"Callie!" Jess shouted, poking her sister to which Callie mumbled something and turned over.
"Callie, get up!" She shouted again, shoving her sister off the bed this time to which she grumbled and sat up, untangling herself from the blankets.
"What is so important that you have to wake me up at 3 in the morning?" Callie asked, looking at Jessie who was sitting like a cat on her sister's bed.
"Look," Jessie said simply to which she clicked her finger and sparks flew from them.
"Do that again," Callie said, watching as Jessie clicked her fingers, this time louder and the bulb on Callie's bedside table exploded, plunging the two of them in to darkness. It was then that Callie noticed Jess's eyes, gleaming at her in the darkness.
"Can you see in the dark?" She asked, moving closer to the pair of gleaming eyes.
"Yep," Jessie replied, jumping off the bed and going to turn the main light on.
"You're finally a freak like me," Callie said, standing up and smiling at her little sister who gave a squeal and hugged her sister.
"Does it not occur to you that people sleep this time of night?" A gruff voice asked from the doorway. The two girls turned to see Logan standing in the door frame, the darkened hall behind him.
"Jess got her power," Callie said, smiling at Logan who rolled his eyes and headed back to his own room.
"You'll have to tell the professor in the morning, I'm not sure he'll be too keen on being woken up this early," Callie said, walking back in to Jessie's room with her to help her get back to sleep.
"Do I have to go to sleep? I'm not tired," She complained as Callie tucked her little sister up in bed.
"Yes because if you don't by 5 o'clock tomorrow you'll be a cranky little madam," Callie replied, kissing her sister on the forehead and heading back to her own room.
"Callie," She heard her sister call, making her pause in the doorway.
"Yes, oh little sis?" she asked, turning to look at her.
"Thanks," Jessie said simply before curling up in bed.
Callie flicked the light off and headed through in to her own room before smiling and heading back to bed herself.
The next morning she and Jessie headed through the bustle of activity that accompanied the arrival of the students and headed to the professors office, the door to which was already open.
"You might want to cancel Jessie's place at normal school," Callie said as the two of them headed in, Jessie beaming like a Cheshire cat.
"And why's that?" The professor asked, acting dumb for Jessie's sake.
"I am Blackout!" Jessie said with so much excitement all the light bulbs in the room exploded.
"And blackout needs to learn to control that ability," Callie added, hugging her sister who grinned sheepishly.
"Well then, shall we enrol you in class here?" The professor asked, smiling at Callie over Jessie's sheepishness and lack of control.
"Are you going to enrol Callie too?" Jessie asked, sitting down in one of the chairs.
"Sweetie, I'm too old for school. But I'm not old to help you with your homework," Callie said, smiling as she patted her sister on the shoulder and left her and the professor to discuss the classes without her presence looming over them.
"Cal!" Chris shouted as he spotted Callie emerge from the professor's office.
"Hey, what's crack-a-lacking," Callie replied, waiting for Chris to catch up to her before heading off to get some breakfast.
"Crack-a-lacking? I think you might be," Chris replied, following her to the kitchen before carrying on, "I'm heading off home this afternoon, you seem to be in good hands here."
"I'll go to the airport with you, at least to see you're safely there," She said, deciding to spend the rest of the day with him before he went.
That afternoon the three of them, Chris, Callie and Logan, piled in to the car. Logan coming because he'd refused to let Callie go alone.
At the airport Callie and Chris said they're goodbyes and watched as he headed to catch his plane.
"So what do you think?" Callie asked as she and Logan got back in the car.
"I think he's a guy," Logan said simply, smiling as he looked at Callie who rolled her eyes and muttered something about men.
"Let's get pizza," She said after a moment making Logan raise an eyebrow at her.
"What? You mutants don't eat pizza?" She asked after a moment making Logan shake his head and turn down a road to town to get pizza. He wasn't sure why but he'd taken a liking to Callie.
"Okay, go and get pizza, I'll wait here for you, save me trying to park this thing," Logan said, stopping outside a pizzeria.
"I'll be back with a good old margarita," Callie said, jumping out of the car and heading in to the pizzeria, ordering the pizzas before popping to the loo after the hour long journey to the airport.
As she headed in to the loo, giving Logan a thumbs up before she went, the last thing she saw was the reflection of a guy in the mirror before blacking out.
Logan sat outside for another fifteen minutes before putting the brakes on and walking in to the pizzeria.
"Oi bub, where did the brunette girl go?" He asked, bypassing the line straight to the desk.
"Loo," He replied, shrugging. Logan simply turned and walking in to the women's toilet, and immediately gaining the scent of something untoward.