Chapter 1: The introduction
Disclaimer: I do not own the x-men or any characters apart from the obvious OCs in the story. Nor do I make any money from the story you are about to indulge in only fans hopefully.
This is my first ever fanfic. I hope you enjoy it and I would greatly enjoy any constructive criticism or ideas on how to improve my story. also reviews are always accepted and greatly appreciated. I would like to forewarn you this story is rated M for language because I believe these characters are young and I had a bad mouth when I was that age. Now on with the story please enjoy.
At seventeen years of age, David Alexander was just another High-school kid. He had a close group of friends, and a very close knit family, which consisted of two younger sisters. David was a slacker in school, never really living up to his potential, and only earning a basic C average. He instead chose to spend his free time drinking beer, whiskey, and sleeping with any young, naive girl that could not see past his cocky pick-up lines, and womanizing ways. David had a good life, a bit misguided, but it was good enough for him, and he sure as well knew it. What he did not know however, was that just a seemingly ordinary Friday, was going to turn his whole world upside down.
It started out like any other Friday, at the school located in Ohio. It was a very boring day, being that it had only consisted of classes, and the ability to see friends during a limited time at lunch.) The topic of the day's conversation happened to be about a party that was taking place that very night, in order to prepare everyone for their upcoming graduation. Conversation carried on as it would any other day. They discussed how drunk they planned on getting, and the names of women they planned on trying to hook up with, were mentioned.
The rest of the day had dragged on painfully slow for David, before he was finally able to grab his backpack, and head out to the school parking lot. He headed on over to his Chrysler convertible, and proceeded to put his top down. Just as he was preparing to pull out, and head home for the day, he heard a familiar voice call his name.
"David, man, am I glad I caught you before you left! The Honda is acting up, and I'm going to have to, have it towed. Can I catch a ride home with you?" Asked a very frustrated Kevin.
David smirked at him while replying. "That's what you get for not buying American, you commie."
"Yeah, go to hell." Kevin smiled. "But its more like, that's what I get for going so cheap on a car."
His tone then switched from being frustrated, to excited. "Eric's party should be awesome! Are you planning on bringing along the new flavor of the week?"
"Who? Ashley?" Come on man you can't just bring a girl that you're not even dating, to a party full of hot drunk senior girls. That's like, trying to kick water uphill. You're not going to get anywhere." Stated David, in his normally cocky tone.
"Ah, another one bites the dust then. You sure don't waste any time in moving on."
"Yeah well, she lasted longer than I thought she would." David smugly smirked. "Maybe it's just because I'm going soft."
"So anyone in particular you're planning on taking home tonight?" asked Kevin.
"You know me; the first tall blonde that catches my eye, gets a shot at the title."
"One of these days you're going to wake up pissing razor blades, and you are going to deserve every minute of it." Kevin stated.
"Ouch, you're supposed to be my friend." David said, mock hurt laced in his voice.
"I am, but that doesn't mean you're not an asshole, at least where women are concerned." Kevin stated, with a hint of laughter in his voice.
"Very true." David said admittedly. The rest of the ride home was spent listening to music, laughing, and joking until Kevin was dropped off. David then proceeded to drive his way back to his own house.
After half assing his homework for the night, eating, and taking a shower, David got dressed for the party. He picked up Kevin, and Todd, then onward to the party, stopping only once to pick up a case of beer before continuing on in their journey.
They finally arrived at their destination shortly after 10 P.M., and headed directly to the backyard, where the festivities were already under way. By an unspoken agreement, the boys began to split up in order to mingle with their friends and peers from school, but more importantly the women.
David was currently engaged in talking to a tall blonde who was outfitted with legs that went on for days. Then suddenly, out of nowhere, the conversation got cut short. He had caught sight of a girl, who was about a year or so younger than him, that completely threw him off balance. She couldn't have been more than 5' 2" and tipping the scales at a whopping, soaking wet, 105 lbs.
Being 6' 3" himself and weighing in at 230 lbs. they were as different as any two people could be. She was as far as one could be from being his type, while wearing those expensive designer jeans, a yellow tee shirt, and shoes that probably cost more than his car. He in turn, simply only wore a pair of wrangler boot cut jeans, a black tee shirt, and a pair of scuffed work boots.
Differences having been set aside the moment he saw her, he knew that he had to take the chance. He mentally got prepared, by telling himself that the cute young brunette was soon going to be his. Smoothing out his shirt and grabbing an extra can of beer, he walked over in her direction. Once he reached his destination, he held the drink out, for the vision of beauty standing before him.
"Come, sip from the cup of destruction." David said confidently, setting his game plan in motion.
"Excuse me?" The woman asked, in a voice that was much louder than David had initially expected from such a small girl.
"It's a quote, Genghis khan, one of my heroes." Came David's reply.
"Not much of a hero if you know your history, Or you could just be a dick." Her voice was getting irritated at having yet another man hit on her.
David laughed at the coarse language that the woman threw out so casually. He smiled, and pleaded his case with the smoothness of a high priced lawyer.
"In a way, you're right. He certainly was not a good person by any means, but in another perspective he set his eyes on what he wanted and did whatever was necessary to get it. He led charges alongside his Mongolian hordes on the front line risking his life for what he wanted."
"So is that what you're doing? You saw what you wanted, or rather what you want to take home for the night. I just happen to have to deal with you bothering me right now, because of being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Although, I think that I'd rather deal with Genghis Khan."
"You think you have me all figured out don't you?" David responded, frustration obvious in his voice, at the audacity of the young Asian girl before him.
"I've seen about half of the women here looking at you with lust in their eyes, and the other half with hate. I'm assuming that those are the ones who have had the misfortune of getting caught in your trap." She stated more calmly, now that the confidence was starting to fade from his voice.
"You're not necessarily wrong, but you're not necessarily right either. Give me a chance."
"You, and every other guy here are all the same. You see a cute Asian girl, and suddenly you catch yellow fever. Sorry, but I'm not going to be just another trophy in your case." She said, with a sense of finality in her voice, before turning and walking away.
"Don't walk away, at least tell me your name." David said, following her through the crowd.
"What is it going to take, to get you to leave me alone?" She responded, stopping to once again face him.
"Dinner." David said calmly. "But I'll settle for your name."
"So if I tell you my name, you will leave?"
"Probably not."
"God this is getting annoying, but I admire your persistence. My name is Jubilee."
"That's a start. My name is David. Look Ohio is not much in the way of sightseeing, but if you're interested-" David began, before being promptly cut off.
"Look out!" A voice was heard through the crowd, at the same time that a beer bottle came flying from over the heads of the crowd surrounding them. It just so happened was heading straight for Jubilee.
David instinctively reached out to stop the beer bottle from hurting Jubilee. Instead of it hitting his hand though, it suddenly stopped frozen in midair. This did not go unnoticed by Jubilee, himself, and judging by the collective gasp that emitted from the patrons surrounding the pair, the other many party goers.
"What are you? Some kind of freak?" Came a voice from a guy in the crowd, that David recognized from school.
"He's one of those mutants. Like the ones on TV." Came a second voice.
"Let's kick his ass." The first voice chimed back in.
"Yeah that's real smart. Lets attack the guy with the mutant powers. How about you guys just leave him alone?" Jubilee said, as the boys started to advance on David.
"Shut your mouth you mutie, loving, bitch." The first boy said angrily.
"That's enough!" Yelled David, while grabbing the larger of the two men by the front of his shirt. "Say what you want about me, but leave her out of this." David continued, while shoving the man to the ground.
Before he could even register anything else, the other boy's fist crashed into David's face, audibly breaking his nose. As the sharp prick of pain began, and the blood started to flow, another fist targeted David. He reached his arm up, to help block the oncoming attack and succeeded, but not in the way that he had intended. Instead of merely brushing off the punch, the boy's fist stopped completely, before he flew back a length of twenty yards.
"David come with me, we have to get out of here now!" Jubilee said, trying to snap him out of his stunned state.
David stood there completely shocked, staring at his hands open mouthed, as if he were expecting them to spontaneously combust into flames. Jubilee grabbed his hand and attempted to drag him away from the party, only to have him jerk his hand back out of her grasp in an act of fear.
"Relax David, you're not going to hurt me." Jubilee said before grabbing his hand once again to show him that it was ok.
David quickly followed her away from the party, and down the street, forgetting all about his friends, until Kevin and Todd caught up with him.
"What the hell just happened Dave? We heard a commotion outside back there, and figured that you'd gotten into another fight, but you were nowhere to be found. We assumed it must have been worse than the usual when we realized that you were gone." Kevin remarked.
"Did you forget that you are our ride home?" Asked Todd.
"You guys have a lot to talk about, I'll just go." said Jubilee.
"Who are you?" Kevin asked.
"She's obviously the girl that David got into a fight over. He must have stolen another one." Todd stated.
"Shut up, that's not what happened." David interjected.
"Does that happen often?" Jubilee asked.
"No." Said David.
"If you don't consider once a month as being often." Kevin responded.
"I hate you guys." David smirked through a blood stained smile. "I love how you bothered to ask if I'm ok though. Thanks for that."
"You have been through worse. I'm sure that your fine." Kevin said calmly.
"You're the only guy I know who can look like absolute shit, and still get the girl." Todd chimed in.
"He hasn't gotten anything, apart from a broken nose." Jubilee said matter of factly.
"So seriously, what happened?" Asked Kevin.
"I don't know if I can tell you, without ending up in having you think less of me. To be honest, I'm not even sure I know myself." David told his best friends.
"Really,? We have been best friends since the second grade, what could be that bad that you can't tell us?" Todd asked.
"How did you guys get here?" Jubilee asked coming to David's rescue.
"I drove." Said David.
"Alright you guys take his car, and I'll give him a ride home." Jubilee said to David's friends.
"Yeah guys, I'll talk to you tomorrow." David said, while handing his keys to Kevin. "But no more drinking. If you wreck my car, I'll kill you."
"Alright man, be safe." Kevin said, taking the keys before turning to Jubilee. "Take care of him."
"Don't worry, he's in good hands." Jubilee smiled. "Have a good night boys."
With that, the two pairs walked off in separate directions. David tripped over the curb that he and Jubilee were walking along to get away from the party. Not focusing on the pain in his nose or the path that lay before them, David couldn't quite draw his attention away from his own hands, and occasionally, the petite teen walking beside him who smelled of a strange combination of Jasmine and bubble gum. The extremely mismatched, unlikely pair, walked silently for a while before David broke the silence.
"So what the hell happened back there?" David, asked rather rudely.
"Alright listen, I don't know how you usually talk to women, but you are going to talk to me a little more civilly, and show some respect if you want any answers from me." The Asian spitfire shot back.
"Your right, I apologize. I'm just a little freaked out right now." Said David, a little more calmly now.
"I'm sorry too. I shouldn't have snapped back at you. Knowing what it is that you are going through, I understand how frightening it can be."
"Yeah, well you were probably the only person not freaked out back at the party. And you said you could give me answers. Does that mean that you're…?"
"A mutant? Yes, just like you."
"Wow I have been called plenty of things, but a mutant will take some getting used to." David said laughing softly. "So what is this power I have?"
"I will answer all your questions, but first we should get you to a hospital. Come on my car is just down the street."
"Do you have a mirror in your purse?"
Jubilee produced a small make-up mirror from her bag, and held it up under a streetlight so David could see the extent of the damage in his face. David proceeded to place one thumb on either side of his nose, earning a sickening look from Jubilee.
"Please tell me that you're not going to." Jubilee began, before hearing the most disturbing, cracking sound that she had ever heard in her life, as David set his broken nose into correct order.
"There good as new." David laughed at the horrified expression on her face.
"Your insane, didn't that hurt?" Asked Jubilee looking a little pale.
"Not as bad as you might think, now about my powers." David said circling back to their previous topic.
"Well, I could be wrong, but I believe that you are a telekinetic."
"Isn't that moving things with your mind? I seem to have used my hands."
"I said I think. I cannot be one hundred percent sure, but I know someone who can be. I'll make a call tomorrow. Tonight however, I need a place to stay. The party was at my cousin's house, and I can't exactly go back there now."
"Well, you did help me out back there. I feel like I owe you, come back to my place. You can sleep in my bed and I'll take the sofa."
"Won't that be a little awkward in the morning?"
"A little, but my mom is cool. She will be ok with it. What I'm more worried about, is how I am going to break the news to her that I'm a mutant."
"I wish I could tell you that it's going to be ok." Jubilee said a little too sadly. David thought to question it, but decided not to overstep any boundaries.
"It's hard to accept myself. It's weird to hear it inside my own head."
"I find that saying it out loud helps it to settle in. Try it."
David took a deep breath, before continuing. "I am a mutant."