[center][h3][color=palevioletred]Kaylee Everose[/color] & Coleman St John[/h3][/center][hr]

Kaylee blinked.[color=palevioletred] "You started the fire."[/color] It was a statement not a question.[color=palevioletred] "For what purpose? To what end? You had to know that there was a child in the building. Did something go wrong or get out of control? I don't see you as someone who would risk a child's life when you were there to extract her. Something doesn't add up Cole. What exactly is going on in that beautiful mind of yours?"[/color] 

Kaylee smiled knowing that his explanation would be amazing. Sometimes you just knew to trust someone. All of the things Kaylee had seen in her life lead her to believe she could trust Cole. Maybe it was the way he held himself or the way he spoke. Or it was just the fact that she trusted her powers that much.

Cole raised a professorial finger from his coffee mug at the barrage of questions. "Not your turn." He said calmly; a little surprised at her eagerness to trust him. He wondered a bit if her emotions were overcoming her normally sharp discernment. “Have you spoken to Heidi since last night?”

Tilting her head Kaylee took a deep breath.[color=palevioletred] "I had planned on it later today, but no I have not yet. I also planned on seeing Uná as well. How did the fire start and weren't you in danger?"[/color] 

Cole nodded and glanced away back out the window. “Like I said, I started it. There was no danger.” He started to continue, but stopped, thinking about the words and that he had never actually told or even [i]tried[/i] to explain anything about what or how it happened to anyone. Exhaling a small breath, he drummed his fingers once on the desk. Several lines of questioning spread out in his mind like hydra. “It’s hard for me to really describe,” He said looking back at Kaylee. “Who I was when I left you at the club, was not who I was when I got to Nocturne.” It sounded good when it came out and likewise his mind stayed carefully on course with as delicate an explanation as he could compile. “I was still me, [i]but not[/i].” Plenty of times before he had debated with himself the best way to put into words how it happened, but none of those solo rehearsals seemed to come to mind in the least. “I know that doesn’t make a lot of sense and that’s why I asked if you had seen Heidi,” He said with almost a hint of foreboding. “She saw most of what happened and got Una out.”   	

Raising an eyebrow Kaylee waited for his question. When it wasn’t forthcoming she leaned forward bracing her forearms on the desk.[color=palevioletred] "Actually it makes more sense than you realize. After all you are talking to a mutant school counselor. The only reason it would be hard to describe is if you've never analysed it. That can stem from one of two things. Either a refusal to accept the truth, which I don't believe about you, or a lack of experience. So narrowing it down to lack of experience let me ask you… No I'm sorry it is your turn to ask. Ask please."[/color] 

Cole could see her trying to pivot back to a rational scientific method, but there was no account in science that would garner a rational conclusion to what happened when those tires caught fire and the hellish chorus of another world called out for blood. Her words were more for herself than for him. He leaned forward on the desk across from her. The moments of the night before flashed behind his eyes: the sound of the bike, the rush of fire, the completeness of vengeance satisfied as he erased a mutant’s soul from existence in a screaming afterburner. “You think it’s ‘lack of experience’?” He said as his gaze set locked into hers. “No. Go ahead and ask it.”


He'd never looked so aggressively intimidating. It sped her heart rate but not out of fear. Kaylee looked down and ran her fingertips around the top of the desk.[color=palevioletred] "Okay no more back and forth hinting at what I really want, no, need to know."[/color] She looked up at him.[color=palevioletred] "What have you wanted to tell me for awhile now and haven't had a chance to?"[/color] 

[@Almalthia]