He'd prepared for the worst. Instead, she'd done it. All on her own now. Whatever had happened yesterday had kicked her down the right path to finding the so-called switch to her power.

Turning it on and off at the blink of an eye would take further practice, but Rogue had taken a monumental step. Everything else was the icing on the cake as the saying goes.

He grinned broadly. "Well done. Well done indeed."

Todd lifted his free hand and touched her jaw like yesterday. No residual draining, no tingling, nothing at all. If he didn't know better, he'd say she was as normal a human as they came. But she was better, she was an extraordinary human with an extraordinary power that she could finally control.