Picasso
By Maiden of the Spear
Disclaimer: I do not own the X-Men and their counterparts… I do own any original characters
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Chapter Three - Roommate
Tell touched the water sprite with a finger covered in orange sparkling light. There was a flash, and the little pixie was back into the drawing. He grinned, at his audience, including Miss Monroe, who had come in from the kitchen with dinner. A gruff voice belonging to a broad - shouldered man in a leather jacket is what startled him.
"Someone wanna tell me what the hell this thing is?" he demanded, holding up a strange looking creature. Someone gasped as Tell jumped up from the table. He hurried around the length of it, and knelt beside the man, taking it away from his rough grasp. Standing up, still holding it in his arms, he explained.
"His name is Mat," he said. The creature chattered irritably and expressively, obviously at the man who had brought him in, and Tell laughed. "Oh, hush, Mat. You'll be fine." The distorted animal did so reluctantly, then turned to return the curious gazes directed toward him. Tell set Mat on the empty chair beside his, giving everyone a clearer look at the strange being. It long ears, more like donkey ears than rabbit, were a light reddish hue with an orange colored fur on the inside. The head was covered in shaggy, black hair around a bright yellowish - orange beak and blazing red eyes, gray - colored where the whites normally were. A slightly round body covered in soft brown fur surrounded a periwinkle blue stomach, the brown legs ending in gray webbed feet, tipped with bright silver claws. The bronze colored arms fluttered, as the enormously long fingers were extended downward and connected with a light green, leathery webbing, much like a bat's wing.
"I take it this is one of your creations?" the professor asked wryly. Tell grinned a bit sheepishly.
"Heh, heh, yeah. Mat is the first animated drawing I ever did. I guess I passed out afterwards, because the next thing I knew, he was standing over me, trying to get me awake. I felt exhausted, too," he added with a frown. "Anyway, it wasn't for about three weeks that I learned to put them back into the drawings if I wanted to before they fade. They do that, you know," he added. "They fade away eventually." He looked at Mat affectionately. "I got to attached to put Mat back into the drawing though. I don't know why he hasn't faded, but I don't care."
"Well, I suspect that with the first use of your power, you flooded Mat with this artificial life, which is probably why you passed out and definitely why you felt tired," the professor mused thoughtfully. "You could probably learn to do this on purpose, later, as you grow into power more. Do you eat?" The last was directed at Mat. The creature shook his head yes.
"Uh, that's another thing," Tell said. "Heh, Mat likes glass."
"Glass?" demanded the man who had brought him in. The professor looked startled for a moment.
"Oh, Logan, I apologize. This is William Everhart, but he prefers Tell. Tell, this is Logan, or Wolverine."
"Hm…fierce, not someone to tangle with, has the tenacity and temperment rivaling a wolverine, probably got animalistic senses, and maybe a pair of claws hidden somewhere."
Logan looked taken back, then looked at Professor Xavier who chuckled. "You do have an amazing mind. Tell is a certified genius, Logan," he said.
"Huh," the man snorted. He walked over to where Mat perched.
Sknit!
"Here's my claws," he told Tell, then thrust them under Mat's beak threateningly. "You're in my chair, Bub." The creature scrambled to sit in Tell's lap, which was quite awkward as he was a good three feet high. Logan sat down, sheathing his claws, and the rest of the meal was continued without further incident.
Logan rose to his feet as he finished dinner and silence fell around the table. "Don't think you get off cuz some new kid shows up," he warned them. "Danger Room, thirty minutes." He looked at Tell. "You get off today, but don't get lazy, cuz ya start tomorrow." With that, the feral mutant stalked out of the room, and conversation picked up once more as the students began leaving. Sam stopped by Tell's seat with a friendly smile.
"Hey, the Professor said ta tell ya that you'll be roomin' with me," he said. "Ah was stayin' with Bobby and Jamie, but we get at move into an empty room."
"Everyone shares a room?" Tell asked with a slight grimace. He was definitely not used to that. Sam nodded as he led the way, Mat padding silently behind them.
"Professor Xavier says it builds camaraderie," he explained.
Tell really frowned at this. He was a bit of a loner by nature, and the idea of having to "bond" was not appealing.
"Do me a favor?" he asked Sam.
The boy looked at him in surprise. "Sure, Ah guess."
"Don't get offended if I say something or do something…off - beat," he said. "I'm not really a people person."
"Sure, no problem," the West Virginian promised with an easy going smile. "I'll just beat ya over the head if ya get too ornery, deal?"
The two laughed as they entered their new room and began unpacking.
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