Knock....knock? (Danny, Open)

[Jason "Twitch" Daniels]

Jason stood staring at the grand gate in front of the Xavier Institute. He looks around and sees a wall extending around the premises in all directions and then looks back up at the large imposing gate in front of him before turning to the cabby. "Um...excuse me, but are you sure this is the right place?"

"Of course I'm damned sure ya ingrate," the cabbie looks around nervously, "now its a ten fifty fare, so pay up, I don't wanna stick around here any longer than I need ta." The man shoves his hand into Jason's face, "and if I were you's I'd get scarce but quick."

Jason fumbles through his pockets for his wallet and pays the man, "Well, thanks for the advice, I'll be sure to..." as soon as the man had been paid he drives off leaving Jason standing in front of the gates with his small brown suitcase talking to himself. "...take that into account." Jason watches the only car around drive off and shakes his head, "What a nice fellow, giving me advice like that," he says to himself without hint of sarcasm.

He turns back to the gate and gives a little sigh, "I guess I should be looking for a doorbell," he says to no one in particular. After searching for a few minutes gives up and stares at the fence. There doesn't seem to be a doorbell and he doubts that anyone is nearby. As he assesses his options his hand subconsciously begins to flex and dance. When he notices it he quickly takes it into his other hand and supresses the spasms while looking around to see if anyone saw that, not that there was anyone around to see much of anything.

Relaxing once again he looks down at his hand to see that its under his complete control again and moves it a bit to make sure. Looking back up at the fence he figures his only choice is to get see if he can get anyone's attention. He takes a deep breath then shouts at the top of his voice, "Heeelllooo! Iiis annyoonee theere?"

[Veronica Devereux]

Like any other day when she had no classes, Veronica could be seen laid laid out on the couch, the pink bathrobe she wore strewn around her. The small, black remote for the TV was clutched in her hands, her index finger continuously tapping the up arrow, causing the channels to flip by quickly. After flipping for a good fifteen minutes and finding nothing, the blonde let out a displeased grunt, tossing the device weakly over to the other couch.

Grabbing on to the back of the couch, she wearily hoisted herself up, letting out a half yawn as she did. Grabbing a good handful of the robes fabric in each hand, Veronica wrapped it around her bra and panty-clad body, fastening it shut with the two straps that had been sewn on to either side. It was way to early to be acting like a slut, especially in the institute.

>"Heeelllooo! Iiis annyoonee theere?" The voice was faint but evident through the large wooden door. Who exactly could be at the door this early in the morning? Curious as to who it was and why they were there, Veronica trudged out of the room and toward the door, her arm already extended out to turn the knob. Gripping the brass, one quick twist of her wrist caused the door to open, swinging back to reveal a boy standing on the other side of the large Xavier gates.

"Greeeeeeeeeeeeat." she mumbled to herself as she gracefully hopped down the small steps that lead to the door, and started the walk from the mansion to the gates. Crossing her arms defiantly over her chest, she stopped to the left of the gates, looking at the small buttons that decorated the wall, one which was bound to open the metallic blockade. Raising one finger, Veronica pressed one of the buttons closet to the gates, listening as she could hear the gears grinding to open the gates, letting the boy in.

"And you are?"

[Jason "Twitch" Daniels]

After straining his ears for a moment, which is useless since his ears are practically always strained anyhow, the twenty-three year old let out a sigh and gave another look at the grounds that he could see through the gates. It looked like a very beautiful place, serene even. He allows his eyes to drift from one end of the gate to the other taking in every leaf and texture all at once. It was at moments when he got to admire beauty like this that he really enjoyed his mutation. In that single glance around the compound he'd been able to take in the whole place as if he'd been staring at it for hours, and it was a quaint little place, he couldn't figure out why the cabby had been so dead set on getting as far from this place as possible.

The downside of seeing that beauty all at once was of course that once he had seen it there wasn't much more for him to take in, and so it became uninteresting almost as quickly as it had been beautiful. Turning around the man puts his hand over his eyes to shade them from the morning sun and looks around him. As he feared he can't even pick up the signs of a well traveled road leading him to believe that outside special trips here people didn't really like to venture past the estate. Deciding that he'd be up for quite the walk back into town and eliminating the option of hitch hiking Jason picks up his little suitcase and prepares to start back down the road the way he came. He could come back later, waiting was just too hard for the brown haired man.

Due to this preparation for a long walk the 'clink' of the gate beginning to open scares the crap out of Jason and immediately his muscles are injected with current causing him to jump and turn and drop his suitcase all in one very comical motion. Once he realizes that it was simply the gate opening he closes his eyes and controls his breathing to get his heart rate down to a normal pace.

>"And you are?"

The sound of a voice tells him that the gate didn't open automatically, obviously, and that he isn't alone. His eyes snap open to gaze upon the form of a bathrobe clad young woman staring at him in a most annoyed fashion. In the space of a heartbeat he had taken in every inch of the girl, from her bare feet up her rather shapely body to blonde hair, and it took all of the man's self control not to send his body into nervous twitching that the sight of such a beautifully clad woman would have done to him a few years prior.

"Oh," he starts rather clumsily, "My name is Jason Daniels, and I'm looking for the Xavier Institute." He pulls at his grey hoddie before picking up his suitcase and stepping through the open gates. He looks around at the new sights for a moment before remembering the girl still standing next to what he assumes is the console to work the gates. "This is the Institute right?" he asks in rushed words.

[Tempero]

Danny doesn't at first notice the newcomer, even though he is staring right at him through the window. His mind wandering off to idle thoughts that did not actually have a place in reality, he realizes that there is a new person on the grounds only once the gates swing open, providing for enough of a change in the scene to attract his split attention.

Deciding he might as well decide to do something with the day, as slowly as it has started, he makes his way down at a moderate pace, wondering who the visitor is. Is it a new addition to the Merry Mutant Menagerie, or someone far less interesting?

Once outside, he notices Veronica has already come up to the man, but there is always room for one more welcoming face. Especially considering that the first one the man encountered is not a morning person. Another thing that never affected Danny-- he wasn't a night person or a morning person. Always the same old Danny.

Well...apart from the aesthetic changes since that med lab episode, a thing he got over quickly. He is quite satisfied by the more...well, lupine features on his face, for lack of a better term. The prolonged canines he still hasn't gotten used to, and has already bitten his tongue a few times while eating. Not that they're overly big...they're just bigger than they used to be.

>"This is the Institute right?"

He smiles pleasantly (a feat that, up to about a year ago, was impossible; his smile always ended up more fanatic than pleasant) at the stranger as he approaches the duo.

"Hey, Veronica..." he greets the girl and then turns his attention to the man. "Hi, how's it going? Yeah, this is Xavier's."

He eyes the suitcase and thinks he knows the reason for the other's arrival. "Are you going to be joining us? Oh, I'm Danny, by the way," Danny says, extending his hand and not really bothering to supply his last name, or his full name. It always seemed too formal.

[Veronica Devereux]

Staring blankly at the man, Veronica let out a quick yawn, revealing her pearly white, feline-eque teeth. Closing her mouth quickly, her blue eyes stared the boy down until he spoke, introducing himself.

>"Oh, my name is Jason Daniels, and I'm looking for the Xavier Institute." Another mutant perhaps? Hopefully so, it was getting rather lonely here.. OK, not lonely, boring was more like it. With a quick smile she nodded, opening her mouth to speak.Nice to meet you, I'm Veronica." Even for the close proximity they were in, he would have to strain to hear her voice; Something that didn't happen much often. Sure, he aroused her from her lounging around and daydreaming, but she was about to what the shopping channel. Who would want to interrupt that?

"This is the Institute right?" With another nod, she silently answered his question, stepping back to allow him to pass through the gates and head toward the building. Glancing at a third figure out of the corner of her eyes, the blonde adjusted her head so she could see who it was.

>"Hey, Veronica..." Allowing her eyes to shut briefly, she quickly rolled her eyes, knowing that no one would have been able to see the move. Her eyelids fluttering open, a smile crept onto her face."Hey, Danny.." Much like before, Veronica's voice was soft and quite, but would eventually work it's way up to her normal timbre.

[Jason "Twitch" Daniels]

>"Nice to meet you, I'm Veronica."

A boyish grin appears on Jason's face when the girl introduces herself. The drop in the strength of her voice wasn't even noticed by the mutant. To tell the difference between things like whispering and normally speaking was too much trouble for Jason and so unless he was really paying attention he simply treated everything as spoken at a normal level. "Th, the pleasure is mine. I'm sure" he managed to fumble out. It couldn't be denied, this girl was definately something else.

>"Hi, how's it going? Yeah, this is Xavier's."

The sound of the another voice caught Jason off guard and he almost jumps like he did at the gate once more. Hearing that he was in the right place was definitely reassuring however, and the boyish grin turns into a full on smile. In a moment he takes in the confident features of this new person and realizes he is a bit envious of the strong way he holds himself. A giddy excitement rushes through Jason. This is really the right place, maybe now he can get help and go back to his happy life that was taken away from him over a year ago.

>"Are you going to be joining us? Oh, I'm Danny, by the way."

The words of the boy, no his name is Danny, bring Jason back to reality and he takes the offered hand of the boy giving it a quick, jerky shake. "I may just be joining you," he quickly says. "Oh, its nice to meet you Danny." Another look around the grounds tells Jason that they are indeed alone. So he turns back to Danny, the hand that had grasped Danny's beginning to squeeze down. "So...this is the right place for me right?" he asks in a shaky voice. "I mean to say...you guys are mutants right? This is a school for mutants right?" In his excitement Jason forgets about the weird way that people avoid this place, he forgets about the discrimination that mutants have been facing. He forgets that that might be a very insulting question. He just wants to be a place that will, for once, accept him, that will help him.

[Veronica Devereux]

Shifting her weight boringly from one foot to the other, Veronica intertwined her arms, crossing them firmly over her chest.

>"Th, the pleasure is mine. I'm sure" Inclining her head barely, she managed to nod at the boy."Charmed, I'm sure." There was no need addressing the stuttering from the boy, it was obvious; Yet another man had fallen for her charm. Damn that, right? Truthfully, she had grown use to it,. but it irked her every now and then.

>"So...this is the right place for me right? I mean to say...you guys are mutants right? This is a school for mutants right?" Raising an eyebrow at how he asked the question, the blonde couldn't help but burst into laughter."Yes, yes we are. And yes, this is. Why so nervous about asking, though?" she retorted, her lips pursing as if she was asked the question. Seconds after she finished her reply, a chilly gust of wind swept through the area, brushing past them. The cold would most likely cause the two boys to shiver, but Veronica was perfectly fine with the temperature. After all, she did create it.

[Tempero]

Danny looks from one to the other as they talk, satisfied, for once, not to be in the center of the conversation. He nods encouragingly to Jason as he asks if the school is for mutants, and for a moment regrets he does not have an obvious power in his repertoire to show.

Spotting the activity on Veronica's mutation from the corner of his eyes before the wind sweeps in, Danny braces himself for the cold (if that particular color is the wind, and not the water-- those two are too damn similar), and so doesn't shiver. It ends up being quite refreshing, really.

"Yeah, we're mutants, all of us. I can't exactly show you my power, since I tend to avoid borrowing without consent and security, but I can tell what kind of power you have. Well...sort of. It's still in the work-in-progress stage. It's got something to do with electricity, right?" Danny asks, squinting a bit at the thought. Some of the powers he knew instinctively, like telekinesis. He was able to pinpoint that power from the start. It was the elemental ones that were hard to discern.

"You're probably going to want to speak to Josh about moving in. He needs to find you a room. In the meantime, you can hang with us, if you want."

[Jason "Twitch" Daniels]

A sharp laughter from Veronica brings Jason's eyes back toward the only female in the area. "Yes, yes we are. And yes, this is. Why so nervous about asking, though?"

A relieved smile widens on the man's lips. This really is the place, he found it. The odd mix of relief and excitement that swept through Jason's body sent goosebumps across his arms. Then a cold wind swept through and made him shiver. He looks around as if to find the source of the sudden chill, but quickly gives up the search and turns back to look at Veronica. "Well for the most part if you were to say that to someone who wasn't a mutant they might get mad enough to attempt to hurt ya...well maybe not you but I've had people get a bit aggressive just because I did something a little mutant-ish. He shrugs and then turns back toward the guy who's hand he was still gripping.

"Yeah, we're mutants, all of us. I can't exactly show you my power, since I tend to avoid borrowing without consent and security, but I can tell what kind of power you have. Well...sort of. It's still in the work-in-progress stage. It's got something to do with electricity, right?"

Shock blew past Jason's eyes as he looked at this other boy followed quickly by a mix of intrigue and elation. That was just too cool. "Yea, thats about as much as I know as well. I know that my blood is electrified which leaks out sometimes that allow me to move faster than 'humanly' possible and which, I think, makes me wired and allows me to process things as quickly as I do. It's probably also the reason I'm so wired all the time." He gives the boy a honest smile and releases his hand finally. Being able to talk to people, besides his parents, about just what is going on with him is something that seemed so outrageous a few months ago, and now it was a reality. Needless to say Jason was overjoyed.

"You're probably going to want to speak to Josh about moving in. He needs to find you a room. In the meantime, you can hang with us, if you want."

"Josh? Is he the head of this school? I figured it was the Xavier guy this place was named after." Jason looks around as if expecting someone to walk out of the shadows and answer this new question. He brushes his own question away with a wave of his hand and plows forward. "Anyway, I'd like to meet this Josh person as I can. Do you think I could convince one or both of you to show me around until then?" He glances back and forth between the two hoping to get a 'yes' or 'of course' out of one them.