Science Twins

[enduring_pryde]

She starts laughing as she enters Alastaire's office. "Good morning. I think I might have broken Pete--at least mentally.  So please go easy on him today if he seems out of sorts." She goes back to her work space and sets up her computers. She gives Alastaire a sly smirk.

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[goawayleavemealone]

"Oh," Alistaire chuckles as he keeps working. "Has he started doing that thing where he thinks about you and starts running into door frames? That's always good for a laugh."

[enduring_pryde]

"Not that I have seen, no. But once we got down here he was hasty about getting to his office." She raises an eyebrow. "Was he thinking about me a lot?"

[goawayleavemealone]

"Is that a trick question?" Alistaire asks, lifting both eyebrows at her. "Come on, Kitty, you know the old boy never got over you. He's maybe been in love twice in his life, and the first one was you, and he mucked it all up. So I'm told."

[enduring_pryde]

"He wasn't the one to muck anything up. I got scared and reacted badly. Which triggered him and then it all went down hill from there." She sips her chai. "I told him that I want to marry him. Him calling me, actually coming to get me. Made me realise a lot of things, Alistaire."

[goawayleavemealone]

"Can't quite imagine Pete being married, to be honest," Alistaire admits. "Are you certain you want to get married at all? What with everything that's happened? You must still be smarting from what happened with Colossus...Brian told me. It can't be easy."

[enduring_pryde]

"We practically were when we were living on Muir. It was wonderful. Dunno if we can have that again but I would like to try. Muir was one of the few places where I've been truly happy."

She shakes her head. "I'm over Piotr, honestly. Now him I was marrying for the wrong reasons. Took getting to the alter for me to realise that."

[goawayleavemealone]

Alistaire listens as he works, frowning a little bit. It seems unlikely to him that anybody would get over something like that so quickly, but he doesn't say that.

"I wasn't around much in those days," Alistaire says. "Busy with MI6, trying to get things off the ground, to say nothing of the fact that I was dodging Black Air just as much as Pete was."

[enduring_pryde]

"Right. The last time I saw you was when you called us for help from the X-Mansion." And from there, they were able to take down Black Air and a branch of the Hellfire Club.

"You've certainly changed a lot since then." Alistaire used to be tall and lanky but he was no longer lanky. He looked older now, but that wasn't the only change about him.

[goawayleavemealone]

"Yes, I suppose we haven't had much of a chance to catch up since I was cursed," he says. "I can uhm...well, it's difficult to explain."

He stands up straight, and shows off the extent of his powers, making himself taller and shorter, older and younger, fatter and skinnier, and showing her how elastic his body is now.

"Do you know, when I joined Weird Happenings all those years ago, I never imagined I would be one of the weird happenings myself." He grins ruefully.

[enduring_pryde]

Her mouth opens and she looks at him with wonder. "You say this is a curse? It's amazing! I didn't know you had a power now! That can be really useful."

[goawayleavemealone]

Alistaire chuckles. "Oh, it does come in handy sometimes."

[enduring_pryde]

"Do you see much field work?" She boots her computers and starts checking on if she can get any more clarity on the truck's license plate.

"I have another project for you to take on if you're interested." She looks back at Alistaire. "I need you to check my power levels. I was exposed to a cosmic device almost a year ago. It left me with some interesting results." She raises her eyebrows. "I'll need you to pull up any research you have on Widget and any medical records on me and on any of my counterparts you might have tested while you were with Excalubur."