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Author's Notes: I'd Just like to say if you read, reviewed, favored, or followed this story your awesome. now that that's out of the way anything in quotation marks in italics are thoughts, and things in parenthesis are Leigh's side notes. "Yup dere muh side notes meanin' Ah wrote dem" What ever Leigh. "Well dey 're Ah was just pointin' it out" That's nice of you Leigh. i hope you guys enjoy reading this Chapter as much as I enjoyed writing it well here you go
The Mission
"Like how did you like do that Leigh?"
"Ya Ray Ray how?"
"That vas zo awesome Leigh you have to show us how to do that"
"Man I can't believe you just went through the Danger Room on high, and survived. I mean you actually beat one all Logan's DR sessions. Including the ones that are parents do."
"How did you do that flippy thingy with the cards and oh wow that was awesome. And I can't believe you did that in jeans and a tee- shirt. How come Logan hasn't killed you for not wearing your uniform yet. That was what? Like the fifth time you didn't wear your uniform to a DR session."
I smirked as I leaned on the back legs of my chair, and put my hands behind my head. I surveyed my team. The x-teens (which I was leader of) consisted mostly out of the x-men's children with the exceptions of Mags, Carmen, Leo, and Cody. While Mags and Carmen's Parents were allies of the x-men (Working for SHEILD and all) they weren't technically x-men. Leo however was an orphan who came here last year, after his powers manifested, and wowed everybody with his skills. Turns out him and Cody where childhood friends so yay. Cody came here when, well, all of us (except Amy who was 5 and tom who was 4) where 6. He had developed his telepathic powers early. A few days later the first of my powers manifested. Yes first I have many different abilities courtesy of Mr. Sinister. Any who my first power to manifest was the power to use other mutant's powers from a slight distance. So he was trying to get past my mental blocks that not even the professor could ever get through. I tackled him accidently "borrowed" my mom's powers and viola mind link. (How did I know that my powers weren't my mom's? Funny you should ask that well a few hours before the incident I had used several other peoples powers so…). And now eight years later we're 14 and he still uses it to bother me. Almost my whole team is on top of me with a mix of excitement and curiosity over how I do what I do. Mags is just sitting at the table playing with her magnets, Carmen is cleaning her guns, and the twins are telekinetically throwing knives at each other. Again. There trying to prove the theory about how mutant sibling with similar powers can't hurt each other with their powers. I start laughing when they start yelling at each other for cheating. How did they cheat? Well Brandon shot his laser eyes at Sammy and Sammy tried to use her telepathy to shut down his mind. Everyone turned to see what was so funny. It was then they realized that I wasn't going to tell them anything they dispersed. Amy went to go change (totally saw that coming). Tom was teleporting around the kitchen grabbing different foods and putting them together for a pre breakfast snack (again not a surprise). Leo went to go annoy Mags until she stopped playing with her magnets, and started using them and her crowbar to fight him (well she is magnetic). Rickey started making ice sculptures until Carmen put down her guns and started running circles around him, he got annoyed and froze her (yes froze her his powers allowed him to freeze anything even time). The twins were still fighting and Cody was observing them all. I smirked again. Good they were all so busy. They wouldn't be able to stop me then. I walked over to the cupboard grabbed a coffee mug and filled it with coffee fresh from the pot put some creamer, and sugar in it. Did I mention that I'm not allowed to have any form of sugar or caffeine or that this coffee was caffeinated? No. Oh well I'm not and it is so… Cody turned around and saw me. "Oh crap" he said. He sounded terrified. Everyone turned to see what he was talking about and froze. Amy chose that moment to come running in "Like you guys will never guess what I like just heard." She said ten times faster than Pietro or Carmen of on sugar rush. "Like what are you guys all starring at?" She asked before she saw me siting on the counter calmly drinking my coffee with an evil smile on my lips. "Oh." Now here is where I should probably tell you why I'm not allowed to have sugar. You she I get hyped up very easily so when given sugar or caffeine I'm more hyper than a 5 year old on Halloween. I slowly drink my coffee and I'm almost finished when the adult x-men walk in (come on I mean were practically x-men we just have a different name). "Leigh put the coffee down now" my mother said. I scowled as I got off the counter and walked over to the sink to pour out the little bit of coffee left. I poured myself a bowl of cereal before sitting down at the table and muttering some very choicey words in French. Then and only then did everyone unfreeze and started to get their breakfast. "Language petite" my dad said to me. I mocked a scowl "Don't call meh dat Ah'm not little" I replied, blowing some strands of white out of my face. I "borrow" Sammy's telekinesis and use it to get Scott's wallet (why do I have to use telekinesis? Because Scott avoids me so I won't steal his wallet. Yet it always ends up in my hands. Mm I wonder why? ) it should be good for a laugh later on if I play my cards right. When everyone was seated Scott said "Wolfy there's' something we need to talk to you about." Oh crap I thought my codename that means I'm either in trouble or its official x-men business. Time to use the wallet. "Look Cyke 'dout meh stealin' 'yo wallet it's ya own fault 'fer avoidin' meh it make meh dink ya challengin' meh ta steal it." He looked at me confused for a moment so I took his wallet out of my pocket, and held it up for everyone to see. "Give it to me now" he says, so I throw it at him. He catches it and says "that's not what I was going to talk to you about but now we're going to have to address this issue later."
"Den what do ya wanna talk ta meh 'dout Scotty boy?" I asked a little too innocently.
"Don't call me that and don't call me cyke either."
"Alright One-eye what do ya wanna tell meh?" I asked again he was getting more annoyed by the minute but I could see he was trying to keep calm. Everyone in the room was trying to hide their smiles and laughs because that would only make it worse.
"We need you to go on a solo mission to the past." My smirk drops along with the bottom half of my mouth. This is amazing. My heart picks up speed and it takes a few seconds for me to be able to talk. "Really?" I ask.
"Yes really" Scott says rolling his eyes (did I forget to mention that Scott doesn't need his glasses anymore? Really I did? Oh well he doesn't.) "It's more of a practice mission to see how well you do in certain situations" He explains. "You are going to go into the past, try and secretly help out with the recruitments. Watch over us as teenagers." All the x-teens started laughing at this. "What's so funny?" Scott asked. "Dude" Leo said trying not to start cracking up again "you're going to be babysitting the x-men." Scott rolled his eyes, again.
"She isn't babysitting us she's just watching us" he turned back to me "You will also be trying to stop Apocalypse." I looked around the room trying to figure out if this was a joke. "Is dis a joke?" I asked Cody through the mind link. "Nope" he said. "Sounds like fun" I said putting a smile on my face.
"Good you have two weeks to get ready" he said.
"What?" I said "deux weeks why?"
"Well Forge said that his time machine could only go back however many years you want but you have to go back to whatever date you leave on" he explained " and the date we need you to go back to is two weeks from now the day that Kurt first comes to the mansion." I fell down into my chair. I hadn't even noticed I had stood up. My mouth was open and I was staring at Scott like he was joking. Ah only have deux weeks ta get ready and say good bye ta all muh friends and family" "Um how long will Ah 'b dere?" I asked still in shock. "Until Apocalypse is defeated so if you want to come home sooner you will do everything you can to stop Apocalypse from being released." He said all smart and matter of factly. "Deux years? No! Ah don't wanna 'b away dat long." I wasn't hungry anymore and I was probably going to kill Scott within the next few seconds if he said anything else. So I did the smart thing and "borrowed" my Uncle Kurt's powers and teleported to my room. I had a room all to myself so I didn't have to worry about somebody walking in on me. I numbly walked over to my bed and collapsed. My mind raced thinking about what this all meant. I would be away from the Institute for 2 year. I hadn't been away from the institute or even my parents that long since I was 2. The day I had moved in because it was safe I vowed I'd never go away that long again. I vowed that I'd always be here with my parents. That I'd always live at the Institute, no matter what. But now Scott was making me leave so I could go on a Practice mission for 2 firkin years! "What's wrong with him?" I asked myself. "Oh yay he's a complete and total idiot." I sighed. Someone knocked at my door. "G' "way!" I yelled at the door before burying my head in my pillow. I heard my door open and didn't need to look up to know who it was. There were only three people at the Institute who would come in after I told them to go away. Those three people consisted of my parents and Cody. By the sound of the footsteps I could tell it was my mom. "Ya ok sweetie?" She asks me as she sits down on my bed and starts stroking my hair comfortingly.
"No" I say sitting up. I lean my head on her should her before continuing. "Ah don't wanna 'g but Ah 'ave ta if Ah wanna stay leader 'o da x-teens." I sighed, waiting for her to say something, anything. But after a moment it seemed clear that she wanted me to continue so I did. "Ah'm gonna miss dis place ta much 'nd Ah'm gonna miss ya 'nd dad. Plus Ah made a vow when Ah first came 'ere dat Ah wouldn't evah leave ya 'nd dad or da Mansion evah 'gain." I took a breath and looked at my mom to see what she would say. "Well" she started "Ah think that Forge made a phone fer ya so that ya can call us 'ere in the future so that might help." I thought about it then nodded yes calling them would certainly help with the missing but what about the… "And the way Ah see it ya won't be leavin' meh or ya'r dad but goin' ta see us in a different tahme." I smile
"Danks mom Ah dink Ah'm gonna start packin' now ka?"
""Sure thang sweetie Ah gotta 'g talk ta Scott 'bout some think anyway. Ah'll see ya at lunch." I nodded then went to my closet to get my duffel bag and some clothes. Something tells me this is going to take a while.
As soon as my first pair of jeans are in my bag Cody walks into my room. "Hey sup?" he says in true city boy fashion. I just snort and say "Oh nuttin' what's up with ya city-slicker?" city-slicker is what I've called Cody since the day we meet and I found out he grew up in the city orphanage and that he had no idea at all on how to climb a tree. A skill that I had and still do think is one everyone should posse by the age of two. "Nothing much. Leigh can I talk to you?" I glanced at him and saw his serious expression and the look in his eyes. I sighed as I sat down on my bed. I close my eyes and when I open them Cody is standing before me on the astral plane. With our kind of mind link we can not only talk to each other and read each other's minds but we can also meet up on the astral plane to talk. But he still can't really read my mind unless I let him. Why you say. Well partly because if he does I'll deck him. The other part is because of my industrial strength psychic shields that make my mind look like that of a dead person all the time. Not even the Professor could get through them and even though we all know Cody will one day be a stronger telepath than the Professor we all know he'll never read my mind. "What 'd ya wanna talk 'bout Cody?" I ask him. He looks at me for a long time before he takes a deep breath and tells me
"There's something I've wanted to tell you and now that you're leaving I thought that maybe now is the time to tell you." Wow ok I was not expecting that. I had noticed that Cody had been closed off to me lately. I usually had his thoughts flowing freely through my head (witch annoys me to no end but he always refuses to put up mind blocks). But lately he's been hiding something from me and blocking a part of his mind. I open my mouth to speak but he gestures for me to just listen to him. "I've thought about it day and night and now I think I understand. I think I know what this feeling I have for you is. Leigh I think I'm in love with you." For the second time that day my mouth hit the floor. I honestly wasn't expecting that and I didn't know what to do. Well there was that and he had picked just about the worst time to tell me, and no it wasn't just because I was about to leave for approximately 2 years. You see when I get a new power I can feel it coming before it actually comes. What do I mean? Well when I was seven I started to get tingly feelings in my hands, and I constantly wanted to blow everything up. Then one day at recess I was showing my friends how to play poker and the cards started glowing pink and blew up in my hands. Then as I got older I had different feeling that turned into different powers. And now my skin feels like it's on fire. All the time and whenever someone touches me it gets worse. I think I know what my new power is going to be and it's one everyone hoped I wouldn't have. Not only that but, sometime when I'm running it feels like I'm flying. If you can't figure that one out then you're an idiot. I decide to yell at him. That always works. Right? "What the heck Cody. How can ya say dat right now? We're only 14, and Ah'm 'bout ta leave fer deux years." I don't tell him about the fact that I might be getting my mom's powers or that there's a possibility I feel the same way.I closed my eyes again and was back in my own room. Cody opened his eyes and started to speak. Before he could say anything I threw him out of my room, and yelled "Leave meh 'lone city-slicker." Then I slammed my door shut and started packing again. After I had got most of my regular clothes packed I got out my uniform. We were allowed to design our own uniforms so needless to say they weren't spandex anymore. Mine consisted of a pair of kaki cargo pants, a navy blue under armor shirt whit the x-men x on it, a pair of combat boots, gloves, and last but certainly not least a brown leather bomber with the same x insignia that was on her shirt. The bomber had been a Christmas present from Scott and Jean last year. I had gotten three of them that year. I got a plain brown on from my parents for every day wear, the one with the x for my uniform form Jean and Scott, and a nicer black one from Kitty and Kurt for going out. Why get me so many for so many different things. Well they figured I'd be like my father so they just got me one for every occasion. I put my black leather jacket in after my uniform. Then I go to change out of the clothes I worked out in this morning. I put on a pair of jeans with pre ripped holes in them, a black cammie, with a dark purple tee-shirt that had black swirly designs on it, and to top it off my brown bomber.
Over the next 2 weeks I got myself packed. I also trained myself to talk without an accent (though I hated every minute on it, and I slipped every time I got mad, and started yelling but whatever). But the hardest things that I had to do were pick out contacts and either die my white bangs a different color or put on extensions to cover them up. In the end I ended up with blue contacts that mixed with the yellow in my goldish eyes making them look green. I went with the extensions because I couldn't bring myself to die my hair. The night before I was supposed to leave they held a going away/first mission party for me. Basically anyone who wanted to come could come. I saw Cody there but we didn't speak. At some point my parents gave me a going away present. It was a necklace. It had a silver chain with three almost identical charms on it. They were cards the King of Hearts, the Queen of hearts, and what looked to be the Jack of Hearts but instead of a j there was an l on the corners. Apparently the Leigh of Hearts. I put it on then said "Thank ya. Ah'm gonna miss ya guys so much." Then I hugged my parents for what was the last time before I left.
The next morning I got up early. I got dressed, walked downstairs and meet Jean, Cyke, and my parents waiting for me at the x-van. We drove in silence to an old warehouse where the time machine was because apparently the time machine sent you back to whatever place you came from so this place was ideal so I wouldn't get spotted. We walked inside with where Forge was setting up his machine. When he was done he put me at a spot right in the middle of it, where I just stood there and held my duffle bag. Forge handed me a back pack. "Ok let's see in here is a cell phone you can use to call us here in the future, a laptop that can hook up to the internet from here in the future so it can send emails to people in this time and your school paper work ok" he said then started pressing buttons. The next thing I know there's a sudden flash of light and then everything disappears and I feel myself being forced threw time.
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