Who: Rahne When: A year before the Plague until a couple months before Where: Along the US What: A Bike ride across the states
Rahne had changed and grown up quite a bit during her time at Xavier's she had opened up a bit more, and begun the process of accepting herself. She stayed, learned, and grew at Xavier's for two years. She trained hard and was finally sent out on her first mission at the age of sixteen, and stayed abroad helping the clean up of Genoshia, and Apocalypse affair. While she was out there she also got even more close to her team mates Piotr Rasputin and Kitty Pryde. She really started to come into herself even more, become more outgoing, and even a little more risque. Her strict religious upbringing finally started to slough fully away during this year. She even was found wondering around the towns in her more then revealing uniform without shying away or seeming uncomfortable.
However, it would be when she got back and took her trip around the many states of US that she would do the most of her growing. Something happens even if it is just for a few months when your on your own, you and the world, trying to get across America on a shoe string. She also started to grow her out beginning while she was away in Genoshia, so it was pretty long when she came back. She had learned how to ride a motor bike while she had been away and got a license out there loving the way it felt. She bought with money that Moira had given her long ago in a trust fond her first real bike. It was a silver and black 2002 Honda Shadow 400. She begged Moira to help her pay for it to be shipped back to the states. Moira, because she hardly ever asked for much, even though she wasn't very please with this idea of Rahne having, let alone driving a motorcycle, gave in. So, on her return, she barely said hi, and bye to those that hadn't seen her in a while, and went off on her own.
From New York she went to Pennsylvania where she stayed in a hostel, and found little jobs here and there to do to make money. Also while in Pennsylvania she saw the first zoo, the Philadelphia Zoo, some of the cheaper amusement parks, and went to the Philadelphia Folk Festival because she heard Kevin Bacon was going to be there. After that she went to Virginia where she stayed and paid for her board at a little quant Bed and Breakfast by helping around the place. She thought that was very fun. Here she got to know a few people for the time she was there. She went and saw some of the sights with the little extra money she made when she happened to get tipped from some of the customers. From there she went to N. Carolina and S. Carolina. She really had a hard time here as the southerner's had a hard time figuring out her accent while she also had a hard time with theirs. However, she left here picking up a bit of the southern accent, and losing quite a bit of her own Scottish Brogue. Georgia & Florida were buzzed through, as she decided to start making her way back to Xavier's she was starting to miss everyone, the habitual living of the Institute, and just having friends around her. Not that she wasn't finding new friends where ever she went, but it was nothing like those friends that you were most familiar with.
So, around the end of 2004, and the beginning of 2005 right before the plague was let out she was found driving through the drive of Xavier's institute, the prodigal daughter return, with long shoulder length wavy hair, and much more vibrant, and out going. She had grown, and become a young woman all could be proud of. Come out of herself, and maturing on her own, she knew she could take care of herself, but she knew also she had friends, and family in the Xavier's that would always take care of her. That was a good feeling to have, especially once the plague hit for everyone around. Everyone chipped in, and everyone did what they could during those first few years of the plague coming out.