Angel by Face, Demon by Heart
Author: Illusen
Chapter 9: Reality or Just a Bad Dream?
Rain woke up at 5 AM. Breakfast was at 7AM and she wanted to go at the Brotherhood House to get her things in these free hours. She was already dressed because Professor Xavier didn't want her to fly at night. So she was dressed in her yesterday clothes. She went to the her bathroom and remade her make-up. After finishing this she went to the balcony. In the next minutes, she was at the Brotherhood Boarding House. She entered. trying to be quiet but in the moment she got in all the members of the Brotherhood jumped in front of her.
"Where the heck have you been?" (Lance)
"What did you do last night?" (Todd)
"Are you okay?" (Pietro)
"Did you bring something to eat?" (It's obviously who asks this :))
"I'm alright! I'm alright! Now let me pass." Rain replied and wanted to go upstairs.
"But where have you been?" Lance asked again. "We've been worried."
"Yeah. You left the house at 11 PM." Todd added.
"Being weakened after that fight from Asteroid M." Pietro said.
"Still, did you bring some food?"
"Whoa, whoa. Wait a minute... You, worried for me?" Rain asked surprised. That was something new.
"Kinda. You are a member of the Brotherhood." Lance explained. Rain looked down.
"Not anymore."
"What?" the boys asked at the same time.
"Last night I was at the X-Men. Professor Xavier accepted me. I'm sorry boys. In the last days I was starting to like you. But if you're clever, you will do the same."
"We can't. Each one of us has something with an X-Man. Me with Summers, Pietro with Daniels, Todd with Nightcrawler and Blob with Jean."
"Well, I have problems. With Scott, and Jean, and Logan, and Dean, and Mina, and Evan... And so on."
"Impressive list. What did you do?" Pietro asked.
"It doesn't matter. Well, boys, good bye. I'm really sorry. In the first moment I saw you I thought that you are a couple of morons. Now I'm starting to change my mind... but, unfortunately, it's too late. I can't be a member of the Brotherhood. Magneto made me to come. Now that he's gone I'm free to forget all he did to me. Staying here would make me remember everything that happened to me in the last few months. I'm really sorry." she said as she began to go upstairs. The Brotherhood members looked at each other.
"Hey, Rain. We understand you. We hated you because you were always trying to make us feel like we were the worst persons in the Universe. But now we understand why you were so bitter. The experience that we live make us stronger and colder in the same time. We don't really know what happened to you but we feel sorry for you." Lance said.
"Things can't be the same if you're going to live with the X-Geeks. Practically you will become our enemy. But there has to be made exceptions. We don't have to be enemies." Pietro continued.
"But we can't be good friends either." Lance added.
"We can just ignore you, and you will ignore us."
"That's okay with me." Rain replied. With these last words, she went to her room.
The front gates of the Institute. opened letting Rain to walk in. She stopped her motorcycle in the front of the Institute. Professor Xavier was already waiting for her. She looked at the watch. It was showing 6:30 A.M.
"Good morning, professor." she said trying to be polite.
"Good morning, Anna." the professor replied. "I see you went after your things. You can go in your room to arrange your clothes. But I have to ask to you to come into my study at 7:05 A.M. I want to present you to the students as the newest member of the X-Men."
"Sure." she said.
Rain entered her room. She put her bags on the bed and opened them. She tossed her clothes into the dresser and threw the other things in different drawers of the furniture in her room. Ready with the unpacking. She changed her clothes taking a pair of black, large jeans, a white shirt and white sneakers. She looked into the mirror to check her make up and added some purple lipstick (like Rogue). The thick, black make up was okay. As she was looking in the mirror, only a thought was in her mind; What will the X-men do when they'll find out that she is the newest member of the team. She looked again at the watch, it was showing 7 A.M. "Time to go." she thought as she left her room.
She knocked at the office door. Professor Xavier told her to come in.
"Please, come in. I told you that today I have to take a blood sample and to add you in Cerebro's database." As professor Xavier said this, he pressed a button. The wall from the left raised revealing Cerebro. Professor Xavier put Cerebro's helmet on his head.
"Welcome, professor Xavier." Cerebro's voice announced.
"Open database. Search mutant Annabelle Kettler."
"Mutant found. Profile incomplete. Missing fingerprints."
"Prepare scanner."
"Scanner ready." a portion of the console where Cerebro was raised revealing a scanner.
"Put your hand there." Rain put her hands on it. The scanner lighted up. Her fingerprints appeared on the screen. "Add fingerprints to profile."
"Profile complete."
"Transmit authorization."
"Transmitting... Ready." Professor Xavier put Cerebro's helmet down.
"Now you have access into the mansion. After school please come to the hospital wing to take a blood sample. I will give you then some codes you will need while you live here. Okay?" Rain nodded. "Good. Now let's go present you to the students."
As usual in the kitchen was crowded. Every X-Man hurried to eat something before going to school or wherever they had to go. Professor Xavier coughed to get their attention. They looked at him.
"Good morning, Professor." Kitty Pryde said.
"Good morning. I'm sorry I'm interrupting you but I have something important to tell."
"No problem professor. What happened?" Scott Summers said.
"I want to tell you that the team has a new member." The X-Men seemed surprised. "Come in." the professor added. Rain entered in the kitchen with her arms folded. She wanted to appear serious but seeing the looks on the X-Men's faces was too much for her. Scott's mouth dropped seeing her and Jean almost spilled the food in her mouth. She smiled at them. "Good morning."
"Professor!!! You're crazy?!! She's the enemy!!! She works for Magneto. She is EVIL." Scott protested.
"May I remind you that SHE is right here." Rain replied. "And I was the enemy. I worked for Magneto. I was EVIL."
"I know it's hard for you to accept her but she's not your enemy anymore. You accepted Rogue. Think is a similar situation. You can accept her too."
"That was different. Rogue didn't know the truth about us. Rain knew it all the time."
"You don't why I worked for Magneto."
"Then why don't you tell us."
"I'd rather not."
"Scott, please." the professor interfered. "Anyone has the right to keep secrets. It's not a pleasant thing to talk about, that's why she doesn't want to talk about it. Trust her. Trust me."
"It's too hard." Scott said and left the room. The others followed him.
"I don't blame him." Rain said.
"You have to understand them. It's hard to accept you as a friend when you were enemies since the moment you met."
"I knew this would be their reaction. Or maybe I did a mistake coming here." Rain replied and left the professor.
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"I don't know how the professor can ask us to trust her." Scott whispered to Jean showing Rain that was at her locker few feet from them.
"I don't know either. But if the professor says that we can trust her, maybe we can trust her."
"We don't know what she thinks. Jean!!!" Scott said, an idea coming into his mind.
"What?"
"You can read her mind. Then we'll know if we can trust her."
"Scott, you know I don't use my powers for this kind of things."
"Just once, Jean. Please!!! Do it for me." Jean hesitated but in a final she accepted. She put her hands to her head and began to scan Rain's mind. At her locker Rain felt a strange nausea then her eyes glowed for a couple of seconds. Then she felt Jean in her mind.
"Jean, I'd be really grateful if you would stop trying to read my mind." she said then turned her head to Jean and Scott. Jean opened her eyes and whispered to Scott.
"She kicked me out." Rain left.
"How did she do that?" Scott asked.
"I don't know. I entered in her mind but I couldn't see anything. I just felt a lot of hatred, anger, sadness. Before I could sense anything else an older image of her appeared and knocked me out of her mind." Jean explained.
"That's strange. Why older?"
"I have no clue. And it was blonde, like Rain was before changing it to brown."
"You think we should tell this to the professor?"
"Yeah, right! We'll tell him that I tried to read her mind without her wanting." Scott made a face.
A weak light lighted the darkness. She sat there trying to see where she was.
"Help me!!!" a woman voice shouted in the dark. She could feel the pain in the voice but it was so dark around her, she couldn't see anything. The voice grew louder and louder. The shout was making her hart bleed and she began to cry.
"Where are you?" she yelled as she stepped back.
"Help me." the voice said again, this time behind her. She turned around. A woman, about her height, dressed in white, with a white veil covering her face, excepting the eyes. She tried to see who was behind the veil but she couldn't see anything. She looked in her bright blue eyes, feeling the pain and she saw the tears forming in them. "Help me." the woman pleaded again extending a hand.
"Who are you?" she asked. Instead of answering the woman touched her temples. She closed her eyes and when she reopened them it was into a room, resembling like a prison cell. The woman laid on the floor, unconscious. She now saw some bleeding wounds on her back. She wanted too help her but when she touched the woman the room vanished, the darkness surrounding her once again. Suddenly a pair of glowing bright blue/green eyes appeared in front of her. She screamed. Rain woke up sweating and breathing hard. She looked around the room scared. Suddenly she looked at her hands. Blood. It was blood on her hand. Logan entered the room followed by Ororo and Mina. Rogue and Kitty passed trough the wall. The other came in the room in the next moments. Professor Xavier entered the last and approached her bed.
"What happened?" he asked. Rain looked at him.
"Blood." she whispered then looked at her hand. Indeed, it was blood on her fingertips. The professor was surprised. The X-Men looked at each other.
"Blood." she whispered again. Suddenly all went dark and the veiled woman appeared in front of her again. The woman touched her forehead. A burning ache hit her making her to yell. She opened her eyes and saw the X-Man surrounding her bed then she passed out.
A.N. Well, sorry for the late update but I wasn't home the last week. And I had some problems with this chapter too. You know, when annoying little kids come to your house and searches trough your stuff and your mother doesn't say anything... Well such an annoying kid, my cousin to be more exactly, came at my house and said he knows to work with a computer, blah, blah, blah. Well, he deleted this chapter and I had to rewrite it. Stupid kids!!! Oh, anyway, hope you like it. I don't think it's boring, I think I brought mystery in this story. I plan to make a really good story about Rain's life and this is just the beginning. Review please. I need to know what you think about my story. And I thank to all that have reviewed until now. It's really nice to know that someone bothers to read your story.
Bye...