Waiting at the gate (open)

[Gambit]

(( Move from: New York City :: Chasing a Shade; I'm taking this as a rare opportunity to have an open thread at the mansion ))

While Shade went inside to get her things and talk to Xavier, Gambit waited for her near the mansion's gate, leaning against his bike. He lit a cigarette and looked upwards, studying the trees above out of nothing to do.

[Sadie]

(( After "Back Home (Open)" ))

Sadie hasn't been in the mood to be indoors. She liked the fall especially when the leaves changed colors. She smiled and walked around the grounds again. She thought about how this was becoming a daily routine for her. She smiled and turned a corner seeing somebody she hasn't met yet. She didn't walk up to the person, but kinda made her appearance that she was there.

[Gambit]

Gambit could hear someone's footsteps near the mansion and turned his head to see who it was. A young girl. He hadn't met any of Xavier's students for a while. Almost forgot how they looked, he smirked to himself. He gave her a small nod of acknowledging her presence.

[Sadie]

She walked up to the man. She didn't know why he there, but thought she would just use small talk for now.

"Hi," she said to him.

[Gambit]

Gambit pulled at his cigarette and made a small movement of the head to exhale the smoke not in the girl's direction. "'ey dere, chere," he greeted back. "A student here, I take it?" Either that, or she was visiting somebody.

[Sadie]

"Yeah, student," she said to him. She didn't know what to ask without embarrassing her herself.

"You friends with someone here?" she asked.

[Gambit]

Gambit's concept of friendship most probably different from that of most other people, especially those at the age of the girl that was standing in front of him; he decided not to go into depth discussing that and just nodded. "Quite a few people," he said. "So how're things here?" it was partly small talk, and partly a wish to know whether the mansion had become a safer place since he'd left it in July.

[Sadie]

She smiled. "Well, things are going good here I guess. Nothing horrible what so ever," she said to him. She shrugged her shoulders.

[Gambit]

"Don' sound too bad t' me," Gambit smirked. "How long ya been 'ere?"

[Sadie]

"About two months," she said to him. She smiled to be nice and said to him, "I'm Sadie by the way." She extended her hand forward toward him.

[Gambit]

"Gambit," he replied, moving his cigarette to his left hand to be able to shake her hand with his right one. "How's school here?" It was interesting, in a way, to talk to someone that fresh about the X-mansion, to see how they viewed the whole thing.

[Sadie]

She nodded her head. "The school is very good. Meeting people like yourself and learning about each other is something I couldn't ask for," she said to him. She could help not to smile because she was happy at answering that question.

[Gambit]

"You're prob'ly here t' learn to control your powers, right?" Gambit asked. He was getting very amused at the fact that anybody could come to the mansion and ask whatever they wanted.

[Sadie]

"Yeah and to have my power grow I guess is what most the people say," she said to him.

[Gambit]

"What's your power?" Gambit asked, pulling at the cigarette again.