"We are going to be testing your extra-sensory awareness." Fury informed me as we walked down even more nondescript corridors.
"How?"
"Have you ever been to Westchester?"
"Um.. no."
"Well we have some friends that might be able to help us figure you out."
"Oh great! A shrink."
Fury actually had to use a wall to support himself he was laughing so hard.
"Oh hell no! He knows more about the human mind than any half witted psychologist ever could. A shrink, hah good one!" He kept chuckling all the way to a helicopter pad where two of my "nurses" from earlier were standing. Now without the medical scrubs and with their sidearms exposed to the world.
"My old friends! I thought I'd never see you again!"
I reached out my arms and embraced them both as though it had been years since I saw them last. They both laughed and hugged me back with almost the same intensity.
Fury had an amused expression but the pilot was just curious as to what the hell was happening.
"I'm sorry to interrupt this little get together but The Professor is waiting."
The Professor? Oh boy this was going to be a shrink. I'll just be on my guard for if he starts asking about my mother.
It wasn't the longest trip I'd ever been on but it certainly wasn't the shortest either. I got to know the not-nurses names. Brain Paulson and Bridgett Gardener. The pilot and co-pilot weren't much for talking.
Also I got to figure out who this professor guy was. His name was apparently his name was Xavier, Charles Xavier. He owned and ran a school full of mutants.
He was a psychic and a fairly good one if Fury figured that he'd be able to figure out what's up with my head. He also had a machine that was called Cerebro. I didn't know what that machine was but Fury had a gleam in his eye when he mentioned it.
Oh boy.
When we landed the sun was about to set. I looked around at the giant mansion that served as a school/super-sexy-secret-mutant-training-ground. Fury knocked on the front door and i snickered.
What, you wouldn't expect to just knock on the front door of an institute most military organizations don't know about.
A small girl with pigtails and what looked like jelly on her mouth opened the door followed by a man that was at least fifty feet taller than I was. He had a Russian accent as he told the girl not to open the door for strangers. He picked her up and held her with one arm.
"Sorry Peter." The girl said. She kissed him with one of those big open mouthed kiddy kisses. There was a ring of jelly on Peters cheek.
"It's okay Ellie you've just gotta remember." He put her on the ground and turned to us. "Hello?"
"Hello I'm Commander Furry with SHIELD. Professor Xavier was expecting us."
"May I see some sort of ID please." Fury, Paulson and Gardener flashed their badges. I showed my library card. "He's teaching a class right now. Please wait inside."
When we walked inside I promptly stepped on a toy Ellie must've left when Peter set her down. Speaking of Peter he made his way down a corridor to what was probably a bathroom or a kitchen to wipe away the jelly ring Ellie left. I picked it up and looked at it and then around the room we were in for Ellie. She was in the corner opposite the door watching us.
I offered her the toy and she took it. I smiled at her as she took the toy. She giggled, waved, and ran out a different hallway bumping into a kind looking bald man in a wheelchair.
"Elizabeth did you know that you have grape jelly all over your mouth?" He said as he pulled a handkerchief from his breast pocket.
"Yeah I did! I'm saving it for later!"
She squirmed as the kind man cleaned her mouth with the cloth.
"I was being rhetorical."
"Whasat mean Professor?"
"Don't worry about it dear. I'll tell you later. In the mean time would you like to sit on my lap while I greet our guests?"
"Okay!"
She climbed into his lap and gave him another open mouthed kiss that little kids are so famous for.
"Pardon the delay. I was teaching tenth graders a basic physics class. A chore for both parties."
"Amen!" I readily agreed.
"Hello, and just might you be?"
"David Blackstone," I said reaching forward to take his hand. "I assume you are Professor Xavier?"
"That I am." I heard it... But not with my ears... And his lips didn't move.
"So what Commander Fury told me was true. You are a psychic!"
"I prefer the term telepath. But that is the basic principle. Nick, it is good to see you again."
"Good to see you too Charles. How's the school going?"
"It's going as well as it can. Especially with little ones like Ellie here keeping me at the edge of my seat."
"Ha ha." I thought.
"What I thought it was quite funny."
I shook my hand in a 'so-so' manner.
"Ellie I believe our guest and I have some business we need to attend to. Why don't you go and find Ororo or Jean."
"Okay! Bye-bye Professor!" She left him with yet another open mouthed kiss on the cheek.
He started to lead us to his office beckoning me mentally to follow him.
"Cute kid. Yours?"
"Legally and personally she is."
"What?"
"When she was two years old her mother left her all but at our doorstep."
"That's terrible!"
"Not if you realize what she was going through at the time." I didn't realize it but Fury, Paulson and Gardener had all stayed behind at the entry way. "You see her ex-husband was abusive and she had stage-4 liver cancer. She had no other relatives and she did not want her daughter to go into an orphanage or into foster care. So she left Ellie with me."
"Oh."
"Yes."
"Was she a..."
"A mutant? No dear boy. Just a friend. A dear old friend."
I didn't feel like prying.
"Thank you, David."
"For what?"
"Respecting my privacy. There are some your age who are not so considerate. Especially those with abilities such as yourself."
"What do you mean?"
"Do you believe that I've been reading your thoughts this entire time?"
I didn't reply. And I didn't have to as he started laughing. A deep full bellied laugh.
"My boy you've been projecting your thoughts into my head from the moment you walked in! That's normally a very difficult thing to do on purpose, and you've been doing it by accident!" He started laughing again and this time I laughed with him.
"I thought you were just that powerful!"
"Oh I am. But I try to never enter someone else's head without permission. That is one of the worst things that can happen, an unwanted intruder inside your own mind."
I made a mental note of that.
Maybe this whole thing wasn't as bad as I thought it would be.
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