Lone Star
Disclaimer: If you don't know by now I aint gonna tell you. Humph!
A/N: Urgh FF.net hasn't been working for me. I'm leaving on 'vacation' to spend time with the 'family' I won't be back until Sunday so don't expect an update until at least Monday, okay? Okay.
Chapter six, Real World 101
**That following Monday**
Polaris fidgeted nervously as the students gathered around her on the lawn. It was her first lesson and she'd planned it out, but she was still nervous despite the constant reassurances from Hank and Xavier that she would do fine.
To the casual observer she didn't look nervous, to the casual observer would look like a confident woman braiding her hair in boredom, but Logan was there observing the lesson, and he could tell she was nervous. Xavier had asked him to watch her and make sure nothing went wrong, despite his confidence in her things might go astray.
As the kid's gathered on the lawn Polaris stood up and began to walk towards them.
"Yo teach!" Evan called out, "When's this lesson gonna start."
"Well Evan," She lifted her hand as if to wave to him, but Logan saw that the bracelet she wore on that arm snapped off and zoomed towards Evan, the boy didn't even notice until she stopped it a few inches from his face. "Right now. And you're dead."
The other kids began to laugh at him, but the bracelet split up into shards and all went flying towards them, and the same thing happened to them as it had to Evan.
"You all are." Polaris said and the shards came back together to form the harmless bracelet on her left wrist. "Congratulations you've all been killed by a bracelet."
"C'mon teach that's kinda harsh." Evan said sheepishly.
"The real world is harsh, do you think anyone trying to kill you would have stopped those metal shards like I did? What I'm going to be trying to do is teach you how to cope with it." She said trying to sound as professional as possible. "The real world was never kind to me, it will not take an exception on you. The mutant prejudice hype has grown now more than ever, I'm sure you've all noticed it?"
The mood turned somber, everyone knew what she was talking about, everyone had, had their own taste of the real world, small doses but none the less, no one had acquired the taste for it as of yet.
"Good then we are all on the same page."
Then she began her lesson, mostly explaining how some powers could be used to counter others, and reviewing some things the kids already knew. Then she began the hands on portion of the lesson, flinging metal objects at the kids, some of them blocked them others did not.
One of the newer mutants almost decapitated his teammate when he deflected a saw blade that was thrown at him. Polaris reprimanded him, reminding him that they must always be aware of their surroundings, some objects could be used in a fight and some could be harmful to themselves and their teammates. The kid that did this-Bobby--spent the rest of the lesson practicing his aim with Jean Grey, while Polaris watched the rest of them.
Polaris was pleased to see that most of the kid's knew what they were doing from experience, they were all good but some were better than others.
She turned her attention back on the kids, the Institute was equipped with machines that threw metal saw blades, but Polaris didn't want to use them, they had to have experience with people, machines were programmed they didn't think, she wanted them to have experience with tactics. So she took the blades from the machines and was using her power to throw them, varying in force and aim trying to catch them off guard.
Kitty phased through hers and caught it throwing it back at Polaris; Kurt did much the same thing only teleporting behind it. Scott blasted his back at her. Others with out the power to stop it with their powers ether jumped out of the way, caught it, or stopped it some other way.
Only two or three came close to clipping Polaris but she always stopped them in time, sometimes though, she'd let it get closer than normal so the kid's would feel that they were getting better so they'd work a little harder, but when Jean threw hers' at her she had to strain to stop it.
After two hours they stopped, and she called the lesson to a halt, congratulating them all on a good lesson. The kids went away tired but pleased, some complaining that her lesson had been tougher than the sessions they had with Logan, only she was much nicer than he was.
The whole time Logan watched silently as she worked with the kids, complimenting, scolding, and congratulating them. The kids all seemed to like her, they did what she said with out complaint, and he found himself pleased she was doing a good job.
After he saw the lesson was over, he walked over to her. "You did a good job, Black. The kids seem really seem to accept you." He said watching the last of them go inside. He'd been calling her Black ever since he'd found out her last name.
"You don't think I pushed them too hard?" She asked.
"Huh, no, that's my job. It's like you said, the real world aint gonna make an exception on them."
**Up in Xavier office**
Xavier, Hank and Storm watched the two figures on the lawn, they had been watching since the beginning of the lesson, with Xavier relaying the speech into their minds.
They had all been pleased with the way the lesson had gone, some of the students had shown defiant improvement.
Xavier was not alone when he thought the relationship between Polaris and Logan was a pleasant change. The way she had been affecting him, it seemed to have calmed his temper a bit, and he was not the only one who could say they were very happy with that.
"So," Storm asked looking down at Xavier, "How much longer do you think this will carry on, until one of them notices?"
"I don't think much longer." He answered wheeling his chair around. "But that's not what concerns me, nor why I called you here."
"Oh," She raised an eyebrow, "Then what did you call us here for?"
"Cerebro has picked up the movements of a very powerful mutant, and who ever he is, he's headed this way." He propped his elbows up and crossed his hands.
"Can't Cerebro tell who it is?" Hank asked hopping off of the chair he was sitting in and walking towards him.
"I'm afraid not you see, this particular mutant has been around for quite some time, I've caught glimpses of him before while operating Cerebro, but never has it stayed so constant." "Which means?" Hank asked.
"Which means that this mutant has been shielding himself from us for all this time, I looked into the Black family to see why Cerebro had never picked any of them up." He glanced out the window where he could still see Logan and Polaris talking. "Every member of her family is a mutant. I was able to detect most of them after this one started moving earlier today. I also discovered that there are people that live on the Black property that are not members of the family themselves, but they are all mutants themselves."
"Almost like a coven of mutants." Storm mused.
"Yes, the one that is moving now is undoubtedly the head of the family, he must have caught wind that Polaris is here and is on the move. We must be on our guard all of us, this mutant, is one of the most powerful I have ever seen."
"Should we tell Polaris?" Hank looked out the window, Polaris was bent over laughing at something, she had her hands up like a teapot, and he couldn't help but wonder what she was doing.
Xavier raised an eyebrow and dropped his hands, "No, not now."
"And why not?"
"We don't know who this mutant is, it may not be a member of her family, and I think its best we wait until he gets here."
"If you say so."
"Very well, you may go."
Hank and Storm headed out the door, but Hank was still wondering why Polaris was dancing like a teapot.
"Oh and Hank, one more thing." Xavier called after him.
Hank turned around to face the professor, "Yes?"
"The reason she's doing that is because this morning she discovered that Logan's skeleton is made up of Adamantium." Xavier grinned a little. "And this morning she was struck with a 'brilliant' idea."
"What-" Hank began then realized what she must have done, "Oh." was all he said then walked out of the office.
He decided that he would go to his lab, and work on a particularly hard experiment he'd been doing for a while now. On his way down there he had to pass into the entryway on the way down to the lab. He came down the steps and caught sight of Logan and Polaris as they entered, as he past Logan; he began laughing, then waved jovially at them both and continued down the hall laughing.
Logan turned to Polaris and raised an eyebrow. She shrugged and said, "No idea." And they went down separate hallways, he went to the training room, and she to the kitchen, the lesson had been tiring and she needed a snack.
When she got to the kitchen she discovered it was already full of kids most of which had been on her lesson. Apparently she wasn't the only one who needed something to eat.
"Hello Miss. Black." Jean Grey said.
"Yeah hey teach." Evan said.
"Like, hi." Kitty said.
The greetings went around. Polaris walked to the cabinet that held the chips, she'd finally gotten used to all the cabinets, as she didn't she couldn't help but smile a little.
It had been so long since she'd been comfortable in one place and accepted so well, it was nice to finally have a place to call home.
A/N: C'mon review I'd like something nice to come home to.
Disclaimer: If you don't know by now I aint gonna tell you. Humph!
A/N: Urgh FF.net hasn't been working for me. I'm leaving on 'vacation' to spend time with the 'family' I won't be back until Sunday so don't expect an update until at least Monday, okay? Okay.
Chapter six, Real World 101
**That following Monday**
Polaris fidgeted nervously as the students gathered around her on the lawn. It was her first lesson and she'd planned it out, but she was still nervous despite the constant reassurances from Hank and Xavier that she would do fine.
To the casual observer she didn't look nervous, to the casual observer would look like a confident woman braiding her hair in boredom, but Logan was there observing the lesson, and he could tell she was nervous. Xavier had asked him to watch her and make sure nothing went wrong, despite his confidence in her things might go astray.
As the kid's gathered on the lawn Polaris stood up and began to walk towards them.
"Yo teach!" Evan called out, "When's this lesson gonna start."
"Well Evan," She lifted her hand as if to wave to him, but Logan saw that the bracelet she wore on that arm snapped off and zoomed towards Evan, the boy didn't even notice until she stopped it a few inches from his face. "Right now. And you're dead."
The other kids began to laugh at him, but the bracelet split up into shards and all went flying towards them, and the same thing happened to them as it had to Evan.
"You all are." Polaris said and the shards came back together to form the harmless bracelet on her left wrist. "Congratulations you've all been killed by a bracelet."
"C'mon teach that's kinda harsh." Evan said sheepishly.
"The real world is harsh, do you think anyone trying to kill you would have stopped those metal shards like I did? What I'm going to be trying to do is teach you how to cope with it." She said trying to sound as professional as possible. "The real world was never kind to me, it will not take an exception on you. The mutant prejudice hype has grown now more than ever, I'm sure you've all noticed it?"
The mood turned somber, everyone knew what she was talking about, everyone had, had their own taste of the real world, small doses but none the less, no one had acquired the taste for it as of yet.
"Good then we are all on the same page."
Then she began her lesson, mostly explaining how some powers could be used to counter others, and reviewing some things the kids already knew. Then she began the hands on portion of the lesson, flinging metal objects at the kids, some of them blocked them others did not.
One of the newer mutants almost decapitated his teammate when he deflected a saw blade that was thrown at him. Polaris reprimanded him, reminding him that they must always be aware of their surroundings, some objects could be used in a fight and some could be harmful to themselves and their teammates. The kid that did this-Bobby--spent the rest of the lesson practicing his aim with Jean Grey, while Polaris watched the rest of them.
Polaris was pleased to see that most of the kid's knew what they were doing from experience, they were all good but some were better than others.
She turned her attention back on the kids, the Institute was equipped with machines that threw metal saw blades, but Polaris didn't want to use them, they had to have experience with people, machines were programmed they didn't think, she wanted them to have experience with tactics. So she took the blades from the machines and was using her power to throw them, varying in force and aim trying to catch them off guard.
Kitty phased through hers and caught it throwing it back at Polaris; Kurt did much the same thing only teleporting behind it. Scott blasted his back at her. Others with out the power to stop it with their powers ether jumped out of the way, caught it, or stopped it some other way.
Only two or three came close to clipping Polaris but she always stopped them in time, sometimes though, she'd let it get closer than normal so the kid's would feel that they were getting better so they'd work a little harder, but when Jean threw hers' at her she had to strain to stop it.
After two hours they stopped, and she called the lesson to a halt, congratulating them all on a good lesson. The kids went away tired but pleased, some complaining that her lesson had been tougher than the sessions they had with Logan, only she was much nicer than he was.
The whole time Logan watched silently as she worked with the kids, complimenting, scolding, and congratulating them. The kids all seemed to like her, they did what she said with out complaint, and he found himself pleased she was doing a good job.
After he saw the lesson was over, he walked over to her. "You did a good job, Black. The kids seem really seem to accept you." He said watching the last of them go inside. He'd been calling her Black ever since he'd found out her last name.
"You don't think I pushed them too hard?" She asked.
"Huh, no, that's my job. It's like you said, the real world aint gonna make an exception on them."
**Up in Xavier office**
Xavier, Hank and Storm watched the two figures on the lawn, they had been watching since the beginning of the lesson, with Xavier relaying the speech into their minds.
They had all been pleased with the way the lesson had gone, some of the students had shown defiant improvement.
Xavier was not alone when he thought the relationship between Polaris and Logan was a pleasant change. The way she had been affecting him, it seemed to have calmed his temper a bit, and he was not the only one who could say they were very happy with that.
"So," Storm asked looking down at Xavier, "How much longer do you think this will carry on, until one of them notices?"
"I don't think much longer." He answered wheeling his chair around. "But that's not what concerns me, nor why I called you here."
"Oh," She raised an eyebrow, "Then what did you call us here for?"
"Cerebro has picked up the movements of a very powerful mutant, and who ever he is, he's headed this way." He propped his elbows up and crossed his hands.
"Can't Cerebro tell who it is?" Hank asked hopping off of the chair he was sitting in and walking towards him.
"I'm afraid not you see, this particular mutant has been around for quite some time, I've caught glimpses of him before while operating Cerebro, but never has it stayed so constant." "Which means?" Hank asked.
"Which means that this mutant has been shielding himself from us for all this time, I looked into the Black family to see why Cerebro had never picked any of them up." He glanced out the window where he could still see Logan and Polaris talking. "Every member of her family is a mutant. I was able to detect most of them after this one started moving earlier today. I also discovered that there are people that live on the Black property that are not members of the family themselves, but they are all mutants themselves."
"Almost like a coven of mutants." Storm mused.
"Yes, the one that is moving now is undoubtedly the head of the family, he must have caught wind that Polaris is here and is on the move. We must be on our guard all of us, this mutant, is one of the most powerful I have ever seen."
"Should we tell Polaris?" Hank looked out the window, Polaris was bent over laughing at something, she had her hands up like a teapot, and he couldn't help but wonder what she was doing.
Xavier raised an eyebrow and dropped his hands, "No, not now."
"And why not?"
"We don't know who this mutant is, it may not be a member of her family, and I think its best we wait until he gets here."
"If you say so."
"Very well, you may go."
Hank and Storm headed out the door, but Hank was still wondering why Polaris was dancing like a teapot.
"Oh and Hank, one more thing." Xavier called after him.
Hank turned around to face the professor, "Yes?"
"The reason she's doing that is because this morning she discovered that Logan's skeleton is made up of Adamantium." Xavier grinned a little. "And this morning she was struck with a 'brilliant' idea."
"What-" Hank began then realized what she must have done, "Oh." was all he said then walked out of the office.
He decided that he would go to his lab, and work on a particularly hard experiment he'd been doing for a while now. On his way down there he had to pass into the entryway on the way down to the lab. He came down the steps and caught sight of Logan and Polaris as they entered, as he past Logan; he began laughing, then waved jovially at them both and continued down the hall laughing.
Logan turned to Polaris and raised an eyebrow. She shrugged and said, "No idea." And they went down separate hallways, he went to the training room, and she to the kitchen, the lesson had been tiring and she needed a snack.
When she got to the kitchen she discovered it was already full of kids most of which had been on her lesson. Apparently she wasn't the only one who needed something to eat.
"Hello Miss. Black." Jean Grey said.
"Yeah hey teach." Evan said.
"Like, hi." Kitty said.
The greetings went around. Polaris walked to the cabinet that held the chips, she'd finally gotten used to all the cabinets, as she didn't she couldn't help but smile a little.
It had been so long since she'd been comfortable in one place and accepted so well, it was nice to finally have a place to call home.
A/N: C'mon review I'd like something nice to come home to.
