"Kate, Gwen's gotten into trouble. I need to find some people to help sort it out." As soon as Henry returned to East 49th Street, he explained what had happened. Both girls already knew, after all, so there was little point in keeping it from the elderly woman.
Besides, if anything really went wrong, he would have to count on Skye and Lorna to get her out of there. Coming clean now was better than struggling to keep his story straight later.
Katharine Hepburn was both surprised and worried. "What kind of trouble is Gwen in? Is it difficult to deal with?"
"If things go wrong, it could be even worse than the vampires and werewolves." If he made it sound too easy, then once the situation spiraled out of control, getting people to evacuate would become far more difficult. Better to tell the truth.
"If it's really that bad, do you have a way to deal with it?" Katharine Hepburn asked skeptically.
The elderly woman had no idea that he was the one behind vampires and werewolves becoming everyone's enemies, which was why she asked. Henry didn't want to reveal any of that, though, so he had to find another excuse. "Actually, the U.S. military has already been deployed. I want to ask the X-Men to step in as an extra precaution."
...Maybe going to them really would be a good idea, Henry thought.
"The X-Men? Oh, you mean that boy Pietro." Katharine Hepburn remembered that there was indeed an X-Man among their acquaintances: Lorna's older brother, Pietro Maximoff, also known as Quicksilver.
Besides, her understanding of Henry was still stuck on the version where he was a mutant. If he knew them, approaching that long-established team of heroes who had resolved major crises several times was certainly the