A new beginning©

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A/N: In my world bobby is around 15/16 yrs old. Just to let you know. Enjoy :::laughs evilly:::

Summary: Hayley is a fifteen-year-old girl who has just found out that she's not so normal. With her mum being dead (find out how she died later) and her dad being a F.O.H (Friends of humanity) she has no one to turn too. Enter the X-men. With Professor Xavier's 'persuasive' powers Hayley must leave her old life behind and begin a new one as a mutant.

Writing like this means what someone's thinking

Disclaimer

I don't own any of the X-men characters except Hayley and Faith (Faith's based on my e-mate Sam)

Quote of the day:  "I'm sick of being everyone's butt monkey!" – Xander from Buffy the vampire slayer

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"Faith I understand what you're going through!" I cried, tears streamed down my face. The rain was coming down hard. So cold. I wanted nothing more to be inside in bed. Not out here.

"You don't understand anything!" She spat, her green eyes glowed with hate "You've had it so easy compared to me. You have so many friends! You can have any lad you want! You have a family, sick as you dad may be…."

"Don't speak to me like that!" I screamed, tugging at my tied up arms "You know nothing about my life, about my family" I couldn't believe she just said that. No don't make her angry. Don't make her mad!

"Faith, just come back inside, and we can talk about this" Bobby held his hands up surrendering "Please?"

"I've got a better idea!" Faith held up the handgun high and pointed it towards my head. "You guys go inside!"

Oh god, please I don't want to die…please…im sorry for everything ive ever done wrong...just please…

"Faith please" I sobbed and hiccupped. "It not my fault I swear…" I backed off towards a wall. Nowhere to run. Why wasn't anyone helping?

Can't stop her…hands tied together…

"Kid, jus' put it down" I could sense panic in Logan's voice "No one needs t'er know about this…"

"Too late" Faith smirked then pulled the trigger.

Bang!

Earlier

"I got an A!" I danced and sang happily around Faith in the kitchen of the institute "A for Ace, A is for Amazing A is for…"

"Annoying?" Faith sighed and sat on the kitchen stool.

"Jealously doesn't get you anywhere" I walked over to the fridge and poured to orange juices. No pulp, just the way Faith and me like it.

"Yeah, and neither does studying by the looks of this..." She pointed to her Science essay, which had received a D+. I handed her the orange juice but she just pushed it away.

"Well next time if you concentrated more on studying and not going all dreamy about Ray" I smiled

"Its easy for you to say. You and your big brain gets good grades easily, you hardly need to study…"

Ouch

She must have realized what she said because she looked up guiltily and smiled awkwardly. "…But it is all Rays fault I guess…"

"Yeah!" I agreed, and drank my orange juice.

"I mean his good looks..."

Cough. I chocked and spluttered the orange juice.

"I wouldn't go that far!" I laughed and was joined by Faith's laughter. She had her little moments but overall Faith was a great person. The reason why she was my best mate.

~*~

"Okay so Osmosis is?" I lay on my bed with the science textbook open. Faith thought hard, her face screwed up in concentration.

"Erm…Osmosis is…erm… where…oh I give up" She collapsed onto her bed and sighed dramatically "I am forever a dunce"

"Okay so you're not that good at Science" I collapsed next to her "Big whoop. Your better at R.E and other stuff then me"

"When am I going to need R.E though?" She exhaled loudly, and then quickly stood up straight looking confused.

"What? What's wrong?" I asked puzzled

"The professor wants to see me..." She said fretfully

"The professor? But I didn't hear…" I stopped when she pointed to her head signaling telepathy.

"You…you don't think it's because of my grades do you?" She asked anxiously "I mean he wouldn't kick me out of the institute through that would he?"

"No!" I said definite "He wouldn't. If it is about your grades then he'll only ask you why you think your not doing so well…"

"Okay. Good." She smiled hesitant and walked out of the door and quietly shut it.

         Minutes past and I began to feel bored. Getting up from my bed I decided to practice what I had learnt. I held my hand up and pointed towards my comb on my bed. Imagined it coming closer. It floated in the air and landed gracefully next to me. I was getting the hang of it. Right now to try it without my hands. I looked at the comb next to me. Imagined it rising. Rising. Rising. The comb flickered and raised a little, then fell.

"Ohh" I groaned impatiently. Why couldn't I do it without the use of my hands? My thoughts were interrupted by a quiet knock on the door.

"Who is it?"

"Its Bobby" I heard Bobby yelp as Kitty elbowed him in the stomach "…and Kitty"

"Oh, come in guys" I smiled when they opened the door. Bobby stood there shyly, but Kitty pushed past him and walked over towards me.

"Hey, we were like wondering if you and Faith wanted to come to the cinema's with us?" She sat next to me. Bobby shifted his feet awkwardly.

"Depends on who 'us' is" I picked up my comb.

"Me, Bobby, Rogue, Amara and Sam" Kitty smirked "No Ray. And Scott's taking us"

"I was studying…" Kitty's eyes pleaded with me "But I guess…as long as it's a good film" Kitty nodded her head "…but I don't know about Faith…"

~*~

I knocked lightly on the professor's door. Logan opened the door and half heartedly smiled when he saw it was Kitty and I.

"Hayley, wha' dya want?"

"Hi, I was wondering if Faith wanted to come to the cinema's with us?" I smiled clumsily

"I don' think so" He said bluntly

"Why?" I asked suddenly troubled "She's not in trouble? Is she?"

"No, she's...Well…she see you lat'a kid" and with that he shut the door, leaving Kitty and me staring at the wooden door blankly.

~*~  

"And then when the man jumped out" Bobby spoke excitedly "and he was wearing that…"

"Mask, wh'ith the big eyes" Rogue joined in "Ah thought ah was gunna die of fright!"

I laughed with the others. When had just got back to the institute. The movie was a bit cheesy but it was fun. Me and Bobby, something I could get used to…

"Well that's me for tonight guys" Ignoring the groans. "I'm off to study then straight to bed!" The truth was I wanted to see if Faith was ok. Climbing the stairs and reaching my door I knew something wasn't right. The hairs on the back of my neck began prickling. Opening my door I saw that the room was in darkness, but I could hear someone sniveling.

"Faith?" I asked the darkness. My eyes began to adjust to the darkness and I could make her out sat on my bed, with my…my diary!!

"What are you doing!" I demanded and snatched my diary out of her hands. I felt so vulnerable. Tears of anger and distress filled my eyes.

"You didn't tell me Hayley" She sneered and then laughed. Cold.

"How could you Faith?" I asked. I couldn't breathe. My legs felt weak. How could she expose me? My own best friend.

"I just came in from the professor" She paused, as if recalling what happened "and then I saw it poking out from underneath your bed"

You knew this would happen Hayley. Don't kid yourself, it was a dumb idea…

"That gives you no right to read it!!!" I stamped my feet like a child not getting there own way.

"Aren't you going to ask what the professor wanted me for?" She blubbered. I was took by surprise, her changing the subject like that. She didn't wait for an answer "He's just told my that my fathers been murdered…" She trailed off

"Oh Faith" I walked over to her, forgetting what was happening "I'm sorry"

"Sorry?" She laughed

"Where's Professor Xavier?" I asked. She was making me uneasy, the way she was acting it wasn't like the faith I knew.

"He's took Jean to my home town. Our home town, to speak to the police…" She wandered over to her dresser. I wanted to run. Why didn't I walk downstairs and tell Logan or Scott that there was something wrong with Faith?

"Faith…" I followed her to the dresser. She snickered and spun around. I felt something heavy smash over my head…. then darkness pursued.

~*~

It was the raindrops that woke me up. The big, fat, sodden drops that persistently fell onto my head. My throbbing head. I opened one eye and realized that I was being dragged outside somewhere. I looked up and gaped when I saw that it was Faith dragging me.

"Good your awake" She threw my down. I tried to push myself up but my hands were tied behind me back. "I guess this'll do then…"

Huh this'll do? For what?

"Faith?" I whimpered groggily "What are you doing?"

"Revenge!" She growled, "I'm avenging my fathers death!" Then I did something that you don't do in this kind of situation. I laughed. I couldn't help it this all seemed so unreal, like a film. She kicked my hard in the stomach.

"Revenge" I spat blood to the side of me. Everything seemed to blur so I blinked rapidly, afraid to pass out again. "Why on me?"

"You said in your diary that you wanted to know about my past…well listen" She leaned against a small tree and slowly slipped down it until she was sat down "My dad, when I was born told me I was his little Angel. He said they called me Faith because I was his reliance, his belief, but when my mother left us he turned to drink" She scowled reminiscing her history "He'd lock me up while he went out, then come back intoxicated telling me how much of a slag my mum was" I gazed at her. Tears silently fell down her disturbed face. I did know what she went through. I suddenly felt sorry for her, but why should I? "But then every morning he'd wake up and tell me how sorry he was. How that I was still his little angel. Still his faith. Then he found out this!" She held up her hand and looked at them appalled "This mutant curse. He did what any parent would of done, he went mad! Blamed all on my mother, but that's what any parent would do…" Faith tried to convince herself "any other parent…right?" She looked accusingly at me.

"Yeah…" I lied. My head pounded. I felt as though my skull was going to explode.

Just have to stall her.  Someone will come soon

"But what's this to do with me?" I insisted, "What's any of this to do with me?"

"Pay attention! I'm getting to that now!" she raged. Her nostrils flared. "When I left, my dad continued drinking. Last night he ran into a group of men. All members of an organization. Friends Of Humanity…" I gasped "Your right to gasp. They were drunken fools who were going around asking people to join them in the fight against mutants. Convincing people that mutants should be slaughtered, destroyed. But my dad must of remembered his little Faith and spoke out against them. He told them that they were wrong. Not all mutants deserve that" silence. Tears fell down my face freely. I knew what was coming. "He told them that his daughter was a mutant. That's when they dragged him outside and killed him"

"Oh god no!" I howled. Not again dad. He wouldn't.

"My dad's dead! And it's because of your dad and his followers!" She stood up and dragged my up to my feet.

Run! But I couldn't I was to bewildered to move.

"That why I'm going to do this" She reached into her jacket pocket "I've got to do this…" She produced a small, metallic handgun and wavered it about in the air. She smiled malevolence as my eyes widened with horror "My dad gave it to me, before he found out. When he use to lock me in my room, said it was just incase anyone tried to get in. For my protection…"

"Faith…No…" I heard my voice come out squeaking. How did she keep that gun in the institute without the professor knowing? Was she going to use it? Why didn't the professor tell me about my dad again? So many question. I waited but none of them were answered. I looked at her, concentrated. Tried to imagine the gun falling. It didn't flinch. I needed my hands for my telekinesis.

Need to stall her. Buy more time 

"What are you going to do? Kill me?" I spluttered, "You've read my diary. You know what my dad's like! He won't care!" This hurt cos' I knew it was true. I waited for her reply but she just sneered. That when I heard it. Never before as my heart leapt so high.

"I think they went this way" I heard Bobby talking then bushes rustling. Then another voice "Ya betta not be playin' me kid!" Logan! Faith's face would have been funny in a different situation. She pushed me behind a tree, but Logan had already seen us.

"Wha' the hell do ya…" he saw the gun and froze, pushing Bobby back behind him.

Bobby ice her! Logan hit her, claw her do something! I wanted to scream, but I couldn't. Why were they just standing there?

~*~

Back to the Present

Oh god, please I don't want to die…please…

"Faith please" I sobbed and hiccupped. "It wasn't my fault I swear…" I backed off towards the tree. Nowhere to run. Why wasn't anyone helping?

Can't stop her…hands tied together…

"Kid, jus' put it down" I could sense panic in Logan's voice "No one needs t'er know about this…"

"Too late" Faith smirked then pulled the trigger.

Bang!

I awaited the blackness. Awaited the pain. But none came. I slowly opened my eyes and saw the bullet that she had shot, inches away from my forehead. It stopped in mid air. I realized that I wasn't breathing, my chest ached, so I exhaled loudly; my telekinesis had come through on the last minute. Logan waited no longer. He tackled Faith to the floor. In a panic Faith turned the gun and shot Logan in his chest. Shocked at what she had just done, she pulled herself up and looked at Logan. Dropping the gun and glaring in disbelief at her hands, she turned and ran off into the night, leaving me screaming as loud as my sore lungs would allow.

The End The End The End The End The End The End The End  The End !

Woah! Was that a chapter or was that a chapter! God it was long enough, my fingers are aching! What I hear you cry, 'the end? Surely not' well it is! Lol the end of this story anyway, but I'm doing a sequel. Yeah!!! What do you think about Faith? Lol evil!!! Evil!!! Lol my email friend Sam isn't evil though so don't get the wrong idea. I'll start writing the first chapter of the sequel tomorrow (its bedtime now) so it'll be up soon. MWAHHHHHAHAH THE ANTIPATION!!! Please, please review, guys…it's the least you can do *Shows poorly, aching fingers*