Mattie was quiet through the whole thing, quietly taking this all in. She'd suspected that she and Nick weren't the only mutants; how could they be? In a lab of who-knows-what-size and a country full of fairly powerful governments, individuals and organizations, she'd simply always doubted that they were alone. The rest, although alarming, didn't get much of a rise out of her. After all, she'd known that something was up. Something was being hidden. And she knew that this was probably only the tip of the iceberg.

The last part, however, was very effective in at least changing her facial expression.

"What the [i]fuck[/i] did you just say?!" she shrieked. "What––what––! Jacob's [i]here?![/i] Oh my god, oh my god, oh my god––we––we have to stop at a gun shop, Nick." Her voice had gone high-pitched and was cracking from the sheer terror of it. "Who gives a fuck about the drugs or the subways? We have to get moving, get far, maybe flee the country, oh god you should have [i]told[/i] me he was still after you..."