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Summary: This story takes place post Terra and pre Titans Rising. Terra's powers almost get her killed and in the process, Cerebro picks her up and the X-Men save her. Now Terra is being fostered by the X-Men. They want to help her, but who else wants to help her?

Chapter Summary: Pietro visits Terra in her room and afterwards, Jean starts interrogating Terra. She is scared. And what does she do when she's scared?

Chapter 11

Running From Fear

I lay down on my bed after a three hour training session. Hell, the military didn't have this kind of training session! I was seriously thinking of joining the military. At least what they did wasn't suicide.
The only plus side to this was that my control over my powers was better. Rogue was helping me. A lot.
"Hey."
I sat up. At first, I thought it was that annoying Kurt, but I saw Pietro standing in front of my bed.
"How'd you get in?" I demanded.
"I told you, I'm a mutant. A very, very fast mutant," he added running to my side then back to where he was at first in the blink of an eye.
"Whoa!" I squealed. "That is so cool!"
I sat up higher and grinned.
This guy didn't sound so bad. OK, so when I mentioned his name to Rogue, she kinda freaked and asked how I knew his name. I just said I met him at school and Rogue began on a rant on how bad the Brotherhood was. And then Scott heard her and joined in. Then Jean. Kitty. Kurt. OK, long story short, the whole X-Men spent an hour dissing the Brotherhood. Then Wolverine came in and asked us why we were just standing around chatting. When we mentioned the Brotherhood, we found ourselves sitting there for another hour being told how dangerous and pathetic they were and then Wolverine, to let out the steam, made us do a four hour training session.
"So, thought about joining the Brotherhood? I saw your training session, by the way. 3 hours sure is tough, huh?"
I grinned. "Actually, I thought of joining the Brotherhood. Plenty of times," I added. I hugged my knees and looked up at my ceiling. "But I'm not sure I'm ready to pick teams yet."
"You're with the X-Men," Pietro pointed out.
"I'm staying with them," I corrected.
I pushed my hair out of my face. It seemed to be doing that a lot lately. But then again, I had grown a bit and my hair was a little longer. But I was still that skinny little blue-eyed girl that was scared of herself.
"So why don't you stay with the Brotherhood then?" Pietro asked. "We don't have training sessions you know…"
I smiled at the thought of waking up later then four in the morning and having enough time to do homework.
"Maybe," I replied.
"Terra!"
I turned my head to my door. It sounded like Jean. Great…
"You better go. I don't think they like you much," I said turning my head back to Pietro, only to find him gone.
"Who were you talking to?"
It was Jean. She had used her telekineses to unlock my door. Talk about invasion of privacy.
"Myself," I said shrugging my shoulders as though it was a natural thing. "It's very handy. You hardly feel lonely."
Jean shot me a strange look and pushed her read hair behind her shoulders.
"Are you OK?"
"Yeah, I'm fine!" I said smiling reassuringly. "Why?"
"It's just that Wolverine's training sessions can be a little…uh, tough," she replied.
She sat down on bed and surveyed my messy room. "You've gotten better control over your powers, by the way. It really shows. Your aim is more…accurate."
I flushed. She was giving me a compliment, but I knew my aim hadn't been that good at all. In fact, I was still missing my targets. Sometimes, Jean helped me get the targets, but Wolverine sometimes caught us cheating once and I was forced to clean the jet for a week. After Bobby took it for a ride. My hands were wrinkly for a week.
"Thanks," I mumbled. "This training stuff is pretty tough."
"Yeah, but it helps us gain control. Control is important," Jean said. I almost rolled my eyes. How many times had I heard that? "If we didn't have total control, we'd become a menace and…people would start to fear us again. Fear isn't a good thing, especially when its towards us," Jean said remembering the events that took place after the world discovered they were mutants. "Be careful, Terra," Jean said looking me in the eye.
"Um…sure," I said avoiding the telepath's gaze.
Some part of me knew she knew about my second thoughts on becoming part of the X-Men.
"OK then, if you're sure," she said narrowing her eyes at me.
I nodded vigorously and Jean let out a heavy sigh. She walked out of my room and closed the door behind her quietly.
The moment the door shut, I could feel the fear surge through my body. I had no idea what the X-Men did to those that didn't want to join them. For all I knew, that might want to kill me! And judging by the strength of their powers, it wouldn't take them that long.
I grabbed my backpack and began stuffing it with anything I could grab. Some shampoo from the bathroom…some clothes…Kurt's secret stash of candy he had hidden in my room….there was a knock on my door.
"Terra?"
Time to jet.