Author Note: - This story is heavily inspired by Princess Alexandria's "Not Myself", So if you find some similarities that the reason. This is my first story so If you find any mistakes I am apologizing in advance.
Red Roses
Chapter-1
Pamela sat at her desk staring at her email inbox Filled with offers from universities like Harvard, Cambridge and Oxford offering her Job as a head of the department of was a tempting offer but she would rather prefer the solitude of her estate mansion than a college campus among other reasons. She did teach at her Grandparents School just to keep her busy. She didn't recognition she would get from these universities she would rather lay low
A familiar blonde head poked in her office door and Janet smiled at her teasingly, "What are you doing sitting in front of your laptop " Her voice upbeat and friendly
"just checking my email" Pamela answered while still looking through her emails "Universities are still pestering me to join their department"
"I still couldn't understand why are you not accepting those offers. I know you practically own this school but teaching at Harvard is a great opportunity. Any normal person would have killed for an offer like that" she asked me gently. "I mean I would have understood if you had someone here in New York but you live in your mansion alone"
"I guess you are not wrong on that regard but I'm just not interested" She told her. She was about to say something but got interrupted. "Janet?" Another familiar voice could be heard and even though Pamela couldn't see Marcie she knew it must be something important or else she wouldn't have bothered coming here to her office.
"Well, I'll see you later." Janet slipped out leaving Pamela alone in the office to try and start planning her syllabus for the classes she was going to be teaching in the Fall. She had a month to get ready, which was really more than enough time.
It took her an hour to read the e-mails that her account accumulated during the summer, there were so many offers coming to her that at one time she stopped reading them altogether.
"Hey Pamela!" A man she didn't recognize stepped into the office with a smile on his face. "You are recycling right? Cause if I find more paper in the trash I'm going to have to punish you." He winked as he moved to empty her trash can.
"Haven't been here long enough to dump paper yet." She replied realizing that it was Bob the janitor.
"Well, you be good this year." He left
The bag from the local Deli swung from her hand as she walked back towards her car. From behind the building she heard a word that stopped her in her tracks. "Mutie! Get out of here, we don't serve your kind." She turned slowly while her heart hammered in her chest to see who the angry man was talking to. The pale green teenage girl looked like she'd been kicked, the comment obviously hurt her. Pamela's eyes widened a little. This girl had green skin just like she used to how interesting. "Get out of here before I call the cops!" He was still yelling.
Pamela felt an overwhelming urge to kill that man for hurting that poor girl. Instead she walked back towards the deli with her eyes glaring at the man. She knew she could do something about him but now wasn't the time she had to get the girl out of here. "Come on, let's get out of here." She spoke gently to the girl while ignoring the jerk. She would normally not get involved with a stranger but she was different she can feel the Green whispering in her ears to take the Girl, and she knew she had to get involved.
"Ms. Isley?" The girl sounded surprised to see her, and Pamela didn't know who she was. Apparently she was one of her students.
"Come on." Pamela addressed the green girl and motioned towards her car. She really wished that she had a name to go with the girl. She looked about the right age to be one of her students. She was going to make the guess that she probably was.
"You're not going to tell the school are you?" The girl sounded close to tears.
"Tell them what?" Pamela asked as she drove towards the campus. She was taking the girl there because she didn't know where else to take her.
"That I'm a mutant." The girl whispered. They stopped at a red light and Pamela could feel the eyes of the driver in the nearby car looking into her car. "You don't recognize me do you?" The girl sounded surprised. "I'm Annie Thompson."
Pamela turned to look at the girl, looking past the pale green skin and black hair. She glanced at the manicured nails and rings on her fingers.
"Annie?" This girl was from her Winter class she had to cover as their teacher was on Maternity leave. She'd done an incredible web page about her poetry for her final project. She almost forgot to go when the light turned red. Annie didn't want the school to know, so taking her back to her office wouldn't work. "Where can I take you?"
"I…" Annie started to sound like she was about to burst into tears. "I don't know. My dad kicked me out."
Pamela stared out the window while trying to think. "I have to go back to work." She turned to glance at the girl. She was a good girl. Pamela remembered that about her. "I could drop you off at my house and we can talk when I get back from work." The girl wasn't safe walking the streets like this. Her skin made her a target and that man at the deli wasn't unusual. Annie's look of shocked gratitude was enough. Pamela pulled onto the freeway to head home. She was going to be late back from lunch. She lived a half hour away, but the estate actually had a lot of privacy it Surrounded by trees. She would be safe as long as she doesn't venture far and stay in the mansion.
As we entered the estate I could see Annie was at awe which wasn't surprising no one in the school knew where I lived.
"You have a nice house." Annie whispered looking at the Mansion "I didn't know you were this rich" she added silently when she was parking the car in front of the house. She hadn't even gone inside yet to see the half-empty home. The three-story house or some would say mansion was far larger than Pamela needed.
Originally This mansion belonged to her grandparents her Mother inherited it from them and now after her untimely demise she inherited it from them. Pamela had inherited a fortune from her mother and grandparents which was more than enough to pay the bills. Pamela leads Annie inside.
"You can use my computer if you want, or watch T.V. or whatever." It felt very strange to take the girl here and let her lose on her home. Pamela never had people over. When she really looked at Annie she could see the girl was tired and looked like she hadn't showered in a while. The girl could have been living on the streets for a while. Pamela's voice got softer with her concern. "Or you could just take a shower and hop into my bed. I might have some fresh clothes for you."
"Thank you so much for doing this." Annie's voice cracked.
"Sure. No problem." Pamela sighed as she watched the completely lost look on Annie's face. Her family abandoned her, and it had to be because of the mutation, because the girl was no troublemaker. Pamela showed her to the bedroom, she rarely used it anyway
"Leave your clothes in the basket the maid will wash them tomorrow when she comes, if you're Hungry there is more than enough food in the fridge" she said to Annie as she gave her some of her old clothes the girls looked like she was about to cry. Pamela signed sadly "go take a shower and get some sleep" Annie slowly nodded
While Annie was in the bathroom getting ready to shower Pamela went out to the car to leave. When she hadn't warned her not to leave the mansion but thought it was not needed at the moment the girl was clearly tired and needed the sleep leaving the mansion would be the last thing she would do. Plus, the backyard door was locked so she didn't have anything to worry about
Annie could hear the door close and be still a bit stunned that the teacher that barely seemed to know her name while she was in her class had taken her into her home and left her alone there. Ms. Isley did that even though she knew full well that Annie was a mutant.
She got into the shower and glanced at the shampoos. They were for color treated hair. Ms. Isley had streaks of green in her long Red hair. Annie's hair was black and fell to below her shoulder blades. It had been black before her mutation, and that hadn't changed. It was her skin that did that. Annie grimaced. If it had been her hair she could have pretended that she'd dyed it, but no… she was marked so obviously as a mutant and still had no idea what her powers were, or if she even had any. She could just be green.
The smell of soap and the feel of warm water on her body made Annie sigh happily. She hadn't been able to shower in three days. Her father had kicked her out of the house with nothing shortly after she woke up changed. She took a nice long shower even though she was very tired.
When she got out of the shower she put the dirty clothes in the basket as she was told and put on the clothes Ms. Isley has given her they were a bit lose but she would accept anything over her now dirty clothes. She went downstairs to the kitchen to get some food she was really hungry. She opened the fridge and saw some fresh fruits and vegetables she has never seen apples with such rich shine she took some apples and a bowl of peanut soup. She went to the dining room and started eating the food was delicious she never has tasted an apple so sweet and the soup was also delicious. After eating she went to check out her teacher's mansion.
The mansion was big there were four bedrooms in the second floor and two master bedroom on the third floor, the bedroom which belonged to Ms. Isley was the biggest in the house through all the bedroom including Ms. Isley's were bare only filled with necessary things beds cabinet etc. it was like nobody lived in them
In the mansion.
The first floor was spacious with a living room, kitchen and a dining room. The kitchen had a glass cellar door in the floor standing on it felt weird the cellar had circular stairs the wall of the stairs is filled wine bottles it was rather stylish she obviously didn't know what basement was like as the cellar door which leads to the basement was locked. The dining had a big table with ten chairs there is chandelier hanging above the table. The Living was the biggest room in the house there was a big expensive looking sofa, a tea table which had a vase filled with red roses, a big flat screen T.V in the wall with a DVD player and gaming console underneath it. There was a home theater with speaker surrounding the room. There was a grand piano in corners of it looked Like Ms. Isley was full of surprises. Annie was feeling tired so she went back to Ms. Isley room.
The walls of Ms. Isley Room were so dark purple to look black without any light. The blinds of all the downstairs windows had been shut, but some of the summer suns leaked in anyhow. Annie found the dimmer switch and turned on the bedroom overhead lights. This was another room that looked like it had been wallpapered, but it hadn't. There were brush strokes on the dark walls of lavender and white. It actually looked pretty good, but this wasn't at all what she'd imagined her teacher's bedroom would look like. Instead of nigh tables, on both sides of the bed sat pedestals. One held the alarm clock and the other held a tablet of paper. The bed itself was made and the soft fuzzy throw on it was dark with the sun and stars on it. The wall across from the bed was nothing but bookshelves.
She started to glance at the dragon figurines and then moved her attention to the books. A couple of shelves were about writing. She remembered hearing her teacher talk about the novel she was working on a few times in class while the students were working on the computers. She had been impressed that Ms. Isley wanted to be a writer too She was already a botanist and by the looks of the house she was rather successful. Annie never would have the patience to write novels. She did write poems though. She had several notebooks at home of her poetry if her father hadn't tossed it out. She had to swallow around the lump in her throat and moved her attention to the other shelves. Ms. Taylor had a lot of books on plants as expected from a botanist but she has books on other subjects as well from what she heard Ms. Isley was a genies and had degrees in many different subjects that explained how she was teaching her class and she was a Good teacher.
Annie's eyes widened a little when she kneeled down and noticed the books on the bottom shelves. Books on human sexuality, erotic novels, and… several books with the words lesbian or homosexual in the title filled the entire bottom row. Oh wow. Her teacher was gay. Annie felt embarrassed for having been snooping now. It was fine that her teacher was gay, it wasn't like Annie didn't have a gay friend. Ms. Isley was nice. Still, Annie felt a bit uncomfortable. She sighed heavily and decided to see if there was anything on T.V. It wasn't like she even really noticed the show as she got lost in her thoughts. Her father had tossed her out of her home with nothing, and if this lesbian was going to be nice to her, and help her out like this, she wasn't going to treat her funny because of her being gay. Still, she'd never met a lesbian before.
When she reached up to rub her tired eyes she noticed her green skin and grimaced. She was still not used to seeing that. It felt like it wasn't even her body anymore. Would her friends still care about her if they knew? That was why she hadn't called any of them when she was tossed out on the streets. Sean was a good friend and he'd be okay with it, but the others might not. Unfortunately, Sean was using the summer vacation to visit his family in California.
Pamela got back to work just fifteen minutes late, it's not like they could complain about it to someone. Her Mother started the School and she was on board of directors who also teach students from time to time. The first thing she did was walk over to the student files. Annie was with her program, so one of her co-workers had to be her advisor since Pamela wasn't. She hunted through the files of their students until she found it and pulled it out. She took it with her to her desk to study.
Pamela had so many students each quarter in the classes she took that she didn't usually get to know them very well, but the other instructors didn't have quite as high a student count. Annie's advisor had a very nice file made up for Annie that included the final goals paper all students were required to write. Pamela usually glanced at her own advisee's files but not the others.
Annie wanted to finish the requirements for her high school diploma and go to a four-year school. She wanted to either major in computers or English, and she was thinking about teaching. Annie's transcripts were decent, she got mostly B's but in college-level classes that wasn't bad, especially since it looked like the girl was sixteen. Her father kicked out a sixteen-year-old just because her skin turned green. That was so sick.
The file stayed on her desk while she mechanically worked on her lesson plans. Annie kept coming into her mind, and how she was green. Did she have a similar mutation to hers and cannot control it or it was something else it didn't matter at the moment she has to use an image inducer so she could attend school. Fortunately, she still kept the Image inducer she used in the closet.
Janet came in with a newsletter. "I know you hate these." She smiled and set it down. Pamela noticed Janet glance at the file she'd stolen from Janet's files. "What's up?" she indicated the file.
"I need to hire a new teacher's assistant." Pamela glanced at the file. It was a half-formed idea, but since this was the time of year that she normally looked at the student files to try and find someone that might work well, it had crossed her mind. She preferred to hire her students because she knew if they understood the material and after having them for a quarter had some idea if they had the right attitude to help teach. Annie's comment about wanting to be a teacher started this line of thought.
"Well, she's a pretty responsible one." Janet started to try and sell Pamela on the idea. "Her English teacher actually caught me in the halls at the end of Spring quarter and thanked me for sending such a wonderful student to her." Janet grinned. Praise like that was pretty rare. Usually, the college instructors weren't thrilled with having such young students in their classes.
"I'll look into it." Pamela glanced at the file again. If she could just find an image inducer she could give the girl a job. Annie really needed it now that she no place to live. It would only be part-time, but it was better than nothing.
Once she was alone again Pamela what to do with Annie, the most important thing would be to find out are her powers similar to hers and if that's the case she has to teach her how to control it until then she can use her old image inducer. She could put together her class in next to no time. She'd taught it enough times that it wasn't really working to do it.
She picked up the pizza from Papa John's on the way home, hoping that Annie liked pizza. It seemed like a safe bet.
When she thought about the difference between all the research she'd done over the summer, and the research she'd spent a few hours doing at work for Annie sake, Pamela felt like she finally had something to do that mattered. She sat up straighter in her car seat as she drove the last three miles to her house. She needed to make a new life for herself she can't dwell in past anymore and maybe finding Annie was what she was supposed to do here. Perhaps she could help in her own way.
Annie woke up when she heard the sound of a car outside the house. Ms. Isley must have returned she gets out bed she was feeling fresh after a few hour naps. She went downstairs and saw Ms. Isley has returned with a pizza "Good evening Ms. Isley" she greeted her as She entered the house. Pamela smiled gently at the Girl.
"Looks like she did get some sleep well, she can talk about things related to the school after dinner," Pamela thought "You must be hungry by now come join me "she invites Annie to the living room. Annie soon joined her and They started eating the pizza in silence.
After eating and Pamela got to the main topic with Annie" I saw your file today in the school and asked teachers to put you under me as your advisor "Annie looked at her with confusion, she must be thinking without her father paying the fees she cannot continue School "Can I still go to school?" Pamela smiled at her gently "of course you can you do realize I kind of own the school" she said with a teasing smile. Annie looked dumbstruck looks like she didn't know that about that many people didn't know her mother founded the school" I can?" Annie asked her again as if trying to make sure this is real.
"Yes and you can also live here from now on, maybe tomorrow we will get the second master bedroom ready for you and get you some clothes hmmm? She asks before she could get an answer Annie tackle hugs her
"Thank you Thank You Thank you" She kept repeating herself and started crying. Pamela hugs her back
"You're welcome little one" Pamela answered with a soft voice. She was not used to hugs but the Annie needed it so she didn't say anything. "I have taken a few days off from the school so we could get you all set up here all right" Annie who was still crying looked at Pamela nodding
"Well, that's one topic dealt with. Now what to do with her Mutation there is a high chance she has a mutation similar to hers. Maybe I should take her blood sample and run some tests in the lab" Pamela Thought while looking at Annie. "Little one please stay here I will be right back in a moment" Pamela went to get the medical kit she had in her kitchen and came back to Annie.
"Annie I'm going to take your blood sample now alright. It's just to make sure you are healthy Little one" Pamela assures her knowing Annie is a little pale because of her not getting proper food for few days but that would fix itself after a few days of the nutritious diet. But she needed the blood sample to confirm her Theory about her mutation.
"All right" Annie gave her permission to take her blood sample.
"You should go get some sleep as I will be busy tonight little one, "Pamela tells Annie who nodded and went back to the bedroom to get some Sleep leaving Pamela in the living room.
"Now then Let's get this over with" Pamela took the blood samples and went towards her Backyard door in the kitchen
Her estate was Rather large and most of the estate was actually a garden. Pamela's Grandfather bought the estate for his wife who loved gardening, Pamela mother later inherited the estate from her grandparents and now after her death, it was passed down to her. Pamela inherited a fortune from her Grandparents and Her mother had owned shares at many companies who now belong to her so maintaining it was not a problem though she rarely stayed at the mansion preferring to most of her time in the gardens. The main garden of the estate was surrounded by a hedge maze that her grandmother ordered to make, but now it serves as a great security measure as the plants won't allow anybody other than her to enter the main garden instead they would usually make people circle around the maze and back to where the entrance satisfying anybody curious about the maze as well as keeping the garden hidden in process. The garden had a small pond which she sometimes uses to bathe when she spends her night here, there were no prying eyes here so she wasn't concerned about someone Seeing her. Along with the pond the garden was filled with all sort of plants she has collected in years many of them deadly for normal humans, there was a greenhouse in the middle of the garden where she keeps the most of her delicate baby plants, as well as a lab setup just behind plant nursery. She entered the greenhouse only to be greeted by her babies, they were clearly happy that she was here. She would have spent some time with them with them but alas she had some work to, some very important work she apologized to her children for not being able to spend time with them and entered her lab.
Pamela's Lab was nothing special and was filled all the necessary equipment she needed for research. She grimaced looking at her computer desk was barely visible under all the printout from her Research she started back in summer. She placed the blood sample on her examination table and started cleaning her desk.
After Cleaning her desk, she started examining Annie's blood trying to find the cause of her Green skin, normally it is not possible to find mutant's powers with a simple blood test, a large database of mutants blood sample is required so a similar case like theirs can be found in database history and sadly she didn't have access to such thing but Annie case was different as she was an Obvious Mutant and their blood usually tends to show the cause behind their appearances and Annie's case was no different there are no many things that can cause a green skin and She was pretty sure that her green skin was not just for show The X-gene doesn't work that way as most of the known cases of the obvious mutants their appearance was related to or caused by their powers. There are two obvious reason a person would have green skin one was gamma rays which were highly unlikely as there hasn't been an incident for a year or so and she had checked her records hers and her parent's records and none of them have ever come in contact with that green monstrosity, which only left one reason.
Her theory was correct High presence of chlorophyll was responsible for Annie's skin color, she found a large amount of carbon dioxide in her blood, she was getting nutrients through photosynthesis. Which meant one thing Annie can learn how to control her skin color but it will take time, she also tested out if Annie is immune to poison like she is which was also true. Pamela was rather satisfied with the results of the tests she knew she can't find out whether Annie has all of her power as even her power took time to develop, Annie's might be similar to hers. She can perform some other test tomorrow that can give a clearer result. Pamela satisfied with her work today decided to head back to the mansion. She wished her babies a good night and left the garden. Upon entering the mansion, she remembered that she has to find her Image inducer for Annie she must have placed it in her basement.
Pamela went to her kitchen and opened the cellar door and started heading down to the basement while looking at the wine bottles her Grandfather collected, she would have loved to have some now but she had an image inducer to find. If she could remember corrected she had placed, it in a wooden box she just had to find that box.
After a half an hour search she found the Box with the image inducer inside it. After checking if it worked which it did Pamela decided to check on Annie and call it a night.
Pamela found Annie sleeping in her bed, the lights were still on so decided to turn them off and go to the second master bedroom to sleep.
Pamela after taking a shower climbed on to the bed, normally she would have put on a t-shirt before going to bed but she didn't want to risk waking Annie up by going back to her room retrieving her t-shirt from her wardrobe. The girl needed her rest and Pamela did prefer to sleep naked so it no big issue.
Pamela fell Asleep the moment she hit the pillow.
Pamela wakes up at 6 A.M. like always, she has always been an early riser maybe it had something to do with her mutation plants do tend to get active after the sunrise. She has taken a few days off from the school for Annie so she can help her get settled here, she looks around the second master bedroom this room used to belong to her when she was little, the room was perfect for Annie as sun rays pass through the windows were just perfect for her
Thinking about Annie mutation Pamela thought that she should tell her today. She did show two mutations she can try the plant experiment with her today. Maybe after that, she can show Annie her garden before stopping herself from going overboard, she first needs to get her some clothes, a phone, laptop, a computer for her room, some Books which she likes and a Bookshelf for them. She looks around her childhood bedroom thinking about things Annie would need and started making a list because she knew if she forgets something Annie will not tell her about it out of guilt.
After finishing her list Pamela put on her old clothes decided to go to the kitchen and started thinking about what breakfast she should make for Annie, she decided to make pancakes as they were a safe choice for breakfast.
After making a batches Pamela decided to go wake Annie up for breakfast. Upon entering her room Pamela saw Annie has just woken up "Good Morning Little one" Pamela greeted her. "I have breakfast ready downstairs. Come Join me after You have brushed your teeth" after getting a nod from her Pamela went downstairs.
Though her house had dining she has rarely ever used it, she generally used the kitchen table Which was placed in the corner of the room it gets great sunlight during the morning so She uses it during the breakfast and reading newspaper. She tries to get as much sunlight as possible because of her busy routine, she usually turned her skin green during the breakfast to trap more sunlight but Annie still doesn't know that she too is a mutant and decided not to do it.
Annie entered the kitchen and saw that Pamela has made her pancakes she smiled and took a plate and glass of orange juice and joined Pamela in the table.
After listening to the sound plates and glass hit the table Pamela closes her newspaper. "I have made extra pancakes so eat as much as you want." Seeing as Annie has just taken a few "And I have your test results so come find me in the backyard patio by the pool after finishing your breakfast there are some things I want to discuss with you"
Annie sees Pamela leaving with a wooden box through the backyard door. It must be something important if she wants to discuss with her. She gets back to finishing her breakfast she really was hungry when she woke up.
After finishing her breakfast, she heads towards the backyard door, it was locked yesterday she hasn't seen the back of Pamela house yet. Upon entering she saw huge swimming pool which was in crescent shape with circular Jacuzzi touching the middle of the crescent the pool. The Pool and the Jacuzzi were divided by a wall. She saw Pamela sitting in the Patio beside the pool talking to someone on her cell phone. When Pamela saw her she gestured her to join her. Annie joins her in the patio she saw three things placed in the table, the wooden box she saw Pamela take with her, a notepad and a flower pot which had a red rose plant in it.
"All right I had your blood tested you are fine?" Pamela tells her Annie it was the most useless information from the test because of course she is doesn't have any diseases or is sick her mutation would prevent that. Annie still looked relieved "But that wasn't the main goal of the blood test," Pamela tells Her. Annie was looking a little confused "I wanted to know if your green skin that your mutation caused has an application or not." Pamela finally tells her about the main objective of the blood test.
Annie looks at her green skin nervously felling a little self-conscious about her appearance.
"Upon testing your blood I found out there was a high amount of Co2 present in your blood." Pamela pointed towards the red rose plant in the table "Your body functions exactly like a plant it needs Sunlight to process the nutrients in your body that's why your skin is green" Pamela explains Annie about her mutation.
Annie looked shocked at the revelation of her mutation, her Body worked like a plant. "So that's my power having a plant like a body and green skin" She was getting really angry about her mutation.
"No" Pamela answered her "Those are not your powers they are just getting your body ready for your real power." Pamela clears her doubt as she gets up from the chair and stands behind her before leaning down towards Annie ear she fell could feel Pamela breaths tickling her ears "I want to test something. Do you trust me Little one?" Pamela asked gently whispering in her ears Annie could feel her heartbeat getting faster she nods as she couldn't trust her voice to crack at the moment.
"I want you to close your eyes and concentrate towards the Plant pot" Annie closes her eyes and concentrate toward the plant, she hears some whispers "Do you hear something other than me," Pamela asks her
"Yes," Annie replied she could hear a low hiss in front of her it could have easily have been missed it if she wasn't concentrating.
"Now Try to reach towards that voice and command them to join you" Annie uses her hands to reach towards the voice before telling the source to join her she hears a hiss of approval form the voices as she feels something was winding in her forearm.
"Excellent Little one, now open your eyes" Pamela praises Annie over her success now hugging Annie from behind, she was happy because her theory was right Annie did possess mutations similar to hers. Thought she felt Annie connection to The Green is a little weak in comparison to her maybe it will grow over time through training, Thought, for now, she is satisfied with the results.
When Annie opened her eyes she in shock the roses that were in the flower pot have now wrapped themselves around her forearm. Roses have wrapped themselves around her arm in a way that she doesn't get hurt by the thorns.
"That is your power Annie you can control plants," Pamela tells Annie before getting back at her seat "If you have any questions you can ask me" knowing by the face expression.
"So I can control plants?" Annie asked Pamela rather dumbly still not believing what has just happened.
Pamela laughed gently at her first question "Yes you can control plants but to an extend Your connection with them is rather weak Though we can fix that by training" Pamela Answering her question. So she will have to train in order to learn how to control her efficiently She wasn't surprised by this fact at all. "Which also means learning to change and maintain the chlorophyll in your body so your skin is not always green" Pamela later added before pushing the wooden box toward Annie Asking her to open it.
Annie opened the box only to see a watch inside "Until you learn to control your power you have to use that outside it's an image inducer it will make you look normal so you don't have any trouble attending school" Pamela explains to her how the watch works. Annie turns the device on immediately seeing her skin turned back to normal. Annie smiled at the sight and was a little relieved to see her skin back in its old color.
"Use the device only when you are in public and don't get depended on it. Think of it as a disguise and treat it as such, while you are in the estate you are not allowed use it" Pamela ordered Annie, she needs to learn to accept her powers in order to master them using the device here would put and bump in her training.
"I want you to practice what I showed you on every plant in the house whenever you are free that is a part your training. When you are able to control every plant in the house with any problems ask me for your next lesson" Pamela tells her about her first lesson. Annie has to make her connection to the Green strong and this is the only way to do it.
Every plant in the house that would be that would be impossible the house had some sort of plant in practically every room to control them all at once is nuts "Is that even possible? Annie asks Pamela with a little doubt, to able to control one plant it took a lot of her effort but to able to control a lot of them at the same time looked impossible to her.
Pamela smiled at Annie question she took out a few seeds from her pockets holding them out in her hands "Watch closely" Pamela told Annie after a few second the seed starts to grow a Venus flytrap-like plant emerges from seeds and started wrapping itself loosely around Pamela's arm.
Annie was shell-shocked by the display Pamela can control plants to how? Was she a mutant like her? There were so many questions in her mind. She also now understands why Pamela had such deep knowledge about her powers because she also had them and by the looks of she has been honing her powers all her life.
"So you are a mutant and you can also control plants like me?" Annie finally asks her
"Yes I am a Mutant and yes I can control plants among other things" Pamela answers her questions vaguely, "Now I want you to close your eyes and try to call this plant towards you," Pamela asks her while gently rubbing the baby plants head who looks like enjoying Pamela affections.
Annie watches Pamela play with her plant she closes her eyes she wanted to see if she can call the plant towards her but alas her efforts are in vain she doesn't hear the plants voice she signs in disappointment as she opens her eyes she sees Pamela gently smiling at her.
"See what I am trying to say you can control the plants yes but in order to control the plant your connection with them needs to grow That's why I want you to practice," Pamela tells her while she places the plant in her arm in a flower pot.
"Ok, I will try my best" Annie said with a fierce determination when her mutation showed itself to her she always thought what her powers where now she knows what her powers are and she has a teacher who is willing to teach her how to master them she only has to train hard.
"I know you will. Now Let's go find something for you to wear so we could go shopping" Pamela gets up from her seat and starts heading toward the house gesturing Annie to follow her.
Annie is staring in the Mirror after a few weeks she is getting used to her green skin. She can use her image inducer but Pamela has strictly banned its use in the house. Pamela wanted her to accept her mutation ever part of it even the parts Annie would think are ugly and accept it. It worked in a way she is getting used to it most of the part is thanks to Pamela who has been so supportive.
Annie has been living with Pamela for a few weeks now. The second master bedroom was now hers, Pamela has bought her clothes, computer, cosmetics etc. for her and placed them in her room. She still felt a little guilty about costing Pamela so much Money and her on countless time if she can help in the house in some ways only to be flat out rejected.
Pamela Only wanted her to focus on her as well as her training, which she was doing without question she has been trying to control all the plants one by one before controlling them together her progress has been slow for her liking but Pamela wasn't that much bothered saying this kind of things take time and she needs to learn to be patient.
She was at that moment sitting in her room trying to control the plants Pamela has placed there. Pamela herself has shown to be a mutant with powers similar to hers she has shown her what can be done by those power after you master them.
Pamela being a mutant that fact should have surprised her but weirdly she wasn't, it always felt like she could trust her from day one, in fact, Pamela also told her the same thing that she had to help her by any means it was like something was pointing Pamela toward her and Annie was glad for that.
After living with her for a few weeks she has realized has realized a few things about her teacher first and most obvious one was that she is a loner and preferred her own company over anybody else that fact sometimes applied to Annie as well.
Annie has learned in the last few weeks when she should give Pamela her space which usually happened after the dinner when she would go to her gardens alone. It was one of the few places Pamela has restricted her from visiting so she didn't know what was in there but she knew one fact Pamela has a tendency to spend her nights there quite often.
She has already found Pamela's bed empty during the morning only to find that the back door was locked from the outside which meant she had spent her night in the garden. She would have been worried about her health if she didn't know that her mutations keep her from getting sick.
"Annie" Pamela enters her room only to see her deep in concentration trying to move the plant.
"Yes Ms. Isley" Annie derails out of her train of thought finally acknowledging Pamela presence
"Your School would start next week right; I want you as my teacher's assistant It's only about twelve to fifteen hours a week, but it's some money and it won't mess with school," Pamela tell her
Annie's lips started to curve into a smile. "Really?" Oh, this was perfect. She could work with Pamela and go to classes. She knew what the TA did, they'd had one in the class she took with the woman.
"Do you want it?" Pamela asked but Annie could see from the smile on the older woman's lips that she already knew the answer.
"Thank you." Annie was a little embarrassed at how serious and grateful she really sounded. It wasn't just the job. She was thanking Pamela everything. Her eyes started to tear up and she had to look away and take a few deep breaths. Pamela always got embarrassed when Annie thanked her like this, but Annie just couldn't seem to stop.
"Your welcome," Pamela spoke quietly. "I'll get the paperwork tomorrow and bring it home."
"Here catch" Pamela threw her keys to something. She looks at Pamela who was now at the door "It's the keys to the house and your new car" Before leaving Annie alone stunned. Pamela Bought her a car before she could go ask Pamela anything she sees her leaving the estate in her own car.
Annie was exhausted because of her training nonstop all day she decides to go take a nap.
When Pamela returned home after work she saw Annie in the living room practicing with her powers she decided to watch for a moment and doesn't disturb her concentration. Annie was trying to control five plants at once her hands where open calling the plants towards her. Two of the five plants moved towards her while the rest of them didn't. Pamela was a little impressed with her progress but she still needed a lot of training which will have to wait for now as she had plans for them this evening.
"Annie" Pamela finally interrupts Annie who looked a little startled, "Looks like she was too immersed in concentrating on her powers she didn't pay attention to her surroundings" Pamela Thought to herself
"You really need to pay attention to your surroundings more Annie," Pamela tells Annie who was looking at her "You don't want to be caught off guard while you are trying to call for your powers" Pamela continuous while Annie was looking a little down. Seeing her expression, she Sighs before joining her on the couch.
"I am sorry I just don't want you to get hurt," Pamela tells her softly while stroking her cheeks. Annie leaned into the touch with small blush in her face.
"Come on we have some work to do, so go get ready," Pamela tells Annie, who nods and goes back to her room to get ready.
A few minutes later Annie joins Pamela who was sitting in the living room looking at some documents
"Oh you are ready then let's get going," Pamela tells her as she lines the documents up and put them and in a file before getting up
They leave the estate in Pamela's car after a while Annie finally recognized where they were heading and got a little nervous she looks towards Pamela who was busy driving the car before they reach their destination and it was the last place she wanted to be at.
Pamela looks at Annie expression before she gently takes hold of her hands "Don't worry we are just here so your idiot of a father could sign in some papers after that you don't have to see him ever again" Pamela tells Annie while stroking her hand gently.
Annie's heart was fluttering a little, she replied Pamela with a smile before they get off the car Pamela had the file Anne saw earlier with her and they go to Annie old house together
"Do you have anything you want from your old house?" Pamela asks her standing before the door which had a few plants on a platform beside it, noticing that Pamela Smirks a little.
"Yeah Maybe my old poem notebooks" Annie replies silently
"Well when I am talking to your idiotic father you should go get that," Pamela tells her before ringing the doorbell
"I am coming wait a second" Annie hears a familiar voice of her Father opens the door and notices her
"Annie what are you doing back here?!" He spoke loudly and Pamela took a deep breath to calm her nerves. She'd spent some time awake last night imagining everything that could go wrong and this had been on the top of the list.
"I'm just picking up my things," Annie said and took a step closer to Pamela. It made Pamela feel like Annie was trying to hide behind her, and she stood a little taller because of it.
"Those aren't your things." He hissed at the girl and then turned his eyes to Pamela, "And who the hell are you? One of her little cutie friends?" He then dismissed her from his awareness and glared at Annie. "Your skin isn't all green."
"Daddy, I'm just picking up my things." Annie's voice held a painful pleading and it broke Pamela's heart. "I'll get out of here now."
He took a menacing step closer to Annie and Pamela growled out and used the Plants besides the door and wrap around his neck effectively choking him a little "Now Now No need to be so violent" he was trying to get out of the plant vines with a frightened expression, Pamela smiled at his expression "Not so tough anymore are you" she was enjoying herself and didn't want to stop choking him but he still had some uses.
Annie was looking at the Pamela Performance with a mixture of awe and fear she knew Pamela was rather skilled in her powers but this is the first time she saw it in full action and She didn't disappoint. Pamela had such precise control over plants that she could choke a guy without even a second thought it was second nature to her while Annie struggled to control only two plants.
After a few seconds, she noticed that her father had calmed down from his expression it looked like he was in some kind of a trance. The vines around his neck loosened "Please come in" He spoke in a rather monotone voice and then went to living room Annie was a little confused about what just happened.
"Annie you could go and grab your things now while I have a little talk with this idiot," Pamela told her and went to the living room of the house, Annie wanted to ask her questions but decided to focus on the task at hand.
After a few minutes, Annie returned empty-handed to the living room where she saw Pamela sitting Looking at her phone while her father is signing papers Pamela brought with her. "Did you get all of your poem notebooks?" Pamela asked her while putting away her phone and noticing she didn't have anything
"No" Pamela caught the sadness in Annie's tone she looked at the Man "where are her poem notebooks?" Pamela asked the which it looked like has finished signing all the papers
"I burned them" He answered in a monotone way, Annie's eyes burned and a few tears where starting to fall "Well that's unfortunate" Pamela said and started collecting the papers and put them in the file before getting up from the couch and while dropping some seed in the table in front of him.
"Let's Go, Dear, we are done here," Pamela tells her while gently holding her hand, Annie nods while sobbing a little and they leave for the door.
"You don't have anything to do with that man anymore," Pamela tells her while getting inside of the car. Annie looked at her old house for the one last time before getting inside the car and they leave for in silence.