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[Roxana Strix]

Roxana had been training when Elsa had contacted her. She had already checked in on all of her targets and everyone was more or less fine. Homework was done and she didn't actually have anything to do since what few friends she had seemed to be busy or more or less had not invited her out to do anything. Thus that meant she had time to train, and since she had not gotten her hands on a trainer yet, she was pushing herself extra hard and was actually off by herself in the woods to train. Throwing crystal daggers at the barks of trees and practicing her close combat with the branches. Going through the different stances she had learned over her years of mixed martial arts with her black belt back in her room. As for what she was wearing, well Roxana always had a bit of an odd sense of fashion so it should not have been a surprise to anyone that actually took the time to get to know her that she was wearing what she was.

Training had to be stopped now as Elsa had requested to see her around the Courtyard area of the school. Stating that she needed Roxana's expertise on some stuff SPECTRE had left behind on the school grounds. Roxana was not sure what besides guns or maybe their uniforms that SPECTRE could have left behind. It would not have been hard to ask one of the staff about such things, since there was a few staff with military backgrounds or special training. Either way Roxana didn't really question it too much as she made her way out of the woods and to the courtyard in the area that Elsa had pointed out for them to specifically meet. "Good thing I didn't actually get to work out long enough to work up a sweat." Roxana said more or less to herself as she messed with her hair a little bit. The back mostly likely black at this point, but the top and the front would be its normal color. She had been focused more so on using her power then they physically part of her body first.

She got to the spot and sat down on the ground, not spotting Elsa right away as she made herself sort of comfortable on the ground. Fixing a shoe lace that had come untied as she started to sing a song in Romanian that she had learned back when she was young and in that area at the time.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Elsa stared at the collection of SPECTRE armaments she'd gathered into a pile, wondering if it would be enough to convince Roxana that this really was some sort of legitimate meeting. Somehow, Elsa doubted it. Roxana had long since proven that she wasn't an idiot, and she was likely to see through this soon. Which was precisely why Elsa had also arranged so they'd meet at a section that Roxana and Beau had battle-damaged to ask how to handle the various debris. Technically it should have been cleaned up a while ago, but they had quite a bit on their plates. Elsa had made certain there was a lot to discuss.

In fact, so many things weighed on Elsa's mind that she couldn't help but frown. her hands were stuck into the pockets of her skirt and she swayed slightly, wondering if Roxana had already arrived. Probably. Elsa did a quick mental scan, picking up a few strands of thought in Romanian. It came out like verse, but then again, foreign languages often did when you were just thinking them.

Smiling, Elsa walked toward the source of the thoughts, soon locating Roxana. Instead of addressing her friend, Elsa leaned against a hunk of earth that nobody had smoothed over yet, careful to work around the various daggers stuck in it. She stared at Roxana, waiting for the other to inevitably note her presence and address her.

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana said comfy in the ground, but soon felt like someone was watching her, and she did not really like that feeling. She was used to feeling it of course, but it just made her want to go into attack mode. On school grounds she had to be a little bit better about that since while she liked to do whatever she wanted to do, she didn't want to have to deal with getting in trouble too much with the school. Doing that would bring attention to herself and could lead to asking questions that she did not want asked. She did turn around and quickly spotted Elsa, looking at her. Roxana not saying anything for a small moment because she just found it odd that Elsa was well more or less staring at her and not saying anything. Normally Elsa was always down to business with Roxana. Were things a little different now because they were friends?

"Is what I'm wearing got you staring today?" Roxana asked as she moved to stand up and go over to Elsa. She would then offer a hand out to help the Bellefonte girl up to her feet so they could get down to business as Roxana was used to doing with Elsa. Already feeling a little bit odd about the whole needing her to figure out things about what SPECTRE left behind and now with the whole Elsa sneaking up on her and watching her. "Sorry to have kept you waiting. Thought this was the spot." Roxana said as she messed with her soft hair a little bit. Doing a quick check around and more or less ignoring the mound of dirt. She knew why it was there, but was not going to say anything about it. Elsa didn't need to know all of what Roxana was up to when she was not watching her targets and keeping a close eye on the Bellefonte Princesses.

"How have you been since Prom by the way?" Roxana asked, feeling that it was important to still attempt to always check in on how Elsa was doing. Expecting the usual dismissal or being told nothing important.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

"Yes, because I'm obviously obsessed with what you're wearing. It's just so fresh," said Elsa, her voice dry enough to have been perfectly at home in a dessert. She waved off the hand, simply pushing off the debris and straightening as best she could. She turned to look at some of the still battle-damaged area. Even mutants couldn't simply wave their hands and wipe away the traces of conflict. Something deep lay there, though Elsa wasn't sure she wanted to go prodding around in it to see what came up.

"This is the spot, more or less," she said. Elsa gestured at the various debris, nodding. "I needed some advice on how to handle this particular section of debris. It appears to be a segment where you and Beau LaRoux held off some agents, judging by the bullet holes and the crystal daggers everywhere," she frowned as she looked at what appeared to be some blood on the wall. Roxana's? Beau's? One of theirs? One of ours? Who knew any more.

"I've been fine," she said distractedly, lying with each syllable. Elsa added a dismissive hand wave before reaching down to lightly caress one of the daggers. "Are these safe to remove? I would've thought they'd dissipate on their own, but I guess they aren't made of sugar."

[Roxana Strix]

Yu, she is fine. Roxana noted to herself as Elsa had spoken in a dry tone, clearly full of so much sarcasm that it someone was allergic to it, they probably would have ended up dead. It was practically impossible to go without one meeting with some sarcasm, an eye roll, and some kind of hidden threat. One of the three was already checked off and there was just two more to go and Roxana had a feeling they would reach it in no time. This was the spot; oh, so Roxana had been right as to where they needed to meet. Looking at said section of debris and having a moment of a flash back of what happened here more or less. It was fuzzy since she tended to avoid remembering a fight with such blood shed unless she needed to learn from it in order to do better. She didn’t feel the need to learn anything from the events that happened with SPECTRE so it was more or less not on her mind too much.

“Advice on what to do with it? Well it’s not a bomb hiding under it, I can assure you that.” Roxana said with a raised eyebrow. Noticing the frown and followed Elsa’s eyes to where she saw the dried blood on the wall. Beau had been shot and Roxana had been shot so who knew whose blood it was. Roxana didn’t really care since that was not what she was asked about and she was not some DNA major or anything like that. Elsa said she was fine, and Roxana didn’t buy it at all. Wondering still why she would even bothered but supposed she always hoped that maybe she would get a real answer one of these days. She was hoping for too much. Elsa was then touching one of the daggers that could have been one of hers or one that Beau made using her power, didn’t matter. There was a question then if they were safe to remove. “They are, so long as you don’t touch the pointy in.” Roxana said with a small smile at her own words, figuring she get an interesting look from Elsa from that.

“Only the ones that cover things dissipate. The ones such as that don’t really ever go away unless they get rained on a lot, or well they are broken. I’m pretty sure if you bury them they turn to soil at one point to but I never really looked into it. I just know that are real, but not real since it comes from me.” Roxana tried to explain but then just shook her head a little. It was not her job to really fully understand her mutation, that was someone else job. She just needed to know how to use it, what she could do with it, and get better at using it.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

"Are you saying you could produce a bomb?" Elsa fired back, turning with a raised eyebrow, half joking, half challenging the other girl. She could somehow see Roxana making some kind of strange crystal bomb. It wouldn't likely be pretty, but it would be effective. That former did strike her as somewhat odd: how all of Roxana's works always seemed to have a touch of beauty to them, as if she'd actually tried to put that into them.

They were apparently safe for now though, so long as they were treated like regular shrapnel. Elsa nodded, obviously distracted. She reached for one, caressing it. She hadn't been here for this fight, had only gotten the real reports secondhand, mostly from the very girl who stood so close to her. She'd been there for the end though, and she got to live with the results of it, a fact that never sat well with her.

Elsa was dimly aware that Roxana continued, explaining how her power worked, at least in general terms. Elsa assumed that everyone wanted to know about their power, at least how to maximize its potential if nothing else. She figured that would prove especially true for someone like Roxana, who effectively lived or died depending on whether her power lived up to her expectations. It did sound like Roxana understood her power, though not as well as Elsa expected.

That hadn't been what this was about though, just a bunch of information that Elsa's brain insisted on gathering despite herself. "Does your work ever involve getting involved in the romantic lives of your targets?" she asked aloud, figuring she might as well at least dance around the subject at hand. She looked to Roxana, her brows again raised. "and no, this isn't an attempt to see if you're interested in me. Despite your having asked me on a date, I'm still totally uninterested in you as anything but a... companion," technically friend, but Roxana only got introduced like that to people; she didn't get to hear it often.

[Roxana Strix]

There was the question if Roxana could produce a bomb that had Roxana at first thinking that Elsa had meant like a real life bomb. Yes she could do that; she had to have a basic understanding of how bombs worked from making them to deactivating them if the need arise. Not that she was a pro at it and it was certainly pretty much on the lower end of her capabilities. Since they had been talking about her power, Roxana had quickly figured out that was what Elsa was actually asking about. Could she make a crystal bomb? Certainly one that looked like one, but it would not work the same way as any other explosive. “I could make something like a bomb, but I would have to touch it in order to cause it to ‘explode’ and even then it would be more so sending out a flurry of crystal shards and not really a boom effect.” Roxana said trying to explain it and doing air quotes of the word explode because it was a term she could only use loosely to describe it. She had actually never tried something like that and imaged that while she could do it, it would take a lot out of her.

Roxana had caught how the tone of the question was a joke, but there had also been a challenge in there. A challenge that Roxana wanted to let Elsa know that something like it was possibly, but just left out the fact that she had actually never tried it before. As for why Roxana’s work had a touch of beauty in them, well they were crystals and while the daggers she made were just to be thrown and used for weapons, she still had a habit of making what she made look beautiful. It was her one way of being able to still do something artistic. Rox watched as Elsa was touching on, but she didn’t know what was going on through the other girls mind. She figured it had to deal with what had taken place here and why the daggers had been created and were in the ground in the first place. Elsa had not been there for the fight but Roxana had did her best to keep Elsa informed while she more or less battled it out to hold the line as best as she could to protect the school.

Roxana knew the basics of her power, how it worked, what it did to her, what it did to other people, and so one. As for getting down to the finer details she had been told that was not really important so didn’t think about it too much. Plus if she knew every in and out then someone like Elsa who could read someone’s mind would know weakness to her power and when she was not able to use her power. Not knowing fully about your own power had its negatives as well as its benefits. Either way she told what she understood and that was that. Elsa then asking a question that did short of catch Roxana off guard and it showed on her face, if only for a small moment. Did it hurt to be honest with Elsa on such a question? It was not that big of a deal and because she had been caught off guard she was thinking about it so if Elsa was peeking in without Roxana having realized it yet she would have found some things out either way.

So, she figured she would give an answer, mouth opening to say something but stopping at the rest of what Elsa had said. Did Elsa not know that Roxana only thought about being in a romantic relationship with someone when they brought it up? She had not even assumed that for a moment, but with Elsa saying it now she was thinking it. Questioning it; trying to figure out if Elsa was saying it in an honest way or just saying it in hopes of throwing Roxana off from figuring it out. “I told you before the asking you out was a logical move and in the end while I was your body guard it would have been just as easy to be your date since we attended prom together.” Roxana pointed out as she crossed her arms and gave a slight eye roll. It would not matter if I was interested in you anyways. Roxana thought to herself and with that she opened her mouth to answer the question.

“Yes it does in a lot of ways. From needing to know who they are involved with, possibly sleeping around with, and even being that romantic aspect for a target for some jobs.” Roxana said, figuring that would be a good enough answer to that question, giving Elsa a look now and wondering what was up for sure. It was the latter that was the only reason why Roxana was not a virgin and had been with both a guy and a girl before. Elsa didn’t need to know that however and if she didn’t ask then Roxana didn’t plan on telling her that.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Something like a bomb? Elsa had only been teasing, though admittedly she'd probably slid a slight bit of challenge in there as well, considering that she could hardly talk to Roxana without adding that slight note into the conversation. Still, hearing that Roxana could manage it, and then what it could do, that was something that Elsa was definitely going to have to remember for a later date and time. It just sounded far too useful not to be of note.

Elsa nearly rolled her eyes as Roxana continued, insisting that the whole asking out had been a tactical move. On most people, Elsa would have called that an excuse. On Roxana? It rang so very true that Elsa couldn't help but chuckle slightly. They did end up at prom together, technically, though hardly as dates. "You do know how to talk like a teenage girl, don't you?" she finally asked, though she realize how very, very easily that could be flipped. Then again, Elsa had never been one to leave something like that.

The next answer was somewhat interesting, but Elsa soon found herself all but recoiling, shaking her head. "Roxana, we need to discuss your mental shielding," she said, shaking her head. "If you're going to be spending extended time with me, you should at least stop actively thinking everything that flits into your brain. Honestly," she shook her head, then looked back at the edifice, tapping her fingers against it. "The problem is that I think I've picked up some of my sister's emotions again. It happens with our power," she looked over her shoulder, her expression serious, as if the sudden switch from light teasing to the real purpose of their conversation had been much smoother. "It has a tendency to make things... complicated for me. And unfortunately for you, you're the only one I have that I can really talk to about that," She turned to face Roxana then, her arms crossed, a smile twisting her lips, while her eyebrows raised slightly.

[Roxana Strix]

So long as something was said in a challenge like manner or even a question, Roxana was likely to rise to the challenge or answer the question. Well answer the question so long as giving an answer did not conflict with something she was supposed to keep a secret or preferred to remain hidden. Roxana's eyes were on Elsa and caught the near eye roll at her words about the whole asking out was a tactical mood. It really ones since she had not been assigned to get into the pants or into the heart of the Bellefonte so asking her out was not really something she would have just done without some real reason other than liking the other girl. At the time she didn't like Elsa all that much, she liked her in a respect way, but not in a way that she wanted to say 'ask for her number' or something along those being interested in someone romantically. There was a question then, one that yes could be turned right back on Elsa and that was Roxana was going to do. Well she was going to do it with her own little twist on it of course.

"Like OMG Elsa. Why are you like always on my case? You are so meaaan, I mike cry. Jk, lol. You are like my beastie girl. Can you even talk like a teenage girl?" Roxana said in totally valley girl mode until the last sentence. Her voice, the way she stood, and even the facial expression she was wearing went with the whole stereotypical image of a valley girl. At the last sentence Roxana was her normal self and was giving Elsa a look with a raised eyebrow. A challenge there even. Part of her did feel like she sort of died a little by speaking and acting like that, but it was not her first time behaving in such a way. She did have to act in manners that did not really fit with who she really was after all. Elsa was then sort of scolding Roxana for her lack of a mental wall when talking to Elsa. A sigh escaping Roxana's lips as she hooked her thumbs into her belt loop of her pants.

"I know how to shield my mind pretty well for someone who does not have a mentally based power. Just forgot that this was a down to business talk and not some casual conversation." Roxana pointed out and with that she put back up her own mental wall and worked to filter her thoughts and think of other things to keep Elsa from peeking in on what she was thinking. The topic had been changed then, pretty quickly and Elsa was in her normal down to business mode. Pointing out that she felt like she was picking up on her sisters feelings again because with their powers they ended up doing that. Made sense that the two of them had some sort of mental connection with being twins and all. Roxana didn't say anything and just looked at Elsa as she spoke and was already working on figuring out what Elsa was getting at. These 'picking up on feelings' apparently was making things complicated. Complicated and apparently they effected Roxana as well because she was the only one Elsa could talk to about with such things.

The latter had Roxana raising an eyebrow not really sure if she bought that last bit about being the only one Elsa could talk to about these picking up on feelings sort of thing. Elsa had a twin sister after all, and it was from her twin she was picking up these feelings from, so you would think Erika would be the best pick for this sort of conversation. "Based upon your earlier question, it’s safe to assume you mean that you are picking up on Erika's feelings with the people she has been with?" Roxana just went ahead and asked, making sure that she had a clear understanding of what Elsa was hinting at and what she was likely going to have to listen to. It had been a while since she had this sort of talk with another girl. It was interesting to say the least if Elsa really wanted to talk about what Roxana was starting to guess.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Elsa just stared at Roxana as the other girl launched into teen-speak that would make embarrassing parodies of teenagers on poorly written commercials gape with amazement. She blinked, let the other girl finish, and instead of addressing the question, said: "You are never to talk like that anywhere I can hear ever again, and for your sake, I'm going to forget I ever heard it."

As for the question, well, Elsa left that unanswered. She could, to some degree, do precisely that. It was usually easiest with her sister; their bond made sliding into easier, unguarded conversation easier. It should, in theory, be easier with Roxana since, well, they were friends of a sort. At least this felt about as much like a friendship as either girl was likely to ever establish with another human being, so Elsa was going to have to work with it.

Though it did sound like she'd just put Roxana right back on guard. Maybe Elsa didn't know how to talk like a normal teenager. At least she could accept that fact and move on; wasn't like she actually was normal by any stretch of the imagination. Rich, from a powerful family, raised in private schools, oh yes, and there was the whole mutant thing, mustn't forget that. Elsa tapped her fingers against the wall of the school, again reminding her of everything.

"All of them," agreed Elsa, nodding and looking over at Roxana. "Meaning that virtually without fail, I have developed emotional attachments to pretty well everyone my sister has ever shown interest in. Which has been part of the reason why I often insist that the Bellefontes are rather lax about their standards and what. It seems that mine often come to 'Erika likes them.'" Elsa sighed, then looked up. This was turning out to be at least as awkward as she expected. "in case you haven't figured it out yet: yes, yes I am essentially using you to practice a conversation I'm going to end up having with my sister. Unfortunately for you, you work for me," and we're friends went unspoken there, as Elsa looked over at Roxana, "so you get to listen."

[Roxana Strix]

Roxana could not help but to smile a little at Elsa's reaction to her whole teen speaking deal. Noting that Elsa did not seem to be planning on doing it herself and also was keeping it out of her memory. "Alright." Roxana said simply, unable to get rid of the small smile on her face still. Yes she really didn't plan on talking like that if she could help it. She had her acting skills and was in the theater club so in those situations would be when she would possibly talk the way she just did. Obviously valley girl was not who Roxana really was, but she could be it if she needed to, and she could step up to any challenge that Elsa gave her. It was that still teenage part of her and the fact that she always wanted to prove herself to her superiors that had her ready to step up to a challenge. Ready to prove that yes she could do something with as much skill as the next guy and better. None of the mattered at the moment, so Roxana just looked at Elsa without saying anymore.

Yes Rox was back on her guard and keeping her thoughts to herself or covered up since that was apparently what Elsa wanted. Elsa could just stay out of her mind or to try and ignore the thoughts that would fleet across Rox's mind. She did want her moment to not have to always be on her guard and to just enjoy something with a friend. She figured that her and Elsa were sort of friends, but she was still unsure about it really. If anything it just felt like she was just Elsa's friend because it was convenient for her and she could use Roxana, but was there anything else to it? Did Elsa even care about Roxana or would she be up for Roxana coming to talk to her about any possibly love drama? Roxana didn't see it as likely, but she kept that to herself and tucked away as Elsa spoke. All of them. Elsa ended up developing feelings for everyone that her twin sister had feelings for. So since Rox had been here that meant the cook, the radio guy, and the shady rich kid. Funny how Erika had gone from older than her, to her age, and then younger than her.

"Must suck to not be able to develope your own feelings from someone you sister didn't kiss." Roxana pointed out as she crossed her arms and looked at Elsa as the other girl just reminded her of their talk a while back about the whole Bellefonte's taste and what not. Well at least that meant that Elsa didn't have to worry about falling for Roxana since Erika had not seemed interested at all when Roxana had talked to her. This of course was fine and not a big deal at all to Rox who was just here to blend in and do her job. Roxana opened her mouth to say more but Elsa let out a sigh and was looking up before speaking again. There is was. Roxana was here to just be Elsa's practice for when she would talk to Erika about it. Roxana could not help but to scoff at the one part that Elsa slipped in there about Rox working for her. "I don't work for you." Roxana pointed out, but that did not mean she was not going to listen she was just pointing it out to Elsa.

She was tempted to be cold, to let Elsa know that she could just go tell her sister with having practice. How hard was it to say that I'm crushing on one of the people you liked or like at the moment? Roxana personally didn't like it. If they guy feel for Elsa in return would it even be real? The twins looked a lot alike and while they didn't have the same personality, some people probably would go out with her because of her face reminding them of a lost or current love. Roxana didn't say it however, because she didn't feel like her and Elsa were like real friends at the moment. "I'll listen by choice, but are you asking me to act like Elsa or do you want who I am?" Roxana asked, feeling like that was important to know since she was supposed to be practice. Or was she just supposed to sit there in silence while Elsa would just let it all out?

[Elsa Bellefonte]

"I can develop my own feelings, thank you very much," replied Elsa, her tone returning to its snappish normal. All too easy to slide into that around Roxana, but then again, their rapport had all but been built around it. True, there weren't that many people that Elsa had felt attracted to that weren't her sister's exes, and it seemed that even a portion of them ended up with Erika at some point or another. Though at least Erika hadn't "stolen" anyone from Elsa in a long time. In point of fact, that had only happened once, and Erika actually hadn't been at fault there.

Roxana didn't need to know that. Just like Elsa didn't need to hear that Roxana didn't work for her. She just quirked a brow at that, tempted to remind Roxana of her earlier offers and how the other girl was essentially assigned to protect her and how Elsa knew enough that she could all but own Roxana if it came down to it.But they'd already gotten past that stage of their relationship, even if it was perhaps one of their favorite returning points.

"You're beginning to see my problems," said Elsa, nodding. "How can I tell whether or not the feelings are real? It doesn't help that Erika and I really are identical in all the ways that matter to most people," she tapped the wall again before letting out a sigh and leaning against it. She'd also caught the fact that Roxana wasn't quite sure where their friendship positioned her, which was just going to make this conversation ever so much more fun.

"I'm expecting you to act like you," said Elsa, again meeting her friend's gaze. "If I wanted to talk to a wall or something that wouldn't respond, I'd just pull up someone I hired... someone else, someone who I didn't---you know what I mean," she waved a hand dismissively. "And I already think I know how Erika's going to react. We are twins and we're... close. It's just... complicated."

There, at least that was laid out simply enough, right?

[Roxana Strix]

"Ah, I'll have to be on the lookout then to actually see that." Roxana responded right back to Elsa's words. Yes, she could do this little thing with Elsa since it was again something that was common between the two of them. Their relationship was still an interesting one at that, even if Elsa said that they were friends. Roxana didn't know about the people Elsa might have dated in the past, she just knew the current information on her targets from the day she arrived up until this point. She knew about the people Elsa talked to, but nothing had even made Roxana feel like there was going to end up being a relationship happening. There was that one guy, but Roxana didn't really see Elsa liking the other boy, funny how that boy had not been with Erika either. Making Roxana still question and wonder if Elsa was actually capable of falling for someone that had not been involved with her twin.

There was a quirked brow at Rox's statement of not working for Elsa, but Elsa didn't say anything and Roxana just looked at her. No, Roxana did not work for Elsa even if she had been offered; it was not that simple for Roxana to just go sure, I'll work for you. She could do jobs for Elsa, for a price, but as for who she was working for, it was not Elsa. Yes she had been charged to watch and protect Elsa, but everything else was by choice and not a part of her job. Elsa did know a lot about Roxana, but she didn't know everything. It would have been interesting to actually work for Elsa, but she did not and she was going to make sure that Elsa understood that. Still they were here to talk about other things. Well mainly Elsa to talk and Roxana to give her two sense on the matter. Elsa speaking again and stating that Roxana was indeed on the right track of understanding what Elsa was dealing with.

"Hmmm..." Roxana said to the question and hearing Elsa point, thinking to herself now for a moment as any possibly ways. "Well one way would be for you and your sister to pretend to be one another again. See if the other acts any different or not. That way is not full proof but I really can't see any other way of actually knowing if they like you for you. Personally if it was me I would just make sure to avoid those who my sister has been with if I knew that I had a habit of picking up her feelings. Since they are not your own feelings." Roxana pointed out, since yeah that was what she would do. It was logical. Why put yourself around people you knew you were going to be attracted to because your sister had been and worse yet when you were twins and could not be sure if they liked you for who you actually were. Roxana then moved to sit down in the grass as Elsa leaned against the wall.

Elsa was expecting Roxana to be herself; well good because she was already speaking like herself and it was just easier to be herself. Less work and then she would not feel like she was just being used and probably something more of a friend to Elsa. Elsa pointing out that if she wanted a wall she could have hired someone, but Elsa was the one who pointed out that Roxana worked for her, even if Rox did not and was not being paid by Elsa for this little conversation. There was a part there that Roxana wanted to hear the end of. Sure she could guess what Elsa meant, but she wanted to hear the other girl say it. "Someone who you didn't want? Didn't pay? Trust?" Roxana asked, the smile on her face gone but part of it wanted to sneak in there as she looked at Elsa. Elsa apparently knew how her sister was going to react, again making Roxana wonder if Elsa was really doing this because she saw Rox as a friend and this was not just for the sake of practice.

[Elsa Bellefonte]

Great, now Roxana would be looking to see who Elsa got attached to. She was tempted to just throw out a few names and then pay people, let Roxana figure that out on her own. Be amusing for a little while, if nothing else. For now, however, she let the matter slide. She wanted Roxana's feedback on this situation, though she still hadn't brought up Felix's name quite yet.

The first suggestion actually had her chuckling, her eyes closed. "Oh, that is most definitely not an option in this case. I'm pretty sure that doing so would ruin any chances I have with ever developing anything resembling a relationship," which should actually be a fairly large hint to Roxana as to who it was, assuming that Roxana paid enough attention to rumors and what had happened around prom. To be quite frank, Elsa pretty well expected her bodyguard/friend/employee to do precisely that.

She watched as Roxana sat, apparently getting at least somewhat comfortable. Leave it to the two of them to find the wreckage site where someone had obviously bled against a wall to be a site of comfort. Then again, they'd probably both be more comfortable facing down another squad of attackers then having an emotional conversation about a relationship.

"Oh don't push it," said Elsa, snorting. "We're not hear to make you feel better about yourself," though that sort of came with things, all in all. Elsa sighed, running her hand over her hair. "I know I'm going to have to talk it over with Erika, but she's actually going to be supportive. She's going to immediately say how adorable the whole situation is and how I should go leaping into his arms. That's the problem. I don't know if it's me he wants or if my feelings are my sister's leftovers.. and while Erika would understand that, she's..." Elsa searched for the word for a moment before saying: "naive," she looked over at Roxana, the implication hanging there:

you're not.

[Roxana Strix]

The first suggestion was a no go, for what Elsa explained as it would kill any chance of a relationship. Was that not the point? Did Elsa really want to try and pursue someone her sister had been with, to be the leftovers? Roxana didn't think that Elsa would be so desperate as to give in to her hormonal desires of feeling for someone else, but Elsa was a teenager. A teenager who picked up on the feelings of her other twin and then got into this kind of feeling for them and not being sure if they liked her back for who she was. Roxana honestly didn't think this would have ever been a conversation she would end up having with Elsa. These were boys they were talking about, high school boys who were probably a lot more hormonal then high school girls since they matured slower than girl. Trusting any of them at face value for them having feelings for you was just something you had to risk unless you knew them from before or for a while.

Roxana did get the hint, it was pretty clear and having known for a fact that she saw the two of them together before she didn't even have to make guess. "Well I could always torture him to find out. People tend to sing to truth when they are in pain and a delicate boy like him, I doubt he last that long." Roxana said, leaving it up to Elsa to take it if Roxana was being serious or kidding. She said it like she was serious, but she had a small smile on her face. It was an interesting pairing at that, one that Roxana could only understand on a small level. The boy was just so soft and clearly more in touch with his feelings. Elsa was not, so was this a case of opposites attract? That was the only things that Roxana would have guess if not for the fact that Elsa revealed to her that she had a habit of picking up on her sisters feelings. This reminded Roxana of something, something involving when Elsa was pretending to be Erika while Erika was missing.

She kept that mental note to bring up in a few moments as she made herself comfortable on the ground. Yes, she had no problem getting comfy right here; she had gotten comfy with dead bodies around before so this was nothing. Roxana snickered a little as Elsa told her to not push it and that they were not here to make Roxana feel better about herself. "Understood." Roxana replied back simply, lifting her legs up to rest her arms on her knees. A sigh and then Elsa explaining how she knew how things were going to go with her sister, how her sister would be all for it, and then that drop off when talking about Erika. Yes, Roxana understood what Elsa was getting at; she had been observing Erika too after all. Clearly Elsa's twin was more for living in the moment and apparently had a need to be loved or something. Already planning on moving in with a guy that was younger than her and his family and him having the least reputable life style. Did her family even approve of such a match? Who cared about the money when that money was dirty?

Apparently Erika clearly was not thinking about things and being more so with her heart, but that was her life and Roxana personally didn't care. At the rate of Erika's relationship, she would probably be removed from Rox's target list because she would be too high risk. Too high risk meant potential loss of money and Roxana's knew for a fact that her company would not like that. "Personally I feel like if she is being supportive of you having guys that liked her, I feel like she is just pawning them off on you so she does not have to deal with them." Roxana said with a small shrug since again it was not her place but Elsa had asked to talk. "Tell me this; why you were pretending to be Erika, did he even know? Did he say anything to you that would have actually been meant for Erika? If he did, I think that should be a big enough logical clue to if this is real or not." Roxana said as she started to mess with her hair, basically saying 'if he told Erika he had deep feelings for her, then don’t fall for him'.