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I'm not sure what I think of this chapter. Some parts of it sucks bad, I'm sure. I had almost all of it written, but then my cat died, so some of the things here (especially the Author's Notes) were written while I was depressed (and had a slight fever) and I wasn't very coherent. You can ignore those parts, please. And I'm still not very coherent. But if I had waited with writing this, I would have gotten stuck (writer's block is not funny), so I needed to finish this chapter and get it up. And Death Lord La told me it was good. Thanks for Beta-reading, you're the best!
We've started with science in school now. We're gonna read about Evolution. This makes me giggle. Apparently giggling in science class makes you seem insane. Oh well. My teacher looks like a cartoon, and he's doesn't pay very much attention to the students. Which means I can sit and write in class. Thus some parts in this chapter (and future chapters) are slightly insane, because science makes evil stuff to your brain. This chapter also had me singing "C'est la vie" (ya know that song from 1998 or something by those Irish people) the entire day. Oh well, it was a break from "Lola". I've -so- got to stop listening to songs from the sixties in the morning.
I have an important question: what time of the year is it in Evo around the episode Mainstream? Does anybody know? If not, I'm gonna go with Marsh-ish (even if that's probably completely wrong) because . . . yeah! Anyone mind? No? Okay then.
The chapter where I'm totally ripping off "Mainstream"! Whee. Okay, I'm -almost- totally ripping off "Mainstream". I've stolen some of the things the Professor said. I will copy the rest in another chapter.
Oh, and just for the record, {[blah]} means telepathic messages/conversation/whatever. I'm kinda hoping it's clear even without me telling you, buuuut I felt like writing even more up here.
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Chapter 7
Scott Summers had never had a tree house. Strangely enough, military bases in Alaska had a real shortage of those, and since that was where Scott had spent most of his childhood (before falling out of a plane and then being shipped around in a multitude of foster homes) he had never known the joys of sitting in a poorly constructed building up in a half-rotten tree, reading comic magazines and eating candy. He'd always wanted to have a tree house, but this had been a big secret for all those years, something he had to repress so he could act like the leader he was supposed to be.
However, now that the mansion was completely rebuilt, only needing some paint and furniture and various tiny gewgaws to make it's residents feel at home, and there was a lot of spare boards left, the temptation was too great. So Scott decided to build a tree house. Of course, eighteen-year-old males can't build tree houses for themselves and still be considered perfectly normal, so the brown-haired youth had to come up with a cover story. As in, he was building it for Jamie Madrox. One of the great things about having a twelve-year-old around was that everything immature could be blamed on him. Not that Jamie minded very much, after all, he'd get a tree house!
At any rate, Scott chose a nice tree a bit from the mansion, and started building. Sam was helping, since he was considered to be the resident expert of tree houses due to his many many siblings, and Bobby was helping because he considered himself to be the resident expert of building in general. Jubilee also came around, mainly because of Bobby, and the Asian teen forced Rahne to be there as well so that she wouldn't have to be the only girl. This was something that made Sam happy (but somewhat clumsy) since he had a huge crush on the Scottish werewolf. Jubilee was also happy, since she got to be close to Bobby, Bobby was happy since he got to show off his marvelous building skills and Rahne was just generally happy today. Jamie was happy that the older kids had time for him and Scott was happy because he'd finally get his tree house (even if it officially was Jamie's), so all in all, it was a very happy place to be. Like Woodstock, only without the music and drugs and millions of hippies.
"We should get some music here," Jubilee commented from up in the tree.
"We can't," Bobby pointed out, taking a break from sawing some planks. "Wolverine confiscated the CD player as soon as he came back."
"Oh . . . yeah . . ." Jubilee remembered, pouting a little and hammering another nail in a board, narrowly missing Sam's finger. He didn't notice, of course, since all of his attention was on Rahne, who was sitting on the ground sorting nails by size. Needless to say, she wasn't too interested in the tree house building. Unlike Scott, who was happily sawing planks and doing lots of other stuff, and Jamie, who was running around in the area helping with various things (or just being in the way).
"Hey, we need more nails up here," Jubilee said after some more hammering. As a respond to this, Rahne (being too tired to move) threw some nails in the general direction of Jubilee and Sam. Which missed them by a couple of miles.
"Rahney, don't be so lazy," Jubilee whined. Rahne just shrugged, too lazy to even give a vocal reply.
"I'll get 'em for you," Bobby said with a flirty smile that made the black- haired girl go weak in her knees. Bobby grabbed some nails and climbed up the tree with them, making a big show of handing them to the sparkly teen using the word "Milady" several times. Jubilee giggled happily, while Rahne and Sam just rolled their eyes.
Scott smiled at Bobby's semi-innocent display of affection. The bespectacled mutant was a very romantic teen at heart, but he was very unlucky when it came to love. Which was why he hadn't been able to give Bobby any tips when the younger boy had asked him for advice about his ever- growing crush on Jubilee. However, it seemed like the icy teen was able to catch the Asian girl's attention even without help.
{[Scott, Bobby, would you be so kind to come to my office.]}
Now, Scott was used to be mentally contacted by Professor Xavier, after all, he had lived at the institute for many years. Bobby on the other hand had only been called for in this way once or twice before, and since he was very concentrated on flirting with Jubilee at the moment, the result was a surprised noise and a fall from the branch he was sitting on. The others ran up (or down, in Jubilee's and Sam's cases) to him.
"Are you okay?" Scott asked, quickly checking for broken bones or any other injuries but finding none.
"Yeah . . ." Bobby mumbled a little embarrassed (looking foolish in front of two cute girls and the team leader was not good for his reputation). "Just wish Prof could give some warning or somethin' before talkin' in my head like that."
"You were contacted too?"
"Yup, I'm s'posed to report to his office. You too?"
"Yes," Scott answered, standing up and helping Bobby to also assume an upright position. "Let's get going."
"'Kay."
"Be careful, don't hurt yourself," the brown-haired teen told the remaining kids, walking of together with Bobby, back towards the civilization.
~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~
Charles Xavier's office was one of the few places in the newly built institute that was completely finished, with wallpapers, furniture and even a couple of paintings on the walls. After all, this was an important place when it came to convincing parents that their mutant children would be perfectly safe there. For some reason, the underground tunnels didn't give such a great impression.
The office was very crowded at the moment. When the two teenaged boys entered the room, Xavier sat by his desk, Logan stood in a corner looking not-very-happy (as usual) and Ororo Munroe sat in a blue couch. This was something that came as a surprise to Scott, since the last time he'd checked she and Evan Daniels were still in New York visiting Evan's parents. Speaking of the dark-skinned teen, he was sitting in another couch (this one green) in the other part of the room, looking slightly annoyed. Kurt (his holowatch up and running) sat next to him, looking very sleepy, and Kitty sat next to the fuzzy boy, idly playing with her necklace. Rogue sat alone in an armchair next to the door, a bored expression on her face. Jean Grey sat next to Ororo, and next to the red-haired girl was another teen which neither Scott nor Bobby had ever seen before.
"Ah, Scott, Robert, how is the tree house coming along?" Xavier asked the newcomers.
"Uhm, fine," Scott answered, while Bobby just glanced at the stranger.
"This is Tristian Lise," the Professor told them, seeing that they were very interested in why there was an unknown blue-haired boy sitting on the couch. "He's a new student here. Tristian, meet Scott Summers and Robert Drake. Robert, would you mind showing Tristian around and introducing him to everyone?"
"Of course not," Bobby answered and disappeared out from the room again, Tristian following him. Scott sat down on the now vacant seat next to Jean, his attention on the Professor.
"Now that you all are here," Xavier started, "I have a important announcement. As you might know, there has been a debate going on worldwide for the last couple of weeks whether mutants deserve the same rights as humans. I am sure you understand that it will probably take some time before we get all the rights as we should have, however, there has been a vote about your right to an education. You are now allowed back in school, as long as you don't use your powers."
"That's great!" Kitty exclaimed, then frowning when no one else reacted. "Right?"
"Of course it is," Ororo answered.
"Ah'm not so sure about that," Rogue muttered. "Ah mean, people treated us like freaks even when no one knew about mutants, how are they gonna react to us now?"
"We will be just fine, Rogue," Jean said, trying to convince the Goth as well as herself.
"Oh, you think you'll still be popular?" Evan said, apparently feed up with the subject even before any real discussion had started. "C'mon Jean, we're being called monsters in public! The entire world saw us use our powers on TV! Don't expect people to welcome you back with flowers and fruit- baskets."
"Evan!" Ororo exclaimed.
"I don't zink it's going to be so bad," Kurt told his friend, who just scowled at him.
"Maybe not for you, since -this- you ain't labeled as a mutant -yet-," Evan answered, indicating Kurt's holowatch form. "You show up in your natural shape at school and see how people react, then you can try tellin' me about it being 'not so bad'. I've had enough of this, I'm leavin'."
That said, Evan stormed out from the office in that way only teenage boys do, leaving behind some very confused mutants.
"What's wrong with Porcupine?" Logan asked from his corner. Ororo sighted.
"There was some issues at home," she said. "My sister and her husband has been experiencing some difficulties now that people know about Evan's mutation, and he is not happy to have caused his parents such problems."
"His parents gets trouble just because Evan's a mutant?" Kitty asked, immediately thinking of her own parents. "That's awful!"
"Yes," Ororo answered. "I better go talk to him now. Excuse me."
"So, are we the only ones that'll go to school?" Rogue asked when Ororo had left. "Or will the new kids also go back?"
"Everyone will be returning to school," Xavier answered. "I will talk with the younger students later, but I felt it was the best to talk with you first. You will start again the day after tomorrow. That's all I had to say, you may leave now."
The teenagers rose from their seats and walked out through the door. Kurt went off to find Evan, Rogue went to find her book she'd left somewhere, and Kitty phased down to the kitchen to find something to eat. Scott started walking out towards the tree house again, and Jean walked with him.
"You were very quiet in there," the girl told the older teen. "Thinking about your tree house?"
Scott blushed a little.
"It's Jamie's tree house, you know."
"Sure it is." Jean gave him a friendly smile. "You told me a while ago about how much you wanted a tree house, remember?"
"Not really," Scott lied. He had hoped the redhead wouldn't remember that.
"All right. If you say so. Well, I'm off to make sure Tabitha didn't steal my perfume again, she uses the entire bottle in one go. Good luck with the building."
"Thanks. And Jean . . ."
"Yes?"
"I don't think you need to be scared of returning to school. I'll look out for you if anything happens."
"Thanks." The girl gave her best friend a hug, then turned and walked in the other direction.
~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~
"There's really not much to show around here right now," Bobby explained to Tristian as they walked down the hallway. "Because of a big explosion and everythin'. But I can introduce you to the others."
"Okay," was all Tristian had to say to that. Not that there's a lot of different ways to reply to such a thing.
"Most people are by the tree house, so we can go there. We're building a tree house!"
"So I've heard. Sounds fun."
"Yup! You can help. Have you built any tree houses before?"
"Not really, me and my father moved around a lot."
"Oh. Okay. Well, here's our marvelous tree house," Bobby said, making a sweeping hand gesture much like someone presenting a piece of expensive art painted by a now-dead artist. Needless to say, he was proud of their work.
The construction of the tree house was apparently on a break at the moment. Jubilee and Jamie was sitting up in the tree playing a thrilling game of "Paper, Rock, Scissors", and Sam was moping. The reason for his mood was Rahne, who was currently flirting with Roberto. The dark-haired boy had apparently decided to graze the (former) builders with his presence.
"Hey, guys!" Bobby shouted, getting everyone's attention. "This is Tristian. He's new here, and he can . . ." Bobby frowned and turned to Tristian. "What's your power?"
"I can melt metals with my hands," Tristian answered.
"Hi, I'm Jubilee," Jubilee presented herself. "I can shoot fireworks from my hands. And this is Jamie, who can make dupes of himself, Rahne, who's a werewolf, Roberto, who absorbs solar energy to get strong and stuff, and Sam, who can make a kinetic field or something so he can fly and stuff."
"I was gonna do the introductions," Bobby pouted.
"You suck at introductions," Jubilee told him. Bobby pouted some more.
"I do not."
"Yes you do."
"No I don't."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No!"
"Yes!"
And so passed another afternoon at Charles Xavier's school for gifted youngsters, where the children have amazing destructive powers mankind had never seen before, but were still children at heart.
tbc
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Disclaimer: Trsitian Lise belongs to dragonhouse50@hotmail.com. X-Men belong to Marvel. And I got my fever from my psychiatry teacher.
I had an epiphany while I was taking a shower this morning. Two actually. Avocados and shrimps and Pepsi isn't a good and balanced breakfast. And unless I'm completely wrong about it, Scott wasn't filmed using his powers. So, in "Mainstream", he and Kurt -should- be in the same position, as in: no one knows for sure that they're mutants. So, Kurt shouldn't be the only one acting all "People don't know I'm a mutant! Yet!", or maybe Scooter just acted the way he did 'cause that's more IC for him. Or I'm completely wrong. But if I'm not . . . I found a plot-hole, I found a plot-hole! Yayness! I blame it all on the avocado.
Bobby the Builder! *giggles* Uhm, sorry, a personal joke between myself and . . . no one else really, since my friend didn't get the funny part. But if you've ever seen/heard of the kiddie's show "Bob the Builder" you might get part of the joke. Ah well. Bobby in general amuses me. I mean, even his last name, "Drake" is funny. Ya see, that's the Swedish word for "Dragon", only pronounced a little different. And Bobby has a crush on Jubes! 'Bobby and Jubey, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g' . . . Don't ya just love when it all works out? Don't worry, there'll be lots of one-sided romance as well, so I can write love-angst. And I've got a Sam/Rahne/Roberto thing to play with. Rahne and Roberto were -so- flirting in "Retreat"!
Just a little question, am I the only one having issues with Jean's last name? I never learn if it's supposed to be "a" or "e" in her last name. Grr, stupid name. Eh.
Next time: The Brotherhood boys do their punishment. And the Brotherhood girls watch TV. And no, I'm not obsessed about TV . . . *runs of to watch Spin City while singing on "Fever"*
I'm not sure what I think of this chapter. Some parts of it sucks bad, I'm sure. I had almost all of it written, but then my cat died, so some of the things here (especially the Author's Notes) were written while I was depressed (and had a slight fever) and I wasn't very coherent. You can ignore those parts, please. And I'm still not very coherent. But if I had waited with writing this, I would have gotten stuck (writer's block is not funny), so I needed to finish this chapter and get it up. And Death Lord La told me it was good. Thanks for Beta-reading, you're the best!
We've started with science in school now. We're gonna read about Evolution. This makes me giggle. Apparently giggling in science class makes you seem insane. Oh well. My teacher looks like a cartoon, and he's doesn't pay very much attention to the students. Which means I can sit and write in class. Thus some parts in this chapter (and future chapters) are slightly insane, because science makes evil stuff to your brain. This chapter also had me singing "C'est la vie" (ya know that song from 1998 or something by those Irish people) the entire day. Oh well, it was a break from "Lola". I've -so- got to stop listening to songs from the sixties in the morning.
I have an important question: what time of the year is it in Evo around the episode Mainstream? Does anybody know? If not, I'm gonna go with Marsh-ish (even if that's probably completely wrong) because . . . yeah! Anyone mind? No? Okay then.
The chapter where I'm totally ripping off "Mainstream"! Whee. Okay, I'm -almost- totally ripping off "Mainstream". I've stolen some of the things the Professor said. I will copy the rest in another chapter.
Oh, and just for the record, {[blah]} means telepathic messages/conversation/whatever. I'm kinda hoping it's clear even without me telling you, buuuut I felt like writing even more up here.
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Chapter 7
Scott Summers had never had a tree house. Strangely enough, military bases in Alaska had a real shortage of those, and since that was where Scott had spent most of his childhood (before falling out of a plane and then being shipped around in a multitude of foster homes) he had never known the joys of sitting in a poorly constructed building up in a half-rotten tree, reading comic magazines and eating candy. He'd always wanted to have a tree house, but this had been a big secret for all those years, something he had to repress so he could act like the leader he was supposed to be.
However, now that the mansion was completely rebuilt, only needing some paint and furniture and various tiny gewgaws to make it's residents feel at home, and there was a lot of spare boards left, the temptation was too great. So Scott decided to build a tree house. Of course, eighteen-year-old males can't build tree houses for themselves and still be considered perfectly normal, so the brown-haired youth had to come up with a cover story. As in, he was building it for Jamie Madrox. One of the great things about having a twelve-year-old around was that everything immature could be blamed on him. Not that Jamie minded very much, after all, he'd get a tree house!
At any rate, Scott chose a nice tree a bit from the mansion, and started building. Sam was helping, since he was considered to be the resident expert of tree houses due to his many many siblings, and Bobby was helping because he considered himself to be the resident expert of building in general. Jubilee also came around, mainly because of Bobby, and the Asian teen forced Rahne to be there as well so that she wouldn't have to be the only girl. This was something that made Sam happy (but somewhat clumsy) since he had a huge crush on the Scottish werewolf. Jubilee was also happy, since she got to be close to Bobby, Bobby was happy since he got to show off his marvelous building skills and Rahne was just generally happy today. Jamie was happy that the older kids had time for him and Scott was happy because he'd finally get his tree house (even if it officially was Jamie's), so all in all, it was a very happy place to be. Like Woodstock, only without the music and drugs and millions of hippies.
"We should get some music here," Jubilee commented from up in the tree.
"We can't," Bobby pointed out, taking a break from sawing some planks. "Wolverine confiscated the CD player as soon as he came back."
"Oh . . . yeah . . ." Jubilee remembered, pouting a little and hammering another nail in a board, narrowly missing Sam's finger. He didn't notice, of course, since all of his attention was on Rahne, who was sitting on the ground sorting nails by size. Needless to say, she wasn't too interested in the tree house building. Unlike Scott, who was happily sawing planks and doing lots of other stuff, and Jamie, who was running around in the area helping with various things (or just being in the way).
"Hey, we need more nails up here," Jubilee said after some more hammering. As a respond to this, Rahne (being too tired to move) threw some nails in the general direction of Jubilee and Sam. Which missed them by a couple of miles.
"Rahney, don't be so lazy," Jubilee whined. Rahne just shrugged, too lazy to even give a vocal reply.
"I'll get 'em for you," Bobby said with a flirty smile that made the black- haired girl go weak in her knees. Bobby grabbed some nails and climbed up the tree with them, making a big show of handing them to the sparkly teen using the word "Milady" several times. Jubilee giggled happily, while Rahne and Sam just rolled their eyes.
Scott smiled at Bobby's semi-innocent display of affection. The bespectacled mutant was a very romantic teen at heart, but he was very unlucky when it came to love. Which was why he hadn't been able to give Bobby any tips when the younger boy had asked him for advice about his ever- growing crush on Jubilee. However, it seemed like the icy teen was able to catch the Asian girl's attention even without help.
{[Scott, Bobby, would you be so kind to come to my office.]}
Now, Scott was used to be mentally contacted by Professor Xavier, after all, he had lived at the institute for many years. Bobby on the other hand had only been called for in this way once or twice before, and since he was very concentrated on flirting with Jubilee at the moment, the result was a surprised noise and a fall from the branch he was sitting on. The others ran up (or down, in Jubilee's and Sam's cases) to him.
"Are you okay?" Scott asked, quickly checking for broken bones or any other injuries but finding none.
"Yeah . . ." Bobby mumbled a little embarrassed (looking foolish in front of two cute girls and the team leader was not good for his reputation). "Just wish Prof could give some warning or somethin' before talkin' in my head like that."
"You were contacted too?"
"Yup, I'm s'posed to report to his office. You too?"
"Yes," Scott answered, standing up and helping Bobby to also assume an upright position. "Let's get going."
"'Kay."
"Be careful, don't hurt yourself," the brown-haired teen told the remaining kids, walking of together with Bobby, back towards the civilization.
~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~
Charles Xavier's office was one of the few places in the newly built institute that was completely finished, with wallpapers, furniture and even a couple of paintings on the walls. After all, this was an important place when it came to convincing parents that their mutant children would be perfectly safe there. For some reason, the underground tunnels didn't give such a great impression.
The office was very crowded at the moment. When the two teenaged boys entered the room, Xavier sat by his desk, Logan stood in a corner looking not-very-happy (as usual) and Ororo Munroe sat in a blue couch. This was something that came as a surprise to Scott, since the last time he'd checked she and Evan Daniels were still in New York visiting Evan's parents. Speaking of the dark-skinned teen, he was sitting in another couch (this one green) in the other part of the room, looking slightly annoyed. Kurt (his holowatch up and running) sat next to him, looking very sleepy, and Kitty sat next to the fuzzy boy, idly playing with her necklace. Rogue sat alone in an armchair next to the door, a bored expression on her face. Jean Grey sat next to Ororo, and next to the red-haired girl was another teen which neither Scott nor Bobby had ever seen before.
"Ah, Scott, Robert, how is the tree house coming along?" Xavier asked the newcomers.
"Uhm, fine," Scott answered, while Bobby just glanced at the stranger.
"This is Tristian Lise," the Professor told them, seeing that they were very interested in why there was an unknown blue-haired boy sitting on the couch. "He's a new student here. Tristian, meet Scott Summers and Robert Drake. Robert, would you mind showing Tristian around and introducing him to everyone?"
"Of course not," Bobby answered and disappeared out from the room again, Tristian following him. Scott sat down on the now vacant seat next to Jean, his attention on the Professor.
"Now that you all are here," Xavier started, "I have a important announcement. As you might know, there has been a debate going on worldwide for the last couple of weeks whether mutants deserve the same rights as humans. I am sure you understand that it will probably take some time before we get all the rights as we should have, however, there has been a vote about your right to an education. You are now allowed back in school, as long as you don't use your powers."
"That's great!" Kitty exclaimed, then frowning when no one else reacted. "Right?"
"Of course it is," Ororo answered.
"Ah'm not so sure about that," Rogue muttered. "Ah mean, people treated us like freaks even when no one knew about mutants, how are they gonna react to us now?"
"We will be just fine, Rogue," Jean said, trying to convince the Goth as well as herself.
"Oh, you think you'll still be popular?" Evan said, apparently feed up with the subject even before any real discussion had started. "C'mon Jean, we're being called monsters in public! The entire world saw us use our powers on TV! Don't expect people to welcome you back with flowers and fruit- baskets."
"Evan!" Ororo exclaimed.
"I don't zink it's going to be so bad," Kurt told his friend, who just scowled at him.
"Maybe not for you, since -this- you ain't labeled as a mutant -yet-," Evan answered, indicating Kurt's holowatch form. "You show up in your natural shape at school and see how people react, then you can try tellin' me about it being 'not so bad'. I've had enough of this, I'm leavin'."
That said, Evan stormed out from the office in that way only teenage boys do, leaving behind some very confused mutants.
"What's wrong with Porcupine?" Logan asked from his corner. Ororo sighted.
"There was some issues at home," she said. "My sister and her husband has been experiencing some difficulties now that people know about Evan's mutation, and he is not happy to have caused his parents such problems."
"His parents gets trouble just because Evan's a mutant?" Kitty asked, immediately thinking of her own parents. "That's awful!"
"Yes," Ororo answered. "I better go talk to him now. Excuse me."
"So, are we the only ones that'll go to school?" Rogue asked when Ororo had left. "Or will the new kids also go back?"
"Everyone will be returning to school," Xavier answered. "I will talk with the younger students later, but I felt it was the best to talk with you first. You will start again the day after tomorrow. That's all I had to say, you may leave now."
The teenagers rose from their seats and walked out through the door. Kurt went off to find Evan, Rogue went to find her book she'd left somewhere, and Kitty phased down to the kitchen to find something to eat. Scott started walking out towards the tree house again, and Jean walked with him.
"You were very quiet in there," the girl told the older teen. "Thinking about your tree house?"
Scott blushed a little.
"It's Jamie's tree house, you know."
"Sure it is." Jean gave him a friendly smile. "You told me a while ago about how much you wanted a tree house, remember?"
"Not really," Scott lied. He had hoped the redhead wouldn't remember that.
"All right. If you say so. Well, I'm off to make sure Tabitha didn't steal my perfume again, she uses the entire bottle in one go. Good luck with the building."
"Thanks. And Jean . . ."
"Yes?"
"I don't think you need to be scared of returning to school. I'll look out for you if anything happens."
"Thanks." The girl gave her best friend a hug, then turned and walked in the other direction.
~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~#~
"There's really not much to show around here right now," Bobby explained to Tristian as they walked down the hallway. "Because of a big explosion and everythin'. But I can introduce you to the others."
"Okay," was all Tristian had to say to that. Not that there's a lot of different ways to reply to such a thing.
"Most people are by the tree house, so we can go there. We're building a tree house!"
"So I've heard. Sounds fun."
"Yup! You can help. Have you built any tree houses before?"
"Not really, me and my father moved around a lot."
"Oh. Okay. Well, here's our marvelous tree house," Bobby said, making a sweeping hand gesture much like someone presenting a piece of expensive art painted by a now-dead artist. Needless to say, he was proud of their work.
The construction of the tree house was apparently on a break at the moment. Jubilee and Jamie was sitting up in the tree playing a thrilling game of "Paper, Rock, Scissors", and Sam was moping. The reason for his mood was Rahne, who was currently flirting with Roberto. The dark-haired boy had apparently decided to graze the (former) builders with his presence.
"Hey, guys!" Bobby shouted, getting everyone's attention. "This is Tristian. He's new here, and he can . . ." Bobby frowned and turned to Tristian. "What's your power?"
"I can melt metals with my hands," Tristian answered.
"Hi, I'm Jubilee," Jubilee presented herself. "I can shoot fireworks from my hands. And this is Jamie, who can make dupes of himself, Rahne, who's a werewolf, Roberto, who absorbs solar energy to get strong and stuff, and Sam, who can make a kinetic field or something so he can fly and stuff."
"I was gonna do the introductions," Bobby pouted.
"You suck at introductions," Jubilee told him. Bobby pouted some more.
"I do not."
"Yes you do."
"No I don't."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No."
"Yes."
"No!"
"Yes!"
And so passed another afternoon at Charles Xavier's school for gifted youngsters, where the children have amazing destructive powers mankind had never seen before, but were still children at heart.
tbc
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Disclaimer: Trsitian Lise belongs to dragonhouse50@hotmail.com. X-Men belong to Marvel. And I got my fever from my psychiatry teacher.
I had an epiphany while I was taking a shower this morning. Two actually. Avocados and shrimps and Pepsi isn't a good and balanced breakfast. And unless I'm completely wrong about it, Scott wasn't filmed using his powers. So, in "Mainstream", he and Kurt -should- be in the same position, as in: no one knows for sure that they're mutants. So, Kurt shouldn't be the only one acting all "People don't know I'm a mutant! Yet!", or maybe Scooter just acted the way he did 'cause that's more IC for him. Or I'm completely wrong. But if I'm not . . . I found a plot-hole, I found a plot-hole! Yayness! I blame it all on the avocado.
Bobby the Builder! *giggles* Uhm, sorry, a personal joke between myself and . . . no one else really, since my friend didn't get the funny part. But if you've ever seen/heard of the kiddie's show "Bob the Builder" you might get part of the joke. Ah well. Bobby in general amuses me. I mean, even his last name, "Drake" is funny. Ya see, that's the Swedish word for "Dragon", only pronounced a little different. And Bobby has a crush on Jubes! 'Bobby and Jubey, sitting in a tree, k-i-s-s-i-n-g' . . . Don't ya just love when it all works out? Don't worry, there'll be lots of one-sided romance as well, so I can write love-angst. And I've got a Sam/Rahne/Roberto thing to play with. Rahne and Roberto were -so- flirting in "Retreat"!
Just a little question, am I the only one having issues with Jean's last name? I never learn if it's supposed to be "a" or "e" in her last name. Grr, stupid name. Eh.
Next time: The Brotherhood boys do their punishment. And the Brotherhood girls watch TV. And no, I'm not obsessed about TV . . . *runs of to watch Spin City while singing on "Fever"*