Del was used to knocks on the Academy door late at night.? Sometimes it was some young mutant on their own seeking refuge, and sometimes it was the police dumping what they felt were "mutant problems" into someone else's lap so that they wouldn't have to deal with them.? But it rarely involved violent encounters like the one she just witnessed on the surveillance record.??
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Unlocking the door, she quickly ushered the dark-haired young woman inside, urging her with a hissed "Quickly!? Quickly!" and then shutting the door behind her.?
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"Calm down!" Del ordered, using her empathic power to overcome the stranger's evident agitation.? "My name's Del.? You're safe here.? For now, anyway." Keeping an eye on the screen showing the Academy's front exterior, she looked back to the unexpected guest.? "Was anyone else following you?" she asked quietly, her eyes meeting the young woman's rather striking blue ones as she exuded calm in soothing waves.? "Should we be expecting trouble?? If so, how much?"
Sadie Logan
Sadie brushed back a strand of long black hair from her face, now oddly at peace after her ordeal with Gray's men, and she turned to Del with a confused look.
"I..I don't know. I wasn't followed, but the car I was driving is one of there's. The men who were chasing me," she told this stranger who with her very presence seemed to have calmed the nearly frantic girl. "They trace it here. But I doubt they'll try anything. Not here. Not right away. They don't like witnesses."
Sadie looked around, then turned her gaze back to Del, "They want to use me as a weapon. They will wait until the time is right."
She closed her eyes, then put on a half smile and extended a hand to Delphine, "I'm Sadie Logan."