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"So your saying you can't read her mind at all?" Claire asked with annoyance clear in her voice.
"No, what I'm saying is I can see the outer layer of her thoughts, but her mind is even more mentally battered then Ororo, her mind itself has put up its own defenses, and I believe with out her knowledge. I can see the mental scars of the many times someone tore through her mind, its like a battle field, full of land minds every few steps, I don't think I can even precede further into her mind, it would be a great risk if I did."
"Then I think she's a great risk," Claire finally said after a few minutes of silence.
"But she is also hurt and broken, and I can't just leave her."
"I've told you Charles! There's something off about her! Her coloring isn't fully gold, there's a dark tent to them, like there something else, and the gold is bright, and if what your saying is true that there is more to her mutation then just this, then I can't imagine what it looks like when she uses this second mutation. She could harm us, she could harm us all, maybe even kill us. Come to your senses, you need to find out more about her or she needs to leave. " Claire was only a dull throb to the rest of the headache I had, I had to find at least two more teachers, and needed to find a way to stop Jane from teleporting into ever room. I had too much to do, and I also needed to talk with the teachers I did have. Hank seemed better, and Kelly and Amara needed some more leading and myself needed a break.
"Claire please, I don't need this right now. I have too much to worry about, if you wanted to help you would become a teacher like I asked. I need more help and more time, don't pester me now," I tried to keep as much annoyance out of my voice as possible, but I didn't seem to succeed.
"Fine Charles! FINE! I am only trying to help, don't blow up at me! I'll be a teacher! Happy? I'll be the English teacher, so you can go off and do whatever the crap you want to do."
"Thank you Claire," I knew if I tried to say more, I would only upset Claire further.
"But you still need to find out about Linda. You said yourself Linda isn't her real name, do you even know her age? Of you can't see that far into her mind, then how can we trust her?"
"I know I need to find out more about her, but I have more pressing matters. I have to make sure that the other girl, Ororo is well too.
"Fine okay, whatever." I knew Claire eyes were rolled her eyes without even looking at her. Again her back was to me, so as she wouldn't have to see the gold dust that glowed so bright, today, though she was facing the rest of the house, instead of the yard.
"I know you are trying to help, but sometimes I must take risks to help others," I said simply looking into her bright eyes. She could be so so simpleminded for such an intelligent person.
"STOP TRYING TO PLAY THE HERO! YOU CAN'T SAVE EVERYONE!" I had waited for her outburst since our conversation started, but it still didn't stop the sting that came with her words.
Almost a whisper, I softly said, "You of all people know I can't save everyone." I meant to wheel myself out then and end the discussion, but as I finished speaking, I felt the pain and power of one of the children in the school.
I also heard Claire gasp behind me, I looked back to see her closing her eyes and shack her head back and forth like a small child trying to get ride of a horrible image.
Then a strange sensation came over me. It was an odd sensation, for I had never felt such raw power come from a being before, and I knew who it was. Linda was finally using her full mutation, I knew she had been keeping something from us, but this, this was too much.
Doubling over I looked at my shoes as the pain that had come with her power came over me. She was reliving everything, ever harsh moment of her life, and their seemed to be many.
I distantly heard and felt Claire as she yelled out and pain and screamed about going blind, I tried to lift my head to look at her and calm her, but the power coming of the young mutant took my full attention and focus.
I wheeled myself to the door, and for once was glad that I decided to live on the first floor. I wheeled past the kitchen and to the back of the house as fast as my wheelchair would take me and then I came upon them.
Beast stood over Linda, but I could tell he meant her no harm, he didn't seem to even realize that her mutation was starting. Linda was huddled in a small ball on the floor, I could see the red strands in her hair start to glow, and I knew it was from the power, the raw power.
Feeling her mind, I could tell that she was being assaulted by memories of her painful past and I caught flashes of some, but I needed to see it all in order to help her.
Taking a deep breath , I tried to calm my mind as I prepaired to venture into Linda's mind. It was a huge risk and could be my end, but if I did nothing, we might all die from the power.
And as I felt the serenity of my mind, I dove into her mind, and it felt like I was diving into a bath of ice water.
*Hank*
The girl, Linda, didn't seem to be the air headed girl I had first thought she was, she seemed so much more wise yet this seemed to make her so much more fierce, and the Beast could feel her fierceness, something deep within him longed for it. It was natural, as animals tend to stick with those who can pull their own weight and more.
But to see Linda break down like that, it was awful, she just crumbled up and started crying, like all life had been sucked from her, I had never seen someone cry like that, with so much pain and sorrow, my respect for her only went up, she wouldn't want me to pity her, like I didn't want anyone to pity me, but she needed someone or something that could keep her grounded to keep her here. And I didn't know at all what that was.
I didn't realize Charles was in the room until he took a sharp breath. Glancing over in alarm, I saw that he has wheeled himself over and by the distant look in his face was using his mutation to get into someone's mind, most likely Linda's.
Behind him, Claire trotted up, red faced and hair disheveled, her hands covered her eyes. She seemed to have run here form Charles study. When she looked to see Charles in a mental war, she looked at me and started blabbering none sense, but I noticed that she had clamped her hands back over eyes right after the looked up at Charles.
"Claire? Calm down, please. Claire! CLAIRE!" Only when I took her hand, did she jerk away and seem to come back to herself. She didn't like me to begin with, but added my beastly look, and she basically hated me or feared me, though I was leading to the first. And she didn't seem that she wanted me to mover her hands.
Finally she turned back to me, or a place next to me as she wasn't looking, and with contempt in her voice, asked, "How could you let Charles do this?" Like this was all my fault. She reminded me of when my mother tried to take on a parental role. Claire made me so mad sometimes, but I couldn't let that get in the way, I had to help Charles and Linda. I had seen first hand the pain on her face. She had seen too much and I think she was finally breaking, and I think Charles was trying to fix her, per say, though I had no idea how to fix a person.
"She's hurt and broken," I said softly as I crouched down next to Linda. The red strands in her hair that for a second seemed to change colors, were back to their normal red, and I saw the distant look on her face that matched Charles', though hers looked more pained, were as Charles just looked sorrow filled, yet determined.
"Hurt and broken my ass," I heard Claire scoff before turning away to head to the kitchen, and that just pissed me off. From one messed up kid to another, I understood some what of what Linda must feel, and you know us messed up kids got to stick up for each other or whatever.
"At least she's not a bitch like you," I called to Claire's retreating form, if she heard me, she didn't seem to care, or maybe she had been called that so many times that she didn't seem to care one way or another.
*Charles*
I finally found Linda in her mind. She was watching herself, it was a memory, and she was watching as lab coated men stuck needles into her skin. She was strapped down to a metal table with wheels on the bottom and her thick black hair looked unhealthy and didn't have its red streaks in it.
The needles were full of a dark red liquid that was as thick as molasses and i saw Linda cringe as the needles were inserted into all her major body parts and I saw the look of pain as the new liquid coursed through her body.
Linda screamed in pure pain and started thrashing as much as she could against her restraints.
"It felt like I was on fire," the Linda observing the memory stated without looking at me. No emotions were on her face and couldn't tell at all what she was thinking.
The men pushed the metal table to a huge metal door and pushed her in it. The door closed with a snap and the small window on the door revealed Linda still moving and thrashing on the table.
The men went to a set of buttons on the wall next to the door and typed something in. All of a sudden a red light came from the small room and some how Linda managed to scream even louder, she started to glow like a pale light was in her.
"Those were my last moments as Serena," Linda whispered, "I was screaming the whole time, and it felt like ever cell in my body was being destroyed. Though come to find out, that was what basically happened. They changed ever cell in my body and used a different mutation and infused it with mine and with ever cell in my body."
As Linda spoke, red creeped through her body, her skin changing before my eyes into the red it was now. I watched in horror as the pale light flashed bright red before slowly turning back to white.
"Come back to the mansion with me," I said speaking for the first time, "You're welcome here, please no one intends to her hurt you, I only want to help you.
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