
[7:50 a.m.]: Oh jeez pullin out my actual name
[7:50 a.m.]: Quakin in my boots
[7:51 a.m.]: Much fear, very spook
[7:52 a.m.]: What was it you said before?
[7:52 a.m.]: Shut the fuck off, Alex.
[7:53 a.m.]: Don’t misquote me to me, Hank Philip
[7:54 a.m.]: Oh. My middle name. I’m quaking in my boots.
[7:55 a.m.]: Why do things sound so much more like a rek from you?
[7:56 a.m.]: Is it the periods? The proper grammar?
[7:57 a.m.]: Do they make it more deadpan roasty?
[7:57 a.m.]: I bet that’s it
[7:58 a.m.]: It’s just because I roast better than you.
[7:59 a.m.]: Yikes, you’re probs right lmao
[7:59 a.m.]: Alright, I’m in class, Bozo, text ya later
[8:00 a.m.]: Have fun, Alex.
[8:01 a.m.]: You know I’m not going to
[8:01 a.m.]: We’ve talked about this.
[8:02 a.m.]: Yeah, yeah, no texting in class, even if it’s mine
[8:02 a.m.]: Text ya later, Hank
[8:02 a.m.]: Have fun, Alex.
October 21, 2016.
[3:14 p.m.]: Ten days til Halloween, Bozo!
[3:14 p.m.]: Your favorite holiday, right?
[3:16 p.m.]: It is.
[3:16 p.m.]: I honestly didn’t think you would remember.
[3:17 p.m.]: Also is it not early to begin celebration?
[3:18 p.m.]: One, I am a caring individual of course I remember fuck you bozo
[3:18 p.m.]: Two, This whole month is Halloween
[3:19 p.m.]: Just like the whole month of December (and sometimes January) is Hanukkah
[3:21 p.m.]: That seems a little… extra.
[3:22 p.m.]: It just took you two minutes to think of the word, didn’t it
[3:23 p.m.]: Don’t lie to me, i’ll know
[3:24 p.m.]: Is this not also extra?
[3:24 p.m.]: I wasn’t going to lie anyway.
[3:24 p.m.]: It only took me like a minute.
[3:25 p.m.]: Raven uses it sometimes.
[3:26 p.m.]: So who is this Raven character?
[3:26 p.m.]: You’ve mentioned them before
[3:27 p.m.]: Sibling? Friend? Datemate?
[3:29 p.m.]: No siblings.
[3:29 p.m.]: She’s my best friend.
[3:29 p.m.]: Completely free of datemates at the moment.
[3:31 p.m.]: Completely free?
[3:32 p.m.]: Makes it sound like dating’s the worst thing in the world
[3:33 p.m.]: Haven’t actually dated someone in a while, so who knows if I know.
[3:34 p.m.]: Raven just asked who I was texting and told me to just “Carry on” when I said it was you.
[3:32 p.m.]: Your friends know about me?
[3:34 p.m.]: They know I’m texting some guy named Alex, yeah.
[3:34 p.m.]: They know that he insults me and makes me laugh, so they approve.
[3:35 p.m.]: I make you laugh?
[3:35 p.m.]: Aw, Bozo
[3:36 p.m.]: Do your friends not know about me?
[3:37 p.m.]: Armando does
[3:38 p.m.]: We were at that party when I found out your name and he celebrated w me
[3:39 p.m.]: My name was cause for celebration?
[3:40 p.m.]: Shut up, Bozo
October 21, 2016.
[3:30 p.m.]: Who are you texting when you could be paying attention to me?
[3:31 p.m.]: Raven, we’re literally across the table from each other.
[3:32 p.m.]: Didn’t answer my question, Henry
[3:32 p.m.]: Alex.
[3:33 p.m.]: Your not-boyfriend?
[3:33 p.m.]: Carry on.
October 24, 2016.
[2:08 p.m.]: A week til Halloween, Hank!!
[2:08 p.m.]: Are you excited yet?
[2:11 p.m.]: You know if you ask me that every day, the answer is not guaranteed to change.
[2:12 p.m.]: Come on, Bozo, work with me here :( :( :(
[2:13 p.m.]: Okay, I’m a little excited.
[2:14 p.m.]: Yay!
[2:14 p.m.]: True human emotion!
[2:16 p.m.]: Is this a roast?
[2:16 p.m.]: I must say, if it is, it’s not a surprise I’m better at this than you.
[2:18 p.m.]: God, okay
[2:18 p.m.]: Alex found dead in Miami
[2:19 p.m.]: Whatcha Say by Jason Derulo plays in the distance
[2:21 p.m.]: Does everything you say have to be a meme?
[2:22 p.m.]: I have to send you three memes a day or I’ll die
[2:22 p.m.]: I’m srs
[2:24 p.m.]: You’re a drama queen is what you are.
[2:25 p.m.]: You are genuinely the first person to call me that
[2:25 p.m.]: How.
[2:27 p.m.]: Alex found dead in Miami all over again
[2:27 p.m.]: Barely enough of him left to recognise
[2:28 p.m.]: Identified by dental records and fingerprints alone
[2:29 p.m.]: No, seriously, how?
[2:29 p.m.]: Someone has to be honest in your life.
[2:30 p.m.]: Not even… Armando?? has called you a drama queen before?
[2:31 p.m.]: You nearly forgot Armando’s name didn’t you?
[2:32 p.m.]: And no, he hasn’t, because he LOVES ME
[2:33 p.m.]: People who love you are honest with you :/
[2:34 p.m.]: Emoticon Hank is canon
[2:35 p.m.]: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°) ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
[2:45 p.m.]: Delete my fucking number, you devil.
October 25, 2016.
[1:17 a.m.]: Okay so you know in freshman year, how our football team was like
[1:17 a.m.]: A fuckton bigger and better?
[1:19 a.m.]: I seem to recall that.
[1:20 a.m.]: What the fuck happened?
[1:21 a.m.]: The NCAA decided mutants can’t play.
[1:21 a.m.]: The only sport to contest this decision was hockey.
[1:22 a.m.]: Mutant women (and other female mutants) are now allowed to play hockey again.
[1:22 a.m.]: Hockey is the best for the You Can Play movement.
[1:22 a.m.]: They’re still working on Men’s Hockey.
[1:23 a.m.]: Football, however, is working as much as they can to keep mutants banned from the league.
[1:23 a.m.]: As far as I can tell.
[1:24 a.m.]: Wow, Bozo
[1:24 a.m.]: You know a lot about this sports shit
[1:24 a.m.]: Here I am asking for curiosity
[1:25 a.m.]: And Hank could write me a fucking dissertation
[1:26 a.m.]: Well, I used to play.
[1:27 a.m.]: Play what?
[1:27 a.m.]: A sport.
[1:28 a.m.]: Wow, Bozo.
[1:29 a.m.]: Football, okay?
[1:29 a.m.]: I used to play football.
[1:30 a.m.]: Football?
[1:30 a.m.]: You don’t seem like a football type, you know?
[1:31 a.m.]: I get that a lot, thanks.
[1:32 a.m.]: I don’t mean it as a bad thing, Bozo, jeez
[1:33 a.m.]: Then how did you mean it?
[1:34 a.m.]: Most football players I know, no offense, are complete dickwads
[1:34 a.m.]: That guy from Theta Mega Fuckboy wore his jersey while asking to fuck me
[1:34 a.m.]: And assumably for the rest of the night
[1:34 a.m.]: But like
[1:35 a.m.]: I usually don’t get along with football players
[1:35 a.m.]: Oh.
[1:36 a.m.]: So you really meant it as a compliment.
[1:36 a.m.]: I guess.
[1:37 a.m.]: Oh.
[1:38 a.m.]: It’s usually meant as a backhanded insult.
[1:39 a.m.]: I’m more used to that.
[1:40 a.m.]: People shouldn’t insult you, Hank
[1:40 a.m.]: Why’d you quit football?
[1:41 a.m.]: What?
[1:42 a.m.]: You said you used to play football
[1:42 a.m.]: Why’d you stop?
[1:43 a.m.]: The NCAA.
[1:44 a.m.]: Why did a national thing make you quit?
[1:45 a.m.]: They said mutants couldn’t play anymore.
[1:45 a.m.]: Oh wait
[1:46 a.m.]: You’re a mutant?
[1:47 a.m.]: Yeah.
[1:47 a.m.]: Me too
[1:48 a.m.]: Oh.
[1:48 a.m.]: Cool.
[1:49 a.m.]: Yeah
[1:49 a.m.]: Cool
[1:49 a.m.]: Cool.
[1:50 a.m.]: Cool
[1:51 a.m.]: Sorry the NCAA sucks, Hank
[1:51 a.m.]: Not your fault.
[1:52 a.m.]: Still sorry
October 28, 2016.
[10:45 p.m.]: Okay but why do the Christians™ do this
[10:46 p.m.]: What have the Christians™ done now?
[10:47 p.m.]: i’m happy with you for using the ™
[10:47 p.m.]: still pissed but not pissed @ u
[10:47 p.m.]: anyway the Christians™ just called Armando an abomination
[10:48 p.m.]: i’m not well
[10:49 p.m.]: Glad you aren’t pissed at me.
[10:49 p.m.]: Why?
[10:49 p.m.]: Any actual reason, or just being awful?
[10:51 p.m.]: His mutation is adaptation.
[10:51 p.m.]: He adapted when something was thrown at him.
[10:53 p.m.]: Adaptation sounds like a fascinating mutation.
[10:53 p.m.]: From a scientific standpoint.
[10:53 p.m.]: You can report mutantphobic behavior on campus.
[10:54 p.m.]: I can connect you to some friends of mine in the administration.
[10:54 p.m.]: You’d do that for me?
[10:55 p.m.]: We don’t even know each other, Bozo
[10:55 p.m.]: and also if you connected me to anyone, we’d know who each other was
[10:55 p.m.]: You prepared for that?
[10:56 p.m.]: Yes, I am a mutant.
[10:56 p.m.]: Yes, I would do that for you.
[10:56 p.m.]: We do know each other, you’ve become my friend.
[10:57 p.m.]: We’ve been texting for twenty days, every single day.
[10:57 p.m.]: And, finally, we don’t have to know who each other are, if you don’t want to.
[10:57 p.m.]: I can connect you via your number and never ask for your surname.
[10:57 p.m.]: That is completely up to you.
[10:58 p.m.]: You’re way too nice, Bozo
[10:58 p.m.]: That’d be really nice
[10:58 p.m.]: Esp given it was religious themed shit, which can sometimes be bad for Armando idk
[10:59 p.m.]: I shouldn’t be telling u his business, but i feel a little like i should ????
[10:59 p.m.]: (I have problems w receiving help, but im seeing a therapist ok)
[11:00 p.m.]: There’s no need to tell me anyone’s business, Alex.
[11:00 p.m.]: Here’s the contact for one of the members of the board.
[11:01 p.m.]: I told him to expect a text from your number.
[11:02 p.m.]: I hope it goes well.
[11:04 p.m.]: Thanks a million, Hank
[11:05 p.m.]: Any time, Stranger.
October 28, 2016.
[11:00 p.m.]: Hank just gave me the shit to report those ppl
[11:00 p.m.]: You down?
[11:01 p.m.]: Your boy is really looking out for you
[11:01 p.m.]: And yeah
[11:02 p.m.]: I’ll take care of it, dude
[11:02 p.m.]: I’ve got it
[11:03 p.m.]: Thanks Lex
[11:04 p.m.]: Anything for you, dude
October 30, 2016.
[11:31 p.m.]: Halloween is in less than an hour, Bozo
[11:32 p.m.]: How do you feel?
[11:33 p.m.]: Well I was feeling nearly asleep.
[11:33 p.m.]: But I suppose I can muster up some excitement.
[11:34 p.m.]: I’d apologize but I’m only like 1% sorry
[11:34 p.m.]: An entire percent?
[11:35 p.m.]: More than expected.
[11:35 p.m.]: Roasted
[11:35 p.m.]: Called Out
[11:35 p.m.]: Found Dead in Miami
[11:36 p.m.]: Miami is a long drive from here.
[11:36 p.m.]: I’d be more likely to just drive into NYC to dump your body.
[11:37 p.m.]: Jesus fucking fuck, McCoy
[11:37 p.m.]: Too thought out
[11:38 p.m.]: McCoy?
[11:38 p.m.]: He told you my last name.
[11:39 p.m.]: Fuck dude i did not mean to tell you i knew
[11:40 p.m.]: I’m just such a fuck up lmao
[11:40 p.m.]: My last name is Summers, if it makes you feel better
[11:41 p.m.]: Your little brother is Scott Summers.
[11:41 p.m.]: He’s friends with Jean Grey, one of Charles’s favorites.
[11:42 p.m.]: Are we seriously like two degrees of separated right now
[11:43 p.m.]: Do you want to maybe actually meet?
[11:43 p.m.]: bc this is kinda weird
[11:45 p.m.]: If you want to?
[11:45 p.m.]: I don’t want you to be disappointed.
[11:46 p.m.]: Why would I be disappointed?
[11:47 p.m.]: I’m even more of a nerd in person, big surprise.
[11:48 p.m.]: That sounds like more of a reason to meet you, Bozo
[11:48 p.m.]: Alright then.
[11:49 p.m.]: Campus Coffee, maybe tomorrow morning at 9-ish? You don’t have a class, I believe.
[11:50 p.m.]: Ah yikes that’s soon
[11:51 p.m.]: Tho a Halloween meeting will be so lit
[11:52 p.m.]: Maybe I don’t have to worry about being a big nerd.
[11:53 p.m.]: Roasted
[11:53 p.m.]: Called Out
[11:53 p.m.]: Found Dead in Miami
[11:54 p.m.]: Goodnight, Alex Summers.
[11:55 p.m.]: Night, Hank McCoy.
October 30 and October 31, 2016. .
[11:56 p.m.]: I’m meeting him tomorrow for coffee??????????
[11:56 p.m.]: Please help me i don’t know how to dress or act or look or sdf;klg;dslfkj;dklfjg
[11:57 p.m.]: Armando pls
[11:59 p.m.]: Can we start with the fact that you didn’t say his name and I still knew who you were talking about smh
[11:59 p.m.]: Also you lowkey woke me up and i am tempted to not help u at all
[12:00 a.m.]: But I will, bc i am too good for you
[12:02 a.m.]: You are a god among men and I love you dearly, Armando
[12:02 a.m.]: What do I wear?????
[12:03 a.m.]: The Leather Jacket™, those jeans that cling to your ass like a second skin, the dark green henley
[12:04 a.m.]: A god among men, I swear
[12:05 a.m.]: Now go the fuck to sleep before you look like a fucking raccoon meeting the man of your dreams
[12:06 a.m.]: Fuck you
[12:06 a.m.]: Night <3
[12:07 a.m.]: Night, asshat.
October 30 and October 31, 2016.
[11:56 p.m.]: Raven, I’m meeting Alex tomorrow at nine in the morning, reassure me.
[11:57 p.m.]: You’re hot shit, you’re interesting and dynamic, he already knows you’re a dork, you’ll be fine.
[11:58 p.m.]: I love and appreciate you.
[11:59 p.m.]: You better. What are you wearing?
[12:00 a.m.]: Oh god.
[12:01 a.m.]: I’ll be there at seven thirty
[12:02 a.m.]: Good night, Hank
[12:03 a.m.]: I love and appreciate you.
[12:03 a.m.]: Night, Raven.
October 31, 2016.
[12:02 a.m.]: Hank fashion emergency, tomorrow at 7 30 am
[12:03 a.m.]: Why are you telling me???
[12:03 a.m.]: is it bc im gay bc i s2g
[12:04 a.m.]: a little but also you and hank have similar fashions
[12:04 a.m.]: pls don’t let me dress him bobby
[12:05 a.m.]: ugh u’r rite, i’ll be there
[12:05 a.m.]: night rae
[12:06 a.m.]: thanks bobby <3
[12:06 a.m.]: night <3 <3 <3
October 31, 2016. .
[8:42 a.m.]: i’m leaving, wish me luck
[8:43 a.m.]: good luck, you big nerd
[8:43 a.m.]: knock em dead
[8:44 a.m.]: I am Anxiety
[8:45 a.m.]: you’ll be fine; u r young, beautiful, and a total catch
[8:46 a.m.]: Fuck you
[8:46 a.m.]: I mean thank u
[8:47 a.m.]: Good luck, Lex