XMen 2.0
By: Karie
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Lillith waslked along the bank of the river, watching the clear water pass her by as she walked upstream, away from the park. There was a rustle from nearby and two sets of hands shoved her sideways, making her tumble into the mud covered side of the river. Looking up at her two assailents, she wanted to scream.
Toby and his little wench Tabitha.
"Hey, Lilly of Valley High, wanna play with us now?"
Lillith just kept her face blank and got up, dripping mud. Her new shoes were ruined, her favorite black jeans were covered in thick mud and her best yellow t-shirt with the fringe around the bottom had mud on it. She turned up towards the road and stalked past the two who were laughing and hanging on each other.
"Lilly of Valley High! LILLY! LILLY!"
Lillith didn't look back just kept walking.
"Lilly of the valley, DEATH valley, poor Lilly."
Tabitha's mocking voice made Lillith stop and glare over her shoulder. Her long blue-white hair was covered in mud and her light, close to silver, blue eyes glittered out of her mud streaked face. Her expression was cold and angry. She stirred her power and the water in the river rose in its banks, flooding over, running faster and faster and sweeping Toby and Tabitha's feet from under them, sweeping them into the water and pushing them under.
"Never mention that ever again."
Lillith turned and walked away.
---
Professor Xavior frowned.
*What do you think, Logan.*
**I think we should go see her, or send Jean or Scott or Storm.**
Xavior sighed and pressed his finger tips together.
"I may have to go myself."
His friend shrugged and followed him out of the room.
"I'll go if ya want, but parents don't look to well on me."
"Of course. I'll ask Storm."
---
Lillith walked in her door, putting her key on the table, shedding her mud covered shoes.
"Lilla? Lilla, is it you? Come in here for me, PLEASE? Someone's here too see you."
"Oh?"
Lillith felt grungy but walked in anyhow, aware that she was dripping mud. A bald man in a wheel chair sat in the middle of the room, with a tall thin woman wearing a head scarf and some kind of African styled outfit with long white hair and black skin stood by him. Her sister smiled, brown eyes sparkling from under her thick black bangs.
"Lilla, this is Professor Xavior and his friend, Aurora."
"Hello Lillith."
"Hi."
Lillith brushed some mud soaked hair from her face with a lazy hand and turned to her older sister.
"Kylee, can I go get cleaned up first, this really isn't a good minute."
"Lilla-"
"Kylee, I am covered in mud, I am a mess, can I PLEASE go clean up? I'll be RIGHT down, I WON'T go out the window, PROMISE."
"Oh, all right Lilla. Just make it fast okay? They're company."
"Yes Kylee."
Lillith went up stairs, showered and tossed her shoes in the trash. They weren't very comfortable anyhow. She pulled on her favorite black streach twill flairs, her ragged sneakers with beaded laces and a pink tank top which she covered with a red fishnet shirt that hung to her knees. She pulled her long hair back with her blue watery looking bandana and put on some lip gloss before she went back down. She smiled bravly and went into the living room.
"There, now your not soaked and wearing mud, what happened?"
"Toby and Tabitha. What else. They AMBUSHED me and shoved me into the muddy banks of the river. I had to toss my new shoes. They were COVERED in mud."
"What did you do?"
"NOTHING! I was walking. Thats ALL."
"Lillith, we've come to see you especially."
Lillith turned towards the man and woman and blinked at them.
"Really? Why?"
The man spoke up in a slow, slightly odd voice, his hands pressed together in front of his chest.
"We've become aware that you have some special, talents. I run a school for young people with talent such as yours. I've come to see if you and your sister would agree to your going there. We live near the local high school the rooms are nice, we have other students like yourself all ready living there and we run simple programs."
"Well, I don't know. We just got here last month and I've just started school and stuff and-"
"W can take care of it all today if you would like to come."
The woman had a motherly quality to her and Lillith smiled faintly, feeling a little more comfortable with her.
"Well.... Kylee?"
"Lilla, I'll miss you awful, but, this is great chance for you. Its all up to you Lilla."
Lillith pondered this for a minute then hugged Kylee.
"Come see me sometime, PLEASE Ky silky?"
"Like I wouldn't Lillaflower? Be there in a WEEK."
"Okay. I'm gonna go get some stuff."
Lillith ran to her room, grabbed her suit case and threw her night clothes in, some extra clothes and her favorite clothes and shoes. She put her tooth brush and tooth paste in then tossed all her hair care stuff in. She lifted her book bag and rushed back down the stairs.
"I'm ready."
The two led her outside to a large black military looking vehicle. The side opened up and the man's wheel chair was fastened to it. He was guided inside and Lillith was put in a seat up near the front. A big man, with a scowl that seemed permanent sat in the drivers seat, drumming his fingers. Lillith blinked.
"Everyone in? Good."
The man's voice was low and rough, with a growling sound to it. It was protective and she liked it. She sat back and stared out the tinted window to her right. It was a long drive. She was woken by a shake of her arm.
Lillith, we're here, come on. Here, I'll take the bags, follow Logan."
"Thanks, Aurora."
"Just call me Storm."
"Ummm, okay. Storm."
Lillith got out and followed the big guy.
"So, your name is, Logan?"
"Yeah. Your Lillith. The newbie."
"Umm, yes?"
"Humph."
Lillith gave up talking to him. He seemed kind of upset about something. She followed him towards a huge mansion.
"Woooooooow..."
"This is the Xavior Institute. You'll meet Scott at the door."
The man stopped and watched her walk up the stairs. She turned and waved from the top.
"I see him! Thank you Logan!"
Logan turned kind of dark and looked away, grumbling something. Lillith just smiled and turned, walking in. There was a tall boy with strange glasses and brown hair standing inside. He held out a hand.
"I'm Scott Summers. You must be Lillith."
"Lillith Williams. Thanks. This place is WILD!"
She looked around, turning in a slow circle.
"Yeah, you get used to it after a while. HEY! CURT! Come over here, would ya!"
A smaller boy with dark blue-black hair came walking over with a grin. He had a little accent thing going on.
"Who's that Scott, a new girlfriend?"
"Lay off Curt. This is the new kid. Lillith, this is Curt. Curt, Lillith Williams."
"Hey, nice to finally meet you, Lilly. Like the flower. Whats wrong?"
Scott looked over at the girl who's face had gone blank, only the anger seeming to radiate out of every pore of her body gave any indication of how she felt. Her voice sounded deadly. Icy.
"Never. Call. Me. LILLY!"
Her voice rose to a shriek and the potted plant by the door exploded, the water soaking Curt. The anger drained from her and she wavered slightly before all most falling to the floor. Scott moved fast and caught her, propping her up. Curt was soaked with bad smelling water.
"I think, we just figured out what she's good at."
"Oh no! Henry! Who pushed him! Curt, stop dripping on the floor!"
Another person ran in. Scott held Lillith up until she got her balence back. Then the girl turned blinking.
"Who are-"
"YOU PUSHED HIM DIDN'T YOU! Oh no... It took me forever to make him better and you pushed him."
Lillith blinked. The girl was upset over a PLANT. O....kay. Weird.
"Ummm, I didn't touch the plant."
"Well, who did?"
"I don't know."
"Kitty, this is Lillith, the new girl."
"Oh, hi. Kitty Pride."
"Nice name. Lillith Williams."
"Like the flower Li-"
"DON'T SAY IT!"
The two boy yelped and ducked around Lillith to cover Kitty's mouth with their hands. Lillith blinked and shrugged, walking for the stairs. She was halfway up when a dark skinned boy, like Storm, came sliding down the stairs on a skate board, running into her. They both went tumbling down the stairs to land in a heap on the floor.
"Hey! Man, watch where you're goin'!"
"Sorry, I didn't expect someone to come FLYING at me on a skate board thats in as bad of shape as that flimsy old thing."
"What are you TALKING about! This board ROCKS!"
"Ha."
"Ha?"
"Yes. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. HA!"
Lillith grinned faintly and got up off the floor, dusting herself off and going up again. She passed a tall red-head in the hallway. The girl caught her arm, frowning.
"Who are you? You should go back down stairs, company isn't supposed to be up here."
"I'm Lillith Williams, I'm new to the institute."
"Oh! You're the girl Storm was talking about, here, let me show you too your room. Rogue is helping Storm put your things away."
"Rogue?"
"Another student."
"Oh. You people have strange names. Kitty, Curt, Scott, Storm, Rogue, Logan, weird. Well, Scott's isn't so strange, but the rest are pretty wild."
"Well, I'm Jean Gray."
"Oh, neat."
"The boy on the skate board is Evan."
"Oh, nice name."
"Yeah, he's a bit of a handful."
The stepped into a large room and Lillith breathed deeply.
"Oh.... WOOOOOOOW! Wild! This bed is like, HUGE!"
The girl giggled and ran forwards, flying through the air and landing with a bounce in the middle of the huge fluffy mattress. She sprawled over it with a grin.
"I've never had a room BIG before! Its like, woooooow..."
"Well, I guess I'm not needed here any more. I'm leavin'. See ya."
A tallish girl with auburn hair with a white lock on one side oher face and black gloves on her hands started towards the door. She wore black jeans and a black vest under a light green mesh shirt.
"Hey, who're you?"
"My name's Rogue. So, you're Lillith. Nice ta meet ya."
Lillith smiled and held out a hand.
"Yes, I'm Lillith Williams. Did you help decorate my room? I love it, thanks."
"Its okay, I'm used to helpin' out here I guess. Breakfast is at seven tomorrow morning, dinner is at seven at night, lunch is whenever the school serves it up or you fix it here at the institue."
"Cool, thanks Rogue. See you later!"
Lillith leaned out the door, waving. Then she went abck in and looked around.
"Oh man..."
She sat her bag by the door, unpacked her suit case and layed out her hair stuff. Then she lay on the bed, looking over at a picture on her table.
A tall man with dark hair and gray eyes stood with an arm around a little five-year-old Lillith while her Mom stood on the other side, white-blonde hair falling from her pony tail and silver-gray eyes glimmering with merriment. Kylee sat infront of Lillith with a smile, brown eyes and black hair. They were a family.
She sniffled and rolled over, curling into a ball and going to sleep.
By: Karie
~~~
Lillith waslked along the bank of the river, watching the clear water pass her by as she walked upstream, away from the park. There was a rustle from nearby and two sets of hands shoved her sideways, making her tumble into the mud covered side of the river. Looking up at her two assailents, she wanted to scream.
Toby and his little wench Tabitha.
"Hey, Lilly of Valley High, wanna play with us now?"
Lillith just kept her face blank and got up, dripping mud. Her new shoes were ruined, her favorite black jeans were covered in thick mud and her best yellow t-shirt with the fringe around the bottom had mud on it. She turned up towards the road and stalked past the two who were laughing and hanging on each other.
"Lilly of Valley High! LILLY! LILLY!"
Lillith didn't look back just kept walking.
"Lilly of the valley, DEATH valley, poor Lilly."
Tabitha's mocking voice made Lillith stop and glare over her shoulder. Her long blue-white hair was covered in mud and her light, close to silver, blue eyes glittered out of her mud streaked face. Her expression was cold and angry. She stirred her power and the water in the river rose in its banks, flooding over, running faster and faster and sweeping Toby and Tabitha's feet from under them, sweeping them into the water and pushing them under.
"Never mention that ever again."
Lillith turned and walked away.
---
Professor Xavior frowned.
*What do you think, Logan.*
**I think we should go see her, or send Jean or Scott or Storm.**
Xavior sighed and pressed his finger tips together.
"I may have to go myself."
His friend shrugged and followed him out of the room.
"I'll go if ya want, but parents don't look to well on me."
"Of course. I'll ask Storm."
---
Lillith walked in her door, putting her key on the table, shedding her mud covered shoes.
"Lilla? Lilla, is it you? Come in here for me, PLEASE? Someone's here too see you."
"Oh?"
Lillith felt grungy but walked in anyhow, aware that she was dripping mud. A bald man in a wheel chair sat in the middle of the room, with a tall thin woman wearing a head scarf and some kind of African styled outfit with long white hair and black skin stood by him. Her sister smiled, brown eyes sparkling from under her thick black bangs.
"Lilla, this is Professor Xavior and his friend, Aurora."
"Hello Lillith."
"Hi."
Lillith brushed some mud soaked hair from her face with a lazy hand and turned to her older sister.
"Kylee, can I go get cleaned up first, this really isn't a good minute."
"Lilla-"
"Kylee, I am covered in mud, I am a mess, can I PLEASE go clean up? I'll be RIGHT down, I WON'T go out the window, PROMISE."
"Oh, all right Lilla. Just make it fast okay? They're company."
"Yes Kylee."
Lillith went up stairs, showered and tossed her shoes in the trash. They weren't very comfortable anyhow. She pulled on her favorite black streach twill flairs, her ragged sneakers with beaded laces and a pink tank top which she covered with a red fishnet shirt that hung to her knees. She pulled her long hair back with her blue watery looking bandana and put on some lip gloss before she went back down. She smiled bravly and went into the living room.
"There, now your not soaked and wearing mud, what happened?"
"Toby and Tabitha. What else. They AMBUSHED me and shoved me into the muddy banks of the river. I had to toss my new shoes. They were COVERED in mud."
"What did you do?"
"NOTHING! I was walking. Thats ALL."
"Lillith, we've come to see you especially."
Lillith turned towards the man and woman and blinked at them.
"Really? Why?"
The man spoke up in a slow, slightly odd voice, his hands pressed together in front of his chest.
"We've become aware that you have some special, talents. I run a school for young people with talent such as yours. I've come to see if you and your sister would agree to your going there. We live near the local high school the rooms are nice, we have other students like yourself all ready living there and we run simple programs."
"Well, I don't know. We just got here last month and I've just started school and stuff and-"
"W can take care of it all today if you would like to come."
The woman had a motherly quality to her and Lillith smiled faintly, feeling a little more comfortable with her.
"Well.... Kylee?"
"Lilla, I'll miss you awful, but, this is great chance for you. Its all up to you Lilla."
Lillith pondered this for a minute then hugged Kylee.
"Come see me sometime, PLEASE Ky silky?"
"Like I wouldn't Lillaflower? Be there in a WEEK."
"Okay. I'm gonna go get some stuff."
Lillith ran to her room, grabbed her suit case and threw her night clothes in, some extra clothes and her favorite clothes and shoes. She put her tooth brush and tooth paste in then tossed all her hair care stuff in. She lifted her book bag and rushed back down the stairs.
"I'm ready."
The two led her outside to a large black military looking vehicle. The side opened up and the man's wheel chair was fastened to it. He was guided inside and Lillith was put in a seat up near the front. A big man, with a scowl that seemed permanent sat in the drivers seat, drumming his fingers. Lillith blinked.
"Everyone in? Good."
The man's voice was low and rough, with a growling sound to it. It was protective and she liked it. She sat back and stared out the tinted window to her right. It was a long drive. She was woken by a shake of her arm.
Lillith, we're here, come on. Here, I'll take the bags, follow Logan."
"Thanks, Aurora."
"Just call me Storm."
"Ummm, okay. Storm."
Lillith got out and followed the big guy.
"So, your name is, Logan?"
"Yeah. Your Lillith. The newbie."
"Umm, yes?"
"Humph."
Lillith gave up talking to him. He seemed kind of upset about something. She followed him towards a huge mansion.
"Woooooooow..."
"This is the Xavior Institute. You'll meet Scott at the door."
The man stopped and watched her walk up the stairs. She turned and waved from the top.
"I see him! Thank you Logan!"
Logan turned kind of dark and looked away, grumbling something. Lillith just smiled and turned, walking in. There was a tall boy with strange glasses and brown hair standing inside. He held out a hand.
"I'm Scott Summers. You must be Lillith."
"Lillith Williams. Thanks. This place is WILD!"
She looked around, turning in a slow circle.
"Yeah, you get used to it after a while. HEY! CURT! Come over here, would ya!"
A smaller boy with dark blue-black hair came walking over with a grin. He had a little accent thing going on.
"Who's that Scott, a new girlfriend?"
"Lay off Curt. This is the new kid. Lillith, this is Curt. Curt, Lillith Williams."
"Hey, nice to finally meet you, Lilly. Like the flower. Whats wrong?"
Scott looked over at the girl who's face had gone blank, only the anger seeming to radiate out of every pore of her body gave any indication of how she felt. Her voice sounded deadly. Icy.
"Never. Call. Me. LILLY!"
Her voice rose to a shriek and the potted plant by the door exploded, the water soaking Curt. The anger drained from her and she wavered slightly before all most falling to the floor. Scott moved fast and caught her, propping her up. Curt was soaked with bad smelling water.
"I think, we just figured out what she's good at."
"Oh no! Henry! Who pushed him! Curt, stop dripping on the floor!"
Another person ran in. Scott held Lillith up until she got her balence back. Then the girl turned blinking.
"Who are-"
"YOU PUSHED HIM DIDN'T YOU! Oh no... It took me forever to make him better and you pushed him."
Lillith blinked. The girl was upset over a PLANT. O....kay. Weird.
"Ummm, I didn't touch the plant."
"Well, who did?"
"I don't know."
"Kitty, this is Lillith, the new girl."
"Oh, hi. Kitty Pride."
"Nice name. Lillith Williams."
"Like the flower Li-"
"DON'T SAY IT!"
The two boy yelped and ducked around Lillith to cover Kitty's mouth with their hands. Lillith blinked and shrugged, walking for the stairs. She was halfway up when a dark skinned boy, like Storm, came sliding down the stairs on a skate board, running into her. They both went tumbling down the stairs to land in a heap on the floor.
"Hey! Man, watch where you're goin'!"
"Sorry, I didn't expect someone to come FLYING at me on a skate board thats in as bad of shape as that flimsy old thing."
"What are you TALKING about! This board ROCKS!"
"Ha."
"Ha?"
"Yes. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. Ha. HA!"
Lillith grinned faintly and got up off the floor, dusting herself off and going up again. She passed a tall red-head in the hallway. The girl caught her arm, frowning.
"Who are you? You should go back down stairs, company isn't supposed to be up here."
"I'm Lillith Williams, I'm new to the institute."
"Oh! You're the girl Storm was talking about, here, let me show you too your room. Rogue is helping Storm put your things away."
"Rogue?"
"Another student."
"Oh. You people have strange names. Kitty, Curt, Scott, Storm, Rogue, Logan, weird. Well, Scott's isn't so strange, but the rest are pretty wild."
"Well, I'm Jean Gray."
"Oh, neat."
"The boy on the skate board is Evan."
"Oh, nice name."
"Yeah, he's a bit of a handful."
The stepped into a large room and Lillith breathed deeply.
"Oh.... WOOOOOOOW! Wild! This bed is like, HUGE!"
The girl giggled and ran forwards, flying through the air and landing with a bounce in the middle of the huge fluffy mattress. She sprawled over it with a grin.
"I've never had a room BIG before! Its like, woooooow..."
"Well, I guess I'm not needed here any more. I'm leavin'. See ya."
A tallish girl with auburn hair with a white lock on one side oher face and black gloves on her hands started towards the door. She wore black jeans and a black vest under a light green mesh shirt.
"Hey, who're you?"
"My name's Rogue. So, you're Lillith. Nice ta meet ya."
Lillith smiled and held out a hand.
"Yes, I'm Lillith Williams. Did you help decorate my room? I love it, thanks."
"Its okay, I'm used to helpin' out here I guess. Breakfast is at seven tomorrow morning, dinner is at seven at night, lunch is whenever the school serves it up or you fix it here at the institue."
"Cool, thanks Rogue. See you later!"
Lillith leaned out the door, waving. Then she went abck in and looked around.
"Oh man..."
She sat her bag by the door, unpacked her suit case and layed out her hair stuff. Then she lay on the bed, looking over at a picture on her table.
A tall man with dark hair and gray eyes stood with an arm around a little five-year-old Lillith while her Mom stood on the other side, white-blonde hair falling from her pony tail and silver-gray eyes glimmering with merriment. Kylee sat infront of Lillith with a smile, brown eyes and black hair. They were a family.
She sniffled and rolled over, curling into a ball and going to sleep.