So, it was to be all about Brooke tonight? She had to admit, there was not a lot that was better than that.

So she broke in to her story, filling Alexander in on how she was primarily raised on the Upper East Side, her mother grooming her to be a society queen much like her namesake Brooke Astor (as well as a major player in the Hellfire Club, of which her family had been members for a few generations), her time ruling over Woodbridge-Robillard, her friendship with a girl named Roxie who later became an Avenger, her horrible time at Empire State University (it was filled with science geeks and hipsters, and Brooke was so very much neither), and her mother's lies about her father, who had suddenly come back into Brooke's life, and who she was now building a relationship with.

Basically, everything that Brooke had ever been through, except for all of the mutant tidbits. Because who knew how Alexander would react to that?