Has Angelās powers: angel-like wings. Feathers and everything. And they work. Ā
He got them, like, really earlyā¦and his dad hated it. He got pulled out of school and essentially placed under house arrest.
They tried literally everything. āMiracleā cures, praying, hiding them. Chad got to the point where he was trying to cut them off- he chickened out, but he thinks about it a lot.
(He thought they were really cool when he first got them. Gorgeous, even. It took a few days for that feeling to fade and it didnāt come back.)
Ella tried to best to keep Chad safe, but the thing about being a millionaireās trophy wife is that you have minimal power, and no one questions your husbandās erratic methods of raising a child. Child services donāt investigate why your son hasnāt left the house in years.
Chad ran away at 16. He suspects his father had written him out of the will before that, anyway.
(Because- Chad had always liked boys more than he liked girls. And he was already a mutant. What must his father have thought?)
He gets picked up by the school while heās running, because heās noticeable. Heās got these giant wings and for the first time in years they arenāt cramped, theyāre open and theyāre practically emitting light.
(He gets found before he tries to fly. Which is a very good thing. While he masters his wings enough to fly later, that initial time he wouldnāt have been able to because he had never used his wings like that before. They were terribly unkempt.)
School is a totally different environment for him, he starts to hate himself less, heās no longer afraid to come out.
(Heās still afraid of his father, though. Thereās not a thing money canāt buy, and Chad is afraid of what that might mean for him. Not that he thinks his father wants him back- but maybe, out of spite?)
He still checks in on his mom, who is trying to get a lawyer to arrange a divorce. Sheās glad he got out.