"Oh. You're from . . . somewhere else." Davey scrunched his face with the agony of third-hand memory. It wasn't really like talking to Jack, more remembering something he'd forgotten. "Okay, I think I got it now. We knew each other there, right?"
Kevin nodded. "Ye were the only person who wis ever nice."
"Yeah, that sounds like me," said Davey, brightening. If this man thought he was acting like himself again it meant he knew Davey, not Jim. How often did that happen? He leaned forward, suddenly eager.
"Okay! So what happens is, sometimes I don't remember stuff I should?" Davey folded down the excess paper, creasing it away from the triangle. He tried not to sound too excited. "It's annoying, but I do okay if people help me. Like now, I basically remember you, but not your name. Remind me?"
"Kevin." He said with some finality. "Apparently everythin has a name? But a didny until ye told me."
Davey nodded. "Yeah, that sounds like me. David's a know-it-all." He paused to tear the rest of the paper from the triangle, then jerked his head up, suddenly inspired. "Hey, what about Kev?"
Kevin made a soft noise that might have been a question as he leaned back over the paper to carefully add more color to his drawing. "Whit's that?"
The alter opened the paper and pressed it against the floor, making a series of quick creases and folds. "It's a nickname. Like, there's names your family gives you, and then there's names your friends give you. Or names you give yourself because you like them better, I guess. Davey's a nickname for David, technically. Anyway, I don't have to if you don't like it," he added hastily, "I just thought maybe it could be a thing for us, because we're friends?"
Kevin’s chest felt warm and a real genuine smile free from any sort of predatory grimace spread across his face. “Yeah. I like that.”
"Yeah?" Despite his determination to be the Cool One Davey's face split in a grin. Practically all his life people had been judging him by how different he was from Jim and the others before they even really got to know him, but Kevin didn't seem to care. In fact he seemed to like Davey better. It was a thrill.
The weird, dull ache in his chest told him getting a smile out of Kevin was, too.
"Okay, then I'm calling you Kev. And I got our first project, too." Davey made a few final folds to the printer paper and held it up to Kevin. It was a simple paper frog.
Kevin's eyes lit up. "Whit...whit color are they outside?"
"Oh, they can be lots. I can find some on my phone so you can see, but really they can be any color you want, actually. Because what I'm going to do is I'm going to make a lot and we're gonna make all of them jump--" Davey pressed down on the frog's hindquarters with an index finger; it did more of a back-flip than a leap, but his point was proven "--and we turn it into a contest to see which one does it the best. Like a bracket? We test two frogs at a time and the winner goes up against the next winner. But I need you to color them so we can tell them apart. Wanna try?" He picked up the frog and held it out to Kevin, an offering.
If anything Kevin's smile grew, splitting his face almost uncomfortably wide. "Yeah...is this....is this play? A never got tae dae that before."
"Well, you're gonna be doing it a lot now," Davey declared matter-of-factly. He handed the frog to Kevin and grabbed another sheet of paper, beaming.
2015: Clea is excited about the Homecoming Dance that night. Miles posts a photo to Instagram of himself and Bobby at the dance. North gets retribution for that one time Felicia stole all of North's clothes and sent them to her tailor.
2016: Maya asks Wade if they can go camping. Laurie posts about it being Match Day for med students.
2018:Jubilee posts about food. Laurie posts about volunteering in a soup kitchen during Thanksgiving.
2019: Topaz wonders about the wisdom of the Chicago Library transcribing spellbooks. Clea posts a link to a new band, heavily featuring hammers and spaceships.
2020: Gabriel reflects on how the mansion never ceases to surprise him. Time Stand Still: Alex meets Franklin early in the morning in the kitchen and helps him achieve mac and cheese and cartoons; Kurt meets Talia and it’s not actually weird at all; Cypher calls for volunteers for the ambush in Avalon; Changeling draws the Other Topaz to Avalon and the trap is executed; Wolverine, Facade and Sombra cut a path through Other Topaz’s shadow creatures on one side, while Ronin, Blink and Pyro do the same on the other side; Echo, Skin and Sentinel take care of the third side and the Frosts - the White Queen, Fourteen and Ruby and Garnet - psychically prevent her from draining emotions for power; finally, Tarot, Dust, Marvel Girl, Psylocke and Topaz overload Evil!Topaz, allowing Daytripper to come in and kill her.
2021: Gabe runs into Jean at a bar where she reveals she has quit Claremont. Operation: Wideawake: Amanda emails Marie-Ange about receiving a tip about another Sentinel project and an asset inside who needs extracting before the Brotherhood turn up; Marie-Ange alerts the team they have a job. Arise, X-Man: Laurie takes Nate to a movie to test his powers and uses an unorthodox technique to calm him down when he panics.
2023: Jubilee and Namor banter at the lake. Topaz posts a picture of fireworks from London. Garrison emails Marie to ask for some temporary help. Madin returns to the mansion and meets Sharon in her human form. Jessie Drake stops by the community center to find out about becoming a volunteer, and meets Sooraya. A Haven to Call Home: Quentin texts Sue and Hope A. to follow up on some of Radha's financial accounts; Quentin posts about what happened with Haven; after getting the people out of Radha's dimension, Hope A. finally wakes up, to Sue's relief.
2024:Case File: Feel the Rush: Mel emails Ashley and Jessie about the overdose at Silver, since Sam won't tell her anything about the ongoing case. Marius and Rogue go to dinner.
2004: Alison is released from medlab, at least during the day. Jubilee tells Manuel she won't sleep with him any more. Jay and Nathan argue about Nathan's telepathy. Sarah leaves and her friends hold a 'wake' in the basement after her departure. Hand Me Down: Jamie undergoes the psychic procedure to deal with Skippy's memories. Moira proposes a practical way for her and Madelyn to deal with the emotional fallout from X-Men Mission: Firefountain
2005:Stoker and Stalkers: Vlad gets impatient and makes Kitty come to him; Jamie and Lockheed intervene as Vlad is sucking on her blood and Kitty is brought to Moira for medical attention; Vlad is taken to the police, who arrest him for several murders; in light of what happened, Jamie asks for permission to become an X-Man trainee. Nathan and Jean talk about the Askani problem.
2006:The Gates: The Elpis team get to see the UN Security Council's response to Smichov; Forge and Nathan discuss what happened and doing all you can; Haller and Rahne discuss things over deer-butchering. Domino surprises Angelo by being on the couch and meets Sooraya. Pietro hands himself over to Val Cooper and is placed under house arrest pending his production of evidence against Magneto. Garrison meets the Snow Valley crew and is suitably bemused. Terry and Bobby discuss Thanksgiving plans. Crystal and Medusa send fruit baskets to Pietro and Garrison to welcome them to the mansion.
2007: Logan asks Farouk to get him some cigars the next time he makes an order.
2008: Kyle gives Laurie one email to apologise. Forge and Laurie commiserate with each other on making mistakes. Morgan says goodbye to Garrison. Zanne asks Clarice about local tattoo artists.
2009: Kyle tells everyone through his journal about water being found on the moon. Angel makes a bewildering post about driving and pickups; it turns out she and Crystal are going to the airport to pick up Sooraya, returning to the school from Afghanistan.
2011: Wade makes a journal entry questioning people's complex coffee orders, and that he's left roasted pumpkin seeds in the kitchen. Korvus and Wade go looking for a '67 Impala to restore. Matt tries to have a conversation with Korvus again, and it goes badly, again. Sons of Liberty: Kane and Abigail Brand follow up on the list of names and discover all of them have left town, with signs of a serious struggle at the last house, belonging to an elderly man called Mace; Jean and Kyle visit Bradley again and get information on the extended SuperSoldier program, which all the men on the list were part of.
2013:Jubilee posts about having to go to a meeting in Bangkok on the weekend.
2014: Julian texts Angel asking if she wants to go out. Namor posts about the snow. Clint texts Gabriel asking him to join him in snow watching. Namor texts Clint about the fight between Julian and Tandy. Tandy accidentally sends Julian a text meant for Adrienne, then really texts Adrienne about going to Connecticut to hide.
Dark Dimension: Homecoming: Vivid, unexplained nightmares reveal a truth to Clea that changes her whole world.
Operation: Salt The Earth: A specialist operation means the four "elders" of X-Force (plus Dom) have to infiltrate a conference in the closed science city of Koltsovo. Without their powers.
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