fandomtownies | The Perk, lunch time

Molly arrived not long after Isabel. She waved as she walked over to join the other girl. "Hey, Isabel," she said as she sat down and took off her jacket.

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Isabel looked up and smiled. "Molly! Glad you made it. Hungry?"

Molly nodded. "Yes. I've only ever tried the dessert type stuff here, not the real food. What's good?"

"I've had their sandwiches a few times. The egg salad is good." Isabel grinned, "Especially when followed by a brownie for dessert."

"Anything is good when followed by a brownie," Molly said with a grin. She stood up again. "I'm guessing we order at the counter? The egg salad sounds good to me. What do you want? I can go get stuff."

"That is very true." Isabel got to her feet and waved at Molly to sit back down. "I think I'll have chicken salad today. But I'll get it. Remember, I owe you for detention no matter what you say. And what would you like to drink?"

"Awww, I told you you don't have to, but thanks," Molly said. "Hmm, I think I want something fruity to drink. So, a raspberry whatever. But, nothing with coffee. Ick," she added, making a face.

Isabel returned with their sandwiches a few minutes later. "I hope a raspberry ice tea is okay?" she asked as she sat down and pushed Molly's plate towards her.

"Thanks," Molly said. "Ice tea is good." She grinned. "So, did you go to watch boykissy last night?"

"I was there," she laughed. "And it was as amusing as I thought it would be. I still can't believe Aeryn went through with it. And I will have to congratulate Bel when I see him. It was quite a show."

"Maybe I should have gone after all," Molly chuckled. "I didn't really care about seeing Angel and Logan kiss, or any of the girls, and I've never met Bel so I decided not to go."

"Logan missed out. He had the flu." Isabel shrugged, "It not really my thing. But it was fun to hang out with everyone."

"Bel's a nice guy. I know a lot of people don't trust him. And they have good reason not to I guess. But he's always been nice to me," she said. "He's trying to change, to be good. I have to respect that. Plus he called an offered to kick the ass of anyone that gave me a hard time about the alien stuff. So I'm grateful for that even if I haven't needed him to."

"I don't really know anything about Bel at all. Just some stuff from the radio so," she shrugged, "who knows how much is true. He's friends with you and Angel and Blair so he can't be that bad."

Molly smiled. "Also, if anybody does give you a hard time and Bel isn't around, I am also willing to kick some ass if needed."

"Thank you. I appreciate that," Isabel said gratefully. "I'm still getting used to the idea of people being on our side. All my life I've always felt it was just the three of us against the world."

"Three of you?" Molly asked.

"Myself, my brother Max, and Michael, our friend," she explained. "I guess you could say we hatched at the same time. Max and I were found and adopted together. Michael wound up in foster care. We didn't him again until we started school a few months later."

"Oh," Molly grinned. "It's good to know that you weren't alone."

She thought for a moment about Karolina and how she had found out she was an alien. "Did you guys always know you were aliens?" she asked without thinking. "If you don't mind my asking," she added quickly when she realized what she had asked.

"I know," Isabel agreed. "I might want to kill them at times, but they're my family and I love them."

"I don't mind, I'd be curious to. I am curious as a matter of fact. We don't have mutants in my world. So we can trade questions," she said with a grin. "We always knew we were different. And once we learned about the crash, well, it was pretty obvious what we were. How about you? When did you find you about your powers?"

Molly paused before answering. It wasn't that she had a problem telling people the whole truth. She was just never sure how much people really wanted to know. She decided to go slow and see what else Isabel asked.

"I was eleven. I'd been feeling weird for a while, but I found out it was because I was a mutant the night my friends came to rescue me from my parents house. I got mad and knocked someone through the wall."

"Isn't it amazing what you find out when you're under stress?" Isabel asked and then really processed what Molly had said. "They had to rescue you from your parents house? Why?"

"Because they found out that my parents, all of our parents, were actually running a criminal organization that controlled all of L.A. and a good chunk of California. In my dimension anyway. So, they came to get me and we all ran away."

"Oh, I'm sorry," Isabel said. "What did you do then? You were so young, how'd you survive?"

Molly grinned a little. She still didn't know exactly how to respond when people said they were sorry. She really should figure that out soon.

"We stopped our parents and became wards of the state. Except for Chase who was eighteen. After a couple of months though, the rest of us ran away again so that we could fight all the bad guys that showed up after our parents weren't in control anymore."

"Foster care?" Isabel asked, thinking of everything Michael went through with Hank. "But you got out okay?" She shook her head and laughed. "Forgive me but I'm having a hard time picturing you as a crime fighter. But I do believe you."

"Your turn now, what do you want to ask me?"

Molly shook her head at Isabel's first question. "No, I didn't have to go to foster care. I was sent to a place for mutants, but I didn't like it there and I missed my friends. Karolina was the only one who ended up in foster care."

She tilted her head and looked at Isabel. "Karolina is an alien too. She can fly and glows like a rainbow when she takes off the bracelet that suppresses her powers. Do you or Michael or Max glow like a rainbow?"

"It's better to be with friends. It was hard for us because Michael was in foster care until my dad helped him get emancipated last year. Even though we got to see him during the day, we worried about him when he went home." Worries that proved to be all to true in the end.

"No, no glowing or flying," Isabel said with a laugh. "Although flying would be cool. We can control our powers so there's no need to suppress them. Michael has turned a few lovely shades of red though. Mostly when he's annoyed with his girlfriend."

Molly giggled. "I don't think that is because he's an alien though."

"That's very true," Isabel admitted with a giggle of her own. "Maria could make the calmest person crazy. She has this habit of sniffing cypress oil when things get intense. She claims it calms her down. But she's the best thing that's happened to Michael in a long time."

"Do you think the three of you will ever go-- well, I was going to say go back, but if you were born on earth..." Molly grinned and shrugged. "Do you think you'll ever try to go to the planet where you're people are from? Karolina left to stop a war between her people and another planet."

And just like that her smile is gone. "Last month? When I went back to Roswell? We almost left then. But at the last minute we found out that we'd been betrayed and if we went back we'd be executed." She sighed and pushed back her hair. "We're going to have to find another way back someday. Our planets been enslaved and it's our responsibility to go back save our people."

And now Molly better understood why people always said they were sorry. But, just hearing the words didn't convey all the ways that the words were meant.

"I'm sorry, Isabel," she said quietly.

I'm sorry something I said caused you pain. I'm sorry you were betrayed by someone you thought you could trust. I'm sorry there is nothing I can do to help you get back to save your people.

"I hope you can get there to save them."

"It's okay," Isabel said, "You couldn't know."

Idly she played with the stirrer in her mocha. "I'm sure we'll get there one day. Max is pretty determined. He's the king after all. I'm pretty sure saving your people is in the job description."

"How about you? What are your plans for the future?"

Molly shrugged. "Finish high school while my friends finish college and then go home and become a super hero," she said with a grin.

"That sounds like a good plan," Isabel said. "Have you picked your costume yet? Or your superhero name?"

Molly smiled. "No costume yet, but I already have two names. They're more like code names than super hero names though. There's Princess Powerful, which is the name I picked for myself when I was eleven, and Bruiser, which is what everybody else called me. I'll probably pick something else later."

Isabel laughed. "I like Bruiser, it's a little more threatening, if you know what I mean. I hear Princess Powerful and I picture you riding up to a fight on a horse that looks suspiciously like a My Little Pony. Which is more cute then intimidating."

Molly gave Isabel a huge grin and a small shrug. "I was eleven."

Isabel grinned back, "That's okay. When I was eleven I used to dream that Princess Leia was my sister."

Molly laughed at that.

"I know, I know," Isabel said as she rolled eyes and took a bite of her sandwich.

Time passed, sandwiches were finished and Molly and Isabel had a nice, long emo-free conversation.

The Perk, lunch time

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