Author's Note: This chapter introduces the characters Kacee (pronounced like Casey) and her twin brother Kacen (pronounced like case-in) Evans. It also takes place a year before the first two chapters, as the twins already live at the institute by the time Apollo and Dante arrive. So read, enjoy, and review!
Chapter 3: Kacee and Kacen
18th Street Orphanage
New York, New York
It was a cold night, when she ran up to the orphanage. She didn't want to give up the children, but she knew that she couldn't keep them. She had to get them away from the monster that was their father. She decided that she would come back for them when it was safe. As she placed them on the doorstep, she began to cry.
"Ah'm gonna see y'all agin, don' worry sugahs. Mommah loves yuns," she choked out with a heavy southern accent. She then stood and knocked on the door until she saw a light come on inside. By the time the lady answered the door, Rogue was well out of sight. With one last look at her babies, she flew off into the cold night. The last thing the lady saw before she found the babies was a bright flash of white light that she just attributed to lightning (though there were no storms in the immediate area).
Fourteen years later.
Everything was fine until the library exploded. It was kind of a major downer, but then any explosion is a major downer. Though, this was especially true for Kacee and her twin brother Kacen because it seemed that whenever something really bad happened, the blame fell on them (even if they were nowhere near the incident in question). But, it had been like that for their whole lives so they were quite used to it.
Though, this time seemed somehow different. Not so much that they weren't going to get the blame because they would no doubt, but that this latest calamity was somewhat more dangerous and Kacen sensed as much. He turned to his sister with a look of horror on his face.
"Kacee, there's someone trapped inside the library," he said. Kacen didn't know how, but he could somehow sense that deep in the flames there was a person trapped.
Kacee looked at her brother and a silent understanding passed between them and they knew that they had to something. They had no idea what it was they were going to do, but they ran for the library anyway. As they entered the burning building, they heard the cry of a little girl and rushed as fast as they could toward the sound. As they neared the little girl, a ceiling beam fell to the ground before them, engulfed in flames. When the heat hit Kacee's face, she instinctively put her hand up to shield it away. When she did, the heat immediately stopped and when she lowered her hand, she saw that the beam that had been on fire merely seconds ago was now encased in ice. She looked around to see if Kacen had seen this, but she couldn't find until she heard him shout her name.
"Kacee! Come help me with her!"
"I'm coming, Kacen!"
She ran forward and found Kacen with a little girl no older than seven in his arms. Kacee had no idea how they were going to get out, but Kacen just kept walking forward into the flames. Kacee quickly followed after in case she needed to use the new ability she had found out about to protect them from the fire. However, she soon realized that Kacen had it under control because when he walked right through, some flames there seemed to be a barrier around him that kept the flames away. Kacee hurried forward in time to pass through the barrier behind her brother and pass safely through the flames.
Outside, the authorities were restraining a woman from funning into the burning library for her daughter. They assured her that they had someone on their way to rescue her. By the time the officer had told her this, library gave one last final explosion.
"NOOOOOOO! My baby! My baby!" the woman screamed and then dissolved into tears over the loss of her child.
"Look! There's someone walking out of the fire!" a member of the crowd yelled as Kacen walked out carrying the little girl with Kacee right behind him. Kacen set the girl down, and she ran to her mother. Whilst the authorities were taking care of the mother and daughter, the twins fled back to the orphanage. When they got back, the headmistress of the orphanage told them to go wait in their room. They could tell that she had seen the news and had seen them walk out of the building. They could also tell that she was mad and had had enough.
When they got to their room, they went and listened through the vent that coincidentally was right above the headmistress's office and listened as she called some government science office and said that she had two mutants that they could have to experiment on and do with as they pleased. Upon hearing this, the twins packed a bag each of clothes and fled the orphanage never to return. They then went to living on the streets, scavenging any food that they could.
"Ah think this the right place, Logan," Rogue stated as they came to an alley. She wasn't sure the professor had told them the right location.
"No, this is the place," Logan said gruffly as he sniffed the air. "I can smell someone here, and it ain't a hobo." Just then, Logan felt a chill creep up his legs until it had affected his whole body and he was shivering slightly.
"Who are you?" an eerie voice called from somewhere deep in the alley. "What do you want?" "We mean ya no harm," Rogue said reassuringly. "We're jus' here tah help yuns."
How does she know there are two of us? Kacee thought to herself. There's no way she could know.
"I don't believe you." The eerie voice that was actually Kacee said.
"Nah, Ah'm serious. We're mutants, jus' like y'all," Rogue insisted.
"Alright, look here ya little twerps, how's 'bout ya stop with the little cold trick and come out and face us and stop bein' lil' cowards," Logan growled.
"Logan, ya gon' scare 'em! Now stop that!" Rogue scolded him, but he wasn't hearing it as he had grown impatient with them. At this point he unsheathed his claws and got ready to attack.
Oh my god! He has metal claws! He must be a mutant. Kacee wondered. She then called off the cold mist that she had summoned, and stepped out from behind the dumpster she had hid behind. Her twin, Kacen, walked from around boxes that had hidden him, as well. Rogue was a little surprised that they were so young. And that they looked so familiar.
"Ah'm Rogue an' this is Logan," Rogue said, introducing them both to the twins.
"I'm Kacee and this is my twin brother Kacen. Are you really here to help us?"
"Yes, we are. We're from a school in Westchester called Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters. It's a school for people like us. People that have special abilities."
"Will we be safe there?" Kacen asks tentatively. "You're not gonna give us to some mad scientist who's gonna experiment on us are you?"
Rogue couldn't help but smile. "Nah, sugah, y'all gon' be safe at the school. Ah promise."
"Yeah, what she said," Logan gruffly stated, sheathing his claws.
And with that, the twins left the alley and joined the two in their car and rode off to a brighter future.
Author's Note: Now I know the ending to this chapter is kind of cheesy, but I couldn't think of any other way to end so… yeah… there you go. Hope you enjoyed it! Don't forget to please review!