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Chapter 10 – Sharpening
Sitting on her chair in her room, she spun around on it. She continued to spin around on it till she felt herself start to slide off it a little bit. She reached out and grabbed onto her desk to slow and stop herself. Tilting her mouth she looked at the complicated computer system that was sitting in front of her. She knew how to use a computer, it came natural and she instantly went to a blank document and went to type her name at the top of it but had to stop when she realised that her name didn't start with an R. she wondered why her fingers had instantly gone to this place and started to type something she didn't even know, she just put it down to a reflex action and hit the backspace button a couple times to get rid of the small black letter.
After she had closed down the document and connected to the internet, she mentally thanked Theo for setting everything up for her while she was in training this morning. She went to Google and was going to type in something but had to stop when she couldn't think of anything to search. Frowning, she began to spin on her chair and that's how she got there.
Now, when her mind had stopped spinning, she typed in 'Logan' she remembered that name from her memories, she just hoped the answer would pop up. She growled when she saw a picture of a car and a college. She moved the mouse over to where it felt comfortable and scrolled down.
When she got to the seventh page and still nothing that sparked anything she went to the top of the page and typed in next to 'Logan', 'Wolverine'. When she ever thought the name, that one seemed to pop out of nowhere, so she was about to press enter when she heard a knocking on the door, spinning on her chair and turned to face the closed door.
"Yeah?" she called out to who ever was behind it.
The door still remained closed and heard a guy behind it huff before calling out to her. "Could yo' help Remy? He be stuck wit' somethin' at de moment."
Smiling she stood up and walked over to the door and opened it. She was greeted by Remy who was struggling to hold several bags and a box. Kate smiled and reached out and took the box from his hands. She found it was quite light, but awkward to hold. She smiled at him, "Where ta?" she asked him lightly.
Remy looked down at his feet for a second then looked up at her, a big toothy smile on his face, and his eyes still hid behind those glasses that Kate really wished she could just rip off and stamp on them. Remy sensed her feelings and he smirked, his hand coming up to make sure his glasses where covering his eyes properly.
"Just down de hall, thanks to yo, Tante Mattie redecoratin' every room in dis wing." He pointed down the hall and began to walk down the hall, he glanced behind to check if she was following. "Yo' feelin' okay? Remy sorry if he pushed yo' too hard dis mornin'."
Kate laughed and her eyes brightened, "Nah, ah'm fine! Ah feel great actually."
Remy looked at her for just a little bit longer then necessary, "Mon Deau, to be eighteen again." He let out a laugh that made Kate feel weak at the knees and she was glad to see that they had come to the door they were heading too.
"Why do ya think ah'm eighteen?" she asked, she mentally smacked herself for her stupid flirting. He must think ah'm a complete child with a silly crush! She looked at her feet and knew she was blushing.
"Cause," He opened the door with his foot and flicked on the switch. "Dat's what Remy put on yo' birth certificate."
Kate's eyes widened. "Ya did mah birth certificate?" Remy smirked and nodded. "Ya the reason mah name is 'Katherine Christine Rose'?" she saw Remy smirk widen, "Oh mah gawd! Ah can't believe ya gunna let meh suffer with a name as stupid as that for the rest of mah life!"
She walked over to the bed and put the box on it. When she turned round she saw Remy laughing as he placed different bags in different places in the room, one by the door, one by the balcony, one by a wardrobe. "Ya think it's funny?"
"Actually, Katherine, Remy think it be de perfect name for you. Means Pure, it be Greek. Christine……Remy like dat name." Remy smirked and turned round after putting down his last bag, only to lose it when he was met with the deep green eyes of Kate. He felt his face moving down, closer to hers. He felt his jaw tense then slacken and open a bit, he tilted his head to the left slightly and he felt her hands on the side of his face and was about to meet her lips when he suddenly felt his glasses being moved, but before he could react he knew it was too late and he could clearly see Kate without the dark tint to her.
He saw her bright green eyes in all their glory and he saw her take a gasp and only then he realised that she could see his eyes.
Kate was looking into the most intoxicating eyes she had ever seen, even though she couldn't remember things from longer then nine days ago, she was certain that no one had eyes like him. They were such a shining black, they looked like pure black melted coal and they contrasted with his crimson eyes that kept flashing. She wished she could just stare at them for ages. Her hands rested on the side of his head and she just stared into his eyes, forgetting that they actually belonged to a person, more so, Remy LeBeau who was standing only inches away.
"Like what yo' see chere?" She jumped back and ringed out her hands quickly in a nervous sort of way. She then shoved them in her pockets and looked down from his burning gaze.
"Ah'm sorrah. Ah should have known not ta do that, if ya wanted them to be a secret ah should have respected that. Ah'm sorrah." Kate said, she began to panic, what if Remy wasn't happy now and they made her leave? Where would she go? Her thoughts were interrupted when Remy put his hand on her bare shoulder.
Remy felt suddenly drained. He looked down at his hand and saw pink flame light then quickly fade. Then he noticed his veins were popping up out of the surface of his skin and he heard a squelching sound that was making him felt sick and faint. He began to worry and quickly stepped back from Kate. What was she doing to him? Is this one of her powers? Did she even know she was doing it?
She looked as shocked as she did. She grabbed her head and looked up to see Remy panting. "Was dat Kate havin' a flashback? A memory? It weren't lahke de other times but Kate remember somthin's dat she didn't knw 'fore." She suddenly realised the way she was speaking. Putting a hand to her mouth she gasped.
Remy looked at her with wide eyes and a raised eye brow. Was she speaking like him now? "What de hell is goin' on?" he said before stalking out the room. Kate was about to follow, but she saw the bit of paper on her desk that Jean-Luc had given her. She tilted her head at the name and number and picked up her phone, by her computer and began to dial the number.
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Betsy was woken up by her phone ringing. She sighed and dragged a hand across her eyes and picked up the phone. "'Lo?" she asked, she didn't sense who it was when she cast out her senses before.
She heard a girl on the other end suck in a breath of air and reply, "Hey, er….Jean-Luc gave meh this number to ring, cause of some problems ah've been havin'."
"Okay, what ya doin' today?" Betsy asked, she didn't have anything to do today, may as well help out some one from the guild.
Betsy sensed her surprise, she obviously wasn't expecting her to agree and meet up with her so soon. "Nothin'."
"Good, I'll come round the mansion an' we'll talk over lunch, meet me outside on the patio round…oneish?" she said getting up and kicking her feet off of the bed.
"'Kay, thank ya." The girl said, Betsy smiled at her, she guessed she was kind of new to the guild.
"Nah, t'is fine. I'll see ya then. Bye." She hung up the phone before the girl could reply and then looked out her window, it seemed around ten, maybe eleven. Sighing she got up and walked to her shower, ignoring the guy in her bed.
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Kate walked down the stairs towards the patio, she ran a hand through her hair then wiped her sweaty hands on her dark blue jeans. She looked up and out the patio doors and saw a woman sitting with her back to her on one of the chairs. She stepped down the last step and pulled at her hands, before growling and making her hands into fists and telling herself to stop doing it!
She stepped outside and felt the cool air hit her face. She relaxed slightly and walked round the table and gave a small nod to the woman before extending her hand.
"Hey, ah'm Kate, are ya Besty?" She asked politely and when she saw the woman smile and nod she sat down and shook her hand. Betsy seemed nice, she had a warm Asian face with long deep dark purple hair which Betsy thought was a bit strange, but she remembered the two platinum streaks in her hair which made her rethink what is strange or not.
"'Lo Kate. I've heard some things 'bout you. Let's get on with this eh?" Kate nodded and smiled, she didn't like sugar coating things anyway. "Okay, whats been bothering you?"
Kate looked uncomfortable, but she decided just to get on with it, and if they thought she was crazy, maybe she could just sit in a corner and listen to the voices in her head. "Ah heard someone talkin' ta meh, and then ah freak out. Fire blazin' an' all."
Betsy just froze and looked slightly strangely at her before nodding and casting out her senses. She found a very blank canvas on top but as she tried to look deeper she felt something push her away. She decided to try again later, right now she had a girl to talk to. "Okay, so you're a mutant." Kate flinched slightly but nodded. "What powers do you have?"
Kate winced and sat there thinking for a second, "Err……Ah make fire, ah can float……ah read Tante Mattie's mahnd……an' thin mornin', ah touched Remy, an' ah….ah swear ah sucked a bit of him out of him an put it inta meh. Does that sound wrong?"
Betsy raised an eyebrow. "Altogether? Kind of. But separately it sounds like, pyrokinesis, telepathy, telekinesis and the last one sounds a little bit absorbtion. All of those seem a little bit strange together, but there normal separately, well, if you can call us normal."
"How can you help meh?" Kate looked her in the eyes and she saw that she didn't want to control whatever she had, she wanted to get rid of her powers. Betsy was going to be damned if she let such a powerful girl like this have her powers taken away, this girl could be untouchable if she trained and controlled them.
"I can help you by entering your mind and going to the control centre for the mutant powers, there is a certain part of the mind dedicated just to our mutant powers, what they are, how they work, how powerful, how to control, and its all around here-" she reached out and touched Kate head, just above and behind her right ear. "See, people who aren't mutants, that part of there brain is useless, it does, basically nothing, but with us, it's everything."
Kate nodded and understood what she was saying, "So you go in mah head and flick a switch to make it all stop?"
Betsy smiled and crossed her leg over the over one under the table, "Kind of, but it wont stop, the powers will still be there, only you can turn them off and on when ever you want or need. It will take some time, especially with absorbtion, I've never had to help control that mutation before, but we should be all fine and good after about a couple sessions."
She saw Kate smile and she felt her mind working out everything, she seemed happy and pleased that she wasn't insane or anything and that she wouldn't have to walk around covering herself up head to toe or locked in a room or anything. Betsy smirked as she remembered what she had to go through with Remy one time and she felt that may happen with Kate. Betsy also felt a wave of fear, she opened herself up to it a bit more and searched through it to find out it was a fear of self. She feared that if she was powerful now, when she didn't have full potential of her powers, what would she be like when she did?
Kate looked up and nodded "'Kay, when can we start?"
Betsy liked this girl, every second she said or did something new and she liked what it was, she was powerful, she had this experience feeling about her, even though she didn't remember anything. She had this leave me alone, I'll only let you near if I know you can take care of yourself thing going on. Betsy's smirk widened and sat up. "Right now if you want. You haven't eaten much in the last couple hours have you?" her voice getting a new slightly panicked serious tone to it.
Kate smiled and shook her head.
"Good, now first I need you to relax, think of something that helps you relax." Betsy used this technique a lot, not only did it help them relax, it also made her see what it was that helped them relax for future reference if needed. She opened her mind out to her and she felt that familiar sense of being covered in warm water. She was Remy sitting across from Kate, he was looking at roses and she was chewing on what she could only guess what Remy's cooking, Betsy remembered and would recognise the taste it anywhere. "Now count backward from five." Betsy didn't need them to do that, she just liked to prepare them, it was kind of a courtesy.
"Fhive…..fhore…..three…..ta….." before she could reach one, Betsy entered her mind, she was only on the surface. She would have to work hard for some reason to get deeper, she pushed her way through and felt certain things creep and tighten around her but finally she reached the section she had named the "Mute box".
She looked around and closed her eyes to arrange it into a something she could work with, it slowly faded and turned into a big control room, she walked over the smallest section, it had a big friendly sign above it saying 'Telepathy' she was used to that and looked down at the different switches and buttons, she smiled at the minds sense of humour. She had been doing this for ages so she knew how to use everything and she began. She tuned and changed a lot of things and was startled by the fact that this space was new and didn't fit in with the mind properly. She just ignored this and moved in closer, she felt herself sway and herself start to sweat. That was enough for today. She had fixed and got everything in Telepathy sorted out. She walked over to a spot and slowly tweaked something; she altered it so nearly all her mutant energy was focused on the telepathy part of her powers.
She slowly reared out and closed their connection.
She grabbed and balanced Kate as she slumped forward. Kate slowly regained herself and held her stomach. "Ah can see why ya wanted ta know if ah ate….mah stomach's killin' meh."
Betsy sat down and stared at the girl while she focused herself. She was a puzzle. Half those powers were not her given ones. The room was set out differently, what she could figure out was that her main power was absorbtion and the extra room for the powers she borrows. But the problem was, she had never seen or heard of any case where a mutant absorbs someone's powers and keeps them for longer then a day. This girl had them still in her, and by the looks of it, they weren't going to be leaving.
Grabbing her chin and resting her elbow on the table, she began to wonder where this girl came from, and if she was related somehow to the people who had come looking for their person. The X-men…..she'd have to look into that.
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Remy was sitting in a misty dark room, well it wasn't misty, it was smoke, and it wasn't a room, it was a bar. He couldn't really make much out except his cards and the table. He trusted everyone that sat around the table, he trusted them, so he knew they were all cheating just as much as he was. This game was pointless, everyone was going to win the way they were going, the guy to his left picked up a card and slipped it in his own hand, then so simply and unnoticeably he placed two down. Remy saw though, he always did, he just sighed to himself and lightly charged his cards out of boredom then withdrew the energy and continued to do this until the game was over.
They all just decided to throw their cards on the table at the same time, there was no way anyone would win, so the games always finished like this. No one lost, no one won. Remy had to admit to himself though, that he liked it that way. Sure you could never win, but you could never lose either, he liked the slight challenge that hid in the game.
He coughed and stood up, and shook out his hand for a second before reaching out to the bar that was near them, he grabbed the first drink that reached his hand and sat down again only this time he sat back in his chair and took a gulp of the drink.
"So, Theo, you an' Bell be gettin' pretty close." He heard Henri joke from across the table. Theo was sitting next to him and Remy felt him stiffen and sensed his anxiety. He smirked and took another gulp before placing it one the table and grabbing a hand full of cards and shuffling them.
Theo gave an uncomfortable laugh and took a quick glance at Remy, everyone knew they had a past, but also knew that neither spoke of it or cared about it anymore, yet it was still strange to others to talk about it, especially around either one of them.
Remy smirked at this, "Non, you speak, don' worry 'bout Remy an' Bell, Remy want to hear dis."
Theo relaxed and smiled "Well you know, she needed her computer fixin' an' some info on dis one guy, so we were spending 'lot of time together. Thin's jus' sort of 'appened."
"An' 'ow long dis been goin' on for?"
"Bout duex months."
There were nods going round the table and Remy just looked past them, his mind started to wonder as Theo was talking to the rest of the guys. He wondered what happened that morning. Kate had just touched him and suddenly he felt weak and slowly he felt himself be pulled and drained. He wondered if these were part of her crazy powers. She already had three that didn't relate to each other, why not have another one?
He touched the area where she had and found no mark or anything abnormal. He wondered for a second if he imagined it all, but then thought that wasn't true, because they way she had started to act and talk after she let go wasn't his mind. She had started talking like him, accent and all and for a second, Remy could swear he saw her eyes flash black and red, just like his.
Wiping his head, he decided that she didn't know what was happening either. So maybe he should just let it go, but he couldn't help shake the feeling of worry that it might happen every time she touched someone.
He couldn't figure her out. She was so innocent yet she had so much power that it wasn't possible, but there she was. And she couldn't help but grab his attention. She had so many things about her that were left unexplained that he doubted, he would even know, one was her hair. It was such a smooth long hair that was dark and rich, yet it had two massive streaks running down the front. He had never seen anything like it, it wasn't like going grey, they were platinum white. The only thing he could guess was that she either dyed her hair, but if she did, wouldn't her roots be growing brown by now? The other was stress, that in her past she had been put through so much stress and anguish that it had turned her like that. But that must have been a hell of a lot of stress to turn her hair that white, and what kind of stress could it have been? It wouldn't be something like losing a loved one. It would be such an unearthly pain that it was imposable to imagine.
He couldn't tell you how many hours he had spent searching the internet trying to find something on or about or that even slightly related to her. The only thing he got was a picture with lots of people in it from a place called Charles Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. It had every student and teacher in it, and there were a lot, so the persons face was only tiny. Yet it had two white streaks of hair and he could kind of make out that the rest of her hair was very dark brown. He didn't know if it was her, and he didn't even have a name to go with the picture so he wasn't going to go around betting on it.
He glanced at his watch and saw that it was nearly nine. They had all missed dinner. But he knew none of them cared; they would all just order a pizza in later. This was how things like this usually worked out. He looked over to Henri and smirked at his distant expression. But what he didn't notice was Emil smirking at him because he had just had the exact same look just moments ago.
"Thinkin' bout de femme, homme?" Henri instantly snapped out of it and turned his focus onto his brother.
"Oui, jus' thinkin' were I'm gunna take 'er next week, it be our deux year of datin' den." Some of the guys just groaned, but Henri ignored them and just smiled. Remy knew how in love Merci and Henri were and he was pleased and happy for them, the only thing was Remy was in on the bet, but he still had a couple months, so he hoped they could wait before either one of them proposed.
"How 'bout DeShangy's?" Theo spoke up. DeShangy's was one of the most richest and snobbish places around, yet it was a great place to go on brilliant dates that you want to end happily. They treated you perfectly, because if they didn't they would get fired, and who wanted to risk one of the best paying jobs in New Orleans? The LeBeau's were well known there so they were able to get short notice bookings, it also helped to be one of the main funders of the restaurant.
Henri nodded and then walked out whist taking his phone out of his pocket. When he left the others started to slowly get up and get ready to leave as well. When they got outside and into their shared jeep so they could get back to the mansion, Henri was driving, he was the only one who had had only one drink that night, Henri called back to all of them.
"So dose guys who came de other day, dey be de X-men, I feel honoured." Henri joked. They had once had some business with them, but none of them had ever met.
"Oui, dey looking for one of dere members. But dere no way dat it be our Jane Doe 'ere." One of the other guys spoke out, Remy turned to see that it was Emil.
"'Ow you know dat?" Remy asked, panic ran threw him, what if Kate was who they wanted and she would remember everything and they would take her away? He felt his eyes grow hot and he tried to calm down.
"Come on 'King of Hearts', you not be obbsessin' over one single femme?" Emil said, he was watching Remy's face very carefully, trying to figure out what as going on with him.
"Non, jus' wonderin' Remy de one trainin' 'er, maybe 'er bein' an' X-man will explain 'ow good she is, at defence an' stuff, not anythin' else, well Remy sure she would be good at others thin's but… Remy don't… know…" Remy nearly hit himself for sounding so stupid but just ended up cursing himself mentally.
Emil noticed this and smirked to himself again, he was sitting upfront with Henri and he turned to him and nudged him, Henri smirked back at him, yet he still looked forward at the road.
"De femme dey want be different, Betsy says dey want a girl wit' all brown hair, no streaks, brown eyes an' six scars on 'er chest an' back." Remy frowned at this description. But he was slightly pleased, the top that she wore when she worked out with him had straps around the neck and lower back, so he had seen her back, it was all clear and no scars or anything. Plus the fact that top really showed off her figure and a lot of skin. He smiled as he remembered the memory of her wearing it.
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Kate was in the living room with Merci and Betsy watching some movie, Kate wasn't really paying attention, she was too busy nursing her headache. Betsy told her it was normal but it still annoyed her to no end, it was like a book being pushed on her head.
She tried to focus on other things, she looked around the room and saw another person she didn't know had just entered the room. She smiled at her and the woman gave a slight nod to acknowledge her. She came over and Kate saw her short spiky hair had blue highlights, and she had a small star tattoo next to her eye. She briefly wondered why people had a thing with tattooing things next to or over their eyes but her thoughts were broken when the woman spoke.
"Jean-Luc wants me to help you with something. Follow me." She had a slight crisp Irish accent and it had a gentle tone and sounded serious though. She turned round and Kate stood up and followed her. They walked down a couple halls then she pointed Kate into a push door. Inside was walls covered in metal plates and buttons and knobs. Kate wondered what everything was but as the light from the door began to close as the door did, the woman flicked on a light and showed her it was a room full of safe doors.
Kate breathed in yet she was still shocked at this room, she knew they were thieves and this is what they did, but she never thought she'd be allowed to do this.
"My name is Elfofee, don't ask, me 'rents were very strange, just call me Elf. I'm here to teach you how to crack some of the easiest locks, well easy one to me." She let out a short laugh and walked over to a cupboard and took out a small tool belt with some strange looking equipment in. She handed it to Kate and walked over to one of the big dark metal safes in the middle of the room. They past a white stand which held a glass box on top of it, Kate didn't really need to guess what that was for.
When they got to it, Elf took the belt from Kate and wrapped it around Kate's waist and buckled it up. She took one tool out and handed it to her.
"Try and open this safe. Go on, just give it a go." Elf said, she was warm and her voice was casual, yet Kate felt that something wasn't right, like this was a silent test she didn't even know.
Kate turned to the safe and looked at the tool in her hand, it was heavy and had a crooked top, she looked at the safe and lifted her free hand to the handle and gave it a big tug and it opened without her even pulling it. She stepped back and put the tool back into her belt and turned to Elf. She had a smile and was nodding.
"I like you." She said as she pointed a finger at her. "You seem to know what you're doing, yet you have no idea." Elf wasn't making any sense but Kate just nodded. "Okay, let's see how you work with an actual locked one of these." She said and pushed the door shut and slowly it closed and made a flat bang when it did. She quickly grabbed the handle and pushed it around and grabbed another knob and moved it up and twirled a dial. She rounded and smiled at Kate then left her to figure out what to do. She just looked at the safe and shook her head.
"Ah'm not even gunna try. 'Cause ah know ah need ya help, 'cause the only thang ah know 'bout thang is that ah need to open it."
Elf's smile widened and looked as if she was going to hug her. "Yes! Finally, someone who isn't afraid to ask for help, you don't know how many guys have spent hours trying before they gave up. I think I might like teaching you."
Kate gave a confused and weak smile, she was sure they might be there for awhile, but she was excited about it.
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There it is, my new chapter, hopefully it won't be long before my next chapter is posted, I have it already written out, it just depends on my coursework, all of it has to be handed in on Friday! I'm anxious as hell lol.
Your obedient fanfictioner,
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