"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: Maya posts a link and talks about anger being the only emotion that makes sense. Miles and Bobby make a decision about Homecoming.
2016: Amanda thanks the person who left her a pumpkin scone. Alison posts a tribute to Leonard Cohen.
2017: Clint emails Tasha, and lets her know he’s back. Clint also has a catch-up session with Quentin.
2018: Callisto is staring down the barrel of the Morlocks' second winter without Healer and asks Sharon F.for help. Maya posts about people not knowing how to people.
2019:House of Horrors: Emma asks about the legal ramifications of getting married to Logan under demonic influence. Maya posts from her exchange in France. Alex nearly crashes into Sooraya on his skateboard and they talk about taking life in both hands.
2020:Time Stand Still: Molly comes across Shogo, the technopathic son of a vampire Jubilee, and they discover the toaster is evil; Jean meets Ruby and Garnet and they bond over ‘old’ movies; Ruby and Garnet force a confrontation between Emma and Fourteen when they reveal that they are clones of Fourteen, with possible Summers DNA mixed in and Emma finally owns her ‘daughters’; Ellie comes across Artie, who is totally Done with everything; Shogo meets Jubilee and has trouble remembering she’s not his mother or a vampire, asking her very strange questions.
2021: Namor emails Wanda to ask about a common challenge. Darcy shares a Taylor Swift video. Doug and Darcy talk about his lack of consideration for her own feelings of loss for Topaz.
2022: Molly shares that there is now Fruitcake Mountain Dew and offers a tasting party for those brave/foolish enough to try it.
2023: Following her quarantined stay in the infirmary, Artie offers April some assistance. A Haven to Call Home: The day after the commune fell apart, life... continued, more or less, aided by Arthur's ability to find catering and to draft Madin and Inez into helping.
2024: Laura emails Kyle and Doug, letting them know how her first day at Bayville Charter High (she made new friends and got detention); Laura lets Gaia know she got her a cakepop with a raccoon on it, requiring her to explain what cakepops and raccoons are.
2003: Haroun and Sarah get into a fight outside the school, which leads both of them to injury.
2004:Hand Me Down: Jamie chooses to undergo psychic surgery. Nathan asks Remy to train with him in order to get a handle on his fighting style as a failsafe against the triggers.
2005:Stoker and Stalkers: Kitty sleepwalks again, this time being woken by Catseye outside. Manuel seduces Terry.
2006: Yvette announces she will be returning to Xavier's and Kyle asks for help with a gift for her. Paige announces that Jono cannot keep a physical form due to the accident with Kevin's powers and that both boys will be taken to Muir for treatment; Paige also announces she will be going as well, interchanging with Moira between the school and Muir; Angelo goes to check on how she is and things are awkward. Wendy: During one of their lunch meetings, Ororo and Remy encounter Arcade, who has worked out what happened during Remy's Eleven and wants payback. Shiro tries to fly again and nearly kills himself, but Sam is there to catch him. The Gates: Rahne reads the journal response to the Smichov riots and gets angry.
2007: Garrison announces he is being recalled to Canada for an undisclosed amount of time. Crystal posts her own lolcat. Lorna talks about her parental visit over the weekend. Doug asks Remy to train him further and Remy explains there's no going back if he does.
2008: Jean-Paul apologises to Catseye for his reaction to her sleeping in his bed, and upsets her again when he refuses to let her do it ever again. CNN airs a Presidential announcement of the 'creation' of SHIELD in the wake of Day Zero. Laurie and Jan talk over Laurie's fight with Kyle and Jan suggests Laurie writes him a note; Laurie does so and leaves it stuck to Kyle's door. Adrienne encounters Scott in the gym and they have a rather roundabout conversation about Day Zero. Catseye pounces Jay and nearly breaks his guitar.
2009: Wanda and Amanda have lunch and discuss, among other things, Jake, Angelo and Amanda's new role as mentor to Nico.
2010: Yvette posts about the Serbian president apologising to Croatia, and about wanting to know more about her father.
2011: Sam makes a journal entry saying how everything should come in a pumpkin flavored variant. Sons of Liberty: Hank and Bobby dig up some information for Kane regarding the list that Jean and Kyle got from Isaiah Bradley; Kane and Abigail Brand have lunch and discuss their progress on the case.
2012: Matt posts about having applied for college.
2013: Matt runs into Tabitha at the library and talks to her about braille Playboy and Doug being a spy. Sarah V. teaches Angel how to play Call of Duty and there is much excitement.
2014:Death is Legion: Following the email from his father, Kyle arrives home and discovers the news is definitely not good; Arriving at their destination, Kyle discovers just what he's needed for; Kyle begins investigating with no idea what he's looking for; While Kyle is in the lab, Garrison, Logan, Wade and North arrive, following the lead from Dugan; Wade and Logan go after Kyle, hoping their healing factors will be able to save them; While Wade and Logan are looking for Kyle, it's up to Garrison, and North to rescue Midge Gibney from Omega Red; things get bad down in the facilities, with the Weapon X survivors fighting for their lives; On the surface, the fight with Omega Red is going badly and things get worse when Cornelius plays his trump card; Kyle, Logan and Wade manage to survive the virus long enough to get back to the surface where the anti-virals are, too bad there's not better news; Wade texts Marie-Ange to let her know he's still alive. Rogue and Pixie go shopping and discuss art history and drugs. Tension between Julian and Tandy finally boils over, resulting in a fight in the kitchen. Angel texts Julian about the fight. Gabriel texts Clint expressing disdain at the possibility of getting dragged into drama. Gabriel thanks Kurt for saving him from Thornn and Phantazia.
Homecoming: Dark Dimension: 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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