The meeting of Hank McCoy was awkward at best. Liesel felt almost bad for the poor boy when his mutation was rather blatantly outed by Charles. It seemed he just couldn't help himself. His excitement overruled his sense of thinking before speaking, and before even Hank knew it, his mutation was out of the bag and now very much clear to everyone...even more so as he hung upside down from the model of a plane. But then again, he had been given permission to show off; so show off he did. If only to get another warm smile from the blonde who had already so captivated his attention. The glances between Raven and Hank had been slightly clocked by the others, and her eyes looked curiously at Hank as he hung there. Although her enthusiasm wasn't as obvious as her brother's, she still looked fascinated at Hank. He in turn looked humbly embarrassed.

"That is pretty interesting." Liesel tilted her head to the side and looked at him as best she could. Being called interesting was as good as being called amazing, so Hank couldn't help but smile again before jumping down. "So, do we have free run of this place?" She beamed and turned to look at the man who bought them here. She was perhaps being a bit too optimistic there, the man in black just looked at her a little dumbfounded. Wasn't she allowed to ask such a thing? It seemed reasonable to her.

"You wish." Was Raven's reply, she rolled her eyes, crossed her arms and looked at Liesel with an equally bored expression that matched her tone.

"Really?" Liesel whined and watched Raven nod her head in return. Picking up her feet, she trotted a little to follow Raven out of the room as now they didn't have a reason to be here, they all turned to leave. 

It seemed like a customary tour was happening, or something along those lines. Liesel didn't care, she couldn't be more disinterested, she couldn't help but be like this. Raven's displeasure was feeding off her own, and yes, she didn't care. Boring tour, that's what she was dubbing this. Boring and unneeded. It was just an excuse to show off what was here. Yet what was the point of showing off everything that was within the facility, if Raven herself just said they weren't allowed free roam? It was pointless. Liesel turned and walked away from Hank and Raven, the three of them were briefly trying to figure each other out and get a conversation going. But by the shy looks the two were sending in the other's direction, Liesel just smiled a small smile and dropped back. It was cute, they both seemed so shy and uncertain of the other, Liesel was leaving them to it. They didn't need her eavesdropping in! But then again, same went for Moira and Charles as they exchanged words with the man who bought them here.

With a sigh, Liesel returned to the only man present who wasn't caught in a conversation with someone else, Erik. Falling into step beside him, she looked over the group in front. Erik had stayed at the back, his keen eyes were looking over everything, assessing the place and all that was being shown off. Liesel sighed, she knew him, and she knew when he was planning something. Liesel was certain she wouldn't be let in with whatever was going through his mind, just yet. That's if at all, or until the last moment. Erik was a thinker, until he was certain on details, he wouldn't bring her into the scheme.

Crossing her arms behind her back, she looked up at him. "I do not like it here." Liesel whispered to him while flicking her eyes about. Everyone seemed so uptight, so stern and serious. It caused her to frown and be on alert. She half expected someone to come along and shoot her, or something. It caused an uneasy feeling to appear within her. "They do not trust us."

"If you were one of them, would you trust you?" Erik countered while tearing his eyes away from the line of doors down either side of the corridor they were walking down. They were told they were meeting rooms. Yet from the sense of things, Erik believed otherwise. He mainly thought this because the man seemed tense about what to call these rooms. He even stuttered a little awkwardly. No, these were more than just mere meeting rooms.

"Me specifically? Yes. I'm not the dangerous one here." Liesel said, a small scoff and an affronted look as she placed a hand to her chest. Erik just looked at her sceptically, she looked at him with the best innocent expression she could muster, without laughing suddenly over her attempt.

"Excuse me?" He asked with a smirk as they turned a corner into another part of the facility. Sleeping quarters, or at least a recreational space where they were clearly expected to spend free time.

Liesel merely smiled and laughed quietly. "I joke!" Turning serious though she narrowed her eyes. "No. They have enough reasons to distrust us." She flicked her eyes up at him. "We are all dangerous in our own right. Apart from Hank...he seems too sweet." Liesel said, waving a hand nonchalantly in the air as she mused and pouted in thought.

"You like sweet?" Erik looked at her disbelievingly. He even looked towards the brown haired teen with a slightly cynical expression, not that Hank could see it. Hank was still too busy trying to talk to Raven, she had a wide smile on her face and it almost looked like she was humouring the nervous boy, yet no, it seemed like they were genuinely getting along. Erik didn't have the heart to tell Liesel it seemed like Hank's attention was on a certain blonde, but he was sure she could figure that out.

"I'd be in a tricky predicament if I did." Liesel shook her head thinking back to her earlier confession. It had dawned on her, her feelings that is. There was some truth to Shaw's words, that she could not deny.

"That's the end of the tour," the man proclaimed suddenly and clapped his hands together. It seemed himself, Moira and Charles had matters to discuss, and Hank and Raven disappeared off back the way they came which left Liesel and Erik standing in a corridor...being watched by passing agents.

"Want to leave?" Liesel asked flatly while looking at him plainly. This sucked. Why bring them here, show them all of this, and then just leave them? More importantly: surely they should be involved in the conversation the apparent three in charge of this were having? Were they being so easily shirked? That didn't settle with her.

"I don't think it'll be that easy." Erik replied while looking down at her. She merely raised an eyebrow. "You want to try?" He smiled and turned on his heels. He moved towards a set of stairs, she followed after him. They hadn't been shown up here, yet. She doubted they ever would, yet here they were walking along the corridors.

She peered into a room every now and again. They were all the same sort of business room, large table, chairs, and whiteboard of some sort. It was all so similar, and so boring. "Anywhere would be better than here." She answered while shutting a door and turning to look at him. "Don't you think?"

Shutting a door too and looking back at her, Erik nodded slowly. "Perhaps we could work this situation to our advantage."

Liesel put her hands behind her back and walked to where he stood. Smiling she rocked on her heels and gave a nod. "You have my attention, do tell." She smiled widely at him, knowing full well that he had been planning something all along. She just had to be patient until he'd tell her his thoughts.

Erik's eyes looked about, as if expecting to see hidden cameras of some sort around. "We're in a CIA base, Liesel. What are they likely to have?"

She narrowed her eyes for a moment before looking around with sudden realisation. "Information." She whispered quietly, also suddenly noticing how silent it was up here. She found distrust in silence. She wouldn't be surprised if they weren't watching every move they were making already.

"About?" Erik prompted, looking down at her with an unblinking stare. Erik was certain he wouldn't need to nudge her in the obvious direction. She was a lot smarter than she gave herself credit for.

"Shaw!" She exclaimed quietly and quickly grabbed a hold of his arm and pulled him around a corner when a group of agents appeared in the corridor. Their footsteps were quiet against the tiled floor, and she had only heard them at the last moment. Because of the bright lighting in the corridor, their shadows stretched long and dark against the white walls. "You are suggesting stealing from the CIA?" Liesel looked at him with wide eyes and a smile. It didn't surprise her, and actually a small part of her caused her heart to pick up with excitement. It did sound awfully exciting, bad, yes, but exciting.

"Yes." He leaned against the wall and looked down at her. He raised an eyebrow, a smirk even appearing on his face as he watched Liesel's expression, it didn't take much to get her looking forward to something.

She grinned slowly and clapped her hands together almost silently. "Brilliant!" She quickly stood beside him as the agents passed them by without a glance. "This sounds exciting." She finally stated, looking up at him and smiled more. "We need to find where though."

Erik thought about this before pushing away from the wall. "The information we seek must be in a room which is used often. Somewhere where it can be kept under lock and key, or something like that."

"It doesn't seem the rooms up here are used much."

"But that man's would be." He started, Liesel tilted her head and caught onto what he was suggesting. "We need to get into that office once he finishes talking to Charles and Moira."

Liesel's mouth slowly turned up at the side. "Until then, would you care to mingle?"

"You want to go spook some poor agents, don't you?"

"You merely look at one and they tense. It isn't my fault that some of them are so jumpy." Honestly, they did look like they were about to get attacked or something. Of course, those which were present when Erik attacked the ship had been in for a real show of what mutants could do, with actually doing very little. As for Liesel's moment in the infirmary...the poor people looked at them with nothing more than a small sense of hesitance.

"And that your sense of amusement is warped." Erik moved back into the corridor and looked to her when she joined his side.

"I have a normal sense of humour!" She exclaimed and slapped him lightly on the arm. He merely raised an eyebrow at this and walked off. "Hey! Erik! There is nothing wrong with my sense of humour, thank you very much! Erik! Excuse me? You're doing this on purpose!" Liesel whined and exclaimed and ran after him as he continued walking in silence, ignoring her. "You're so annoying!"

"And you're really loud, you certainly recovered quickly, didn't you?" He asked while walking down the stairs and looking both ways before setting off down to the right. Although he sounded flippant about this, he couldn't actually have felt more pleased and content over that. He disliked, more than anything, seeing her beaten down to that point. He had seen it enough as children, let alone now as a young adult.

"Oh, don't sound like that. You're glad I'm better, even if you don't openly express it." Liesel smiled and patted him on the arm as she passed him by. She entered the recreational space and took to finding herself something to eat, or drink. Looking about she shrugged slowly and moved off down another corridor. It led to the sleeping areas, as well as the bathrooms.

Turning on her heels she peeked around the door frame and smiled. Erik looked at her sceptically as he sat down. There was no point making a move until they were out of the office and it was night; no one would notice them disappearing then. "Yes?" Erik just leaned back against the plush sofa and stretched his legs out.

"I'm just having a quick shower. I mean, if we're going to be sneaking I'd rather sneak while not smelling of salt water. May I make a suggestion? Do the same thing." Before he could even reply she had disappeared. Sorting out the water she blissfully sighed only to scream when the cold tap turned on. "Erik!" She shouted angrily. Placing her hand to the wall she pushed and focused, she heard a curse from somewhere else in close proximity as the light bulb smashed and cast the room into a slight gloom. These bathrooms were really quite dingy despite everywhere else being light and airy. She grinned though over her childish moment and quickly washed herself before the taps could alter again.

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Edited: 10/June/2019

Reedited: 16/August/2021