DISCLAIMER: need I say more?
I had joined the X-men for a few weeks and we were all heading to the mountains for the weekend. I was sharing a tent with Rogue, and as if that wasn't going to be hard enough, I was under Logan's supervision. But I was determined to have fun. Kitty and I had become better friends, and Rogue seemed to except me, so I figured that things wouldn't be too hard. We were all sitting around the campfire, some of us burning marshmallows (you couldn't really call it roasting, because most were on fire.) Logan and Ororo were sitting near the shadows, watching to make sure we didn't get too rowdy. I was sitting next to Kitty and Evan, laughing at some comment Kurt had made when suddenly I heard a noise behind me. I stopped to listen, trying to figure out what it was. I guess Logan noticed my change, because he got up and circled around till he was behind me. I heard him sniffing the air. I guess he couldn't smell anything, because he went to sit by Ororo again. After his reaction, I turned my attention back to the rest of them, trying to forget it. Nothing happened that night, though I was a bit paranoid after we had gone to bed. Rogue wasn't so hard to get along with as I thought, so I got a pretty good night's sleep.
The next morning, Scott, Ororo, Kitty, Jean, Kurt, and I went on a hike up to the upper bit of the mountain. Ororo pointed out strange birds, Kurt started cawing to scare them, Scott tried to shut him up, and Kitty chattered almost endlessly, I nodding to let her know that I was listening. We walked for two to three hours, until Kitty complained that she was getting hungry. Ororo said we could break for lunch, and we split into groups to look for a place to eat. Kitty, Kurt and I all went to search. I walked through some bushes, and there standing in the clearing was a great stag. The deer turned to watch me, and I held my breath hoping I wouldn't scare it away. Suddenly it leaped off, startled by some unknown sound. I watched it leave the clearing, bounding into the forest. I stood there for a few minutes before I let it sink in that I was staring at a patch of grass. –This is the perfect spot! – I thought. I ran off to find Kitty and Kurt, who went to find Ororo, Jean, and Scott. We all trudged into the clearing, and settled down to eat. Somehow, the conversation turned into talking about what your past was like. I'm sure that they all knew each other's past, and that they were dong it for me. "Vell, as you all know, I grew up in Germany vith my foster parents. I suppose you could zay I lived a normal life, what vith the mutation and all. Vhat about you Ororo?" Kurt said. "Well, I grew up mostly on my own. I used to be a child stealer," she said, a bit regretfully, "and one of the African tribes thought I was a god. That's when Professor Xavier found me, and brought me to the United States." She turned her attention back to her sandwich. "What about you, Andrea?" Kitty asked.
I sat quietly for a few moments before I tried to explain my life. "Well, the last thing I remember was when I came to the Center for Mentally or Physically Deformed Children. I was brought there in a bug black car, and I was scared. I was terrified. The Center was my home ever since I was twelve, or the only thing I could call home. It was a horrible place, where experiments and theories were conducted, as to how to stop children without arms, or who are retarded. I never did figure out why they put me there. I had no mental retardation, and I was physically healthy. I guess they thought my healing another region of the mind that normal humans do not use. That I used a higher percentage of my brain than the average human being. I never knew why, in all the years my life was wasted there, that they decided I fit there. And I guess I'll never know, either." I concluded. I looked up to see everyone staring at me, their lunches forgotten. I felt uncomfortable, wishing that they would stop staring. I cleared my throat, and shifted my position, trying to break the awkward silence. "Very touching." I heard a voice whisper. I turned around, trying to see who had said that. "H-how's there?" I spoke loudly. "Come on Andrea, you know us…" the strange voice said again. I leapt to my feet, the others following my reaction. I turned around, my back to the others. Two forms emerged from the shadows. "You two!"
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