(A/n) Ok, its gonna start to get really weird, especially when I try to explain things. Its not gonna make much sense, but just pretend it does. Confusion is all part of the fun! ;) Thanks to everyone who reviewed! (dies of happiness from actually getting reviews from people I don't know)
After the third time, I heard a small surprised scream. I shot awake, the memories ending. "Wassamatter?" I asked groggily.
Some of the students, the ones id met earlier had come running and were now standing in the doorway. Jean was further in the room, about halfway to her bed. "What happened?" I asked again, this time awake. Jean answered. Apparently it was she who had screamed. "I came in to go to sleep, and there were pictures on the ceiling. They were coming from your eyes. Like a projection." "I was just remembering and it continued into my dreams. What was it?" There was a man and a woman and they looked scared."
"Maybe…wait. I think I know whats going on. turn on the lights." I focused hard on a memory of me swinging my little brother and then opened my eyes and looked at the wall. There it was, projected from my eyes on the opposing wall. I opened my mouth, disbelivingly. I mean, its one thing to have a suspicion about something, its another for it to be true. As soon as my mouth opened, there was audio on the images. The swing creaking and my sister laughing. I blinked and it stopped.
"I-I didn't even know I could do that." Kurt was by my side, his hand gently on my shoulder. The rest of the xmen had come in the room and shut the door. He spoke first. "Maybe now we should call you the human projector." That lightened the mood. "Well, now you guys can show me your old life." I grinned. Kurt voulenteered first.
There was some images of a fat boy, a toadlike boy, a really fast boy, one shaking the ground, a girl throwing bombs she made in her hands and the briefest flicker of a blue woman before Kurt steered away from that as if he didn't want to think about it. I then projeted them onto the wall one at a time, putting memories of each one together and in a repeating sequence. "Whose that?" I asked repeatedly and the others had fun making fun of whoever was on the wall at the time. "That's stink boy, aka toad…" "Pietro is only fast when it comes to activities, mentally hes quite slow."
Eventually I asked "These are like the bad guy mutants right?" Id figured, but wanted to make sure. Kurt was the one who answered. "Yep, well not exactly bad. More just um…" The others filled in the gap "Moronic?" "Stupid?" "Incompetent prats?" "Probably all of the above." I went around getting more memories from some of the others. They tried to remember the stupidest moments from the brotherhood that they could. Scott, Jean, Spyke, Kitty, finally Rouge.
I moved over and reached out to touch my fingers to her forhead. "No, Don't!" A collective scream from the group. My eyes regained focus. "Why not?" I asked curiously. But no one aswered. They were all staring at me. "Whad I do?" "Youre touching her…and not even having a seizure."
This caught my attention. "Say what now?" "Rouges power is that she drains the life force, memories, and abilities out of anyone she touches. But its not affecting you." Rouge's expression brightened, "Maybe it wore off. Maybe im not dangerous anymore." Kurt held out a finger and Rouge tapped it.
There was a flash of light and both gave a muffled scream. "Nope. But at least someone can touch me. Maybe it was just a fluke." I held out my hands and she put hers to mine. But nothing happened. "This is, like, so weird. Maybe we should find the professor or something." Said Kitty. "Naw, lets wait until morning. Its kinda late." Rouge responded. "And maybe we should share a room. I mean, in the morning, Kitty and I race around frantically getting ready, and we've had a ton of close shaves. If not for Kittys phasing ablility…" Kitty, Jean, and I all nodded our heads in agreement.
"Makes sense to do so." Commented Jean. "And its late, we all have to go to school tomorrow. We'll move the stuff tomorrow." That's how our first "Movie memory marathon" ended. But as much as I tried, I couldn't get back to sleep. Too much had happened.
There was so much stuff I'd found out I could do, and I didn't even know if that was where it ended. It got me thinking… "Hey Rouge?" "Hzuh?" "I got an idea. We need someone else though. I'll go get Kurt." As I left, she was sitting up and rubbing her eyes, still trying to figure out what was going on. "Kurt. Hey, Kurt wake up." I gave him a couple of pokes. He gave a small jump and a squeak. "C'mon, me n' Rouge need you for something. I grabbed his hand and pulled him into our room.
"Ok, now Rouge I'm gonna try to give you my power. Then maybe you can touch Kurt. Just concentrate on trying to get whatever I'm giving you." I sat on my bed and searched my mind and found it intwined with a bunch of other stuff in the back of my mind. I concentrated on pushing it over to Rouge. Suddenly, a blue zap of light went between our outstreached fingers.
Rouge turned and held out a hand to touch Kurts finger. Nothing happened. She put her hand on his cheek. Nothing. Tears started to silently trickle down her face as she gave Kurt a huge hug. I tried to get up to join the hug, but I couldn't move. I couldn't even open my mouth. I realized I had fallen back and was lying on the bed. Rouge turned to me and started babling a hurried thanks, but trailed off when I didn't respond. "Beth…, um are you ok?"
Kurt was at my side in a bamf "I don't think shes breathing and I cant find a pulse. It might just be my fingers. I hope its just my fingers…" Rouge was crying harder now. She screamed for someone to come help. Kurt scooped me up in his arms, grabbed Rouges hand and we teleported into the professors room. Rouge screamed again, but the professor was already in his wheelchair coming over along with Logan.
Several of the other kids had appeared at the door. "What happened?" he demanded of Kurt. "She did something funny, made this zap of light go between her and Rouge." "Are you sure it wasn't just Rouges power?" "No, she was impervious to that. It had no effect on her."
Scott spoke up from the door. "Yeah, Jean woke us up earlier when she was scared by her projecting memories and then we were all giving her examples of the brotherhood and she tried to get some from Rouge but nothing happened." "And-then-later-after-the-rest-went-to-to-bed-she-she-gave-summa-her-p-powers-and-I-could-t-touch-Kurt-but-n-now-shes-DEAD!" Rouge managed to get out before breaking into fresh sobs.
