Julie POV- She sat in the back of the auditorium with a terrible headache, but she refused to miss her best friend's presentation. Charles Xavier stood at the head of the podium explaining homo Neanderthals and homo sapiens.
Everyone was deep into his presentation even though only herself, Charles and Raven, his nearly sister, knew that Charles was actually talking about them; mutants.
Julie had to close her eyes to focus on silencing the noise in her head. Everyone stood and clapped when Charles finished and Julie waited for him and Raven to join her as they left.
"Amazing job, Charles" Julie smiled as they walked out onto the street.
"Thanks, Julie, so glad you could come" Charles said.
"So how does it feel to be a professor?" Raven asked.
"Oh don't call me that. You don't get to be called 'professor' until you actually have a teaching position" Charles told her.
"I know, but it suits you."
"She's right you know" Julie laughed.
"Oh don't say that. Do say 'let's go have a drink' though" Charles suggested laughing.
"Let's go have a drink" Raven said.
"Wonderful."
"I'll meet you guys later" Julie said.
"Headache? Just remember it's just background noise nearly silent" Charles instructed when she nodded.
"I don't know how you do it, Charles. All the noise in my head, so loud" Julie said taking a deep breath.
"Control and will" Charles said.
Slowly the voices that weren't her own but from random people on the street started to grow quiet until all she heard were her own thoughts. With the silence, the headache too went away.
"Thank you."
"My pleasure. Your mutation is incredible, to copy any and all powers to use at a moment's notice is extraordinary" Charles said smiling.
"Yeah except I can only use one power at a time and sometimes they happen even when I don't want them to" Julie said, slightly annoyed having had this talk with him before.
"You just need to practice and gain…"
"Control. I know."
"Yes, sorry. Well you know we're always here to help" he said including Raven.
"I know and you know no matter what, if you call I'll come I owe you."
"No you don't."
"Fine. As your friend, I'll come if you ever need me."
Julie left the two so they could go celebrate and she went back to her hotel room. Turns out Charles needed her a lot sooner and for a bigger reason than she'd ever thought.
He was going to work with the government to try and stop some mutants who we're pretty much not only abusing their gifts but were also terrorists. Charles said he would pick her up at her hotel and they'd head to a government meeting in the morning.
Dealing with more mutants was the last thing Julie ever wanted to do, seeing as how just being around them made her copy their power, but for Charles she'd do it.
In the morning Charles and Raven picked her up with a woman who worked for the CIA. They were all taken to Langley, Virginia where Charles would give his speech to the woman's superiors.
"The advent of the nuclear age may have accelerated the mutation process. Individuals with extraordinary abilities may already be among us. Thank you very much" Charles said finishing his speech.
"MacTaggert you really think that some crackpot scientist is gonna make me believe in sparkly dames and vanishing men? You just bought yourself a one-way ticket back to the typing pool. This meeting is over" the CIA director said.
Charles calmly sat down while the others were about to stand up.
"Uh please sit down Agent MacTaggert. I didn't really expect you to believe me given that all you could think about during my presentation was about what sort of pie they were serving in the commissary. …It's apple pecan. I haven't been entirely honest with you love I'm sorry" Charles said apologizing to Moira MacTaggert.
"Don't do it" Julie begged softly next to him.
"You see one of the many spectacular things my mutation allows me to do is that I can read your mind" Charles said ignoring Julie.
"I've seen this before in a magic show. Are you going to ask us to think of a number between one and ten now?" Agent Stryker asked.
"No, Agent Stryker. Although, I could ask you about your son William who you were thinking about which is very nice. But I think I'd rather ask you about the Jupiter missiles America is currently placing in Turkey" Charles said leaning forward.
Julie closed her eyes and put her head in her hand.
"He's a goddamned spy. You brought a goddamned spy into this facility!" the director yelled going for the phone no doubt to call security.
"I did not" Moira argued.
Then that's all Julie heard, just arguing. Until Raven stood up and shifted into Agent Stryker then everyone was silent.
"How's that for a magic trick?" Charles said one arm leaning on the table.
Raven shifted back into her normal blue self.
"Best I've ever seen" an agent spoke up from the back of the room.
"I want them out of here and locked down until I can figure out what to do" the director said.
"My facilities is off site. I'll take 'em" the agent in the back offered.
He seemed the only one who was actually happy to suddenly learn about mutants. As they got up to go Julie glared at Charles.
"Relax darling I have a plan B."
"You better. I will not become a lab rat Charles. No cages ever" Julie said softly.
Her biggest fear was being locked in a cage for being what she was. They made their way to the parking garage's third floor.
"So what can you do?" the agent asked Julie.
"I'm a copycat. I get around another mutant and I copy their power for myself."
"Amazing. I've always known that there were people like you out there. I've been the laughingstock of this agency for years but I knew it. You're going to love my facility" he said.
"That's going to have to wait" Charles explained as Moira pulled up in a car in front of them.
"What?"
"Not only can he read minds he can communicate with them as well" Raven said as she and Julie got into the back of the car.
"Moira and I have just had a lovely conversation" Charles said.
"Yes we did" Moira agreed.
"That's incredible. But I… I cannot take you anywhere else without permission from upstairs."
"Would you like to see one more magic trick?"
"Okay."
"Get in the car" Charles ordered.
"Good idea" the agent said getting into the car.
Charles got in and they were off to stop Sebastian Shaw. Charles kept the agent silent as they made their way to the water. Thanks to Agent MacTaggert, they were able to get the help of the Coast Guard. They managed to locate Shaw's yacht just a little after the sun had fully set.
"This is the US Coast Guard. Do not attempt to move your vessel. Stay where you are."
Charles was using his power to keep a lock on Shaw's location.
"I've lost Shaw. I've lo… I've lost Shaw. Th… there's something blocking me. This has never happened to me before. I think there's someone like me on that ship" Charles said.
"Like you?" Moira asked.
"Uh I'm sorry, a telepath. This is incredible I could actually feel her inside my head. I'm sorry but I don't think I'm gonna be much help to you tonight. You're on your own" Charles explained.
"Should I try?" Julie asked.
"No I don't want her in your head" Charles said.
"But she can't stop two telepaths at once."
"You don't know that."
Julie sighed she felt so useless at stopping these people.
"Oh my God" Charles said.
"Jesus" echoed MacTaggert.
Two tornados had come from Shaw's ship and decimated the boats in the water that were attempting to get closer to the yacht.
"Get inside" the agent said leading them away from the side of the ship.
"Stop, stop, stop, stop, stop. Ah!" Charles froze wincing in pain.
"Charles are you okay?" Moira asked.
Opening her mind, Julie felt what Charles did. Someone out there was full of immense anger, hatred, rage and pain all directed at Shaw.
"There's someone else out there" Charles and Julie said.
They both ran back outside.
"There!" Charles pointed.
They saw a man in the water. As the man raised his hand the anchor and chain on the yacht floated out of the water and attacked the yacht when the man thrust his hand forward.
"Telekinetic?" Julie asked in awe.
After the yacht was destroyed the man appeared to be pulled through the water as though he were holding on to something.
"Let it go! You have to let it go! You've got to help him. You got to put someone in the water to help him" Charles urged.
"You have to let it go!" Charles jumped over board to help the man as he went under the water.
"Charles!" Julie ran to the edge of the ship looking for him.
"We're here!" Charles called out.
"There!" Julie pointed out.
Quickly, the Coast Guard got Charles and the man on board.
"Erik Lehnsherr. Moira MacTaggert" Charles introduced.
As soon as Erik had stepped on board, Julie felt her whole body grow warm, as she just copied a new power.
"Erik this is my friend and fellow mutant…"
"Julie Thompson" Julie said shaking Erik's hand.
"Yeah? And what can you do?" Erik asked.
Julie laughed.
"Whatever you can" Julie replied focusing on Charles' watch and made it fly into her hand.
"So you aren't telekinetic, you're ferrokinetic. You control metal" Julie said.
"How'd you do that?" Erik asked.
"I'm a copycat. If I get within ten feet of a mutant, I copy their power for myself."
"How long do you keep that power?"
"Forever." Just like that Julie now had three new mutant powers at her disposal.