Disclaimer: I don't own Mutant X. Keitha is my own character.
A/N: This is an Alternate Universe fic. As in, Mutant X is like it was in Season 2. Emma is alive, and Adam is still leader and still mysterious. B/S
Chapter 1: Leaving Home
You'd think that I had never been on any missions the way my parents were acting- and some of them were dangerous ones, too. But I guess leaving for college isn't exactly the same thing as going on a mission. I'm leaving tomorrow. My parents are freaking out. Dad's being way too clingy; Mom isn't much better. Dad's really overprotective of me. I guess it's because I have never really been exposed to the outside world the way my parents were. I was home-schooled. Well, I went to kindergarten and part of first grade in a public school, but how is a six year old supposed to know how to control her powers? They had started to show up when I was about four, and all of us thought that I had enough control to go to a regular school. I didn't. Kindergarten wasn't that bad; first grade was. I had a horrible teacher who always blamed the girls for everything that went wrong in the classroom. One day she just started yelling at me for having slightly muddy shoes- it had been raining out. How was I supposed to keep my shoes clean? Well, let's just say I lost control. Electricity shot out of my hands and onto my teacher. Luckily, I wasn't at my full power yet. It didn't even hurt her; it was like a static electricity shock. But I spent the rest of the afternoon in the office. My parents weren't too happy. I was allowed back at school. I didn't stay past the next week. Everyone was afraid that I would shock them next. Everyone in my grade stayed away from me. The people in the upper grades knew that what I could do wasn't humanly possible. But I had done it. And those kids started calling me a mutant.
And that taunt was absolutely true. I'm a New Mutant. Second generation. My parents: Brennan Mulwray and Shalimar Fox, well, Mulwray now. They got married in a civil ceremony a year before I was born. Adam's my adoptive grandfather. I've never met my real grandparents. From what my parents tell me, I'm glad to never have met them. Mom's father threw her into an asylum, for God's sake! My Dad's home life wasn't much different, plus he lived on the street for years. Emma, she's an aunt. She just got married two years ago. She and her husband Bryant have this adorable one year old. Well, he's adorable if you don't count the fact that he's now getting into everything. Plus, guess who gets stuck with baby sitting? Jesse, he's still single. I doubt he'll ever get married. He just doesn't have that much luck with women. Plus, he's in his forties, so it's harder to find women who will go out with him.
Anyways, I'm leaving for college in, oh, twelve hours. Everything is packed and put in the van that we're taking. I wanted to take the Helix II, but Adam said it would be too noticeable. Like I care. But he's right. New Mutants aren't exactly treated well. Yeah, we're out in the open. Not Mutant X's choice. A group of New Mutants came out into the open about ten years ago. Now it seems like almost every other week that Adam's in D.C. lobbying Congress to pass a Mutant Rights Bill or something. It's supposed to protect our Constitutional rights- and keep us from having to be registered or something. Thankfully, nothing like that has come up, or if it has, I haven't heard about it. This isn't the X-men. No, it's reality- and I have to live in a world that hates what I am.
Adam is now a well known person. Mutant X is not. Therefore, only my parents are dropping me off at college. They don't want me known as a New Mutant until it's inevitable. So that's why we can't take the Helix II- and why my grandfather can't come. So it's just going to be me and my parents. Moving everything from my room here to my room at college. I have a roommate. Freshman aren't allowed singles. Not unless there's a valid reason. And being a New Mutant isn't one. That figures. So I'm probably stuck with a girl who hates me for being born different. Oh, well. She doesn't have to know. I can control my abilities now- both of them. I'm a feral like Mom and an Elemental like Dad. So, tomorrow's college. My parents won't know what to do with themselves anymore. They spoiled me rotten. Everyone did. I was the only child in Sanctuary until a year ago. And now I'm an adult and going off on my own. I won't admit it to my parents, but I'm a little scared. Who wouldn't be?
A/N: Tell me if you like this concept. If I get enough people who like it, I'll continue it. Well, I'll probably continue it anyways. So, please R &R.
A/N: This is an Alternate Universe fic. As in, Mutant X is like it was in Season 2. Emma is alive, and Adam is still leader and still mysterious. B/S
Chapter 1: Leaving Home
You'd think that I had never been on any missions the way my parents were acting- and some of them were dangerous ones, too. But I guess leaving for college isn't exactly the same thing as going on a mission. I'm leaving tomorrow. My parents are freaking out. Dad's being way too clingy; Mom isn't much better. Dad's really overprotective of me. I guess it's because I have never really been exposed to the outside world the way my parents were. I was home-schooled. Well, I went to kindergarten and part of first grade in a public school, but how is a six year old supposed to know how to control her powers? They had started to show up when I was about four, and all of us thought that I had enough control to go to a regular school. I didn't. Kindergarten wasn't that bad; first grade was. I had a horrible teacher who always blamed the girls for everything that went wrong in the classroom. One day she just started yelling at me for having slightly muddy shoes- it had been raining out. How was I supposed to keep my shoes clean? Well, let's just say I lost control. Electricity shot out of my hands and onto my teacher. Luckily, I wasn't at my full power yet. It didn't even hurt her; it was like a static electricity shock. But I spent the rest of the afternoon in the office. My parents weren't too happy. I was allowed back at school. I didn't stay past the next week. Everyone was afraid that I would shock them next. Everyone in my grade stayed away from me. The people in the upper grades knew that what I could do wasn't humanly possible. But I had done it. And those kids started calling me a mutant.
And that taunt was absolutely true. I'm a New Mutant. Second generation. My parents: Brennan Mulwray and Shalimar Fox, well, Mulwray now. They got married in a civil ceremony a year before I was born. Adam's my adoptive grandfather. I've never met my real grandparents. From what my parents tell me, I'm glad to never have met them. Mom's father threw her into an asylum, for God's sake! My Dad's home life wasn't much different, plus he lived on the street for years. Emma, she's an aunt. She just got married two years ago. She and her husband Bryant have this adorable one year old. Well, he's adorable if you don't count the fact that he's now getting into everything. Plus, guess who gets stuck with baby sitting? Jesse, he's still single. I doubt he'll ever get married. He just doesn't have that much luck with women. Plus, he's in his forties, so it's harder to find women who will go out with him.
Anyways, I'm leaving for college in, oh, twelve hours. Everything is packed and put in the van that we're taking. I wanted to take the Helix II, but Adam said it would be too noticeable. Like I care. But he's right. New Mutants aren't exactly treated well. Yeah, we're out in the open. Not Mutant X's choice. A group of New Mutants came out into the open about ten years ago. Now it seems like almost every other week that Adam's in D.C. lobbying Congress to pass a Mutant Rights Bill or something. It's supposed to protect our Constitutional rights- and keep us from having to be registered or something. Thankfully, nothing like that has come up, or if it has, I haven't heard about it. This isn't the X-men. No, it's reality- and I have to live in a world that hates what I am.
Adam is now a well known person. Mutant X is not. Therefore, only my parents are dropping me off at college. They don't want me known as a New Mutant until it's inevitable. So that's why we can't take the Helix II- and why my grandfather can't come. So it's just going to be me and my parents. Moving everything from my room here to my room at college. I have a roommate. Freshman aren't allowed singles. Not unless there's a valid reason. And being a New Mutant isn't one. That figures. So I'm probably stuck with a girl who hates me for being born different. Oh, well. She doesn't have to know. I can control my abilities now- both of them. I'm a feral like Mom and an Elemental like Dad. So, tomorrow's college. My parents won't know what to do with themselves anymore. They spoiled me rotten. Everyone did. I was the only child in Sanctuary until a year ago. And now I'm an adult and going off on my own. I won't admit it to my parents, but I'm a little scared. Who wouldn't be?
A/N: Tell me if you like this concept. If I get enough people who like it, I'll continue it. Well, I'll probably continue it anyways. So, please R &R.