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"Hurry up John!" Bobby yelled.
"Yeah, yeah," John muttered, he was heating up the popcorn in the bag and walking to the Rec. room. Jubilee, Rogue, Kitty, Bobby, and Poitr, along with himself, were going to watch a movie. He put the popcorn on the table and sat down in the loveseat on his own.
Bobby put on The Fast and the Furious and everyone settled in. there was a knock at the door.
"You get it," Bobby said to no one in particular.
"No you get it," said Pete.
"No you get it," said Kitty.
"No you get it," said Jubilee.
This continued for another minute or so before John sighed, "Oh I'll get the bloody door!" he yelled his Australian accent coming through.
He opened the door and was surprised to see a girl, she looked at him for a moment before her eyes rolled into the back of the head and she collapsed. John caught her as Storm came down the stairs.
"John! What happened?!" she gasped, she rushed to him and the girl in his arms.
"I don't know, I opened the door and she just fainted."
Storm helped John with girl and they took her down to the med bay.
"John I'm going to get Jean, Scott and the Professor, you wait here in case she gets up, I'm sure she'll freak out less if she sees a familiar face."
John nodded and sat down in the chair next to the bed, taking out his lighter he began his normal ritual as he studied her. Her hair was matted with blood but it looked like it was an earthy brown. Her skin wasn't pale but it wasn't dark either, she looked Indian, and her clothes were tattered, John shook his head and paid attention to his lighter.
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That's what Skye heard as she awoke from her slumber, opening her eyes she looked around confusedly, she waited for the next Swish, Click, Snap, but they never came. She felt a hand touch her arm and she jerked it away from it, looking up she saw a boy holding a lighter watching her.
"You alright?" he asked.
Skye raised an eyebrow and John could clearly see earthy brown eyes to match her hair, nodding slowly she touched her bruised throat. The boy grabbed her arm and looked at her.
"Don't move, you're pretty beat up, and don't touch that bruise it's gonna hurt for a while."
She nodded slowly and her eyes turned to the door, it opened revealing two women and men, one of which was in a wheelchair.
"How are you feeling Skye?" the man in the chair asked.
Skye's eyes widened and he laughed.
"We're mutants Skye, just like you, I am Professor Charles Xavier, and I run this institute, it's a school for mutants. This is Jean Grey, Scott Summers also called Cyclops, and Orroro Munroe also called Storm."
Skye opened her mouth to speak but grabbed her throat and winced.
Jean went over to her in concern and Skye moved away from her, unknowingly towards John.
Jean looked at John as he whispered something in Skye's ear, she looked at him and then back at Jean and nodded slowly. Jean came closer to her and lifted her chin; Jean went over the bruise on her neck and face.
She looked at the Professor, "I'm going to have to look her over privately, there seems to be a lot of blood and bruising."
The Professor nodded and motioned for the others in the room to follow. Skye watched worriedly as John left.
Jean gave the girl a kind look, "Can you tell me what happened?"
Skye motioned to her throat and Jean nodded in realisation.
"Skye, I'm a telepath, if it's alright with you I'm going to look into your mind and see what happened.
Skye bit her lip but nodded nervously. Jean placed her hands on either side of Skye's head and closed her eyes. Pictures flashed through her head and she snatched her hands back.
"Oh sweetheart," Jean hugged the girl and felt as she trembled; small sobs were heard from her as memories that were buried flashed before her eyes.
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Jean sat in the Professor's office with the Scott, Storm and Charles, Skye and John were waiting outside. "Professor she has been through so much, I mean her best friend turned on her as soon as she found out Skye had powers. Not only that but her friend told the local mutant haters and they attacked her, they…they raped her. I don't understand how she's dealing with it all, I mean, when she let me into her mind, there was so much pain and anger and fear all mixed up. I don't understand how anyone can live with that kind of pain."
"She is strong," Charles replied, "she may not know it yet, but she is strong, and those around her will soon know it, I'm going to call her in."
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"So now Skye we'll show you to a room," said Storm, just finishing up a tour of the mansion, "We're going out at the weekend to the mall and can get you some new clothes then."
Skye nodded and followed Storm to a dorm room, Storm knocked on the door and Jubilee opened the door. "Hey Storm!" she looked at the other girl and looked at Storm in question.
"Jubilee this is Skye, she's just come in, she's gonna be rooming with okay."
Jubilee nodded and smiled at the new girl, "C'mon in!" she said brightly and bounced into the room.
Skye's eyes widened and she gave Storm a sceptical look.
Storm laughed, "Don't worry Honey, Jubilee'll grow on you."
Skye walked into the room and closed the door.
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Skye walked into the kitchen to see an argument going between, what she had learned to be the two most volatile substances in the mansion when put together, John and Jubilee.
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"Damnit John! Would you stop doing that?!" Jubilee yelled.
"Doing what?" he asked innocently.
"Flicking your damned lighter!"
John looked thoughtful for a moment, "Nope."
Skye covered a smirk with her hand.
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"Damnit John!" Jubilee lunged at the hand holding the lighter, but it moved and she toppled into a chair.
Skye burst out into quiet laughter and both turned to the door.
"Well look who finally decided to get up," John drawled.
Skye sneered at him and cold gust of wind swept through the room, and put out the lighter, it opened cupboards and a draws and a box of cereal, with a spoon, bowl and milk, landed on the table before her. She sat down and looked at Jubilee who was gaping at her.
"What?" she asked, her voice was a soft whisper as her throat was still soar from the beating she received.
Jubilee just shook her head and went back to yelling at John.
"You know what; if the new girl has a problem with my lighter then I'll stop."
They both turned to her and she looked at them, "If I had a problem with it, I'd be a hypocrite." They looked at her in question; she took out a silver lighter with green tribal designs on it. "I used to do it all the time when I wasn't in full control of my powers." She flicked the lighter open and clicked on the flame, it was coloured green, Skye moved her hand and allowed the flame to engulf her hand. Closing the lighter she waved the flame off. Clicking her fingers the flame appeared and then disappeared. "I can create the flame now, and I still mess with my Zippo."
John smirked and turned back to Jubilee.
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Skye and Johns lighters were both to blame and Jubilee screamed, and ran out of the room. Skye looked at John who just shrugged in return.
"So," he started, she looked up, "What's your name?"
"Skye Reins, yours?" she asked.
"St. John Allerdyce." He replied, "What's your power?"
"St. John?" she whispered.
John gave her a glare, she smirked at him, "I'm an elemental, I can control metal, fire, water, earth, air and electricity, even though it isn't a proper element. I also have feral abilities, they allow me to hear, see, smell, taste and move better than a normal human."
John nodded, it was then he noticed that her hair and eyes had gone from brown to blood red, "What happened to your hair?"
"It's part of my power, it depends on which element I use, if it's fire my eyes and hair are red, water and they're blue, metal they're silver, earth they're brown, air they're white and electricity they're green. What's your power?"
John lit the Zippo and created a small fireball in his hand as she watched, "I can't create the fire."
She looked at him, "Everyone with the power to control an element can create it; fire is the hardest of all of them to create, "I had to work on it since I was 13."
He looked at her.
"If you want I could try to teach you how."
He jut stared for a moment before saying, "I'd like that."
She smiled slightly and nodded, as Bobby, Rogue, Kitty and Poitr walked in. Kitty looked at the lighters in both their hands, "Wonderful another Pyro!" she groaned. Skye smirked and turned back to her breakfast (lunch really).
"So who's the new girl?" Poitr asked, receiving a smack on the back of the head from Kitty.
"Pete!" she exclaimed.
John watched them and with an air of disinterest said, "Skye Reins, an elemental with feral abilities, and the newest edition to our fine school."
"Pleased to meet you," said Kitty sticking her hand out, Skye moved to grab it but her hand went straight through Kitty's, "I'm Kitty, aka Shadow Cat."
"Poitr Rasputin, call me Pete, or Colossus," he said, he shook her hand turning his metal, to show her his power.
"Bobby Drake, aka Ice Man," he shook her hand and froze his, making it damn near impossible for her to remove it without ripping skin off. She smirked and set her hand on fire, Bobby yanked his hand away as she smiled.
"Pleasure to meet you Ice Princess."
Rogue reached out a gloved hand and clasped Skye's, "Ah'm Rogue, an' you don't wanna know what ma' power is."
"Fair enough," Skye said finishing her food, water left her hands and cleaned the dishes and the wind picked up in the room drying them and putting them back.
Storm walked in and looked at Skye, "I've been looking everywhere for you, Scott's got the van ready so we can go to the mall today."
"Hey!" Kitty said clearly put out, "how come she gets to go to the mall and we don't?"
"Kitty the trip is to get anything she needs." Storm replied.
"Well wouldn't it be better if we went, that would mean that she could get to know us as she's going to be in our classes." (A/n Skye's pretty much switched off at this point in time or else she would have a slight problem with Storm and Kitty talking about her like she wasn't there)
Storm thought about it for a minute, before nodding "Okay, be ready in ten and I'll get Scott to get the bus ready instead," Storm was about to leave before turning back to Skye, "Oh and the professor wants to see you before we leave."
Skye sighed and left the room.
R+R you know you wanna.