AN: I own nothing and nobody portrayed here. During my time away from FF, I wrote a series of drabbles for the characters I was playing elsewhere. That site is gone, but I liked the writing enough that I want to keep some of it alive. These were done for Molly Hayes. (This is Star-speak for 'I'm halfway through the current chapter of another story and got stuck, so I'm distracting myself').

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Beginning

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Just one step…

It wasn't Molly's first time on a plane; having wealthy parents gave a kid opportunities for travel that lots of other kids never received. Vacations at various places around the country have made Molly a seasoned traveler, but this was different. Once she took that step onto this plane everything would change. She would no longer be Molly Hayes, orphan and ward of the state of California. She would be Molly Hayes, student at the Xavier Institute. The public knew this school as an academy for gifted children, but most of them didn't know how gifted. Molly knew though, and she was looking forward to it. This was the first step into her new life; a life where she would learn and train and grow and come out as what she'd always wanted to be: a hero.

Welcome home, Princess Powerful.