What It Meant

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

Casper and Jasper had both went out to look for Lucy this time. Normally Jasper wanted to avoid Lucy but she had slept with his brother and he had one major question about that. Yes, he knew it happened, it was not like he thought his brother was lying. He had seen how things had looked after and was waiting outside the room when Lucy had left. He just didn't understand how and why, despite what his brother told him. Jasper needed to hear it from the source, so that was where the two of them where headed.

Thanks to Casper having basically been sort of stalking her for a while when he was learning about her, it was easy enough for him to find where Lucy was. Jasper didn't even wait to try and peek to see what she was up to, just going ahead into the room and approaching the girl. "Lucy, you slept with my brother." Jasper said, pointing at her. Casper followed up behind him, walking and taking his sweet time on the matter. "Yes brother, that is how you greet someone." Casper pointed out, chuckling a little and was of course being sarcastic. Jasper rolled his eyes at his brother and kept his focus on Lucy.

He wanted to hear what she had to say on this matter, if it really was just to upset her brother and of course if she enjoyed it. The last bit was the most important because Lucy was the first person his brother slept with without him. This was a breakthrough of sorts and Jasper needed a bit more details from the girl's point of view. "Long time no see, Lucy." Casper said. Not that it had been a long time but from what he had seen and heard whispers of what she had been up to. Well...it felt like a long time in that case.

((Tag:Lucy James))

[Lucy James]

Lucy's eyes lifted at the sound of the familiar voice, and lo and behold; it was the twins. She had to stop herself from rolling her eyes as she turned towards them, her eyebrow arching. "Yes, yes, we're all terribly shocked," she drawled. Her eyes moved to the other brother then, the one she actually didn't hate as much as the other. "Oh, look. This one has learned to be sarcastic," she smirked and lifted her hands to clap them. "You two surprise me every day." Although her words were sarcastic, her voice lacked any sign of sarcasm. Instead, the brunette simply sounded unimpressed. As she always did, honestly.

"Indeed it is," she replied with a short nod. She hadn't seen him since they'd slept together, and honestly, she hadn't minded one bit. In a way, she had almost expected that to be it, and then she'd never see him again. Just as she was used to, and more often than not preferred as well.

As she'd made clear many times, Lucy preferred to be left alone. And the boy had only been a tool she'd used to hurt her brother, which he was aware of. She'd told him the exact reason as to why they had slept together, and there was honestly nothing else to it.

"Is there anything I can help you two with, or is your brother simply here to sniff your leftovers?"

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

"I am! You are supposed to be like some ice bitch all dried up on the inside. Well, no I bet you are actually pretty active but I didn't think you would sleep with me or my brother!" Jasper said right after Lucy's words. He did figure that Lucy could get around or at least that if she wanted to sleep with someone then she could. Casper and Jasper shared information with one another about what happened when they were apart, so Jasper knew about how Lucy had a couple of other guys that she was always spotted with.

In fact she was spotted with those other guys more often than she was spotted with his brother. Yet Lucy's stupid brother came at them for being a bad influence or whatever on her, and it just made him slightly angry. "Sad that you are no longer doing the same for us." Casper said as he crossed his hands over his chest. He didn't mean that in a bad way or anything, it was just that she was no different than usual and now that he had gotten most of what he wanted to find out it was not as entertaining to put up with. Yet, still some part of him could not help but still be interested on the girl on some levels.

Jasper glared at Lucy when she spoke up the whole 'leftover' thing; even Casper could not help but to give a displeased look. "Don't say it like that. You are not leftovers." Casper pointed out, sounding firm. Jasper was nodding his head in agreement, but he still had something that he wanted to talk to her about. He just wanted to make sure so that he didn't have to beat this girl up because of what happened to his brother. "I wanted to talk to you about it. No I don't need details of what you did with him but I just want to be clear that you only slept with him because you wanted to hurt your brother." Jasper said as he walked closer to Lucy, getting pretty close.

"Was that the only reason or did part of you want to do it just because?" Jasper asked, still glaring at the girl. Casper remained where he was, looking around the dance room a little, seeming distracted with someone thing else on his mind.

[Lucy James]

Lucy looked at the talkative twin for a moment, her expression growing blank as she simply shrugged. What did it matter anyways? He seemed awfully interested in his brother's sex life, which honestly was all kinds of fucked up. Clearly, the boys had very little private life outside each other. She wondered if they were one of those weird twins that did everything together most of the time. Eat, sleep, have sex, shower... Maybe they were into incest too. It wouldn't have surprised her at all.

As the other twin spouted his nonsense about how she wasn't leftovers, the brunette rolled her eyes. As if she really cared how they thought of her. And then the talkative twin pretty much went off the wall and started going crazy, which had Lucy arching an eyebrow, looking at him with the same blank expression as before. "I don't really see how that's any of your business," she replied simply, pursing her lips.

Who the heck cared that much about their brother's sex life anyways? It was kind of... Well, yeah.

Rolling her eyes again, Lucy stepped away from the boy. "Unless you have something else to talk to me about besides your creepy obsession with your brother's sex life, I have things I need to do." She took another few steps away and half turned away from the boys. 

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

Jasper could feel his anger starting to build up as Lucy looked like she could care less about anything he had to say. He bet she didn't give a damn; she had made it clear that she didn't care about anyone but herself. The brothers could relate seeing as they cared about each other the most compared to others around them. Yes, they did pretty much everything together, except the whole incest bit because that was just gross. The brothers were vane, but not to the point that they would sleep with someone that looked just like them and was all that they had in the world for the longest time.

"It is my fucking business when your stupid brother almost ki-" "Enough, Jasper!" Casper cut his brother off. Jasper glared at his brother, turning to face him and now directing his anger at his brother, likely what Casper wanted. "No! You could have died! I could have lost you and it was all because I was not there and because you slept with this...this..." Jasper said, his voice trailing off as he started to shake. He wanted to break something, he wanted to hurt Lucy but he had already promised his brother he would not beat up Artemis or Lucy unless they started something with him first.

It still didn't make Jasper feel any better and Casper could tell and that was why Casper moved to pull his brother into a hug for a moment. "Deep breaths, ok?" Casper told his brother who nodded a little, burying his head into his brother's shoulder. Casper's attention then went to Lucy as he still let his brother calm down on him. "Sorry about that, didn't think he would snap that quickly." Casper said as he gave a small chuckle, patting his brother's back. "Anyways, I did want to talk to you about something that didn't involve sex. If you are fine for talking for just a little with me." Casper said, looking to her and waiting for an answer.

[Lucy James]

Lucy arched her eyebrow as the clearly agitated twin was about to say something, but was stopped by the clearly more reserved one, which Lucy assumed was Casper, the one she'd slept with. "You do realize that my brother's actions are his own, right? It doesn't really matter why he did them, because at the end of the day, it was his own choice to make." Lucy took absolutely no responsibility for anything her brother did or said, and nor would she ever. Her brother was his own person, just like she was hers - and like he couldn't control her, she didn't try to control him. Not that she ever wanted to either.

She watched the brothers in silence again, as she pursed her lips. She didn't know what exactly had happened, and quite frankly, the brunette didn't really care all that much to find out either. Shrugging it off, she waited for the brothers to finish their little tirade and didn't look at them until Casper spoke again.

His words was met with another shrug and Lucy tossed the other twin - Jasper a quick glance before sighing. "I've you have any issues with my brother, you should really bring them to him. We might be related, but that doesn't mean we're in each other's lives." Now, if only she could make her brother see that as well, then her life surely would have been a lot easier and contain way less drama. "That depends. Is your brother joining us? As much as I enjoy watching him throwing a fit, I'd rather not waste my time watching someone explode over something I had no control over."

The brunette moved to the side though; if the boy wanted to talk, fine. It was a lot better than listening to Jasper throw what looked like a five year old being mad about not getting enough ice cream for dessert.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

"Duh! Does not mean I still can't be upset with you because it was probably your idea to sleep with my brother to get at yours." Jasper said, still angry and bitter at the girl. If his brother had gotten seriously hurt or died, well he knew that he would likely be going to jail by now. Or being sent away to wherever they sent a mutant who ended the life of another mutant in the most violent of ways with their power. Then Jasper would have ended himself, because without his brother he didn't feel like he had any right to go on.

They were one and if part of that one was lost, then the other part had to go with it. Jasper was very much the kind of guy that believed that twins should die together. "Oh, I will." Jasper assured her, but he took a deep breath when Casper gave him a look. Right, he had to keep his promise to his older brother and not do anything to either of them. Lucy was then speaking to Casper after he asked if they could talk for a little bit. He chuckled a little at her condition but had no problem with it at all. "Very well. I'll catch up with you in a bit, brother." Casper said to Jasper, who just nodded and walked off to wait outside of the room and down the hall a little.

Jasper was not going to put up a fuss when it came to leaving since he didn't even want to be around the girl. He still didn't understand how Casper could even stand to be in her presence with the kind of girl she was. When his brother was out of sight, Casper turned to give his full attention back to Lucy. "Again, sorry about that. A little event with your brother just caused a big scare for my brother but nothing you need to worry about." Casper said, taking a step closer to her, but did some more so for the movement and less to get closer to her. "Thank you for tolerating me up until this point. I understand that it was not all that enjoyable for you but I enjoyed it and I have to say I don't regret taking an interest in you." Casper said as he gave the girl a smile.

[Lucy James]

She was glad that the other twin decided to leave, because honestly. This was the last thing the brunette cared about getting into right now. Whatever her twin brother did, she took no responsibility for. After all, she had told him to get the hell out of her life, yet he held on like some damn leech that just didn't understand when enough was enough. Typical her luck. People like that seemed to surround her these days and she simply did not understand it. Why couldn't they just leave her alone?

She supposed that at the very least Casper didn't constantly ask her why she was so afraid, what she was running from and trying to fix her as if she was some kind of broken toy. Maybe that was why she at the very least tolerated his presence. "Don't apologize," she replied. "Just like I can't be blamed for the actions of my brother, neither can you." She looked at the area his twin had disappeared to as she pursed her lips. The step closer however, had Lucy's eyes snapping back at him, eyeing him cautiously. Her eyes narrowed, and for a moment, she remained quiet and perfectly still.

And then she shook her head. "Did you seriously ask me for a talk to talk about that?" she almost scoffed at him. This had better not be another damned confession, because honestly she would pull her hair out in sheer frustration. Though, she also doubted that the boy was quite that foolish to think that he really stood any chance. He knew as well as she did that whatever had happened between the two of them, it had been purely physical. "You should save your compliments for someone that actually cares enough to hear them." She took a step away from him as her arms came up to cross over her chest.

Despite not utterly hating the boy, she still loathed the closeness he allowed himself to be around her with - as if the fact that them having had sex changed anything at all. It didn't.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

Casper felt no need to ask her such questions or to try and change her from the kind of person that she was. He found it more interesting to figure out the kind of person she really was and why she was that was to begin with. People didn't change if they didn't want to. It was not something that you could force, you just had to let it happen and just be there to help them through it if they even wanted your help. You could not help a person that didn't want to be helped; it was something that everyone should have just known.

Yet, the world was full of stupid people but all Casper could do about that was be smart. "I know, but in a way I am responsible for my brother." Casper said, but he left it at that. There was not need to go into detail over the matter and again she could feel that way when it came to her brother but Casper was always going to feel responsible for his brother. They did look dead alike after all so it was a little bit harder to just write off not being the one who did it. He noticed how she reacted when he stepped closer and part of him wanted to push the limits but he behaved himself for the moment.

"Kind of." Casper admitted as he chuckled a little. He shook his head when she brought up the whole complement thing. "I don't really care if you care about them or not. I'm saying it because I want to and it’s the truth." Casper pointed out. He really didn't care if it made her happy, angry, or whatever. He said it because it was something that he wanted to say and the brothers always did something that they wanted to do. She was stepping away again, hands going over her chest and her wall was clearly up like usual. "Really I just wanted to say that you won't have to worry about me bothering you much anymore. While there are still things I want to figure out about you, I don't want to keep bothering you." Casper admitted.

It was fun to bother people, but again even the brothers had their limits. They only kept bothering people that they got reactions out of and who could tolerate the things they did. Lucy hardly liked people being around her so it was going to be a matter of time before Casper was going to end up leaving her alone.

[Lucy James]

"You know," Lucy began as she sighed. She really didn't understand why the boy at all bothered. "You didn't have to actually tell me this. I have no interest in some kind of stupid attempt at saying goodbye. Nor do you owe me anything." She pursed her lips at that. "After all, it takes two people to have sex, and as you probably remember, it wasn't exactly forced," she drawled. Well, at least she didn't have to worry at all about this boy anymore. Maybe that was what she had to do to scare the rest of her stalkers off too; have sex with them?

She couldn't actually see her being able to bed the Panther-boy, as he seemed more like the type that would simply freak out over a girl being naked - and the third person was far too emotional for his own good. At least she'd slept with one that knew when to leave her alone and stop pushing matters.

"So, can I go now or are you planning on saying more stuff I could care less about?" She wondered why he even bothered to do this in the first place. What did it matter if he left her alone? They hadn't shared anything besides simply sleeping together. They hadn't dated, hadn't shared any romantic moments. Just sex. She figured he was probably trying to be a decent guy by letting her now, but Lucy was hardly a decent girl - and she really thought she'd made that clear from day one.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

Casper just smiled at Lucy as she pointed out that he didn't really need to tell her any of this and that he didn't owe her anything. Yes, he had pretty much expected that she was going to react like this but that did not change his mind on doing it in the first place. It was not really him saying goodbye, it was more of a test for his own sake that he wanted to do and it involved saying certain things in order to see what result he would get out of it. "I know. I enjoyed the sex but that was all it was. Something to do to get at your brother and that was all." Casper said as he now took another step closer.

He still was well aware that she didn't like people in her personal space but again he was doing all of this for a reason. He was seeking a particular reaction and outcome of the girl but he was not sure if he would get the one he desired. He had already predicted two possibilities and one of them he would not have been fond of but still would get a result all the same. He would have liked to sleep with her again but that was not what he was here to say or talk about at the moment. That and he didn't like bothering her long since she tended to only tolerate him to a certain point and the same went for him.

"Can I kiss you?" Casper asked, taking another step closer to her. That was what he had to say or more so ask next of her. He was not trying to be a decent guy about all of this, even if that might have been how he was coming off. At the end of the day, the brothers did things for themselves because of what they wanted. The same applied even now.

[Lucy James]

"Exactly." No, Lucy was hardly one to lie. At least, not about that. The only reason she had slept with Casper at the time was to get to her brother. Of course, that wasn't saying that the two of them would have slept together at one point or another, but that fact hardly mattered. At least, from the way things seemed to progress, it sounded as if Lucy wouldn't have to even worry about it anymore.

And then he stepped closer. And closer yet. Watching him cautiously, Lucy sighed. The question had the brunette scoffing. "Seriously?" A hand came up to pinch the bridge of her nose as a slight groan escaped her lips. Didn't he just say goodbye like, seconds before? "No, no you can not." She kept her gaze steady on his, watching his every movement. Who even asked someone for a kiss? They weren't in fifth grade anymore. 'hello miss, can I have a little smooch?'. Seriously?

With a sigh, the brunette stepped away again, arms coming to cross over her chest. "Unless there's something else, Casper, I have far more interesting things to do than play this game of cat an mouse. If there's something you're trying to figure out, you should ask instead of doing whatever the hell it is that you're playing at." Clearly, Lucy wasn't amused.

[Casper & Jasper Emory]

When she let out the say and the question that didn't need an answer left Lucy's lips, Casper could not help but to chuckle a little. He could not help but to feel pleased that she was reacting the way that he knew she was. As if he had almost predicted the future on what she was going to say and do all from having observed her for a while. Sure anyone could have probably guess that Lucy was going to act this way but he had been able to figure out almost every body movement, look, words, and even the tone that she was going to have when she would respond back to him.

"I figured as much. Figured it was better to ask then to just take the kiss." Casper said as he smirked, taking another step forward. There was the temptation to go ahead and take the kiss, but he was not going to do such a thing. The temptation was not all that strong and also because he knew that Lucy didn't like things being out of her control, he was not going to do it. While he normally enjoyed getting under someone’s skin, he had no desire to in this situation. Sadly, nothing new was with Lucy and thus the level of entertainment was down.

He shook his head and laughed a little when she spoke of him wanting to figure something out and to just ask her. "I have nothing else to figure out. You are now an open book to me just like your brother." Casper admitted as he gave his shoulders a shrug. He tilted his head to the side in an innocent like matter but the smirk on his face communicated something far darker and suspicious. "I'm not playing at anything." Casper said, that look still there but he spoke in an innocent tone before turning to catch up with his brother.

"See you around, beautiful." Casper said as he gave a slight wave to the girl. He was done bother her but that didn't mean that he was going to avoid her or anything like that. He was sure that he would at least run into her one more time, if things played out like he figured they would. "Oh, and that guy you have been hanging around a lot. Tell him I said hi." Casper added as he paused in the doorway to turn around to say that to her.

[Lucy James]

Nothing else to figure out? Lucy highly doubted that. "Is that so?" she replied, a ghost of a smirk forming on her lips. And an open book? Like her brother? The mere thought almost made the girl want to laugh. Though, she didn't really see the need to comment any further on it. The boy didn't know nearly as much as he thought he did - just like Artemis didn't, and as sad as it was, her twin brother knew her better than anyone else on the entire world. And yes, considering their relationship, that was a very sad revelation - it was a good thing that was exactly how Lucy liked it.

The boy then turned and made the move to walk away. Narrowing her eyes, Lucy simply sighed; these damn boys would be the death of her one day. However, at his last words, Lucy's head tilted somewhat. The guy she'd been hanging around?

First, that could mean plenty of people; and second, how did Casper even know? Or better yet, why did he even care? Turning away, the brunette continued down the hallway in the opposite direction of the boy. Whatever. It didn't matter. He'd told her he wasn't going to bother her anymore. If only the rest of them were that easy to convince.