Jay pouted in his room. Maybe, if he was lucky, he could send Icarus pictures of the temple without Lucille noticing. He grabbed his datapad, trying and failing to send the pictures. The service on the planet had gone out. Cyprus smirked. "You better put that up or I'm telling your mom," he snickered
"Uhhhhh, hi, Lucille…" Phoenix said sheepishly with a small wave before quickly running towards the barracks.
Stopping outside Jay's room, she knocked as lightly as possible, not wanting to alert Lucille.
"Jay!" she whispered.
Addison grabbed her journal and her headphones. Oh wait….. She sighed and put her headphones back down. Then she sat down at her desk and started drawing flowers and butterflies, intricately and detailed. Then she started writing in loopy cursive. She drifted from thought to thought, absentminded and silent.
When he didn't answer, she moved on to Addi's room and knocked softly.
"Sestra," she whispered, "You there?"
Addison looked up, closing her journal. "Come in." She whispered.
Phoenix came in and softly closed the door behind her.
"Wasn't that fun?!" she whispered excitedly, sitting next to Addi, "Just like when we snuck away as kids."
Addison giggled. "Yeah it was awesome! But not fun to be yelled at by She-Hulk."
(hello, sorry I was being forced to run cross country) Jay frowned, deciding he would try to use his implant to connect to service. He wasn't expecting that to not work either. With a groan he fished out a book from his supplies, feeling guilty and not wanting to come out of his room any time soon
Phoenix giggled, "Yeah, she was just worried. It's kinda nice in a way, but still terrifying."
Laying down on the floor, Phoenix looked up at the ceiling.
"Hey, Sestra," she said after a while, "what are we gonna do?"
Jay quickly lost interest in the book, and resolved to using his projector to mess with holograms of shapes and random things. Cyprus sat in the corner, happy to be strong enough to hang out outside of Jay's mind but sad to see him down. "You could just go in there and apologize, you know. She isn't your parents, as much as she acts like one."
"Yeah, but she'd probably yell at me again."
Addi sighed, laying down beside Phoenix. "I don't know."
Cyprus stood up. "You know what? I'm not letting you pout, it's not good for you. Go bother Addison, I'm sure she won't mind." He got up and started to shove Jay out the door, the cyborg complaining all the way until they reached the room where the sisters were. Cyprus knocked, then disappeared to leave Jay standing in the doorway
Addison stood up and opened the door. She smirked. "Here to join our pity party?" She asked, opening the door wider for him to enter.
Jay rubbed at the back of his neck. "Uh, yeah, I guess." Cyprus' disembodied voice snickered around the corner
"Shut up Cyprus." Addison called. She she walked away from the door. "Just close the door behind you Jay." Then she picked up a pillow and threw it in her daydreaming sister's face. "Hello. Earth to Phoenix. Wake up."
"He's a ghost who lives inside my head. I think he can go through doors." Jay just stood awkwardly to the side
"KRI-A! TWI-LI LOKA, SESTRA, SESTRA!" Phoenix suddenly cried, jumping up, then sitting back down and looking around with confusion.
"Oh, hey, Jay," she said, looking over at him, "So what did you think of the zmeya tunnels?"
"Uhh…They were great. Are you okay?" he asked fiddling with the collar of his turtleneck
Addison laughed, falling back on her bed. She remembered all the many times she used to do that when they were younger.
Jay gave the two of them a confused look. "Okay, I think I'm just gonna go now." He tried to open the door but it wouldn't budge. "Why Cyprus, why would you do this?"
Addison sat up. "Sorry Jay. I know we're pretty weird."
Phoenix went to sit next to Addi on her bed. Then snickered, looking at Jay's confused expression.
Hey, Cyprus, she transmitted, Are you doing what I think you're doing?
(What does Phoenix think that Cyprus is doing???)
(playing matchmaker with Jay and Addi…?)
(playing matchmaker with Jay and Addi…?)
(lol)