Mwa ha ha ha ha! Do you hate me for the cliffies? Mwa ha ha ha ha!
Sigh.
You know, I really like that maniacal laughter. There's just something tension relieving about it.
Anyway, I know there's not much action in my fic yet, but I'm into development right now. Don't worry, there will be some, just later.
Also with the Romance being later. I haven't got the pairings figured out, but one fan wants Todd with Kitty and another wants Wanda. Anyone else wanna throw in an idea? A vote? Him with a new charecter? Sorry, but no slash/ shonen ai or whatever it's called in this fic.
Other charecter pairings are also variable right now except: Scott-Jean, Rogue-Remy, and...well, I guess that's it, because I like those to stay the same.
Oh, and special thanks to Kate/ Lady-Snape7 and capitalist madhatter for their input and suggestions on ch 9!
One more thing, I am trying a new spacing style. Each section separated by a period denotes a paragraph. Someone told me that it would be easier on my readers if I spaced the dialog more so here's a try.
Tell me how you like it! I'd really appreciate your ideas and input. (Review!!!)
I don't own X-men:evolution.
Todd's heart sped up and an anxious look appeared on his face. Leaning forward in his seat he asked in a desperate tone, "Seriously man, who'd you tell. Xavier's cool, I mean he's psychic so you couldn't have hid anything anyway and Logan is alright, but anyone else and…and.."
Suddenly Justin grinned and chuckled, "Gotcha man. You should see the look on your face. Relax Kicker, those two were it."
As Todd collapsed back in the seat with relief, Lacy smacked Justin in the back of the head.
"Watch it Hun I'm driving!", he growled at her.
"Well you shouldn't be so mean! Kicker's going to have a hard enough day today without you freaking him out like that!", she scolded. "Now apologize to him right now!", the glare she sent at her fiancé was harsh.
"Ok ok, Sorry 'bout that Kicker I couldn't help myself. I mean your just so easy to freak and I was only trying to tease. Don't worry everything will be fine.", Justin assured Todd.
Man Justin's even more whipped than before,he thought."That's Ok, man. I just need to calm down a bit, I am a bit wound up. I mean, I left a runt and looser and feared just about everything here. It's a bit hard to throw the feelings I have for this town and most everything in it.", he smiled wryly.
Immediately he was glomped onto by Rita and Gabriel and hugged tightly. "Oh Kicker, don't worry! You aren't called Kicker for nothing!", Rita exclaimed.
"Yeah, it's because you totally kick ass and if anyone tries to hurt you, we'll kick theirs!", Gabriel seconded.
Unfortunately, Rita forgot about her super strength and was putting a bit too much pressure on his ribcage with her squeeze.
"Need…air…(gasp)…", he managed to get out of his crushed lungs.
"Oops!", they quickly released him. As he pulled air into his abused lungs, both girls tried to apologize profusely. Waving them off, he smiled, "Erhem, 's Ok. Really. Just watch it today. You do that to anyone else and you'll send 'em to the hospital. "
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"Hey, we're almost there everyone.", Justin called out from the front. "I'm just going to pull up front and let you out alright? I have to hurry up and get to that job interview. I'll pick you all up after school alright?", he asked. Everyone murmured sure, ok, or some other affirmative.
As they pulled to a stop Lacy leaned over and kissed her fiancé on the lips. "Don't forget, you promised Keith that you'd help him with Kicker's party tonight.", she reminded. "Oh, yeah.", turning to Todd she asked, "Hey kicker, think you'll invite anyone else to the party or do you just want it to be an "Us" thing?"
Todd thought about it a second. "Mostly an Us thing, but I might bring one or two people over. Maybe a few girls or something.", he said with a sly grin. Justin gave him one in return while the girls just rolled their eyes.
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Gabriel opened the hummer's door and slid out and the others soon followed. Once they were out Justin wished them all luck and took off. As they turned to head inside they noticed that most of the remaining students hanging around were staring at them. More specifically, the girls were drooling over Todd while the guys were eyeing the girls. Todd smiled, a lot different from last time. As they made their way up the walkway to the front door he noticed another thing different from the last time he was here: all the new faces. He hardly recognized anybody there except a few of the seniors and all of those he did remember were jerks anyway. That would make things a lot easier, less bad memories walking up and trying to kick his ass.
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Just as they entered the building the warning bell to get to class sounded. "Hey, what class do you guys have first?", Todd inquired.
"Well, I have Biology.", Rita answered, "What do you have Gabby?"
Gabriel glanced at her schedule, "I have Global Studies. What about you Lace?"
"I've got Government, but I might switch it my with my last period Geometry so I can be in the same class as Samantha. She is awesome at math and I need all the help I can get.", she sighed dramatically.
"I have English first. We'd better hurry up, don't want to make a bad impression on the first day.", Todd warned. "See you all later babes!", he called trotting down the hall, dodging through the river of students making a hurried pace to get to class.
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He made it to class just before the final bell and wound his way through the scattered desks to a back window seat just as it rang. While the girls giggled and guys glared at him, he just made himself as comfortable as he could in the hard desk-seat he had chosen. Scanning the room, he looked for anybody he knew. Hmmm, that guy in the other back corner kinda looks familiar. The other students seemed to avoid the fairly average looking teen like a plague. He looked normal enough to Todd, with his bowl-like cut brown hair and fairly built physique. He couldn't tell what color his eyes were or much about his features because he was buried in a book, but there was something that kept nagging at Todd's memory. He might have recalled him too, if the teacher hadn't arrived just then.
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Closing the door behind her, the middle aged woman in a business suit-like attire strode in with style. Every step screamed to the class of her confidence and a message not to mess with her. She didn't even have to do anything and the class quieted down within moments of her arrival. Without a word she wrote her name up on the board and started unpacking her papers. Ms. Alica huh, well she's new, he thought. She finally stopped messing with her papers and turned to stare out the window with her hands clasped behind her back. The classroom became silent.
"Right off the bat I want to say one thing. I do not tolerate prejudice. I will not stand for teasing, derogatory remarks, or
discrimination of any sort against someone's race, religion, or ethnic group. This includes mutants. Should any of you feel you
cannot handle this or act maturely in this matter you may go to the office now and try to get into another class. I must warn
you, however, that there are a shortage of teachers at this school this year and classes are fairly full. If you really need this
class, I advise you to just keep your opinions to yourself, grin and bear it." There was a nervous rustling while many students
glanced around at each other to see who would take the offer, or threat, depending on how you saw it.
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After a few moments, three teens stood up. One prep girl and two jocks. They gathered up their things and headed for the door. The class was silent as they left. Todd was grinning, I think I am gonna like this chick, he thought. He turned to the kid in the corner and saw that he was wearing a half grin of surprise and delight as well. Hmmm, maybe he's a mutie like me. The class started off with the usual speech about rules and regulations, but they went through that pretty quick. Attendance was a bit embarrassing when she called out "Kicker Wigglesman", but due to the teacher's demeanor no one laughed out loud thank goodness. Then Ms. Alica handed out English text books and a condensed version of Mac Beth.
"Ok, I want you to give a quick look at the first scene as portrayed in both the English book and the condensed version. Write
down the differences between the two and a basic summery of what plot you can figure out from each. You may work in
groups of no more than three, but you must all present your finds and be able to answer questions on your presentations by
the start of class tomorrow. This is to help me understand where each of your talents lie and where you need help the
most.", she informed the class.
Yowch! Well, at least we can work in groups. Already he could see several girls and some guys headed his way, probably to ask him onto their "Team". Their sure going to be surprised.
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Standing up and grabbing his bag, Todd turned down the offers of those who'd already reached him. Then headed over to the shy, outcast in the corner. "Hey, wanna work together?", he asked.
Most of the class quieted and waited for the kid's answer. He looked up in surprise for a second time that day. Startled, he blurted out a: "What?"
"I said, wanna work on this Mac Beth thing together?", Todd repeated.
"Sure. Sorry, it's just most people try and avoid me, most people don't really like working with mutants.", he replied. He said it like it was kind of a challenge, he waited like he expected a blow.
Smiling Todd just brushed it off, "Most people are ignorant losers who can't find their rear ends with a map and both hands. I'd say worse, but I don't want to piss off Ms. Alica. She seems like the one cool teacher in a billion."
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They both chuckled. "So, I'm Kicker." Todd extended his hand, which the shy guy promptly took.
"I'm Jamie, Jamie Madrox. So which version do you want to work on first.", he asked as Todd sat down at the desk next to his.
The rest of the class kind of murmured before finding their own little groups and settling down. Occasionally glancing over at the new guy and the outcast in the corner.
"How about the literature book version, it should be harder and we should get that over with first.", Todd suggested. He was thinking: I remember him now, they called him Multiple. He was one of the newer mutant at the prof's that made copies of himself. I thought he had to home school because of that.
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The rest of the period went fairly smoothly. The two worked really well together and they got their project done well before the end of class. They spent the rest of the time talking and becoming friends.
Just after the bell rang and as all the other students started flooding out of the classroom, Todd asked Jamie to his party after school, "It's just me and some of my friends, but you can come over if you want. You can meet some of my housemates. C'mon, it'll be fun."
"Sure, I'll just have to check in, but I think I should be able to make it.", Jamie grinned.
Then, they parted ways at the door. Now onto his first elective….
I just want to share a few things:
Multiple/ Jamie Madrox
1.) I don't know how his name is really spelled off the top of my head so I put it down the way it is and it will stay that way in my story.
2.) In this he is the same age as Todd - 18
3.) and I included him because of a touching yet cool story by another author, one of my favorites so if you want to know who just check them.
Any other Q's I'll just have to answer in my next chappie, so Luv's ya all and
Review Please!!!!
