Matching roots (Axelle)

[Rune LeBeau]

Over the past few months, Rune had made many friends, but none more important to him than Axelle. Sure they weren't super close, but every time he was around her he didn't feel like he needed to be anyone but his dorky self. They would spend hours talking about nothing or hair dying, often both, and it just felt so nice. That was the exact reason the young British man was slowly starting to panic. He heard a hushed rumor that Axe might be his sister. Now, normally he dismissed rumors, and yet something about this one stuck with him. So, he began to research the best he could and all roads of inquiry lead back to her. It was nothing concrete, but Rune had a feeling it was true. 

For a long time, he kept this from her. Mostly because he couldn't figure out exactly how to tell someone you are related to them. That. and he wasn't exactly sure how she'd handle it. A few days earlier, Rune got a spike of bravery and sent her a text asking to meet up and have lunch. Now in his mind, he planned everything he was going to say. It was all there and none of it was direct questions. His plan was to ask general things so he could be certain that Axe was indeed his sister. Plans are all well and good for a normal person, but this was the master of spaz, Rune.

The moment he saw her hair in the crowd, his whole line of questioning vanished from his brain and he just stared for a moment. As she came closer he managed to smile but was still fighting his brain to make words. Something, anything, would be better than standing there looking like a goldfish that jumped out of the bowl. 

"Heya Axe!" He waved once she was in earshot. His fingers sparked a little and he shook his head some. Had he said 'sis' instead of Axe? he wasn't sure now, so he spoke again to cover it up just in case. "How are you? What's up? And where would you like to eat?" This time, he was sure he hadn't said anything out of the ordinary.

[Axelle Flint]

Axelle's mind was of course a little focused on many other things at the moment. The most prominent of which was her moving in with Corbin. She'd been moving her things in little by little, day after day and today she'd finally managed to bring enough things over that she could stay over later without having to worry about anything not being there. It had helped a little (okay a lot) that she'd decided that he should take all the clothes he'd bought her for Christmas home with him the next day. If he could find room for all of those, whatever she brought with her would be much easier. But now she had her own soap and hair products and loofa!! She giggled when she remembered Corbin being so happy about buying her a loofa (she had extra of everything else).

She'd gotten a text from Rune a couple days ago and realized she had some time after one of her classes to go and meet him. It had been a couple weeks since she'd seen him and she was eager to catch up considering that they'd managed to become pretty good friends over the last few months after meeting randomly at the store to buy dye. It was nice to swap tips with someone. Though she imagined that Corbin might find ways to try and talk her into going to a salon to get her hair done. He enjoyed spoiling her a lot. Axelle pulled her mind away from her boyfriend (admittedly it was really hard) but luckily it was just in time to see Rune waving at her and trying to get her attention. "Hey Rune!" she greeted as she got closer.

"I'm fine how are you? Anywhere is fine," she said genially. "It's been awhile, how is school?" she asked, knowing the younger man was still at Hammel. "You're graduating this year aren't you?" she wondered. The fake red-head reached up and adjusted the black cat-eared hat on her head and put her hands back into her pockets.

[Rune LeBeau]

Ignore the embarrassed feeling that was slowly shrinking and swelling, Rune pulled his friend into a gentle hug. Gentle because, they were both sort of clumsy and hugging usually ended up with the occasional bumped head. "I'm pretty good, and I was thinking about that pizza place we love." 

Casually, he pointed to it before turning back to her. She asked about school and his brain went into a spiral of all the things he needed to finish. "Ah, well...school is, um...it's going alright." It wasn't a lie, just the shortest answer he could think of to tell her. "Got some projects that are a wee bit behind, but other than that, I'm doing pretty good."

Reaching out with a smile, he flicked one of the cat ears on her head. "Yep, graduating...if I'm lucky." He added with a chuckle. College was an interesting concept for him, and not one he'd given much thought to. She didn't need to know that right now though. 

"And how's college life treating ya? How's your fella?" Rune knew about Corbin, but nothing in great detail. It had been awhile, as she mentioned, so he wasn't sure if they were even still together. "Let's go, I'm starving!" He chuckled and started to head in that direction, wondering when would be a good time to bring up the whole possible sister thing.