Title: Lorna Dane on M-Day
Author:
NathaliaMueller
Rating:
K.

Timeframe: Decimation.
Characters:
Polaris.
Genre:
Angst.
Summary:
Polaris of the X-Men has to deal with the loss of her powers after M-Day.
A/N:
I wrote this before reading What Lorna Saw and thus didn't know this Doop thing (that wasn't to my liking) would happen. I would have preferred it not to happen but I added the last two sentences as a kind of foreshadowing to it.

Lorna Dane, the X-Man Polaris, looked into the mirror and even though she sees herself, she doesn't feel like herself. She had always been defined by her powers to control magnetism, but now they were gone, the part of her that had led her to become a hero had vanished. Now, she wasn't Polaris any longer, she was Lorna Dane.

Never again would she be able to do what she had done without much thinking in the past, never again would she fight evil. Now she was a mere woman without a purpose, with nowhere to go.

How could that have happened to her? Why her? She was the daughter of the most powerful mutant alive, Magneto, and she had been robbed of her powers. With such a father, one should have been sure that the crisis would have no effect. How could she have been reduced to a mere homo sapiens?

She reached up and touched her long, green hair. It had been the first hint, the first sign of her being a mutant and she had tried to hide it in the beginning. Now that she knew she had lost it, it angered her that once she hadn't been proud of it. Her flowing hair was still green, but as it grew, it would turn to a normal colour, blond or brown perhaps, and she would look like an ordinary human being, the last little part of her mutancy would be lost and she would probably never again be able to restore it.

It sounded haughty and arrogant, but Lorna thought that she had the RIGHT to have her powers. She was the daughter of the best-known mutant on Earth, on Genosha she had nearly been worshipped, called a princess ... She had been one of the few to survive the massacre on Genosha. She had been through so much and still, they had stripped her of her powers, of one of the things that defined her. She had no place to go now, nowhere to turn. She couldn't stay at the mansion, there was no place for her, here. She couldn't bear the thought of having to see the other mutants who still had their powers fight while she had to go hiding. No, she would have to leave, to follow this strange urge she was feeling. The future had something in store for her.