Heaven and Earth

Callum Parr

Chapter four

The strange man and woman

There was a knock at the door, Claire said laughing "Sit down I'll get it. I mean I do live here." Claire thought to herself walking to the door "Where did you meet this girl?" Jessie replied "I met her in high school, in eighth grade. Can I swap back now?" it took a while before Claire replied "Yeah sure, I mean it's your body" the change happened almost instantly. Jessie walked to the door, she looked through the eye glass that most apartments have, and standing there was a woman with long red hair flowing down her back, with a man that looked he was a body builder with black short hair and both where wearing different style clothes with an X on their belts. Jessie opened the door and the woman spoke "Jessica Andrews?" Jessie looked at her with a thought of how the heck you know my name. "Jessie, who is it?" asked Amanda walking from the living room. "May we talk to you inside?" asked the man in a heavy Russian accent.

There was silence in the living room for what seemed hours, but was only a minute at the most until "Do you have a name or something?" asked Amanda. "Yes we do my name is Jean Grey Summers not long married, and his is…" replied the woman before the man butted in "Poitr Rasputin, or Peter as my American friends call me?" the room returned to silence for thirty seconds or so "So what are you guys doing here for?" asked Jessie confused. "We are here to ask you to come to our school for 'higher learning'." Asked Jean, "I hate to rush but can you decide soon?" asked Peter. Amanda thought then said "What about my sister Natalie" Jean replied "she has decided before we came here" Amanda nodded her head. "Jessica how about you?" asked Peter. Jessie replied "Call me Jessie, yeah I'll go" "Good, now better get packing before magneto comes" Jean said. "Whose magneto?" asked Jessie and Amanda at the same time.

"Now do you need anything else, or is that it?" asked peter in his heavy accent. "Tell me about his powers" asked Jessie. "He can manipulate any type of metal from a giant boulder of steel, to little bits of iron in your blood" said Jean seeming to be using her power to move some of Jessie stuff. "What's that power?" asked Amanda. Jean looked at her through the door and smiled "Telekinesis, I also have telepathy" she continued out of the door "So what should I do about my HQ?" asked Jessie. Peter explained "Come with me to check see what technology you have, if you have something useful we'll take it. You can destroy the rest to stop magneto stealing anything to find you." Peter put down the boxes of Jessie's stuff and walked back into the room with Jessie. "Where is this HQ?" asked Peter. Jessie pointed him into the direction of the HQ. They walked to the mirror frame and down the steps. "So what do you have in there that is hard to penetrate?" asked Peter. "There is a clothes fabricator, a computer that can hack into the toughest of the toughest computers, an arsenal of weapons and a substance tougher than diamonds" Replied Jessie, "That much." Said peter shocked. The door opened to reveal the room. "Take that and that" said Jessie pointing to the clothes fabricator and the computer. Peter picked up the objects and walked back out. Jessie looked at the room one last time before closing the door. Jessie concentrated on the room and there was a loud noise.

The vehicle to escort them was a Mitsubishi eclipse spyder, "How can that fit all my stuff in?" asked Jessie. "Well beast our technical engineer built an extension in the boot making it bigger. You'll find out why we call him beast, it's not an insult." Explained Jean, The in the car was mainly about the school and what powers they had. When they got to the school gates, Jean spoke to the com on the wall. "Hey it's me and Peter, open the gate we have guests." The gates opened and they drove up the drive the morning sun was shining through a patch of trees. The garage door neared and arrived. "You ready" asked Jean, Jessie and Amanda nodded there head, and walked to the side door to the large old mansion that seemed expensive.

The corridor they walked down was full of old pictures and ornaments, the walls where decorated with antique wood. They arrived to a large wooden door; Jessie went to knock when she heard "come in, Jessica" the voice was commanding and welcoming at the same time. She opened the door to see an office filled with a table, shelves of books, a computer decorated with more wood. "Take a seat Jessica" said a man in a wheelchair, pointing to a leather seat. Jessie sat down at the seat "Um call me, Jessie please." The man smiled and said "Of course. My name is Charles Xavier; you can call me Professor or what ever. Do you know why you're here?" he asked with a smile. "No, but lately I had a change and my powers where boosted." The Professor smiled and nodded "We picked up your power blast at half past twelve this morning. And knew Magneto would want you, so we had to fetch you here." He smiled, Jessie looked nervous "What is the problem my child?" asked the professor, "Um that wasn't my blast it was Claire." Explained Jessie, "Who is Claire?" asked the professor. "Claire is my opposite personality." Explained Jessie, the professor nodded "Can you tell me of both your powers?" enquired the Professor; Jessie nodded then answered "My abilities allow me to control water in all formats, and Claire's I don't know. Do you want to speak to her?" re-asked Jessie, the Professor nodded. "Claire can you talk to the Professor and tell him your powers?" asked Jessie. "Hey I was starting to think you forgot me, sure can do and we can party later!" she replied. Jessie's eyes changed from blue to red, and she was Claire. "So you wanna know ma power?" asked Claire, the professor nodded his head. "Well I can manipulate and create fire" explained Claire, the professor thought "amazing to opposites as one, well as so it seems" Claire said "What do you mean 'so it seems'?" The professor was dumb struck, by Claire's question he asked "how did you know what I thought, I thought you had pyrokinesis?" "Well it seems I'm or we are psychic" "I'm tired, is there any where to sleep?" asked Claire. "Uh yes, Bobby can you escort her to her room?" stammered the Professor Bobby was the young man in the back of the room, he got up and opened the door, and Claire got out of the chair and left the room with Bobby behind.

"So how old is this place?" asked Claire climbing a flight of stairs, "It is as old as five generations, so you're a party girl huh" asked Bobby. "Sorry I'm taken, not that I'm saying your ugly or anything." Replied Claire, "Oh, I never meant that we go party sometime" Bobby was taken aghast. "Sure" she replied, they walked down a long corridor to the last door on the end. "This is my leave, uh…" said Bobby. "Oh to let you know how to tell us apart, I'm a partier Jessie is one of those goodie two shoes" replied Claire. "Bye Bobby" said Claire kissing him on the cheek. She opened the door and entered the half full room, Claire looked around and thought about how she decorating this tomorrow. For now she is going to sleep, and jumped onto the queen size bed.