Red haired elf girl

Chapter 2: Leaving

Disclaimer: I don't own any thing related to xmen or anything noticeable, so please don't sue. Katie is mine.

Author's note: Thank you to everyone who reviewed and I hope you like this chapter! I've corrected most of the mistakes in this chapter and have sworn to never post when I'm half asleep again.

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That afternoon a black car pulled into the driveway (it was a ford corolla with a red X on the license plate.), two people got out and walked to the front door.

The man who looked like he was a body builder, with well defined muscles and a look about him that said he knew how to take care of himself in a fight, knocked on the front door and took a step back his right hand raising to the odd pair of red tinted sun glasses he wore, meanwhile the woman had a look of concentration on her face her one of her hands came to a rest on the mans shoulder and he visibly relaxed.

The woman had long red hair and looked like she

Could have been a model, as there didn't seem to be an ounce of fat on her. Katie's mother answered the door and talked to the two for a few minutes before letting them come inside the house.

A few minutes later her mother knocked on her door and said, "Katie their are some people down stair in the den that would like to talk to you." in a calm tone that belied the nervousness that she felt.

"Ok mom, I'll be right down as soon as I brush my hair." Katie answered jumping off her bed where she'd been laying all day looking out the window at the cars passing by wondering what would happen if walked outside the house, (would someone shoot me?) she'd thought to her self many times over the last couple of hours.

"Alright but don't be to long." her mother said and went back downstairs to the living room where her husband was talking to their two guests.

Katie looked at herself in her bedroom mirror. * I haven't changed that much, lets see if I bush my hair just right they wont even be able to see my ears. * The girl thought to herself as she brushed her hair to cover the points of her ears.

After brushing her hair Katie went to the bathroom that joined her room onto her room and washed the tear stains from her face, she checked herself in the mirror one last time to make sure her ears were hidden. Satisfied she walked down the stairs to the den at the bottom and knocked on the closed door lightly.

"Come in Katie." her mother said after a moment.

She opened the door to the den, walking in after patting her hair once more to make sure that her ears were out of sight.

She slowly walked into the room. She could see the two people from the school sitting on the love seat while her parents were on the couch, her fathers sitting next to her mother holding her hand reassuringly.

Katie could tell that the people made him nervous by the light sweat on his forehead and by the way his left index finger kept jerking.

"Katie this Dr.gray Grey and Scott Summers." her father said to her as he motioned for her sit on the recliner.

"Hello Katie, its nice to meet you. "Dr. Grey said. Kindly as she sat down, the woman seemed to look right through Katie as if she were not paying complete attention to what was happening in the room.

Mr. Summers held out his hand and said. "Hello", in a tight voice as if he was as tense as she felt at the moment.

"Hi." Katie said and sat looking at the two strangers that were sitting in front across from her, the man was wearing a dark blue suit and red sun glasses that covered his eyes completely, she thought to herself that they had to be prescription as the light were set to dim.

Dr. Grey leaned forward in her seat and said to Katie. " Katie your parents have been telling us about what has been happening the last few days." She looked over to her parents and they gave a reassuring nod.

"They have told me that you've gained the gift of flight and your ears have changed shape almost over night." she said. At this Katie began to fidget in her seat.

Dr. Grey smiled at her calmly and said. "Now what I'm about to say to you may come as a shock. First is that what has happened to you is quite normal." At

Her words Katie looked at the woman as if she doubted her sanity.

"Secondly is that you're a mutant and not a monster." The woman said to her.

When Dr. Grey said that she was a mutant Katie almost laughed. Of course she was a mutant. It had been apparent from the moment she opened her eyes this morning and finally noticed her pointed ears for the first time. And of course she wasn't a monster.

Dr. Grey continued to speak about the school they were from and how it would be for the best if she were to attend it, with all that had happened over the last two days.

Katie's mind had gone numb when she had mentioned the college size library and Olympic swimming pool. She only just caught the part about there being other mutants at the school.

"Other mutants?' she asked in a wary tone.

"Yes, Xavier's school for gifted children is a place where mutants can go to learn to control their gifts in a safe environment." Scott said. The most he'd said the whole time she'd been the room.

He kept talking about how the school was fully equipped with the latest teaching equipment and how the students were allowed to advance at their own pace. For the first time in her life Katie felt that she might like to go to school if it was like he describing it.

After about an hour of talking of talking to he about the pros and cons of their school, Mr. Summers gave her a few flyers to look at and told her they would give her a few days to think about going to their school.

That night her neighbors made her up her mind for her. She was looking out her bedroom window when she saw something moving in the backyard. For a moment she thought her eyes were playing tricks on her, until suddenly there was a bright flash of light and she could see clearly someone running out the side fence gate. She might've even been able to tell the police later who it was had she been looking. But at that moment her eyes were riveted to where the light was coming from, on the back lawn were the words DIE MUTIE wrote in large black letters and her old tree house was burning.

The next morning after the firemen and police had left, Katie pulled two suitcases out of her closet and packed them full of cloths, books and pictures she wanted to carry with her. She went down stairs with a suitcase in each hand and told her parents she'd decided to go to the school and that she loved them.

Her parents didn't seem surprised about her decision and told he they would miss her and they would write every week.

They called the number that Dr. Grey had left with them in case of emergency and arranged for them to pick her up that afternoon.

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Her mother burst into tears as Katie got into the car to leave; she ran over to the girl and hugged her.

"You do know we love you and that if there was any other way to make sure you would be safe we'd do It.," her mother said. Holding her as the young girl started to cry. Her mother helped her into the car and shut the door. Her husband walked up behind her and draped his arm around her comfortingly as tears ran freely down her face.

Katie meanwhile was looking forward to leaving before she changed her mind and decided to stay with her parents, putting them in even more danger than they already were for having a mutant daughter.

They drove past her old school and she couldn't help but feel angry with the people there for the way they had acted towards her.

Had they accepted her for being different she wouldn't be leaving everything she'd ever known.

"Fair well and good riddance!" she said as they pulled into the airport.