Don't worry Eden there is a chapter called origins that will ultimately
explain all of the questions you might have about Vincent's past. Although
if you have any questions that you yourself or anyone else would like to
know say so in a review and I might add them in too.
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 15: AFTERMATH
The X-Jet had just landed in the hanger. Beast and Xavier were already there with two stretchers ready. As the jet opened up Logan came down first carrying Prodigy 6 in his arms and laid her down on the bead.
Vincent was being carried by Jean's telekinesis and she laid him down on the other stretcher. McCoy and Logan wheeled them both off to the infirmary.
Xavier turned to Jean first. "Jean I want you to meet me in the infirmary later, I'm going to need your help with the mind of this new mutant."
"Of course Professor." She nodded and went on her way.
"Professor that girl called herself Prodigy 6, and she called Vincent, Prodigy 7, and he knew her. What's going on?" Scott asked the Professor.
"Yeah that girl had some wicked power behind her, and she had this freaky blank look on her face the entire time." Bobby told him.
Xavier was about to answer when she noticed Rogue away from the others, she was holding her arms close to her chest and was looking into space, with a great deal of emotional stress coming from her.
"Scott please take the others to the living room, and get the other students there too, I'll explain as much as I can later after I have a talk with Rogue." Xavier told them and he wheeled off towards Rogue.
The others slowly made their way to the exit, looking at the Professor talking to a distressed Rogue.
The students along with Logan and Ororo were in the living room waiting for the Professor. Bobby had already told of the events earlier, and everyone was asking questions like, why did she call herself Prodigy 6 and Vincent Prodigy 7, what happened to Vincent, where was Rogue and others.
Xavier came into the living room and the noise instantly calmed down. The Professor gave a sigh before he began.
"There are some things that you students don't know about Vincent. He hasn't told anyone because those events are too painful for him to talk about. I would have preferred to let him tell you himself, but after talking to Rogue, who now has his memories it would be easier on him if I told you. You see as a child he was cruelly experimented on."
There were collected gasps and whispers among the students.
"That is where he received all of those scars you've seen on his body, and why he is so powerful. I don't know the exact details, but him and other children like the young girl were all part of the same experiment, possibly create the ultimate weapons."
"All that I know is that he somehow escaped from that place, and was living alone on the streets for a long time before he found a home at the orphanage in Toronto."
"So if this girl was part of the same experiment, are there anymore?" Scott asked.
Xavier shook his head. "I honestly don't know if there are anymore Scott, someone has placed powerful shields in the girls mind, and I need time with Jean's help to break through them."
"Now if you will all excuse me I have to meet with Jean in the infirmary to get started." The Professor solemnly went to the infirmary. The others were silent for a moment, some of them left while others started up conversations on what they had just learned.
Kitty was about to leave when she noticed that Rogue hadn't been there, she turned to face Kurt, who looked deep in thought. "Kurt have you like seen Rogue, since we got back?"
Kurt snapped out of what ever he was thinking about and looked up at Kitty. "Uh ... no. Vhere do you zink she is?"
"She might be in her room, I mean if she like got all of his memories then...oh no, Kurt what if she's not dealing with his memories well, I mean if he was experimented on then..." She left it her sentence hang in the air.
Kurt had gotten right up and grabbed her arm and teleported them right to her room.
While all this was going on, Rogue who had changed and showered all the muddy water off of her, was curled up on her bead, crying.
She used all her will power to not think of all Vincent's unpleasant memories on the way here, but couldn't help it anymore. It was so cruel what happened to him, he was too nice a person to have anything like that happened to him, but it did, and it sent a knife into her heart.
'I'm sorry for what I'll put you through.'
One of the last thoughts that went into his head was that, he had hoped that she would get it, even now things about him made complete sense now. What he said to her in their first DR session, how he acted to her, certain comments he made, and how he felt about her.
She wanted to know him, and now she truly knew him better than anyone, she understood him and felt for him in a new way. At first she really liked him, now that she'd seen the real him. Everything, his goodness and his demons, strangely she had never felt closer to anyone.
His memories unlike others were powerful. They were complete, and her mind felt sharper and clearer as she experienced his entire life through his eyes.
She didn't hear Kurt 'bamf' in. She didn't notice until she felt a hand on her covered up arm. "Rogue are you all right?" came Kitty's concerned voice.
Rogue couldn't answer her. She felt a pair of hands help her up into a sitting position, and she looked to see, that Kurt was to her left and Kitty was to her right, both with vary concerned looks in their eyes.
"Are you going to be alright sis?" Kurt asked her.
"I...I...just don't know. Kurt, Kitty you have no idea what he went through. He is such a good person deep down. He's helped others, friends and strangers because it makes him feel good, there is such a depth to him, and a nobility there that I think he doesn't see in himself."
"But when I think of all the horrible things he'd seen and had happen to him....my heart just breaks...IT ISNT'S FAIR! He didn't do anything wrong and they.....they just...."
"We know the Professor told us." Kurt said.
"NO YOU DON'T." She shouted, then took a minute to calm down. "I'm sorry Kurt, it's just, no one could ever really know unless they've gone through it. He's just too good a person to have this happen to him."
Kitty stared to rub her hand up and down on Rogue's back. "You're right, no one could with the exception of you and that girl down there."
Rogue let her head fall. "No one deserves what happened to them. He's in such pain, especially the loneliness. I mean we all feel like that at times, but we've had people to turn to. Kurt you had your parents, me I had Irene, Kitty you had friends, and since we got here, we've had each other, but Vincent for the longest time had no one."
"He was so alone for the longest time. It's almost unbearable, the feeling of emptiness and despair he had." She started to cry again.
Kurt gently draped his arm over his sister to try and comfort her.
"You really care about him don't you?" Kitty asked.
"Ah do, he's just so selfless and kind to others, and has all this pain locked inside...Ah really do lahke him and it hurts meh to think of what he's gone throug." She hadn't notice that her accent had returned.
Kurt was surprised at both that her accent had returned and that her sister had feelings for Vincent. He didn't have a problem per say, he thought of Vincent as a good guy, but he knew that Rogue could never get as close as she liked to others and that saddened him to no end.
"Hey Rogue you accent is like back, I think Vincent's mind must be fading." Kitty said.
Rogue suddenly realized that she was right, and that the memories were fading away. "Maybe he's up now. Kurt could you take meh to the infirmary?"
Kurt smiled at her. "Sure thing sis." He teleported all three of them into the infirmary just short of Vincent's bead. Across from them they could see Jean and the Professor concentrating on the girl in a glass room next to them.
Rogue moved slowly over to Vincent's bead and gently held his hand.
"Um Kurt maybe we should like give her some privacy or something." Kitty told Kurt.
Kurt nodded his head, and they left them in a cloud of sulfur.
Rogue was gently holding his hand when she felt his hand squeeze back gently. "Vince are ya awake?"
Vincent slowly opened his eyes, and the first sight he was Rogue looking over him, she had no makeup on, and her eyes were red from crying, but he thought she never looked more beautiful.
"Hey your okay." He smiled at her.
"Same to ya. Vincent I know." She didn't need to explain, she knew he would understand. He closed his eyes and turned away from her.
"So you know everything then." His voice was stressed and filled with despair.
"Ya I do. It wasn't your fault, none of it. Trust meh when I say that you are a good person. A person that....that ah've come to care about."
Vince turned to face Rogue then. "So you don't think of me as..."
She placed her gloved fingers on his lips. "Ah could never think that of ya." She whispered to him.
He reached out and held her hand in front of his face, and placed a kiss on her hand. "Thank you."
She blushed slightly and they fell into a silence, but this was more of a comfortable silence, they just looked at each other in the eyes, they didn't have to speak they could tell what the other was feeling at that moment.
Unfortunately it was short lived as Jean came into the room. "Oh good your awake Vincent, how are you."
They both were startled at Jean and jumped, Rogue moved away slightly and was blushing, Vincent's face too was showing being embarrassed at being 'caught' as it were in a personal moment.
Jean not even needing her telepathy knew that something was going on with these two, and couldn't help but give a knowing smirk at them.
"Uh...yeah, I feel slightly week and a little drained but other than that I'm fine." Vincent said while getting up off the bead.
"Good because the Professor and I have gotten through to her mind, and removed all the walls there, we were about to bring her around and we though you should be there too. Hopefully a familiar present might help her."
Vincent nodded "Alright let's go."
All three of them walked the short distance into the isolation room, where the Professor was waiting for them. He placed his hand on her forehead and closed his eyes.
There was a short groan from the girl and she slowly opened her eyes. What she did next was entirely unpredictable.
She screamed. She pushed herself to the top of the bead and continued to scream, the Professor and Jean tried to calm her down put to no avail. It wasn't until Vincent rushed over to her and grabed her arms and talked to her that she calmed down.
"Hey! Calm down! No one where is going to hurt you, it's me remember?" Vincent said to the vary frightened girl.
"Seven?" She weakly said.
Vincent didn't respond at first, he hated that name more than anything. "Yeah it's me, but I go by Vincent know, so you can call me that." He gently said to her.
"V..Vincent?" she asked perplexed.
"It's my new name, I like it a lot better than Prodigy 7."
"Where's the bad man?"
"You mean Sinister?"
She only nodded her head.
"He's not here, your safe from him, no one will hurt you here, HE won't hurt you here anymore. Your free now."
"I'm free. What does that mean sev-I mean Vincent?"
He smiled at her while draping an arm around her holding her close. "It means you no longer have to call anyone master, or have to do anymore bad things, or have people hurt you because they want to."
She smiled at him, tears forming in her eyes. "I don't?" Vincent nodded his head. "Can....can I have a name too then?"
"Sure thing, how about..." He was trying to find a name for her, she seemed so frightened, he remembered what it was like when he was first free, but now she had someone to help her. She deserved a good name "....how about April."
"April.....I like it, it sounds pretty." She smiled up at him and gave him a hug. "I'm sorry for what I did to you and your friends, the mas-Sinister told me to do things and I couldn't stop myself no mattered how hard I tried! I-I just couldn't...."
April began crying in his arms, Vincent did his best to comfort her. She cried on his shoulder for five minute, she needed to get all of it out, she let go of all the pent up emotion she couldn't release until this moment.
She eventually calmed down and looked around and for the first time really noticed that she and Vincent weren't alone. She tensed up at seeing the unfamiliar faces.
"Hey it's okay, these are my friends, the one with the red hair is Jean, the one with the brown and white is Rogue, and that man is Professor Xavier. They're okay, they won't harm you." Vincent told her gently.
"Vincent is correct...April....this place is a safe heaven for people like yourself, and we would like to help you if you let us." Xavier told this frightened young girl
April looked up at Vincent for reassurance, and he gave a nod of his head.
Prodigy 6, now calling herself April, was unsure at first, but Vincent she knew and trusted and if he said these people were good than she would believe him. For the first time in her life she felt safe.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 16: A SINISTER PLAN
ENTER MAYHEM
CHAPTER 15: AFTERMATH
The X-Jet had just landed in the hanger. Beast and Xavier were already there with two stretchers ready. As the jet opened up Logan came down first carrying Prodigy 6 in his arms and laid her down on the bead.
Vincent was being carried by Jean's telekinesis and she laid him down on the other stretcher. McCoy and Logan wheeled them both off to the infirmary.
Xavier turned to Jean first. "Jean I want you to meet me in the infirmary later, I'm going to need your help with the mind of this new mutant."
"Of course Professor." She nodded and went on her way.
"Professor that girl called herself Prodigy 6, and she called Vincent, Prodigy 7, and he knew her. What's going on?" Scott asked the Professor.
"Yeah that girl had some wicked power behind her, and she had this freaky blank look on her face the entire time." Bobby told him.
Xavier was about to answer when she noticed Rogue away from the others, she was holding her arms close to her chest and was looking into space, with a great deal of emotional stress coming from her.
"Scott please take the others to the living room, and get the other students there too, I'll explain as much as I can later after I have a talk with Rogue." Xavier told them and he wheeled off towards Rogue.
The others slowly made their way to the exit, looking at the Professor talking to a distressed Rogue.
The students along with Logan and Ororo were in the living room waiting for the Professor. Bobby had already told of the events earlier, and everyone was asking questions like, why did she call herself Prodigy 6 and Vincent Prodigy 7, what happened to Vincent, where was Rogue and others.
Xavier came into the living room and the noise instantly calmed down. The Professor gave a sigh before he began.
"There are some things that you students don't know about Vincent. He hasn't told anyone because those events are too painful for him to talk about. I would have preferred to let him tell you himself, but after talking to Rogue, who now has his memories it would be easier on him if I told you. You see as a child he was cruelly experimented on."
There were collected gasps and whispers among the students.
"That is where he received all of those scars you've seen on his body, and why he is so powerful. I don't know the exact details, but him and other children like the young girl were all part of the same experiment, possibly create the ultimate weapons."
"All that I know is that he somehow escaped from that place, and was living alone on the streets for a long time before he found a home at the orphanage in Toronto."
"So if this girl was part of the same experiment, are there anymore?" Scott asked.
Xavier shook his head. "I honestly don't know if there are anymore Scott, someone has placed powerful shields in the girls mind, and I need time with Jean's help to break through them."
"Now if you will all excuse me I have to meet with Jean in the infirmary to get started." The Professor solemnly went to the infirmary. The others were silent for a moment, some of them left while others started up conversations on what they had just learned.
Kitty was about to leave when she noticed that Rogue hadn't been there, she turned to face Kurt, who looked deep in thought. "Kurt have you like seen Rogue, since we got back?"
Kurt snapped out of what ever he was thinking about and looked up at Kitty. "Uh ... no. Vhere do you zink she is?"
"She might be in her room, I mean if she like got all of his memories then...oh no, Kurt what if she's not dealing with his memories well, I mean if he was experimented on then..." She left it her sentence hang in the air.
Kurt had gotten right up and grabbed her arm and teleported them right to her room.
While all this was going on, Rogue who had changed and showered all the muddy water off of her, was curled up on her bead, crying.
She used all her will power to not think of all Vincent's unpleasant memories on the way here, but couldn't help it anymore. It was so cruel what happened to him, he was too nice a person to have anything like that happened to him, but it did, and it sent a knife into her heart.
'I'm sorry for what I'll put you through.'
One of the last thoughts that went into his head was that, he had hoped that she would get it, even now things about him made complete sense now. What he said to her in their first DR session, how he acted to her, certain comments he made, and how he felt about her.
She wanted to know him, and now she truly knew him better than anyone, she understood him and felt for him in a new way. At first she really liked him, now that she'd seen the real him. Everything, his goodness and his demons, strangely she had never felt closer to anyone.
His memories unlike others were powerful. They were complete, and her mind felt sharper and clearer as she experienced his entire life through his eyes.
She didn't hear Kurt 'bamf' in. She didn't notice until she felt a hand on her covered up arm. "Rogue are you all right?" came Kitty's concerned voice.
Rogue couldn't answer her. She felt a pair of hands help her up into a sitting position, and she looked to see, that Kurt was to her left and Kitty was to her right, both with vary concerned looks in their eyes.
"Are you going to be alright sis?" Kurt asked her.
"I...I...just don't know. Kurt, Kitty you have no idea what he went through. He is such a good person deep down. He's helped others, friends and strangers because it makes him feel good, there is such a depth to him, and a nobility there that I think he doesn't see in himself."
"But when I think of all the horrible things he'd seen and had happen to him....my heart just breaks...IT ISNT'S FAIR! He didn't do anything wrong and they.....they just...."
"We know the Professor told us." Kurt said.
"NO YOU DON'T." She shouted, then took a minute to calm down. "I'm sorry Kurt, it's just, no one could ever really know unless they've gone through it. He's just too good a person to have this happen to him."
Kitty stared to rub her hand up and down on Rogue's back. "You're right, no one could with the exception of you and that girl down there."
Rogue let her head fall. "No one deserves what happened to them. He's in such pain, especially the loneliness. I mean we all feel like that at times, but we've had people to turn to. Kurt you had your parents, me I had Irene, Kitty you had friends, and since we got here, we've had each other, but Vincent for the longest time had no one."
"He was so alone for the longest time. It's almost unbearable, the feeling of emptiness and despair he had." She started to cry again.
Kurt gently draped his arm over his sister to try and comfort her.
"You really care about him don't you?" Kitty asked.
"Ah do, he's just so selfless and kind to others, and has all this pain locked inside...Ah really do lahke him and it hurts meh to think of what he's gone throug." She hadn't notice that her accent had returned.
Kurt was surprised at both that her accent had returned and that her sister had feelings for Vincent. He didn't have a problem per say, he thought of Vincent as a good guy, but he knew that Rogue could never get as close as she liked to others and that saddened him to no end.
"Hey Rogue you accent is like back, I think Vincent's mind must be fading." Kitty said.
Rogue suddenly realized that she was right, and that the memories were fading away. "Maybe he's up now. Kurt could you take meh to the infirmary?"
Kurt smiled at her. "Sure thing sis." He teleported all three of them into the infirmary just short of Vincent's bead. Across from them they could see Jean and the Professor concentrating on the girl in a glass room next to them.
Rogue moved slowly over to Vincent's bead and gently held his hand.
"Um Kurt maybe we should like give her some privacy or something." Kitty told Kurt.
Kurt nodded his head, and they left them in a cloud of sulfur.
Rogue was gently holding his hand when she felt his hand squeeze back gently. "Vince are ya awake?"
Vincent slowly opened his eyes, and the first sight he was Rogue looking over him, she had no makeup on, and her eyes were red from crying, but he thought she never looked more beautiful.
"Hey your okay." He smiled at her.
"Same to ya. Vincent I know." She didn't need to explain, she knew he would understand. He closed his eyes and turned away from her.
"So you know everything then." His voice was stressed and filled with despair.
"Ya I do. It wasn't your fault, none of it. Trust meh when I say that you are a good person. A person that....that ah've come to care about."
Vince turned to face Rogue then. "So you don't think of me as..."
She placed her gloved fingers on his lips. "Ah could never think that of ya." She whispered to him.
He reached out and held her hand in front of his face, and placed a kiss on her hand. "Thank you."
She blushed slightly and they fell into a silence, but this was more of a comfortable silence, they just looked at each other in the eyes, they didn't have to speak they could tell what the other was feeling at that moment.
Unfortunately it was short lived as Jean came into the room. "Oh good your awake Vincent, how are you."
They both were startled at Jean and jumped, Rogue moved away slightly and was blushing, Vincent's face too was showing being embarrassed at being 'caught' as it were in a personal moment.
Jean not even needing her telepathy knew that something was going on with these two, and couldn't help but give a knowing smirk at them.
"Uh...yeah, I feel slightly week and a little drained but other than that I'm fine." Vincent said while getting up off the bead.
"Good because the Professor and I have gotten through to her mind, and removed all the walls there, we were about to bring her around and we though you should be there too. Hopefully a familiar present might help her."
Vincent nodded "Alright let's go."
All three of them walked the short distance into the isolation room, where the Professor was waiting for them. He placed his hand on her forehead and closed his eyes.
There was a short groan from the girl and she slowly opened her eyes. What she did next was entirely unpredictable.
She screamed. She pushed herself to the top of the bead and continued to scream, the Professor and Jean tried to calm her down put to no avail. It wasn't until Vincent rushed over to her and grabed her arms and talked to her that she calmed down.
"Hey! Calm down! No one where is going to hurt you, it's me remember?" Vincent said to the vary frightened girl.
"Seven?" She weakly said.
Vincent didn't respond at first, he hated that name more than anything. "Yeah it's me, but I go by Vincent know, so you can call me that." He gently said to her.
"V..Vincent?" she asked perplexed.
"It's my new name, I like it a lot better than Prodigy 7."
"Where's the bad man?"
"You mean Sinister?"
She only nodded her head.
"He's not here, your safe from him, no one will hurt you here, HE won't hurt you here anymore. Your free now."
"I'm free. What does that mean sev-I mean Vincent?"
He smiled at her while draping an arm around her holding her close. "It means you no longer have to call anyone master, or have to do anymore bad things, or have people hurt you because they want to."
She smiled at him, tears forming in her eyes. "I don't?" Vincent nodded his head. "Can....can I have a name too then?"
"Sure thing, how about..." He was trying to find a name for her, she seemed so frightened, he remembered what it was like when he was first free, but now she had someone to help her. She deserved a good name "....how about April."
"April.....I like it, it sounds pretty." She smiled up at him and gave him a hug. "I'm sorry for what I did to you and your friends, the mas-Sinister told me to do things and I couldn't stop myself no mattered how hard I tried! I-I just couldn't...."
April began crying in his arms, Vincent did his best to comfort her. She cried on his shoulder for five minute, she needed to get all of it out, she let go of all the pent up emotion she couldn't release until this moment.
She eventually calmed down and looked around and for the first time really noticed that she and Vincent weren't alone. She tensed up at seeing the unfamiliar faces.
"Hey it's okay, these are my friends, the one with the red hair is Jean, the one with the brown and white is Rogue, and that man is Professor Xavier. They're okay, they won't harm you." Vincent told her gently.
"Vincent is correct...April....this place is a safe heaven for people like yourself, and we would like to help you if you let us." Xavier told this frightened young girl
April looked up at Vincent for reassurance, and he gave a nod of his head.
Prodigy 6, now calling herself April, was unsure at first, but Vincent she knew and trusted and if he said these people were good than she would believe him. For the first time in her life she felt safe.
NEXT UP CHAPTER 16: A SINISTER PLAN