She wasn't really serious. How could she not see the applications for her mutation? Tony leaned in to whisper something back to her, but a look from Doug forced him back into his seat. It wasn't like he could tell her much anyways. [i]Troubled tony stark attending prestigious private school[/i] was a much better- and much less worrying- headline when compared to [i]distraught Stark goes on armored war against crime[/i].

Doug quickly shifted looks when he turned his attention back to Heidi. While the other students could barely hear her, much less understand what she said, doug was able to hear perfectly fine. He gave her a very slight nod before turning to the whiteboard.

"Korean characters are made through a series of lines and the occasional circle. How the lines are positioned and connected changes the three letters contained in each character." He went into further depth as he drew on the whiteboard, losing himself in the explanation.

Tony's eyes shifted to steal a look at Heidi. So sad. Such wasted potential. That was her own fault, and tony wasn't going to go out of his way to help her be the best person she could be. Let someone else take up her world and help her if she ever needed it. However, he left her question unanswered. If doug could hear her speaking so quietly he needed a near soundless way to speak to her.

His right hand reached up to pull on his shoulder, getting it as close to his heart as possible, or, the piece of machinery that took up that space.

The doctors apparently did little after the crash to put tony in a safe state. all that mattered was that he was alive, and he had a microscopic sun in his chest keeping him that way.

The light underneath his shirt flickered. Surely she, who could count exactly how many tiles were used in the flooring, would notice the subtle change in the dim light underneath his shirt.

 Once, twice. Just a test to see if it would work, and what it felt like to control the light in his chest. "Test." He flicked in Morse code. "He can hear and see any language, but his eyes are on the white board, and he's listening to himself talk."

"You can learn anything whenever you want. Don't waste your time in a class room with other people. Build some armor or something. Make your body as strong as your brain." 

There was some truth in there. Tony had gone to a public school for a whole week before deciding it was underneath him. That was when he disappeared for a while. School was suffocating him with needless lessons, and he believed that it was doing the same thing to an unknowing Heidi. "What's so important about all this to you anyways."

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"Hey, hey Chrys." A student whispered behind Him. "You should use your power to sneak into Miss Sormer's room. We're all putting bets on what she actually looks like and what she does."

The aforementioned teacher continued with her lesson, but said nothing to the whispers she was hearing.

"Come on chrys." The pleaded. They all wanted to know if she was actually real, or if she was actually so dangerous to be locked into her own maximum security room for the safety of everyone. Unbeknownst to them, a borrowed technology prevented teleportion in or out of the room, keeping Lita safe.

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Shawn smiled at Tatiana, looking back at her. "Oh boo hoo." He feigned sadness. "We saved the earth by using environmentally safe products, what are we going to do with all of this clean air and frozen ice caps?"

"But really." He dusted invisible scraps off of his shoulder. "People get paid for doing their job, and the earth is safe and clean, without the worry to accidentally turning the planet into water world. Who are the tree huggers harming?"