Author's note: Ok in this story mutants age slower than normal humans just because I love James McAvoy and Michael Fassbender. Not that I don't love Ian McKellen but it'd be weird if an old guy went out with an 18 year old... ANYWAYS i hope you enjoy :)
Disclaimer: I don't own X-men or any of its characters just Aaylah and any other characters you don't recognise.
Dowle Quinn was a young Irishman of high social stature. In 1980, at the age of 20 he moved to expand the Quinn family business in America. Ten years later he met a beautiful woman named Allison. They fell in love and got married a year later. It wasn't long until Allison got pregnant.
Nine months later, Aaylah Quinn was born. She had beautiful copper hair and aquamarine coloured eyes. This seemed very strange to Dowle as neither Allison nor he had red hair or blue eyes but Allison didn't care and thought Aaylah was the most precious gift god could give her.
The Quinn family lived happily for many years. Aaylah was home schooled from the age of 3. She was also taught music. Aaylah enjoyed lessons quite a lot and found she was very smart and very talented at playing all different musical instruments but excelled in piano.
When Aaylah turned five, strange things started to happen. Aaylah started answering her parents' thoughts and questions before they even asked her. Allison would just shrug it off and blame it on good body language reading skills but Dowle wasn't convinced. Then Dowle noticed that every time Aaylah's mood changed her eye colour would change. He told Allison this and she once again shrugged it off saying that it was probably the different lighting.
It didn't take long for Aaylah to realise that she could read minds and soon found out that wasn't all she could do. Whenever she got upset found that she could control water, earth, fire and wind. She could also see into peoples' memories and feel and control their emotions.
13 years later and Aaylah has learnt how to control her powers. It was now her 18th birthday and she has decided that it was time to tell her parents that she is a mutant.
After dinner, Aaylah sat her mother and father down in the drawing room. She stood nervously in front of them trying to find a way to tell them without freaking them out.
"Darling what is wrong?" Allison asked "You seem nervous."
"There is something I need to tell you both. You know how they have been talking about mutants on the news. Well I, I," Aaylah panics
"Well what Aaylah?" Dowle snaps
"I'm a mutant."
When they made no response she decided to show them what she could do. She took a deep breath and concentrated on making a small flame flicker above her hand. Her mother gasps. Aaylah, noticing that the gasp wasn't one of fear she continues by turning the flame into ice, then melting it and swirling the water through the air and into the vase with a dead flower. When the water absorbed into the once dead flower, it came alive again and turned into the beautiful Orchard it was. Then the Orchard floated through the air to Allison who took the flower. Allison was in awe and smiled at her daughter.
Aaylah let out a breath she didn't realize she was holding in. Smiling, she looks at her father but the smile falters when she sees his face. Dowle was mortified and stared at his daughter in disgust.
"I knew it. You were abnormal from the moment you were born, with your freakish hair and eyes. Your mother just would shrug it off when I brought it up but I knew you were a freak." He spat at Aaylah. He got up and walked to the fireplace picking up a fire poker and turned to Aaylah. "You're a monster and I'll die before I have a mutant as a daughter"
He started beating her with the poker. Allison tried to stop Dowle but he was so consumed with his rage that he smashed Allison in the head with the poker. Allison crumpled to the floor dead, her blood pooling around her. Seeing what he did he turned to Aaylah saying this was her fault and started beating her even harder.
SNAP! Aaylah screamed as she felt her ribs break. She couldn't breathe and started coughing up blood; one of the ribs had punctured her lungs. Aaylah begged him to stop but he just hit her in the head in attempt to shut her up.
Please someone help me! She screams in her mind, praying that someone hears. Then she felt a presence in her mind.
Hold on, help is on the way
Aaylah didn't have the chance to find out whose voice that was in her head because Dowle chose that moment to get bored with beating the shit out of her and starts strangling her. Suddenly Dowle was hurled away from his daughter. Aaylah couldn't control her body anymore. She stands up and faces Dowle. He backs up in fear when he looks at his daughter. Her eyes were silver and wind starts blowing Aaylah's Copper hair around her face making her look deadly. The ground starts violently shaking, fire explodes from the fireplace.
"My turn" Aaylah says tilting her head with a menacing grin and Dowle bursts into flames. He drops to the floor, screaming as Aaylah stands there laughing darkly at the sight in front of her. Then Aaylah gains back control of her body and falls to the ground.
Fire begins to spread through the house. Aaylah tries to stop it but finds she is in too much pain and too tired to move let alone use her powers. Her vision starts to go hazy. Then a man appears in front of her.
"Please… Help... It hurts…" She chokes out
"Shhh don't talk, I've got you. You're safe now."
Everything goes black.
Author's note: Hey guys! Thank you so much for reading. I know i went through things a lil fast in this chapter and hopefully the next one will be better. I would love to know what you think and if there's anyway I can improve it just press the review button below and let me know :)
