Oh, good, an opening. "What is your mutation? — other than the scales. I'm assuming it's not just the scales." 

"I'll show you." 

He gestures in Sasha and Lev's general direction.

And Lev suddenly feels-- very focused, very energetic, very happy. His hand starts twitching for a pen to write with. 

QUIT FUCKING WITH MY HEAD, he wants to scream. 

"What did that do," he says instead, slightly panicky. 

"If you're injured, it healed you. If you're not, it gives you energy and puts you in a better mood. I did it at, like, one-cup-of-coffee level."

"I don't care what level you do it at don't fuck with my head." 

His heart's going faster than it should be and he wants whatever this is out —

"Fine." He gestures again. "Back to normal."

Good. Good, that's good. His hands are just a little shaky. "— I'm going to go talk to Asher." 

Lev attempts to telepathically send 'don't leave me alone with Chris.'

Sasha does not have telepathy but he does know Lev. "Lev come with me." 

"Okay. --Uh, you should probably go, Chris."

"That's cool. Lock your windows," he says, and jumps out of the window.

That sounds like something Sasha does not need to deal with right now! 

He goes and looks for Asher; he's clinging to Lev's hand just a little bit. 

Asher's in his workshop with his tongue between his teeth, working on something with very fiddly parts. 

"Hey. Chris left." 

"Well, that was a weird series of things that happened."

"Yes. Yes it was. His mutation is — he does a thing where if you're injured it heals you and if you're not it makes you focused and energetic and he said it improves your mood but it did not do that for me — I yelled, he took it off, I said I was going to find you, he left. Through the window. Can I have a hug." 

Asher hugs him.

"It made me feel better but I don't have, uh, trauma."

Somehow he had managed not to realize that probably that reaction was because of trauma. "Yeah." He's just going to lean on Asher. 

Asher kisses his forehead. 

"Sounds like a set of powers SHIELD might be interested in."

"It does," he agrees. 

Kiss. "I'll add a hand sensor or something by the windows so they only open for you."

"You're the best and I love you." Kiss. 

"He was-- really kind of a mess on a whole bunch of different levels, and he hurt Sasha, but he was also kind of really hot."