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Molly practically squealed with delight and began to build a dinosaur that looked as much like a certain genetically engineered deinonychus as she could.

"Sure! No problem," Molly said with a grin. "I can play and talk at the same time."

"L.A. Uh, Los Angeles, California," Molly said, wanting to give a complete answer. "But, a different one than you probably know. Unless you have mutants where you're from."

Molly shook her head. Then remembered the recorder. "No. My parents died a few years ago and I don't have any siblings," she answered matter-of-factly. "But, I'm really close to my friends and they're sort of like my family now." She grinned.

"My friends wanted to go to college. Well, except Chase" she said with a grin. "And I really needed to go back to school anyway since we ran away when I was in sixth grade.

"So, they, the people in charge," she waved a hand about vaguely, "agreed to let me pick where I wanted to go if we would quit hiding from them. I picked here because they said it didn't really matter that I hadn't been to school in a while."

She grinned again. "They really didn't say why at the time, but with all of the people here from different times and stuff, I can see how a sixth grade drop-out isn't that much of a big deal."

Molly chuckled. "Don't worry, I won't answer any questions I don't want to."

Working on her robot, she thought for a moment about how to explain why they ran away. "We actually ran away twice," she finally said. "The first time was because we found out that our parents were evil." She looked over at Rory. "And I mean, destroy all of humanity, evil." She turned back to her project.

"We tried to tell the police and some super hero types, but our parents controlled all of L.A. and a big chunk of California and we found out later they did something to the super people we told so that did no good. So," she shrugged, "we stopped them ourselves."

Molly focused on a fiddly bit of her robot as she continued talking. "And then we all - except for Chase - became wards of the state and they split us up and crime got bad because our parents weren't in charge anymore. So, we ran away again and started fighting the bad guys who were trying to take over in our parents' place."

Molly grinned. "My friends. Chase, Gert, Nico and Karolina." She decided to stick to the very basics and not get into the whole issue of Alex and who left and joined later.

Molly giggled when she thought of Chase. "Well, he was oldest out of all of us; seventeen when we ran away. He told the courts that he had an aunt he could go live with so he never became a ward of the state. And, the college thing... he's smart enough, he just isn't the college type. He could have gone, but he was twenty when the others decided they wanted to go and he just decided not to." Molly stopped working and thought for a moment. "Logan reminds me of Chase a lot," she said then went back to her project.

"And I'm the only mutant," she added.

Molly gave Rory a wide smile. "A super hero," she said.

Molly giggled some more. "I sort of already have two, but they're more code names than super hero names. I don't know what I'd pick for a real super hero name though. I haven't really thought about it much." Which was a total lie.

"Do you want the whole list?" Molly asked.

Molly thought for a moment. "Aeryn, Angel, Logan, Krycek, Callisto, Bridge... I could go on," she said, grinning. "But, Cam is my best friend and yeah, I'm dating Blair."

"Advice about what?" she asked.

Molly thought about it for a moment. Her parents had lied to her about themselves all her life. The authority figures that had tried to tell her what to do after that had really only ever caused more trouble and dressed it all up in pretty words.

"Don't just accept what people tell you," she finally said. "Make sure their actions match what they say."

"Um, no. I can't think of anything else," Molly smiled. "I hope that was good enough for your class."

*happily plays with the toys robotic thingies and makes a dinosaur. Rar.*

I blame futurebucs_star too.