Chapter 6 is up, yes! I getting a little more done than I'd thought.
Just to let you know my computer is acting up, so if you don't hear from me
in a while, don't worry I'll find a way to still write and post, and I hope
I can get this thing fixed fast.
Damn-my-name-was-taken: Thanks and I do try with the typos, and he does have weaknesses, one was mentioned in the last chapter and there is another coming up.
Also words like Vell (well), Meh (me), Ah (I), Ve (we) are not typos, I try to write in the person's accent as well as I can.
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 6: Old friends and new enemies.
The day after the danger room, Vince got up as usual and took his morning shower. Even though it was the summer, he still got up at seven every day it was a habit of his.
He was glad that every room now had a small shower. Apparently before the mansion was destroyed, by someone named Mystique, this place only had a few showers in the bathrooms, but apparently when the Prof. rebuilt he decided to add the showers and a small bathrooms because of all the line ups to use them.
After being refreshed and changed he headed to the kitchen. Ororo was there as usual, and for the past few days Vincent had helped her with the breakfast. When she asked him why he helped out, he said it reminded him a little of home.
He always helped out making breakfast at the orphanage, and this helped him to feel more at home here. Ororo was grateful for the help and was beginning to wish some of the other students were like that.
After breakfast several of the students were in the living room. Ray and Roberto were fight over the remote. Ray wanted to watch Monster Garage, and Roberto wanted to watch sports center.
Kurt was on the phone to Amanda, Kitty was trying to calm down the two fighting before something got wrecked, and Rogue was sitting on the chair next to couch, deep in thought.
Ever since yesterday she was trying to figure out the new guy. His reaction to her was different from everyone else put it was what he said to her in the danger room that really caught her attention.
'It's not me I'm worried about, you told me you also get a person's memories and I won't have you to have to go through that.'
Those words echoed in her mind. No one ever really thought of what their minds did to her. He was the first, and what he said made her think there was something terrible in his past that he didn't want her to experience.
It was then that she saw Vincent walk in casually. He took one look at Ray and Robrto and just raised an eyebrow. He went past them sat of the edge of the couch near Rogue and took the remote from the table.
"Hey guys, if your going to fight do it outside, or find another way to settle the argument." Vincent directed at Ray and Roberto.
"Yeah like what?" Ray said, not noticing Vince had the remote next to him.
"Well how about a challenge, pool, darts whatever, whoever wins gets the remote." Then he got a smile on his face and added "Unless you guys think you'll lose to the other?"
"What I'd never lose to him." Ray shouted and pointed at Roberto.
"Well bring it on Picachu-boy." Roberto replied.
They both stormed off to the rec. room.
"Wow, how did you, like, do that? I was getting nowhere." Kitty asked Vince.
"Simple, being a guy I know a guy can't resist a challenge, secondly making them thinking that they'd lose to the other would ensure they would go and lastly, I spent a lot of time around little kids so I know how to handle them." He said with a smile.
Kitty laughed at the last part. "Yeah those two really do act like a couple of immature kids at times."
"So you guys mind if I look to see if I can get one of my shows on, I don't know if you guys get the Space channel here?"
Kitty just shrugged "Sure, you earned it."
Vincent was looking around the channels. He was about to give up when he found it. He missed the opening scene but didn't really care, he had already seen every episode, now the opening sequence every show had was on.
'He was brought across in 1228, he prayed on human for their blood.'
"He what?! What is this?" Kitty asked startled at the opening.
"This is a Canadian show called Forever Knight. It's about a centuries old vampire and his quest to be human." Vincent answered her.
"You mean like Angel?" Rogue asked. She loved all the gothic, vampire and monster stories, and Angel was one of here favorite shows.
"Well kind of. See this was done before even Buffy was on, and it was filmed, and based in Toronto, and the Vampire is a cop. There's no magic or demons, and the vampires are slightly different than the vampires in Angel."
They all watched the show even Kitty, who though that Nick was kind of cute, even if he was a vampire. Kurt was still on the phone to Amanda the whole half-hour and wasn't paying any attention.
Rogue was already into the show and was asking Vincent about the show. He didn't mind it was nice to find someone who like the show.
After the show was done Ray and Roberto finally came back in. Ray had won a 3 out of 4 game of pool, which was why they took so long.
"YES!" Kurt suddenly shouted.
"Whoa Kurt, what's up man?" Ray asked him.
"I just talked to Amanda and she's coming over today." Kurt had this huge smile that threatened to split his face in two.
"So I finally get to met this Amanda I keep hearing about." Vincent said.
"How did she convince her parents, I thought they, like, forbid her to see you again?" Kitty asked him.
"Vell she just said she was going over to a friends, she didn't say vitch von." Kurt said sheepishly.
"Hey look there are a couple of cars coming into the driveway." Roberto pointed outside the window.
They all looked out and saw two cars coming to the mansion.
*Student could you all to the meet me by the front door.* They all heard the Professor's telepathic request.
"Is it just me, or is that a little creepy when he dose that?" Vincent asked that others.
Several of them nodded.
With that they sent to gather at the front door with everyone else there.
"Professor what's going on are we getting more new students?" Scott asked the Prof.
"Yes and no Scott, Bobby would you get the door?" Xavier said, all the while had this smile on his face like the Cheshire cat.
Bobby went to open the door, and was immediately grabbed over by a yellow blur. It was an asian girl with shades on her head wearing a yellow coat, that cried out "BOBBY!" in a joyful voice.
"J...J..Jubilee?!" Bobby was totally shocked seeing her again. Once he realized she was hugging him, he hugged her back.
"I thought I'd never see you again." He finally said.
"Awww." Came several voices.
They turned around to see all the people staring at them. They quickly broke apart each one turning red.
"Vhat you didn't miss the rest of us?" Kurt joked.
"Of course I did fuzzy." Jubilee ran up to him hugging him. Then turned to Kitty "And you too Kitty." and hugged her too. "And you...." she stopped when she looked up and saw that she was hugging Vincent.
She took a step back a confused look on her face. "You I don't know."
"Same here. I'm Vincent, and I gather that you're Jubilee?" He asked.
"Hey what o'bout litt'o me?" Came the voice of a girl with a Scottish accent.
They all looked to the front door and there stood a little red haired girl.
"Rahne you're here too!" Kitty cried out. She went out to her friend and gave her a welcome home hug.
"Aye, I finally convinced me ma to come back." She said happily.
"Why don't you all get settle in, I'm sure some of the other students wouldn't mind helping you with your luggage." Xavier told them.
"Here I'll help you Rahne." Roberto said. He then powered up and lifted her luggage over his shoulders.
"Thank ye Berto." Rahne said, she had a small smile on and if you looked closely you could see her blush a little.
"Well Bobby, aren't you going to help me?" Jubilee asked Bobby with pleading eyes that he couldn't say no to.
He took a look outside and there was a whole pile of luggage.
"Uh.I think I'm going to need some help guys." Bobby had a little bead of sweat from the thought of carrying all of that by himself.
"I'll help out, I'll start off with that trunk." Vince said. As he moved towards the trunk Jubilee tried to stop him.
"Wait that's too..." Vincent lifted it with no trouble "...heavy." she finished.
"Sorry that doesn't work on me." Vincent said with a smile.
Jubilee looked confused at that statement them turned around to see several people snickering, and Scott looking like he wished the ground would swallow him up.
"I'll tell you about it later Jubes." Bobby whispered to her.
After a few hours of unpacking they were all in the living room catching up. Amanda arrived at that time, and Kurt introduced her to Jubilee and Rahne who had just come back, and then introduced her to Vincent.
"Ah so you're this Amanda that Kurt keeps talking about." Vincent said to her.
"Oh and what does my cute fuzzy elf say about me?" She asked with a smile while looking at Kurt.
"You know he goes on about your beauty, how he likes your hair, your eyes, and about how you're the greatest thing to ever happen to him, you know the usual." He says in a matter of fact like manner.
Amanda looks at Kurt lovingly. "You REALY say that?"
Kurt is blushing slightly and has trouble getting his words out. "Vell.Vell..Ja I do Meine Liebe."
"Oh Kurt you are the greatest and sweetest guy." She hugs him right them and there.
Vincent looks up at this and sees how happy the two are together. "Sie's ändert sich nett und ändert sich gut anschauend Kurt, Sie's bestimmt ein Wärter." He says to Kurt.
"Ja I know." Kurt replies.
"What, what did he say? And was that GERMAN, I though you said he was from Canada?" Amanda asked staring at Kurt.
Those close by to hear this laugh slightly and they fill her in on some of Vincent's non-mutant abilities.
After a while Jubilee is hit with an idea. "Hey why don't we all go outside and have a pool party to celebrate?"
They all agree that that would be an excellent idea seeing how it was warm enough to finally start using the pool.
"Uh..I think I'll pass." Vincent says and starts to walk back up to his room.
Unfortunately for him Kitty stopped him. "Why aren't you going, you can't swim? Or is it that you don't have a swim suit?"
"Actually I can swim and I do, I just.." but he couldn't finish.
"So what's the problem?" Kitty said staring right into his eyes.
Vincent knew that she would pester him until doomsday and that there was no way he was getting out of this, but he was stubborn at times too.
"Look Kitty it's nothing personal I just can't." With that he speed around Kitty too fast for her to stop him.
"Like, what was that all about?" Kitty asked everyone. No one had an answer they all where as confused as her.
"Please students continue, I shall have a word with Vincent." The Prof. told them. He went off to Vincent's room to talk to him, and hopefully to join the others.
Vincent was in his room, staring at the ceiling. 'Nice going, what a why to handle things.' He told himself. He was getting into a familiar dark mood when there was a knock on his door.
Vince sighed to himself and went to open it. He wasn't surprised to see Xavier.
"May I come in?" He asked him, you could hear the concern in his voice.
Vincent just gave a shrug. "It's your house."
Xavier wheeled himself in as Vincent took a seat on his bead.
"Vincent I know why you don't go out with the others. You don't want them to see your scars, and are afraid of the questions they would ask, questions that you don't want to answer."
Vince hung his head down. He always hated it when people saw the scars for the first time. The shocked looks, gasps, the questions, and the looks of pity. He hated the pity worst of all.
"You don't have to tell them about your past, but you can't hide from the world forever either." Xavier calmly told him.
"I guess it was going to happen sooner or later, I might as well get it over with." Vince said, with a deep sadness. He knew he couldn't hide forever, it was just this was always the hardest part.
~Outside by the pool~
"No way he actually beat the New Mutants and the X-Men?" Jubilee could hardly believe it. Booby had just finished telling him how all the New Mutants could get their own suits and how they did.
"Believe me he did, I still got a couple a bruises from that battle." Bobby muttered while rubbing his shoulder.
"Wow. So what else did I miss out on?" She asked him.
"Well let's see, Tabby's back with us, but you could see that, oh and Kitty is back together with Lance again."
"YOU'RE KIDDING! Her and Avalanche are back together? Why?" Jubilee wasn't sure which was more shocking, the fact that Vince was extremely powerful, or the whole Land and Kitty thing.
"Yeah but I give it two more months until they break apart again." Bobby started laughing at his joke at Kitty's expense.
Soon Jubilee joined in the laughter, because she knew how well her relationships with Lance went.
While they were talking and catching up the others were having some fun. Most of the students were in the pool playing even Amanda who had borrowed a suit, while Scott was really enjoying putting sunscreen on Jean's back.. The teachers were off to the side talking, except for Logan who was starting up the barbeque.
Tabitha and Amara were sitting together talking and checking out the guys in their swim wear. Well Tabitha was and Amara was trying not too but to no avail with Taby's insistence.
"Ya know there really are some perks to living here, at least here there are some cute boys, unlike at the Brotherhood place." Tabitha said to Amara.
"You mean like Sam?" She asked her friend with a smirk on her face and elbowing her in the arm. Everyone seemed to notice that Sam had a thing for Tabby except for Tabby.
"What are you talking about Amara?" Tabitha said.
"Oh come on haven't you noticed that Sam is usually extra nice to you, that he stood up for you in the danger room yesterday and that he keeps looking at you when your not looking?" Amara couldn't believe that she hadn't noticed everyone else seemed to.
"Well now that you mention it he has, plus he is.kinda cute, I just wish he wasn't so shy about it, plus it's not like going out with anyone."
"Well join the club." Amara said. She was getting a little depressed at that turn in the conversation.
They were about to change the subject to something other than their social lives when everyone heard a shout from Jamie.
"HEY COOL YOU GOT A TATTOO!" Jamie yelled out. He was just drying off and about to see if Logan was getting the food ready when he saw Vincent step out. He immediately saw the tattoo over Vincent's heart, and thought it was cool and wished he was old enough to get one.
Vincent cringed at Jamie's yell. Now everyone turned over to him and was staring at his tattoo. It made him vary uncomfortable to be the center of attention like that.
He quickly passed by looking for an isolated spot. He saw a spot near Rogue, and decided to go there, because people were giving her a slightly wide berth. Most likely because she was reading in a backless one piece, and a lot of her skin was exposed.
As he was coming towards Tabitha and Amare, they couldn't stop to admire his tattoo and his fighter's body. He only had a pair of black swim trunks, a pair of sunglasses, a towel, some sun block and a book in his hands.
"Well there's another nice thing about living here." Tabitha whispered to Amara.
"Tabitha!" Amara couldn't believe she just said that.
"Well he is cute and nice like Sam, you got to admit that." She responded.
Although she had to admit for a commoner he was cute. She was about to say something else but never got the chance. At that moment Vincent had walked past them and she could see his back.
She let out a gasp and covered her mouth. Tabitha who had been looking at Amara saw this and quickly turned around to see the scars.
"Good God, what happened to him?" Tabitha's eyes were wide with shock and her words were but a whisper.
Vincent heard all the gasps, saw the shocked expressions and just kept going. 'At least there not asking any question yet.' He thought to himself.
He made it to the spot where Rogue who was too intent on reading her book to notice.
"You mind me sitting here?" He asked her.
Rogue nearly jumped. No one ever asked her that, they usually just leave her alone, or tell her that the foods ready.
"Sure as long as ya are quiet." She told him.
He simply smiled and nodded. He set up his blanket, and put on some sun screen on his front and laid down on his back and began reading.
After awhile she looked over an noticed the book he was reading the title read 'Hero in the Shadows' written by someone called David Gemmell. He looked really interested in the book.
"So is that book any good?" She didn't know why she asked, she guessed she just spent a lot of the time by herself, and now that someone was actually sitting with her she wanted to talk to someone.
"Yes it is, I David Gemmell is one of my favorite authors, because his stories are incredible to me, and his characters seem more real because of all the vaults he puts into his characters." He said.
"What do ya mean by faults?" She wanted to know.
"Well one of the main characters is a lord, but before that he was a common farmer, who's family was killed, he hunted them all down and became an assassin."
"You're kiddin'?" she asked, she never heard of a character like that before.
They started to stop reading them, and started to talk about all the books they liked. Rogue was into a lot of horror stuff and things by Anne Rice.
Vince talked about all the sci-fi and fantasy books he read. She was really starting to get intrigued by this Gemmell guy and asked if he had any spare books. He told her he had a whole collection she could go through.
Vincent looked down and realized that he should turn around. He was trying to put some sun-block on his back but couldn't reach.
"You help some help with that?" He heard Rogue ask him. She didn't know why exactly, she guess he was being nice to her so she needed to pay him back.
"I...uh...I don't want to get your gloves messed up." Vincent was vary nervous, and it wasn't the her powers that he was nervous about, it was the fact that she would get a close up view of all the scares on his back.
"Sugar these are mah spare gloves, and Ah have a dozen more pare, but if you don't..."She knew he would say no, she was just being polite. Who in their right mind would want her to touch them.
So when he said yes, she was completely surprised. He turned over and she slowly went over to him. She was vary careful to only touch him with her gloves. She could feel her heart pounding.
'Ah can't believe he's actually lettin' me do this.' She could feel the muscles on his back, they felt hard as steel. See could also see scars on his back even more closely and wondered what he went through in life.
She was about done, when she started to trace alone the huge scar on his back.
"This looks like it really must of hurted." She told him.
"In its own way it still does." He said it with a deep sense of pain, so she let it go at that.
She went back to her own blanket and after awhile started to put some on her own back, but was having difficulty.
"Want me to return the favor, that is if you lend me your gloves." She heard Vince ask her. She was petrified. No one EVER actually wanted to touch her. She was afraid, yet also a part of her that hoped for human contact wanted to agree.
"You...you don't want to do that, you could get hurt."
"I'll be careful, besides I always return a favor to a friend." He had that smile of his on that seemed to put people at ease. She pulled off her gloves, and through them at him. "Okay fine, but if you get put into a comma, don't blame meh." She told him.
"Don't worry I'll be careful."
So Rogue laid down on her front. Wondering why she was letting anyone do this. She was about to changer her mind when his hands started to rub the sun-block on her.
Even with the gloves she relished the sensation of being 'touched', it was the closest contact she had without draining anyone. His hands were strong but yet he was gentle too, he was gently rubbing it on her back.
It felt so good, she lost all her fear for a moment and just let herself enjoy the sensation. She was enjoying it so much she let slip a little moan of pleasure. She didn't realized she did when Vincent suddenly froze up at it.
She looked up and his face had turned all red, and she suddenly remembered what she did. She then started turning just as red.
"A.yeah.that's.good, I mean your done, I mean I'm finished." Vincent managed to stutter out. He took off her gloves and laid them next to her.
They both laid down in silence both to embarrassed to talk to each other.
Tabitha and Amara had been watching the whole time and could believe it.
"Well looks like someone finally touched the untouchable." Was all Taby could say.
"OW!" she heard Amara say, she looked over to see her rubbing her neck, "What happen-OW!" Tabitha said, swatting her own neck.
"Damn it, are the mosquitoes out all ready?" Tabitha asked her friend.
Unfortunately they or anyone else noticed that everyone else suddenly got a painful 'bite' from what they though was a mosquito.
~Undisclosed location~
Two individuals where looking at several large screens some had video footage of the students in the back yard, others had data on them.
One of them was in robes, his face covered in strange green tattoos; he was Mesmero, an evil mutant telepath and loyal servant of Apocalypse.
Next to him sitting on a thrown-like seat was a man who's face was pure white, glowing red eyes, raven hair, and when he smiled he showed his sharpened teeth. He was Sinister, the mad scientist.
"So it seems your insect robots got all the blood samples we needed." Mesmero stated.
"Unfortunately not. The new mutant they have, his skin is too tough to penatrate." Sinister told him.
"But we might need his power for the future." Memero was near panic. They had much work to do and they could use all the resources they needed.
"Fear not, I'm sure their Mr. McCoy has found a way to get some genetic samples from him, so all we have to do is get it." Sinister coolly stated.
"And how do we accomplish that, the mansion is a fortress." Mesmero was getting angry, that Sinister sounded like he could just walk in there and take what ever they needed.
"That my dear ally is where our newest accomplice comes in, isn't that right Ms. Darkholme?" Sinister turned towards a female by the door.
"I've told you Sinister, call me Mystique." She told him, with a ice in her voice.
Yep that's right Mesmero, Sinister, and Mystique have teamed up.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 7:CALL ME MAYHEM
TRANSLATIONS i) Sie's ändert sich nett und ändert sich gut anschauend Kurt, Sie's bestimmt ein Wärter.
i) She's vary nice and vary good looking Kurt, She's definitely a keeper.
Meine Liebe - My love
Damn-my-name-was-taken: Thanks and I do try with the typos, and he does have weaknesses, one was mentioned in the last chapter and there is another coming up.
Also words like Vell (well), Meh (me), Ah (I), Ve (we) are not typos, I try to write in the person's accent as well as I can.
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 6: Old friends and new enemies.
The day after the danger room, Vince got up as usual and took his morning shower. Even though it was the summer, he still got up at seven every day it was a habit of his.
He was glad that every room now had a small shower. Apparently before the mansion was destroyed, by someone named Mystique, this place only had a few showers in the bathrooms, but apparently when the Prof. rebuilt he decided to add the showers and a small bathrooms because of all the line ups to use them.
After being refreshed and changed he headed to the kitchen. Ororo was there as usual, and for the past few days Vincent had helped her with the breakfast. When she asked him why he helped out, he said it reminded him a little of home.
He always helped out making breakfast at the orphanage, and this helped him to feel more at home here. Ororo was grateful for the help and was beginning to wish some of the other students were like that.
After breakfast several of the students were in the living room. Ray and Roberto were fight over the remote. Ray wanted to watch Monster Garage, and Roberto wanted to watch sports center.
Kurt was on the phone to Amanda, Kitty was trying to calm down the two fighting before something got wrecked, and Rogue was sitting on the chair next to couch, deep in thought.
Ever since yesterday she was trying to figure out the new guy. His reaction to her was different from everyone else put it was what he said to her in the danger room that really caught her attention.
'It's not me I'm worried about, you told me you also get a person's memories and I won't have you to have to go through that.'
Those words echoed in her mind. No one ever really thought of what their minds did to her. He was the first, and what he said made her think there was something terrible in his past that he didn't want her to experience.
It was then that she saw Vincent walk in casually. He took one look at Ray and Robrto and just raised an eyebrow. He went past them sat of the edge of the couch near Rogue and took the remote from the table.
"Hey guys, if your going to fight do it outside, or find another way to settle the argument." Vincent directed at Ray and Roberto.
"Yeah like what?" Ray said, not noticing Vince had the remote next to him.
"Well how about a challenge, pool, darts whatever, whoever wins gets the remote." Then he got a smile on his face and added "Unless you guys think you'll lose to the other?"
"What I'd never lose to him." Ray shouted and pointed at Roberto.
"Well bring it on Picachu-boy." Roberto replied.
They both stormed off to the rec. room.
"Wow, how did you, like, do that? I was getting nowhere." Kitty asked Vince.
"Simple, being a guy I know a guy can't resist a challenge, secondly making them thinking that they'd lose to the other would ensure they would go and lastly, I spent a lot of time around little kids so I know how to handle them." He said with a smile.
Kitty laughed at the last part. "Yeah those two really do act like a couple of immature kids at times."
"So you guys mind if I look to see if I can get one of my shows on, I don't know if you guys get the Space channel here?"
Kitty just shrugged "Sure, you earned it."
Vincent was looking around the channels. He was about to give up when he found it. He missed the opening scene but didn't really care, he had already seen every episode, now the opening sequence every show had was on.
'He was brought across in 1228, he prayed on human for their blood.'
"He what?! What is this?" Kitty asked startled at the opening.
"This is a Canadian show called Forever Knight. It's about a centuries old vampire and his quest to be human." Vincent answered her.
"You mean like Angel?" Rogue asked. She loved all the gothic, vampire and monster stories, and Angel was one of here favorite shows.
"Well kind of. See this was done before even Buffy was on, and it was filmed, and based in Toronto, and the Vampire is a cop. There's no magic or demons, and the vampires are slightly different than the vampires in Angel."
They all watched the show even Kitty, who though that Nick was kind of cute, even if he was a vampire. Kurt was still on the phone to Amanda the whole half-hour and wasn't paying any attention.
Rogue was already into the show and was asking Vincent about the show. He didn't mind it was nice to find someone who like the show.
After the show was done Ray and Roberto finally came back in. Ray had won a 3 out of 4 game of pool, which was why they took so long.
"YES!" Kurt suddenly shouted.
"Whoa Kurt, what's up man?" Ray asked him.
"I just talked to Amanda and she's coming over today." Kurt had this huge smile that threatened to split his face in two.
"So I finally get to met this Amanda I keep hearing about." Vincent said.
"How did she convince her parents, I thought they, like, forbid her to see you again?" Kitty asked him.
"Vell she just said she was going over to a friends, she didn't say vitch von." Kurt said sheepishly.
"Hey look there are a couple of cars coming into the driveway." Roberto pointed outside the window.
They all looked out and saw two cars coming to the mansion.
*Student could you all to the meet me by the front door.* They all heard the Professor's telepathic request.
"Is it just me, or is that a little creepy when he dose that?" Vincent asked that others.
Several of them nodded.
With that they sent to gather at the front door with everyone else there.
"Professor what's going on are we getting more new students?" Scott asked the Prof.
"Yes and no Scott, Bobby would you get the door?" Xavier said, all the while had this smile on his face like the Cheshire cat.
Bobby went to open the door, and was immediately grabbed over by a yellow blur. It was an asian girl with shades on her head wearing a yellow coat, that cried out "BOBBY!" in a joyful voice.
"J...J..Jubilee?!" Bobby was totally shocked seeing her again. Once he realized she was hugging him, he hugged her back.
"I thought I'd never see you again." He finally said.
"Awww." Came several voices.
They turned around to see all the people staring at them. They quickly broke apart each one turning red.
"Vhat you didn't miss the rest of us?" Kurt joked.
"Of course I did fuzzy." Jubilee ran up to him hugging him. Then turned to Kitty "And you too Kitty." and hugged her too. "And you...." she stopped when she looked up and saw that she was hugging Vincent.
She took a step back a confused look on her face. "You I don't know."
"Same here. I'm Vincent, and I gather that you're Jubilee?" He asked.
"Hey what o'bout litt'o me?" Came the voice of a girl with a Scottish accent.
They all looked to the front door and there stood a little red haired girl.
"Rahne you're here too!" Kitty cried out. She went out to her friend and gave her a welcome home hug.
"Aye, I finally convinced me ma to come back." She said happily.
"Why don't you all get settle in, I'm sure some of the other students wouldn't mind helping you with your luggage." Xavier told them.
"Here I'll help you Rahne." Roberto said. He then powered up and lifted her luggage over his shoulders.
"Thank ye Berto." Rahne said, she had a small smile on and if you looked closely you could see her blush a little.
"Well Bobby, aren't you going to help me?" Jubilee asked Bobby with pleading eyes that he couldn't say no to.
He took a look outside and there was a whole pile of luggage.
"Uh.I think I'm going to need some help guys." Bobby had a little bead of sweat from the thought of carrying all of that by himself.
"I'll help out, I'll start off with that trunk." Vince said. As he moved towards the trunk Jubilee tried to stop him.
"Wait that's too..." Vincent lifted it with no trouble "...heavy." she finished.
"Sorry that doesn't work on me." Vincent said with a smile.
Jubilee looked confused at that statement them turned around to see several people snickering, and Scott looking like he wished the ground would swallow him up.
"I'll tell you about it later Jubes." Bobby whispered to her.
After a few hours of unpacking they were all in the living room catching up. Amanda arrived at that time, and Kurt introduced her to Jubilee and Rahne who had just come back, and then introduced her to Vincent.
"Ah so you're this Amanda that Kurt keeps talking about." Vincent said to her.
"Oh and what does my cute fuzzy elf say about me?" She asked with a smile while looking at Kurt.
"You know he goes on about your beauty, how he likes your hair, your eyes, and about how you're the greatest thing to ever happen to him, you know the usual." He says in a matter of fact like manner.
Amanda looks at Kurt lovingly. "You REALY say that?"
Kurt is blushing slightly and has trouble getting his words out. "Vell.Vell..Ja I do Meine Liebe."
"Oh Kurt you are the greatest and sweetest guy." She hugs him right them and there.
Vincent looks up at this and sees how happy the two are together. "Sie's ändert sich nett und ändert sich gut anschauend Kurt, Sie's bestimmt ein Wärter." He says to Kurt.
"Ja I know." Kurt replies.
"What, what did he say? And was that GERMAN, I though you said he was from Canada?" Amanda asked staring at Kurt.
Those close by to hear this laugh slightly and they fill her in on some of Vincent's non-mutant abilities.
After a while Jubilee is hit with an idea. "Hey why don't we all go outside and have a pool party to celebrate?"
They all agree that that would be an excellent idea seeing how it was warm enough to finally start using the pool.
"Uh..I think I'll pass." Vincent says and starts to walk back up to his room.
Unfortunately for him Kitty stopped him. "Why aren't you going, you can't swim? Or is it that you don't have a swim suit?"
"Actually I can swim and I do, I just.." but he couldn't finish.
"So what's the problem?" Kitty said staring right into his eyes.
Vincent knew that she would pester him until doomsday and that there was no way he was getting out of this, but he was stubborn at times too.
"Look Kitty it's nothing personal I just can't." With that he speed around Kitty too fast for her to stop him.
"Like, what was that all about?" Kitty asked everyone. No one had an answer they all where as confused as her.
"Please students continue, I shall have a word with Vincent." The Prof. told them. He went off to Vincent's room to talk to him, and hopefully to join the others.
Vincent was in his room, staring at the ceiling. 'Nice going, what a why to handle things.' He told himself. He was getting into a familiar dark mood when there was a knock on his door.
Vince sighed to himself and went to open it. He wasn't surprised to see Xavier.
"May I come in?" He asked him, you could hear the concern in his voice.
Vincent just gave a shrug. "It's your house."
Xavier wheeled himself in as Vincent took a seat on his bead.
"Vincent I know why you don't go out with the others. You don't want them to see your scars, and are afraid of the questions they would ask, questions that you don't want to answer."
Vince hung his head down. He always hated it when people saw the scars for the first time. The shocked looks, gasps, the questions, and the looks of pity. He hated the pity worst of all.
"You don't have to tell them about your past, but you can't hide from the world forever either." Xavier calmly told him.
"I guess it was going to happen sooner or later, I might as well get it over with." Vince said, with a deep sadness. He knew he couldn't hide forever, it was just this was always the hardest part.
~Outside by the pool~
"No way he actually beat the New Mutants and the X-Men?" Jubilee could hardly believe it. Booby had just finished telling him how all the New Mutants could get their own suits and how they did.
"Believe me he did, I still got a couple a bruises from that battle." Bobby muttered while rubbing his shoulder.
"Wow. So what else did I miss out on?" She asked him.
"Well let's see, Tabby's back with us, but you could see that, oh and Kitty is back together with Lance again."
"YOU'RE KIDDING! Her and Avalanche are back together? Why?" Jubilee wasn't sure which was more shocking, the fact that Vince was extremely powerful, or the whole Land and Kitty thing.
"Yeah but I give it two more months until they break apart again." Bobby started laughing at his joke at Kitty's expense.
Soon Jubilee joined in the laughter, because she knew how well her relationships with Lance went.
While they were talking and catching up the others were having some fun. Most of the students were in the pool playing even Amanda who had borrowed a suit, while Scott was really enjoying putting sunscreen on Jean's back.. The teachers were off to the side talking, except for Logan who was starting up the barbeque.
Tabitha and Amara were sitting together talking and checking out the guys in their swim wear. Well Tabitha was and Amara was trying not too but to no avail with Taby's insistence.
"Ya know there really are some perks to living here, at least here there are some cute boys, unlike at the Brotherhood place." Tabitha said to Amara.
"You mean like Sam?" She asked her friend with a smirk on her face and elbowing her in the arm. Everyone seemed to notice that Sam had a thing for Tabby except for Tabby.
"What are you talking about Amara?" Tabitha said.
"Oh come on haven't you noticed that Sam is usually extra nice to you, that he stood up for you in the danger room yesterday and that he keeps looking at you when your not looking?" Amara couldn't believe that she hadn't noticed everyone else seemed to.
"Well now that you mention it he has, plus he is.kinda cute, I just wish he wasn't so shy about it, plus it's not like going out with anyone."
"Well join the club." Amara said. She was getting a little depressed at that turn in the conversation.
They were about to change the subject to something other than their social lives when everyone heard a shout from Jamie.
"HEY COOL YOU GOT A TATTOO!" Jamie yelled out. He was just drying off and about to see if Logan was getting the food ready when he saw Vincent step out. He immediately saw the tattoo over Vincent's heart, and thought it was cool and wished he was old enough to get one.
Vincent cringed at Jamie's yell. Now everyone turned over to him and was staring at his tattoo. It made him vary uncomfortable to be the center of attention like that.
He quickly passed by looking for an isolated spot. He saw a spot near Rogue, and decided to go there, because people were giving her a slightly wide berth. Most likely because she was reading in a backless one piece, and a lot of her skin was exposed.
As he was coming towards Tabitha and Amare, they couldn't stop to admire his tattoo and his fighter's body. He only had a pair of black swim trunks, a pair of sunglasses, a towel, some sun block and a book in his hands.
"Well there's another nice thing about living here." Tabitha whispered to Amara.
"Tabitha!" Amara couldn't believe she just said that.
"Well he is cute and nice like Sam, you got to admit that." She responded.
Although she had to admit for a commoner he was cute. She was about to say something else but never got the chance. At that moment Vincent had walked past them and she could see his back.
She let out a gasp and covered her mouth. Tabitha who had been looking at Amara saw this and quickly turned around to see the scars.
"Good God, what happened to him?" Tabitha's eyes were wide with shock and her words were but a whisper.
Vincent heard all the gasps, saw the shocked expressions and just kept going. 'At least there not asking any question yet.' He thought to himself.
He made it to the spot where Rogue who was too intent on reading her book to notice.
"You mind me sitting here?" He asked her.
Rogue nearly jumped. No one ever asked her that, they usually just leave her alone, or tell her that the foods ready.
"Sure as long as ya are quiet." She told him.
He simply smiled and nodded. He set up his blanket, and put on some sun screen on his front and laid down on his back and began reading.
After awhile she looked over an noticed the book he was reading the title read 'Hero in the Shadows' written by someone called David Gemmell. He looked really interested in the book.
"So is that book any good?" She didn't know why she asked, she guessed she just spent a lot of the time by herself, and now that someone was actually sitting with her she wanted to talk to someone.
"Yes it is, I David Gemmell is one of my favorite authors, because his stories are incredible to me, and his characters seem more real because of all the vaults he puts into his characters." He said.
"What do ya mean by faults?" She wanted to know.
"Well one of the main characters is a lord, but before that he was a common farmer, who's family was killed, he hunted them all down and became an assassin."
"You're kiddin'?" she asked, she never heard of a character like that before.
They started to stop reading them, and started to talk about all the books they liked. Rogue was into a lot of horror stuff and things by Anne Rice.
Vince talked about all the sci-fi and fantasy books he read. She was really starting to get intrigued by this Gemmell guy and asked if he had any spare books. He told her he had a whole collection she could go through.
Vincent looked down and realized that he should turn around. He was trying to put some sun-block on his back but couldn't reach.
"You help some help with that?" He heard Rogue ask him. She didn't know why exactly, she guess he was being nice to her so she needed to pay him back.
"I...uh...I don't want to get your gloves messed up." Vincent was vary nervous, and it wasn't the her powers that he was nervous about, it was the fact that she would get a close up view of all the scares on his back.
"Sugar these are mah spare gloves, and Ah have a dozen more pare, but if you don't..."She knew he would say no, she was just being polite. Who in their right mind would want her to touch them.
So when he said yes, she was completely surprised. He turned over and she slowly went over to him. She was vary careful to only touch him with her gloves. She could feel her heart pounding.
'Ah can't believe he's actually lettin' me do this.' She could feel the muscles on his back, they felt hard as steel. See could also see scars on his back even more closely and wondered what he went through in life.
She was about done, when she started to trace alone the huge scar on his back.
"This looks like it really must of hurted." She told him.
"In its own way it still does." He said it with a deep sense of pain, so she let it go at that.
She went back to her own blanket and after awhile started to put some on her own back, but was having difficulty.
"Want me to return the favor, that is if you lend me your gloves." She heard Vince ask her. She was petrified. No one EVER actually wanted to touch her. She was afraid, yet also a part of her that hoped for human contact wanted to agree.
"You...you don't want to do that, you could get hurt."
"I'll be careful, besides I always return a favor to a friend." He had that smile of his on that seemed to put people at ease. She pulled off her gloves, and through them at him. "Okay fine, but if you get put into a comma, don't blame meh." She told him.
"Don't worry I'll be careful."
So Rogue laid down on her front. Wondering why she was letting anyone do this. She was about to changer her mind when his hands started to rub the sun-block on her.
Even with the gloves she relished the sensation of being 'touched', it was the closest contact she had without draining anyone. His hands were strong but yet he was gentle too, he was gently rubbing it on her back.
It felt so good, she lost all her fear for a moment and just let herself enjoy the sensation. She was enjoying it so much she let slip a little moan of pleasure. She didn't realized she did when Vincent suddenly froze up at it.
She looked up and his face had turned all red, and she suddenly remembered what she did. She then started turning just as red.
"A.yeah.that's.good, I mean your done, I mean I'm finished." Vincent managed to stutter out. He took off her gloves and laid them next to her.
They both laid down in silence both to embarrassed to talk to each other.
Tabitha and Amara had been watching the whole time and could believe it.
"Well looks like someone finally touched the untouchable." Was all Taby could say.
"OW!" she heard Amara say, she looked over to see her rubbing her neck, "What happen-OW!" Tabitha said, swatting her own neck.
"Damn it, are the mosquitoes out all ready?" Tabitha asked her friend.
Unfortunately they or anyone else noticed that everyone else suddenly got a painful 'bite' from what they though was a mosquito.
~Undisclosed location~
Two individuals where looking at several large screens some had video footage of the students in the back yard, others had data on them.
One of them was in robes, his face covered in strange green tattoos; he was Mesmero, an evil mutant telepath and loyal servant of Apocalypse.
Next to him sitting on a thrown-like seat was a man who's face was pure white, glowing red eyes, raven hair, and when he smiled he showed his sharpened teeth. He was Sinister, the mad scientist.
"So it seems your insect robots got all the blood samples we needed." Mesmero stated.
"Unfortunately not. The new mutant they have, his skin is too tough to penatrate." Sinister told him.
"But we might need his power for the future." Memero was near panic. They had much work to do and they could use all the resources they needed.
"Fear not, I'm sure their Mr. McCoy has found a way to get some genetic samples from him, so all we have to do is get it." Sinister coolly stated.
"And how do we accomplish that, the mansion is a fortress." Mesmero was getting angry, that Sinister sounded like he could just walk in there and take what ever they needed.
"That my dear ally is where our newest accomplice comes in, isn't that right Ms. Darkholme?" Sinister turned towards a female by the door.
"I've told you Sinister, call me Mystique." She told him, with a ice in her voice.
Yep that's right Mesmero, Sinister, and Mystique have teamed up.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 7:CALL ME MAYHEM
TRANSLATIONS i) Sie's ändert sich nett und ändert sich gut anschauend Kurt, Sie's bestimmt ein Wärter.
i) She's vary nice and vary good looking Kurt, She's definitely a keeper.
Meine Liebe - My love