Her parents check her over one last time before stepping back. A quick calibration, and she's ready. Logan gives her a reassuring smile, and Wade waves sadly.
Her cuff beeps and she forgets to breathe.
"Dorothy... Hey, c'mon... don't make me start panicking, Dot. Please wake up."
Jason? She must have landed in his room again. She catches her breath slowly, her eyes flickering open.
"Worried about having your girlfriend die in your room?" she mutters.
Jason smiles nervously at her, nodding. "Yeah, actually. That's not exactly something I know how to explain to my parents."
She laughs, wincing in pain at the act. He sits down beside her, helping prop her up against his pillows.
"What year is it?" she asks, rubbing her hands over her face.
"Wellllll, the stardate is-" Jason cuts off with a grin when she rolls her eyes at him. "It's New Years' Eve, 2011. You've been missing for a few days."
It takes a while for her to work things out. She's been gone for a year, but only a few days, and she broke up with Jason, but she's still with Jason....
"Wow, my head hurts." she sighs.
She smiles. "Something like that. I'll tell you about it later?"
Jason shrugs, shifting into the spot beside her. "Whenever you're ready, I'll listen."
She reaches into the bag at her hip, pulling out a small moleskine notebook. After contemplating it, she offers it to him. "The other you let me have it. Most of it's in shorthand, but you might be able to read it better than I can..."
Jason takes it, flipping through it in curiosity. "This is... Dot, these are notes on-"
"How to practice and develop control of your mutation, and that was just about the only thing I could understand about it."
"I've always taken notes like this. So people can't read them... Dot, this is..."
He sets the book down and turns to her, pressing a brief kiss to her lips. "I really can't thank you enough for this, you know."
"Well, don't thank me yet, because I might maybe give you my tuition so you can go to Xavier's?"
He's dumbfounded, as if she's said something that completely rocked his world. Even though it kind of really did.
"Have I ever told you that you're beautiful and terrible?"
Dot grins at him and he takes her hand, pulling her toward his window. "C'mon, Galadriel. I know a couple parental units who'll be glad to see you."
It takes them an hour, even though they're walking slow, and their watches hit 11 when they stop in the driveway.
It looks the same as it did when she left, and she can see the television flickering, and the lights from the kitchen from where she stands with Jason.
"Ready to go home?" he asks, squeezing her hand.
She nods. "I probably have a lot of explaining to do."
Jason laughs. "You're going to be grounded until you're married, Dot."
Dot snorts. "I'm not even supposed to be dating until after I'm married."
He kisses her cheek, letting go of her hand. "I'll see you when school starts up again?"
"Skype, if I'm not grounded until I die."
Jason grins at her, laughing. "Goodnight, Dot. I love you."
"I love you, too." she replies, and it's easy, not like it was with the Jason in her original universe. She watches him walk away until he's down the road, and then she climbs the driveway, then the steps of the front porch.
The door creaks when she opens it, and she cautiously steps inside.
"Daddy? Dad? I'm home..."
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