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Summary: 10 years after the war with mutants Abby, a college freshman, gets sucked into a world of danger when she becomes what she feared herself, a mutant.
Title: Exousia
Chapter 1: Broken
Authors: Olivia and Lune aka Athena of Attica
Date: August 19th 2005
"Really, i don't understand why your boyfriend couldn't drive you today." her brother said, referring to Chris Wilkins. Her family was familiar with Chris because he had been her high school sweetheart back in California.
"He said he was busy this week writing some paper for the history course. Besides, I never talk to you. I swear sometimes it looks as though you're avoiding me."
"I don't try to avoid you, just sometimes try to distance myself from you and all of your crazy freshman friends."
"They aren't crazy. I'm sure if you got to know them better-"
" I know what its like near them. Oh my god is that like Pete Jenkins! Like oh my god! " he imitated Katie's voice . " Oh my god he is just like the yummiest senior ever!"
Strangely enough that kinda did sound like Katie. The car came to a stop. "Thanks Kevin." Abby said stepping out of the car with her coffee in her hand and her black coat draped over her forearm. Kevin handed her her blue turquoise handbag then drove off in a hurry to get to his English class.
Abby walked up the stairs and over to her dorm room. She fiddled with the doorknob and finally managed to unlatch it. She had lean on the door with her shoulder to get it open. She immediately set the coffee and coat down and started to gather up her books. "Where were you last night and the night before that and the night before that?" Abby snapped her head towards the groggy voice to see Lindsay, her roommate.
" I was visiting my family in Houston. I told you i was going to Houston a week ago. Kevin gave me a ride here." she replied grabbing a pen and scrambling to find her books.
"Your brother?"
"Yeah." Even though Kevin was on the Tennessee University campus just like her it didn't seem like he was there at all. Abby never saw him, he never said hello, he never dropped by, they didn't take the same courses. And sometimes she would see a glimpse of him in the river or college kids and call out, but he never noticed. It really did seem like he was avoiding her. There must be code that says Seniors cant talk to Freshman.
"Why didn't Chris drive you?"
" I have to get to my Psychology course in 5 minutes and its across campus." Abby looked underneath her comforter and came out with a thick book labeled PSHYCHOLOGY AN INTRODUCTION and took another small book called FRONTIERS OF PSHCOLOGICAL RESEARCH and a giant five star notepad. She grabbed a purple pen with feathers sticking out of the top and ran out the door. Abby burst back in a few seconds later. "I forgot my coffee, don't want to fall asleep in Mad Murdock's class." There was a slam and rushing feet clattering down a stairway and out a door.
Abby came into the class just as the professor took his spot in front of the class. Professor Murdock was a short balding man with white hair and glasses. He was dead boring but drove fear into his students by threatening to fail them. He also had a harsh voice and resulted to yelling and random ranting and raving, hence his nickname Mad Murdock. Abby quickly took a seat next to Chris, her beautiful blond headed blue eyed boyfriend.
About 5 minutes into the class Harrison McDonald snuck in while Murdock was writing on the chalkboard and explaining something about the human brain. He sat right next to Abby, "Good morning Abby you're looking lovely this morning, just as always."
Abby didn't say anything in return. Harrison liked her. He really liked her. He had sent her valentines flowers in the mail to her even though she had a boyfriend. He didn't mind hitting on her in front of her boyfriend either. Despite his signs of affection Abby didn't love him back. She loved Chris and only Chris. It wasn't that Harrison was ugly. He was pretty good looking, with brown hair mid neck length and these two beautiful olive green eyes. But the fact was that Chris was much more handsome, handsome enough to be a roman god statue. Harrison took out his psychology book and flipped though the pages until he came to what Mad Murdock was talking about. As minutes droned on Abby found herself looking at the clock.
"Miss Vela!" a harsh voice woke Abby out of her nap. The coffee hadn't worked at all. "Can you tell the class one of the reasons why historians and psychologists believe why people were so prejudice against the mutant population?"
Abby rubbed her eyes and tried to focus.
"I'm waiting Miss Vela!" Mad Murdock's voice rang though the class.
She was speechless. She didn't know. Where had they left off anyway? She felt a light kick and looked over at Harrison who was looking straight forward at Murdock but had written Fear in big letters on a blank sheet of notebook paper. "Ummm fear?" the words stumbled clumsily off her lips.
"Because it is natural for the human race to fear what they aren't able to understand clearly!" he shouted and continued on with the boring lecture.
"Thank you." A low whisper directed to Harrison.
"Anytime." he replied.
" Damn mutants." Chris whispered next to her.
" They're all dead now." she hissed back. Abby hated it when he started up on this conversation again. Evey time someone mentioned mutant he would start raving and swearing at the race of mutants.
"That man torched him alive." he said in a bitter tone.
Abby didn't reply. When Chris was only 7 he lost his dad in the war against mutants. A wild mutant named Pyro had torched his father alive just outside of Washington D.C. Pyro himself had disappeared into a sewer system when a series of explosions had gone off near him and his comrades that made the ground fall away. They found the other three bodies but all they found was a lighter and a bloody shirt that belonged to him. The government proclaimed him dead after 3 months. A year later the government got a hold of some of William Strikers mind controlling formula and used it upon a prisoner of war, Dr. Jean Grey. Grey herself had never really done any fighting but when the government stormed Charles Xavier's school she was one taken captive. With the Xavier School under government control they were able to use the machine Cerebro and kill almost all the mutants before Grey died herself of a brain aneurysm. With such a small handful of people left the mutant race was driven into hiding and no attacks or problems have ever occurred up to the recent date, a full 10 years after the race was eliminated.
Eliminated. What if we had lost? Would they have eliminated us too? She thought to herself. In a way I guess that its good that they were eliminated, they would have probably killed us all. They were just a bunch of freaks and murderers anyway.
Abby was broken out of thought as the class ended and students were beginning to grab their books and rush outside. "You want to go over to Linda's and grab a bit of breakfast?" she asked Chris. Abby was referring to Linda's Diner. It was located just off of campus.
"I have to get back to my history paper." he replied as they both exited the building.
"Oh. Well Ill see you later I guess."
Chris didn't say anything back in return but instead disappeared in the crowd of people.
Abby ended up going with Lindsay to the diner. She ordered Belgian waffles smothered in whip cream and syrup with 2 eggs on the side and a tall glass of orange juice.
"I cant believe you're going to eat that." Lindsay said to her.
"Its good."
" I cant begin to tell you how much points that is. Its gotta be like 700. Thats like a weeks worth of points."
Lindsay was on a diet. The weight watchers diet. She wasn't fat, she just thought she was fat. She probably wouldn't be happy until she looked like Twiggy, that skinny model from the 1960's. Abby took a look at Lindsay's plate, a bowl of fruit with a glass of orange juice. At least they could both agree on the orange juice.
After Abby finished off the waffles and burped, getting a disgusting look from her dorm mate, and chugged down the orange juice they called for the bill. It came out to $12.17. This was another reason why Linda's Diner was so great, it was incredibly cheap. Abby payed $10 and Lindsay added a $5. It was an outrageous tip but they didn't have anything smaller and they didn't feel like paying at the cash register which had a long line of college kids trying to pay and get to class. And speaking of class, they both had to get to Chemistry.
After Chemistry she met and Lindsay up with Veronica, Katie, Sandra, Liz, and Liz's boyfriend Eric out on the steps of the college library.
"Katie and I almost fell asleep in Spanish this morning." Sandra said, it was so boring.
"I fell asleep in Mad Murdock's class." Abby replied
"Oh thats a bitch."
" Yeah he caught me too and asked something about psychology and humans and mutants. Harrison McDonald wrote the answer down for me."
"Is he still trying to get you to go out with him?"
"Yeah."
"He's a freak," Katie said," I heard at his high school he stalked this girl and almost killed her when she rejected him."
"I highly doubt that he's the type of person who would do that."
"He does seem pretty harmless." Eric agreed.
"Well does he stalk you?" Katie asked.
"He sits next to me in psychology and in English but its not like he follows me around after classes. Sometimes he says hi if we pass each other or something."
"Thats close enough."
"Hes not a stalker."
"How do you know?"
"Because he doesn't stalk me."
"Ugh..." Sandra was the one to change the subject," Senoira Brennan is making us write a 15 page paper about a city in a Spain or a Spanish speaking country. And of course the paper has to be in Spanish. It sucks. Its due in like 6 days or something."
"How's your history paper going, Veronica?" Abby asked. Veronica was in the same class as Chris.
She paused and gave Abby a look of confusion. "What paper? I not doing any paper. Did I say I was or something?"
"You know what, you're going to have to excuse me." Abby said hurrying down the steps and over towards the dorms. Why would he lie about that to me?
Abby walked quickly over to where Chris' dorm room was. She opened the door to the building and went up a couple flights of stairs. He was on the third floor. She walked down the hallway and knocked on the door. There was an voice from inside," Tyler go away I'm busy right now." he was referring to his dorm mate, Tyler Evans. Abby had met him briefly on a few occasions.
"Its not Tyler, its Abby."
"Abby I'm doing my history paper right now. Can you come back another time?"
"No. I can't. Because there is no history paper. You're lying to me." she opened the door to find her boyfriend underneath Charlene Thomas. And that slut Charlene was in a pink bra and matching thong. Her red lipstick smudged all over Chris' face. Abby stood there for a minute. She tried to keep her voice strong. " Well I can see whats so important about your paper, Chris. Go ahead, don't mind me. We're though anyway. I'm breaking up with you." she shut the door just before she started to break down. She started to walk down the hallway.
A door opened up. Chris rushing out to the stars to see Abby at the bottom walking down them. "Abby wait!"
"No! I'm leaving!"
"I don't love her, I love you!"
"Stop lying to me!" she started to run down the stairs
"Abby wait!" Chris was running after her.
Abby ran all the way to her dorm room and started sobbing. Lindsay was back yet. She was filled with so much anger and hate and love and sadness because of that bastard.
"Why would he do that to me?" she whispered to herself her sobs growing louder and her voice growing horse. "Why?"
Abby hugged onto a giant stuffed leopard that she had brought from home. She had been sleeping with the stuffed toy since she was 9 . Her tears made its faux fur wet and clumpy. Abby got up and fiddle with matches near some of Lindsay's candles that she claimed were suppose to calm her down. Lindsay had a bit of an anger issue. In other words, don't get in her way on a bad day. Of course Abby never believed her about the candles but she might as well give it a try. She fumbled with the matches and finally got one lit but instead of it lighting the candle the fire wrapped around her hand and rested in her palm. Abby stood in the middle of the room, shocked and amazed at the tiny little light in her hand. It was like a miniature sun. It was beautiful and it was hers.
Suddenly Chris burst into the room. "Abby I don't..." he faded off, seeing the fire in her hand. " Oh my god, you're one of them. You're just like- like him. I'm calling the police." he reached and grabbed the phone. Abby started to run to the door trying to get away. She didn't want to go to jail or even be killed. Killed. The word sounded unreal to Abby. Would the government really do that to her?
Chris grabbed onto her arm, putting enough pressure on it that it hurt. He meant for it to hurt to. The fire in her palm went out. Abby turned around and kneed him in the groin. He grabbed onto her shirt sleeve and it tore as she pulled away and ran out of the room. Abby ignored the swears coming from inside from her ex boyfriend.
Abby ran out the door, trying to think of where she was going to go to get away from Chris and probably the police. She couldn't go to Lindsay or Sandra or Veronica or Katie. They were all in a math class. Liz and Eric were probably making out in the library.
She was out of options. She had no where to go. Abby ran over to the guys dorms, tears pouring over her cheeks like tiny rivers. Her mascara was running. She looked down the long list of names and went up a floor and started to run down the hallway. She knocked and pounded on door 35. She pounded and pounded on it not even noticing it unlocking. It opened and Abby tumbled right into Harrison McDonald.
Ok so what did ya all think? R&R pleaseeeee..
Oh and please ignore the spelling and grammar errors
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