written in the stars

chapter three

UPDATE: 4/15/2018

Also: I didn't realize that the last portion of chapter two did not upload. I corrected it and it's there now.

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Maureen sat in between Raven and Angel as Hank and Sean sat across from them; Alex and Darwin were playing pinball. Maureen could hear them saying things such as, "Jesus, man, you're killing me!" from Darwin and Alex replying, "Don't beat yourself up; I had a lot of spare time." (Maureen wanted to know what Alex meant by that, even though she has a theory or two.)

After Erik, Charles, and Agent Moira MacTaggert (Hank had informed her who she was) left, all of the mutants pitched in and helped clean up the destruction they had made. It was only right, since they were the ones that caused it. Many of the agents talked about them afterwards, Maureen was sure of it. Some people would say she was paranoid, but wouldn't you be too if you saw people staring and pointing at you, then whisper to their friend about it? Maureen found herself in that situation a lot when she was in school, and it felt like it was happening all over again. It was a vicious cycle in life.

Maureen found herself comforting Raven after Charles had left, reassuring her that her brother wasn't really mad at her. He'd forgive her, Maureen was sure of it. That's how siblings worked most of the time anyway.

Maureen missed her brother and her mother as well.

Before Maureen could get more homesick, she noticed out of the corner of her eye that two agents appeared at the window. Great.

"Oh, I didn't know the circus was in town!" One of the agents said. Oh no. Maureen was feeling dread and then there was that empty feeling in her stomach again.

"Hey come on honey," he acknowledged Angel (did they even know their names?); doing a poor imitation of what she could do with her wings. "Give us a little. No? Come on let us see the foot," he said to Hank. His partner was standing by him, saying nothing. He was as bad as the agent who was speaking, if he wasn't doing anything. He wasn't trying to stop his partner from calling out the mutants, which made him bad too.

Maureen felt her anger rising as those men were standing there and making fun of her friends. Before she could get her anger under control, something in the courtyard she couldn't see blew up. Alex and Darwin turned around at the noise and everyone stared at her.

Great, oh great, Maureen started to panic and if she panicked, something would blow up again or she would end up freezing everyone. Or blow up everyone. Now that was bad. She couldn't revive them if she did that. How would she explain to Charles that she killed everyone because she got angry?

Keep control, keep control, keep control.

The agent that could just not keep his mouth shut looked at her.

"Oh, you're blowing things up now? That's fantastic!"

That tone of voice the agent had used reminded her of her father and she could feel herself turning red in anger. He was mocking her.

Hank noticed the tears that threatened to come out of the angry teenager's eyes. He got up from his spot and walked over towards the big window where those two agents were.

"There it is, come on Big Foot!"

Maureen felt bad for Hank. These were people that he had worked in the same building with, and this was how they treated him? It was disappointing. She watched the brilliant young man pressed a button that allowed green curtains to block their view from the courtyard, where those jerk of agents were standing in.