Disclaimer: I do not own any characters that you might recognize. Tamitha and this random plot do belong to me.
Author's note: I have hit the mount Everest of blocks and I ask the few of you that are reading this...to tell me what you want to see. I will do my best to keep on writing. I have stupidly started a few other fics as well as two original stories...and they seem to keep me awake at night. I will probably do some reading of Animorphs and then get back into the groove...hopefully.
Chapter 7
"Where'd you run off to Tamitha?" Jean asked, sounding worried.
"I needed to get out to a place where I could think," Tamitha explained. "There's just too much going on in my head here."
"How did you get away," Jean asked, "without any of us noticing?"
"I don't really know," she admitted, "I just wanted to get away and let you all talk on your own."
"Tamitha," Professor X said, "You may have the ability to influence people's feelings, at the same time that you feel them. You need to be careful about that."
Jake and the others got back just then and demorphed. Logan came bounding in not too long after they did with a relieved look on his face; I guess he had really been worried about Tamitha. Huh, more stuff to think about later.
I told you she could run when she wanted to, Tobias said as he landed on his branch.
She looked up at him and they seemed to have some private conversation, something they always seem to do.
"So," Rachel began. "What's the plan? Cause we all know that they're not just gonna leave us alone."
We need to get them away from the scoop, Tobias said, finished with his private conversation with Tamitha.
"And how do you propose that we go about doing that?" the Professor asked.
"Bait," Tamitha supplied.
"Will they fall for it?" Cyclops asked.
"Probably," Jake said. "They don't seem to know how to learn from their mistakes. Although I am nervous about plans like this, they can go wrong so easily."
"Yeah," Kitty interjected, "I remember the one time – Oh wait, that hasn't happened yet." She blushed and Rogue gave her a stern look, I almost laughed.
"And now we have foreshadowing," I said.
"Well," Cassie said, "for a plan to go bad, we first need to have a plan."
"Cassie," Jean scolded, "I think you all need to be more optimistic. We simply need to devise a plan that can't go wrong."
"If it were only so simple," I told her. "So what did you have in mind Tamitha?"
"Nothing actually," she answered, "The word just popped into my head."
Tobias mentally groaned for all of us to hear, I hate it when the Ellimist does that.
We all heard a low growling sound behind us and turned to find Logan leaning up against a tree with a scowl on his face, "Him again," he said. "Is he trying to set you up for something?"
Tamitha just shrugged her shoulders and rubbed the bridge of her nose, she clearly had a headache. I knew that it would be wrong to ask her directly so I went to the next best source of information.
Tobias is she- I began.
"I'm fine Marco," Tamitha interrupted, "Just trying to figure this out, but I suck with plans."
"Did Marco even say anything?" Rogue asked aloud.
"He didn't have to," Tamitha replied, "I could feel it."
"Jake," The Professor said, "Is there a place where we could go to so that we could have little distraction?"
"Uh, yeah," I said. "My dad's working all day today, so that house should be empty."
"And then we hit our next problem," Rachel said. "How are we gonna get some very famous fictional characters across town to your house?"
"It won't be a problem," Tamitha told us, "it's been taken care of."
Ellimist, Tobias supplied at the questioning looks from the X-Men.
"So you're saying we can walk to the bus stop, get on a bus and make it to Marco's house without any problems?" Storm asked, incredulous.
"Don't shoot the messenger," I said, defending Tamitha.
"And we're supposed to trust this guy?" Logan asked.
"Yean," Jake said, "I guess we are."
"You have got to be kidding me!" Cyclops exclaimed.
"No, Scott," Rogue said, "they're not."
"Besides," Kitty added, "this is their dimension, not ours, they call the shots."
The rest of the X-Men nodded their heads and then turned to face Jake.
"Professor," Jake asked, "can you cloak the jet?"
"Yes Jake," he replied.
"Okay," I said rubbing my hands together, "so we're going to my house, with the hope that the Ellimist is going to cover our butts? Man this sounds like fun." I rolled my eyes.
"You got a better plan?" Rachel demanded.
I cocked my head to the side as if I was thinking for a second, "Mmm, nope," I answered.
She nodded her head with a look that said, 'thought so' and we began our walk to the bus stop and eventually to my house.