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"Morning Felicity!" Layla called while standing at the diva in training's bus stop.

"Morning Layla! Happy we graduate by all practical means today?" Felicity called to her red-headed friend as she sauntered down the gravel driveway.

"Mm... more that happy... Cocoa?" Layla offered from her thermos. Felicity was about to reach it but stopped to fix a level look at the redhead.

"This isn't your organic extra dark chocolate is it?" Layla rescinded the thermos since she knew Felicity would say not to the gloriously bitter brew. Felicity shivered.

"How can you stand that stuff? I nearly puckered last time I tried it." Layla grinned.

"The bitterness is what makes it so good! I normally like sweet things, but not chocolate. It's got to be extra bitter for me." The Origami Samurai shook her head as the bus came.

"So Layla, any reason you go on my stop instead of yours?"

"Hmm? Oh Will left to take his gym test earlier then the rest of us so that they had time to repair the gym after he was done, so I decided to get up early to go to yours." Felicity chuckled.

"Not Warren's or Magenta's or Zack's?" Layla fixed her with a look.

"Please I may be crazy but even I don't annoy Warren Peace before he's had his coffee. Which by the way he takes with obscene amounts of cream and sugar." It was just like Layla to know that, so Felicity didn't comment on the random info. "And besides Magenta's a bitch before noon anyways, you know that, and to deal with Zack first thing in the morning guaranteeing a headache." Felicity laughed, that was true. They pulled up to an inner city stop and the girls looked in confusion at the surroundings.

"Isn't this..."

"Attention Sky High Students, due an illness going around the bus drivers for Sky High this bus, along with others, now have to double on runs. If you can procure other means of transportation for this afternoon, please do so. In the meantime double or triple up." The Intercom shut off and the door opened to reveal Warren Peace, and in a right foul mood. Layla got up and sat with the Larry across the aisle to give him room. The caffeine deprived maniac grunted and swung into the seat next to Felicity and promptly fell over on her. She took his Starbucks' cinnamon latte out of his tired hand so it didn't spill and let him sleep on her shoulder.

Once they were air born Felicity shook him awake and handed him his cooled coffee.

"Stayed up last night studying?" Warren nodded yawning. He chugged the liquid in the cup in one motion, and slumped against the seat waiting for the rush to kick in. Layla giggled at the sight of the sleepy Pyro but didn't comment any further at the look he gave her. "There's Layla's infamous Cocoa, that should jolt you awake." Warren blindly grabbed the proffered thermos and drank greedily. A moment later he shot up with a look of disgust on his face. Felicity couldn't help but laugh at his face.


Warren pulled the sweater closer to his body as he wound through the snow covered floating ice rink known as sky high. A few people had actually gotten ice skates to navigate the slippery frozen pavement.

"It was pretty stupid of them to drive right though an ice storm last night wasn't it?" Magenta sneered.

"Ice storm? I heard a bunch of guys got on campus last night and stole all the freeze rays out of Medulla's class." Ethan interjected, adjusting his glasses. Felicity shrugged as she followed Warren as he melted the ice in his path on hi way to the building. Layla laughed.

"Besides I heard they had tested the Elementals way early this morning out here, and an Icy had a break down and nearly froze the entire class." She supplied. Warren and Felicity stopped to look at her.

"And how, pray tell, did you hear that when we didn't?"

"I overheard it. Duh." The duo shook their heads and continued on it.

"OH! Warren. Remember the thing I talked to you about?" He grunted.

"And in Warrenese that translates as yes." She teased; she checked her watch and her eyes grew wide. "We got to get a move on." He grunted again and grabbed her hand.

"MOVE!" He bellowed and the crowd they had been fighting parted. The two rushed inside, Felicity fighting the giggles over his fearsome power. They rounded corners and pounded up flights of stairs until they had reached Principal Powers office. The threw open the door and rushed inside to sit on the seats, as Powers would not deal with people while standing.

The Principal flicked her eyebrow up as she inclined her head just enough to fully look at them. She turned back to her papers.

"Just in time you two." Was all she said. Moments of silence stretched by as she finished the paperwork from the previous student in her office. She filed the paperwork away and looked at the two critically.

"Winter is a busy time for us at Sky High. As you are probably well aware of those with family jobs or careers that do not require further education are given work experience credit, and are in effect allowed to graduate after the first semester of their senior year. Sidekicks and Supers who require college credits being the exception because they require further training and we offer a wide variety of other academics the Supers they are paired with to choose for their sidekick to learn." She didn't sound as if she thought much of that idea. "But, that's not entirely why you're here is it? Mr. Armstrong already proposed your group's idea to me. I'll admit. It is unorthodox. But not impossible to arrange. We'll contact you all individually to discuss this further." She dismissed them.


The group had split up for First Exams. Felicity went off to her Super's English class long with Warren and Magenta while. The other's divided between Super Heroes and Villains 101 and Heroic Basics.


What do the acronyms TCBSS HHRRZP and SSHROTZPQ stand for? The answers trailed on until Felicity reached Answer "F"

F) B.U.L.L.S.H.I.T. (Do NOT select this answer it is NOT the answer) Felicity bit her lip to keep from laughing out loud.

She finished the test and wrote a little note to stick it in the answer booklet.

For question number 86, the test answer is A, which I selected. But really the answer IS F. Felicity sat back down and dug out her laptop; She turned the sound off and started surfing the web. Moments later muffled laughter reached her ears and she looked up over her monitor to grin at her teacher.

Warren was next to finish the test and dropped a note on Felicity's desk.

Chinese after school today? Felicity bit her lips and shook her head at him. She jotted a note down on paper and crumpled it up and flicked it at him.

Warren unfurled the paper and read the message.

Love to, can't how about after work? I get off at eight today. He pulled out a new piece of paper and wrote his reply on itand tossed her the balled up note.

Can't. Mom's making me buy my graduation outfit. Felicity grinned, Warren's mom was convinced her boy wasn't going to graduate. So now that its close and his grades are actually decent, she's going hog wild with the preparations.

Are you going to Layla and Will's Housewarming/Graduation party for Will/Christmas party? She wrote back, changing the subject.

You ask like I have a choice in the matter, you forget they know where I live. Warren replied. At some point in the last two weeks Layla and Will had managed to convince both the William and the Stronghold families to let them move out and into an apartment. Mrs. Lent excused anyone who was done taking their test before Felicity could reply.


"Isn't your Birthday coming up soon?" Warren asked as the two made there way to the Cafeteria, where they would be serving food all day to out of class testers. Felicity sighed as he reminded her.

"Yeah, that's why I'm desperately hoping to land the recording contract." Warren looked confused. Felicity saw the confused look on his face and clarified. "Warren, I'm turning eighteen. As in no longer a minor... as in no longer covered by my mum's diplomatic visa... as in I will be deported unless I can become a citizen."

"Oh..." The two got in the short line and picked up cups of Hot Chocolate and Maple Buns before turning to find a table.

"But aren't there exceptions for superheroes? Or could you be a Diplomat like your mom?" Felicity shook her head.

"The Diplomat title was an award for helping to save the city. And I could, but it'd have to be done like today because I turn eighteen Monday and you have to still be a minor to apply for a Super's Visa, mostly because of bureaucratic bullshit involving numbers or active Supers or some shit, since minors by law can't act as Heroes without a permit." Warren remembered when Will crammed his Heroing Permit down everyone's throats.

"Damned if you do damned if you don't." He yawned as they found a secluded table.

After several cups of overly sugary Cocoa and a few too many sickeningly sweet buns they waddled off to their next class slightly greenfaced.


"Will Felicity MacLeod please come to the principal's office." Felicity slid off the bench in the cafeteria she had sat herself on since she really had no final in Choir. She grabbed her bags, ruffled Zack's hair just to piss him off and sauntered down the hallway she would sing but there were people who were still taking tests. She made it to the office and opened the door letting herself in and sat down in front of the woman.

Powers had already written the correct the name on top of the paper and slid it over to the seated girl. On it was a rather long list of subjects for the hero to choose his or her sidekick to learn. Right off the bat Felicity circled Pilots Ed, basic hand to hand, and Conversational Chinese. The Origami Samurai studied the list a little bit further. Knew how to swim... Felicity also circled Motorcycle Ed. She refused to have a sidecar on the beautiful black bike her grandfather was buying her. She also circled Conversational Japanese. Culinary Arts. And Basic Weaponry. Felicity slid the paper back and accepted the new one to fill out. It was a Super Identification From. The SIF was the government's way to keep track of all the meta-humans in the world. She filled it out with her name, the Super Identity she would like to have, the phone number she would like to have (she checked the "no preference" box), the summary of her powers and weaknesses, where she could be currently reached, her current address, ect. Once done with that powers handed her a third paper. It was the request form for a super powered team up, claiming her responsibly for two sidekicks since there wasn't an even number of graduating students. Felicity looked up at Powers who smiled and gestured her to finish the paper. She wrote that yes, Will and Warren would be her benefactors for Super Duties should anything happen and they had already signed her as one of theirs. Her sidekick (whose Super name she left blank, telling Power's that she'd rather they choose) and that she will respond to any crisis as a member of the team, whom they had left unnamed to argue about later (Felicity had a sneaking suspicion The Team would indeed be the name) and finished the rest to the best of her ability. Felicity could felt he tears prick at her eyes, they may not have known it, but they gave her citizenship by a civil union in the form of a Super Team.


Felicity skipped out of her final class, Gym whistling a tune while Warren walked besides her good humouredly. He was actually smiling he was in such a good mood, which only made Felicity in a better mood since his smile she privately likened it to a ray of sunshine through the dark turbulence of a hurricane. And she will lop of your bits if you ever repeat that. She hummed an appropriate little ditty about Christmas cheer and stopped by her locker to empty it out. Warren left to go do the same to his locker when Sabrina's voice came from behind him.

"Hey Warry-pookey." Warren gagged at the name, his good mood rapidly vanishing.

"Listen. I. Am. Not. Your. Boyfriend!" Warren briefly wondered why it was that girls seemed to be inexplicably attracted to him. Hell he still had the bizarre lumpy present Beauty, Will's fourteen year old cousin, had given him... no wait he threw that away. There was a sigh from behind him.

"I like know that. Listen I was just coming to like apologize, cause I was like new and choir's always been my thing you know, and I come here and all anyone can talk about is like ... her" she said the word darkly. "In choir it was all "oh she saved my life" and "oh she sings like an angel" and "yeah right Felicity's going to get the lead, you watch.". And I got like really sick of it and so when I like saw her for the first time I was like shocked because well... she was totally not what I expected, but like people still ooohed and aaahhhed over her. So I like struck out you know? And so then..." She just wouldn't shut up... Warren knew she was trying to say something character revealing and whatnot but she just chattered in one non-stop babble of gum smacking and "like"s and "totally"s

"Sabrina. I don't care. Go bug someone else." Sabrina, probably for the first time since he knew her, actually looked hurt. He watched as she realized he wasn't going to start apologizing and ran off to bitch him out to the first ear that would listen.

"That... was a little cold mate." Warren shrugged.

"She'll live." Felicity shook her head, she knew full in well Warren was not a nice person to those outside the group. The half girl threaded her arm through his with no protests and they both walked out of the school towards the buses.


"DJ Felicity over to you live from Radioland! Stop by Radioland HQ for all your music needs. I'm kicking off the hour with a modern day twist of an old classic. Here's Santa Baby by Willa Ford!" Felicity paused in her DJ chatter to turn the song on and ring up a customer.

"Thanks and have a great Holiday." Felicity sincerely wished the woman. The Bing of a Message hitting her mail box turned her to the computer where she answered any emails sent to her.

Miss MacLeod,

Congratulations, you've passed Mad Sciences with a 98.

I look forward to your performance tomorrow.

Your, No-longer, Professor,

Medulla.

P.S. For all of your attention drawing antics, it truly was a pleasure teaching you.

I anxiously await the selling of your first album.

Felicity smiled at the email as she took another request. In the middle of the next song "How Far We've Come" Felicity received two more messages.

Felicity,

You've passed Choir, like you didn't know that.

Don't talk too much; remember you need that voice my staring lead.

Mrs. Merlot.

The next one read:

Origami,

You've passed Gym. Congrats.

That one made her laugh. She could hear the sarcasm in his voice. Another beep told her yet another digi-report card came in.

Felicity,

It's been a distracted pleasure in having you in class.

I WILL miss your jokes.

You have an 87

Ms. Lent

Felicity wondered why they were all emailing her about her grades but found it to be irrelevant as she opened another personal message, this time from Principal Powers.

Miss MacLeod,

Congratulation, you have passed all of your classes with 80 or higher. I also have the pleasure of informing you that all of your paperwork has filed through and everything is in order, you will receive in the mail tomorrow your package containing Citizenship details and Super details and necessary items. The others have not been informed yet.

Have a Wonderful Christmas and New Years and I will see you again at the graduation ceremony in May.

Principal Powers.

Felicity almost squealed in air she was so excited. Hastily she put the machine on to screen calls and run random Christmas Carols while she hopped over the register part and ran into the studio booth to make a few quick calls.


Warren grouchily tugged at his dark navy collar and black tie as his mother cooed and snapped pictures, His phone rang, giving him an excuse to dash back into the changing booth and remove the overly tight tie.

"Yeah?"

"I'm a citizen! Legally! The paperwork just went through!" Warren couldn't believe his ears.

"Ah Felicity... that's, that's great! Wait does this mean the?"

"Yes, You me and Will are now part of a small supers team!" Warren couldn't contain it; he began jumping up and down whooping at the good news.

"Uh Sir? If you can't contain your behavior, I'm going to have to ask you to leave." A store employee said knocking on the door to his stall. Warren cursed and apologized.

"Yeah hey Felicity? I'm going to have to let you go, I'm in a changing stall." There was a brief stutter of apology and the click of the signal disconnecting. Warren grinned as he put up with his mother's nitpicking.


Will put the couch down on the staircase he was climbing and let it rest against his legs to keep it from sliding down the stairs again while he dug into his pocket.

"Hello?"

"The papers just came though everything's good to go." Will smiled.

"Oh, that's a load off my mind; do you know when we get our confirmations and stuff?"

"Tomorrow, hey Will? My break's over. I'll talk to you tomorrow after the concert."

"No problem. See you tomorrow."


Felicity's excitement woke her up bright and early and she practically pranced out of her house to scare the Mail Man and greedily snatch the boxes and such he was delivering to the house. With a sweet smile she whirled back in with a rushed "Happy Holidays" and shut the door.

Like a kid at Christmas she shredded the containers and dumped out her sleek shiny new red phone, government issued. They weren't supposed to get these till graduation, but hers Will's and Warren's were a special case. She turned it on and the standard start up music chimed bright and loud. She busied herself for twenty minutes configuring everything before setting it aside and opening the other boxes.

"Ohayo Felicity." Her mother stumbled out in her robe, blinking blearily and yawning as she greeted her energetic daughter. She poured herself a cup of coffee and picked the red phone off the table. The older woman took a sip of the drink and peered at the phone.

"Eight megapixel camera, fourteen hours of audio and video memory, holds up to two-hundred numbers. Boy they sure are a lot better then the ones we used to get." Felicity had gotten a screwdriver and was opening the DNA receptor on her communicator to input her biometrics system on it.

"They aren't even allowed on the market yet for another thirty years. And that's not all they do. They surf the web, you can hack with them, which is why I'm glad I took those computer hacking basics courses in high school, they stream TV live, and they can send and receive Video in real time. And they can program the VCR/DVD player." Saeko turned the phone over to gaze at the screen in the back. There was even small channel and volume buttons on the side. Felicity's communicator beeped to signify its connection to the Super grid.

The Communicator was fashioned like a stylish leather band for her wrist, with a brushed metal pendant that would rearrange to her Super's initials when she changed. She didn't know how it understood when she was going on duty, but this little baby was by far the most complex piece of equipment she'd ever seen. Not only did it monitor your Bio, but it signaled other supers in the area of your presence, and alerted your Teammates/Sidekick when you were in trouble. She pressed a small button on the side to cause it to morph into the communicator aspect and she flipped it open. It beeped quietly and displayed a dead screen. She pressed another button and a tiny little drawer shot out with an almost microscopic tracker in it while the screen turned into a radar.

"Cool." Saeko, who was watching over her daughter's shoulder, ooh in agreement. Felicity shut the drawer and fastened it on her wrist, turning it back to its civilian disguise. The Origami Samurai opened the rest of the packages, a small note congratulating her on her citizenship status and a legal US passport, no questions asked. Several licenses for the various classes she had taken in Sky High, such as her driver's license, her pilot's license, her motorcycle driver's license, her heroing license, her permits needed to go about daily super life, such as her Secret Layer Permit. Advertisements about what places to buy houses in that don't ask questions, and who to see about building your own Secret Layer. A detailed list of all the super's in the area... by the time Felicity was done her head was pounding.

"Oi, they sure don't make thing easy for a newbie do they?" Saeko chuckled.

"Most people ignore most of this stuff." Her mother assured. Felicity nodded but put the stuff away in her bedroom for safe keeping.

"Mom' I'm going to shower and get ready for rehearsal today." She called from her room as she wandered to the bathroom with her rehearsal outfit.


"One two three four!..." The Girls counted through the steps they were well familiar with as practice before performing the song to the actual music.

"I've been searching for a man...

All across the land...

Yes I need, I need my Samurai!" The three Asian girls took their turns singing the lyrics as they danced around waving around the fans someone had donated. When they had run through that song several times through anyone not going a solo was released for the rest of the day.

"From the top Felicity."

The music started and Felicity waited.

"Dancing bears, Painted wings

Things I almost remember

And a song someone sings

Once upon a December"

She swayed the to music letting the song carry her into the prearranged steps she had memorized the song with.

"And a song someone sings

Once upon a December..." She drew off as the song ended. There was a brief pause in between the songs as the person in the DJ booth jerked up out of their stupor and switched over to the song the next girl was going to sing.

"That was beautiful Felicity." Merlot commented as the half girl helped herself to the table of refreshments. Felicity smiled from around a glass of punch.

"Thanks, I'm somewhat bummed we didn't get to do the Halloween concert, but I like a lot of the songs for this concert better."

"I know but things happen. On the bright side the new stage should be finished for the Spring Concert." Felicity nodded. As she snagged a buttery chocolate square and washed it down with a second helping of punch. "And if we can fundraise enough we might be able to buy that fancy new sound equipment you have installed." Felicity smiled again and chose a strawberry tart.


Warren found Will and the rest sitting front row.

"Hey Warren! Can you believe the years over and all of us have graduated?" That comment earned him a nasty look from the sidekicks in the group. The Sidekicks, being Magenta Zack and Layla, still had to go through additional sidekick training, and since Warren Will and Felicity didn't need any further education for their chosen careers they could skip the next semester. Mrs. MacLeod grinned as she took the seat on the other side of Warren.

"Hello, how are you all?" She said amicably.

"Hello Mrs. MacLeod Ma'am." The group was still slightly frightened of the diminutive Asian woman. Medulla, who had been in the row behind them leaned forward.

"How did you do that?" He asked. She smiled at him and replied simply.

"I'm a Mother."

The lights dimmed once the theater was full and settled and a bright spotlight shined on the center of the black curtains. Felicity dressed in a stylish representation of a 1920's Gangster Moll came through the curtains.

"Welcome! And thanks for coming. From what I can see we have a packed house tonight!" She shaded her eyes to peer through the light to the back rows.

"Well, as you know this year we couldn't hold our concert at the school. But we were able to procure this beautiful theater for our show so that story has a happy ending. However, we, the Sky High School for Super's Choir Class is in trouble, and it's not just the Choir, any class that uses the Stage is in trouble, not only will it take months more for the stage to be built, we don't even have sound equipment yet. We're currently borrowing a soundboard from Radioland, where you can find all your music needs." She paused and made a face allowing the audience to laugh. "Sorry, I'm so used to adding that last bit on that I do it every time now." She clapped her hands. "Anyways, so please when you leave there will be Choir girls running a Booth there, where you can buy autographed pictures of the girls in the show for five, order a DVD for ten dollars, buy the CD of all the songs sang here sung by the girls for ten, or other items or just donate straight into the donation bin. We need five thousand dollars, sound equipment is not cheep. And with every donation or purchase higher then thirty dollars your name goes on a plaque in the Auditorium." She ended her little speech. "So... without further ado... Lets get it Started!" The crowd applauded as the black curtains receded to reveal a holographic background, made by a supped up projector courtesy of Medulla.

"I've been a bad bad girl

I've been careless

With a delicate man

And it's a sad sad world

When a girl will break a boy

Just because she can." Felicity wagged her finger in mock reproach

The song continued as she pranced around loosing herself in the music. Chorus after lyric flowed out as she swung slowly on a steel bar placed there for her to. She climbed black wooden stairs made to look like the steel versions found in the back of apartment buildings. The back alley intercity look selling the song. Felicity replayed the well practiced moves until the end of the song.

"Because he's all

I ever knew of love" She drew off the end of the song and the crowd cheered. Felicity ducked backstage and hurried into her next costume as people whispered congrats to her.

The concert really flew by for both the dancers and the audience until the last song of the night. Felicity Alicia and Angela came out.

"Ding Dong

Ding Dong

Ding Dong...

Hark hear the bells sweet silver bells

All seem to say, though cares away

Christmas is here bring in the cheer

to young and old, meek and the bold..." They sang in trio. They stayed perfectly motionless, only their moths movie to sing the song. The back ground hosted a Beautiful Snowy old Town Square and they were dressed as Carolers. When the final notes of the song came they bowed to the roar of applause and waited till the curtains closed before standing up straight.

"Ladies! That was beautiful! Thank you all so much now get changed and get out of here! Happy Holidays to you all!" A teary Merlot cried as the girls went about scavenging for their items of clothing. Felicity found her jeans and sweater and hurried off stage and through the back.


"Felicity! Oh you were wonderful!" Layla latched onto her squeezing the girl till she squeaked.

"Wonderful performance Miss McLeod." Medulla bid her as he held up a CD as away of showing proof of his support. Within moments she was surrounded by a crowd of people cheering for her. She excused herself from the crowd and followed Layla back to the large green van she owned. Felicity Climbed in the back, next to an already sat Warren and buckled her seatbelt when the van started.

"You were great Felicity." The chorus of sentiments that followed left Felicity feeling like the whole evening was some sort of Christmas enchantment. She was that indescribably happy. It was like at the end of the movie where everything's perfect again and they teens all go to the ocean and jump off the cliff or something that bitter-sweetly beautiful. Of course Maxville didn't have any cliffs. Felicity giggled at her thoughts just in time for the snow to start slowly falling around her. She leaned across Warren to watch the flakes drift, remembering not fully a month ago she had been trapped with the man, alone in his apartment. Had she been a more wanton woman she would have made an advance on him, but was glad that in the wake of that emotional night, they had become closer then ever.

She could feel the hitch in his breath. Slowly she turned to look into his dark eyes and saw for the first time all the things there, her own breath hitched in reply as her fingers slowly entwined with his warm ones.


DONE!! Wooot!!

And it is with great relish I proclaim ONE CHAPTER LEFT!!

And it's the epilogue XD.

Oh, I'd put the entire song lyrics up, but then this story would be about thirty pages not nineteen.

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