Hi! Sorry I haven't updated in a while, regardless and without further ado, here's the third chapter!
Chapter 3.
I was currently watching Logan 'break in' to the institute wearing some weird ninja outfit, to show us something or rather, it was late and the Prof. didn't explain it very well.
This ended however, when Miss Monroe made the machines in the Danger Room attack Mr. Logan, whom I had now officially met, well, the meeting wasn't exactly very nice, he thought I was breaking in to kill everyone in their sleep or something, cause I was sneaking in with Kitty after a party, he was holding us with his claws at our throats until we were at the Prof.'s office so that he could confirm our story, well, let's just say that the occurrence was last month, and our grounding only just ended.
"Stop!" The Prof's voice broke me out of my thoughts, "it is... all the damage we can afford at the moment."
"Hey," Mr. Logan laughed, "when I give a demo, I give a demo!" Making Scott give a smart alek response.
"Is that a demo as in demolish or demonstration?" Before turning to Miss Monroe, "what was the point?"
"The point, young Cyclopes, was to teach you something about finding the weak points in sophisticated security systems." Was her explanation, she looked as though she was going to explain further, until Mr Logan interrupted.
"That's right bub, and I'd say ours needs a little work." He commented, walking past me and Kurt, I was sitting on the table, occasionally swiping some of Kurt's popcorn, said person hanging upside down, unsuccessfully trying to protect his treats from me.
"That was tight!" Kurt commented, letting go of the popcorn he was holding in favour of giving Mr Logan a 'thumbs up', but seeing as he was hanging upside down, in actuality, it was a thumbs down, so to help his, I rotated his hands so that it was thumbs down to him, but thumbs up to us, in turn making Jean roll her eyes.
"The vents were pretty easily breached," Mr Logan commented as Miss Monroe and him watched the footage of the 'break in', "we need to fix that, maybe, electrify them or install poison gas sprayers."
"I can do that!" I laughed, I had come out of my shell a lot since coming here, well towards the people at the institute, at school I was still fairly quiet, only speaking once and a while, mainly to the teachers or the people at the institute, occasionally to others, but that was rare, I hadn't gotten an opportunity to speak to Todd since my first night here, and every time I saw him I got dragged away by something or another.
Anyway, back to now, Miss Monroe gave me a disapproving look for encouraging Mr Logan's idea's, while said male merely looked amused.
Miss Monroe then cast a disapproving look towards Mr Logan, "Wolverine." She sighed.
"Alright, alright." He gave in, "knock out gas then." He then cast me a look saying, 'we'll talk later.'
Everyone suddenly looked towards Kitty whom had dramatically shivered, "is it just me or is anyone else just, like, seriously freaked by all this?" She then looked around at everyone whom were looking at her as if all this stuff was completely normal, however when no one was looking I gave her the sort of symbol with my hand, she smiled gratefully towards me at that.
However, she thankfully acted as if she hadn't seen the motion aside from the smile, "oh, well, it's basically just, like me? Great."
"Relax Kitty, you'll be fine!" I could see what he was about to do, so I grabbed his arm in hopes to stop him, but he just 'poof'-ed away anyway, with me with him.
When we reappeared again we were besides Kitty, only Kurt was right way up and I was upside down, In a skirt, quickly, I began to float and turned right way up again, casting a quick glare at Scott, whom was laughing at me, he shrugged, pretending to be innocent however, making me poke my tongue at him.
When I looked back at the scene next to me, Kurt was on the other side of Kitty, offering her popcorn, Kitty standing up looking horrified.
"Whoops, he-he, sorry." Kurt guiltily laughed, jumping up. "Next time I'll honk before I 'port."
"Whatever." kitty sighed, "look guys, it's late, I'm gonna, like, drop out. Do you wanna come Masquerade?" She asked, and I nodded in return.
"See ya guys!" I laughed as I phased through the floor with Kitty.
Twenty minutes later we were on the Black Bird, I was clinging to my seat next to Mr Logan, it was the only available seat, and Kitty really didn't want to sit next to Mr. Logan, seeing as he still gave her the creeps. Anyway, who can blame me for my panic, Kurt was driving, he can't even ride a bike!
My panic only increased as I saw Kurt start to pilot with his feet. Seeing my panic, Mr Logan turned to me, "you'll be all right, renegade," I winced at the nick-name, he had called me this ever since our meeting, "nothing that bad could happen."
I cast him a disbelieving look, "he can't even ride a bike." I commented as I gripped my seat even tighter.
"Ok, you might be right about when we die." He commented, getting as worried as I was, only not showing it, I could only tell because of my new found ability that we had discovered during the mission to get Kitty, in case you're wondering, the ability was being able to read people's emotions. "Just keep your mind off of it." He suggested, and I nodded in return.
"Why am I always the one on the missions?" I asked myself.
"We're cleared through to Jackson." Scott told the prof. as I was fiddling with the new charm of a silver and black butterfly from my secret admirer, it went with the charm bracelet. "We'll take the van from there," continued Scott.
"Good, you're picking up logistics quickly Scott." Complemented the Prof, making Scott smile proudly.
From to spaces behind me Kitty started talking to Jean and me, making me turn around in my seat so that my arms were leaning on the back of it and my knees were pressing against the back of the chair, to be honest I was surprised I could see over the seat.
"Scott's seems so, like, together, so cool and, he's kinda cute." She then rested her face on her palm as Jean looked forward to look at Scott while I turned around entirely to look as well.
"Cute?" Asked Jean incredulously, "stiff maybe." She commented, turning slightly to face Kitty again, "Exacting defiantly, but," she then paused, considering slightly, "hmm, you know, from a certain angle." She let the answer hang as I tapped her on the head.
"You know that he can hear you, right?" I laughed as they both flushed bright red.
"How do you, like, know?" Questioned Kitty, recovering from her previous embracement.
"I can officially read emotions!" I stated proudly, turning around and stretching while yawning, accidently hitting Mr Logan in the face. "Oh my God, I am so sorry!" I stated as he rubbed his cheek, where the blow had landed, "you can hit me back if you want, I won't consider it child abuse or whatever!"
"Nah, that's fine." He responded, "you wouldn't want to walk around with a bruise during school, 'sides, it's already healing." I then looked at his cheek again, and there was no sign of any hit connecting at all.
"So, you can heal too?" I questioned as I heard Jean explaining my abilities to Kitty.
He nodded as he asked; "how many abilities do you have anyway, renegade?"
Ignoring that comment I counted them all on my hand, "well let's see, I can control gravity, heal super quick, read emotions, have cat like abilities, and can cast emotions and illusions, so... six." I concluded nonchalant as Mr Logan gave me an incredulous look, however soon shook it off.
Suddenly Kurt flew past me and landed in Kitty's lap, upside down, and swiftly got scolded by the prof as I was laughing quietly in the background.
My laugher died down as I saw how freaked Kitty looked. "Just, like, stay away from me!" Commanded Kitty as she went up to the now vacant piloting seat.
"Kids." Commented Mr Logan, resulting in me giving him a dirty look, to which he ignored.
When we got to the town this Rogue was in, we quickly went to the hospital, Jean going in to check on the boy the new mutant had hurt, me going in with her, pretending I was a trainee or something, mentally telling her what to do so that people would think that she really did work there, sometimes, being a brainiac helps, putting my intellect lightly.
"he'll be ok, won't he?" Asked one of the hospitalized boys friends, talking to Jean, whose hand was resting on, for the sake of it I'm going to call him John's, forehead.
"Yes. He will." Was her calm, encouraging answer.
We quickly left after the prof. got a pin point on the girls were about's and we split up, me with Kitty, my brother, and apparently seeing as I'm the only kid who doesn't make him go all Uchiha on everyone's butts (you have to watch a show called Naruto to understand those two, or really one, traitorous jackass), Mr Logan as well.
"So does this, like, bite, or what?" Commented Kitty as we went through a disgusting ally.
"The prof. says the girls mind is confused and difficult to pin point-" He was cut off as I let out an involuntary hiss at Kitty, whom had stepped on my tail, that was obviously seen seeing as I was in my real form.
"Opps! Sorry!" She quickly apologized, removing her foot almost as quickly as her apology.
I nodded at her as Mr Logan continued, rolling his eyes after wincing at the sight of my now slightly bent tail that I was trying to even out, he spoke, "anyway, keep looking."
"Vat? Got a scent(ok thought I'd try writing Kurt's accent, already sick of it, so I'll stop now.)" My brother questioned.
"Yeah, I smell fear."
We swiftly ran after Mr Logan whom was running towards the smell he had gotten, almost the second we found the dark haired with white strips girl, she ran, "that's got to be her!" Commented, ignoring the woman he almost balled over, as did everyone else, however I stopped for a moment.
"Are you alright, ma'am?" I asked quietly, helping her get stable again, after noting that she was blind, and probably couldn't see the reason why she was almost knocked to the ground 'good,' I thought, 'now she can't be freaked out by my appearance.
"Renegade!" Mr Logan called to me.
"Yeah, I'll be there in a second!" I then turned back to the blind lady.
"Yes, I'll be fine, it's quite rare to find anyone willing to help a blind lady these days, and such nice eyes you have!" She commented, making me gasp , if she's blind, how does she know what colour my eyes are?
I looked towards were the others were for help, only to see that they had gone on without me, not that I blame them, with a rogue on the loose and all, every second counts.
"Yes." An eerie voice came from besides the 'blind' lady, I turned around so that I was facing her again, only to see a blue skinned lady with red hair as well as the blind lady. "She would make an excellent contribution to the Brotherhood as well."
I then became confused, the Brotherhood, what was that?
"I-I-I gotta go!" I yelled, panicked as I followed the scent of Kitty, Mr Logan and Kurt, only to discover that Mr Logan separated from the others, I decided to follow the first option, running with my cat like swiftness, half to catch up to the others, half to get away from the two behind me, whom were making no move to follow me.
The sight that I found was not one that I liked, Kitty leaning over Kurt's non moving body. I stopped, stepping on a stick, "I-I'll go get the Prof!"
When I got there Jean, Scott and Miss Monroe were about to run off, however stopped when they saw me coming towards them.
"Trouble! Hurt!" I was blabbering unintelligent shit that no one would be able to understand, while waving my arms around like I was trying to fly and I knew it, but I couldn't seem to gather my thoughts.
"Lilith, Lilith! Stop! Calm down!" Demanded Scott, grabbing my upper arms, forcing me to be still, "now, tell us what's going on."
Taking a deep breath, I did as he commanded; "Kurt's hurt, I-I don't know what happened, but-" I was cut off by the prof. as Scott let go of my arms awkwardly.
"We already know." He sounded relieved, "Kitty told me through her thoughts."
"Well it would have been nice of her to tell me that before I ran off and made an idiot of myself." I mumbled.
"I think it was nice that you care so much about him, now come on, we're going after the Rogue!" Scott encouraged and I nodded until I remembered something.
"Professor?" I gained his attention, "I need to ask you something when this is all over."
He nodded, as if he already knew my question, "that's quite alright, we'll talk about it later.
When we found the Rogue we found her in a cemetery, and Jean convinced me to go by myself, something about being closer to her age or something.
"Hi there." I smiled calmly with my illusion on, making it look like I was completely normal, I was even wearing normal clothes instead of my X-Outfit.
"Do, do I know you?" The gothic looking girl asked, "Ahh, these memories- I'm so confused!"
"Yeah" I soothed, "I know." Well, I really did, her emotions were telling me, loud and clear.
"I can relate to what you're going through."
"Lilith?" She asked almost questioningly, before standing up, scared, even though she was about a head taller than me. "You're Lilith Wagner, the adoptive sister of the blue boy!" I tried not to snap and scare her when she said this, it was kind of insulting. "You don't really look like this!"
I sighed as she said this, and then pushed the button on my necklace, reveling my true self.
"You're like the others!" She accused.
"Relax, please!" I almost begged, her emotions starting to give me a headache. "If you know who I am, then you know I won't hurt you, I'm just trying to help! We're all just trying to help! I don't know why you're so scar- Ok, well I kind of know why you're so scared, but at least you got a while of being normal, if you look through my brothers memories, you can see how worse it could have been?" I requested, thinking that this is why she was so freaked.
"Look, it's tough, going it solo?" I said after she did as I requested and calmed down a considerable amount. "Hey, no pressure, but if you want to reach me at anytime, you can reach me through this communicator." I held it out, lifting it and moving it towards her, making it so that there was no gravity around it, and then when I reached her hand, which was put out a little, I dropped it in it, breathing heavily. "Wow, that still takes a lot out of me, lifting objects other than myself!" I laughed towards her, making her give a small smile as well.
"Latest fashion accessory, huh?" She joked as well, until she saw Jean, Scott and mainly Miss Monroe coming up behind me.
"We all have one." Miss Monroe stated.
"You- you-no! You won't take me!" She ran off, me in hot pursuit.
"Please! Wait!" I called, making her slow down, but not stop, when we reached a mausoleum for someone, she looked towards me and jumped inside, I guess she wants me to follow.
"Look, I don't have a problem with you, I actually like your style! But I am not letting those-those mutant hunters take me!" She yelled at me, making me confused.
"Mutant hunters? What are you-" I was cut off as I heard a noise and not thinking, I grabbed her ungloved hand and dragged her behind the tomb.
"Oh no!" I heard the Rogue gasp quietly and I looked towards her to see what she was talking about, only to see out bare hands still touching, only nothing happening like when she touched anyone else.
"What the-?" I silently questioned to myself, "time to add another power to the list." I said loud enough for her to hear me.
She looked almost relieved that she could make contact with anyone else, without fear of hurting them, "what power would the new one be?" She questioned, almost smiling.
"The power to be dragged everywhere by anyone." I replied dryly, thinking about everywhere I have been literally dragged since coming to the institute.
After hearing her gasp I looked back at her, to see she was still looking at our, still touching by our sides, hands, "I just, I saw what you thought!"
"Well, I guess your power still works, only with gaining memories that are happening the second your touching me, and you don't wipe me out." I quietly laughed, but stopped when I heard the footsteps coming closer, and then finally, I saw Scott jump through the same hole in the roof we did, and I let out a sigh of relief, while the Rogue looked terrified, well I was calm, until I noticed that Scott wasn't acting like himself, then I started to get a little freaked, which turned to very freaked when he started to talk.
"Thought you could escape us, did you? The X-Men don't leave loose ends!" With that he knocked down one, well I don't really know what to call them. "And you, Lilith, I'm just getting kind of sick of you! Always getting in the way!" He knocked down another, what do you call it, this one almost landing on the Rogue and myself, I need to ask her for name, calling her the Rogue is starting to get annoying.
Running out, terrified, with the Rogue, we saw that Scott had found another way out and came around to cut us off, and after running into him, almost falling over until he caught me by the waist, I pushed him into the muddy water so that the Rogue and I could get away.
"Nice push!" She commented before the sparks from the electricity poll that Scott had shot at started to fly down on us, causing us to go back inside.
"Thanks, what's your name by the way?"
"Marie." She answered, "you?"
"Lilith." Was my answer, I was going to say more, until I saw a very angry looking Jean. "Thank god you're here, Scotts completely lost it!"
"No he hasn't!" She snapped at me, making me flinch back, "we're all just sick of you! We all tried we really did, but some people just won't be helped!" This was directed at the both of us, "and you, you've already betrayed us once, I don't want you getting in the way anymore! I'm supposed to be the most powerful around here! I'm the one Scott likes, not you!" I was a little confused about that, however I simply shoved it off as Jean started approaching us, menace in her eyes.
Grabbing my arm out of fear, honestly it's as if grabbing my arm soothes people or something, Marie backed up and then teleported us about fifty feet about the ground, screaming the entire way down, I managed to catch us just before we hit an inevitably broke our necks, however I couldn't hold us for long, and then dropped us, not so gracefully.
"Are either of you hurt?" Questioned Jean, probably faking niceness so that she could get us to calm down and then when we drop our guard kill us. "Don't move!" She commanded, hah! Told you so.
We both crawled backwards, and I bumped into Miss Monroe, "children, what is it?" She asked, seemingly concerned, but after what I've seen today, I wouldn't be surprised if she was trying to kill us as well! "We are your friends!" She then tried to place her hand on my shoulder, but Marie caught her on the bare flesh, still holding onto my bare arm.
I suddenly felt immense pain go through me, as if Miss Monroe's powers went into me as well, as if Marie acted like a conductor and passed along the power, while maintaining some for herself.
I watched as Miss Monroe got pushed back from Marie, screaming out in slight pain as Scott showed up, while Marie and I raised into the air, both of us controlling the weather, yep, conductor theory, proven. Why is it always me?
I noticed that Marie was still gripping my arm as we went into the air, it's kind of sad that my arms gets pulled on so often that I don't even notice it anymore.
Anyway, I saw that Marie's face was contorted with pain as she was taking in all of the power, so I took some more of Miss Monroe's powers so that she wasn't in as much pain, however it then began hurting the both of us, seeing as I couldn't take anymore.
"I-I can't!" I screamed with my eyes closed as Marie as screaming in pain as well.
"Too much power, I can't control it! I have to!" She screamed as she transported us both away.
When we transported, we were in her room, at least that's what I gathered from the pictures of her and the- wait, the blind woman from before?
I guess they were the good guys.
"So you are now with us?" Said blind woman asked kindly from the doorway.
"How can she tell I'm here?" I whispered to Marie, trying not to be rude.
"I don't know, it's always kind of freaked me out to." We both quietly laughed at this.
"Raven?" The blind woman called to someone from the other room, and then entered the blue woman from before.
"Hello, my name is Raven, or Mystique, I do, however, prefer Mystique. And I know who the both of you are. If you would like, I would like for the both of you to join me, and the Brotherhood, we will be able to protect you?" She offered, and I quickly nodded, while Marie looked towards whom I assume to be her mother, whom nodded in allowance.
My head then suddenly began to throb, and I gasped out in pain. "Lilith, Lilith, are you alright?" I heard Marie yell, concern shown in her voice as I doubled over in pain.
After a moment I felt better, however I couldn't remember some facts about the past few months, like the exact location of where I've been, or remember what someone called... wolverine? looked like. All I could remember were some names, and a few faces, and all of my abilities, my brothers face, but the past few months were still vague.
"That's another thing we'll never do." Growled Mystique, "the 'good' professor just whipped your memory." she was being highly sarcastic when she said the word 'good' "most likely so you wouldn't be able to tell us anything about the X-Men" She growled again to herself.
Looking down I saw a necklace around my neck and for some reason felt the need to push down on the tiny button in the middle of the dove.
I heard gasps from Marie and Mystique. "What?" I asked, concerned.
"That'll come in handy." Mystique smiled slightly.
"Here," Rogue handed me a mirror from her bedside table, and I looked into it, confused.
"Wow!" I gasped at the sight. "I look... normal!" I smiled widely, my now blue, eyes glittering with happiness.
After helping Marie pack, and accepting some of her old clothes to borrow, we left to Bayville, where we unpacked her things, it appears we would be sharing a room if the two beds were anything to go by, and then quickly fell asleep.
When I woke up I saw Rogue already dressed and waiting for me to wake up, "here," she smiled at me and handed me some clothes, "looks like Mystique went shopping and got you some stuff, she said she hopes you like them."
Once she left the room I got dressed into them.
(here's a link to see what they look like in case you're wondering.)
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(only not as high heels, those things make me dizzy just looking at them.)
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(the tights)
After getting into the outfit I looked in the mirror and gasped, it was one awesome outfit!
I then decided that I was going to do something different with my hair, instead of simply putting it up in a high pony tail like I usually would. This was what I did with it:
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not the head bands and she had some of her white hair in a side fringe, don't forget that her hair is entirely white. Also she is wearing the ribbon on her wrist, on the opposite wrist of her charm bracelet.
Anyway! Going down stairs I let out a small scream, making Marie and Mystique run downstairs "What happened?" Yelled Marie as my eyes were wide looking at the couch of the run down shack that was nicer on the inside than the outside.
"H-h-him!" I pointed to the man on the couch.
"Who's he?" Marie asked me.
"Lance Alvers." Said male answered, "nice to meet ya." He told Marie as he looked at me confused, "what are you doing here?" he asked me, "I thought you were an X-Men loser, through and through?"
"Do you remember that?" Mystique asked me, and I nodded, calming down slightly.
"I-I didn't at first, all I could remember was how much he tortured me in the orphanage, then I remembered getting Kitty and finding him there." I then turned to Lance, "sorry for reacting like that." I smiled guiltily up at Lance, whom was now standing up at me.
"That's fine, but that still doesn't answer my question as to why you're here?"
"Long story!" I laughed before turning to Rogue and Mystique. "so, what do you think?" I asked, doing a little twirl, laughing while I was doing so.
"You look amazing!" Marie's Texan accent grinned as she held onto my shoulders as I was beginning to get dizzy.
"I'm glad the dress suits you." Mystique smiled, before she looked at my neck and saw the dove necklace on my neck, "why are you still wearing that?" She asked, not angry at me, but glaring at the piece of jewellery around my neck.
"W-well, I know it's from them and all, b-but it makes me l-look normal." I stuttered before Mystique spoke, eyes softer.
"You are normal." She told me, placing her hands on my shoulders.
"Then why do I look like this?" I asked her pushing the button to show my true appearance, a tear rolling down my cheek. "I'm ugly."
"No you're not!" Marie objected as Mystique steered me to a mirror.
"Is this the face of someone whom is ugly?" She questioned as my red eyes reflected back at me.
"Yes." I muttered, closing my eyes, Lance standing awkwardly in the corner of the room.
"Open your eyes Lilith." Mystique commanded gently and I did as she told me to. "You don't need this necklace." She removed one of her hands and touched the necklace, "your eyes could pass as contacts, the ears could be pin ins, and your tail could be hidden under your dress."
"Then why did they want me to wear this?" I asked her.
"Because the X-Men want you to pretend you are like those people, like those people whom would persecute us for what we are, they would have us befriend them, while hiding our true nature, if they had their way."
After a while Mystique left with an apology, saying that she had to leave for the school, the previous night she explained how she was Miss Darkholme, the school's principal.
I was still looking in the mirror when Marie came up behind me, "I think you look awesome!" She laughed quietly, "the eyes are the coolest."
With that she kissed my cheek (in a sisterly way all you pervs out there!) and left me, still looking in the mirror, glaring at it in hopes that it would burst into flames. "I think you look awesome too." A voice behind me called, making me turn around with my hand in my heart.
"Don't do that!" I told him off, making him laugh at me.
"Sorry," he continued to laugh at my flushed face.
"Anyway, what do you need?" I sighed.
"Look, I know I've said this before, but I really, really am sorry for the orphanage. And for how I acted last time we met, I was scared." Wow, I can't believe he actually admitted that!
"It's ok." I muttered, not noticing that he had began to move closer to me until he was almost touching me, leaning down slightly.
"You know, you really are beautiful." He whispered, leaning down even more as I moved up onto my toes, our lips almost touched when...
"Hey! Lancey boy! What's going on!" A happy voice came from the front door. "Wait. What's going on here?" A now angry voice demanded.
"Toad/Todd!" We both yelled in unison, moving apart rapidly, looking at anything other than each other, mainly my brother.
Smiling, I ran over to him, wrapping my arms around my brother, giving him the hug that he readily returned. "I missed you soo much!" I grinned as he pulled back, looking at me after glaring at Lance for a while.
"Yeah me too, why are you crying?" He asked concerned, glaring at Lance once more, as if blaming him, I moved my hands to make him look back down at me, seeing as he was taller than me, seeing as I was younger and well, a shortie.
"It's nothing!" I promised, smiling again, "just my appearance is all!"
After a while of my brother chastising me for hating how I looked I managed to get away and re-do my makeup, only after promising to take off my necklace, which I did, and redid my makeup so that It would match my red eyes, I repositioned my dress so that I could hide my tail under it and redid my hair in the same way, only positioning my hair so that my ears looked like clip in's.
That day I showed Marie around after our meeting with Mystique, avoiding the others the entire time, which was pretty hard considering I sat next to at least one of them in each of my classes, but luckily Marie asked if I could move next to her.
The day was long and hard, but at least now I'm free, and with people whom encourage me to be who I really am.
