I'm sorry it has taken soooo long for me to get this chapter up. I'm a freshman this year and highschool is a pain in the butt.

Disclaimer: I don't own anyone here.

Mutant or Goddess

Part Seven

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Catty and Vanessa ate hungrily, dinner at Ihop seemed days ago and they were both starving. Breakfast was surprisingly delicious, unlike so many other cafeteria meals. When Catty finally lifted her head for a breather, she noticed the two girls sitting across from them. A memory sparked inside her but she shook it off quickly, neither of these girls were what she was used too.

One of them, she could tell, had seen life on the street. She had two tear drop tattoos under one eye and Catty knew instinctively that she had been to juvie. The other seemed much different, when she opened her mouth to speak Catty saw the glint of a tongue ring and her sense of style was awesome. Nice, she could learn to like these two. Both were rebels. Hopefully one of them had become less rebel-like since her street days.

Suddenly Catty felt someone poking around in her mind. She looked around for the culprit and then realized, this is a mutant school half the people here can probably read my mind. When Catty lifted her head again she saw the girl with the tongue ring looking at her. As soon as they made eye contact, however, she looked away. Interesting.

All Vanessa saw when she looked around was possibility, she could learn to control going invisible and then maybe, just maybe, Michael would take her back. This idea cheered her up so much that when a bell rang for quiet, she actually stopped her furious eating and put her fork down. A ma n in sunglasses stood up and started talking and talked about the day's activities. She jumped when someone started talking inside her head. Hello Vanessa, it said. Welcome to my school, you will have a meeting with me later and we'll see if we can do anything about that nasty disappearing habit of yours.

Sounds good. Vanessa thought back. She wanted to be fixed and get out of here as soon as possible.

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The woman who had answered the door came to lead Vanessa to the meeting. Vanessa was still in the dark about who she was going to see, all she knew was that he knew how to help her. The walk through the halls was a lengthy one and it occurred to Vanessa how huge this place was. "This is the room," said the woman. She smiled at Vanessa and walked away.

The office door opened and Vanessa looked for whoever had opened it, but there was no one there. She looked around a moment, confused as to what she should do, but then a voice called to her from the room; beckoning her inside.

"Do come in Vanessa, I know you're anxious to start as much as I am."

A man sat behind the desk, and a woman in a chair next to it. Vanessa glanced at them nervously, wringing her hands behind her back. "Um, hi." She said.

The man smiled at her gently and motioned her to have a seat. "You and Catty certainly took your time getting here. I expected you sometime yesterday evening."

"Catty had to hitch-hike and we…" she paused, thinking. "How did you know we were coming?"

"I have my ways."

Vanessa looked the bald man up and down. "You can read minds, can't you."

He chuckled quietly. You're quite right. The words had not been spoken aloud and Vanessa knew that he was speaking to her via her brain. Surprisingly, she wasn't afraid.

"My name is Professor Xavier. This is Jean Gray, I think I will have her teach you for the current time. You're lessons begin now, I'm going to have a talk with Catty I think."

Jean looked at her and smiled. Vanessa liked the woman instantly, her smile was warm and caring. "You opened the door, didn't you?" she asked

Jean smiled again "Yes, I did." She led Vanessa out of the office, down the hall and into a small courtyard. Where they began to talk about the times that Vanessa became invisible against her will.

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Stanton peered in through the main gates. He could sense the two girls he knew were goddesses, but there was several other powers coming from inside the building that felt just as strong. Was it possible that the other daughters of the moon were inside?