ldypebsaby: Yes, Jean still goes out with Duncan. But my theory was that Jean only ever went out with Duncan in the first place because she was tired of waiting for Scott to make a move. Scott still isn't making any moves, but Megan isn't waiting for him to. And I could push Duncan off a cliff, but that wouldn't be as fun as oh say… having Nathan kill him, or something that could actually affect the story. Hmm… I think I just had an idea…
Mark C: You can rest assured, I do like most cannon relationships, although I wouldn't actually call myself a JOTT fan, I think I might end up keeping Jean and Scott together, but first Jean or Scott have to make some decisions, and act on them, which might, or might not happen.
Hell Devil: Yes, I will be doing episodes from the show, but not for a little bit, I have some plot that I want to get going first. I'm not sure if Wanda and Nathan will hit it off or not… okay, I am sure, but I'm not going to tell you, it would ruin the surprise.
waytoevil: Well, I guess I'll ruin this one surprise. Yes, Joe and Rogue's powers actually create a sort of genetic vacuum and cancel each other out. So yes, they are immune to each other's touch. But I wasn't going to tell anyone that yet, but you kind have guessed it, so I guess you deserve to have an answer.
Author's Note: Hope you guys like this chapter; it's a little different than all of my other chapters. It's come to my attention that I've kind of neglected and glossed over the girls in the warriors, at least when it comes to giving the readers insight to their personalities. Heck, I don't even think I told you all their powers in this story. So this chapter focuses mainly on Jessica, and her interaction with others during the Warrior's first day at school.
Chapter 8: First Day of School
"What's going on?" Jessica asked as she walked into the infirmary early that Monday morning, only to see Dr. McCoy examining James with his shirt off, and Rebecca not even there.
"I'm giving your brother an examination, it turns out that his heart attack somehow affected his mutation. It's basically… mutated." Beast answered looking over to Jessica for a brief instant.
It was then that Rogue walked into the room, and gave a slight gasp. It was then that she realized that she'd never actually seen James without a long sleeve shirt on, and now she guessed why. He was covered in tattoos from his wrists, all the way up to his neck, and down to his waist. The most prominent one being the word 'King' tattooed on his back on his shoulder blades, the 'I' was even dotted with a small crown.
"What do you mean it's 'mutated'?" Jessica asked curiously. "Has a green a third nostril or something?" She asked coming in between him and Dr. McCoy and staring at her brother's face that was now less than three inches away.
Beast laughed. "No, but he has grown new skin." Beast said as he went over to a medicine cabinet and got some supplies.
"What?" Jessica asked looking to Rogue who remained there, but was keeping silent.
"His skin has become a non magnetic, organo-metalic substance with incredible density." Beast explained, but by the confused look on Jessica's face she didn't understand. "In other words, James' skin has permanently become a kind of metal that basically looks and feels like his skin, but isn't really his skin, and is a lot, lot, harder than his normal skin, it's basically like he's in metallic form all the time, but just looks normal." Beast explained the best way he could.
"It's permanent?" Jessica asked quickly. "And you're stuck like that? What about your one hour limit?"
"His what?" Beast asked looking to Jessica.
"My one hour limit. Before the heart failure I could only stay in metallic form for something close to an hour, we never really timed it, but after that I would start to weaken until I just passed out." James said as he looked to Rogue and then looked back to Dr. McCoy.
"Interesting…" Beast said thoughtfully.
"Jessica, you better be getting off to school soon, did you see the professor yet? He has something for you." James said looking over to his sister.
"Oh, no not yet, I'm going there right after I leave here, I just wanted to come and see how you were." Jessica said as her tail swayed behind her.
"Well I'm fine, but you're going to be late if you don't get a move on." James said with a nod. "You have a good day at school, behave, and listen to Elise, if she says not to do something, don't do it."
"Okay, okay, geez you make it sound like I'm a little child." Jessica said rolling her eyes. "Hey look a Popsicle stick." She said as she picked a tongue depressor up off the floor.
James smacked his forehead, and it was all Rogue could do to keep from laughing, Beast failed at that miserably, he was already laughing. Jessica was just like a child in her mentality, but her intelligence was normal, and her knowledge was normal, she was just always hyper. "James is right. You'd better hurry and see the professor before you leave." Beast said looking to Jessica. "Now Rogue was there something I can help you with?" Beast asked.
"What? Oh, ah… no, I was just wondering if you'd seen Nathan, Logan wants to talk with him." Rogue said, personally a little annoyed that she'd been picked to run the errand for Wolverine.
James smiled. "I can answer that one, he's in his room."
"Ah checked there." Rogue said with a shake of her head. "He wasn't in his room."
"Then he's in the gardens." James said as he got down off the medicine table and put his shirt back on.
"Gardens?" Rogue asked with an element of surprise in her voice.
"Yeah, gardens, he goes there to think or be alone when he wants a change of scenery from his room." James answered. "You'll probably find him there." James said turning to Jessica. "And you, go to the Professor's office and see him before you go to school. Now, or you'll be late."
"Yes sir!" Jessica said with a mock salute as she left, Rogue following close behind her but not heading towards the offices.
VVVV
"Professor?" Jessica asked just after knocking on the office door.
"Yes, Jessica, come in." The professor said as she opened the door and came in. Logan was in there too. "I wanted to give you something so that you could go to school with the others today. Kurt wears one too, it's called a holo-watch." Charles said kindly as he pulled out a somewhat-ugly black watch.
"Uh… Thanks…" Jessica said taking it from him gently and putting it on her right wrist. "Um… I guess I'll go to school now." Jessica said with a smile, obviously just thinking that it was a regular watch, and not realizing how to activate the hologram.
"Hold on their kitty-cat." Logan said standing up for a second. "It's more than just a watch."
At first Jessica didn't realize what he meant, she cocked her head a little and looked at it. "It looks like a watch." She said looking back to Xavier. "Didn't you say it was a watch?"
Charles laughed. "Yes, but here… Allow me." Xavier said as he took her hand and depressed the little button on the right side of it. The watch suddenly became a stylish silver watch, and her fur suddenly vanished, replaced by cream colored skin, her short blond hair that was on the top of her head was now red, which was okay with her, but her tail was still there, until she wrapped it around her waist.
"I look… I look…" She started looking down at her outfit. She was wearing Jeans and a sleeveless v-neck t-shirt with a long sleeve t-shirt underneath it. "How do I look?" She asked looking to Logan.
"See for yourself kid." Logan said pointing behind her and to the mirror that stood close by.
She turned and admired herself for a bit, before tackle-hugging the professor. "Thank you!" She squealed. "I'm going to show James after school, but if this watch tells the right time I'm going to be late if I don't leave soon!" She said cheerfully as she ran out the door.
The first thing she wanted to do was show the other girls, but she also wanted to show Kurt, and her brother, and everyone! "Danielle!" Jessica said as she ran to the door where the rest of the girls from the warriors, along with Kitty and Rayne were leaving.
Danielle turned and looked at her puzzled for a moment. "Jessica?" She asked suddenly realizing who this girl was; it took a second for her to recognize the voice. "What happened?" She asked as the other girls stopped and turned around.
"The professor gave me this watch thingy that makes me look like the rest of you when I put it on!" She squealed as she grabbed Danielle's arm and jumped up and down.
"That's great!" Elise said giving her a hug, and so did Grace and Megan.
"Come on! Or we're gonna be late for school!" John yelled from way up the driveway. Apparently all of them were walking to school.
"Coming!" Grace yelled as all of them now started off again.
"Where's Kurt? I wanna show him!" Jessica asked excitedly.
"Probably at school already." Kitty answered. "Scott gave him, Jean, and Rogue a ride."
"Scott drives?" Danielle asked looking over to Kitty.
"Yeah." Megan answered. "He's got a red corvette."
"How'd you know?" Kitty asked looking over to Megan.
"He showed it to me Saturday." Megan answered.
"Oh, I wish the professor had given this to me yesterday, then I could've gone with James and Rebecca to church." Jessica said with a slight frown.
"Don't worry, you can go this Sunday I'm sure, but it's still a little whiles away, so why don't we see if you survive the first day in a new school?" Grace said with a chuckle.
"Well it's not like we have to worry about going through it without making any friends. I mean we're already friends the five of us, and now there's all the people at the institute, like Kitty and Rayne." Elise said with a smile. "Who knows, maybe Jessica will become the most popular girl in school."
Kitty smiled. "Oh, I wanted to ask your advice on this." She said looking over to Elise. "Do you think it's a good idea for me to introduce Chris to my boyfriend?"
"Well he's going to meet him anyway, it's not like it really matters." Elise answered. "Why? You and Chris got something going on?"
"No. No. No. Nothing like that, but I don't know, sometimes Lance can be a little jealous." Kitty said with a shrug.
"Lance?" Megan asked raising a brow.
"Lance is my boyfriend." Kitty explained.
"Well take it from my experience, a little jealous, is always a good thing." Elise said with a wink.
VVVV
It wasn't long until they were in the school. Jessica had gotten her locker, it was right next to Mike and Nathan's lockers! Elise had already yelled at her for something, was that ever going to be a memory to remember.
Flashback
The girls, Megan, Elise, Grace, Jessica, and Danielle walked arm in arm with Megan and Jessica on the ends, and Rayne and Kitty walking in front of them. Suddenly Elise felt Jessica let go, and turned to see where she was. Her eyes met with Jessica being about six feet away, rubbing some guy's shaggy hair. "Jessica!"
End Flashback
Jessica smiled as she sat down in her first class; she had a little while before the bell rung. She looked around a bit. There at the back of the class was Mike, reading a book of course. She was glad that he could come to the school. Apparently the professor had to give him something to, some sort of shield or whatever so that he couldn't pick up other people's thoughts.
Then in walked this girl who looked like she was ready to go to a party, and she acted like it to, putting her feet up on the desk as soon as she sat down. She looked over to Jessica, who smiled politely. "Hi there, my name's Jessica." She said with a nod.
"I'm Tabby." The girl said with a smirk. "You one of those new student's at Xavier's place?"
Jessica shrugged. "Kind of. I think… Why? How do you know about Xavier's? How did you know that it has new students?"
"Lance told me, he thinks this new guy student is trying to take Kitty away from him. They're supposed to fight after school." Tabby answered.
"You know Lance? Kitty's boyfriend?" Jessica asked curiously.
"Yup. Sure hope that guy he's fighting has a decent set of powers, or is a really good fighter, otherwise it won't be much fun to watch to the fight." Tabby answered.
The bell rung, and suddenly a flush of students came through the door. Jessica noticed that Megan, Kitty, and that other girl… Amara, she thought her name was, were also in her first class.
"Good morning students." The teacher began as he began marking the chalkboard.
VVVV
Her second class though didn't have anyone she knew in it. She got there early too; there were a bunch of jocks sitting in front of her in red and white jackets. "Hey, Joe likes football, maybe he'll join the team." Jessica said aloud to herself thoughtfully. "Hey how does somebody join the football team anyway?" Jessica asked one of the jocks in front of her.
A brown haired guy answered her arrogantly. "I think a girl like you would be more interested in joining the cheerleading team." He said with a smirk.
"Cheerleading?" Jessica asked curiously. "You mean that thing with jumping up and down and yelling a lot and pom-poms?"
"Uh… Yeah." The guy answered a little confused, his buddies laughed.
"Hmm… Okay, how do you join that?" Jessica asked quirking a brow.
"You have to do tryouts… I think." One of the other football players answered.
"Okay." Jessica said with a nod. "Where are the tryouts?"
"You have to wait until they hold them. If they start looking for new members they'll tell people, and post it on the bulletin board and stuff." One of the other jocks answered.
"Cool! Where's the bulletin board?" Jessica asked curiously.
"Out in the hall." One of them gestured.
"Thank you!" She said happily as the bell rang and the teacher came in.
VVVV
School was fun. So far she'd met some pretty interesting people, one guy had given her his phone number, she wasn't exactly sure what for, and all of her classes except her second one had someone she knew in them, but she hadn't seen Kurt yet, and now it was time for lunch. She had her tray, she had her drink, and she even had her food, now she needed a place to sit. Looking around she saw a group of guys sitting with Tabby, the girl she'd met in her first class. Well, one of them was kind of hard to miss, he was huge, and he was like what James might be if he didn't work out, ate lots of doughnuts, and shrunk a few inches.
"Can I sit here?" She asked Tabby as she came up with her tray.
"Hey look it's one of the new X-geeks." A warty little guy said quite loudly. "What do you want?"
"To sit down." Jessica answered innocently.
"Yeah? Fine, go sit down somewhere else." The large guy answered.
Jessica shrugged and started to go away, but Tabby stopped her. "Ignore the rude brothers, you can sit here." She said moving over a bit for Jessica to sit.
"Thanks." Jessica said as she sat down next to Tabby, and across from the warty guy. "You two are brothers?" She asked looking to the small warty guy and the big fat guy.
"What?" The warty guy asked.
"No, this is Toad." Tabby said gesturing the small warty guy. "This is Fred." She said motioning to the fat guy who was on her other side. "This is Lance." She said gesturing to the boy with long hair across from her. "And this is Pietro." She said as she pointed the to white haired boy across from Fred.
"Nice to meet you." Jessica said cheerfully as she started eating her lunch. "So you're Kitty's boyfriend?" She asked looking to Lance.
"Uh… yeah." Lance said looking over to Jessica. "You know that boy Chris? He's a new student at Xavier's right?"
"Yeah, I know him." Jessica answered with a nod.
"What's his mutation?" Pietro asked quickly, as was his style of speaking.
"You guys know about mutants?" Jessica asked raising a brow.
"We are mutants." Tabby said with a smile.
END
Author's Note: Well, what'd you think of the change in writing style? Usually I go with a broad look on everyone, kind of an omniscient perspective. This time it was just the experiences and thoughts of one person, a big change. Don't worry if you didn't like it, I'll be back to the old writing style next chapter, but every now and then I'll put in one of these from different people's perspectives. Oh, and uh… REVIEW!!!!!!!! Please?