.09 and you live in a zoo

[touchofrogue]

Who: Rogue + Anyone Else
Broadcast: Yes
Action: Yes
When: 8/8/16

[Rogue was in the kitchen, thrilled to be well enough to be doing her job, when there was an unexpected sponsor drop. It was little more than a shoe box, and to her shock - and dread - she saw it was addressed to her.

Well, it wasn’t going to just go away on its own, so she opened it up to find a selection of pink, sparkly, tiaras. And a note: We hope these help you celebrate your special day! Put one on and smile for the camera -- PP&Co.

You had to be kidding her. Rogue made a disgusted face and got back to work. She was trying to make a chocolate cake. Once she got the concoction in the oven, however, she took a picture of several of the tiaras and sent out a general text message:]

Free to a good home.

[Later on, she puts on a deceptively simple short dress and heads out to the Iskaulit -- twenty-five. Geeze. That definitely deserved a drink. She never thought she’d live this long.]

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[touchofrogue]

[This is so weird, honestly.]

Uh, thanks. Didn't mean to make any kind of announcement or expect it to be remembered, honestly... unless your world's Rogue's birthday's today? [Because that would just be... something.]

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[passingthrough]

Sure, but I didn't actually realize that today was today until I saw the tiara. You think they have different dates in some worlds? [She kind of figures a change like that could result in a whole different person, but she's not a reality architect either.]

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[touchofrogue]

I don't know. [Hesitation, deciding just how much she actually wanted to tell Kitty about something this private, and then changing it so it would be a private communication. Cat's out of the bag now, and she didn't want to make Kitty feel shut out, not after everything she knew the other girl had been through.] ...I don't actually know when my real birthday is. August 8th is just a day I picked when I was a kid, 'cause I liked the sound of it.

[Mystique had done that for her, she'd let her pick when she was old enough to know what she was missing.]

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[passingthrough]

Oh. [Softly.] I didn't realize that. [She wonders now if she got the date wrong but she was sure their birthdays were close to each other. Or if her Rogue just liked the sound of it too.]

I'd say it was a good pick.

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[touchofrogue]

S'alright. It's just -- strange. [A little bit of a shrug.] It does make it easy to remember.

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[passingthrough]

Sure. My Rogue must have liked the way it sounded too. So, are you celebrating? I may need a few minutes to wrap the present I already totally got you. [Of course she didn't. She just admitted she's forgotten and as it turns out it could have been a different day entirely.]