Mutant Heart and Mutant Soul

by ZabuzasGirl

Heartbroken a young girl named Silverstream decides to run away from all she has known. She runs to an institute that takes in people like her with her gifts and abilities. Did I mention she's a mutant. Silverstream/Nightcrawler. Silverstream/Wolverine

1. Chapter 1

Mutant Heart and Mutant Soul Chapter 1

So this was what it was like to be on your own with no one to comfort and help you when you needed them. My name is Silverstream and I am a mutant. I've been on my own for a couple of weeks now running away from my family and trying not to get close to anyone around me. The only valuables that I had with me were some clothes, few of my possessions, and some money that I had managed to pick up. Starting a new life for me wasn't going to be easy. But since my family and friends had turned their backs on me I didn't really have a choice in the matter.

It was getting late and I was riding in a bus through a large city. The driver and I were the only ones riding on the bus at the time. It wasn't long before we came to a stop at the last bus station. I exited the bus and the driver quickly drove away. He wanted to get as far away from me as possible. No one could actually blame him. By looking at me I wasn't actually a normal girl. The reason for this was a certain mark that I bore on my forehead. The mark that I bear is a crescent moon. This was not a normal mark that people had on their skin. No one could figure out that I was a mutant just by looking at this mark. But they could tell that I wasn't like everyone else. So this gave them reason to fear and keep away from me. Many people in my home didn't like things that weren't normal to them. While others didn't have a clue of who or what they were dealing with.

As I was walking down the streets I made a turn into an ally way, big mistake. I regretted it as soon as I did it cause around the corner was a dangerous looking group of thugs. I stopped right in my tracks when I saw them and cold sneers appeared on their faces when they saw me. The biggest one in the group started to move toward me with the rest of them following him. "Well, well what do we have here?" I knew what I had to do and I didn't hesitate at all. I turned tale and ran in the opposite direction. Unfortunately for me these men were the persistent types. They ran after me right at my heels. I could hear them getting closer to me at every step I took. I hadn't slept at all that night so I was getting tired. I was so desperate that I made a wrong turn into a dead end.

I stopped where I was and turned around to face what was coming to me. The boys had caught up to me and were moving closer every second trying to surround me. "I don't want any trouble." My words did nothing but make the smiles on their faces grow even wider and they kept on their advance. Every moment that passed I was getting more and more agitated my emotions were running high, and my heart kept beating faster and faster. "Leave me alone!" "What you've got in your bag lady? Let's have a look see shall we." The leader of the group grabbed my duffle bag and that was the last straw. "Stop it! Go away!"

Suddenly the mark on my forehead was glowing so bright that the walls around us were shining with light. The thugs moved backwards howling in pain as the intensity of the brightness shined in their eyes. Then just as quickly as the glow came it disappeared. This was my power, blinding others with a glow coming from my mark. It didn't take long for those thugs to recover from their shock. The smallest of the men was the quickest to figure out what happened and what I was. "She's a mutant!" "Get her." Without warning they all came at me their fists pounding at my body. I fell at the force of their attacks. Even though I was a mutant my power wouldn't allow me to fight back against my enemies. "Leave her be."

The thugs were thrown back by a force I could not see. They crashed into the walls and garbage cans that were around us. Not long after that happened I could hear that a fight had begun. Looking up I saw that a solitary figure had come to my rescue. He was wearing a long brown raincoat with a matching hat on top, but there was something else. As this guy was fighting I could see the top of a tail sticking out from under this coat. He kept appearing and disappearing in and out of the reach of the other men. This guy was also a mutant.

After a few more minutes of this the thugs finally got scared and ran off. The mutant that saved me now turned his attention toward me. He walked over and went down on one knee right beside me. "Are you all right?" I didn't say anything I only looked up into his face. I couldn't see it clearly because of all the shadows that were around us. A moment later I had put my head back down on the ground and fell asleep, I was that tired. A chuckle of amusement got out of my rescuer when this happened. "Easy now." He put my duffle bag from his shoulder and he lifted me up in his arms. Next moment later he transported us out of there and we were right in front of a large mansion. My rescuer went up the driveway and to the door still carrying me in his arms. He yelled to get the attention of the people inside. "Hello! Hello can anyone hear me!" A light shines in one of the windows. Just a second later a young woman opened the window and looked down to see who was making all the noise. "Who's down there?" "Rogue it's me Nightcrawler." "Nightcrawler what are you doing here?" "Please let me in." "Give me a minute I'll be right down."

Rogue closed her window and headed down stairs. On her way down she met some of the other inhabitants of the mansion. They had woken up from the shouting that they heard inside and outside of the mansion. Logan also known as Wolverine wasn't very happy about being woken up so early. "Rogue what's wrong?" "Nightcrawler he's here." "What Nightcrawlers here? What does he want this time?" Gambit said. Rogue said "that's what I'm gonna find out." Rogue went down the stairs with Logan and Gambit following close behind her.

Rogue immediately opened the door when she got to it and on the other side waiting patiently was Nightcrawler. It was then that Rogue first noticed the person that he was holding in his arms. "Who's she?" Nightcrawler didn't answer his question he just moved onto something else. "Can one of you wake up the Professor?" "There's no need for that I'm already awake." The four of them looked up and saw the Professor coming toward them in his hover chair. "I could sense you coming before Rogue even answered your call. Now then why are you here?" "In a minute Professor, but right now is there a place where I can put this kid down? She's been beaten and I've been holding her for a while." The Professor tapped a finger to his chin thinking for a minute. "Hm, well we don't have a room prepared so since she's injured as you say we can keep her down in the infirmary in the lower levels for now. Follow me." The four of them followed the Professor into a close by elevator and down they went.

The door opened again not long after they were inside. They exited it as soon as it opened and they headed down the hallway. Once they got to the infirmary Logan opened the door and the five of them went inside. "Put her down there." Nightcrawler brought me over to the bed the Professor was referring to. He laid me down on it and put the sheets over my body to keep me warm. Nightcrawler put my duffle bag on the floor next to me when this was done.

The Professor said "Logan, Gambit, Rogue go and wake up the others. They should know what's going on. Nightcrawler I want you to stay here with me." Nightcrawler nodded his head and sat down at the edge of my bed. As soon as the others were gone the Professor went straight to work. He moved over to where I was sleeping in his hover chair. "Now then let's see who you are." The Professor used his powers to enter my mind to find out some things about like whom I was and how I came to be here.

The Professor went for my most recent memories before I actually came to be in his home. Like two weeks ago when I was in a race back in my home city just before I ran away from my home. The other racers and I were heading up to the starting line with our skates on the ice track. A bully that I knew named Ciera was stationed beside me before we started our race. Ciera noticed a certain object around my neck. "You're wearing Joey's pendant." "He just gave it to me for luck." "And he's my guy understand." "He's not a trophy and you shouldn't treat him like one." "Racers to your marks get set go!" We were off.

During the whole race the Professor could see that Ciera was cheating every time and toward the end of the race she drew the line. "Joey's only nice to you because he feels sorry for you." "That's not true." "Yes it is he told me so." And then it happened I completely lost control of it. The mark on my forehead shined so bright because of my emotions. The light coming from it completely blinded Ciera and it knocked her off course. The way was clear for me and I won the race. The memory now switched to me getting the winner's trophy. When I was about to take the trophy the one in charge of the race blew his whistle. "You're disqualified for misusing your mutant powers." "But." "You're banned from the rest of the games."

Another memory now came up in my mind. My father was arguing with the person that was in charge of the race. I was hiding behind a pillar at the time listening to what they were saying. My father was furious at the manager's decision. "You can't ban her from the rest of the games!" "Sorry but my decision is final." "But being a mutant isn't her fault she was born that way. That mark of hers was an accident." The memory now switched to when I was on a train leaving my home. My duffle bag was right beside me. My head was on my knees my body was shaking from my sobs. The Professor had seen enough. He disconnected his mind from my own and looked down at men with pity in his eyes. "Dear girl I'm so sorry."

At that exact moment the other inhabitants of the mansion walked right into the infirmary. They all spotted Nightcrawler at once. Scott (Cyclopes) said "Professor what's Nightcrawler doing here? Is something wrong?" "That's what we're going to find out. Kurt I think it's time you explained yourself." "Of course." The attention in the room was now turned over to Nightcrawler (Kurt) and he started to explain. "The reason why I came here is to ask if I could be one of your x-men." Jubilee the youngest of the x-men was the first to respond to his words and there was no hesitation in her voice as she spoke up. "What do you think the answer is? After everything you've done for us we'll definitely have you here." "Thank you I had already consulted with the monks at the monastery back home and they agreed that I should come here. To use my powers as you do for the cause of good." "That's all fine Nightcrawler now tell us who's the girl."

Gambit pointed to me as he said this. "I don't actually know her I found her on my way down here. I was walking through town when I heard yelling not far from me. I could tell it was a young woman so I went to see what was happening. I transported myself to the top of a small building so I wouldn't be seen and I saw everything that was going on from there." Kurt quickly told them about my power and how I had used it on the men that beat me. "So I decided to bring her here to gain help and medicine for her wounds." "You were right to bring her here Kurt. This is the best place for her now." "What do you mean Professor?" Beast (Hank) said. The Professor said "While Rogue, Logan, and Gambit were waking the rest of you up I went into the girls mind to find out more about here. The child is a runaway. Not everyone accepted her back home because she was a mutant. She decided to travel elsewhere to find a place where people would accept her and her powers."

Jubilee who was fifteen years old was jumping from foot to foot getting all excited. "Hey she can stay here with us. We could even share my room." "That's for her to decide Jubilee not us." Jean said. Storm said "Should we wake her up?" "No let her sleep. From what I saw in her mind she hasn't had a descent sleep in a very long time. Hank why don't you share your room with Kurt since we don't have a room prepared for him yet." "Of course sir." "Right then let's all get back to sleep. If my thoughts are correct we're gonna have a long day ahead of us." They all nodded their heads in agreement and left the infirmary together. Just as he was about to leave Nightcrawler turned his head for one last look at me before the door closed behind him.

Everything around me was a blur as I was waking up. I blinked my eyes to get the blur out of my eyes a little bit faster. Once my eye sight was clear I was in for the shock of my life. "Huh!" I sat straight up and looked at my surroundings. I didn't recognize anything at all. I looked down and found myself in a bed wearing the same clothes that I had worn the other day. I looked around for my duffle and found it next to the bed. I threw off the covers and went to see if anything was missing from my bag, everything was still intact. I let out a sigh of relief and closed it back up again.

I went over to the door and opened it up. I stuck my head out of the door and looked left, right. There was no one around to see me. Curiosity got the better of me and I left the room. I walked quietly down the hallway so no one close by would be able to hear me. As I was walking I noticed that there were many doors down each hallway. My curiosity was growing stronger every second so I decided to open one of them. I opened it and got a big surprise. Hanging from the ceiling upside down was a huge beast with blue fur. It was working on an experiment with some chemicals I didn't recognize. Its back was facing me so it didn't really know I was there. The creature flipped back down onto the floor and went over to a table where more chemicals stood. The creature started to mix some of them together. "It would be most unfortunate if this were to explode, but very invigorating."

While his attention was occupied I went quietly past the creature without interrupting it. Down another hallway I could see a couple more doors, but this time one of them was opened. I looked inside of it and saw a girl a few years younger than me. She was trying to fix a little CD player in her hands. But then a second later it exploded right in her hands. "Oh man not again."

I turned away from the door and leaned against the wall. "I have to get out of here." I turned down another corner and saw an open doorway. Just then I could hear voices coming from behind me. So I ran into that one room and closed the door. I put my ear to the door and listened until the two people had walked past and gone down a different hallway. I let out a deep breath that I was holding in. I was safe for the time being. At that moment I finally noticed the room I was in. There were TVs and computers everywhere, also a large table in the middle of the room. On the TVs were different channels of the news. Everything on them was about mutants. The people on them were bad mouthing my kind. "Mutants are a danger to humanity they should be destroyed on sight." "Mutants friends or foes?" I didn't want to listen to any more so I just turned them all off. As soon as I did that I could hear voices coming from the other side of the door.

Quickly I hid behind an opening in one of the walls so I wouldn't be seen. I got there not a moment too soon. Just as I slipped into the wall the door opened and three people came in. One was moving in a hover chair. "Magneto is growing stronger every day we need to know what he's planning." "I agree Scott." One of the three now noticed that something had changed. "Professor weren't these TV's on when we left?" The one in the hover chair put his hands to his temples. He had a look on his face like he was searching for something. He then did something I didn't expect. "It's the girl Jean she's trying to escape." That did it I ran as fast as I could.

I could hear his voice going through the entire place as I was running through the passageways. "Attention x-men omega red alert we have an intruder." Every single one of the x-men that heard his voice was now on the alert looking for me. Beast was right on my trail following me. "The intruder will not elude me." I now came to an area with a large door at the other side of it. I didn't waste any time and ran straight over to it. My ordeal wasn't over yet. There was a panel with a couple of buttons next to the door and I didn't know which one to press to open it up. I could hear people getting closer behind me. "Which way did she go?" "I think she went this way follow me." I was starting to get nervous; I didn't know what they were going to do if they caught me. "Come on door open." Fortunately luck was upon me. The door opened wide as soon as I pushed one of the buttons. Right when this happened I ran straight to the other side of it.

When the door closed behind me I was met with darkness. But then lights came on and my surroundings started to change. Next moment I was in a dungeon and a huge ball of metal was swinging toward me on a chain. "Ah!" I jumped out of the way before it could hit me and went out of its reach. "This is no place for you." I jumped and turned around to find a young man looking to be in his mid twenties and judging by his voice he was definitely French. Before I could react to this introduction an explosion happened on a brick wall right beside us. I went to the other side of the room away from all of the action. Out of the smoke came a man that seemed five feet five inches tall wearing a costume of mixed colors with black, yellow, and a little bit of blue. There were metal claws sticking out of his knuckles. He was in a position showing that he was ready for a fight. This one seemed to be in his late or mid thirties even though he was wearing a mask. The young man that spooked me before seemed happy to see this guy here. "There you are Wolverine."

Without another word Wolverine attacked the other guy with his claws and the two of them got into a fight. They were fighting each other while dodging obstacles that came their way. Wolverine quickly got the younger one completely down on the floor in a matter of seconds and pinned him there with his knees. "Tag you're it." Wolverine held up one of his arms ready to stroke with his claws while he held the guy down with his other hand. Wolverine was going to kill him. "Had enough cagen? Just say Uncle." "Don't hurt him!" "Huh." Wolverine's attention turned to me and when he did I activated my power. The light coming from my forehead blinded him. Because of this he didn't see the giant metal ball coming toward him. Wham. He went flying through the air and landed on a wall on the other side of the room.

At that exact moment things in the room changed back to the way they were when I first entered. The one difference is that the lights were still on. At the same time the door that lead to this room opened and many people now came into view. "Is the child all right?" Wolverine shook his head to get the shock out of his system. He said "Not for long." This got me a little bit scared so I moved closer to the wall behind me. "They were fighting I wanted to help him then wham." Two of the people in the doorway broke down laughing when they heard what I said. But they were silenced when Wolverine brought out his claws and let out a threatening growl. The young man that I helped just chuckled and moved closer to me. "Don't worry kid you've just hurt Wolverines pride." "What is this place?" I said. Beast said "One part gymnasium, one part exercise course affectionately called the danger room."

When I saw Beast I back up a bit more, caution was flowing through my entire body. "Who are you?" "We are known as the x-men and you have nothing to fear from us." The man in the hover chair had now come into view and was moving closer to me. I snorted at what he said. "Yeah right." He stopped about two feet from me. "My name is Professor Charles Xavier leader of the x-men." I didn't say anything just looked down at him with suspicion. Moving onto a different subject he went onto introducing all of his x-men. When he finished introducing them I looked at Nightcrawler with a searching look in my eyes. "Do I know you? You seem familiar to me." It was then that I finally recognized him. "Wait a minute you're the one that saved me from those thugs." Nightcrawler made a little bow to me. "Gupta fraulen and I believe you haven't told us your name." I hesitated for a second still not sure if I should tell them my name. But then I figured they'd find out sooner or later so I told them anyway. "Silverstream, my name is Silverstream."

A smile appeared on Rogues face. "That's not hard to figure out sugar. The stream of silver going through your hair makes it easy to figure out your namesake." I raised my eyebrows with a hint of a smile playing on my face. "Oh really. If it was so easy then why did you even ask?" This got a laugh out of Beast and Jubilee but Rogue and Nightcrawler now looked crestfallen. Jubilee said "So where are you planning to stay?" This caught me by surprise. "Um I haven't really thought about that yet." "Great then you can stay with us." She said. I said "Well I uh." I looked at the Professor for a minute to see what his reaction would be. The Professor just made a slight nod with his head. "You may stay with us although we don't really have a room for you." He said. Jubilee was about to speak up but Rogue got there first. "Professor we could share my room. I have enough space in there for another bed." She said. Xavier said "Very well Rogue why don't you show Silverstream to her new home. While you're at it stop by the infirmary to get her bag before you head up there."

Rogue took my arm and led me back to the infirmary. "Come on sugar let's get you settled in." As soon as the two of us were out of earshot the others started talking again.

Storm said "Silverstream? The name suits her." "Professor you've been into her mind, how old is she?" Scott said. Xavier said "Silverstream just turned twenty one last month she's technically old enough to take care of herself but this was her first time on her own." "Do you think her parents will come looking for her?" Wolverine said. Xavier said "I don't know but if they do we can't force her to go with them if she doesn't want to." "That is if she still wants to stay." Jean said. "I mean just look at the situation. Here she is among strangers, people she's never seen before. She's probably not going to want to stay here for long." "Give her time Jean she'll come around." Xavier said.

In the mean time Rogue had just taken me to her room. "Here we are." I walked through the door and into a medium sized bedroom. It had a dresser, bed, a window, mirror, closet, and a large couch. I didn't have to guess who was going to sleep where. Why don't you put your stuff down and I'll give you a tour of the mansion. There's room in the dresser you can put your clothes in there." "Thank you." I then proceeded to do what she said. As I was putting my clothes away she took a look inside my bag to see what other things I had in there. The only stuff in there Rogue saw was a brush, my ice skates, a small music box, and my wallet. "You don't have very much in here." "I travel light." "I can see that."

Rogue went over to the dresser and saw that I didn't have many clothes in there either. Before Rogue even asked the question I already answered it. "I didn't pack much with me when I left. This is all I could bring with me. I picked up some money by performing at any ice rink I could find. It wasn't much but it kept me alive." "You must've been good." "I was one of the best back home. I competed in all of the races and figure skating competitions. But that was in the past, I'm not one of them anymore." Even though I was trying to hide how I felt my feelings could somehow be seen on my face. The look on Rogues became one of concern. She put a gentle hand on my shoulder. "We've all been there sugar it's not easy. You have a home here and friends that will help you find your way." I didn't say anything to her. In an attempt to cheer me up Rogue brought up a different subject. "All right let's give you that tour and then Jubilee and I will take you shopping. You need some new clothes anyway." I just smiled and nodded my head at her.

So Rogue gave me a tour of the entire mansion and their underground base. I was amazed at how big the place was. The rest of the x-men were doing their own activities. During the tour Rogue took me to the kitchens to get a snack. It didn't take long to finish the tour after that. We met Jubilee on our way outside to the car. We didn't have to ask her twice to come to the mall with us. Rogue and Jubilee talked during the entire drive while I stayed quiet in the back seat. Even though I was starting to trust then I still wasn't comfortable enough to talk about my life yet. On our way to the neighboring city none of us noticed the van that was speeding straight for the mansion.

The Professor was talking to Jean and Scott outside of the mansion at the time so the three of them saw the van coming before it got there. "Now who could that be?" The van pulled up in front of the three of them just as Wolverine came out of the front door. "What's going on?" "I don't know." Just after the Professor said this two people came out of the van. A man and woman in their mid forties. The man said "Are you Professor Charles Xavier?" "Yes I am." The Professor could feel that these two were familiar to him although he couldn't figure out why and then it hit him. These were my parents! Logan said "What do you want here?" "You must help us." My mother said. Charles said "Let's take this inside follow me." Charles took them all to his study where he could hear what my parents had to say. Once the Professor was behind his deck in his study my parents started to explain why they were here. As they were talking Scott, Logan, Jean, and Charles did sidelong glances at each other when they figured out I was the one they were looking for.

My father turned away from the window when they were finished talking and moved back over to my mother. "Where could she have gone?" He said. My mother said "Please Xavier you must help us find her she's never been on her own before." My mother's eyes were starting to leak a little bit. "Two of my x-men took your daughter to the city to do some shopping. I don't know when they're going to be back." Xavier said. At that same moment Logan suddenly lifted up his head. "Logan what is it?" "I think the girls just came back."

He was right the three of us had just returned from shopping. We had a couple of bags with us for my new wardrobe. I insisted that we didn't get much so they wouldn't have to use much of their money on me. As we were taking the bags out of the car when I noticed the van. My eyes widened when I saw it but they soon went back to normal. Rogue and Jubilee both saw me looking at the van and a look of concern appeared on both of their faces. "Is something wrong Silverstream?" "What? Oh no everything's just fine." The three of us now headed inside to put the shopping bags away. But we were stopped halfway there by Jean. "There you are we've been waiting for you to get back. Come on there are some people here that want to see you."

I followed Jean without a word knowing what would be coming up next. When I walked in through the door I saw what all the commotion was about. My parents were staring at me from the middle of the room. "Hello mother, father.' My voice was like stone as I said this to them. The smiles on my parent's faces disappeared when they heard this. My mother took a step toward me. "Honey we've come to take you home." I took a step back when she took one toward me. "I'm perfectly capable of taking care of myself mother after all I am twenty one." Now it was my father who took a step toward me. I looked at my father with a raised eyebrow. "You want me back there. I'm surprised at you father after all I was an accident." This got my father to stop in his tracks. But he quickly recovered from what he just heard. "Honey." "I'm not going back." I activated my power and made my mark glow. With it I made sure they didn't see me as I left the room. The light disappeared as soon as I left.

My mother let out a shriek when she saw that I was gone. "Where did she go!" Xavier turned to Wolverine with a questioning look. "Logan?" Wolverine sniffed the air for my scent. "She's left the mansion." My father held my mother as she broke down in tears. "Don't worry we'll find her." "Logan, Rogue, Jean, Scott I want you to search the forest area outside the mansion. She might be hiding in the trees." "Right." The four of them left the study at a run. Jubilee went to follow them but Xavier stopped her before she could even step one foot out of the room. "Jubilee I want you to get Beast, Gambit, Storm, and Nightcrawler to help with the search." "Yes sir."

The Professor now turned back to my parents. "Now then I need to discuss the matter of Silverstreams powers with you." My mother just looked at the Professor in silence while my father made a slight nod to him. "As you may have noticed Silverstreams powers are controlled by her emotions. This is not uncommon among mutants but it's still something to look into. There is room for your daughter here at my school. I've already made an offer to her and she has accepted it."

While The Professor was talking to my parents the others were busy looking for me in the forest area outside of the school. They were all going in separate groups in either ones or twos. They were moving deep into the forest in order to find me. "Anyone find her yet?" "No." They were communicating through little devices in their ears. "Well then keep looking because we're not leaving until we do." Logan was following my scent on the ground. He was having the easiest time following me. "She's close." As my scent grew stronger Logan kept moving faster. Eventually he came to a clearing where there was a small pond in the middle of it and sitting down right next to it was me. I was drinking a little bit of water from the pond before I went on my way. Just as I finished having my drink Logan came out from the trees. "Where are you going to go?" I jumped so high that I almost fell into the pond.

I turned toward him with a look of surprise on my face. "How did you find me?" "You forget that I have a very keen sense of smell." He was slowly moving toward me trying not to give me a reason to bolt into the trees. I got back up onto my feet and answered his first question. "I don't know maybe find my own apartment or something like that. For money I could give ice skating lessons to little kids. It won't make much but at least it'll keep me alive." "That's a good plan although there is an alternative to it." "Really and what's that?" "Staying here with us." "I don't think that's going to be possible not that they've found me again." "Xavier is a good man he'll find a way to get them to let you stay." "How can you be so sure?" "The Professor has helped me out of countless situations before. We can help you too if you let us." I was starting to get what he was saying but still feeling uneasy. "I don't know." "Come with me and find out." Logan held out his hand toward me.

When our hands touched I pulled mine away from his. I don't know what happened but a small sensation had gone through my body. Also a strange look was in Logan's eyes as he looked into mine. Saved by the bell Nightcrawler had just come out from underneath the trees. "There you are fraulen we've been looking everywhere for you." Nightcrawler now took my hand and put his other one on Logan shoulder. He then used his power to transport the three of us back to the mansion where the others were waiting. My parents were just getting back into their van when we arrived back there. The two of them looked at me with a sense of longing in their eyes. I only returned their gaze and went to stand on the top of the stoop next to the Professor with Nightcrawler and Wolverine. My mother looked like she would break down in tears again when I didn't say anything to them while my father just took his seat in the car. He said something to my mother and she took her seat in the car with tears leaking out of her eyes. The Professor went back inside the mansion with Logan as they were starting to drive away. While Nightcrawler stayed outside to keep me company as my parents were driving away.

Kurt was the one to make conversation between us. "Do you hate them so much that you'd never speak to them?" I didn't look at him just stared after my parents as they drove away from there. "Living back there caused me great pain growing up. I was made fun of for my mark and its power. My parents tried to hide it for a while but it didn't work for long. When I was a child none of the other parents would let their children play with me and I wasn't allowed to participate in any activities with them. So I was known as an outcast back in that place." Nightcrawler could understand perfectly at what I was saying. "I understand what you mean. When I was in the circus with my adopted parents I was perfect for their little world. But when the spot light went out I was still an outcast feared by everyone around me. It drove me made for a while until I found peace with god at a monastery. Perhaps you will find peace with him as well."

This got a chuckle out of my body when he said this to me. "God has never been with me and if he had he's been causing me so much pain so much suffering. I've been so angry, depressed, and unhappy that I wanted to get away from all the pain. Back there it felt like I was being torn apart." Nightcrawler put his hand on my shoulder to comfort me. "We all get like that sometimes that's why I look to god for help, for guidance." "If you'd just lived my life growing up you wouldn't be thinking that way." Nightcrawler took one of my hands and kissed it. "Maybe or maybe not no one really knows what would happen if they chose to live different lives. But if I had the chance to I wouldn't change mine. Being a mutant is a gift and my powers have helped so many people." "I wish I thought that way. Things would've been so much easier for me if I did." Nightcrawler lifted up his hand and gently stroked my face. "It's hard to believe that something so beautiful can carry so much anger." I took a step away from him when he said this to me.

Just then the door opened and Jubilee stuck her head out of it. "Hey are you guys going to stand out there all night?" I didn't give her an answer I just walked in through the door. Nightcrawler said "I'll be right in." And with that he was gone. I was just passing by the kitchen when I heard a shriek. "What!" Curiosity got the better of me so I took a little peak inside. Scott, Jean, and gambit were inside and Gambit was getting an earful from Jean. It seems that Gambit was messing with her cooking. "How dare you!" "Oh come on Jean it was just a little pinch of spice." "I want this swamp rat out of my kitchen now!" She threw a huge piece of broccoli at Gambit and Scott hit it off course with his optic beans. "That's enough you two." The look on Jeans face was starting to make me giggle. I tried to hold it in but it just wouldn't stay put. I regretted it as soon as it was done. Scott said "Whoever it is come in." I opened the door and walked into the kitchen.

Jeans expression changed into a friendly smile. "Hello." "Hi", I said. Scott said "Do you want something to eat? Jean just finished cooking dinner." "Well I am a little bit hungry." Jean got me a plate and put some of the food that she cooked on my plate. It seemed to be a stew of some kind. I took a spoonful of it into my mouth and smiled in satisfaction. I swallowed it down and went to give my compliments to the chief. "This is very good Jean the spice is a great touch to it." "Ha!" I nearly dropped my soup when Gambit let out that outburst. Gambit was waging a finger at Jean. He said "You see putting pepper in that soup was a good idea." Jean just crossed her arms and turned her head. "I still think the soup was better without it." I looked up to Scott for help while those two were arguing. "Did I miss something here?" Cyclopes looked down at me when I asked him this. I was at least ten inches shorter than him. "Gambit put some spices into the soup when Jean wasn't looking. She doesn't like it when he messes with her recipes." I nodded at what he was saying. "My grandmother was exactly the same way except she'd always smack out hands away when we tried to add something in." Scott laughed a little bit at what I said. Jean was now throwing things at Gambit with her mind. I decided it was time for me to get out of there and let Scott handle everything.

So I gulped down the rest of my soup and left the kitchen. As I left I could now hear Scott's attempts to try and get those two to calm down with no success. I was giggling all the way upstairs. When I got to the room I was sharing with Rogue I changed into my new nightgown. After that was done I took out my music box and wound it up. It then opened up and started to play a little tune. I sang my grandmothers lullaby like she did when I was very young. "On the wind across the sea hear this song and remember. Soon you'll be home with me once upon a December." The music box closed up when its song was finished. "Where'd you get that thing?" I turned around and saw that Rogue was standing in the doorway watching me. "How long have you been standing there?" "Long enough now what's that?" "It's my music box, I've had it with me ever since I was a little girl. I never travel anywhere without it. The song it plays helps me relax and it sooths my body and mind." "It must mean a lot to you." "Yes it does my grandmother gave it to me a long time ago."

Nothing else was said I just put the music box on the dresser I was sharing with Rogue and I went on brushing my hair. Rogue just stared at me for a couple of seconds but after a while she went to get ready for bed as well.