Alternate Touch

Summary: two new mutants are found and come to the institute, they make friends with Nightcrawler and Storm, what is their linking between the two well known x-men?.R&R

Disclaimer: it is so mean of you people to remind me of how little is mine in this world (Sob) no I don't mean YOU I mean the people who make the laws.er.anyway, someday I will own x-men: Evo but until then I only own Damaris and Liam.

AN: all words spoken like ~Example~ are thoughts, also, this story involves material that might not be suitable for some people. If you are going to flame me ...Don't, but other than that PLEASE R&R!

*Prologue*

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The rain made faint splashes of sound as it hit the sidewalk, though not many were there to hear it. They had all taken refuge from the wet and cold and found sanctuary, either in houses, apartments or perhaps the mall near the end road, but two teens, the teens that walked down the street now, had not. Their names were rarely used or known but to each other, for neither had a family. The girl, who whimpered and shivered as she walked along to the right, had thick, short hair, that shone an unnaturally dark shade of blue with streaks of bright lime green, it fell in front of her face, covering her ice blue eyes and the dark circles under them that came from loss of sleep, her thin, pale form wore a black t-shirt with a high collar that met halfway with her sharp chin and long blue jeans that were ripped at the knees and covered her gray sandals. She shivered and rapped her arms around herself in a vain attempt to try and keep warm. The tall boy that strode beside her put an arm around her shoulder, the boy had a manner of presenting himself so that even in his young age, of at the most sixteen, you immediately thought of him as responsible, as someone who had been through, witnessed things that nobody, especially no one so young, should. His coffee brown skin was covered in scares and bruises, his green eyes shone with strength and fire, and the long hair that fell down the back of his gray sweater was a dark mahogany. They were both at such odds with one another that if you saw them you would have to double take, but they each had one thing in common, both were alone, so when they had found each other, both clueless and scared, they did not bother to hide the care they felt for one another, not in a love interest way, they had determined that long ago, but like a brother and sister. The girl shivered and began to cry. The boy spoke.

"It's alright, it'll be okay, we've gone through worse than this and we always turn out on top" his voice was deep and calming, the girl smiled but her light eyes still brimmed with tears, they stopped walking and held each other for a moment.

"I know Liam, but, why are things like this, why are we always running, why do we have this life?" Liam sighed, Damaris would get like this sometimes, while he had accepted the traveling life, the life of an outcast, she still was troubled with it.

"We have each other, which is more than a lot of people have"

"Our life is a mess! We have no money! No food! No home! Face it! Our life stinks." She shook her head to try dry her hair and then looked up into the sky.

"Gott helfen uns, Wille wir finden nie Frieden?"[1]

Liam hated when she spoke in German, he never could tell what she was saying and she only would speak in this tongue, when she was angry or depressed, she seemed to be speaking in German more than usual lately.

"Now you see here! We'll be okay you can't always act like this! We aren't little kids, praying for help will do nothing now! We have to-oh.my.god."

Liam stepped back in horror, Damaris had stopped talking in German and was now choking and spitting up blood, the hands that reached out to Liam for help were also seeping blood. Liam stepped up and took her hand in his, and the immediately withdrew it back with a yowl of pain, he held his hand up within eyes sight and saw that it had been burned, and badly too. Damaris was still screaming and calling for Liam between the chokes and gags. The blood had now stained the front of her clothes and had seeped down to create a puddle it around her, Liam swallowed the pain and rose determinedly to help his friend but before he could reach her he had fallen upon the cement road and was shaking violently, and in the horror of the moment neither noticed the rain clouds darken and begin to shake and spew giant tennis ball sized hail, they didn't notice that a deep fog had circled the two of them, they didn't notice that Damaris's skin had tuned a dark blue like her hair or that Liam's eyes had lost all color and were now just a ghostly white, no, they didn't notice any of it. But somebody else had.

~Jean, gather the others and meet me at the x-jet. We have two new mutants to find~

~I'm on my way, Professor.~

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OoOooh cliffhanger! ^_~ Please R&R 'cuz if nobody does I'll just assume no one liked it and I won't write any more, and ya wouldn't want to do that to me would ya? (Sob) Anyvay, Synch wants the computer so I gotta go, Caio ^_^ CK

[1] "God help us, will we never find peace?"