16: Nightcrawler

Jack and Noah could hear the altercation going on some short distance away. Noah got every single word first with the brutal male and then with someone who was apparently Kurt’s mother.
Noah wanted to batter the living daylights out of the drunken bully, he hated bullies almost as much as he hated mayonnaise. He filled Jack in on what he had heard. “Can we take his mother too?”
“I do not see why not, it sounds like they both have a shitty situation. He sounds like someone who needs a rescue. What’s his mom like?”
“Accepting,” Noah said simply.
“This place is going down the pan, if Emma reads the finances right. Mrs Wagner and her boy are going to be out of work and homeless pretty soon. Circus folk have always been protective of their own and accepting of people who were different. But with that protective bubble gone Kurt will be probably get lynched out in the great wide world.”
“Apparently we are peculiar looking,” Noah said with a whisper.
“It’s the artificial legs,” Jack said smirking.
Noah shook the hand that was offered, he had met enough mutants with physical differences not to be bothered. Jack was minus a fair bit of his legs so disabilities didn’t faze him either.
“We don’t need a refund Kurt,” Noah told him, “can we have a chat? I think we might have something interesting for you to consider.”
Once they were clear of other people Jack told Kurt that he and Noah represented a school in America for people with special abilities. Like you. It’s a school. Now, whilst I don’t have any abilities I am one of the teachers there. Noah is gifted.”
Noah wondered exactly how someone with his level of reflexes was supposed to demonstrate that. But Jack had a way, he swung a punch at his colleague when he wasn’t looking and Noah dodged it with ease.