Diclaimer: I own nothing from the X-Men franchise only Marvel and the movie productions do. All I own is Sophie Anderson&her mother as of right now.

Sophie lit the cigarette that was hanging from her mouth as she leaned against the brick building. The brunette watched as people walked by enjoying the company of others, and rushing to get to somewhere they needed to be. Stamping out the cigarette, she proceeded down the walkway not sure where she wanted to go, but she wanted to be somewhere. Sophie came across a park where she sat on a bench enjoying the spring season of Schenectady, New York. Watching enviously at the human children who played freely with their parents, she couldn't help but to wish that that was the child hood she had.

"Why are you leaving me here, Mom?" four year old Sophie Claire Anderson asked her crying mother. Her mother leaned down pulling her daughter in an embrace.

"I have to leave you here for a while, ok? I have things I must do, and I it's just too dangerous for you."

"When will I see you again?" her mother just started crying more.

"Just remember, Sophie, I will always love you." young Sophie watched as her mother left the place she would know as a prison.

The abuse and negligence that was put upon her made her life a living hell. The fact that she was a mutant never helped her at all either.

As Sophie came back to the present she noticed the trees had wilted from her sorrowful mood. She flicked her wrist and the trees' leaves came back to life, full of color.

"Excuse me, but are you Sophie Anderson?" whipping her head towards the voice she saw a younger man with a young woman standing by her.

She stood up crossing her arms over her chest looking over the two in front of her. The male was on the short side, with style brown hair, and deep blue eyes. The female was a tad shorter than the male, with long honey, blond hair, and gray, blue eyes.

"Who wants to know?"

"I'm Charles Xavier, and this," he pointed to the female, is Raven Darkhölme," both strangers sat on the bench next to Sophie, "We know who and what you are, Sophie. We only came to help you.".

"Look I don't know what you two are playing at, but you have no idea who I am, or what I have been through, and I would appreciate it if you left me the hell alone." Sophie turned away from Charles and Raven.

"I really do know what you are, Sophie Anderson. We are here to help you, not hurt you."

Charles kept his eye on the brunette waiting for his response. Slowly the green eyed girl turned to them, eyes wide, and full of tears. Seeing Charles's index and middle finger pressed to his temple, she knew he was concentrating to project his thoughts in her mind.

"Whatever you people want. I want no part in this. I just want to live a normal life."

"Even if it meant getting back at the man who took your mother away from you? The man whom you got away from?" Sophie looked up to deep, blue eyes as Charles gave her a small smile.

"He will help you, Sophie. He helped me with myself so long ago. You'll be safe with Charles and I." Raven gave her words of comfort.

"I really just want to forget about all of it. I got away from New Orleans, so I wouldn't have to remember. I wanted a clean slate!" Sophie yelled letting her tears fall.

"All we want is to help you. Help you hone your abilities, bring you somewhere to be accepted, and live as a mutant." Charles shook his head, and lied a hand on Raven's shoulder for comfort to the rejected mutant.

"Let us go, Raven, so Miss Sophie can be on her way," they both stood looking down at the brunette, "We can't force her to come with us," Charles took Sophie's small hand into his, "Our offer is always available, Ms. Anderson. Just think really hard, and I'll be able to find you."

"I have been looking after myself ever since, I got out of Henry Cole's clutches. I don't need help from two pompous look at me mutants who want to change the world. Humans will never accept us," and with that said Sophie quickly turned away from Raven's sad gaze, and Charles's sympathetic eyes.

Sophie got herself home quickly not wanting to see anyone else. Just as she closed the door to her one bedroom apartment, she slid down the door crying into her arms.

Sophie, now sixteen, stared out from the living room window of the orphanage. She had been here again for a whole month now, and she was glad to get away from the Jeansonne family.

"Sophie, my dear, someone is here to adopt you." Sister Patricia said with a smile, but the younger girl stood up with a deep frown on her face. Walking into the lobby with the nun, she noticed a man in a suit with his back to them. She looked down before he looked over to them.

"Mr. Cole, this is Sophie Anderson," Sophie looked up to see that same man smiling at her, "Sophie, this is your new foster father, Henry Cole."

"You and I are going to get along quite well little girl," and so the experiments began. The excruciating torture she endured for a whole year felt like death, but one day she did manage to escape. It only took Henry a full day to find her, but it was a whole day she didn't have anything sharp entering her body, or being hooked to ten machines at once.

"I've got you, you little bitch!" he yelled as he threw her to the ground. He lifted her head up by the hair of her head, so he could see her face.

"Please, please just let me go. I won't let anyone know what you're doing," she cried out, tears falling like waterfalls from her eyes.

"Oh now little girl. I have a special surprise for you." he drug her back to his New Orleans house, "Get the woman would you, Azazel?" the red man vanished, and came back with a blond haired woman tied up.

"Mom!" Sophie yelled trying to get out Henry's arms.

"Get me the boy, too." a boy of the same age as Sophie was thrown to the ground.

"Now you either kill this boy or I kill your mother."

"Why are you doing this to me?"

"Don't you see, Phi? You're powers have so much potential. Look at all the plant life on Earth. You might as well be mother nature, and with Mother Nature on my side. Well, I'm pretty much unstoppable." he gave her a sinister grin, and let her go, "Now choose."

"Please, Sophie, don't kill me. I am only seventeen," the boy cried out only causing Sophie to cry harder.

"I'm so sorry Lane." and with that she made the branch of the potted tree next to them wrap around the boy's throat. He fell limp, dead. She turned quickly to Henry glaring death in his eyes only to feel a surge of power go through her as hate ran in her veins, "Let my mother go now."

"I think not," he nodded to Azazel, and a loud crack echoed throughout the large room. Sophie turned just in time to see her mother's dead body fall to the ground.

"NO!" running over to her mother, she was stopped by Azazel, "Why did you do this! I did as you told me to do!"

"And I decided to kill her."

The anger Sophie felt was tremendous, and the house began to shake as she made that same tree branch sneak around Azazel before he could vanish again. Branches and vines from the trees outside busted through the windows of the house wrapping around each person. What she didn't notice was that Azazel had gotten away from the branch, but as he grabbed her she sent another branch to attack her, and she ran like hell out of that place, and made her way to Schenectady, New York.

Author's Note: Well my fellow mutant lovers please review! Would love to hear what y'all think about it :) Stay tuned more fun action to come next!
-Brittany