Chapter 2
"This way Jean." I said pulling her along to meet my mom.
"Mom this is Jean Gray she's the girl that I was talking about on the phone."
"Come on lets go home."
"Ann is that the guys?" Jean said pointing over to a group of people in black trench coats with Mr. Login.
Mom you want to meet the rest of my class mates?"
"I don't see why not." She said. Jean ran over to them and gave Scott a hug. When they came over to where my mom and me were I just gave them the 'get ride of the coughs' look.
"Mom this is the guys. Scott, Kitty, Rough, Kert, Mr. Login and Evan. Can the guys sleep in the basement and Kitty Rough and Jean sleep up in Mary's and my rooms?"
"Sure." She was confused about what was going on but she was all right with this. "Ann can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Sure." We walked a few feet a way so they couldn't hear.
"How is Mr. Login one of the students?"
"His jean came out about a year ago. A while before mine did? We'll to their knowledge. Don't worry as long as we feed him and give him the news paper he'll be fine."
"Alright. Lets go."
"Come on guys. Lets go home." the car ride we were quite except when we fought over the music. Then Mr. Login gave us the look of death and then we shut up. I gave them the tour of West Brunswick and introduced them to my friends. We went down to the prison that Larry was in and I was able to talk to him face to face for the first time in a year.
"Larry what happened." I gave him a hug. He didn't hug back.
"Ann your back but for how long?"
"As long as I can stay here." He started to hug back. "You have no clue how long I wanted to feel this." We just stood there hugging each other. "Why did you do that?"
"I just cracked. The insanity that had built just broke me. I was trying to get over to see you but I wasn't aloud to so I just snapped."
"Are you sorry for what happened?"
"Yes I wish I never had that sword to work with. On the plus side those girls that bugged you are gone."
"Larry." There were tears running down my checks. I could not keep them in any more. "Was it because I went to that school you snapped?"
"Part of it. Remember plan Alpha Omega?"
"The one you never let me know too many things about?"
"Yea that's the one."
"Then yea I do."
"Me and Ju Ju were going to go to yours and Krystle's graduation and do that to all that we hated."
I pushed him away. "No. No. You're lying to me. You have to be." I ran out and ran right into Scott.
"Ann what is it."
"I want to go back to the institute." I said threw the tears. This was the only time I have ever cried before them. I could tell they had no clue what to do. Scott just held me while I cried. "I would have never found out if I didn't come here. Scott just take me home."
"Ann are you sure you want this?"
"Yes. Just take me home and I never have to deal with them again and I can forget all about them and just train my powers so I can be as good as you and the rest of them are. Everyone's better then me." I was crying at full force.
"Ann what has gotten into you? What did he say to you? Ann you have to realize that you are a smart powerful person that can withstand the toughest blast that's thrown at you." I looked up and saw Scott for who he is not the X Men inside of him. I saw wisdom beyond his years. What was different now? Why could I tell it was different? "What happed? You look different."
"Ann we're taking you home." Scott said.
"We're leaving you hear with your family." Rough said.
"We can see how much you care about them and how much they care about you." Kert said.
"No this can't be, your not doing this." I was afraid. I knew there was only one thing I could do now. "What are you trying to do to me? Trying to kill me?"
"Sorry Ann, but we think this would be the best thing for you to do now. Just think of it as a brake form school and us. Your mom will let you stay for a while until your back to normal." That was Kitty.
"What are you talking about? Back to normal?"
"Ann you've been off since the TV report. We could all see the change in your mood." This was Mr. Login.
"Not you too Mr. Login." I paused for a sec. "Wait this is all because I failed that test isn't it? You guys think because I've been studying more then I've been in the danger room there's something wrong. Or is it I've been locked in my room with the away messages on and not replying to them? Or maybe the fact Kert can't get in?"
"Well I've been wondering that one." That was Kert. He just zaps in to bug me most the time.
"I put the away messages up so I can hang online with my friends on screen names you don't know. I have the shield up for some peace and quite. I've been studying more because I failed the Final. With all the chaos there I can't even get sleep. With spike's and Scott's music playing on max I made my room sound proof. With Rough blowing up stuff I have that shield for my own protection. I just had to get some time to my self in quite. How can I meditate with Mansion playing from one room and Blink from the other and across the hall Pop music playing. All on full to see whose speakers are the best?"
"Ann chill we just had to see what was wrong. We think you need a brake." I was now looking at Larry playing basketball. He was acting like nothing happed to him. *How could Larry be so calm? He just killed Krystle? * I kept thinking. They took me back to my mom's house.
Mom ordered us a pizza. "You've never had good pizza till you had Eddies pizza." My mom told them. Of course Kert was weird and when my mom left he ate a slice whole. To tell ya the truth that kind of gave me the creeps then I remembered, this is Kert. He does that stuff. I took the soda before he could get hyper. Mr. Login left and went back by the 'normal' way. In short Scott kept the X Jet keys.
"Ann give me the Mountain Dew!!" Kert said almost going blue boy on us.
"No we don't want you to scare her family when they get here." Kitty said. The lights went on and off for a sec.
"Come on guys ya wanna meet my family?"
"Yea." They said. I walked up the stairs first to see my whole family sitting at the diner table.
"Hi Dad, Steve and Mary." I said. My dad just got just up and hugged me. Mary and Steve just kept talking in incoherent statements. "You guys wanna meet the other people from the school?"
"No" Steve joked. "If there anything like you the world is doomed."
"She's gotten a lot better with her powers." I heard from behind me.
"Yea she doesn't kill walls any more."
"Just Chairs that I sit in."
The first one was Kitty, then Scott and finally Kert. "This is Kitty, Scott, Kert, Jean, Evan and Rough." I pointed to them as I said their names. "These guys are the people I have… umm… how can I say this… Scott help me out!"
"You train with?"
"I guess that works." I said. "Mary she's the one that loves your boots." I said that while pointing to Rough. "She has some good taste."
"Even if she doesn't show it." Kitty whispered to Kert.
"Kitty be nice."
"Alright."
"Now if you excuse us we'll be in the basement plotting how to get the soda away from Kert." I said motioning everyone down to the basement.
"Ann your family seems so very nice." Scott said
"They are that's why I tried to get away from you 11 mounts ago when you tried to take me to the institute. I couldn't leave them yet. I guess I wasn't ready." I told them.
"Your brothers cute Ann." Rough joked.
"Your like the rest of my friends. That's what they always do to me as a joke." I knew there was something that was different that they weren't telling me. "I'll be right back. Make sure Kert doesn't find our soda hide out." I ran up the stairs just to get more soda. When I grabbed the soda I lessoned from the top of the stairs.
"Guys can you feel the energy from Ann's family?" Scott said
"Yea there's something off with them." Kitty said.
"Its one thing if Jean can feel it but I can feel it." Kert said.
"What do we do? We can't just leave Ann here. Can we?"
"We have to take her back home." Scott demanded.
"To her this is her home." Jean said. "I don't think she can feel all this energy."
"What do you mean?" Evan asked.
"Think about it. Ann was brought up with these vibes, she can't feel it." She paused. "I can feel that she's conferrable here. Look in her eyes when she was with her family. There was a something that I haven't seen ever. She's finally happy. Her friends are with in a bike ride away. I think we should leave in the morning… with out Ann."
"Is that what you really think about my family? That there's something off with them and they might be evil? What is wrong with you to make you think that?" I asked them?
"Ann, you heard didn't you?"
"Yea I did."
"I see. Well we can easily see that your much happier here then you are at the institute. You have friends and family hear. You can stop things from happening. You must understand, we only want what's best for you." Scott said.
"What's wrong with my family?" I asked. All happiness and love was drained from my voice. All that was left was a cold shell of a person that felt as if they had no true friends left.
"Ann… I just have some bad vibes around here that's all." Jean tried to reinsure me.
"Then home come your lying to me."
"How can you tell?"
"How long have I been apart of this team?" I put emphases on team so maybe they would feel sorry and tell me the truth. "Remember my powers? To see what's going to happen and tell if people are lying?"
"Here's the truth." Scott said. "Since we got to your house we have been getting weird vibes. We didn't want to worry you, so we didn't say anything. Your sister and brother are the ones sending off the vibes. We were thinking that you were not the only one in your family with the X gene. If so we would like to get Prof. Xavier's idea on what's going on here. I don't think there has ever been three siblings with the gene before."
"I thought for all these years that we were the only three with these powers." I said. "Mine were the first to come out. Mary's is coming out in a year. Steves is at the end of this month."
"YOU KNEW THAT THERE WERE TWO OTHERS THAT ARE COMING OUT AND DIDN'T TELL US?!?" Kert screamed. Everyone shushed him.
"Kert if you have to know. I'm the youngest. I get everything from them. Even their rep. I just wanted to be different for once. It's just not fair we get everything the same. Anyway Steve can only see threw walls and doors and things like that. There will be one thing that will make his powers muted… Sunglasses. And Mary's power is like mine. But she can stop time not see threw it. Her powers can only stop it when needed. There will be things that will be really important that she will want to stop time for but it won't work unless me and or Steve are in danger or near bye. That's all I can see right now." I grabbed my head in slight pain.
"Ann what' wrong?" Scott said.
"Its nothing. I just felt an Astor. Tremor, something's not right here? Guy's we have to get back home NOW. I'll explain on the way." I ran up the stairs and they followed me. "Mom we got business I'll call when I get back to the school." She just look down with the 'go I know what's going on' look on her face. "Mamma, I'll be back. Just like I said. You can bet on it. How about the end of the month? I'll come with out the rest of the team."
"Alright. Just don't get your self killed again."
"Alright." I told her and I smiled at her to reassure her.
"Ann we got the Jet. Come on." Kitty said from the back doors.
"Ann don't worry, the people won't nowise the jet in the back yard." Mom said.
"Got it. Good bye Mommy." I ran out to join them. Was this the right thing to do? Leave her here when I can feel something else is coming. I got on the jet and sat by the window and watched as everything I knew disappeared into the grate abyss of urban suburbia. There was something out there. Even if I didn't know what it was I was going to stop it.
"This way Jean." I said pulling her along to meet my mom.
"Mom this is Jean Gray she's the girl that I was talking about on the phone."
"Come on lets go home."
"Ann is that the guys?" Jean said pointing over to a group of people in black trench coats with Mr. Login.
Mom you want to meet the rest of my class mates?"
"I don't see why not." She said. Jean ran over to them and gave Scott a hug. When they came over to where my mom and me were I just gave them the 'get ride of the coughs' look.
"Mom this is the guys. Scott, Kitty, Rough, Kert, Mr. Login and Evan. Can the guys sleep in the basement and Kitty Rough and Jean sleep up in Mary's and my rooms?"
"Sure." She was confused about what was going on but she was all right with this. "Ann can I talk to you for a sec?"
"Sure." We walked a few feet a way so they couldn't hear.
"How is Mr. Login one of the students?"
"His jean came out about a year ago. A while before mine did? We'll to their knowledge. Don't worry as long as we feed him and give him the news paper he'll be fine."
"Alright. Lets go."
"Come on guys. Lets go home." the car ride we were quite except when we fought over the music. Then Mr. Login gave us the look of death and then we shut up. I gave them the tour of West Brunswick and introduced them to my friends. We went down to the prison that Larry was in and I was able to talk to him face to face for the first time in a year.
"Larry what happened." I gave him a hug. He didn't hug back.
"Ann your back but for how long?"
"As long as I can stay here." He started to hug back. "You have no clue how long I wanted to feel this." We just stood there hugging each other. "Why did you do that?"
"I just cracked. The insanity that had built just broke me. I was trying to get over to see you but I wasn't aloud to so I just snapped."
"Are you sorry for what happened?"
"Yes I wish I never had that sword to work with. On the plus side those girls that bugged you are gone."
"Larry." There were tears running down my checks. I could not keep them in any more. "Was it because I went to that school you snapped?"
"Part of it. Remember plan Alpha Omega?"
"The one you never let me know too many things about?"
"Yea that's the one."
"Then yea I do."
"Me and Ju Ju were going to go to yours and Krystle's graduation and do that to all that we hated."
I pushed him away. "No. No. You're lying to me. You have to be." I ran out and ran right into Scott.
"Ann what is it."
"I want to go back to the institute." I said threw the tears. This was the only time I have ever cried before them. I could tell they had no clue what to do. Scott just held me while I cried. "I would have never found out if I didn't come here. Scott just take me home."
"Ann are you sure you want this?"
"Yes. Just take me home and I never have to deal with them again and I can forget all about them and just train my powers so I can be as good as you and the rest of them are. Everyone's better then me." I was crying at full force.
"Ann what has gotten into you? What did he say to you? Ann you have to realize that you are a smart powerful person that can withstand the toughest blast that's thrown at you." I looked up and saw Scott for who he is not the X Men inside of him. I saw wisdom beyond his years. What was different now? Why could I tell it was different? "What happed? You look different."
"Ann we're taking you home." Scott said.
"We're leaving you hear with your family." Rough said.
"We can see how much you care about them and how much they care about you." Kert said.
"No this can't be, your not doing this." I was afraid. I knew there was only one thing I could do now. "What are you trying to do to me? Trying to kill me?"
"Sorry Ann, but we think this would be the best thing for you to do now. Just think of it as a brake form school and us. Your mom will let you stay for a while until your back to normal." That was Kitty.
"What are you talking about? Back to normal?"
"Ann you've been off since the TV report. We could all see the change in your mood." This was Mr. Login.
"Not you too Mr. Login." I paused for a sec. "Wait this is all because I failed that test isn't it? You guys think because I've been studying more then I've been in the danger room there's something wrong. Or is it I've been locked in my room with the away messages on and not replying to them? Or maybe the fact Kert can't get in?"
"Well I've been wondering that one." That was Kert. He just zaps in to bug me most the time.
"I put the away messages up so I can hang online with my friends on screen names you don't know. I have the shield up for some peace and quite. I've been studying more because I failed the Final. With all the chaos there I can't even get sleep. With spike's and Scott's music playing on max I made my room sound proof. With Rough blowing up stuff I have that shield for my own protection. I just had to get some time to my self in quite. How can I meditate with Mansion playing from one room and Blink from the other and across the hall Pop music playing. All on full to see whose speakers are the best?"
"Ann chill we just had to see what was wrong. We think you need a brake." I was now looking at Larry playing basketball. He was acting like nothing happed to him. *How could Larry be so calm? He just killed Krystle? * I kept thinking. They took me back to my mom's house.
Mom ordered us a pizza. "You've never had good pizza till you had Eddies pizza." My mom told them. Of course Kert was weird and when my mom left he ate a slice whole. To tell ya the truth that kind of gave me the creeps then I remembered, this is Kert. He does that stuff. I took the soda before he could get hyper. Mr. Login left and went back by the 'normal' way. In short Scott kept the X Jet keys.
"Ann give me the Mountain Dew!!" Kert said almost going blue boy on us.
"No we don't want you to scare her family when they get here." Kitty said. The lights went on and off for a sec.
"Come on guys ya wanna meet my family?"
"Yea." They said. I walked up the stairs first to see my whole family sitting at the diner table.
"Hi Dad, Steve and Mary." I said. My dad just got just up and hugged me. Mary and Steve just kept talking in incoherent statements. "You guys wanna meet the other people from the school?"
"No" Steve joked. "If there anything like you the world is doomed."
"She's gotten a lot better with her powers." I heard from behind me.
"Yea she doesn't kill walls any more."
"Just Chairs that I sit in."
The first one was Kitty, then Scott and finally Kert. "This is Kitty, Scott, Kert, Jean, Evan and Rough." I pointed to them as I said their names. "These guys are the people I have… umm… how can I say this… Scott help me out!"
"You train with?"
"I guess that works." I said. "Mary she's the one that loves your boots." I said that while pointing to Rough. "She has some good taste."
"Even if she doesn't show it." Kitty whispered to Kert.
"Kitty be nice."
"Alright."
"Now if you excuse us we'll be in the basement plotting how to get the soda away from Kert." I said motioning everyone down to the basement.
"Ann your family seems so very nice." Scott said
"They are that's why I tried to get away from you 11 mounts ago when you tried to take me to the institute. I couldn't leave them yet. I guess I wasn't ready." I told them.
"Your brothers cute Ann." Rough joked.
"Your like the rest of my friends. That's what they always do to me as a joke." I knew there was something that was different that they weren't telling me. "I'll be right back. Make sure Kert doesn't find our soda hide out." I ran up the stairs just to get more soda. When I grabbed the soda I lessoned from the top of the stairs.
"Guys can you feel the energy from Ann's family?" Scott said
"Yea there's something off with them." Kitty said.
"Its one thing if Jean can feel it but I can feel it." Kert said.
"What do we do? We can't just leave Ann here. Can we?"
"We have to take her back home." Scott demanded.
"To her this is her home." Jean said. "I don't think she can feel all this energy."
"What do you mean?" Evan asked.
"Think about it. Ann was brought up with these vibes, she can't feel it." She paused. "I can feel that she's conferrable here. Look in her eyes when she was with her family. There was a something that I haven't seen ever. She's finally happy. Her friends are with in a bike ride away. I think we should leave in the morning… with out Ann."
"Is that what you really think about my family? That there's something off with them and they might be evil? What is wrong with you to make you think that?" I asked them?
"Ann, you heard didn't you?"
"Yea I did."
"I see. Well we can easily see that your much happier here then you are at the institute. You have friends and family hear. You can stop things from happening. You must understand, we only want what's best for you." Scott said.
"What's wrong with my family?" I asked. All happiness and love was drained from my voice. All that was left was a cold shell of a person that felt as if they had no true friends left.
"Ann… I just have some bad vibes around here that's all." Jean tried to reinsure me.
"Then home come your lying to me."
"How can you tell?"
"How long have I been apart of this team?" I put emphases on team so maybe they would feel sorry and tell me the truth. "Remember my powers? To see what's going to happen and tell if people are lying?"
"Here's the truth." Scott said. "Since we got to your house we have been getting weird vibes. We didn't want to worry you, so we didn't say anything. Your sister and brother are the ones sending off the vibes. We were thinking that you were not the only one in your family with the X gene. If so we would like to get Prof. Xavier's idea on what's going on here. I don't think there has ever been three siblings with the gene before."
"I thought for all these years that we were the only three with these powers." I said. "Mine were the first to come out. Mary's is coming out in a year. Steves is at the end of this month."
"YOU KNEW THAT THERE WERE TWO OTHERS THAT ARE COMING OUT AND DIDN'T TELL US?!?" Kert screamed. Everyone shushed him.
"Kert if you have to know. I'm the youngest. I get everything from them. Even their rep. I just wanted to be different for once. It's just not fair we get everything the same. Anyway Steve can only see threw walls and doors and things like that. There will be one thing that will make his powers muted… Sunglasses. And Mary's power is like mine. But she can stop time not see threw it. Her powers can only stop it when needed. There will be things that will be really important that she will want to stop time for but it won't work unless me and or Steve are in danger or near bye. That's all I can see right now." I grabbed my head in slight pain.
"Ann what' wrong?" Scott said.
"Its nothing. I just felt an Astor. Tremor, something's not right here? Guy's we have to get back home NOW. I'll explain on the way." I ran up the stairs and they followed me. "Mom we got business I'll call when I get back to the school." She just look down with the 'go I know what's going on' look on her face. "Mamma, I'll be back. Just like I said. You can bet on it. How about the end of the month? I'll come with out the rest of the team."
"Alright. Just don't get your self killed again."
"Alright." I told her and I smiled at her to reassure her.
"Ann we got the Jet. Come on." Kitty said from the back doors.
"Ann don't worry, the people won't nowise the jet in the back yard." Mom said.
"Got it. Good bye Mommy." I ran out to join them. Was this the right thing to do? Leave her here when I can feel something else is coming. I got on the jet and sat by the window and watched as everything I knew disappeared into the grate abyss of urban suburbia. There was something out there. Even if I didn't know what it was I was going to stop it.