Hey!! Me back…again…ought to be studying for my math final…yes, even at 1 30 in the morning…but nyeh. Anyway, I keep ignoring my fics, but having caught up with most of the fics I've been reading last night, or…yesterday morning…or…my head hurts now…
DISCLAIMER: Mu? Like the pokemon?
"Who the hell was zat?!?" Kurt asked, slightly panicky. "It'd better be a girl!!"
"Aren't they the new kid?"
"He…she…it was hanging round during our training…"
"Ah nearly killed…whatever it is!"
"It's a she, an' her name be Jess." Rahne said as she emerged from her lupine form. Kurt breathed a deep sigh of relief. He wanted the chicks to dig the fuzzy dude, not the dudes.
Rahne's simple statement opened up a slew of other questions, and Jubilee began o feel a tad grumpy, from being the center of attention, to a spectator in less than a minute. Flat.
"Is there a problem here?" Xavier asked, rolling in. Everybody looked at Scott, who looked rather sheepish.
"I mentally called when Rahne jumped me." He explained.
"Jess has gone missing." Evan stated.
"Why?"
"What, who, where, when and how?" Mumbled Logan as he came in, grumpy from being disrupted in the midst of his Monty Python Beer-a-thon.
"Kurt kissed her."
"Did not!"
"Yeah, you did!" The professor wanted a moment before mentally calling his students to order.
"Please, students, I've already found her. She's in the library. And don't all go at once." The massed student body stopped. Rahne kept going, and Kitty followed, phasing through three Jamies who happened to be in her way. "That should be enough. Now, I understand there is a party currently taking place here." He smiled and the mutants returned to the hall, where someone rushed to change the CD which had returned once more to the Chicken Dance…for the third straight run.
"Jess?" Kitty called, poking her head through Chronicle: The 20th Century. Rahne snuffled about, semi-wolf.
"I found 'er." She whispered.
"Why are you whispering?"
"Don't you have any respect for the library?" Jess asked, poking her head out from the bottom shelf.
"What are you doing down there?" Kitty asked, lowering her voice and crouching down. Jess shrugged her shoulders. Or tried to, which wasn't easy due to the limited space the shelf offered.
"Why were you running from me earlier?" Kitty asked, looking for a slightly more vocal answer.
"Dunno, felt scared." Jess toyed with an old copy of Little Men.
"Why didja kiss Kurt?" Rahne asked.
"Who's Kurt?"
"The fuzzy boyo."
"Amanda won't like it if you're trying to move in on her turf." Kitty warned.
"Amanda? The funny girl with the weird accent? Who becomes Queen of Lava?"
"No, that's Ama-ra. And how do you know her?"
"She grabbed my arm and wouldn't let go." Jess tossed the book aside and reached up for another.
"You did nae answer muh question." Rahne pointed out.
"I really don't know, okay? One minute I'm standin' there, watchin' ye have a great time an' all, the next, something blows up, I'm like ducking from all these snowballs, fireballs, an' whatever ye like t' call 'em, and find myself standin' next to short, blue and fuzzy." Kitty snorted. "What?"
"You're one to talk about being short."
"Whatever. The point I'm trying to make is, I do nae know."
"Jess, is that you?" Xavier rolled in, and bent down to see the bottom shelf. "Whay are you there?"
"It's comfortable." Jess winced.
"Cramped?" Kitty grinned.
"No, headache."
"Jess, are you sure you do not know what your 'special gift' is?"
"Crawling into shelf space?"
"Would you come to the med lab? Mr McCoy would like to examine you." Jess pulled herself out of the shelf, and began to follow Rahne, who was following Kitty, who was walking beside Xavier.
"Simon Sez ye be a mutant, go directly to a strange country, and a new home where people fly, turn into wolves, and a blue and furry." Jess mumbled.
"Och, where are ye from?" Rahne fell back a step. "I've been trying t' place yer accent."
"Uzbekistan." Jess replied promptly.
"Really?"
"No."
"Where?"
"Guess."
"What's with the monosyllabic conversation?" Kitty asked turning slightly.
"Will ye tell me if I be close?" Rahne asked, ignoring Kitty.
"Maybe."
"England?"
"No."
"New Zealand?"
"No."
"France?" A weird look.
"Alaska?"
"Alaska's part of the US." Kitty pointed out.
"But it seems like an entirely different country."
"But it's not."
"Why does he want to examine me?" Jess asked, stepping up and leaving Kitty and Rahne to argue over whether Alaska 'felt' like it was part of the US.
"I mean, there be an whole other country 'tween the United States an' Alaska!"
"Hank would like to see what exactly your mutation is…beyond a rash that is."
"Is it gonna hurt?"
"I would think not."
"Is he gonna want my bodily fluids?" This time it was Xavier's turn to give Jess a slightly odd look.
Three odd looks and a burst ego later, the quartet arrived at the med lab, where Hank McCoy was poring over some files.
"Ah, Jess, we meet again. This time, I'm a tad more conversationally inclined. Please, sit." He gestured, and taking one last look at his file, he sauntered over to Jess. "I understand your mutation is only just emerging, in the form of a nasty rash according to your doctor. May I see?" Jess wordlessly removed the sweater she'd been wearing since her arrival, slipping something from the sleeve into her pocket. The back of her head was beginning to feel as itchy as her arm did. As did most of her, but on the bright side, the itching on her arm had ceased to be. The rough lumps of the rash had smoothed out. Flattened into a new skin pattern. A scaly pattern.
"That wasn't there before…" She murmured.
"Ah, um, yes…" Hank continued to make small slight noises as he examined her arm. Kitty could plainly see the scales, and looked slightly disturbed. "You understand, Jess, that this apparent alteration in appearance that you are undergoing may indicate that your mutation is in some way, reptilian." Jess brightened up.
"Ye mean, she may turn intae a frog?"
"Frog's are amphibious. Their skin is slimy, not scaly." Jess said in a cold scientific manner. At this point in time, the small creature Jess had stuck in her pocket decided it was uncomfortable and made a break for it. "Saundr!! Cease and desist ye midget of a herp!!" Jess dove after the gecko, and caught it in her hands.
"A lizard?" Xavier's eyebrows lifted only slightly. Rahne stared at it, while Kitty froze. After a moment, she backed out, through the wall.
"My friend." Jess explained defensively.
'Charles, you may want to probe her mind. From what you and Logan told me, I think she may have a slight psychological disorder.'
'Without her assent?'
'Yes, it may not be anything major, but enough that it seem to affect her mood, and personality. Storm painted yet a different picture than the emotional teen you told me about. In any case if it's something small, she may have a degree of control over it, and may hide it from a mental probe she's aware of.'
'You understand I-'
'Don't read the minds of your students, yes, but otherwise it could take me several weeks to find it. I'm no psychiatrist.'
This mental exchange occurred within a few seconds, and within a minute, Professor Charles Xavier began to gently open his mutant mind.
Jess began to wince, as she was stroking the head of her gecko Saundr.
Xavier prepared for the natural barriers that occur within people's minds, and began to enter Jess. Too fast!! There was no barrier!! Just a twisting shifting mindscape! He could sense bits of himself, Hank and-
Jess fell unconscious.
Yup. Ends there. I may get another update out by the weekend. Gonna go visit my old junior high tomorrow. Ah well. Thnx for reading and REVIEW!!
