Authors note: Hey, this is my new and second fic ever, and there is a few things that you need to know. First, that one of the main characters Kevin Mactaggert a.k.a. Proteus is not an OC he is a comic book character; if you are not acquainted with him, his story or his powers, know that that is not a problem. This chapter is based on his story (but I did alter a bit of it so it matched my story plane. His father really was abusive and believed that marriage was a life contract that couldn't be broken, meaning that he didn't believe in divorce. His mother really was a doctor and she ran away from him without saying that she was pregnant. I only altered the way that his powers manifested. When I looked it up it didn't say how the manifested so...) and between this one and the next you will see what his powers are. If you want to know more about him feel free to ask, I will tell you the best I can.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of these characters; they belong to Marvel.

Chapter 1: And so it begins…

It was mid August and there was a woman in a hospital.

"Please! I really need a doctor, I think I'm having my baby now!" the woman said in despair.

It was her first child and she didn't have any help; the baby's father was a sadistic bustard that beat her senseless and she left him without ever telling him that she was expecting his baby.

"God! My water broke," she screamed in pain.

"Oh Lord! Dr. Roberts, please we need a doctor over here, this woman is in labor," The nurse yelled, in a crowded hallway. "You are going to be fine dear," The nurse, in her late thirties, said reassuringly while monitoring her contractions.

"It's supposed to hurt this bad?" the woman asked.

"Well...it is different for every woman, but my mother told me, when I asked that same question to her that the baby is the one that has it worse," The nurse answered and stepped aside so that the doctor could take her into the maternity room.

A little later the doctor was heard saying, "Push, you need to push as hard as you can...Ok now rest a bit, we're almost done...Another great push Mrs. Mactaggert, one more and the baby will be all the way out." And then a screaming baby interrupted the doctor.

"Congratulations, Mrs. Mactaggert you are the mother of a beautiful little boy. Have you chosen a name yet? Most women say that that is the worst part," The doctor said, smiling as a nurse brought the baby, now clean, to a very emotional mother.

"Kevin," she answered, crying out of joy while looking at the baby in her arms, the reason why she left his father, the reason way she was alive.

Five years later

Moira Mactaggert had left the main land and had built her own research center on Muir Island, with the help of her long time friend Charles Xavier. It was not a secret that Xavier had feelings for Moira, yet even if she did reciprocate his feelings she thought that if she admitted it, it would turn her son's world around. She did not tell him that his father was abusive; in fact she avoided talking about him.

"Honey, what are you doing still up? You have your first day of school tomorrow," Moira asked pretending that she was angry, as she placed her hands on her hips. Kevin's was a sweet smile as he placed both of his hands behind his back, in the most adorable way possible. He knew that his mother would just melt when she saw his smile. Charles also smiled thinking that Moira was a very smart woman but in her son's hands she was like putty.

Six years later, Valentine's Day

Kevin was in school. He always did well there; people use to say that it was in his blood. He was also a good looking guy for an eleven year old; all the girls his age just fell for him, he had strong features, blond hair, blue eyes and was tall for someone his age.

When he walked up to his locker he was surprised to see at least twenty letters inside. He picked them up and quickly went to his Spanish class.

"Hey Kevin, what have you got there?!" Kevin's best friend asked curiously.

"Some letters I found in my locker," Kevin answered with little enthusiasm; he hated Valentine's Day. Everywhere he went all the girls seemed to do was giggle at him. He found it to be annoying, not to mention that it reminded him that his mother didn't have a valentine, and that he didn't have a father.

Later at home that day

"Mom?! Mom, you are never going to believe..." Kevin was interrupted by a scream that came from his mother's room.

He ran upstairs as fast as he could. As he approached his mother's room he could hear a man's voice.

"You ran Moira. Ran from your husband and now after eleven years of searching I find you with a child that can very well be mine, in fact, for your own sake I hope it's mine, because if I find out that the brat isn't mine I will kill you! Do you hear?!" the man screamed.

Kevin opened his mother's room door, just a little bit so he could see what was happening, and as he did he could see a man grabbing his mother's arm very roughly as well as grabbing her hair with his other hand.

"I will kill you! The kid! And the father, whom ever it is!" he shouted some more and pulled her hair as if it would give his words more power.

"You are a monster! You always were! Do you really believe that I'm going back to the miserable life that I had before?!" Moira shouted back and then added with a low tone of voice, "If there was anything that I learned in this last eleven years it was that I deserve better than you."

It was then that the man slapped her twice and threw her against the wall.

"You slut! Xavier is the father isn't he? You always looked at him that way you tramp. He was the one that destroyed our marriage!" The man shouted back at his mother; and all he could do was cry as he saw his mother do the same.

"I wish," Moira said between sobs, as the man pulled out a knife.

At that moment the room started to twist and the door blew up to reveal Kevin crying and grabbing his head.

"Stop it! You are driving me crazy!" he shouted as his father's body hit the ground, causing him to lose consciousness.

"Kevin? Honey! Are you ok?" his mother asked frantically, as she finally pushed herself to his side and put her arms around him. Only then did the room stop moving and Moira noticed that Kevin was unconscious.

'Oh God what happened to him? Is he dead?' she thought and checked if he had a pulse. 'Thank God!' She could feel her son's heart betting. Only when she was convinced that her son was all right did she check to see if her husband was still alive. When she found that he was she picked up the phone and called the only person that she trusted with the most recent events.

«Hello?» came the voice of her long time friend.

«Charles? This is Moira, please I need you to come to Scotland fast. Something happened to Kevin, he is not well... and Joseph is here... he tried to kill me... and then the room... and Kevin...» Moira said really fast with some sobs in between.

«Moira please, calm down. Ororo and I are coming, and please be careful, lock yourself and Kevin somewhere away from him just in case.» Charles Xavier said, fearing for his friend's safety.

«Fine. Thank you so much Charles.» Moira said and hung up the phone.

She ran to her son and then carried him to his room and placed him slowly on his bed, covering him up with his covers. He seemed to be in shock; he was awfully cold.

Then she locked the door behind her and placed a chair behind it strategically.

A few hours later

"Moira! I know you're in there! You and that freak! I was right wasn't? It is Xavier's; he's a freak just like him and everything. But what was to be expected from you, you were always so nice and understanding towards him," Joseph Mactaggert screamed from outside the door while pounding on it.

Then he mimicked his wife's voice and said, "He is a good person, Joe, just like us." His voice turned to its usual harsh tone, "My ass he is! I'm going to get you, you slut! I'm going to break your skull and junior's too. Do you hear you bitc-..." Joseph didn't finish that sentence, in fact he didn't even speak and after a few minutes Moira understood why.

"Moira? It's ok this is Charles, you can came out now," Moira heard her friend say.

"Charles, thank God!" She exclaimed, as she ran and opened the door to find her husband's unconscious body on the floor like a few hours ago.

"Moira!" Charles said urgently, breaking her trance with concern obvious in his voice.

"Kevin is in here; he has been unconscious since it happened. He's breathing and he has a pulse but its very weak," Moira said wiping her long forgotten tears.

Xavier placed his left hand on Kevin's left temple and his right one on his right temple and closed his eyes only to open them again in shock.

"Charles? What is it?" Ororo asked worriedly.

"He is ... unbelievable; he's blocking my telepathic powers with his," Xavier said looking and felling amazed.

"What does that mean?" Moira asked concerned.

"It means that your son is a telepath, a very powerful one," Charles explained, still surprised.

"Like you? But even if you are right, it doesn't explain how he did that to my room, it was twisting and bending," Moira said feeling terribly.

"That was probably just something that he unconsciously projected in to your mind. And he probably made Joseph lose consciousness as well," The professor said while rubbing his chin. "But none of the less, the best thing to do right now would be to run a few tests, just to test his limitations."

Moira nodded at her friend; if there was someone that she trusted with the mutant matter it was Charles. They took Kevin into Moira's lab and took a blood sample.

"He seems normal, for someone that possesses the X gene," said the professor, smiling reassuringly at Moira. "My only concern is that he hasn't awakened yet."

"Do you think that something serious happened to him," Moira asked on the verge of panic.

"I don't think so, I think that he is only tired. It happened to me too in the beginning," The professor said smiling. "Maybe you should rest too. Storm and I will stay here and tend to Kevin. If you are worried about Joseph don't be, he went home and forgot all about today and your whereabouts, as well as Kevin's existence." He pointed to his head to explain what he meant.

"Are you sure? Maybe I should stay, I want to be with him when he wakes up," She said.

"We will call you as soon as he does," Ororo said with her usual warm smile.

And so Moira left and both X-men started to work.

A few days later

"Oh my..." Ororo said, as she looked at the screen.

"Its like he doesn't have any energy, like he is feeding off it," the professor said slowly as he was being watched by Storm.

"That can actually happen?" Ororo asked, stunned.

"Apparently, you see it is like in a few drowning cases, since the person doesn't have any energy the brain starts to shut down some, how can I put it, some unnecessary organs, so it stops the waste of energy allowing the person to live longer than it would if that didn't happen. I believe that young Kevin's body is spending more energy than it can produce. I think that he is...dieing," he said while looking at Moira that was now crying.

"You mean that his mutation is killing him? It can't be! You must have a solution, some kind of cure," Moira said like she was about to die. " We can build some sort of room that will give him the energy that he needs. Please Charles don't let my baby die. I beg you," Moira pleaded getting a sympathetic look from Ororo.

"I will do what I can. I will research for something and try to come up with an energy producer material so we can save him." Charles said. "But Moira you are aware that Kevin won't be able to leave the room? Ever, without dying." The professor said more than asked.

"I will find a cure for him don't worry," she said stroking one of Kevin's golden locks. "Just please, help me save him." Moira asked or more like begged again.

Two months later

"Should I call Storm and let her know that Kevin is recuperating?" asked Moira happily over her son's health improvement.

It has been about two months since Ororo went back to the mansion to join the newest staff member, Wolverine, and Charles had made a real breakthrough in Kevin's room. He seemed to recuperate fast if only he had the energy that he needed.

"Kevin, are you alright, sweetie?" Moira asked in a slow whisper just like the ones that she used to wake him up from a good night of sleep in the morning.

"Mom! What happened to me?" Kevin asked lazily.

"You are just fine now, honey," Moira said, smiling and then looked at Charles who smiled back.

It was then that Kevin saw Charles and his father's words repeated in his head, "Xavier is the father isn't he? He was the one that destroyed our marriage." And his face-hardened, feeling anger for the man that he once saw as his idle. So he turned around, examining his surroundings not recognizing the room.

"Where am I?" Kevin asked with a frown.

"Kevin... we need to talk... a serious talk…" Moira said nervously, looking to her friend for support. Xavier gave her a reassuring look. "You are a mutant, your powers emerged and you lost consciousness."

Kevin noticed that his mother was nervous. He knew that she was one of the few people that did not discriminate against mutants, so he couldn't figure out why she looked like she was tiptoeing around him.

"Apparently your body needs a lot of energy to work and in a case that energy isn't provided it starts shutting down body parts that...well... are less important. Basically your body stops working, it can kill you," Moira said slowly and noticed the scared look that Kevin was giving her.

"I'm going to die? Is that what you are telling me?" Kevin screamed more than asked.

"Kevin calm down, that was where I was getting to. Charles and I built this room for you. It's a special room that provides the energy that you need to survive, but...you can't leave the room, until I find a cure for you. I'm sorry baby," Moira said to Kevin, who was about to cry.

"Moira I'm going now, I leave you to talk to Kevin alone," Charles said receiving a warm smile and thank you from Moira and a death glare from Kevin.

Six years later

Kevin had grown quite a bit he was taller and more handsome but he was also a lot more hateful than ever.

Kevin was screaming from the terrible pain that his mother's laser treatment caused. It only lasted twenty minutes but it seemed to last a lifetime; it was as if his whole body was on fire. In Kevin's opinion it wasn't worth the pain but his mother had promised to make it better and told him that it was already working, after all he could already stay out of the room for approximately five days.

But besides the experiments he wasn't allowed to leave his cell; his mother kept telling him that the reason was that even though he was capable of staying alive for that period of time others might not survive his enormous telepathic powers.

But lately leaving was all he thought about. He also had a growing hatred against Xavier; that man's words did not leave his mind and there were times in which he thought that maybe he really was Charles son and in those times things started to twist and even brake around him. His mother told him that it was all an illusion that he projected into people's minds but he always wondered why he could see it too.

Xavier already had told Moira that treating Kevin was wonderful but that she also needed to invest time in teaching him how to control his telepathic ability before he could harm anyone.

There were times in which he also hated his mother for not talking about that day but he then remembered that she had said that she was miserable so he understood that maybe it was for the best.

"Congratulations Kevin!" Moira said to her son, smiling.

"What for?" Kevin asked with a perked eyebrow.

"It's your birthday honey. You're turning eighteen today. God time passes by quickly," she told beaming with pride.

"For you maybe..." Kevin told her angrily, but then a smile appeared on his features. "Do I get a present?"

Moira almost melted before that smile, "What do you want?"

"Can I go outside for a little mom? Please?" Kevin's eyes looked like they were glowing just out of the thought of being out there, in the real world, seeing the sun one more time would be fabulous to him.

"Kevin...You know I can't let you leave the room," His mother told him sadly but sternly.

Kevin had it, he wanted to leave that hell hole; he wanted to see everything that he missed in the last six years, he wanted to see someone else that wasn't his mother. And so the entire room started to twist and bend as he cried.

"Kevin? Honey? What's happening?" Moira asked desperately. 'I don't think illusions can do that,' she thought as the room where she was in was also stared to twist and bend.

A minute after that, there was a huge hole in the wall; as Kevin looked at it, it grew and that was when he looked at his mother and the last thing that she saw was her son's smile as she fainted.

Well folks, that is it, hope you have enjoyed it and that you review go easy on the flames and constructive criticism is always welcome.

Next chapter X-men, brotherhood and Acolytes make their appearances, and a Kevin's arrival to Bayville.

Till then bye

Pyro Lady