Runaway Home - Part 3 ~ Chapter 13
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Xavier wheeled himself into the medical room, "I'm sorry for putting this off for so long the students were our priority, I hope you understand."
"Of course," said Carol from the medical bed.
After Charles had taken her blood and looked at it he said. "Well your extraordinary, it would appear you had the X-gene but it lay dormant even through puberty. If it wasnt activated by Clara and Kara, I suspect you'd have lived your life as a normal human."
"But how is that possible," said Carol.
"There are some reports of mutants only finding their mutation at later years like you. It isn't unheard of just very rare, I think our main priority is to find out your gifts and learn to control them."
"Well flying that's obvious."
"There are secondary gifts that can manifest which could be completely different."
"And how do we find out those?"
"Up till a few years ago we would have to wait for you to have an outburst. Now we just add some of your blood to this machine and it'll use the energy output in your cells to measure the powers you've got."
"Quite a useful bit of kit."
"It's been invaluable, we owe Leo quite a bit."
"What Leo made that?"
"Yes he made this and some other things before he left for SHIELD, where I believe he met you."
"Yeah, it was the engineering division we were the youngest ones there. I tried my utmost to take him clubbing but he resisted every time," she smiled fondly, "he wasn't much of a social person."
"I agree he doesn't mix too well with new people, but once you've become friends you've got a friend for life."
There was then a ping from the machine so Charles wheeled himself over to check the readout.
"It would appear you are able to shoot some form of energy from your body, as well as flight."
"That sounds good I just need to learn to fly now."
"Yes well your best bet for that if Ororo she too can fly so I'd advise you to talk to her first."
Prepping the plane for flight have Melinda time to think, going through the routine helped her purge unwanted thoughts and concentrate on the mission. Right now though it wasn't helping her one bit, her chat with Coulson had brought memories of Leo and Skye to the forefront of her mind and she was having trouble laying them to rest.
"Leave me alone, you're not real you're not here," shouted Leo.
Stepping through the door to the lab Melinda found Leo to be alone, it was heartbreaking to watch. The man in front of her was a shadow of his former self, gone was the confidence and nervousness rolled into one and in its place there was only confusion and self doubt. She wanted to help her son but he didn't remember her, the hypoxia had somehow wiped their connection from his memory and he wasn't healing so it wasn't returning. It was eating her up from the inside soon Coulson would recognise something was wrong.
"How is he?" Said Skye from Melinda's shoulder making her jump.
"Not good it appears Simmons' idea of leaving to allow him time isn't working," she said with barely restrained anger.
"I'm helping him," with that Skye walked into the room and sat herself down on the table behind Leo.
"Hey Leo, what you up to?"
Both Melinda and Skye saw the surprise and joy in Leo's face at the company.
"Er... F... Fine. I'm doing fine," he stuttered.
"What you making?"
"W... Why do you care?"
"Because you're my teammate and my friend."
"Y... You're sure it's not cause you pity me," Skye could see the scepticism in his eyes.
"No way you're my friend, come on give me a hug. You look like you need one and I know I need the patented Leo hug," she managed to prise a smile put of him at that before he gave her a hug.
That evening Skye and Melinda were training, to call it training would be a misnomer they were both talking to each other while punching the stuffing from a punch bag.
"I can't believe it, Fitz what's happened to him,"
"It's not right he shouldn't be like this," Melinda hated this, never was the Cavalry persona harder to keep up than when her son was in such torture.
"We need to help him, I've never seen him like this, it's just..." Skye stopped punching with a final angry blow, "we can't just leave him to suffer."
"What can we do?"
"We need to help him walk better did you notice his coordination too?"
"Yes." Of course she did, it tore her heart up to see him struggling.
"Well I'm gonna help, we can give him help with his physiotherapy, get him walking again."
The following weeks were hard no doubt about it Leo's recovery was a slow process. The day Leo called her mum was when she knew he was getting better, it was a sign that he was remembering her. She'd been helping him to walk, he'd made huge progress and was now mostly unaided. Suddenly he caught his foot on the edge of the mat and started to fall to the floor. Without a second thought Melinda leapt forwards and caught him, slowly lowering him to the floor.
"Thanks mum," muttered Leo then with a shocked expression, "sorry May I didn't mean to say anything."
To be honest she'd missed Leo calling her mum since he'd joined SHIELD he'd not called her mum as much, then the container sunk and he forgot their connection.
"Your all my children Leo there's no need to be sorry," she leant forwards and hugged him relishing the contact after so long.
"Ok mum," he mumbled leaning into the hug.
"May, everyone's suited and seated take off when ready," came Coulson's voice over the comms.
Melinda took of and set the autopilot to the mansion before unbuckling and leaving to join the team in the common room.
"Ah May, we were waiting for you," said Coulson. "Why don't you run us through the info you've got?"
Walking into the room Melinda saw, Mack, Bobbi, Hunter, Simmons, Trip and of course Coulson.
"Recently I got a call from former Agent Fitz," everyone but Coulson looked up shocked.
"You mean you've been in contact with agent Fitz," said a stunned Bobbi.
"You didn't know," at their confused faces she said, "I guess Gonzales wasn't as transparent."
"No he said nothing."
"He had my phone bugged, that's how he found the mansion. Fitz told me that he recently came into some information regarding the whereabouts of HYDRA's main base of operations."
"How exactly did he come across this location," questioned Mack.
"That is presently classified," at Mack and Bobbi's looks, Melinda added, "until your loyalty is proven, I don't trust you with the safety of the allies which helped in getting this information."
"We are on your side," said Bobbi.
"This isn't about SHIELD, these are more important than that. When we land only I will be taking an ICER," there was a look of incredulity from everyone but Coulson, Simmons and Trip. "This is none negotiable, hand-to-hand weapons are allowed and will be kept out of sight."
"What if things get ugly, we need to be able to defend ourselves, I mean we're walking in there blind with only your word they're friendly's."
There was a ping from the cockpit and Melinda stood to check it out.
"If you need to defend yourself I'll be the first to shoot," she made it to the door before turning and giving them all her patented cavalry stare, "you."
"Haha that's a good one," laughed Hunter once she was gone.
"She's not joking," said Coulson stony faced, to everyone's shock, "there are things far more important than SHIELD."
"B...but," said Bobbi.
"We are coming in to land shortly buckle in," said Melinda's voice over the comms.
There was a grumbling beneath them and the bus was slowly filled with darkness.
"Are we underground?" Asked Mack.
"I believe we are," said Coulson.
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