Chapter 6: Frost

Ethan jump of his bike and walk to the small house in the forest. It had taken him more time than he had plan to reach the house. So much he knew, Jean told him Evan had join the team from just two days ago as Spyke, which was good. She had however not sounded very happy with the thought as she had yelled at him through the phone. Ethan push the thoughts to the side as he knocked at the door and after a while it opened and there stood girl, not much older than himself. She was blond and was dress in all white. Her lips in the same white and her eyes was light blue like ice.

"What do we have here?" she asked and look at him with a smile.

"Emma." Ethan said as a hi and walk in without waiting for her to invite him. He looked around and found the house like a small cottage in the middle of nowhere. Quite fitting if he thought about it. A cottage in a forest with snow and all cold and dark.

"What are you doing here, Xavier?"

"My my, Emma." Ethan said and walk to the kitchen to take a drink. "I thought you would be happy to see me again." he said as he closed the fridge and took the drink. Emma just watch him as he moved around like he knew where everything was. "You seem to get away from your father and all. Quite lonely would I say."

"For the last time, Ethan!" Emma took the drink from him. "What are you doing here?"

"I just thought I would visit, you know." He said and keep walk around to look at pictures and other nice things. "It was a long time since I saw you."

"Don't play nice with me, Xavier. Has your father sent me to be recruited to the X-Men?"

"He still doesn't know about you, Frost." Ethan took a picture and smile at it. It showed Emma and himself in the snow. His mother had taken him up to the mountains before his father knew about him. She had try to keep him in secret, but as someone else was after her, she gave him up to his father. Maybe the biggest mistake to do. "My mother didn't even believe me when I told her about the girl in the forest. However, you will help me more than she can."

"Didn't you get yourself another Telepath?" Emma ask him.

"I did, but her powers can't do other than stable me for a little time. You however," he turned to face her, "you did something with me, and I want you to undo it." she walk over to him and took the picture from his hand. "You were quite cut on that one."

"Just leave, Ethan."

"Not before you help me." he told her. "You did something and I want to know why and what."

"Have you still not figure it out," she leaned forward to whisper in his ear, "I opened those so-called doors for you. You ask me as a kid to help you have all your powers, guess you were just not ready." she walk past him and to the door. "Now leave."

"Can you undo it?" he asked her.

"Why would I?"

"I don't know, why not?" Ethan ask and walk over to her. He stood taller than her, even if she was older. "Maybe I can do something for you in the future, Emma." he said. "If you help me with my powers and the door so I stop need to be afraid to wanna kill, I will owes you one."

"You know, if I help you close the doors you will mostly need my help for some days to get use to it. Your powers will mostly start from level one with letting you only make people see what you want as when you were kids. Controlling elements, feel other Mutants maybe even breaking the bond you have with your girlfriend."

"She isn't my girlfriend, and if you can get my powers back to stable I won't need her to close the doors. We will both be able to live normal." Ethan said.

"So, what, you don't have any feeling for Miss. Grey?" Emma ask.

"Maybe I have, but if it is to become something I want it to be real and not desperate that I'm in need of her to survive. My father and I both know this... stat you have put me in takes on my life line. If this continue, Frost, I might not get the half of the age my father is."

"And what does your mother think about this, or your so call not your girlfriend."

"Jean doesn't know I'm here, and we both know my mother doesn't have much to say in this." Ethan said and pointed out that Emma knew the answer already and her question just had been a waste of time. Ethan had already decided and Emma understood that.

"Alright, I do it," she walked over to the couch and sat down. "But, not now. I need to prepare myself and you should do the same."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Sleep, talk to your friends so your mind is empty. It's going to be a long day tomorrow." Emma told him. He looked at her a bit worried.

"What exactly are you going to do?"

"We are going to… destroy the doors you could say or make them to walls. However it will make us have to replay some memories that are paired with that door and when I'm in your memory and you know why that memory was to that door I will be able to make it disappear. Or stabilat." she told him.

"Are my memory going to disappear?"

"No, they are just going to maybe feel a lot more, after all we will take your sympathy back to normal." she said and stood up. "Take the couch. Tomorrow evening I want you to be ready and not upset, have strong feelings for something. You will be all peaceful, understood?" Ethan nodded. "Good, sleep well." she walk to the small hall and open a door.

"Emma!" Ethan call and catch her attention. "Thanks."

"You will be owe me, Ethan, no matter what it is, you will be owe me."

"I will, I promise."

"Say that again than you have a real hart." she enter the room and lock the door after her. Leaving Ethan to stand alone in the livingroom. He walk over and lay down in the couch. Maybe this would take more than a week or two, but it would be worth it. He would not be in need of his father's pity, Jean powers or bond, they would be normal friends, with a normal relationship. Perhaps his mother would be proud over him, or she might hate him for giving up his powers. But again, he didn't gave them up, just lock them down until his body was ready. His mind too. He would be stronger. He understood that much as his powers would not break him down to wanna kill someone. He would be able to give it his all.

"I'm not an X-Men." he said to the air and close his eyes, "but I'm not with you either, mother." unknown to him, Emma was standing by the door and hear him speaking. Hope go through her eyes as a blink. Maybe it would soon be time, she thought. Maybe she would be able to undo what she had done.

Ethan was in the forest when Emma walk up. He was trying to get a connection with his phone and got one. He call the number he had memorize, but didn't got any answer. So he call his father instead.

"Ethan, has something happened?"

"No, I'm fine." Ethan answer. "Just want to know if something new has happened."

"Well, yesterday we got Kurt back with Froge."

"Who?"

"Long story short, Kurt was sent to another dimension and meet Froge, we got them both out safe. Turn out Scott found out Rogue was working for Mystique too, but I guess you already knew that."

"Yeah, I kind of did." Ethan said. "Where is Jean? She didn't answer my phone call and I guess my mind isn't strong right now to reach her from here." Ethan said and look up to see Emma coming walking from her house. She made a sign for food and went in again.

"She is at the school, Ororo are going to get her. Turn out the Principal change so she couldn't join the field trip and the Rogue got it instead."

"Poor, Scott." Ethan joked.

"Do you want me to tell her to call when she comes home?"

"No, it's fine. Just wonder so everything was alright."

"It is. The gang are beginning to get real close. How is it with you? Found your friend yet?"

"I have, but turn out I might need to stay for a bit longer than I thought. I will be back, I promise."

"Good, don't do anything stupid."

"I won't, tell the Jean I said hi." the connection broke and Ethan put his phone in his pocket as he walked back to the house. Emma was sitting by the dinner table and had food all ready. There was nothing more than he had home at the institut, like she had made it with thought he would eat as well. Making him a bit shocked.

"What are you waiting for?" she asked as she some sips from her coffee. Ethan didn't say anything but sat down on the chair opposite from hers. "How old are you know? Six-"

"Seventeen." Ethan cut her off and took some food to his plate. "I turn eighteen in a month."

"What's nice." they sat in silent as they eat and no one look up at the other, like the food was more interesting, or that was until Emma broke the silent again. "Everything okay back home?" he nodded. "And your mind, all clear?" a nodd again. "Good, why don't you take a bath and change to a pair of jogging pants, it might be a tips for you to bath in cold water." she stood up and walk away. Ethan eat the last of his food before he located himself to the bathroom.

Ethan came out to find the living room almost empty. Couth and tables had been moved to the side so a empty space on the floor was arranged. A pillow and a bucket with water standing in the middle. Ethan only wear a pair of jogging pants as he walk over to the middle. Emma came in sight. She had the same cloth as always. White top and jeans so you saw her stomach and a cape stuck to the top.

"Lay down with your head on the pillow." she order him and he didn't fight. "I will just start slow, so you know what to expect." she told him and sat by his head so she could have one hand on each side of his head, by his ears. "Just close your eyes and let your mind be all clear, let me find what I'm suppose to." Ethan try to do as he was told and he start to see. He and Emma both start to see a younger Ethan running around in a big garden. He had a toy in his hand as he run and then… "Ethan, clean your mind." Emma said as she lost connection.

"No, stop." Ethan opened his eyes and sat up, making Emma move back. "I can't- that's personal things."

"I told you I need personal to reach your doors." Emma told him. "I'm like your telepath, I can't find that deep down to your thoughts so I can close or even move your doors, more less make them disappear. I need to come deeper."

"How deep?"

"As far as the hole goes." Emma try to explain and making Ethan understand she meant deep.

"Okay, let's try again." he lay down but Emma shook her head.

"No, you are not ready right now. Your mind is all a mess." she stood up. "We will try again tomorrow." she left him in the living room and walk to her room. Locking the door like the day before. Ethan lay down again as he had sat up to see her go. He closed his eyes and try to clear his head. He had to let go of emotions or anything if he wanted to get Emma to do this.