I don't own either Person of Interest or X-Men: Evolution.

Just to clear up any confusion that may happen, I'm using both Beast and Principle Kelly in this story even though neither are in season one. Also, right now the story is pretty one sided following John around, but I just wanted to introduce him and now that I've done that I'm going to try and have more of the students side in the story, hopefully in future chapters.

Thanks again to everyone who has favorited, followed and reviewed this story it's much appreciated.

...

It's early into the morning when they all arrive at the institute; John follows the van and parks next to it in the garage. John take his helmet off and quickly takes his duffle that Logan is offering him, "Thanks."

Logan nods, John notices both Scott and Jean quickly head into the mansion leaving him, Logan and Xavier alone. John quirks a questioning eyebrow which Logan seems to understand and answers the unasked question, "Today's Monday…they have to head out to school in a few hours."

"Wait, I thought we were their teachers?" John says now confused about why he is there.

Logan smirks, "We are…just not in the book sense." Seeing John still confused look he explains, "We help them control their powers…teach them to fight."

"So, what will I be teaching them, exactly?" John asks starting to follow Logan toward the mansion with Xavier following silently behind them.

Xavier, who has been watching the exchange between Logan and John decides to answer John's question, "You, John will be helping Logan train the students in hand-to-hand combat." When both John and Logan stop to look at the Professor then turning back to look at each other he continues, "I saw the way you handled yourself against Mr. Carlton, the only reason you used your abilities is because you didn't have a choice. You're quite skilled and I'd like you to teach the students whatever you can."

"Are you sure that is a wise decision?" John asks in a monotone voice while staring at Xavier.

Xavier nods before adding, "Besides, I believe you both have something in common."

John and Logan look back at each other again, but before either of them can question what Xavier meant by that he was already moving away from them. Logan watches Xavier go with his hands on his hip and huffs, "Looks like I'm showing you to your room," Logan begins walking again, waving to John to follow him, "Come on."

As Logan is leading John to the teacher's wing in the mansion he can't help but admire the décor, "Nice place."

Logan just smirks, "Chuck likes to keep things looking nice." They finally make it to all of the teacher's rooms, "Here's your room." He points to the one a couple doors down, "That's mine," pointing to one across the hall and diagonal from John's, "That's Storm's, you'll meet her tomorrow," the last door Logan points to is the one next to John's (opposite from the direction of Logan's), "That's Beast's, again you'll meet him tomorrow, and if you need the Professor he's just down the hall." Logan starts to walk off to his room, "See you tomorrow, bub."

John watches Logan disappear into his room before entering his own room. Upon entering his room John turns on the light to have a better look at the room. The walls are cream colored, the nightstand and bed are in the far-right corner of the room, next to the bed are doors/windows that lead out onto his own balcony. There's a desk next to his personal bathroom and a closet near the door. Shaking his head and muttering to himself John can't help but say, "Wow, Finch, looks like someone with a much more expensive taste than you in," looking around the room again John finishes, "well…everything." John decides to place his backpack with his weapons under the bed…for now, before deciding to turn in for the rest of the morning.

...

When John wakes up and checks his phone, it reads 6:30a.m.; he rubs a hand tiredly over his face before moving toward the bathroom to take a shower. After finishing his shower and putting his suit on John heads down to the kitchen to get some coffee, as he makes his way closer to his destination he hears a lot of hustle and bustle, and suddenly he remembers Logan telling him that the students have school. John enters the kitchen and quickly makes his way to the coffee pot carefully avoiding a young brunette teen with a white streak in her hair. She is too busy reading to even notice the new stranger in the kitchen; she quickly exits still oblivious to John.

As John is drinking his coffee by the counter he watches as another young brunette teen literally comes through the door into the kitchen; she quickly heads for the refrigerator. He hears 'bamf' and the smell of brimstone fills the room, "Ugh, Kurt!" the brunette squeaks.

John continues to watch the two teens who seem oblivious to his presence, as he watches the fuzzy blue teen trying to apologize, "I'm sorry, Kitty, but you know how Mondays are."

It's only when the girl named Kitty turns toward the toaster (near the coffee maker) do either notice the stranger. Both step back, preparing to fight when the Kitty questions, "Uh, like who are you?"

John quirks an eyebrow at both, studying their decent fighting stances when the kitchen door opens yet again, but this time someone that John recognizes comes in. Jean is reading a book and uses her telekinesis to make an apple from the table fly into her hand. She takes a bite out of it and is about to leave the kitchen when Kurt grabs her attention, "Vait, Jean, it seems ve have an intruder."

Jean looks up and notices John, she smiles before responding, "It's okay, guys," she gestures to John, "This is John, he's our new teacher."

Kitty and Kurt look at each other before questioning John, "Wait, like, you're the mutant the Professor, Mr. Logan, Scott, and Jean went to New York to find."

John smirks, "It would appear so."

"Oh, Kitty, Kurt, Scott says if you want a ride to school you need to hurry he's leaving in five minutes," Jean informs both teens, exiting the kitchen.

Kitty and Kurt look a little sheepish trying to figure out how to apologize to John for accusing him of breaking into the mansion when he holds up his hand and nods his head toward the door, "Go on, or you two are going to be late."

Both just blink in response before nodding and heading to the garage to meet Scott and whoever else is riding.

John isn't sure what to make of the kids yet. He disposes of his cup in the sink and decides to go explore more of the mansion in order to learn more about his surroundings, but as soon as John leaves the kitchen he sees a young African American teen riding a skateboard right toward him. The teen is clearly distracted stuffing papers onto his bookbag; John is about to jump out of the way when he hears, "Evan, lookout!"

"Huh?" Evan looks up in time to swerve to the left and crash right into the wall next to John.

John quickly moves to the teen's side, offering him a hand to help him up, "Are you alight?"

Evan excepts his hand, "Yeah, sorry about almost hitting you, man."

John shakes his head, but before he can respond he hears the same woman that hollered for Evan to lookout say, "Evan, you know you're not supposed to be riding your skateboard inside."

Evan visually slouches, "Sorry, Auntie O, but I'm running late."

John turns to see an African American woman with long white hair as she is still giving Evan a disapproving look, "We'll talk about this when you get back from school."

Evan picks up his skateboard and makes his escape into the kitchen.

Storm turns to John, "You'll, have to excuse my nephew."

John smirks, "It's alright, kids will be kids."

Before John can introduce himself, Storm deduces, "So, you must be John," holding out her hand she introduces herself, "I'm Ororo Munroe, but everyone just calls me Storm."

John shakes Storm's offered hand, "You would guess right." Deciding to get to know Storm a little better John questions, "So, why do they call you Storm…if you don't mind me asking?"

Storm smiles, "I don't mind," she turns and gestures for him to follow her, "I need to water the plants in the greenhouse."

John's interest is piqued, so he decides to follow her.

...

John watches as Storm conjures up a small storm cloud over a plant, making it rain, "Wow."

Storm smiles and turns to John, "You, seem surprised."

John sighs and continues to look Storm in the eyes, "I can't say that I've met many mutants," he pauses before confessing, "I don't actually care too much for using my abilities."

Storm seems surprised by that, and questions, "Why? I mean the Professor said that you save people for a living, how is it that you don't use your abilities more often?"

Sighing again, John explains, "Everything," he pauses trying to gather his thoughts. "It's complicated, but I've learned that you can't rely on your powers all of the time."

Storm can the see sadness in John's eyes, but decides not to push him further. She decides to change the topic, "Have you seen the rest of the mansion?"

John smiles at Storm, silently thanking her for the change in conversation, "I was actually planning to explore the rest of the mansion and its grounds, but having someone that knows their way around might be helpful."

Storm smiles sensing John's gratitude, she turns and motions for him to follow her back inside, "C'mon."

John follows quietly behind Storm as she shows him the rest of the mansion and only asks a few questions here and there whenever he is confused by something. As they walk into the med-bay John notices the big blue form of what he thought to be a gorilla; the 'gorilla' turned to the pair entering and notices John, "Ah, Storm, I see you've brought our new guest in for a visit." Beast moves closer to John and extends his hand, "Dr. Hank McCoy, but everyone just calls me Beast."

John excepts Beast's offered hand and responses curtly, "John."

"Nice to meet you, John," Beast says with a nod of his head.

"A Doctor, huh? I take it that you patch anyone up that needs it?" John questions, looking around the lab and back at Beast.

"I do tend to do that from time to time," pausing Beast quirks an eyebrow at John, "I take it your prone to injury."

John just dryly laughs, "You could say that."

Before they can continue their conversation, the doors open with a 'whoosh' sound, and the Professor enters, "Hello, Charles," Beast says nodding to the older man.

Nodding his head to Beast, "Hank," he turns to Storm and greets her as well, "Storm." Lastly, he turns his attention to John, "Do you mind if I speak to you privately, John?"

John nods, "I don't mind at all, Professor."

Both leave the med-bay and head down the hall in silence. Xavier leads John into an elevator to which John hasn't seen yet, so he decides to ask, "Where are we going?"

Xavier smirks, which John catches, but neither say anything. The elevator 'dings' and signals their arrival. Upon entering the floor John can already tell it's not like the other floors of the mansion; Xavier leads them both into a room that contains monitors and what looks to be controls of some sort, "Welcome to the Control Room, John." John walks over to the windows and sees Logan in the room below fighting androids that John is only guessing are some of their enemies. Xavier rolls up next to John, "I brought you here, because I want to see how powerful your abilities as well as your other skills." Xavier indicates to where Logan is fighting, "That room is called the Danger Room. You can take the elevator down one floor and enter the locker room, there will be a new suit for you to wear."

John quirks an eyebrow, but doesn't say anything, because he actually thinks that this might be fun. He heads to the elevator, punching the button to go down one floor. When John steps off the elevator he easily sees the locker room and makes his way in; he sees a box sitting on a bench closer to the wall, picking it up he mutters to himself, "Guess this is for me."

After putting on his new 'suit' John examines himself in the mirror. The suit itself is black and made of a leather/Kevlar like material, most likely for protection, or so he's guessing. He also has a long black leather trench coat, there is a golden X on his left shoulder that stretches to his elbow, there's also a golden belt to match the X. "Well, at least I'll blend into the shadows fairly easily," John thinks to himself.

John exits the locker room and meets Logan in the hall before entering the danger room. Logan is standing with his arms crossed over his chest, smirking, "Nice suit."

John can hear the clear sarcasm in Logan's voice; he stops and examines Logan's orange and navy blue suit and replies with the same amount of sarcasm, "Nice suit yourself."

Logan can't help but actually chuckle. He is really beginning to like having John around, not that he would tell him that though. He points with his thumb to the door over his shoulder, "Just warning you the Professor ain't gonna take it easy on you in there."

"Thanks for the warning," John says as he passes Logan. He's about to open the door when his looks back at Logan and asks, "Are there any tips you can give me."

Logan leaves smirking and shaking his head. He calls back over his shoulder, "I'll be in the control room watching, so don't disappoint."

...

"Wow this room is actually very accurate in its details of New York," John thinks to himself hiding behind a dumpster in one of the alleyways, trying to avoid the bullets flying passed his head. He instinctively reaches for his gun, forgetting that he doesn't have it on him, he sighs, "Right, they want to see what I can do." John peeks out from his hiding spot just as several thugs run by. (AN The thugs are like android Rogue at the beginning of S01e07 Turn of the Rogue). John creeps out of his hiding spot and sneaks up on the thug at the rear of their pack, he grabs the thug and drags him into the shadows of the alley.

The other thugs turn after hearing the commotion and notice their missing colleague; the one in the front, obviously, the leader points toward the area where they believe John to be, "Lets show this freak who he's messing with."

John smirks and sees the alley on the other side of the street, "Time to show Xavier and Logan my other mutant ability." John slinks back into the shadows out of sight of everyone.

Up in the control room, both Logan and Xavier seem impressed with what John has done so far. Logan smirks, "He ain't half bad, Chuck."

Xavier is about to agree with Logan when he 'hears' John say he is going to surprise them with his other mutant ability. Xavier smiles looking back to the simulation, "Looks like John has more to show."

Logan, with his arms crossed of his chest, quirks his eyebrow before turning his attention back to the simulation only to see John exit the alley across the street from where he was previously. "Well that's new."

Xavier nods, "It appears our new friend can travel through the shadows as well as control them."

Back with John in the danger room, he silently makes his way across the street where he grabs the thug in the rear and does a silent choke hold on him. The thug struggles to get out of John's grasp, but it's too late, he starts moving sluggishly and soon loses consciousness altogether. "Three left," John quickly hides around the corner to the entranced of the alleyway. "If I had my gun this could have ended ten minutes ago," John pokes his head around the entrance and sees that the leader thug noticed his fallen lackey, leaving his other lackeys behind in the shadows, "Perfect," John thinks, his iris' turn black as a shadow envelopes the two.

The thug leader growls from his crouched position next to his fallen teammate. He stands up and turns to see his other two friends unconscious on the ground, he growls even louder, "Where are you?"

"Right behind you," John replies, smirking at the sight of the thug jumping slightly. The leader turns quickly intending to shoot John, but John quickly grabs the leader's wrist. He applies pressure until the thug drops the gun, then he elbows the leader in the face with his left elbow while still hold his wrist. John lets go of his wrist when the thug stumbles backwards.

The leader is holding his bloody nose, "I think you broke my nose."

John shrugs, "Wouldn't be the first time." The leader rushes back to John and begins throwing punches, John dodges and blocks them all. Deciding he has had enough of the danger room for the time being, John decides to finish this quickly, he kicks the leader in the gut knocking his to the ground. John picks up the gun where it had fallen and shoots the thug in the kneecap. He falls back in pain, but John knows he's no threat anymore.

Soon the thug stops moving and the 'New York' buildings start to disappear, leaving behind the danger room John had seen before the simulation had started. The doors open and both Logan and Xavier enter, "Well done."

"Yeah, you ain't half bad, maybe the kids can learn a couple things from you after all," Logan says with a nod of his head. He turns and leaves intending to take his bike out for an afternoon ride before the students return from school.

John's about to turn and head to the locker room intending to take off his X-Men costume, but is stopped by Xavier calling his name, "John?"

John turns to Xavier, "Professor?"

Xavier smiles, "If you're going to stay and become an X-Men, you're going to need a codename."

John looks at the Professor with a questioning look on his face, "What did you have in mind?"

Xavier smiles, "Why not Shadow, seeing as you control and travel through them."

John nods and heads to the locker room all the while thinking to himself, "Well, as cheesy as it may be…it could have been worse."

...

Don't hesitate to leave a review, I want to know what you all think of the story and it encourages me to write and improve the story in anyway I can. Thanks :)