Author's Notes: Read if you want...
Ryu-Sama - Saa... Didja like it? Do you like me? Saa...... Aaaa......................
Well, somebody liked it. Yay! I got reviews!
Saralyn, Sankyu for reviewing. I kinda like writing accents, but I suppose, if enough people complain about it, I'll change it. Danke.
Koneko Tenshi, Cute name. *grins* Kitten Angel.... That's so cute! Hmm... I suppose I'll have to warn you though... I'm not good at the email thing... But I'll try to update regularly... *gives you pocky* Cool that you recognized him. Ooh! I'll be adding others, here and there, just so you know!
~@~
"Must I?"
Duo frowned. What could be so bad about his appearance that he didn't want to be seen?
"Yes, Kurt. You can't hide yourself from everyone that comes here."
"Mmmm... Okay. I just don't like scaring away people I like..." Kurt pressed two of his fingers too his watch and his image wavered and disappeared... Actually, he didn't really disappear... He just... turned blue. "Vell?"
Duo's eyes felt like they were about to pop out. In order to prevent that from happening, he closed his eyes and shook his head. He just HAD to be seeing things...
He glanced back up at Kurt. Nope. Not seeing things. Blue, fuzzy, and with pointy, elf-like ears. Weird. "That's... weird... Don't worry, not running... Might faint though... nope... not gonna faint. Weird. Spent too much time listening to Sister Helen. Yup, that's the problem. 'Course as far as appearance goes... You take the cake for odd... Weird..."
"Uhmm... You okay? Not going to faint?" Kurt sounded worried.
"Nope. Not gonna faint..." Duo looked back over at him. "Eh, aside from appearance, do you like have, I don't know, funky powers, or something like that?"
"Ja..." BAMF
Duo blinked. Kurt had disappeared.
BAMF "I teleport."
Duo sniffed and looked over at where Kurt had reappeared. "I smell sulfur..."
The Professor spoke up, "He travels through another dimension. The sulfurous smell is the other dimension's atmosphere."
"Oh..."
"Vell... Vhat about you? Vhat got you here?"
Duo shifted uncomfortably and blushed. "Eh... well... uhmm..."
Kurt blinked at him. "Somezing embarrassing? Zat sucks. Heh."
"Dead things... eh, have a tendency to follow me around... Ghosts, zombies... spirits... It's kinda freaky. Usually, I'm the only one who can see them. Except the zombies. Everyone can see them."
"........." Kurt looked confused for a moment. "Dead zings? Zombies? How ze zombies?"
Duo poked the carpet with his toe. "I don't know. The don't leave me alone until I tell them to go back to wherever they come from. I think Father Maxwell was getting tired of it."
"No kidding." Kurt looked thoughtful for a moment. "Did you know anyone else vith... powers?"
"Good question, Kurt." The Professor smiled. "That would be nice to know."
Duo tipped his head back and thought. Mutant powers could be anything. So... There WAS that one boy... "There were some bullies in the orphanage, and they tried to light this one guy on fire... I think they used gasoline. The guy's clothes were destroyed, but he didn't get hurt at all... At least, not that I could see. He was pretty upset about it though, and then he got adopted."
"Do you remember his name?" asked Kurt.
"No, not that it would matter if I did. Adopted kids usually get their names changed."
The Professor spoke this time, "It would still be a start. If his name was changed, then there would be some record of it."
"Odin. Odin Lowe Jr... I think..."
"Zat came back pretty quick..." Kurt laughed at him.
Duo stuck out his tongue. Kurt just continued laughing. "I tried to be friends with him," Duo admitted. "He was an asshole, though."
"Vas?"
"A complete and total jerk. He was really smart though. He kept changing the school records, so that they wouldn't notice when he was absent." Duo grinned, "I learned how to do that after he left. Before that, I didn't pay too much attention to computers."
Kurt lifted his hand, "I can't even type right."
Duo blinked at his hand. "That would be kinda hard to type with, huh."
The Professor just sat back and listened. Oh, how he wished he could be young again. You could converse over the smallest things, and no one would think different. But even more than that, you could learn a lot from those little things.
~*~
"So, the nun forgot that the cat was dead, and gave it milk anyway?" Scott snickered.
"That's like, so gross. Couldn't she like, smell it?" asked the newly met Kitty Pryde.
Duo grinned, "She had a cold, and if you were going by appearance, you wouldn't have been able to tell. I could smell it though... And you're right. It was gross. Good thing we got it out of the kitchen before anyone else came in..."
"It wa' in de kitchen? It din get on de table or anyding, did it?" asked Rogue.
"Yeah. So I had kitchen duty. Yeck. Bleached the tables and everything." There was a collective laugh.
"Ya know, ya ain't de only new kid. There's dis bitty kid about yer height. Name's Quatre, I think."
"Yeah. He's a famous kid, too. Quatre Raberba Winner," Scott pushed his glasses up his nose, "is the heir to the largest fortune that this planet has ever seen."
Duo scratched his head. "So, what's he do?"
"The Xavier Institute like, has another psychic." Kitty played with an apple that she had taken off of the kitchen table. "He's an empath. And... fluffy. He has a fluffy tail. It's cute."
A soft voice from the general vicinity of the ceiling sighed, "I thought zat mein vas cute?"
Kitty looked surprised for a moment. "It is! It's just not as... fluffy. His is like a fluffy cat's tail."
Duo wrinkled his nose. "I get the impression that Kurt's is more useful. Right?"
"Ja. It is very useful." Kurt hung off of one of the chandeliers in order to prove it.
"Question?" Duo asked.
"Huh?"
"Don't you get footprints on the walls? And ceiling?"
Kurt replied as everyone else laughed, "Ja. It's not as bad as Logan vould have everybody think, though..."
There was more collective laughter.
Duo wrinkled his nose. "I don't think that I know what any of you guys do..."
Scott scratched his head. "My eyes... emit a destructive kinetic energy... It's like having two bazookas attached to my head... Only more so."
"I can phase through solid objects..." Kitty demonstrated by walking through Scott.
"Ah sap energy wheneva' Ah touch someone else's skin. If dey're a mutant, I can use deir powers afta'ward." Rogue glanced at her clothes. "Dat's parta' why I dress dis way. It seems ta hurt de otha' person... an' Ah always feel a bit confused afta'..."
"And, as you already know, I can teleport... Saves me alotta time valking to school." That got another collective laugh. "So... vhen did zis, 'Quatre Raberba Vinner' show up? I didn't know zat ve had any more new students besides Duo, here."
Kitty walked through Kurt, who complained about the invasion of his personal space, saying, "He's been locked up talking to Storm like, all evening... I have no clue just what is taking them like, so long."
"I zink..."
Logan walked in, interrupting Kurt. "Need I remind you all were supposed to be in bed fifteen minutes ago?"
Kurt bamfed away while everyone else scattered in the directions of their rooms. Duo stood still, not knowing where his room was.
"Maxwell?"
"Yes?" Duo replied politely.
"I'll show you where your room is. Your bunking with the other new kid."
Duo nodded. What a way to meet the rich and famous.
~@~
Ryu-Sama - So........ Who is this Odin Lowe Jr.? Will Duo and Quatre get along? How will they deal at school? Will it suck? Or will they make friends easily? And just how many student will mistake Duo for a girl? And remember...
Don't forget to tell me what you think. Is it good? Bad? Did it suck royal ass? Or did you (Kami-sama forgive me for this blasphemy) actually like it?
C'mon people! I live for reviews!! Tell me all! Or else my happy thoughts will go away!! Wah!!!
Max - Baka...
Ryu-Sama - Hey!! That's my word!!
Max - Enough said.
Ryu-Sama - *sweatdrops*
Max - Ryu?
Ryu-Sama - You forgot the "Sama"
Max - So?
Ryu - *sighs* Whatja want, Max?
Max - Food.
Ryu - *sighs* Again? *gives Max the rest of the pocky* Just so you know, Max... That stuff's expensive.
Max - So?
Ryu-Sama - Saa... Didja like it? Do you like me? Saa...... Aaaa......................
Well, somebody liked it. Yay! I got reviews!
Saralyn, Sankyu for reviewing. I kinda like writing accents, but I suppose, if enough people complain about it, I'll change it. Danke.
Koneko Tenshi, Cute name. *grins* Kitten Angel.... That's so cute! Hmm... I suppose I'll have to warn you though... I'm not good at the email thing... But I'll try to update regularly... *gives you pocky* Cool that you recognized him. Ooh! I'll be adding others, here and there, just so you know!
~@~
"Must I?"
Duo frowned. What could be so bad about his appearance that he didn't want to be seen?
"Yes, Kurt. You can't hide yourself from everyone that comes here."
"Mmmm... Okay. I just don't like scaring away people I like..." Kurt pressed two of his fingers too his watch and his image wavered and disappeared... Actually, he didn't really disappear... He just... turned blue. "Vell?"
Duo's eyes felt like they were about to pop out. In order to prevent that from happening, he closed his eyes and shook his head. He just HAD to be seeing things...
He glanced back up at Kurt. Nope. Not seeing things. Blue, fuzzy, and with pointy, elf-like ears. Weird. "That's... weird... Don't worry, not running... Might faint though... nope... not gonna faint. Weird. Spent too much time listening to Sister Helen. Yup, that's the problem. 'Course as far as appearance goes... You take the cake for odd... Weird..."
"Uhmm... You okay? Not going to faint?" Kurt sounded worried.
"Nope. Not gonna faint..." Duo looked back over at him. "Eh, aside from appearance, do you like have, I don't know, funky powers, or something like that?"
"Ja..." BAMF
Duo blinked. Kurt had disappeared.
BAMF "I teleport."
Duo sniffed and looked over at where Kurt had reappeared. "I smell sulfur..."
The Professor spoke up, "He travels through another dimension. The sulfurous smell is the other dimension's atmosphere."
"Oh..."
"Vell... Vhat about you? Vhat got you here?"
Duo shifted uncomfortably and blushed. "Eh... well... uhmm..."
Kurt blinked at him. "Somezing embarrassing? Zat sucks. Heh."
"Dead things... eh, have a tendency to follow me around... Ghosts, zombies... spirits... It's kinda freaky. Usually, I'm the only one who can see them. Except the zombies. Everyone can see them."
"........." Kurt looked confused for a moment. "Dead zings? Zombies? How ze zombies?"
Duo poked the carpet with his toe. "I don't know. The don't leave me alone until I tell them to go back to wherever they come from. I think Father Maxwell was getting tired of it."
"No kidding." Kurt looked thoughtful for a moment. "Did you know anyone else vith... powers?"
"Good question, Kurt." The Professor smiled. "That would be nice to know."
Duo tipped his head back and thought. Mutant powers could be anything. So... There WAS that one boy... "There were some bullies in the orphanage, and they tried to light this one guy on fire... I think they used gasoline. The guy's clothes were destroyed, but he didn't get hurt at all... At least, not that I could see. He was pretty upset about it though, and then he got adopted."
"Do you remember his name?" asked Kurt.
"No, not that it would matter if I did. Adopted kids usually get their names changed."
The Professor spoke this time, "It would still be a start. If his name was changed, then there would be some record of it."
"Odin. Odin Lowe Jr... I think..."
"Zat came back pretty quick..." Kurt laughed at him.
Duo stuck out his tongue. Kurt just continued laughing. "I tried to be friends with him," Duo admitted. "He was an asshole, though."
"Vas?"
"A complete and total jerk. He was really smart though. He kept changing the school records, so that they wouldn't notice when he was absent." Duo grinned, "I learned how to do that after he left. Before that, I didn't pay too much attention to computers."
Kurt lifted his hand, "I can't even type right."
Duo blinked at his hand. "That would be kinda hard to type with, huh."
The Professor just sat back and listened. Oh, how he wished he could be young again. You could converse over the smallest things, and no one would think different. But even more than that, you could learn a lot from those little things.
~*~
"So, the nun forgot that the cat was dead, and gave it milk anyway?" Scott snickered.
"That's like, so gross. Couldn't she like, smell it?" asked the newly met Kitty Pryde.
Duo grinned, "She had a cold, and if you were going by appearance, you wouldn't have been able to tell. I could smell it though... And you're right. It was gross. Good thing we got it out of the kitchen before anyone else came in..."
"It wa' in de kitchen? It din get on de table or anyding, did it?" asked Rogue.
"Yeah. So I had kitchen duty. Yeck. Bleached the tables and everything." There was a collective laugh.
"Ya know, ya ain't de only new kid. There's dis bitty kid about yer height. Name's Quatre, I think."
"Yeah. He's a famous kid, too. Quatre Raberba Winner," Scott pushed his glasses up his nose, "is the heir to the largest fortune that this planet has ever seen."
Duo scratched his head. "So, what's he do?"
"The Xavier Institute like, has another psychic." Kitty played with an apple that she had taken off of the kitchen table. "He's an empath. And... fluffy. He has a fluffy tail. It's cute."
A soft voice from the general vicinity of the ceiling sighed, "I thought zat mein vas cute?"
Kitty looked surprised for a moment. "It is! It's just not as... fluffy. His is like a fluffy cat's tail."
Duo wrinkled his nose. "I get the impression that Kurt's is more useful. Right?"
"Ja. It is very useful." Kurt hung off of one of the chandeliers in order to prove it.
"Question?" Duo asked.
"Huh?"
"Don't you get footprints on the walls? And ceiling?"
Kurt replied as everyone else laughed, "Ja. It's not as bad as Logan vould have everybody think, though..."
There was more collective laughter.
Duo wrinkled his nose. "I don't think that I know what any of you guys do..."
Scott scratched his head. "My eyes... emit a destructive kinetic energy... It's like having two bazookas attached to my head... Only more so."
"I can phase through solid objects..." Kitty demonstrated by walking through Scott.
"Ah sap energy wheneva' Ah touch someone else's skin. If dey're a mutant, I can use deir powers afta'ward." Rogue glanced at her clothes. "Dat's parta' why I dress dis way. It seems ta hurt de otha' person... an' Ah always feel a bit confused afta'..."
"And, as you already know, I can teleport... Saves me alotta time valking to school." That got another collective laugh. "So... vhen did zis, 'Quatre Raberba Vinner' show up? I didn't know zat ve had any more new students besides Duo, here."
Kitty walked through Kurt, who complained about the invasion of his personal space, saying, "He's been locked up talking to Storm like, all evening... I have no clue just what is taking them like, so long."
"I zink..."
Logan walked in, interrupting Kurt. "Need I remind you all were supposed to be in bed fifteen minutes ago?"
Kurt bamfed away while everyone else scattered in the directions of their rooms. Duo stood still, not knowing where his room was.
"Maxwell?"
"Yes?" Duo replied politely.
"I'll show you where your room is. Your bunking with the other new kid."
Duo nodded. What a way to meet the rich and famous.
~@~
Ryu-Sama - So........ Who is this Odin Lowe Jr.? Will Duo and Quatre get along? How will they deal at school? Will it suck? Or will they make friends easily? And just how many student will mistake Duo for a girl? And remember...
Don't forget to tell me what you think. Is it good? Bad? Did it suck royal ass? Or did you (Kami-sama forgive me for this blasphemy) actually like it?
C'mon people! I live for reviews!! Tell me all! Or else my happy thoughts will go away!! Wah!!!
Max - Baka...
Ryu-Sama - Hey!! That's my word!!
Max - Enough said.
Ryu-Sama - *sweatdrops*
Max - Ryu?
Ryu-Sama - You forgot the "Sama"
Max - So?
Ryu - *sighs* Whatja want, Max?
Max - Food.
Ryu - *sighs* Again? *gives Max the rest of the pocky* Just so you know, Max... That stuff's expensive.
Max - So?
