-Belle Jarnet: A 5' 1", petite woman of 100
lbs. Layered, golden hair down to her shoulderblade lower edges. Albino-white skin. Gray irises. A squarish face, also heartish with a squarish jaw, also slightly triangular. Her curves are very small. Uneven fingernails that's greatest length is about an inch. She's easily mistaken for a minor, though she's 34. - She's wearing a black, chiffon, Mandarin-collared, maxi dress with the chiffon sleeves fitted nearly to the elbow, lace-banded, then belled. The embroidered, and Mandarin-collared chest has a matching lace band inches below the bust, before the skirt-length's chiffon. Knee-high, 7", platformed, and heeled, skater-style, canvas shoes. The canvas is black, and the bottoms are white. The laces are white. There's side-zippers to more easily get in, and out of the heels. The raise of the heel is actually only 2", but the platforms are an additional 5". There's golden stars embroidered on the sides of her shoes' heels. She's also wearing a citrine mala, and a matching bracelet per wrist. And, her glasses frames, though plastic, look like they're made out of citrine. The citrines, and her glasses are a golden yellow with sparkling veins twinkling inside. - No makeup. She's scented with sage, and sandalwood.
*Belle enters a hotel great hall wearing a crossbody, black purse with rhinestones about it; and, carrying a stuffed giraffe. The giraffe plush features pale beige, and a darker beige. It has embroidered eyes, and it's a rattle-plush. The great hall is very wooden with crystal chandeliers; and two-story, latticed windows. There's weak, natural light from the windows. In fact, it's early sunrise.
*Belle reads a banner hanging on a wall opposite the entrances, "Seasons Greetings & Happy New Year's To The Xavier School's Adult High School Students!" *Belle looks around the hall for a vacant table to her liking. Most the tables are vacant at this early hour.
*Belle hones in on a central table next to the dance floor, and starts walking toward it.
*Belle's giraffe plush is grabbed by a mystery hand, stopping her. She turns back to seeing Kurt Wagner holding her plush. He's wearing a black tuxedo with a black tie, and vest with metallic maroon paisley over the black. *Kurt smiles toothily, showing some demonic-looking teeth.
*Belle smiles toothily in return, through her awkward overbite. *Kurt speaks in his famously baritone, German-accented voice, "Who are your parents?" *Belle's smile fades. *Belle breathes to speak, and opens her mouth again, but no words initially come out. *Kurt: "Do they know you're wearing stripper heels? Or, are they cool with that?" *All of Belle's joy has dissipated, as she answers in soprano, "I'm one of the adult students."
*Kurt: "Oh, okay! You expect me to believe that? Who are your parents? Think you're gonna slip away, and flirt with the demon celebrity in rebellion? Not happening." *Kurt waves his arms for attention, "Hey, everybody! Someone needs to pull the chain on this teen beast before she bites someone! You might want a say about these stripper heels she's wearing, too!" *Kurt turns back to Belle, "Your parents are going to be furious." *Belle gets out her photo I.D. from her purse, and shows it to Kurt. *Kurt receives the I.D., looking at the photo first, then for authenticity, before looking at the age, "What is this? You're actually eighteen? You expect me to believe that? Thirty-four!? You have got to be kidding! There is no way you're that old! Or, maybe you've got the X gene, and need an age test, because you're not aging normally, like my mother did. You really expect me to believe that you're all grown up?"
*Belle opens her mouth again, but again fails to speak. *Meggan comes over, and Kurt shows her Belle's photo I.D. "Think we could place her in the normal K-12 after an age test?"
*Meggan's got a Romani accent, "I don't see why not. Though, I'm sure it'd creep out the other kids. Maybe just leave her this way." *Kurt: "Well, we've gotta age test her. Before we end up with a teen mom in adult high school from a grown man." *Kurt turns his attention back to Belle, "Don't even think about drinking from the bar at these events! If we catch you with alcohol, or tobacco, you'll be out of our school." *Meggan: "So, are you here unaccompanied by a chaperone?" *Belle mumbles quietly: "Yeah..." *Kurt: "Stay close to the X-Men at these events. And, no flirting!"
*Kurt looks at the giraffe plushie, and soon after talks over it, "Is this to help you back to your table?"
*Belle: "Yeah."
*Kurt smiles at the giraffe plushie, "I'm calling you, "Pathfinder."" *Belle smiles. *Kurt: "Don't even try." *Belle stops smiling.
*Meggan runs her fingernail over a corner of the photo I.D., looking at it, then whispers to Kurt, "Kurt! This is a sticker!"
*Kurt: "It looked so real." *Charles comes by in his wheelchair, taking the I.D., "I assure you, her records all checked out during registration. This is Belle Jarnet, as far as academics are concerned. As to why the I.D. is fake... I have no idea. Everything checked out correctly. Yet, this I.D.? How is this? Belle... Doesn't know either. I'm reading her mind, she doesn't know why her I.D. is fake. But, there's more troubling news than this." He looks at the I.D. *Kurt: "Professor?" "Charles: "It seems... Belle is a beau, s'il vous plaît. Let's get this boy out of the hologram, and have a talk with his parents. And, meanwhile, let's look for the actual Belle Jarnet. Kurt, Cerebro." *Kurt holds Charles' left shoulder, and "Belle's" right shoulder, teleporting them into Cerebro. *Charles puts on the Cerebro helmet, "Let's see what Belle is doing. Or, should we check out his parents first?" - "Belle" looks around the Cerebro sphere, looking to his right, then up, following to his left.
*Kurt smiles at Belle's photo on her I.D., "Find Schönheit." *Kurt teleports away as Charles hones in on many similar-looking women, and maybe girls. *Kurt teleports back, and points what appears to be a smartphone at "Bell," turning off his hologram. -Pathfinder: He's a dark, medium red bamf man of 2', and a light weight. He's fit, and possibly underweight. He's actually wearing the outfit that was on his hologram. Even the shoes. But, it's all scaled down to his true size. *Kurt: "Any luck finding Belle? I think I know who is his father. My own." *Charles: "All of these people believe themselves to be Belle Jarnet, the very one we're looking for." *Kurt: "There's got to be hundreds of them!" *Kurt picks up Pathfinder with an arm around his waist, then teleports to the hallway outside his bedroom, where he sets Pathfinder down on the floor, careful not to twist his ankle in a fall. *Kurt points sternly into his bedroom at a horde of blue bamfs as Pathfinder looks up at him. *Pathfinder looks at the blue bamfs.
*As Pathfinder walks towards the other bamfs, they also walk towards him, surrounding him, and circling him to look over his attire. Another man whistles at him, maybe jokingly.
*The boy who whistled, "Why's he dressed like this, Big Papa? Wait! Don't tell me! He was trying to become an adult high school student, and was at their New Year's Eve event! Am I close?"
*Kurt stares down at the whistler as he stares up at Kurt.
*Kurt eventually speaks, "Who in all wishes to attend the dance?"
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