A pair of familiar twins are there! Along with all of the other twins!

"Class is about to start. Really? Now?"

"Opinion about what?"

"Women."

"Please? Please? Please? Pleeeeeease?"

"Yes!" says Savannah, brightly.

"Okay, the fact that she asked you makes me wonder if I'm the only straight person of the four of us, but the way you answered makes me not think that anymore?"

"... I... Genuinely can't tell if that was an observation or a question?"

"Alli wants to know if you are straight, and if not, what kind," translates Bella.

"Oh. Not straight. I'm - somewhat weird, it's sort of hard to explain."

"Well, now I'm really curious though."

"Er, well. It sort of - just doesn't matter to me in the slightest if someone's male, female, secretly an alien from outer space, or - something."

"...Bisexual plus aliens?" says Alli. "I did not learn a word for that in Your Sister Is Gay Better Learn Some Things 101."

Adana shrugs. "Like I said, I'm a bit weird. I'm not upset about my brand of weird, it's nice, I like it."

"Well, if I encounter any cute aliens I will see if they want to give you their number."

She snickers. "Thanks."

"Do they have to be cute aliens or could they be weird bug aliens?" wonders Alli.

"I think I might draw the line at giant spiders," says Adana. "But if they are charming and funny weird bug aliens - it's probably fine."

"Who do charity work?" inquires Bella. "And do not rely too heavily on makeup?"

"Yes. I mean, I can appreciate pretty aesthetics but it's really not a huge deal to me?"

"My date to the dance is really cute, and I think that is important," says Alli. "Not the only important thing, but important, if I'm going to look at him much."

"It's nice, I suppose? But not really very important to me. It's more like a - bonus if it's present and if it's not I really don't care either way."

"You're not even going to the dance, right?"

"I think I'm going to get dragged along, date or not."

"You know me so well."

"But in point of fact it's a not, no bug aliens will accompany you?"

"Yeah, I don't have a date for it," she shrugs. It doesn't seem to matter hugely to her.

"Is this 'actually do not care, am actually not envisioning self as cat lady' nonchalance or 'pretending not to care because reasons' nonchalance?"

"First thing."

"Okay, good."

"Spanish," Bella reminds them all. "Ostensibly."

"Hi! Shall we?"

"Yes! We shall!"

Bella does her best to imitate Savannah without outright mirroring!

That works out reasonably well, and now Bella is dancing! Hurray, dancing.

Alli, meanwhile, dances with her boy, duplicates so someone will dance with her boy's brother, drinks a lot of punch, and has a marvelous time.

And when the time at which Renée expects her daughters home rolls around, Bella bids Savannah a polite but non-kissing goodbye and collects her sister(s) and teleports home, though not before waving at Adana where she's holding up the wall.

"You and Savannah and your dad can crash with my dad. He's in Washington - state - outside the projected uninhabitable zone. There'll be ashfall but it'll be livable. It's a small house but we can squish."

"That - would be fantastic, thank you so much. Dad! Dad, Bella's offering us a place to stay - yeah. Hey, uh - Bella, can you teleport over here to bring me there so I can put a portal down there?"

"Yeah, be right over." Bella puts down the phone and flickers over to the Sanders house and knocks.

"My dad says you and Adana and your dad can crash at his place like me and Alli and Renée. I'm going to pop Adana up there so she can make a portal."

"Oh! Thank you, that's - that's really nice of you and your dad. Adana's -"

"- Here," says Adana, stepping through a portal.

Charlie pokes his head in from the kitchen. "Good to meet you, Adana, wish the circumstances were better. Food stockpile's in the basement, I set up a tarp in the backyard to put other stuff under if there's no good spot for it in the house."

Savannah zips through the portal, carrying a box of canned food. She drops it off just outside, and zips back to get more.

"- a speedster. So she can probably help with that, too."

"I was just going to nip all the boxes up here myself, but if Savannah wants to take over moving house I can - report to the Junebugs a little earlier, I guess."

"Okay. I'm gonna go - grab one of Alli and talk to the Junebugs. Tell the other Alli if you want a ride to the office or anything comes up?"

"Yeah. Thanks - and uh. Good luck."

"Bells," murmurs Charlie, and he hugs Bella, before she goes.

An Alli is there, apparently twining latitudes and longitudes to her sister off a piece of paper so that either the stationary Junebugs can update her on the fly or so Bella just doesn't need to engage her vision on anything other than orienting herself in each new environment. The need for new instructions is intermittent enough that Alli says to the Sanders twins, "Hi."

"Hi," says Adana, waving.

"Hey," says Savannah, and then they both go to check themselves in to start doing things. They're pretty sure they will be really useful for evacuation, the both of them.

The receptionist, who looks exhausted and drawn but functional, ID's them, and directs them to collect Junebug jackets and hats so they'll look official to the panicked residents of places to-be-evacuated. "Right then," she says, reading the synopses of their powers. "Sanders, when Bella's done deploying standard National Guard to control rioting in to-be-evacuated civilian areas we'll call her back to put Savannah in -" She taps her computer. "Denver, and Adana in -" Tap tap. "Juneau, until Juneau's full to bursting. Savannah, you'll talk to the Guard deployed in the evacuating site and help them keep people organized and under control. We cannot save everyone and we have to prioritize. Our priorities are small children, their parents, gemini of any age, their immediate families, emergency personnel - your job isn't to sort these people, your job is not to argue with the senior Guard over their sortings. Do not slow down the evacuation of Denver because you want to save different parts of Denver. Is that understood?"

Savannah takes a second to let this sink in, scowls, and then - she nods. Grudgingly.

Adana nods, too. "Understood," she says, hoarsely.

"The Guard offices are stocked," says the dispatcher. "For now, anyway. If there's anything to be had in Denver you can eat there, too - Juneau's supplies aren't going to blow in a few days, and as long as you can freely move around you shouldn't deplete them."

When Juneau's refugee center can no longer accept new input, Bella appears and takes Adana to a center in Miami, and when that one's full too, Denver's output is redirected to an accommodating location in Mexico, after which she deposits Adana back at the center where Alli is sitting because Adana doesn't need to be present to keep the portals open and it is about time for someone to feed her.

Yeah, Adana does need to be fed. Savannah has managed to scrounge up food (four times) in Denver, so she's reasonably okay for now. Adana sits with Alli and eats the provided food without even registering what it is.

Alli passes on the request.

And Bella bounces Adana out again.

Without Savannah, Adana needs to be brought to where the portal will be on both sides, but with Bella that's easy enough.

Adana's forced to be a bit more passive, with her powerset, letting other people do a lot of the organization around them, but she's certainly not useless. She works to organize whatever overcrowded refugee center she's at, and helps relay instructions with other Junebugs when an opportunity arises for such.

And there's plenty to organize. Screaming stray children, people realizing they've forgotten their favorite possessions at home and wanting to clog the portal going back the other way for them, refugees who are thousands of miles away from their families and friends who arrived at the portal at different times, people who made the priority list because they came with five-year-olds or twins or firefighter training but who don't know whether their sisters or boyfriends or parents are going to make it before attention is redirected to another city. They are loud, and upset, and unruly, and all talking over each other.

"I don't need to do as much as - she does," insists Adana. "I can just be picked up and brought places to put portals, you do not need me to make complicated decisions or follow instructions correctly, you just need me awake."

"I could call for another teleporter, but the more out of sync you get with Bella, the less time you spend awake while she is," says the dispatcher. "If it was worth having you work together today it'll be worth it again tomorrow."

"Here's fine," agrees the dispatcher. "There's cots in the back."

"Thanks," says Adana, and she goes there and flops onto a cot and desperately tries to hold onto consciousness. She manages it for about a minute and a half, and then she's out like a light.

Adana nods, numb, wiping away her tears. "I'll - later, you'll come get me when you need me, right? There are - families are separated, I can put them back easily."

"Sorting out who's wound up where can be done by people who haven't been awake five hours of six for the last week," says the dispatcher, "and yes, we can call you once we know who needs to be moved where from the refuges."

Another nod. "Thank you."

"C'mon," says Savannah, and she carefully supports a somewhat wobbly Adana. She's pretty sure her sister didn't even notice being healed, but - that's fine, as long as she's okay that's what matters.

"Yeah," agrees Savannah. "Did we grab air mattresses? I don't remember if we grabbed air mattresses..."

"Two. We didn't have any more."

"As long as we're short on space I can go back to sleeping in the queen bed," Renée says. "And then there's our girls in their room, me and Charlie in the master, and air mattresses and the couch for three more."

"Sure. Thanks, Renée."

"Where should the air mattresses go?" asks Bella. "Options seem to be any combination of this room, our room, and the master bedroom."

"How much space is free in - all of those rooms?"

"You could probably fit them both in the master bedroom, or in the living room if the coffee table was moved, and one of them on our floor or in the living room without moving the coffee table."

"I don't know how long we expect to stay, but it seems best if we're not - constantly in the way of everything."

"Master bedroom it is."

"Hard to say this early how easy it'll be to find another place to be," Charlie says. "Not going to turn you out, though."

"Thanks. That's very kind of you."

Charlie shrugs.

"I'm - I think I'll go make brownies. Even if it's going to get hard to buy food the eggs will go off whether we hoard them or not," says Renée.

"Ooo. Brownies! I love brownies, you're the best."

"Thank you."

"At some point we probably have to start going to the nearest Gemini school, don't we? Would that be Port Angeles?"

"At some point. If they don't give us a-at least a week then - then I'm giving me a week, anyway, but at some point yeah."

"I think they're going to give us more than a week," says Adana, softly. "If for no other reason than for the - people in school who lost family members."

"I'm going to go sleep. Is the couch fine? I don't - want to deal with setting up the air mattress."

"Couch is fine."

Alli goes up to her room.

Bella comes back before the brownies are out of the oven and flops into a chair, softly out of regard for Adana's snoozing.

She is probably not going to wake up for a very long time. So it's okay.

Savannah's up and about, though. She's not zipping around, though, she's a bit more sedate. She is looking at her sleeping twin, silently.