Hello, readers. I'm not proud of this chapter. Its just there to fill in
the gap to reach the end of the story. It WAS better. But you know the
story . . . my computer erased it and I'm too lame to do it nicely again. I
don't know how you're all going to find it, but I can tell you that the
last chapter is very fun. ^_^ Cliffhangers . . . muahahah.
Little chat with my nice reviewers:
TORO: I know exactly what you mean. But don't worry. Go read at the end of the chapter . . .
Little angel: This chapter sucks. It's the most horrible one (as in short, weird and lame). But thanks for your support! And yes, the sequel is very well started.
Escaflowne: Yay! You're back! I know it's evolving slowly, but I wanted it to fit exactly 40 chapters. And Nate's shoulders look normal on the outside, it's that the bones are sort of growing oddly and cracking up. Ouch. And the romance is really scaled down. I didn't want it that way, but it's what happened.
Tigereyes: I'm sorry, I don't have cable, I don't know anything about Charmed and so I didn't know it would be the same. ^_^ (*I'm lame!*)
Lily: thank you! And I can't talk about the paralyzed thing. It's a surprise!!
Prostar99: Yes! I know! I'm going to go see Pirates of the Caribbean with my friend who is also an Orlando Boom fan (I converted her). And well . . . I'd like to have your email so I can send you a little thing explaining Destiny and all . . . since you seem to be interested. And you have a nice imagination. Lol. ^_^
Shade: It's funny seeing how you two get along ^_^ . . . and I'm glad you like it!
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Chapter 39:
A few days had passed since Nate had learned that he had been adopted and that there was truly something wrong with his shoulders, and he had stayed awfully calm. He had attended classes, has spent time with his friends, but he discovered that his life was slowly slipping back to what it had been before, back in his town: he excelled at school, his friends barely new him even if they thought the contrary, he continued his criminal activities and no one knew about them. The only difference was that he was a mutant. He wasn't all-powerful, but mastered his power pretty well, and that was what made him dangerous. He could kill someone by making them believe that he had killed them. Making the mind believe that instantly destroyed a person.
One of the people Nate talked to the most was Logan. They talked about many things, things that Nathan couldn't discuss with Rogue or Kitty. Things to do with killing people, using powers for our own causes and other simple things like that. They had grown close and it surprised students to see the Wolverine talk with someone else that Rogue.
On the other hand, Nathan worked out a lot in the Danger Room, and seemed to get rid of his anger that way. The professor had tried to talk to him about what had happened with his parents, but Nathan didn't want to hear anything about it. He especially didn't want anyone to feel sorry for him, and that was why he didn't say anything about his being adopted or the probability that he could become paralysed. He didn't truly believe Jean about that, but still, he couldn't insinuate anything else. She was the doctor.
As Nathan had said to Logan, after a few days of extreme angriness towards his being adopted, he started being tempted by curiosity. He wanted to know who he really was, who were his real parents and why they had abandoned him, but as always, no answers came.
Destiny hadn't 'contacted' Nathan for quite a while and seemed to be leaving him alone for now. Maybe she knew he was angry. Even Magneto was leaving him alone.
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Jean had requested Nate in the mad lab again, because she wanted to study his back bone structure again, wanting to find out why his bones were growing in that particular way.
"It happened when I fell off the roof at the docks, when Magneto and I were fighting," Nathan said. "I fell off and I hit the ground, and it hurt. It's been cracking and hurting since then."
"Did you get another shock on your back since then?" Jean asked, noting what he was saying on a large sheet of paper.
Nathan answered negatively and slouched back into his seat, getting seriously bored of repeating the same thing over and over again, watching Jean check his X-Rays, write things down on her computer or check his back again.
"What I don't understand is that it's not visible that your shoulder blades are bigger," Jean noticed. "And they're still growing. The cracks are oblique, like zigzags, but are perpendicular and parallel to one another, and seem to be following a pattern . . . Maybe we should operate you just to make sure that nothing-."
"No," Nathan said. "Absolutely not. I don't want to stay here and I'm sick of always having to question my mutation. Just leave me alone."
"Nathan, I can't do that," Jean said. "It might be something dangerous for you."
"I don't care, I'm leaving," Nate sighed, rising from his seat and walking out slowly.
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Nathan had spent most of the morning thinking, and had decided to talk to Kitty about what he thought was best for him to do, what he knew he needed to do.
He walked to her dorm that she was sharing with Jubilee and Rogue, knocked on the door and was greeted by Jubilee's happy mood. He asked to see Kitty and they both walked out to talk in private.
"How are you doing?" Nathan asked, holding her hand as they walked through the empty hallways.
"Not bad, and you?" Kitty said, returning the question.
"It was just what I wanted to talk to you about," Nathan said uneasily. "I don't feel . . . well here."
Kitty stopped and turned to face him.
"What?" she asked quickly.
"Oh, it's not you, Kitty," Nathan tried to reassure her. "It's just that I'm not . . . made to stay here. I don't like it, I don't want to be an X- Man, I'm sick of always staying in the med lab, I don't agree with the professor with most of his ideas, I'm sick of hiding who I really am all the time, I . . . I . . . I can't stay here."
"No Nathan, don't do this again," Kitty pleaded, tears starting to be visible in her eyes.
"There's no other way," Nathan whispered. "It's just . . . too much for me to take."
"I'll come with you, we'll go where you want to go, I-"
"No Kitty, you need to stay here," Nathan objected. "You're happy here, you're safe and you're accepted. I need the contrary to live in a way I could try to define as normal. I don't want you to be sad or unhappy."
"But-"
"No Kitty, I don't want to leave you behind your back, I want us to be happy," Nate said. "I want to take you on a date tonight."
"But . . . all right, Nate," she said finally, whipping the tears from her face. "Since . . . fine."
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It was nearly four o'clock and Nathan was in his room, trying out some of his clothes, to see what would be best on his date with Kitty. While he tried on different things, confusion and remorse started to puzzle him.
~Maybe I should have waited after the date to tell her I was leaving,~ he thought. ~So that she wouldn't be sad during the whole outing . . . ah, damn . . . but then, if I told her after, it would seem . . . like we were breaking up.~
*You're leaving her here and aren't even thinking of coming back and you don't consider that breaking up a relationship?* an interior voice asked mockingly, making him sigh in frustration.
~Hum . . . I did the right thing,~ he thought, shaking his head. ~I don't want to be here anyways.~
*You keep running away from everything,* his conscience continued. *Just settle down.*
~I can't, I'm not happy,~ Nathan said, continuing to argue against his own thoughts.
*You're never happy.*
Nate preferred ignoring that last statement.
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Before dinner, Nathan walked to Kitty's room but found it empty. He walked down to the main door an found a little group of people assembled there. Bobby, Rogue, John, Jubilee and Max all seemed ready to leave somewhere. Kitty looked up at him and smiled.
"Now, we heard that you were leaving," Jubilee said, her hands on her hips. "And that you were going on one last date with Kitty."
Nathan looked at her, wondering where all of this was going.
"You didn't think that we were going to let you go just like that, hum?" Rogue said.
"We're inviting ourselves on your date," John continued.
"It's not fair if Kitty is the only one who gets to go with you," Max joined in.
"We want to go together," Rogue finished.
Nathan stayed silent, looking at each of them, then finally looking at Kitty, as if asking her opinion. She answered for him.
"We'll need to take two cars then," she said.
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Oh well. I was tempted to talk about where they went on the date and make some MDF (mutant detention facility) guys show up, but I just said . . . naaaahhh. I didn't want to complicate things, and so this chapter isn't that long, so . . . I can talk about the fic!! Tada!!
You see . . . in the beginning, I created Nathan by mistake. (what?). I wasn't at all supposed to make him the principal character, and I was supposed to insert things from Unfinished Business (the sequel) in this story. I just got carried away. And so, that is how this whole fic was based around one character.
I was a bit shocked (0_0) to see that most of you wanted Nate to go with Kitty, instead of Rogue. I was planning on making him go with Kitty, then break up and then going with Rogue and then all along Kitty's jealous, but then I started anticipating the sequel . . . haha. And so I created another character (my favourite up to date) to go with Rogue!!! ^_^ (No, Nathan's not going to be with Rogue in the sequel, but they will kiss . . . mueheheh). I must be disappointing some readers here, but I can assure you that you'll like the boy who's going to go with Rogue. And Bobby is going to be angry.
Humm . . . Hooligan is 'one' of my favourite characters and will be used a lot in the sequel. His big brother is a very evil mutant (evil mutants rock) . . . but then again, all the mutants I created for the sequel are somewhat evil. Haha. Destiny is a bit weird and freaky, but you'll just go 'ahhhh' when I explain her odd 'situation'.
I would love to say more but . . . I can't!!
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This chapter is boring but I would still like a review! Please! I want as many reviews possible to send in my last chapter! And believe me, you won't be disappointed . . . if you don't mind cliffhangers.
^_^
Review! Review! Review!
Little chat with my nice reviewers:
TORO: I know exactly what you mean. But don't worry. Go read at the end of the chapter . . .
Little angel: This chapter sucks. It's the most horrible one (as in short, weird and lame). But thanks for your support! And yes, the sequel is very well started.
Escaflowne: Yay! You're back! I know it's evolving slowly, but I wanted it to fit exactly 40 chapters. And Nate's shoulders look normal on the outside, it's that the bones are sort of growing oddly and cracking up. Ouch. And the romance is really scaled down. I didn't want it that way, but it's what happened.
Tigereyes: I'm sorry, I don't have cable, I don't know anything about Charmed and so I didn't know it would be the same. ^_^ (*I'm lame!*)
Lily: thank you! And I can't talk about the paralyzed thing. It's a surprise!!
Prostar99: Yes! I know! I'm going to go see Pirates of the Caribbean with my friend who is also an Orlando Boom fan (I converted her). And well . . . I'd like to have your email so I can send you a little thing explaining Destiny and all . . . since you seem to be interested. And you have a nice imagination. Lol. ^_^
Shade: It's funny seeing how you two get along ^_^ . . . and I'm glad you like it!
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Chapter 39:
A few days had passed since Nate had learned that he had been adopted and that there was truly something wrong with his shoulders, and he had stayed awfully calm. He had attended classes, has spent time with his friends, but he discovered that his life was slowly slipping back to what it had been before, back in his town: he excelled at school, his friends barely new him even if they thought the contrary, he continued his criminal activities and no one knew about them. The only difference was that he was a mutant. He wasn't all-powerful, but mastered his power pretty well, and that was what made him dangerous. He could kill someone by making them believe that he had killed them. Making the mind believe that instantly destroyed a person.
One of the people Nate talked to the most was Logan. They talked about many things, things that Nathan couldn't discuss with Rogue or Kitty. Things to do with killing people, using powers for our own causes and other simple things like that. They had grown close and it surprised students to see the Wolverine talk with someone else that Rogue.
On the other hand, Nathan worked out a lot in the Danger Room, and seemed to get rid of his anger that way. The professor had tried to talk to him about what had happened with his parents, but Nathan didn't want to hear anything about it. He especially didn't want anyone to feel sorry for him, and that was why he didn't say anything about his being adopted or the probability that he could become paralysed. He didn't truly believe Jean about that, but still, he couldn't insinuate anything else. She was the doctor.
As Nathan had said to Logan, after a few days of extreme angriness towards his being adopted, he started being tempted by curiosity. He wanted to know who he really was, who were his real parents and why they had abandoned him, but as always, no answers came.
Destiny hadn't 'contacted' Nathan for quite a while and seemed to be leaving him alone for now. Maybe she knew he was angry. Even Magneto was leaving him alone.
~~~~~~~~~
Jean had requested Nate in the mad lab again, because she wanted to study his back bone structure again, wanting to find out why his bones were growing in that particular way.
"It happened when I fell off the roof at the docks, when Magneto and I were fighting," Nathan said. "I fell off and I hit the ground, and it hurt. It's been cracking and hurting since then."
"Did you get another shock on your back since then?" Jean asked, noting what he was saying on a large sheet of paper.
Nathan answered negatively and slouched back into his seat, getting seriously bored of repeating the same thing over and over again, watching Jean check his X-Rays, write things down on her computer or check his back again.
"What I don't understand is that it's not visible that your shoulder blades are bigger," Jean noticed. "And they're still growing. The cracks are oblique, like zigzags, but are perpendicular and parallel to one another, and seem to be following a pattern . . . Maybe we should operate you just to make sure that nothing-."
"No," Nathan said. "Absolutely not. I don't want to stay here and I'm sick of always having to question my mutation. Just leave me alone."
"Nathan, I can't do that," Jean said. "It might be something dangerous for you."
"I don't care, I'm leaving," Nate sighed, rising from his seat and walking out slowly.
~~~~~~~~~
Nathan had spent most of the morning thinking, and had decided to talk to Kitty about what he thought was best for him to do, what he knew he needed to do.
He walked to her dorm that she was sharing with Jubilee and Rogue, knocked on the door and was greeted by Jubilee's happy mood. He asked to see Kitty and they both walked out to talk in private.
"How are you doing?" Nathan asked, holding her hand as they walked through the empty hallways.
"Not bad, and you?" Kitty said, returning the question.
"It was just what I wanted to talk to you about," Nathan said uneasily. "I don't feel . . . well here."
Kitty stopped and turned to face him.
"What?" she asked quickly.
"Oh, it's not you, Kitty," Nathan tried to reassure her. "It's just that I'm not . . . made to stay here. I don't like it, I don't want to be an X- Man, I'm sick of always staying in the med lab, I don't agree with the professor with most of his ideas, I'm sick of hiding who I really am all the time, I . . . I . . . I can't stay here."
"No Nathan, don't do this again," Kitty pleaded, tears starting to be visible in her eyes.
"There's no other way," Nathan whispered. "It's just . . . too much for me to take."
"I'll come with you, we'll go where you want to go, I-"
"No Kitty, you need to stay here," Nathan objected. "You're happy here, you're safe and you're accepted. I need the contrary to live in a way I could try to define as normal. I don't want you to be sad or unhappy."
"But-"
"No Kitty, I don't want to leave you behind your back, I want us to be happy," Nate said. "I want to take you on a date tonight."
"But . . . all right, Nate," she said finally, whipping the tears from her face. "Since . . . fine."
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It was nearly four o'clock and Nathan was in his room, trying out some of his clothes, to see what would be best on his date with Kitty. While he tried on different things, confusion and remorse started to puzzle him.
~Maybe I should have waited after the date to tell her I was leaving,~ he thought. ~So that she wouldn't be sad during the whole outing . . . ah, damn . . . but then, if I told her after, it would seem . . . like we were breaking up.~
*You're leaving her here and aren't even thinking of coming back and you don't consider that breaking up a relationship?* an interior voice asked mockingly, making him sigh in frustration.
~Hum . . . I did the right thing,~ he thought, shaking his head. ~I don't want to be here anyways.~
*You keep running away from everything,* his conscience continued. *Just settle down.*
~I can't, I'm not happy,~ Nathan said, continuing to argue against his own thoughts.
*You're never happy.*
Nate preferred ignoring that last statement.
~~~~~~~~~
Before dinner, Nathan walked to Kitty's room but found it empty. He walked down to the main door an found a little group of people assembled there. Bobby, Rogue, John, Jubilee and Max all seemed ready to leave somewhere. Kitty looked up at him and smiled.
"Now, we heard that you were leaving," Jubilee said, her hands on her hips. "And that you were going on one last date with Kitty."
Nathan looked at her, wondering where all of this was going.
"You didn't think that we were going to let you go just like that, hum?" Rogue said.
"We're inviting ourselves on your date," John continued.
"It's not fair if Kitty is the only one who gets to go with you," Max joined in.
"We want to go together," Rogue finished.
Nathan stayed silent, looking at each of them, then finally looking at Kitty, as if asking her opinion. She answered for him.
"We'll need to take two cars then," she said.
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Oh well. I was tempted to talk about where they went on the date and make some MDF (mutant detention facility) guys show up, but I just said . . . naaaahhh. I didn't want to complicate things, and so this chapter isn't that long, so . . . I can talk about the fic!! Tada!!
You see . . . in the beginning, I created Nathan by mistake. (what?). I wasn't at all supposed to make him the principal character, and I was supposed to insert things from Unfinished Business (the sequel) in this story. I just got carried away. And so, that is how this whole fic was based around one character.
I was a bit shocked (0_0) to see that most of you wanted Nate to go with Kitty, instead of Rogue. I was planning on making him go with Kitty, then break up and then going with Rogue and then all along Kitty's jealous, but then I started anticipating the sequel . . . haha. And so I created another character (my favourite up to date) to go with Rogue!!! ^_^ (No, Nathan's not going to be with Rogue in the sequel, but they will kiss . . . mueheheh). I must be disappointing some readers here, but I can assure you that you'll like the boy who's going to go with Rogue. And Bobby is going to be angry.
Humm . . . Hooligan is 'one' of my favourite characters and will be used a lot in the sequel. His big brother is a very evil mutant (evil mutants rock) . . . but then again, all the mutants I created for the sequel are somewhat evil. Haha. Destiny is a bit weird and freaky, but you'll just go 'ahhhh' when I explain her odd 'situation'.
I would love to say more but . . . I can't!!
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This chapter is boring but I would still like a review! Please! I want as many reviews possible to send in my last chapter! And believe me, you won't be disappointed . . . if you don't mind cliffhangers.
^_^
Review! Review! Review!