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Tarin might have muttered to himself a bit as Lee played clueless about his superstitions regarding the game. The Mets had managed to get two on base, but the next two batters had struck out and flied out, so now they were back to two outs.

Lee was still talking about her plans for Kevin and when she explained why she had planned to send Kevin to the Mansion in the fall no matter what she mentioned when both she and Kevin’s father had gotten their powers.

Tarin couldn’t help but stiffen just a bit when Lee pointed out that Kevin’s father had gotten his powers at 11. That was another thing that was the same. Tarin could only imagine that the scenario had been similar too. It was something he hadn’t thought about, hadn’t wanted to think about, in a really long time.

Studiously keeping his attention on the game as the Mets got a third batter on to load the bases with two outs, he decided that this was a topic that he didn’t want to discuss. Things in his life had quickly gone downhill at that point and it had only been a few more years before he’d gathered all the money he could find and headed to New York. The rest was messy history.

Another pop fly. Three outs, 3 left on base. Good lord.

Tarin nodded as Lee continued to explain how and why Kevin’s powers could be an issue, ”The problem is that we don’t know until we try, and the trying can be tricky for all the reasons we just explained. A controlled or prepared environment is better than a locker room or classroom in a school full of people who won’t understand.” he pointed out.

Lee had obviously thought about all of these different scenarios and Tarin supposed that made sense, both because she was Kevin’s Mother and because Lee liked to try and plan for every eventuality under normal circumstances.

Tarin turned back to the TV now and frowned. Things really weren’t getting better. Tarin glanced over and down at Lee and back at the TV right as one of the Mets hit a long fly ball to center. For a moment it looked like it might get over the wall, but it fell short and the center fielder managed to pretty easily catch it. Third out.

Tarin sighed. Such was the pain of being a Mets fan and Tarin wondered if there was a universe out there someplace where they were actually consistently good.

Tarin was of a mixed mind on the current conversation, but he sat quietly and listened to Lee and Robert as the spoke.

On one hand, he and Lee constantly spoke about how amazing it was that Kevin didn’t have to grow up like they had. Kevin was getting to grow up like a kid should grow up…more concerned about his phone and hanging out with his friends than the kind of danger that simply having powers would put
him in.

On the other hand, danger seemed to find mutants, and when you could do something to help…

”He can learn a lot from them. Tarin said, looking away from the game for a minute, ”Having a safe place to learn about your powers…to be safe and supported if you make mistakes.” Tarin shrugged, ”A lot of us didn’t have that.”

He paused for a moment, suddenly sheepish about having involved himself in this particular conversation, ”Not that it’s really any of my business.”

”I didn’t stop to think that potentially frying his phone would be more interesting than the emergence of his new and unique special powers…”

Tarin wondered if Kevin could pull energy from the things around him and hold it instead of immediately funneling it into a shield. If he could project the shield away from himself? Tarin didn’t mention his thoughts though, it was probably too early. Too soon. He should let the experts at the Mansion help Kevin figure those things out.

And yep. Lee just couldn't understand why it was a little wild that she knew the X-Men personally.

”Well, thank goodness for that.” Robert said with an exasperated gesture of his hands, ”He won’t be encouraged to join the militant vigilante group.”

”I may have lost some cool points for refusing to throw things at him. Robert said, ”He’s pretty good at making it appear and disappear.”

When Lee asked Robert how much Kevin had told him about what had happened at school Robert scowled, ”Enough. He also told me he ended the fight in one punch.”

”Right?” Tarin chimed in as the game got ready to start. “Then walked away.”

Robert looked at Tarin for a moment then tersely nodded and looked back to Lee.

”I wouldn’t have grounded him either. He said the new school is real nice…”

The other team was up to bat and already had two runners on base. Tarin didn’t say a word.

It didn’t take Tarin long to make his way back to his room and snag his hat. As he made his way back to the living room and sat on the couch he heard Lee explaining to Robert that baseball was, in fact, interesting.

”I’m marking this down.” Tarin said as he settled back into his spot on the couch, happy that Lee was sitting on the couch now.

”And we don’t watch every game. Lee’s been teaching me how to play guitar.”

Lee got up to put her chair back and Tarin grinned, ”I mean, it’s still the pregame but the game starts soon.”

Robert wanted to know what kind of game since hockey season was over, ”Mets are actually doing really well right now, probably still don’t have a prayer of making the playoffs…but what can you do?”

Tarin gave Lee a look though, ”Their success hinges on one very important thing though.”