Euphemia Lilith Potter who usually just goes by Mia was awoken but the near deafening screeching of her aunt banging on her bedroom (cupboard) door "GET UP YOU LITTLE FREAK, AND START ON MAKING BREAKFAST!"

"Yes, Aunt Petunia," was the answer the young girl gave her aunt and she got up and got dressed and went to do as her aunt had told her to do just like she had done every morning since she was 5 years old.

Mia knew it wasn't a good idea but she was so hungry she had been locked in her cupboard without dinner the night before because in her uncle's words "freaks don't deserve dinner like normal people." It was a normal occurrence which is why Mia is so small for her age. She's 8 but because of her size, she looks like she's younger than that. Her malnourishment and the abuse from her uncle and cousin are significant contributors to her size.

She had served her relatives their food and there was just a bite of eggs left in the pan so she as quickly and hopefully unnoticeable as she could picked it up with her fingers and shoved it in her mouth, she chewed and swallowed just as quickly but it was in vain because her cousin Dudley had seen her and he gave her a look "DAD!"

Veron looked at his son, "What is it, Dudley?"

"The freak kept food for herself." Her uncle's face turned purple in anger as he whipped his head to look at her.

Mia's eyes were wide as she shook her head "No uncle Vernon I didn't."

The older man glared at her "are you calling Dudley a liar?" Mia's eyes widened even further in fear as she shook her head, but her uncle grabbed something off the table, stood up, and rounded on her, the 8-year-old noticed that he was coming at her holding a knife and he was backing her into a corner.

So Mia covered her face with her arm trying to protect her face while panicking thinking that this was finally it, he was finally going to kill her.

Mia had her eyes squeezed shut as she cowered in the corner with her arms over her face, what she didn't realize was in her panic her entire body was covered in a sort of glow, that was greenish-yellow and black, it spread out from her frying all of the electronic devices on the first floor of the house and the metal knife in her uncle's hand flew out of his hand and turned back on him and it stabbed him in the neck which prompted her Aunt Petunia and Dudley to scream.

Their screams made Mia open her eyes and she stared in horror at her uncle on the floor with his hand pressed into his neck trying to stop the bleeding. After getting over shock Petunia had to use the upstairs phone but she called the police and paramedics.

Mia just stayed staring in horror at the sight in front of her, the girl was terrified she had no idea what had happened but she did know that her aunt and cousin were glaring at her in disgust.

The paramedics arrived first and loaded Vernon into an ambulance and they hoped they could get him to the hospital before he bled out, luckily the knife missed his carotid artery meaning there was a chance that he lived.

Petunia and Dudley had to wait for the police to explain what happened before they went to the hospital with Vernon.

Once the police arrived Petunia told them what happened well besides the weird glowing wave thing that came from her freak of a niece. "I don't want that freak back in my house, not after what she just did to my husband, I don't care what you do with her, but I don't want to see her face ever again."

The policeman nodded at the woman, "okay ma'am."

He approached the girl who was still in the same position in the corner and told her that she was coming with them to gather her belongings, Mia nodded numbly still in shock at what happened, she gathered her few belongings after that she was taken to the police station and questioned about what happened.

She explained the situation to them "I don't really know what happened... uncle Vernon came at me with the knife in his hand and I was backed into the corner so I closed my eyes and held my arms up to shield my face and then next thing I knew I heard aunt Petunia scream and I opened my eyes and uncle Vernon was laying on the floor and the knife was sticking out of the side of his neck." she knew better than to say it was like magic because they would think she was a freak just like her relatives did.

Mia was questioned several times but her story didn't change and they decided that no one would actually prosecute the child, so she was dropped off at the nearest orphanage since her relatives wanted nothing else to do with her.

***

Mia was at the orphanage for a grand total of 2 weeks before she ran away the place was worse than living with the Dursleys, and every time she got upset the electronics in the building would short circuit because of her newly discovered powers of Magnetogenesis and Magnetokinesis which means she can now create and control magnetic fields and the magnetic fields mess with electronics.

Plus her hair turned a dark green color after the incident with her uncle and the other kids made fun of her for her hair and that was what usually led to her getting upset and when she got upset her powers went haywire.

Now it was almost midnight and all she had with her was the bag that she had taken to the orphanage with her and Mia was wandering the streets. She had absolutely no idea how to survive on her own but it was better than staying in that place.

Just her luck it had started raining really hard so now she was soaked to the bone looking for a place to wait out the rain and maybe get some sleep. She wandered around trembling from the cold rain when Mia saw a bus stop bench so she quickly made her way over to it since it was dry and out of the rain it wasn't very warm but at least she was out of the rain. Mia pulled her knees up to her chest resting her chin on her knees. She had no idea what she was going to do but she wasn't going back to that awful place, she knew that for sure.

Mia didn't know how long she sat in that position, she was trying to figure out what her next move was going to be when she heard a voice "what are you doing out this late?" The sudden voice made her jump as she looked at the man that spoke to her.

"I ran away and I'm waiting out the rain." She knew that she probably shouldn't tell this to a stranger but really what did she have to lose? Nobody cared or would even notice that she was gone.

The man sat on the opposite end of the bench, he didn't know what it was but something was telling him to talk to the girl, it was almost like something inside was telling him to protect the child, but he didn't know what it was or why. "I'm Erik, what's your name?"

"Mia..."

"Well Mia, why did you run away?"

She sighed "well the other kids, they make fun of me, because of my scar, my hair and strange things happen when I get upset so they make fun of me for that too and that place is awful, I've only been there two weeks and it's dreadful... it's worse than when I lived with my abusive relatives, which was awful as well but this place was so much worse so I ran away."

That was when he noticed that her hair was a dark green color "so your hair color is naturally green?"

Mia shook her head and looked at him "no it used to be black, but there was an incident with my uncle which is the reason I was in the orphanage, to begin with after the incident my hair turned this color and I don't know why."

He nodded and that was when he noticed the scar on the right side of her forehead but that wasn't all went down her forehead over her eye and stopped right underneath her eye, it rather looked like a flash of lightning "when you say strange things happen what do you mean? Do you know where the scar came from?"

"Well um my hands start glowing, it's a greenish-yellowish-black color and the electronics around me start short-circuiting and if there's metal it bends towards me, and if it's metal like silverware it levitates around me... I don't know why I'm telling you this, you're just going to think I'm a freak like everyone else does and well my Aunt told me once that I got it in the car accident that killed my parents but I don't really believe her... I mean what kind of car accident gives you a scar shaped like a flash of lighting? So I have no clue where it really came from."

He gave the girl a look thinking 'could she be a mutant and could the incident whatever it was with her uncle have activated her mutation? I've never met another mutant that can manipulate metal like I can.' He smiled at her "like this?" then held his hand out, using his powers and the metal street lamp post started bending towards the two of them.

Mia gave him a wide-eyed look as she watched what he did and nodded "just like that." He released the street lamps and put them back in their place, Mia looked down at her hands and concentrated and Erik saw the glow she was talking about engulfing her hands, she looked back up at him and the glow went away.

That confirmed in his mind that she was a mutant so he decided that he would take her to Charles to help her learn how to control her mutation. "If you want I know a place where you'll be safe, it's meant for people like us, my friend Charles runs it... it's a school for kids that have powers just like you do Mia."

The 8-year-old looked at him "really?"

Erik nodded at her "really."

"Where is it?"

"It's in America, New York."

Mia was thinking about it, that meant she'd be around other people that were like her and it would be somewhat normal, "how do we get there?"

"Well we'd take a plane, so we'll wait until the morning, but I promise I'll get you there safe and sound." Mia nodded agreeing to go with him, so Erik took her to his hotel room since he was only passing through the area anyway, they got her some dry clothes and something to eat when they arrived, and not long after that Mia fell asleep and Erik took that time to warn Charles that they were coming the next day.

But before he had the chance to make contact with the telepath his cell phone rang, he answered it quickly before it woke Mia who was soundly sleeping, the person on the other end didn't even give him a chance to say anything "so did you do what I suggested?"

Erik sighed "you mean taking a while near midnight while it was pouring down rain?"

"Yes."

"Then yes I did as you suggested and took the walk..."

"So you found the girl?" You could hear the hopeful tone in her voice, she didn't know why but for some reason she knew that the green-eyed girl from her vision was important, she didn't know her name but she felt the urge to protect her.

Erik then realized that Aster had seen him find Mia and that was why she pushed for him to go out on that walk when she called him earlier in the day. "You saw me find the girl and didn't think to actually mention it?"

"Dad, you know how my visions work, I can't straight out tell you what they are when they involve you, which is why I tell someone not involved and they explain it... kinda useless in that aspect but yes I saw you finding the girl in my vision... I saw her trigger her mutation in a vision as well but at the time I had no idea how we were going to find her, then you told me that you were gonna be in London for a little while and then I had the vision of you finding her so I made the suggestion that would get you to go out and do it and I have already informed Uncle Charles that you're bringing a new student in tomorrow.... What can you tell me about the girl, I've only had those two visions of her."

Erik chuckled lightly at his daughter "of course you have Aster, and all I know is her name is Mia and the rest I'm sure she would rather tell herself."

The red-haired girl on the other end of the phone pouted slightly but she understood "Reggie and I will be meeting you at the door when you get to the mansion, I don't know what it is but I know this girl is important to me... to us." The two spoke a bit more before hanging up the phone so Erik could get some rest since they had a long day ahead of them tomorrow.