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Betsy's face lit up. "I absolutely love The Dresden Dolls," she answered, "Amanda Palmer is a goddess." She looked around the room, starting to tire of the current topic of conversation. Her mind wandered back to her last visit here and the conversation she'd had about true mutant names. "I have a question for you..." she started, smiling coyly.

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Intrigued, he cocked his head and motioned for her to continue. "Go ahead, shoot." He wondered what kind of question this was going to be.

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Betsy still wasn't sure how to talk about these things, so she decided that her characteristic directness would have to suffice. "Do you have a mutant name, an alias?"

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He laughed. "What, you mean beside 'asshole'? That's generally what I hear from non-mutants who find out my little secret." He paused for a moment contemplating. "No, I don't guess I really do...I mean, there were nicknames and stuff back in school with the football team and such...but that's before they really found out I'd been using my powers." He looked directly up at her. "How about you?"

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Frowning, Betsy shook her head, "Nope. I really want one, though. It's one of those things that comes to you cosmically, it's not just something you can make up, apparently." She was kind of glad that she wasn't the only one lacking a mutant handle, but she had hoped that he'd be able to help her with hers.

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He could tell she seemed disappointed and he momentarily put down his drink and placed his hand on hers. "But hey, if it makes you feel any better I did kinda go by one in high school...just with my friends and stuff, but it was because of my powers and because we were all on the rifle team together...they called me Bullet. I guess its kind of silly really...but its something at least, right?" He let her sit and think for a minute. "What say we try and find one for you?"

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Alec's kindness was endearing, and Betsy couldn't help but revert away from her usual independence as he attempted to look out for her. "Bullet's a good one, actually," she said, running her finger around the edge of her glass. "So, how do we go about trying to find a name? I was told that trying too hard was the wrong approach."

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Alec thought for a bit and then replied, "Well, you're right, we don't need to try too hard, but we don't need to give up on trying at all either now do we? Let's start off with your powers, I mean, we've seen each other in action so to speak, but I'm not sure I'm aware of everything you can do. So...how about it?"

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"Telekinesis, invisibility, and this psionic knife thing I can make. We can't use our powers in here, so I can't show you," she'd been over this ground with Sonic and Magneto, so it felt a little redundant. "The running themes are that my abilities are all psionic."

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Alec nodded. "Well, at least we have a starting place. Now its just a matter of thinking up some really cool sounding psionically-related names." He paused for a bit before he continued. "Any other ideas for names? We could always try and mix stuff together and see what we get."

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"I'm a fan of purple," Betsy said with a helpless shrug, "other than that my tastes are all over the place." She sipped her drink and thought about it, but she'd been thinking about it for days and wasn't coming up with anything.

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Alec sighed. "Hrmm...well, we just seem to be drawing blanks on this one eh?" He quickly took another sip of his drink and, finishing it, ordered another one. "Maybe we should just let it rest for a bit and let it stir around in our heads for a while." As his new drink arrived he gazed intently at his companion and tried to imagine what was going through her head.

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Betsy nodded. "I've been told that the harder one thinks about it, the harder it is to find," she met Alec's gaze, thinking that it was sweet that he wanted to help her with her quest to find her mutant name. After a comfortable silence that lasted a few seconds, she asked, "What are you going to do now that you're in New York?"

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He shrugged. "I'm not exactly sure to be honest. I came here hoping to get away from everything and everyone around me...I guess I've succeeded in that, I'm just not really sure of what I'll find next. For now it seems like I've found a group of people here who appreciate me and like me for who I am...so I guess I'm content with that. Why? ...What all is there to do in New York?"

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Betsy laughed. "I meant for a living, there's no end to things to do in New York, but..." she looked down, feigning innocence, "since I'm underage..." she fluttered her eyelashes, "my options are limited." She laughed a little, "But I seem to keep myself entertained."