Warren woke up shocked to see Peyton asleep with her head resting on his chest. He smiled and lent forward to smell her hair, he really loved having her around she made him feel like he really was everything she said he was. Warren looked up at the clock on the wall, it was 10:30 his father would be at work by now. It wasn't long after Warren had woken up that Peyton did too. She smiled at him and said good morning.
"So what are we doing today?" She said to him with her head still on his chest.
"You want to spend the day with me?" Warren said with surprise.
"Of course I do" said Peyton laughing a little "Why don't we go out for breakfast"
"Lunch" said Warren pointing towards the clock.
"Ok, lunch" Peyton agreed "and then we could go shopping"
"Shopping?"
"Yeah I need some new clothes, I'm not wearing these for more than two days in a row" Peyton said sitting up
"You're staying here longer?" Warren sat up too, looking surprised that she wanted to stay longer
"Of course" said Peyton "oh, is that alright with you?"
Angel sighed dramatically "If you must" he said and Peyton threw a pillow at him playfully, he laughed and threw it back at her.
When they finally got up Peyton had a shower and put on her clothes from yesterday, she walked out into the kitchen to see Warren who was clean shaven, showered and dressed in new clothes. He looked up at her and smiled he walked around the table towards her and held out his arm "Ready to go ma'am" he said putting on a British accent. Peyton laughed and hooked her arm around his.
They walked down the street laughing and joking until they got to a restaurant. They walked inside and sat at a table and were just about to order when their table exploded into fire, the young man from outside Peyton's house walked up to them and grabbed Peyton round the wrist lifting her to her feet and pulling her close to him "Did you think we wouldn't find you Peyton?" he said with a sneer.
"What do you want from me?" she said
"The name's Pyro" he answered her, ignoring her question "We are he to take you to Magneto"
Before Peyton could say anything Angel had tackled Pyro, he let go of Peyton a fell to the ground. "Come on" said Angel grabbing her and trying to get her out of the restaurant.
"You're not going anywhere" Pyro called out after them. Peyton turned just in time to see Pyro shoot fire at them, Peyton closed her eyes and put her hands up to shield her face, she waited but the fire never hit her, she opened her eyes and saw the fire was dancing in the air almost half a meter from her hands.
Pyro who was still lying on the ground couldn't figure out what had happened. He tried to push the fire forward but it just hung in the air in the same spot. "What the hell?" he yelled.
"Peyton, are you doing that?" Angel asked.
"I, I think so" she answered and waved her arm, as she did the fire disappeared. "Oh my god" she said slightly breathlessly.
"Yo, Ripper get 'em!" Pyro called out to a man sitting at a nearby table, the man got up and swung his arm at Angel walking forward at the same time and grabbing Peyton by the arm.
Angel cried in pain and Peyton hit the man but he just laughed and carried her back further. Pyro got up off the ground and walked towards Angel, he took out a lighter and moved the fire into a ball in his hand. "NO!" screamed Peyton and she swung her arm out trying to get away. There was a ripping sound and then blood spurted out of Pyro's back.
"Jesus" Peyton whispered shocked. Ripper let go of Peyton and she ran towards Angel helping him up "are you ok?"
"Are you?" said Angel holding the cut on his chest. They ran out of the restaurant "Help me get my shirt off" Angel told her "We need to get out of here, fast"
But Peyton was already on that, she grabbed Warrens hand and concentrated, then she felt it and heard her shirt rip, she looked over her shoulder and saw that she had two white wings spurting out of her back, she flapped them and took flight holding Warren under his arms.
"What? How did you do that?" he yelled up at her.
"I don't know!" she answered.
"Let go, I have my wing loose now, I can fly by myself" he called up to her with a smile.
She did what he said and he fell for a second or two but then his wings exploded out of the harness, he flew up nest to her and looked at her wings dumbfounded.
They flew to the top of a building when they landed they folded up their wings but to both Angels and Peyton's surprise hers disappeared.
Warren walked around behind Peyton and inspected her back, there wasn't even a mark left on her back, not a single sign that she just had wings growing out of her back.
"Peyton" Warren said "How did that happen"
Peyton suddenly beamed at him "I must be a mutant too!"
"What so you can copy other people's powers?"
"I guess so" she shrugged still smiling "should we get down and go back to your place now?"
"I don't think we should go back there. They found us really easily I think they know we were there last night" said Warren
"We could go stay with my brother" she suggested "He is a mutant too, my parents kicked him out when they found out."
"Will you be safe there?" said Warren.
"Yeah, we both will be." Peyton smiled "He will let you stay with us too. He lives on the other side of town so it will be fine there"
Warren nodded "Lead the way"
Peyton beamed at him and said "I can't believe this is happening! You know, ever since I was a little girl I have wanted wings" then she closed her eyes and concentrated, then smiled as wings slowly formed out of her back. She grabbed Warrens hand and took off.
They landed half an hour later outside a yellow house. It wasn't very well taken care of, the paint was all peeling off and the garden was full of weeds and dead plants. Peyton opened the gate and motioned for Warren to follow.
"Well, this is uh…" Warren couldn't think of exactly what to say about this place.
"A dump" Peyton helped him finish and Warren laughed.
They walked to the door and Peyton knocked while they waited for an answer Warren asked "Peyton what's his mutation?"
The door opened and Warren saw what was an arm stretching all the way to the door from somewhere around the corner. "He stretches" Peyton said.
"In the lounge room!" a voice called out.
Peyton ran in and jumped up behind her brother covering his eyes with her hands "Guess who!" she said laughing.
"Oh my God! Peyt?" He said turned round and grapping her in a bear hug. "Peyt No way! I haven't seen you in…forever"
"Billy I've missed you so much" she said
"What the hell are you doin' here?" he asked
"Well, um, we need a place to stay" Peyton told him.
"We?" said Billy.
"Me and my friend Warren" said Peyton bringing Warren who was standing behind her to Billy's attention.
"Oh, how you doing? The names Billy" said her brother stretching his hand about two meters longer than it should have been, offering it to Warren to shake his hand.
"Um, hi" he said shaking it.
"Sorry, I s'pose you wasn't expecting a mutant?" Billy asked him.
"Actually Warren is one too" Peyton told him.
"Oh really?" said Billy, Warren nodded and turn showing him his wings. Warren didn't feel very comfortable doing this but he figured Peyton would want him to see them. "Whoa! Cool! Dude can you, like… fly?"
"Uh, Yes" Warren answered, thinking to himself that it was a rather stupid question to ask a man with 6 foot wings on his back.
"Awesome bro!" Billy shouted with a stupid smile on his face then he turned to Peyton and said "Aw poor Peyt, all left out, the only ones without any powers" he stretched and poked her in the arm laughing.
"Um actually…" Peyton said stretching her arm just as long as her brother had and poked him back.
"Dude!" he said happily "You're a stretcher! Just like your big brother!"
"Actually I can only stretch like you because I touched you and I can get wings like Warren too, see?" she told him as she grew the wings again.
"…What? I don't get it" he said with a blank look on his face.
Not the sharpest tool in the shed, this one thought Angel.
"I can copy other people's powers" she said "I did it first this morning, when these two guys attacked us. Warren and I went out for breakfast and then this guy through fire at us and another somehow cut open Warrens skin when he swung his arm at him, I got their powers too" Peyton said.
"Whoa, dude that's heavy" said Billy.
"Yeah"
"Anyways you guys can share my room. I usually sleep out here on the couch anyway so I don't mind" Billy told them.
