Author's note: So this story is set around X- Men First Class sans the time. It's modern day. I own no rights to anything X-Men related except some DVD's. I do not affiliate myself with any company that produces X-Men and would find a way to sue me if I didn't write this. That being said, please enjoy the story. I'm going to really try to keep up this time with actually writing this story as opposed to other stories that have yet to be completed.

I knew I was different when my mother found me on the ceiling as a toddler instead of on my bed one morning. My brother was just as different as me. If you took off my shirt, you'd find feathery wings and if you got me angry I could shoot fire at you from my palms. Arthur could teleport to anywhere he so chose. This was especially helpful in our teenager years when we were late for curfew. Granted, I could have flown us home but this seemed much less disturbing to people who didn't have what we did. We could easily find a dark corner and be home within an instant.

Our mother was very open to what we were. She didn't shy away from who or what we were and embraced that we were different from a lot of people. My best friend was not a mutant. She was perfectly ordinary and still accepted me. Arthur had two best friends, Erik and Charles. He didn't seem to have the same trust in humans that I had. Arthur met Charles and Erik at a meeting for mutants that I had skipped out on in favor of the mall. When I got home, the three of them were huddled in our basement talking in hushed voices; probably about the mutant who had been found murdered recently. It seemed like for every step forward we took in equal rights for mutants we took two steps back.

Lindsey and I dropped our bags off and walked over to where my brother and his friends we're talking. The first thing I noticed was Charles staring at me strangely. All of a sudden I heard a voice in my head that was definitely not my own.

"You must be Anna. Your brother has told us quite a bit about you. It is a pleasure to meet you."

"Ah!" I yelled and jumped back a bit

"I'm sorry to have startled you" Charles said aloud now "Sometimes I forget that some people have never met a telepath before."

"It's okay. Just weird for a first meeting." I laughed.

I introduced Lindsey and finally turned to Erik as he briskly looked me up and down.

"Well you look perfectly normal. Are you sure she's a mutant Arthur?"

Who did this guy think he was? He looked just as normal as I did, if not more. I said nothing but turned toward a potted plant in the corner of the room. I focused a bit of energy and held up my palm. In an instant I had practically disintegrated the plant.

"Incredible" Charles whispered

"Still think I'm plain?" I asked Erik "Maybe if you're lucky I'll take my shirt off and show you what else I've got."

"Anna!" Arthur gasped and made a disgruntled face at me

"I was talking about my wings you moron."

Charles and Erik stared at me wide-eyed.

"You have wings?" Charles asked, sounding like a little boy

"Show 'em: Lindsey winked at me and helped me with the shirt and harness that I used to keep them down so I appeared normal. Once I had everything off and was covering my chest because I didn't want to give everyone a show, I stretched my wings to full capacity.

"Amazing" Erik said "Do you mind if I touché them?"

Arthur gave me another look but I rolled my eyes and ignored him. "Sure, go ahead" I smiled and he moved toward me. I fluttered my wings a little and giggled when he looked a little frightened which instantly turned back to wonder.

"I have never seen anything like this" Erik said as his hand moved over a wing lightly. Arthur cleared his throat and the moment was over. I looked over at Lindsey who shared a 'Did a hot, intelligent guy just feel up my left wing?' I took my things back from her and turned around to change.

"Well we're going out to eat" Arthur said and headed for the door.

"You should come" Charles said obviously not listening to my brother's thoughts which were plain on his face.

"You guys go" Lindsey said "We have shit we need to discuss. Right Anna?"

"Yep" I said and we started toward my room. "Sorry" I sent out to Charles so he didn't feel bad about the situation.

"It's okay" he said back to me "I know you want to discuss Erik."

"Get out of my thoughts now Charles" I laughed "And please don't mention this to anyone"

"No problem" he laughed "I'll watch your boyfriend for you."

I rolled my eyes and shut my bedroom door at the same time Lindsey started to smack my arm. "How hot are they? The tall one is totally into you. Did you see the way he was staring at you?"

"He was looking at my wings Lindsey. You need to relax."

"If that's what you want to believe then go ahead. If you actually want to be sure though you can always ask Charles to read his mind for you."

"I'm not going to ask someone I barely know to invade the privacy of someone else I don't know all that well."

"Fine. We'll have to do this the old fashioned way."

"What?" I asked

"You'll have to use your feminine charm to woo him."

"You're kidding right? My feminine charm? You realize I don't have any of that right?"

"You will soon." She began to laugh as maniacally as a twenty year old woman could and looked through my closet for what I assumed would be clothes that would help me with my 'feminine charm'.

"Just please don't dress me like a skank"

"Oh you're no fun" Lindsey said and started throwing things on my bed. "Just you wait. Erik is going to lose his mind when he sees you."