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[captainswanbigbang]

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Killian stopped that thought in its tracks. He wasn’t going to dwell on what had gotten him stuck here in the first place. Scrambling to get the rest of the cycle written down in his notebook, Killian tried to focus back on the lecture in front of him.

That was a good thing at least, that he was afforded the opportunity to go to school and get a university degree. Since he had followed Liam’s footsteps into the navy eight years ago, he had thought occasionally about stepping back a bit and going to university and getting his degree. But what had stopped his was not necessarily knowing what he wanted to spend the rest of his life doing, because whenever he looked into his future, he always saw him spending his life at sea, traveling the world with his brother.

Glory for the Jones Brothers.

Killian sighed. Not anymore.

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Emma looked down fondly upon her copy of ‘Where the Sidewalk Ends and Every Thing On It’ by Shel Silverstein. The binding was slowly falling apart, and a page or two may have been haphazardly shoved back in after they fell out, but the weathered library barcode label was still affixed to the front cover, even though no plastic covering remained.

It was one of her favorite books when she was growing up, her brother read her poems from it every night before bed. And once she was off restriction after first arriving and had finally been fitted with her suppressor bracelets, they allowed her into the library the first time. She had scanned the shelves for hours, looking for something that she hadn’t already read that she could sit down with a read for a little bit (they were still weary about letting her bring books outside of the library, even though she hadn’t shown any tendancy at the time to possibly flare up and accidentally burn a book) and had stumbled upon the copy on the end of a shelf. The size of the book didn’t fit in with any of the other shorter books and it was leaning to hold the other books in place. Pulling it off the shelf and to her chest, she began crying, missing her home and her brother with a ferocity that hurt.

One of the librarians had happened upon her not long after, curled into a ball clutching the already worn book to her chest. The woman looked down upon her kindly and comforted her to the best of her abilities, and asked her if she would like to keep the book. She had nodded, wiping the tears from her face. The woman walked her up to the front counter, wrote down some information about the book and took down emma’s name and current room location (since Emma didn’t know her case number off the top of her head at the time) and promised her that she wouldn’t have to worry about anything.

And in almost 10 years of having the book, no one had ever come to her requesting the book back.

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Hearing the release of the mechanical lock holding her door shut, Emma immediately dropped her paint brushes and backed away from the door. Besides the headmaster of the academy, she had no idea who would have the security clearance to open her door. For a moment, she wished fervently that she was able to remove the bracelets smothering her powers from her wrists so she had the possibility of protecting herself. She didn’t relax even though she saw the familiar face of her personal coach Graham through the door, the 5 security guards standing behind him were enough to cause her to push further back against the wall next to her bed. She wished the window wasn’t bullet-proof, she might have chance of breaking through it get free.

“Graham, what a surprise to see you.” She commented, hoping to sound stronger than she felt, “What can I do for you today?”

“The Headmaster wishes to see you in the secure training wing.” Graham said, extending a hand.

Emma blanched, because even though she had on her suppressor bracelets, they would still have to bring her across campus and that required the glove chains.

The Academy had a set of chains, where for very volatile new cases that had powers that manifested from their hands, they were required to wear metal gloves attached to chains. The gloves fully immobilized their hands and suppressed powers for effectively than any other device that the government had created.

Noticing that it wasn’t likely that Emma would move from her place against the wall, Graham took a step into her room, shrugging off the hand of the security guard that moved to stop him. Emma slid down the wall and extended her hands to him palms up, tucking her chin down into her chest.

“I’m sorry Emma,” Graham said as he slipped the first glove onto her right hand.

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Emma just makes it into the doors of Ranger Hall before the skies open up and rain begins to pour down from the heavens. She knew that it was supposed to rain that day, but it typical college student fashion, she decided against bringing her umbrella with her and just risk it. Looking back on that decision though, she would have completely ruined her leather jacket in the rain.

Shaking her hair out from under her hat, she started making her way up the back stairwell towards the 4th floor. David and Mary Margaret, she knew, were already waiting for her in Mary Margaret’s dorm room for their planned study session for ethics 104. She hated that class.

To be honest, she hated a lot of the whole, college charade that the school was putting up. That’s what this entire school was, a charade; it was a cleverly disguised prison. This was where they sent anyone who was deemed “Different” compared to “normal society”, which was complete bullshit in her opinion. Anyone who manifested any type of power, be it completely harmless to something deadly like her own powers, was sent here, or one of the dozens of other schools around the country or world like it.

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