Something was wrong.

Danny could hear and see through the windows the storm outside, and something wasn't quite right about it. It took him a moment to identify it, though - the lightning strikes were speeding up to an abnormally consistent rate, and his automatic assumption was that a mutant was affecting it. Nothing that concerned him, then, seeing as this mutant could be anywhere in the city and didn't seem to be hurting anyone.

But then the lights went out.

And he realized with some apprehension that normally, lightbulbs didn't pop and shatter during power outages, and that the woman with the glowing mouth was probably the mutant in question.

She was the same one he'd seen talking to the red mutant, now that he could vaguely see her face in the glow of the electricity, and as she tried to stumble out, the light showing through the fingers she held over her mouth, she touched someone. And that someone screamed, and started to seize, and all hell broke loose.

Danny was sort of trapped where he was as people scrambled to run out of the bar, so he was able to look at the woman more closely when she neared him. She looked familiar, maybe, as if he'd seen her before, but Danny was confident he'd never met a mutant with electricity-based powers. As he pondered her identity, she suddenly slid into the seat across from him in his little booth, and Danny stared. She seemed terrified, for some reason, hands covering her ears and eyes screwed tightly shut, so his automatic instinct was to try to comfort her, if only to stop her clearly not-agreeing powers.

"Hey," he said hesitantly, but loudly enough that she could hear him. "Hey, what's wrong? Are you okay?" And he poked her gently in the arm with his gauntleted hand, the electricity sizzling up the cloth but not affecting him. Well, he wasn't terribly good at the emotions thing, but he was pretty sure she was terrified of the thunderstorm - ironic, seeing as the lightning, and thus thunder, was probably due to her.

Rummy sat, still mesmerized as he watched the blue bolts of electricity dance around his empty hand. Although surprised he would be lying if he said he didn't enjoy unexpected turn of events. People screaming, the strobe like effect of the lights struggling with the increase of voltage surging through them... and of course his darling Eloise. 'Oh how the mighty have fallen' he thought to himself.'
Black hues following her glowing light as she cowered in the darkness.

Such beautiful chaos.
His hand tightened into a fist absorbing her essence into himself as he raised from his seat, approaching his new addiction.

"Seems you're quite full of surprises lovely..." Rummy joked his tail securing the convulsing man's neck before assimilating his energy as well.
"...let me take the pain away."

The next clash of lighting would bring the man who attempted to comfort Ellie. His face young yet strikingly familiar.

"YOU!" Rummy hissed, the body in his tails grasp jerking to life suddenly. "YOU owe me some money boy!"


(Written on a cheap phone. Sorry for delay)

This was just how it used to be. Holed up. Couldn't leave. Couldn't stop. All she needed was her dad to stop in a say that it wasn't Lori's fault that he and mom didn't get along.

Lori drew her legs up into the seat so she could bury her face into her knees. She didn't care that her skirt was short and not meant for such un-lady-like posture. It was dark anyway.

> "Hey, what's wrong? Are you okay?"

Lori shook her head and that was as good an answer as she could manage. Everything was wrong. She didn't like to lose control. She hardly had any to begin with.

The area inside the booth was getting quieter since most of the noise and bickering was centered around the exits and the far walls. It was wise to give Lori her space. She thought she felt a tap or a poke, but there wasn't any follow up screaming so he probably hadn't made contact. Not really. Not like Rummy.

Her whole spine shuddered at the remembering. It wasn't an all bad shudder, either.

She couldn't go out in the rain. That was the whole reason she was in this dive in the first place. And now. now, she couldn't stop the lightning from seeking her out. 'The back!' There had to be a) something she could push around with magnetism or b) a place to hole up and be alone.

Eloise scrambled out of the booth, kept her mouth clamped shut, and made a break for the back.