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Fighting Fire With Fire
Chapter 1
Cassie leaned against the cold wall of the Ferris Wheel cart, pushed to her ultimate limit. She wasn't sure how much more she could take before she snapped. Looking from her best friend, Saria, to what looked like her new boyfriend Luke, she sighed. She was well known for being temperamental and quick to anger, but even for her this was ridiculous.
All because of him. She looked to Riley, holding his gaze for a second, before returning to stare out, watching the ocean gently hit the shore, just waiting for him to just ask what was wrong with her. He was truly, the only person she would never understand at all. Usually, she could read people like an open book, but with him everything was different. It was infuriating.
"What is with you?" Riley snapped, getting frustrated with the tension. Cassie shook her head, laughing, irritated by his lack of observational skills. She was about to let him have it, but she took a deep breath, calming herself. Nothing good ever came from her losing it.
"Well?" He tapped his foot impatiently, that was it. Cassie tilted her head to the side, a smirk spreading across her lips. She didn't savour losing it, but a part of her enjoyed it, overjoyed by her victims insecurity.
"Do you really want to know what my problem is?" She raised an eyebrow, pushing her sadistic side to the back of her mind, now was not the time.
"Yes, I would love to know. Fill me in when your ready." He replied, flashing his signature plain irritating smile that could make the calmest person want to just punch him around the face.
"You." Cassie snapped. "You, with your schemes, your games and never knowing where you stand. One minute your afraid to lose me, the next your happy for me to go. Make up your mind because I sure as hell, won't be the one feeling like this when I've already left."
It was no longer a game, it was no longer fun. Subconsciously at some point during her rant, she had stood up to tower over him, in his seat. Cassie had lost it, she knew it was too late by the time she had noticed. Her long red hair, was blowing with the wind, crackling like little fireworks at the tips. The tips of her fingers, ignited with sizzling flames.
Her friends expressions were priceless, except Saria, of course. She had seen this happen too many times, she tugged at the sleeve of Cassie's top. Cassie responded, turning to bat her out of the way, leaving a scorch mark, in her new jacket. Riley said nothing, as if he was trying to process the information in front of him.
"Your a mutant?" His voice was no more than a whisper. Their cart pulled up the starting point, the attendant hastily letting them out. She turned around, planting a soft kiss on his lips, leaving them red with heat. Before turning and walking away, calling back behind her.
"No shit, Sherlock."
The tips of her hair brushed against the surrounding plants, setting them alight. She smirked to herself, wondering how long it would be, before someone starting screaming "Mutant". Then it hit her...No one was moving? She looked back to see Riley and Luke as immobile as the rest. Wait, then why was Saria still moving?
She chuckled lightly at her best friend, shaking her head. She probably should have worked it out earlier, Saria could make you feel anything, that she wanted you to. Cassie had always believed it was Saria's powers of persuasion, but not literally.
"Did you do this?" Cassie asked raising an eyebrow at Saria, who just looked back at her blank. She still hadn't caught on. For someone with top grades, she was unbelievably slow.
"Okay...Apparently not." Saria's eyes creased, squinting, trying to make out the figures. Her eye sight was truly terrible, Cassie was always pestering her to get glasses. She knew all to well from her smug smile, that Cassie could see everything.
"She couldn't have, because I did." The thought echoed through the girls head, causing them to look around them, in hope of finding the origin of the voice. Cassie tilted her head, studying the group of people before her. A man in a wheelchair and a freaking awesome one, at that. Along with a woman with a similar shade of hair colour as her, a man with what looked like infra red glasses and another woman, a caramel shade, with white hair.
They didn't look like normal people, even if the latest trends were slightly whack. However, Saria knew long before they approached that they were like us. Apparently her skills, stretched to quite an extent. Paranoia rushed over her, what if they saw what Cassie did, what if she was punished for exposure of mutant kind or something along those lines. The man in the wheelchair let out a light chuckle, Cassie frowned as if she had missed something. Saria just giggled in return. She wasn't sure why, but she liked these people, as strange as they were.
"I am Professor Xavier, I own a school for mutants, for people like us. Perhaps you would like to discuss this else where." The man in the wheelchair spoke. Cassie nodded slowly, as they led their way back to what appeared to be a jet, of some kind. She wasn't quite sure why she was getting into a jet, with complete strangers, but she was okay with it.
"Comfort with always been provided to those who need it, Cassandra." Cassie turned the same shade as her hair, at the use of her full name, receiving a comforting smile off of the Professor. It wasn't long before they arrived at a grand building, that looked strangely more like a school than she had initially expected.
They retreated into Professor Xaviers office, Cassie and Saria taking a much needed seat, their legs were killing. Cassie scanned the room, looking for something that could give away, that he was a mutant. There wasn't. It was just like an average office.
"Not so different are we, Cassandra?" The Professor mused, she wished he'd stop calling her by her full name. "My apolagies, Cassie." She nodded, much better.
"This is a school for mutants, a place when they have no where to go, where they can fit in, a home." The Professor nodded solemnly. "These are our Professors, Dr Jean Grey, Ororo Munroe also know as Storm and Scott Summers, otherwise Cyclops." He looked from the redheaded woman, to the one with the white hair, to the guy with the glasses.
"If you wish to stay, arrangements can be made." Cassie and Saria looked to each other, they didn't need confirmation, they wanted to stay.
"Ororo, if you could please show Saria to her room. I would like to speak to Cassie alone." The Professor nodded, dismissing Dr Grey and Professor Summers.
"Cassie, there is someone I would like you to meet." There was a knock at the door. "Come in, John. This is John Allerdyce, he is -also- a pyrokinetic. It appears you two, are like a two pieced puzzle." Cassie shifted her eyes to the guy that entered, trying to keep her line of thoughts in track, knowing Professor Xavier could be listening in.
There was no denying that he was good looking and she had always said she would never find blue eyes attractive...But it was the way he carried himself, he had the whole bad boy swagger, that could have her on her knees. The same smirk twisted on both of their lips. This would be interesting.