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Chapter two: Illusions and Cats

Italics are people thinking to themselves.

Italics that are underlined are people talking to eachother telepathicly

Bolds are stressed words.

After finally getting the cabby to take them to where the O'Raghailligh's place, Scott and Kitty were dropped off at the end of a long drive way. The Cabby not wanting to get any closer to the 'werewolves'.

Scott and Kitty trudged down the drive way. After a few minutes they came to a small house.

Scott knocked on the door. There wasn't any answer. After a minute, he tried again. This time the door was answered by a woman, with long black hair and brown-green eyes.

The woman was tall, and lean, with a slender figure. Her skin was tanned and she looked...a little...out of place in Ireland. "May I help ye two?" She asked.

"Umm...yes... We're looking for a Eevan O'Raghailligh." Scott asked.

The woman's eyes narrowed dangerously. "Why do you want to see Aoibheann?" The woman asked, in a cold voice.

"Ummm...like, don't wolf out on us or anything..." Kitty said, she hadn't MEANT to say wolf, but it slipped out, since she had been thinking about werewolves since the Cabby had brought it up.

"Wolf?! Listen! A donnae know who ye all are! An' A don't care! Get off my property before A call my husband!... OR MY DAUGHTER!!!" The woman shouted.

"So...she is, like, a girl...I TOLD YOU SCOTT!!! But do you listen?! NO!!" Kitty shouted. Scott cringed at the high-pitched squeal.

"I never said Aoibheann WASN'T a girl!"

"YOU said that it was, like, 'most likely a boy'!" Kitty shouted. Scott winced, and looked away from the Valley girl and at the woman.

"We're not here to hurt you, or your family. We are here to speak with you about a school offer." Scott said, VERY formally. The woman looked at him strangely, as though he was speaking a foreign language.

"A donnae think A understand ye, lad. Why would a school send a CHILD tae offer my daughter a place?" The woman asked.

Scott began to get angry, he looked down at the ground and count to ten, before looking back at the woman.

"I am NOT a CHILD, Ma'am! I was sent here by the....Headmaster." Scott said.

"Well....A'm sorry. My daughter ain't here. Ye'll have tae come back later." The woman said.

"JULIA! Are you telling the townspeople off again?!" A male's voice shouted from behind the house.

"STAY OUT OF THIS SHEEN!" 'Julia' shouted.

The door opened slowly and Jean and Kurt stepped in. The room was large, almost filling the whole of the cottage, not including the loft above them and a bathroom leading off of the room. There was one bed, a sink, and a table with two chairs in the room. There was also two rocking chairs, a big on and a smaller one. An old woman was sitting in one.

A girl, who looked about 13 or 14, appeared from behind the door as she shut it behind Jean and Kurt. She had long grey hair, the same shade as the old lady's. Grey cat ears of the same color stuck up from the top of her head. A cat tail of the same color showed from under the edge of her long, sky blue, long sleeved dress. A plant of some sort stuck out from the pocket of her white apron. The apron was the top and bottom kind, not the kind that has just a skirt. (AN: What do you CALL those?) She was bare foot, and dirt covered her apron and hands.

"Hello! It's nice to have visitors every now and then. But will you excuse me for a moment?" The old lady turned to the girl, "Kaji, what have I told you about imitating my voice? It is NOT polite!"

"I'm sorry, Aunt Chanty..." Kaji said, putting on a VERY good puppy-dog face.

"And have you been into the cat-nip again? Give it to me. You KNOW you're forbidden to have any."

Kaji sighed and handed her 'Aunt Chanty' the plant from in her apron, "But Aunt Chanty! It smells so GOOD!!"

"And so does beer, to some people, and for you this is just the same. Now, where were we?" 'Aunt Chanty' asked, turning to her guests, "Oh yes, we haven't been properly introduced yet! My name is Charlotte Cantra, and this is Kajika Nilasa, but I call her Kaji. I believe you wished to talk about something?..."

"Yes, we wished to extend an offer to Kaji here, to come to a school...."

A man walked around the corner of the house. His hair was long and brown, his eyes a gold-green color.

"Who are ye two?" He asked.

"I'm Scott Summers and this is Kitty Pryde. We come from America." Scott said as he looked the tall man over.

"An' yer here to see Van?" The man asked. Scott and Kitty nodded dumbly.

"She's down near the lake. Mr. Summers, why don't ye come and speak with me an' my wife, and Miss Pryde, ye can go an' get Van if ye wish." The man said. Kitty and Scott nodded again.

"Nay! They're brain dead Americans Sheen! A donnae want them near our daughter!" 'Julia' said with a frown.

Sheen pointed behind him. "The Lake's tha' way." He said, ignoring his angry wife. Kitty nodded and ran off.

She had been lost in her thoughts, and 'accidently' ran THROUGH Sheen, rather then around him. He stood there stiff and tense for a moment, before he relaxed. "Are you....a Ghost, lass?" He asked, turning to face Kitty who had paused.

"Umm...no! I'm, like, a Mutant! Duh!" She said before turning and continuing to the lake. Scott shrugged.

-The Lake-

Kitty found the lake quickly. She noticed a girl about 15 years old sitting at the edge. Her legs dangling in the water.

Kitty walked closer.

She then noticed a woman in the lake, in a boat. And the....DOLPHINS?! Kitty stumbled and tripped over her own feet, and hit the girl in the back.

The girl fell in to the lake, and came back up, sputtering up the water. "UCK! What tha'-" The girl stopped talking when her gold-brown eyes met with Kitty's bright blue ones.

"Umm...like, hi?" Kitty asked nervously. She noticed that the woman was gone.

The girl climbed out of the lake. She wore a pair of cloth brown pants, which stuck to her legs; and a black peasant shirt, which clung to her skin. This made it quite easy to see her lean and slender figure.

The girl had long black hair, that was up in a high ponytail, with silver beads and many bright purple ribbons intertwined and she had a purple carnation crown, which was now soaked, and falling apart, the petals mixing in with her ebony hair. If it weren't for the look on her face, or what she was wearing the tanned girl would look like some kind of angel.

"Can A ask what ye were thinkin'!? Knockin' a lass in tae the rivah like that?! Are ye MAD lass! Are ye tryin' tae KILL ME?!" The girl shouted.

"So you want me to send Kaji off with you to some school, with only your word to go by to know that this school even EXISTS? And you say that you want to help her learn to control her powers? Or 'mutation', as you call it?"

"You're perfectly welcome to come see the school for yourself." Jean said.

"So that's one reason gone. But Kaji can control her powers well enough, and as far as I know she's perfectly happy."

"What's a TV?" Kaji asked Kurt. They had left off on their own conversation a few minutes before, and he had just been trying to explain what they did at the institute...

After Aoibheann had cleaned up and gotten into some clean clothes, the small family of three, sat in their living room, speaking with Scott and Kitty.

Julia didn't even seem remotely intersted in anything that Scott or Kitty had to say, neither did Aoibheann.

In fact Aoibheann sat on the couch, slouching, her arms crossed and a nasty glare on her face. She wanted NOTHING to do with the institute! She didn't like the way it sounded. The idea of running drills in the morning, and then going to a school, and then after wards do more drills, followed by MORE school work; it just wasn't something that Aoibheann wanted! She didn't want to be forced into being friends with anyone she didn't like!

She'd chose her own friends! She'd chose her own path! And in her eyes, this 'institute' was no where in her future!

"Listen! Yer 'school' sounds nice an' all! A mean, don't get me wrong. But tha place ye speak of....seems....A donnae know how tae say this....BORING! An' not like A would fit in!" Van said with a frown.

Scott and Kitty looked at each other and then at the black haired girl on the couch. "Well-" Scott started.

"Don't bothah! A ain't goin' an' ye cannae make me! A have no interest in yer school. 'Specially if all tha people are like ye two! Strict, idiots and dimwitted Lasses!" Van said, before she stood and left.

"A think tha' answers yer questions. Please LEAVE!" Julia said as she stood and went to find her daughter.

That ends Chapter two! PLEASE review!

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