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The Jet arrived back in the hanger later that day; the evening sky was darkening as Storm stepped from the ship to where Logan and Professor Xavier were waiting for them. "Did you find her?" Logan asked almost as soon as she emerged; Kurt stepped from the vessel and Ciara followed him. All of her clothing had fitted into the bag that was rested on both her shoulders.
Professor Xavier looked at her for a moment, she was a very troubled young girl and he wondered briefly if the curse of unusual looks plagued all teleporters. "Welcome to the Xavier institute, I am Professor Xavier." He held out a hand to her and she shook it, her grip was strong and even had he been unable to read her mind he would have seen that she was a proud strong girl.
"Ghost,"
The simple word told him something else, she did not want to be considered human, a very adult decision in one so young. "Kurt, Kitty is in the dining hall, would you be kind enough to fetch her?" Kurt disappeared just as he finished the sentence. "Kitty is a girl of about your age who can walk through just about anything, her other name is Shadowcat. Logan here, or Wolverine, has a skeleton made of ademantium, a very strong metal. Storm can control the weather, and Kurt as you have seen is a teleporter like yourself." The short introduction to the people she had met helped to settle her down a little.
"I am going to allow you time to settle in before I start you on lessons; hopefully these lessons will teach you everything that you need. Depending entirely on his availability, Kurt can teach you how to develop your abilities if he is not available then someone else will do it." She nodded slightly, so far everything that was being said made sense, "I ask you to attend one month to see if it is what you want to do, if not then I can help to find you something else to do."
"Thank you sir, this is very kind of you,"
He smiled at her, "Kitty will settle you in and undoubtedly give you a rundown of everything." He informed her and she nodded again muttering more thanks. Just as he finished speaking a girl appeared through a wall nearby, there was the sound of Kurt's teleport and he landed behind Ciara.
The Professor, Logan and Storm left, expecting there to be the sound of an outgoing teleport Ciara looked around to see that Kurt was still standing behind her. She turned back to the girl in front of her, "Hey I'm Kitty," She introduced holding out a hand that Ciara shook. "Kurt said that you're from England. That's pretty cool,"
"Ghost,"
"Cool,"
There was very little said as Kitty showed her the way to their two-person dorm. Kitty entered the room first, shoving a pile of books onto the ground and motioning the bed they had been on, "Sorry about them, that's your bed if you want it,"
There was a light tap on her shoulder and she turned to Kurt, "I have to go now Ciara," He told her simply. "I will speak with you again," He left in a cloud of dust and Kitty, shuddering, swept at it with her hand coughing.
"I wish he wouldn't do that, it creeps me out," Kitty's voice was small as she spoke. "What's your power? I bet it's something really cool, like Shape changing or telepathy."
Ciara looked at her, wondering to herself how a person could be so stupid; despite her gender she looked like the teleporter that Kitty already knew so why should she be nothing else? "I teleport," Ciara's voice was slightly bitter when she spoke. She could not help the twitch in the tip of her tail and was aware of the fact that it gave her away like the twitch in the tail of an annoyed cat but she could not stop it.
"Oh,"
After a few moments Kitty looked strait into Ciara's eyes, "Look, it's just, I said something dumb ok? Like my power's any less creepy!" Ciara nodded ever so slightly; glad that Kitty had been mature enough to even attempt an apology. "The other students want to meet you; everyone gets so curious when there's a new student." She moved to a big chart on a wall, "This chart is where timetables can be marked, mines marked with a small cat, you can mark yours up here when you get it. We get Saturdays and Sundays off, with the usual holidays. Every so often days will be randomly taken from the school week and taken for training days, then the whole school is made to train their abilities as one big team; it was cool last time I was used to infiltrate a building here on site!"
Ciara listened politely to all the things that Kitty had to say, the next thing she covered was the door-knocking rule, a rule developed for Kitty and one that had been extended to Kurt. Kitty also covered school rules before telling her that it was dinnertime.
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After her embarrassing introduction to the school as a whole Ciara was called to see Professor Xavier, he had something that he wanted to speak to her about. When she entered, he motioned that she should feel free to have a seat and she did so, sitting strait in her nervousness. "You need not be worried Ciara, there is something that I have to ask you." She nodded slightly, her muscles seemed to be tense with nerves and the gesture was difficult. "I think that you have mild location orientated psychic skills," He read the complete confusion from her face alone and smiled, "I'm going to think of a place, the garage and you will find Logan there, go." Wondering just what the point to this test was she did as she was told.
She landed on the roof of a car lightly; her form squatted so that she did not loose her balance. Logan turned to her quickly with the three claws on one hand unsheathed; startled she yelped and fell backwards from the roof onto the ground. There was the sound of him drawing the claws back into his body and he walked around the car to look at her, she had landed with her tail between her legs and her back against the wall. "What are you doing here?" He demanded of the shaking girl, his eyes held a slightly distanced look, as he seemed to think, "2nd Teaching room, go." He called up the image as the Professor had asked him too and she left.
She appeared in the empty room, her night sensitive eyes seeing the room almost how people would see the room were it lightened. She crouched behind a desk as the door opened and a man in glasses entered, from the introduction to those seated at the teaching table that evening she knew him to be Scott or Cyclops. "The Professor wants you back in his office now." His voice was tired and slightly bored, Ciara knew of his lost lover and was not surprised that he was going away for a while shortly.
Feeling a little weary Ciara teleported back to the office, and landed in the seat she had left, "Very good," Xavier enthused from his side of the desk. "Kurt cannot do that; most times he can only go to places he has been before." He held his hand together, fingers interlaced. "Concerning your lessons, I can set all non specific subjects but you will need to see whether Kurt can teach you or not. I ask you not to push him into anything; he has a lot to think about."
"All right sir,"
"You are going to find yourself at the centre of attention for the next few weeks, please do not do anything that you have not had inspected by a teacher. Kitty will be around to help you as much as she can when it comes to the day to day practises around the school."
He looked into her yellow eyes and all at once, she stopped trying to fidget her tail into a more comfortable position, thinking she was doing something wrong squirming so badly. "Tomorrow I have asked Logan and Scott to test your skills, they are not going to use their abilities but you can. Logan will explain everything to you tomorrow. Please make sure that you get enough sleep, Logan can be a little bad at loosing." Leaving her to decode his cryptic comments he motioned that she should leave and she walked with Kitty to the dorm.
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The Jet arrived back in the hanger later that day; the evening sky was darkening as Storm stepped from the ship to where Logan and Professor Xavier were waiting for them. "Did you find her?" Logan asked almost as soon as she emerged; Kurt stepped from the vessel and Ciara followed him. All of her clothing had fitted into the bag that was rested on both her shoulders.
Professor Xavier looked at her for a moment, she was a very troubled young girl and he wondered briefly if the curse of unusual looks plagued all teleporters. "Welcome to the Xavier institute, I am Professor Xavier." He held out a hand to her and she shook it, her grip was strong and even had he been unable to read her mind he would have seen that she was a proud strong girl.
"Ghost,"
The simple word told him something else, she did not want to be considered human, a very adult decision in one so young. "Kurt, Kitty is in the dining hall, would you be kind enough to fetch her?" Kurt disappeared just as he finished the sentence. "Kitty is a girl of about your age who can walk through just about anything, her other name is Shadowcat. Logan here, or Wolverine, has a skeleton made of ademantium, a very strong metal. Storm can control the weather, and Kurt as you have seen is a teleporter like yourself." The short introduction to the people she had met helped to settle her down a little.
"I am going to allow you time to settle in before I start you on lessons; hopefully these lessons will teach you everything that you need. Depending entirely on his availability, Kurt can teach you how to develop your abilities if he is not available then someone else will do it." She nodded slightly, so far everything that was being said made sense, "I ask you to attend one month to see if it is what you want to do, if not then I can help to find you something else to do."
"Thank you sir, this is very kind of you,"
He smiled at her, "Kitty will settle you in and undoubtedly give you a rundown of everything." He informed her and she nodded again muttering more thanks. Just as he finished speaking a girl appeared through a wall nearby, there was the sound of Kurt's teleport and he landed behind Ciara.
The Professor, Logan and Storm left, expecting there to be the sound of an outgoing teleport Ciara looked around to see that Kurt was still standing behind her. She turned back to the girl in front of her, "Hey I'm Kitty," She introduced holding out a hand that Ciara shook. "Kurt said that you're from England. That's pretty cool,"
"Ghost,"
"Cool,"
There was very little said as Kitty showed her the way to their two-person dorm. Kitty entered the room first, shoving a pile of books onto the ground and motioning the bed they had been on, "Sorry about them, that's your bed if you want it,"
There was a light tap on her shoulder and she turned to Kurt, "I have to go now Ciara," He told her simply. "I will speak with you again," He left in a cloud of dust and Kitty, shuddering, swept at it with her hand coughing.
"I wish he wouldn't do that, it creeps me out," Kitty's voice was small as she spoke. "What's your power? I bet it's something really cool, like Shape changing or telepathy."
Ciara looked at her, wondering to herself how a person could be so stupid; despite her gender she looked like the teleporter that Kitty already knew so why should she be nothing else? "I teleport," Ciara's voice was slightly bitter when she spoke. She could not help the twitch in the tip of her tail and was aware of the fact that it gave her away like the twitch in the tail of an annoyed cat but she could not stop it.
"Oh,"
After a few moments Kitty looked strait into Ciara's eyes, "Look, it's just, I said something dumb ok? Like my power's any less creepy!" Ciara nodded ever so slightly; glad that Kitty had been mature enough to even attempt an apology. "The other students want to meet you; everyone gets so curious when there's a new student." She moved to a big chart on a wall, "This chart is where timetables can be marked, mines marked with a small cat, you can mark yours up here when you get it. We get Saturdays and Sundays off, with the usual holidays. Every so often days will be randomly taken from the school week and taken for training days, then the whole school is made to train their abilities as one big team; it was cool last time I was used to infiltrate a building here on site!"
Ciara listened politely to all the things that Kitty had to say, the next thing she covered was the door-knocking rule, a rule developed for Kitty and one that had been extended to Kurt. Kitty also covered school rules before telling her that it was dinnertime.
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After her embarrassing introduction to the school as a whole Ciara was called to see Professor Xavier, he had something that he wanted to speak to her about. When she entered, he motioned that she should feel free to have a seat and she did so, sitting strait in her nervousness. "You need not be worried Ciara, there is something that I have to ask you." She nodded slightly, her muscles seemed to be tense with nerves and the gesture was difficult. "I think that you have mild location orientated psychic skills," He read the complete confusion from her face alone and smiled, "I'm going to think of a place, the garage and you will find Logan there, go." Wondering just what the point to this test was she did as she was told.
She landed on the roof of a car lightly; her form squatted so that she did not loose her balance. Logan turned to her quickly with the three claws on one hand unsheathed; startled she yelped and fell backwards from the roof onto the ground. There was the sound of him drawing the claws back into his body and he walked around the car to look at her, she had landed with her tail between her legs and her back against the wall. "What are you doing here?" He demanded of the shaking girl, his eyes held a slightly distanced look, as he seemed to think, "2nd Teaching room, go." He called up the image as the Professor had asked him too and she left.
She appeared in the empty room, her night sensitive eyes seeing the room almost how people would see the room were it lightened. She crouched behind a desk as the door opened and a man in glasses entered, from the introduction to those seated at the teaching table that evening she knew him to be Scott or Cyclops. "The Professor wants you back in his office now." His voice was tired and slightly bored, Ciara knew of his lost lover and was not surprised that he was going away for a while shortly.
Feeling a little weary Ciara teleported back to the office, and landed in the seat she had left, "Very good," Xavier enthused from his side of the desk. "Kurt cannot do that; most times he can only go to places he has been before." He held his hand together, fingers interlaced. "Concerning your lessons, I can set all non specific subjects but you will need to see whether Kurt can teach you or not. I ask you not to push him into anything; he has a lot to think about."
"All right sir,"
"You are going to find yourself at the centre of attention for the next few weeks, please do not do anything that you have not had inspected by a teacher. Kitty will be around to help you as much as she can when it comes to the day to day practises around the school."
He looked into her yellow eyes and all at once, she stopped trying to fidget her tail into a more comfortable position, thinking she was doing something wrong squirming so badly. "Tomorrow I have asked Logan and Scott to test your skills, they are not going to use their abilities but you can. Logan will explain everything to you tomorrow. Please make sure that you get enough sleep, Logan can be a little bad at loosing." Leaving her to decode his cryptic comments he motioned that she should leave and she walked with Kitty to the dorm.
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