That night as Madalin sits on the bathroom counter brushing her hair, she hears her mother on the phone.
"Professor… She's beginning to show her powers…. Yes, I understand that… She knows about them… No, not yet… No Charles. I don't want her to meet them yet… other X-men, sure… yes professor…. I'm just not ready to lose my baby girl…"
Madalin sighs and puts the brush down and props her elbows on her knees and puts her chin in her hands. She feels a pressure in her head and suddenly she hears someone else in her head.
Rem? Jubilee walks over behind her husband and massages his shoulders. Professor is bringing Logan and Storm.
Jub. She's going to be fine. She loves us, and knows we love her. We raised her, she won't forget us. Remy looks over his shoulder at her.
I know… I'm just afraid that once she sees them, sees the resemblance she'll feel like they are her parents. Not us. All these years of taking care of her, of holding her when she was hurt… of watching her sleep. Watching her first heartbreak… it'll all be for nothing.
Jubilee hears a scream
Maddy is launched back into her own body, her own thoughts back in her head. She sees flames engulfing the shower curtain and spreading throughout the bathroom, climbing the walls, her own hair on fire. The scream she heard was her own.
She trys to see an escape, but the doorways is already filled with flames. Terror overcomes her mind, making it impossible to focus. Her parents thoughts flood her mind.
Where is Maddy? Her mother brain screams.
Mad… oh chere…. Her father's mind shoots back,
Maddy can tell they have escaped the house and the flames. As the thoughts come more freely from not only her parents but her neighbors, she loses control and accidently sends out a telepathic burst of energy and knocks everyone out.
It registers with her that the flames in her hair should be hurting her. By now they should have moved to her face and shoulders… but they haven't. She begins to stare at the flames and see that while they were burning everything down, they avoided her, around her, and the flames were doing no damage. She could touch them, and feel nothing, just a strange thickness to the air. She decides to try to leave through the door.
As she steps toward it her mind races. Fear floods her. What if these flames were different? What if these flames hurt her. Killed her. She takes a shaky step toward the door, and another. A deep breath and shes in the door way. The flames all over her body, yet not hurting her.
She sprints for the door, steps into the yard, dashes to the tree she always played under as a kid and sees her parents passed out under it.
A jet flys overhead and a freak storm puts out the flames. As the flames are taken out, Maddy begins to feel weak. As the jet lands, and the last of the flames dies, Madalin passes out.