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And The Truth.Doesn't Set You Free

Ev lay there in a heap, the cold concrete numbing her skin.

Singing a song that still brought tears to her eyes, she closed her eyes.

"I dreamed I went to heaven You were there with me We walked upon the streets of gold Beside the crystal sea We heard the angels singing Then someone called your name You turned and saw this young man And he was smiling as he came And he said, "Friend you may not know me now." And then he said, "but wait You used to teach my Sunday school When I was only eight And every week you would say a prayer Before the class would start And one day when you said that prayer I asked Jesus in my heart."

Thank you for giving to the Lord I am a life that was changed Thank you for giving to the Lord I am so glad you gave

Then another man stood before you And said remember the time A missionary came to your church And his pictures made you cry You didn't have much money But you gave it anyway Jesus took the gift you gave And that's why I'm here today

Thank you for giving to the Lord I am a life that was changed Thank you for giving to the Lord I am so glad you gave

One by one they came Far as the eyes could see Each life somehow touched By your generosity Little things that you had done Sacrifices made Unnoticed on the earth In heaven now proclaimed

And I know that up in heaven You're not supposed to cry But I am almost sure There were tears in your eyes As Jesus took your hand And you stood before the Lord He said my child look around you The great is your reward

Thank you for giving to the Lord I am a life that was changed Thank you for giving to the Lord I am so glad you gave

I am so glad you gave." (Corny isn't it to have her singing, but I like the song. Ray Boltz.)

Finishing, Ev closed her eyes, rolling onto her back and feeling the water slide down her body.

She stood up, gazing at the grounds, which were cloaked in fog.

Meanwhile, Sirius was looking for Ev still. Suddenly, looking up, he saw her up on the tallest tower, looking to the ground.

How'd she get there? He wondered.

Mentally shrugging, he went to the Quidditch hut and grabbed a broom. Not wanting her to run away, or fly away, he flew around the back.

He dodged among the rain droplets and landed quietly on the concrete of the tower. After setting down his broom he saw that, oh would you look at that, Ev had once again stripped of her clothes. Why did she keep doing this? Was she trying to hurt him?

Trying not to get excited, Sirius walked quietly and slowly up to her. When he was close to her she slowly pulled her foot up and placed it on the wall surrounding the tower. In the process she gave Sirius a good butt shot. God, Dayum. Okay, calm down, Sirius. Woo. Okay.

By now Ev was standing all the way up on the parapet. She hung her head back and Sirius quickly jumped down so she wouldn't see him, but her eyes were closed. Sirius sighed in relief. He wanted to see what she was doing before he revealed himself.

Ev ruined his plans. "I know you're there, Sirius." She pulled her head up and didn't look at him.

"Right," Sirius said, getting up and standing a few feet behind her. "What's wro-" he started to say, but Ev cut him off.

Spreading her arms out, she musingly said, "I wonder what would happen if I jumped. It sometimes seems like it would be so easy. Jump: die. Stab: die. Shoot: die. Weakness: Us. It'd be so easy for me to end it all." She chuckled slightly, and regretfully. "I could go to heaven. Maybe not, but what does it really matter." Now she was speaking in an urgent voice. "You'd be dead. Eventually you'd accept hell. Even if it was a millennium before it happened, what does it matter in the face of eternity? You'd take it. You wouldn't mind. The hurt would be constant and you wouldn't have to worry about the ups and downs of this shithole we call life. I think I could deal with it. Yep, I could." She nodded her head and leaned forward to fix her eyes on at the ground hundreds of feet below. "The sweet release of death," Ev muttered, sounding to Sirius a little too calm for his liking. She leaned farther forward.

Suddenly, Sirius, not liking how far out Ev was leaning, grabbed her around the waist and pulled her back.

Ev didn't struggle, just stood there with his arms around her waist. Finally he let go and she sunk down to the ground. Tears streamed down her face as Sirius squatted down next to her.

"What are we? Are we friends? Even if we aren't.what would you do if I told you something? Something I've never told anyone, not really. What if what I told you, made you see me totally differently? In a worse way? Would you think less of me? If I told you of my past, would you take it to the grave? Not feel sorry for me? I hate it when people feel sorry for me. I mean, what'd they do to me? Nothing, I answer myself." Ev rambled.

"Ev!" Sirius exclaimed, "Shut up!"

Ev looked at him, not listening to his comment.

"I'm gonna tell you something, okay? And if you ever tell anyone without my sanction, I will slaughter you. Seriously. I would hunt you down and kill you. I wouldn't even hide it, okay? I mean, your.your insides, would become your outsides. Your entrails would become your extrails. I would.pain, lots of pain." Ev choked on her words, her eyes flashing at him.

Sirius just stared at her, jerking his head around to stare at her hands which were waving about.

"O-okay," Sirius butted in.

Ev nodded and started her story. "I've said before that I'm an orphan, I think. When I either two or three my mother abandoned me. You have no idea what's it like. It's hard to trust someone after that. You're always waiting for the next person to leave. Anyway, I don't know where my father was. In jail I think. But, ummm, I was moved around to several different homes but they never worked out. I stayed at two separate homes for the longest, 2 years at each but each time I was moved. Finally I was adopted by a man who wanted a child, of course he couldn't have one himself; he wasn't married. I was eleven." Ev looked down at her shaking hands.

Holding up his finger for her to stop, Sirius stood up and retrieved Ev's clothes, placing her cloak around her shoulders and allowing her to sit on her pants and shirt. He nodded at her to continue.

Ev smiled dourly. "At first, everything went fine. I had learned to go with the flow. Not get used to anyplace for I would eventually move. So I just soaked in having a home. He was nice at first. He went to work. I went to school. He'd pick me up and we'd hang out so he could 'get to know me'. But one day, well, he lost his job. I don't know why, I mean, I was only eleven and slightly introverted. He took to the bottle then. Apparently he had been a drunk, but he'd been on the wagon for about six years, but he fell off and stayed off. He'd get drunk and pass out or make a fool of himself somewhere and get thrown out. I remember, I was home one day, when he walked in, three sheets to the wind. He got mad at me for not cleaning up the house, and so, for the first time, he hit me. Again, I didn't know what to do, only eleven."

Ev gazed at him as if looking for agreement. Sirius just took her quivering hands in his and waited for her to go on.

Ev took a breath to compose herself and charged on with her account

"He hit me a lot then. Never totally bad, but enough to bruise. I was never battered on the face and no issues were raised from the teachers. I went to a wizard's school in America, but I came home every day after school. Anyway, it happened for a couple months. Then he did something worse."

Ev looked down at her and Sirius' hands, intertwined. Abruptly, she pulled her hand away. A tear rolled down her face.

"He, umm, abused me in another way. Sexually," Ev whispered. (TRUST ME THERE WILL BE NO DETAILS SO DON"T STOP READING) Sirius put a hand to his mouth.

Ev plowed on. "He did it more than once. I don't even remember the first time. Not every night though. Sometimes he'd just pass out. Then I'd go out and walk, miles, running. Or I'd go to the beach and lay there, even in the cold.

"It ended when I was fourteen. This I remember distinctly. He came home, drunk as usual, and he started walking towards me. I knew he was going to do it again. I don't know why I didn't fight back. By then I was weak, in spirit as well as in body from the thrashings. He hit me a couple of times, a really hard one in the face, right on the eye. I fell down and he was on top of me, getting ready to do it. He was kissing my neck and suddenly a power surged through me, coursed through my veins. My hands, suddenly claws came out of the knuckles of my hands," Ev held her hands up and suddenly claws did come out of her knuckles. She ran the tips lightly across her face. Sirius' eyes widened and his mouth fell open.

"I didn't question what had happened, I just shoved them into his back. There was a total look of shock on his face." Ev smiled slightly to herself. "He took his last breath on top of me."

"You killed him?" Sirius asked for clarification.

Ev nodded, not looking at him. "After that I was numb everywhere. I pushed him off me and went to the kitchen sink to wash his blood off my hands. The claws just went back in then. At that time I picked up the phone," here Sirius looked confused but didn't say anything, "I called the police, told them I'd killed my father. They were there in the next ten minutes. When they found me, I was eating a sandwich."

Ev looked at Sirius, stared at his eyes. She needed to finish but she didn't know if she could.

"I was taken to jail for a couple nights. They came and talked to me, asked me questions. I had a trial for murder. I got off for self-defense. When they asked me if I had somewhere to go, I just said yes. But I didn't though. The trial had taken about a month. It was in the beginning of the summer, two years ago. That's when I realized that I, ummm, I might be pregnant."

What a turn of events, Sirius thought.

"Anyway, I was sleeping in a hotel. A shabby one for very little money, trying to figure out where to go. It was there that.well, some people came to tell me who I was. They were X-men." At Sirius' questioning look she held up a finger. "Apparently, I am an X-men or man or whatever. It first starts in your early teens. An X-men has like, superhuman powers, kind of like magic. Each one can do certain things. But I can do all of them. Isn't that funny?" Ev smiled at him. "The first X-man had all of the powers himself. I am the thousandth descendant of him. Apparently his powers skip every 1000 generations, so I have all of them. Anyway, the X-men who came to tell me, well their names were Wolverine, Rogue, and Storm. Wolverine had that power, kind of like a wolf, with the claws. Rogue could take anyone's powers by touching them. Storm could, well, basically change the weather. Anyway, they took me to their headquarters, a big castle that was used as a school for all sorts of X-men that had been cast out by their families."

Ev stopped and took a deep breath. "That's where I found out I was pregnant. At first I was depressed, but Rogue, who I became friends with, made me see this as a good thing. It was something good out of that pain that had been my life. So, I decided to have my baby. So for the next eight months, I stayed there and learned to use my powers. When the baby came, a doctor came to the school and I had the baby there. Afterwards," Ev sighed, "I knew I had to give it up. I was only fifteen and not fit to be a parent. So eventually I gave the baby up for adoption. It was the hardest thing I've ever had to do. I did the same thing to my daughter that my mother did to me. I abandoned her. I went to my next year of wizard's schooling there, flooing back to the castle after every day. All the while I learned as much as I could about my powers. Then, at the end of the year, during the summer, I realized that I had to be slightly on my own. I needed to get away from it all if I could. I moved to the first plane flight I could afford, England. I moved in with Vila, a professor and we became friends. I got a job. Got fired from one. I was just waiting for Hogwarts to start. I figured once I got here, I could be different. Have friends and not have my past follow me. But, I have dreams about it, and when I wake up I feel dirty. I wasn't ever going to tell anyone. But, I, uhh, I got a letter, about, well about something that shouldn't have sent me over the deep end, but it did. They sold the house. It was a nice house. I get the money. But I don't want the money," Ev burst out with vehemence. "I think I'll just give it to a charity," Ev added quietly.

"Are you okay, now," Sirius said once she had finished.

"Yes, I am." Ev cracked her neck, "You know, I don't regret it, killing him. If he had lived and I saw him, I would've just killed him with my bare hands and never looked back. Even now, I'm glad I did it. I want him to rot."

There was a silence in which the wind whipped Ev's hair around and Sirius wondered why she wasn't freezing.

Unable to stand it any longer, Sirius asked, "What kind of powers do you have?"

Ev smirked. "Really wanna know? Follow me." She stood up and jumped over the parapet. Sirius gasped and leaned over it only to see...... Ev flying? She grinned at him, grabbed his hand, and hauled him over with her. "I'm transferring my flying powers to you so you can fly, too."

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now you know her secret.

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The next chapter will show some of her X-men powers.