HI! chapter two! thanks for the reviews and for reading! again, Little Lily has grown up. but she's still just a little kid inside hoping for her mum and vati's approval...Enjoy!
"Pass your quizzes forward one and take out a pen. We're going to correct it in-class." Lily said to her students as she stood at the front of the classroom.
'Lily…' The Professor's voice whispered in her mind. She turned her head and listened for a moment before smiling.
"I'm sorry, I meant for you to pass them forward and I would correct them myself this time. I expect your compositions in my hand on Thursday at the beginning of class, not the end. Yes, Jubilee?" Lily asked pointing to the young Asian girl with her hand raised sitting in the middle row.
"Miss. Xavier, will we be able to use the lab today?" She asked putting her hand down.
"Yes, the lab will be open all day and you will be able to come and go as you please." Lily replied collecting the quizzes from the front of the rows. "Class dismissed."
As the students filtered out of the room, Lily went to sit at her desk and attuned her thoughts to the Professors.
'Mum?' She sent out.
'Still calling me mummy?' Charles replied with humor.
'Of course, what is it?'
'Could you come and sit in on my physics class?'
'Why? I have my own classes.'
'He's waking up.'
'Oh, I see…yes, I can come. Do you think he's really that dangerous?' Lily asked seriously.
'He's not the same man you remember, Lily-bear.'
'No…but he's still kind.'
'True…Scott told me what happened yesterday…'
'I'll be ten minutes.' Lily said as she broke the connection abruptly and raised her shields to block everyone out. Usually she wouldn't take such harsh precautions against the Professor but her emotions were still too raw for her to let him see. She shook her head before standing up to find Scott looking at her from the doorway. Lily narrowed her eyes at him and shouldered her way out of the room.
"You shouldn't have said anything to him." She said angrily as she headed to the Professor's classroom/office.
"I just told him I was concerned about the team." He said walking quickly to catch up with her.
"Don't be. I'm fine."
"Sure you are. I don't know what's been up with you recently but your judgment…"
"My judgment?" Lily stopped in her tracks to stare at Scott. "My judgment is just fine. I don't need you to harp on me about my judgment, Scott."
"As long as you're a part of the X-men…"
"As long as? I was here when the X-men were first formed. I was on the first official team and, if you remember, I was the one who gave you your position. I don't answer to you Scott."
"As long as the Professor allows you to be on the team, you follow my orders." he said grabbing her arm as she tried to move away. Lily turned to him, her eyes flashing dangerously as she pushed gently but firmly against his mind.
"And I do…but you shouldn't forget, I'm not like the Professor and Jean. I have no qualms about invading your mind and giving you nightmares that would leave you screaming and crying for your mother every single night for the rest of your life." Lily hissed as she yanked her arm out of Scott's grip. She glared at him a moment more before walking off down the hall.
"Just because you're the Professor's adopted daughter doesn't mean you can do whatever the hell you choose!" He shouted after her. Lily paused a moment before continuing on her way.
"That's just it…I never get to choose." She whispered to herself. Three minutes later, Lily swept into the Professor's office, interrupting the beginning of class.
"Lily, how nice of you to join us…" Charles said as she walked over to the window to stare angrily outside. As he turned back to his class and began lecturing again on advanced physics, Lily was only half paying attention. She levitated a small pebble up to her eye level and it slowly but surely began to melt as she released all of her anger into the small object.
'Lily?' The Professor asked softly.
'Yes, Mum?' Lily answered flinching at the harshness of her own voice.
'What's wrong?'
'Everything.'
'Lily, I know that it bothers you…'
'He's awake.' She interrupted as she felt Logan's mind awaken abruptly and begin a very…controlled panic.
'Help me guide him here…' Charles said tuning his mind to Logan's.
Lily focused on guiding him in the right direction as the Professor baited him into following the trial of bread crumbs she was leaving. She used intuition and instinct, rather than forcing him to go where she wanted and soon heard the sharp sound of him opening the door to barge in on the lesson. She smiled as the Professor dismissed his students and offered the…older, much older…mutant breakfast.
'Lily stay away from his mind.' Charles thought to her as she turned to look at the animal-like man for the first time since she was three. He didn't look any older from her memories, but his eyes…his eyes had changed. Where they had once been somewhat light and happy now they were old and tired, guarded and strange to her as she studied him from across the room. Lily walked to stand behind Charles as he finished introducing Scott, Jean and Storm.
"And this is Lily Xavier, also called Whitefire. We're here to help you." He said placing a hand on her arm.
"Hey…I know you." Logan said staring at Lily confused. "You're that hooker right?"
"Not exactly." She replied as the Professor brushed his mind against hers, letting her know they would talk later.
"No…I guess not." He said looking at her eyes curiously. Suddenly Lily could practically feel the snap! of recognition in his mind. She quickly lowered her eyes as he tried to puzzle out where he had seen her before when the Professor began to explain about Magneto and his associates.
"What a bunch of bullshit." Logan said with a laugh as he turned to leave. Lily raised her eyes to see Logan grab Scott by the front of his shirt. "Cyclops right? Mind getting out of my way?"
"Logan." Lily began ignoring the Professor's push for her to leave it to him. "It's been almost fifteen years hasn't it? Living from place to place, moving towards something but not knowing what…"
"Shut up." He said whipping around to face her. She saw the same recognition as before and decided to push his mind, just a little.
"Half-formed thoughts you can't remember…A child you don't know." She glanced at Charles. "Purple eyes…"
"Lily…" The Professor said with a warning in his voice and a gentle push against her mind. He went on to offer his help to Logan as Lily walked back over to the window, not feeling angry but rather, neutral about the exchange.
'Come with me.' Charles thought to her as he began a tour of the school. They showed him everything, from the school on top to the jet at the bottom. The Professor kept a running dialogue of what went on at the school and…of what the X-men were and who were their enemy's.
"Lily will show you the rest of the school, if you want to see more." He said after promising to help Logan try to piece together the broken remains of his past. Lily smirked as she stared at Charles and Erik's old suits on display as the Professor rolled out of the hanger.
"Well I'd show you the rest if there was a rest. We pretty much covered everything but the living areas. Come on let's get some lunch." She said grabbing Logan by the arm.
"So what can you do?" He asked as Lily led him into a large spacious kitchen.
"I'm a telekinetic telepath with some latent empathic abilities." She replied pulling cold cuts from the fridge to make sandwiches.
"What's that mean?"
"It means that I can lift you from your chair without touching you, be able to read your thoughts and feel your emotions about the whole thing. It's quite annoying sometimes…living with teenagers and a couple under the same roof. One second I'm feeling extremely depressed about someone else's hairstyle, the next I'm on cloud nine."
Logan stared at her as she placed a plate with sandwiches down and sat across from him with a pudding cup. She took the plastic top off and licked it before digging in.
"Pudding…" He said in confusion wrinkling his eyebrows at her. Lily smiled and took a bite before turning around to listen to something.
'Lily, could you bring Logan down to the medical lab when you're done flirting?' Jean asked with amusement flickering in her mind.
'Sure…and I'm not flirting.' Lily replied with a frown.
'Have you explained how the exact pitch of his voice reminds you of Handel's Hallelujah Chorus? Or Beethoven's Für Elise? Or are you… '
'We'll be down in five minutes, Jean.'
Lily closed her mind with a shake of her head and grabbed Logan's arm to pull him out of the room.
"Where are we going?" He asked putting the last bite of sandwich into his mouth as she almost dragged him out of the kitchen.
"Down to the lab…Jean wants to see you with your shirt off."
