AN: Yay! Chapter 37. Now that wasn't a long wait was it? Too bad I don't always update that soon, lol, but I do have a life. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy. Please let me know what you think afterwards.
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Chapter 37
I know they hate me, but I just couldn't comprehend why. Aren't we all the same? I mean, sure, I'm from another planet. But so what? It's just the same as someone being from another country, isn't it? Am I just delusional? Is what I'm thinking completely wrong? Are we really that different?
xXx
Lily was kneeling in the shower, warm tears mixing into the hot water that beat hard against her back. She gripped her hair tightly, trying not to rip it out. Waves of pain rushed through her, almost sending her into a world of darkness. They were trying to kill her. They were hoping their attacks would kill her. Lily had never been so scared of death before, but now she knew she wanted to live. She took deep breaths, trying to calm herself before she exited the shower and all the other girls saw her in such a state.
Forcing herself to stand, Lily took one more deep breath and waited a moment so it didn't look like she had just been crying. Shutting off the shower faucet, she reached out for her towel and wrapped it tightly around her. Stepping out, she looked at the mirror and was satisfied that she actually looked okay. She walked past the other girls and out into the hall. She made her way back to her room where Jen and Rogue were sitting over on Rogue's bed, engaged in some sort of conversation.
Lily didn't even bother paying attention to the two girls. Ever since what happened between her and Jen the other day, the two made sure to keep their distance from one another. Lily walked over to the dresser and pulled out some clothes, which she quickly slipped on. She took a brush to her hair making sure to carefully brush out all of her tangles.
Every now and then Lily could feel Jen's gaze on her, but she made sure to ignore it and continued with whatever she was doing. Lily sat at the desk and turned on the computer that her and Rogue shared. Signing into her account, she attempted to finish her report for Jean's class, who of course still wasn't teaching her own class. Logan would just come in everyday, give them their assignments and leave. Later Storm would do the grading and everything.
Jen, who had been talking with Rogue the whole time, was now by herself as Rogue had left to go meet up with Colossus. The blue haired girl watched her cousin typing away on the computer and sighed. She hated this distance between the two of them, but Jen didn't want to experience that pain again, and she knew Lily would do everything to make sure Jen didn't.
She stood from her seat on Rogue's bed, grabbed her bag and slipped on some shoes. She decided she would go find Kurt. It had been awhile since she'd had a decent day with the blue boy, and she figured today was the perfect day to make up for that. She rushed out the door and made her way down the stairs to Kurt's room. She knocked on the door, but received no answer. She sighed and made her way all the way downstairs to the TV room. There was no one in there that she wanted to hang out with. Although it was a movie she'd wanted to see, she figured it wasn't worth it to watch with a bunch of people who hated her.
She continued on past the TV room and out the front doors, which took her outside in the bright sun. Placing her hand over her eyes she searched around to see if there was anyone even remotely worth talking to, but alas, there was no one. Sighing, she decided it was the woods for her today. Luckily she'd brought a book with her, which was tucked nicely away in her bag.
Jen stopped when she reached the part of the woods that she and Micki had been sparring at the other day. She was irritated that they had been interrupted, but that's just how Jen was. She hated to be interrupted during one of the sparring sessions or during training. She took a seat under a tree and pulled her book out of her bag. It was a bit lonely out here, but it was even lonelier sitting in a room with a cousin who wouldn't speak to you for fear of hurting you.
xXx
Lily finished her report and printed it out. She'd hated to ignore her cousin like that, but the both of them felt the need to be apart for now. Lily had closed herself off as much as possible from her cousin and it hurt to do so, although not as much as the attacks coming from the other students. Their thoughts burned her deep inside, always sending her into a world of pain. Currently she was trying to figure out a way to fend them off.
She stood from her seat and made her way out of the room. She had things to do, like taking care of Emma. Xavier had unfortunately put her in Lily's care even though Lily really wasn't in the mood to take care of anyone else other than herself at the moment. The only reason Lily did this was because Xavier had done so much for them and Lily felt that she owed the man almost everything.
She made her way down to the kitchen and grabbed some food and a glass of water for the woman. Lily didn't really care for Emma, but knew it was wrong to just leave the woman with nothing. It wasn't in Lily to be so mean.
Lily walked into Emma's room and sighed at the sight of the woman. She was still over there staring out the window. Setting the tray of food on a small table, she started straightening up the woman's room, just as she did every day since Emma had arrived. Lily was about to leave the room when Emma suddenly spoke to her.
"It hurts, doesn't it?"
Lily blinked and walked a bit closer to Emma. "What?"
"Their thoughts… It hurts, right?"
"I don't know what you're talking about," Lily quickly told the woman and started once again towards the door.
"I'm sorry you have to go through that." Emma turned away from the window to face Lily. "You're one of those aliens they talk of, aren't you? That's why they hate you, isn't it?"
Lily looked once again at Emma and sighed. "What do you want Emma?"
"To help you."
"And how do you suppose on doing…" Lily's words were cut off when Emma rose from her chair and pulled the girl into her embrace. Lily didn't know what to make of this.
"The one you really want help from, Jean, is incapable of it isn't she? She's very unstable at the moment."
Lily nodded, just letting the woman hold her close. It felt good to have someone understand her pain, even if that someone was the enemy. And then Lily quickly pushed away, glaring at the woman. "You know nothing." She quickly ran out of the room fighting back tears. "I hate her," Lily told herself.
She stopped when she found herself in front of Jean's door. She stared down at the doorknob, debating whether or not she should go in. Deciding on yes, she pushed the door open and stared in at Jean who just sat on her bed, once again staring at thin air. Lily entered the room, shutting the door behind her.
"Did you come to lecture me again?" Jean asked the girl, not once looking at her.
"N-no" Lily sighed and walked over to Jean. "I just wanted to see how you were doing."
"The question is how are you doing?" Jean asked.
"What?"
"You came to see if I could help, didn't you?"
"No… that's not why!" Lily told her.
"Then why are you here?"
"I told you… To see how you were doing."
"Don't you have someone else you're supposed to be taking care of?"
"You're my Professor!" Lily shouted at the woman. "If I should be taking care of anyone it's you. You helped me to develop my powers. You saw in me what I didn't see and you had such faith in me and I never understood why." Lily stared down at the ground angrily. "Never mind. I knew you really hated me."
"You won't get any sympathy from me," Jean told her, now looking at the girl, eyes filled with hate.
Lily's eyes widened as she realized this wasn't the Professor that she had come to love. "You were the first one," Lily explained. "You accepted me for who I truly was before anyone else even knew. I thought…"
"You thought wrong. Get out."
Lily wanted to say something more, to protest somehow, but what was there to say? She shook her head and turned towards the door. "You may hate me Professor Grey, but somehow… I really don't know when, you became my favorite Professor… and you still are." Lily then opened the door and left Jean's room.
xXx
"There are angry people everywhere," Xavier told Storm and Logan. "It seems that the knowledge of there being aliens on Earth has angered them more than the idea of mutants."
Logan stared at the TV, watching the people angrily shouting for death to all aliens. Some were even saying how they should find ways to attack the other planets. It angered him that they could hate someone so much for no reason at all.
"They've even started siding with some mutants," Xavier continued to explain. "The lives of those girls are in serious danger, and if there are anymore aliens out there, they're going to die if they are discovered."
"It just doesn't make sense," Storm joined in. "I don't understand how even the mutants can hate the aliens. They're no different from us."
"People don't care," Logan said. "If there's something new that they don't understand they automatically learn to hate it. It doesn't matter if they're human or mutant. They're all the same. They all think alike."
"Can't we just send those girls back to their home planets?" Storm asked.
"And what good would that do us?" The three adults each turned their attention to the door where Jen was standing. "If we go back they're still going to hate us and they will eventually find a way to invade our planets. They can get to the moon. I'm sure they'll be able to get to our planets." Jen glanced around at each of the adults. "And we all have a mission here that our parents entrusted us with. We have to protect Earth from the other aliens."
"To protect Earth? So is that why you all came here?" Xavier asked.
"No," Jen answered matter of fact. "We all came because we were curious. We were forbidden to ever be on Earth, let alone even observe it. Sure they taught us about Earth in school, but it's not the same as actually seeing it. We wanted to see what Earth was like and what made it so different from us." Jen entered the room, shutting the door behind her. "It wasn't until we had all gathered here that Micki appeared with a letter from our parents stating that there was a war staging outside of Earth. Planets are being taken over by the enemies and they're trying to fight them off. Along with that news came the news that our people were escaping to Earth. Of course we knew it was mostly royalty or military being as they're the only ones with portal keys."
"What's a portal key?" Storm asked.
"It's a key that opens up a portal for any place you want to go. You just have to know the code for the general location," Jen explained. "That's what we each used to get here. The only one without a portal key is Mara."
"So how did she get here?" This time it was Logan.
"She followed someone. How else?" Jen sighed. "Anyway, the point is we're here on Earth and we were given strict orders to protect it from the enemies. It's our mission and we can't go back home until we know that Earth is safe."
Xavier nodded, smiling at the blue haired girl. "I understand. Thank you for informing me of this."
"I thought you should know," Jen started. "Now that you finally know about us and our people it was only fair that I inform you of the war."
"So there's a war going on between the other planets?" Storm asked and Jen nodded.
"Yes. It's a very harsh one. Probably the biggest one the Planets have ever been in." Jen shook her head. "I worry about our parents. We all do. But we can't worry about that, because while that war is going on, there's one forming here. We're here to win that war, or if possible prevent it. Though the way things are going, there's no preventing it."
"Jen, how's your cousin doing?" Xavier asked and regretted the question when he saw the girl's eyes grow distant and cold.
"I wouldn't know. We haven't spoken since the day."
"I see. I'm sorry to hear that." Xavier nodded. "Thank you for the information Jennifer."
"You're welcome Professor." Jen then left the three adults to contemplate everything that she had just told them. She blinked when she came face to face with her cousin.
"Lily…"
Lily smiled at her cousin. "Looks like we both had the same idea."
"What?"
"I was on my way to tell them about the war."
"Lily…" Jen smiled. They may be keeping their distance lately, but it was a comfort to know that they were both still thinking very much alike. "Great minds do think alike."
"That they do." Lily's smile quickly disappeared as she turned away from her cousin. "Well, since you did it for me, I'll go to the library to study."
Jen watched her cousin's retreating back until she turned a corner and disappeared from her sight. Her eyes once again became distant as that lonely feeling once again overwhelmed her.
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