Disclaimer: Here we have it, part 3! I don't own X-Men. Boo-Hoo. Boo freaking Hoo. (Sorry, channeling Dr. Evil.) The only thing I own is Spark. Please leave a review, once you've read it!
Incendiarism.
Part 3:- Unleashed.
"Mama! Mama!" the little 9 year old ran into the living room, her blonde pigtails flying wildly around her face. Her mother looked up from the book she was reading.
"Yasmin? What's wrong?" she asked. Yasmin skidded to a stop and regarded her mother with a trusting glance.
"Mama... why am I different?" she asked innocently. Her mother's heart went out to the little girl who looked at her with such childlike trust.
"Oh, honey." she sighed, drawling the girl onto her lap. "What happened?"
"John was nasty to me. He laughed at me and said I was a freak."
"Don't you listen to him honey, you know he doesn't really mean that. John is your friend. It's just his dad, Yasmin, that makes him say things like that." Yasmin sucked on the end of her pigtail, thinking deeply about what her mama had said.
"You mean... like when Daddy tells me to say things and I do. Is that what John did?" Her mother nodded. Yasmin's face lit up in a brilliant smile.
"That means me and John are still friends!" she said, the joy evident on her face. "Can I go and see him?"
"Honey, not right now." her mother said. At the pout on her daughters face she sighed. "Yasmin, think about this. If John's dad made him say all those things then John's dad won't let you play with him. You go to your room and if I see him go past, I'll invite him in. Okay?"
"Okay Mama." Yasmin said, climbing off her lap and moving out of the room. At the doorway she paused and looked back sadly.
"I am different though." As Yasmin went to her room, her father entered by the back door. His normally cheerful expression vanished as he noticed his wife.
"Dolly, what's wrong?"
"I don't like using Yasmin this way Peter. She's our daughter!" The woman known as Dolly glared at her husband. He rubbed at his temples.
"Dolly. You know it's only a matter of time now before his powers explode on him. With parents like that, John's going to need us. We'll not really using Yasmin, she and John are good friends anyway. You removed the mind nudge after a few days and they both stayed friends because they both wanted to." he idly played with a dead light bulb. Dolly lifted up her hand and floated the bulb away from him.
"Peter, we'll a family of mutants, living in one of the most anti-mutant towns there is. What happens when Yasmin looses her temper and forgets the only rule of the house? What happens when she uses her power?"
"Don't worry, I can control electricity much better than she can and you have telepathy. If anything happens, we'll fix it." Peter moved up behind Dolly and wrapped his arms around her belly. Dolly lent into his embrace.
Suddenly, there was a thump from upstairs, followed by a long, high scream. Dolly was already half way up, Peter close behind her before the scream had stopped. She burst into Yasmin's room to see the young girl standing bolt upright in the middle of the floor, her eyes wide, the pupils as large as they could be.
"Yasmin! What's wrong?" Dolly asked.
"Fire... fear... John..." Yasmin said in a dreamy voice. She blinked once or twice then looked at her parents with a big smile.
"Daddy! You'll home!" she cried, throwing her arms round her dad. Over her head Dolly and Peter exchanged glances. Yasmin seemed to have no memory of what had just happened.
"Yasmin... would you like a friend to come over?" Dolly asked. Emerald eyes stared at her for a few seconds.
"Can John come over and stay the night? Please??" she begged, the pervious dissuasion about why she couldn't play with John seemingly forgotten. Dolly smiled.
"I'll go and see. You tidy up."
Outside of there house Dolly and Peter began to run, heading for where John lived, each trusting a gut feeling they both had.
//Good idea to give Yasmin a mind nuge.\\ Peter thought, hoping his wife would pick it up. From the glare she gave him, it was clear that she did.
//I didn't. She chose John by herself.\\ By then they had reached the gate that opened onto the building where John lived. All the front lights were off, clothing the house in darkness. The cool breeze of the night floated gently around them, creating a sense of peace. Dolly however, knew differently. The air around them sparked with tension and fear. She knew something was going to happen. If a few seconds she found out.
The entire house suddenly became engulfed in a giant flame ball. The heat was so intense that Dolly and Peter couldn't get anywhere near it. A gap appeared in the flames, just wide enough for two people to come out. Or rather for one person to come out, caring the other. John's father staggered towards Dolly and Peter, his wife in his arms.
"Oh my God! Where's John?" Dolly asked franticly, while trying to see if Mrs. Allardyce was still breathing."
"I don't know and I don't care." Mr. Allardyce said, his words slightly slurred. At the back of the house stood a ten year old boy, fighting back tears. He was covered in soot and there were flames licking at his feet. Without a word he watched as his house burned to the ground, unaffected by the heat. In his hand he held the only thing he had managed to save from the infernal, a silver lighter.
~~~
~The Present.~
"That's enough." John said quietly, flicking his lighter on and off. There was an awkward quiet as they all thought about what Spark had just told them.
"Why are you called Spark?" Rogue asked, trying to banish from her mind the thought of John burning his house down.
"My natural mutant gift is to control electricity. But after the experiments the scientists decided to give me teloprting power. They were unable to remove my natural gift but they made it so hard to use... I still keep my nick name."
"After the fire I was thrown out of my house." John said, carrying on with the story as if he hadn't heard Rogue and Spark, seeming to forget that he had wanted the story to stop.
"My parents took him in... then a month later..." Spark added, her eyes watering.
"They came." John finished.
"Who?" asked Bobby.
"The military." spat out Spark, her body shaking.
"They swept though the town so fast. Killing every adult mutant there was and every suspected adult mutant including Spark's parents. They rounded up the mutant kids and took them away. Most of us died after the first batch of experiments. Those who didn't... well, we soon wished we had." John said, the lighter held tightly in his hand. Everyone's attention - even Professor Xavier's - was focused on the two teens. Which meant that they had no warning.
The blast sent the whole room into darkness. There was a few clicks then a flame appeared from John's lighter, the little bit of light casting an eery glow on his face, making him look like a completely different person. Bobby could have sworn he was seeing things but was it just him or did John's eyes slant in a way that they didn't before?
And was John's hair always that shade?
"Erik." Xavier said. The other's looked around, each trying to mask the varying degrees of fear they felt. Magneto was outside somewhere and from the sound of it, he was angry.
The second blast sent all the mutants flying. Spark was holding on to the sleeve of John at the time so they both went flying in the same direction. Which happened to be right towards a wall.
Spark teleoprted at the last moment, taking John with her. As if it was a sign, all the others ran to the door and piled out, trying to work out what to do. There was no sign of either teenager in the hall outside. Rogue looked up at the light burning brightly above her, glad that the first blast had just knocked out the lights in the Professors room.
The third blast knocked out all the lights. The only sound was that of Scott, breathing loudly.
That and the braking of glass some where in the building...
TBC...
There you have it, the next part of my fic!
Thanks to all my reviewers; Pyro-Fan, FireStarter8, RogueCajun, dstrbd child, DarkPrincessPyro99, buffyangelus1, chattypandagurl, X3 and LaytonColt.
You guys rock!
I saw Spy Kids 3D recently! Well worth watching for the Elijah Wood part alone. Had to be the funniest thing I've ever saw.
"Cake" hee, hee.
Thought I only went to see it 'cos Alan Cumming was in it. Anyhow please leave a review.
Pretty please!
~Sethoz
Incendiarism.
Part 3:- Unleashed.
"Mama! Mama!" the little 9 year old ran into the living room, her blonde pigtails flying wildly around her face. Her mother looked up from the book she was reading.
"Yasmin? What's wrong?" she asked. Yasmin skidded to a stop and regarded her mother with a trusting glance.
"Mama... why am I different?" she asked innocently. Her mother's heart went out to the little girl who looked at her with such childlike trust.
"Oh, honey." she sighed, drawling the girl onto her lap. "What happened?"
"John was nasty to me. He laughed at me and said I was a freak."
"Don't you listen to him honey, you know he doesn't really mean that. John is your friend. It's just his dad, Yasmin, that makes him say things like that." Yasmin sucked on the end of her pigtail, thinking deeply about what her mama had said.
"You mean... like when Daddy tells me to say things and I do. Is that what John did?" Her mother nodded. Yasmin's face lit up in a brilliant smile.
"That means me and John are still friends!" she said, the joy evident on her face. "Can I go and see him?"
"Honey, not right now." her mother said. At the pout on her daughters face she sighed. "Yasmin, think about this. If John's dad made him say all those things then John's dad won't let you play with him. You go to your room and if I see him go past, I'll invite him in. Okay?"
"Okay Mama." Yasmin said, climbing off her lap and moving out of the room. At the doorway she paused and looked back sadly.
"I am different though." As Yasmin went to her room, her father entered by the back door. His normally cheerful expression vanished as he noticed his wife.
"Dolly, what's wrong?"
"I don't like using Yasmin this way Peter. She's our daughter!" The woman known as Dolly glared at her husband. He rubbed at his temples.
"Dolly. You know it's only a matter of time now before his powers explode on him. With parents like that, John's going to need us. We'll not really using Yasmin, she and John are good friends anyway. You removed the mind nudge after a few days and they both stayed friends because they both wanted to." he idly played with a dead light bulb. Dolly lifted up her hand and floated the bulb away from him.
"Peter, we'll a family of mutants, living in one of the most anti-mutant towns there is. What happens when Yasmin looses her temper and forgets the only rule of the house? What happens when she uses her power?"
"Don't worry, I can control electricity much better than she can and you have telepathy. If anything happens, we'll fix it." Peter moved up behind Dolly and wrapped his arms around her belly. Dolly lent into his embrace.
Suddenly, there was a thump from upstairs, followed by a long, high scream. Dolly was already half way up, Peter close behind her before the scream had stopped. She burst into Yasmin's room to see the young girl standing bolt upright in the middle of the floor, her eyes wide, the pupils as large as they could be.
"Yasmin! What's wrong?" Dolly asked.
"Fire... fear... John..." Yasmin said in a dreamy voice. She blinked once or twice then looked at her parents with a big smile.
"Daddy! You'll home!" she cried, throwing her arms round her dad. Over her head Dolly and Peter exchanged glances. Yasmin seemed to have no memory of what had just happened.
"Yasmin... would you like a friend to come over?" Dolly asked. Emerald eyes stared at her for a few seconds.
"Can John come over and stay the night? Please??" she begged, the pervious dissuasion about why she couldn't play with John seemingly forgotten. Dolly smiled.
"I'll go and see. You tidy up."
Outside of there house Dolly and Peter began to run, heading for where John lived, each trusting a gut feeling they both had.
//Good idea to give Yasmin a mind nuge.\\ Peter thought, hoping his wife would pick it up. From the glare she gave him, it was clear that she did.
//I didn't. She chose John by herself.\\ By then they had reached the gate that opened onto the building where John lived. All the front lights were off, clothing the house in darkness. The cool breeze of the night floated gently around them, creating a sense of peace. Dolly however, knew differently. The air around them sparked with tension and fear. She knew something was going to happen. If a few seconds she found out.
The entire house suddenly became engulfed in a giant flame ball. The heat was so intense that Dolly and Peter couldn't get anywhere near it. A gap appeared in the flames, just wide enough for two people to come out. Or rather for one person to come out, caring the other. John's father staggered towards Dolly and Peter, his wife in his arms.
"Oh my God! Where's John?" Dolly asked franticly, while trying to see if Mrs. Allardyce was still breathing."
"I don't know and I don't care." Mr. Allardyce said, his words slightly slurred. At the back of the house stood a ten year old boy, fighting back tears. He was covered in soot and there were flames licking at his feet. Without a word he watched as his house burned to the ground, unaffected by the heat. In his hand he held the only thing he had managed to save from the infernal, a silver lighter.
~~~
~The Present.~
"That's enough." John said quietly, flicking his lighter on and off. There was an awkward quiet as they all thought about what Spark had just told them.
"Why are you called Spark?" Rogue asked, trying to banish from her mind the thought of John burning his house down.
"My natural mutant gift is to control electricity. But after the experiments the scientists decided to give me teloprting power. They were unable to remove my natural gift but they made it so hard to use... I still keep my nick name."
"After the fire I was thrown out of my house." John said, carrying on with the story as if he hadn't heard Rogue and Spark, seeming to forget that he had wanted the story to stop.
"My parents took him in... then a month later..." Spark added, her eyes watering.
"They came." John finished.
"Who?" asked Bobby.
"The military." spat out Spark, her body shaking.
"They swept though the town so fast. Killing every adult mutant there was and every suspected adult mutant including Spark's parents. They rounded up the mutant kids and took them away. Most of us died after the first batch of experiments. Those who didn't... well, we soon wished we had." John said, the lighter held tightly in his hand. Everyone's attention - even Professor Xavier's - was focused on the two teens. Which meant that they had no warning.
The blast sent the whole room into darkness. There was a few clicks then a flame appeared from John's lighter, the little bit of light casting an eery glow on his face, making him look like a completely different person. Bobby could have sworn he was seeing things but was it just him or did John's eyes slant in a way that they didn't before?
And was John's hair always that shade?
"Erik." Xavier said. The other's looked around, each trying to mask the varying degrees of fear they felt. Magneto was outside somewhere and from the sound of it, he was angry.
The second blast sent all the mutants flying. Spark was holding on to the sleeve of John at the time so they both went flying in the same direction. Which happened to be right towards a wall.
Spark teleoprted at the last moment, taking John with her. As if it was a sign, all the others ran to the door and piled out, trying to work out what to do. There was no sign of either teenager in the hall outside. Rogue looked up at the light burning brightly above her, glad that the first blast had just knocked out the lights in the Professors room.
The third blast knocked out all the lights. The only sound was that of Scott, breathing loudly.
That and the braking of glass some where in the building...
TBC...
There you have it, the next part of my fic!
Thanks to all my reviewers; Pyro-Fan, FireStarter8, RogueCajun, dstrbd child, DarkPrincessPyro99, buffyangelus1, chattypandagurl, X3 and LaytonColt.
You guys rock!
I saw Spy Kids 3D recently! Well worth watching for the Elijah Wood part alone. Had to be the funniest thing I've ever saw.
"Cake" hee, hee.
Thought I only went to see it 'cos Alan Cumming was in it. Anyhow please leave a review.
Pretty please!
~Sethoz