THE YOUNG AND THE BRAINLESS: Adam Kane

Disclaimer: I do not own Mutant X, Tribune Entertainment prolly have the copyright for it and lucky them. Instead, I own my imagination and I can use it to twist the characters. So in short...Don't own 'em Don't sue me

Author's Note: Although you do not need to have read "A day in the Life of Mutant X" Which is sorta finished, there may be some slight references to things from it, so don't fret. I hope you all like it just as much as my other one.

Synopsis: We journey back in time to Adam during his teens and find out why he is what he is....absolutely gripping tale which the Courier News desribed as, "Enthralling......entertaining...." and the Times as ....."A masterpiece.....if reading crap is your style.....the author needs to get a life......" Yes well, i take the good with the bad...enjoy!

************ADAM KANE AT SCHOOL AGAIN!******************

Down the empty corridors of Stanford...the lonely voice of a teenage boy can be heard.....droning on and on....in to a hand held voice recorder....

Enter room 101....the science lab....where a 15 year old boy sits behind a bench looking through a microscope and taping his thoughts...what an absolutely riveting way to spend your Friday night....

"So it seems inconlusive whether or not these grass cells are actually infected with pesticide, but I will check into it later." The boy sighed and rubbed his temples...he hoped Professor Minkey will like his report.

Outside the room the cleaner paused at the door and looked in, a scowl on his face...

"Hey Kid! Get outta here! This is no place for you at this time of night! Now scram!" He said ciggerette in mouth...charming, janitors in those days, made a building feel really welcoming...

The boy looked up and frowned. He stood up and turned off the microscope. "Don't you know who I am old man? I am Adam Kane! The boy genius! I have EVERY right to be here thank you very much! Now go, the toilets need cleaning, someone had the runs earlier...." The janitor snarled. Little upstart, he would show him one day....and with that Phill Ashlocke went off down the corridor...

Adam sighed, that wasn't very nice of him to say that, the poor man was trying for a child with his wife and failing, maybe one day they will have the perfect child they always wanted...he got up and went home...

**********ALPHA DORM*********

Adam opened the door to his dorm to find himself amisdt another raucous party. He groaned...yet again he cursed...damn House Master, putting him in with the jocks, thinking he will fit in and make friends, hello! He was 12 when he got here and staying up all night drinking was not his style...more like reading a thesis on physics and biology. He sighed and made his way to his room but was stopped by his new dorm mate, Mason Eckhart. A tall good looking boy with blue eyes and blonde hair, all the girls loved him. What 18 year old girl wouldn't?

"Hey! Adam! Wassup bro? You been gone so long the party started without you!" He said pointing to the girls and boys behind him getting drunk. Adam didn't think the party had ever stopped let alone started, but let it go and went to his room.

"What was the kid doing here?" Someone asked Mason, who was looking after Adam concerned.

"Oh, that was Adam Kane, you know that smart kid. He has been here since he was 12, will graduate next year..." And with that Mason turned to his football buddies and partied down to the 'Stones and Bob Marley.

In his room Adam looked out the window and reached under his bed for the bottle of Jack Daniels Mason had bought him for his 15th birthday last month. Adam stared at it...why couldn't he join in with the others and be cool? Have fun for once? Adam thought back to the time when he was in the circus for 2 glorious years, he had had so much fun....free all the time, never had to think...just maintain the bearded lady's beard and collect the Elephant manure...he had the easy life then.....

He sighed and opened the bottle. It was time to enter the 20th century he supposed and get stoned and "stay cool" so to speak...Adam took a swig and wondered if he would always turn to alcohol when life got to heavy and thought no, he was far to intelligent for that.

Adam turned back to the window and wondered what the future held for him. He will graduate next year and already had a work placing at a Government lab researching birth defects, Adam thought it would be perfect. He always wanted to help people...hopefully his friend Mason will join him there too when he graduates...Adam hoped so, Mason was the sort friend he will have forever...What Adam really wanted was a big family he could love and cherish...to protect and look after...

Adam turned from the window and went to his bed, who knows what the future will bring, hopefully only happy times....Adam smiled...of course it will...he has so much promise.....

What could possibly go wrong....?

As we fade away from Adam and his memories...the last notes of "Satisfaction" can be heard along with the happy care free laughter of youth and the stench of JD and pot linger in the air....

****Hope you liked it, it was my first one, so hard to be funny, a bit more serious I thought. Ah well, the others will be funnier I promise, I was a bit "funnied" out today...! Review and it wait for the next one.....Shalimar.....