Aiden notified the gals that Val was coming to help out with getting the base rid of Mojo-sent cameras. Then he drove off to New York to go pick up Valeria. He made sure to ask her what she wanted to eat. The least he could do for her help was cook her a good meal. He had feeling he would be more useful in the kitchen than in tracking down the cameras.

When he pulled into the garage, he had a blonde super-genius with him.

"Tah dah," he announced to no one in particular.
The new internship was going really well. They were good kids; really good kids. Different conditions: two genetic disorders, two car accidents, and ... Luke ... but they were all responding well to getting their hands around a paintbrush or a pair of safety scissors.

Luke less so, not because his injuries were more severe -- in fact, they were less so than several of the others, but because he couldn't seem to relax. Then.... she could tell by the way he fumbled with the art supplies. The damage that had been healing after his previous accident ... or 'accident' ... was renewed. Kind of subtly, easy to miss if you weren't kind of studying this sort of thing obsessively.
Caroline calmly put in the call to DFYS ... but what about that night? Luke definitely wasn't talking enough to make anyone else take definite action immediately, and law-abiding citizen or not, Caroline wasn't sure she trusted the system to act quickly. Maybe she did have a little of Momma's revolutionary streak in her after all. She managed to keep him late, but eventually, the sun had long set, the center was closing... "Hey, Luke, I'm gonna walk you home, okay?" She didn't really give the kid much choice as she accompanied him. "Maybe have a talk with your Mom about how good your art's coming along."
"Mom'll be at work. And Dad... won't want to talk about art."
"Okay. Well, I'll just walk you home anyway."
Though her schoolwork was sometimes putting more time constraints on her, Angel did rather enjoy her job.  Teaching gymnastics to tweens at a local gym was good work, and she was good at it, and it was good experience for when she became a teacher.  And, thankfully, very few kids or their parents had had much problem with her being a mutant.  Only one parent had pulled their kid.

Granted, it had been after trying to get her removed from her job, but her bosses had backed her up.  That had been a rather pleasant surprise, truthfully.  True, she did have to answer more than a few questions about how things like her hands or tail worked (and several about how long it took her to dry out after a shower), but that was all right.  Those questions were born from curiosity, not hate.

She stepped out onto the street and zipped her jacket a little higher.  True, with a coat of fur, she had more protection against the elements than most, but it was still rather chilly.  She checked her watch.  Aiden should be there in the alleged car in a few minutes.

As she walked down to the corner where Aiden was going to pick her up, she was faintly aware that people were coming up behind her.  She clutched her gym bag a little more tightly.  One didn't grown up with instructors like Logan and Auntie 'Ro around without developing extraordinarily good survival instincts.  Sounded like four... no.  Five.  Definitely five of them.  She spared a very brief glance over her shoulder to confirm her guess and found she was right.  All men, probably in their thirties or older.  Two of them were carrying baseball bats.  Judging by the lack of mitts, they probably weren't on their way to a pick-up ballgame.

(cut for violence) )

"And the quest for the right internship forms continues!" Caroline declared as the walked along a campus sidewalk.
Caroline was transferring to Rutgers for her Master's program. And she had just the people to put her up.

She'd told Mama it wasn't the same as becoming actively involved in vigilante work, but she definitely hoped there'd be the chance to help.

The sound of a ringing doorbell echoed through the air.
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