Disc-nope, don't own the originals, duh!
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"Hey, big blue, come on." Logan jumped down from where he was standing, Hank walking over to Logan.
"What is it Logan?" Hank asked, adjusting his glasses.
"Someone's here, I don't know who it is." Logan said, walking towards the trees and looking up at them, Hank beside him. "Better come out bub." Logan growled, extending his claws.
The man in the tree looked shocked as he jumped out of the tree, looking from the gruff man to the big blue man with glasses. "Are…are you Professor Xavier?" the man looked at Hank.
"No…" Hank was about to say something as Charles wheeled up besides the two men.
"I'm Professor Charles Xavier." The bald man in a wheel chair said, looking at the mysterious man.
"Who are you?" Logan growled at the man again.
"I'm…I'm Nick, Nick Connery."
"And you're a mutant hunter?" Charles raised an eyebrow as Nick wondered how he knew.
"Actually, no, I just needed directions, I came to see you." Nick took his hat off, revealing black eyes with a green oval pupil (you know, like cats).
"I see." Charles nodded as Rita walked up behind Logan, putting a hand on his shoulder.
"Logan, put your claws away, your scaring him." Rita whispered as Logan withdrew his claws.
"I thought, that I might be able to stay here, because of the mutant crisis." Nick looked at the beautiful woman who stood behind that man with claws, then back to Charles.
"Of course you can stay here, mutants are always welcome, though, right now, as you can see, we don't have the best living quarters." Charles motioned to the mansion.
"Yes of course, and I would be happy to help rebuild it with you."
"What can you do if I may ask." Hank took off his glasses and put the tip in his mouth.
Nick looked at the blue man and took his trench coat off, revealing large scaly black wings and a tail, not the feathered wings Rita and Marie had, along with long white fangs. "I, uh, think I'm part dragon." Nick said with a long forked tongue, almost like a snakes, looking down.
"Who ever said any of us were perfect." Rita said, stepping in front of Logan with her wings out.
Nick smiled as Charles watched the two. "Rita, why don't you go get everyone together, we can introduce both Nick and Becky." Charles said as Rita nodded and walked back to the mansion.
"Mom, who was dad talking about?" Marie looked at her mother and then to where the three men were in front of someone.
"A new mutant is here." Rita said as all the mutants who heard stopped what they were doing and walked over to Rita.
"Really? Who?" Marie asked.
"You'll meet him in a second." Rita said, flying off to find the other mutants and bringing them all out to the front as Logan, Hank, and Charles came back with some guy behind them.
"Everyone, this is Nick Connery." Charles motioned to the guy in the back who stepped forward, he looked like a mix of human and dragon.
"Hello, I'm Ororo." Ororo stepped forward, shaking Nick's hand.
"Hi." Nick smiled to Ororo, she was beautiful.
"By the way, this is Becky everyone, she can control water and turn into water." Marie said as everyone said their hello's to Becky, oblivious to the fact that Ororo and Nick were still holding hands.
"Ya maght whant ta let go sugah." Rogue whispered to Ororo as she took her hand away from Nick, almost blushing (yes, I did say Ororo was almost blushing).
"Thank you Rogue." Ororo turned and went back to what she was doing, looking at the fountain and the lack of water. "Marie, Becky, don't use all the water next time." Ororo said as she raised her arms, hovering in the air as her eyes became as white as her hair. Nick watched with amazement as the sky clouded over the fountain and the rain filled the fountain with water.
Ororo's feet gently touched the ground as the clouds disappeared, her eyes turning back to the dark brown/black color they were. "Wow." Becky and Nick said, almost in unison.
"'Ro's a weather witch." Marie calmly told the two.
"I didn't know anyone could control the weather, that's almost like unlimited power." Becky said.
"Well, you can control water, and that's a pretty good power." Marie stated.
"And I can control fire." Shawn looked at Becky.
"And I've got earth covered." Nick said as he moved his hand towards the burnt, dead trees, watching them come back to life.
"Now we just need light." Hank smiled as a few people laughed.
"Anyway, I think we should get back to work." Charles watched the mutants walk away, going back to working on the mansion.
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"Hey Ororo, do you like Nick?" Jean walked over to where Ororo was, in the parlor that was now finished.
"He's a very nice guy, but we hardly know each other, I don't you can like someone in a few minutes." Ororo said, turning the page of Wuthering Heights, the book she was reading.
"Yeah, but look at Rita and Logan, she changed Logan totally, in like a week." Jean sat on the edge of her chair, watching Ororo read her book.
"Honestly Jean, what does it matter? People generally have to like you back." Ororo stated, putting a bookmark in her book and standing up, walking towards the kitchen.
"And what if he does? We all saw the way he looked at you." Jean insisted, getting a glass of water.
"Come on Jean, we should be helping everyone." Ororo quickly tried changing the subject, walking outside.
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"He may be a mutant but I don't like him." Logan growled, talking to Rita as the worked on the second story.
"Logan, you don't like anyone anyway, what makes him so different?" Rita smiled as Logan growled.
"I don't know, I just don't think his story about coming to stay here was the truth, then there's the way he looked at you and 'Ro." Logan said, pounding a nail into a wall.
"Get over it Logan, your just jealous." Rita rolled her eyes, flying down to the ground and walking over to Ororo and Jean.
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"Admit it Ororo, you like Nick." Jean persisted.
"I'm with her 'Ro, you almost blushed when you were shaking his hand." Rita exclaimed as Ororo looked for something to do, just to get away from the conversation about Nick.
"I don't think I've ever blushed in my life Rita." Ororo said.
"Then it's about time." Rita continued as Ororo walked over to the fountain and looked at the water.
"The water level hasn't changed since you filled it up this morning." Jean stated, crossing her arms.
"I was just checking, I heard it was going to be hot lately, I don't want it to evaporate." Ororo turned to face Rita and Jean.
"Ororo, you can make it colder if you want, besides, it hasn't gotten over 80 for a month." Rita gave Ororo a smug grin.
"Ororo, Ororo, Ororo. Hasn't anyone ever told you it was ok to like someone?" Jean sat next to Ororo on the side of the fountain as Rita sat on the other side of Ororo.
"Jean, I'd rather help you and Rita with your relationships."
"Ororo, we're all grown up now, and so are you, and I think it's about time you get yourself a man before your hair gets any whiter." Rita said, putting an arm around Ororo. "So why don't we go find Nick?"
"No!" Ororo yelled as Logan look at her from the second story.
"Come on 'Ro, lets go find him before Jean and I make you come with us." Rita stood up.
"Fine." Ororo sighed as she and Jean stood up.
"I think he went to the lake." Jean said.
"Then lets go." Rita and Jean put their arms around Ororo's arms and walked with her towards the lake. "So 'Ro, want us to stay or go away?"
"Please stay." Ororo said as they looked at the dock, there was a man in a trench coat with his back to them.
"Go talk to him, we'll stand back here." Jean and Rita shoved Ororo towards Nick.
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Nick turned around and watched Ororo stumble towards him, a red head and the woman from before behind her. "Hello Nick." Ororo caught herself and walked over to Nick. "Do you like it here?"
"Yes I do, it's nice here, very peaceful." Nick turned back to looking at the lake.
"Not for long, when the mansion is rebuilt, the mutants will be everywhere." Ororo stood next to Nick and looked at the lake as well, while Jean and Rita silently walked away from the two.
Nick laughed a bit as he looked at Ororo, she was so beautiful. "Nothing can ruin the peace here, a place without humans is wonderful."
"Not all humans are bad."
"And the rest?"
"The rest just don't understand yet, but given time" Ororo was about to finish as Nick began to talk.
"Given time they'll kill us." Nick looked at Ororo.
"That's not true Nick."
"I've seen it before Ororo." Nick closed his eyes as he remembered. "The humans…they killed all my friends in the Highlands, killed them right there in front of everyone."
"I'm sorry that happened to you Nick, but humans here are beginning to understand that we are the good guys." Ororo hesitated a second before lightly putting a hand on Nick's shoulder.
"Humans will never understand us, not for a very, very long time." Nick put his hand over Ororo's.
"But here they are at least trying."
"You always talk about here, but I am here and I only see hatred, I mean, I had to lie just to get directions to this place. Do you know what it feels like to see your best friend killed in front of everyone?"
"No, I don't, I never had to go through that, back in Africa, I was called a goddess."
"Humans are just cruel, it's that simple, humans are all alike, they'll never change. Humans and mutants can never co-exist."
"I believe that one day, they can."
"And when will that one day be? You don't know what it's like to hide Ororo, you like normal, beautiful, but look at me, I'm a walking lizard." Nick turned away from Ororo, shrugging her hand off his shoulder.
"Do you really think that appearance is everything?"
"No, but I don't want to hide my wings and tail, it's not fair."
"I know it's not, but Charles can give you an image inducer, you can look like anything."
"So I can go out to be with the humans? I'll take my chances hiding in the shadows."
"You just said yourself that having to hide isn't fair, now your getting a chance to look anyway you want to look."
"I don't want to look normal, I want to be normal." Nick faced Ororo.
"We've all wished we could be normal, but it's not possible, so make the best out of it. You're a good guy Nick, that's what matters." Ororo smiled, then turned around only to find out that Rita and Jean were gone.
"They left once you walked over to me."
"How did you know that?"
"I have really good senses, maybe it's some dragon thing, I don't know."
"Nick, you should accept who and what you are, otherwise, no one else will accept you." (A/N: did that make sense? Well, you know what I meant.) Ororo walked away, leaving Nick standing there.
"Wait, Ororo." Nick walked after her as she ignored him. He looked down as his trench coat slid off his arms, falling to the ground, flying after her and landing in front of her, startling her. "Don't be mad at me, please."
"Come talk to me when your appearance doesn't matter." Ororo began to walk off as Nick's tail wrapped around her waist, keeping her there.
"What about you? When we met the only thing you saw were my eyes, and you smiled, what did you think then?"
"I don't know what I thought, I didn't you then."
"But you do now?"
"Yes, you're a nice guy on the inside, and that's where it counts." Nick's tail loosened as he let Ororo go, walking by her side to go back to the institute.
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"You left her alone with him?" Logan growled as Rita and Jean came back.
"Yes we did, stop judging him Logan, or else I can arrange for you to sleep outside." Rita pointed a finger in Logan's face as he growled again and walked away.