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Ch. 3: Emotions?
"Raven what are you—" the blond had stormed into her room after lunch a pile of clothes in hand "you don't have any right, since the base went down?" Noah nodded but looked at the clothes the girl had, mostly old dresses, a few pairs of jeans and some midriff T shirts.
"Well yeah, but—" Raven beamed at her, "Come on! I've never had another girl to do this stuff with." Noah sighed and gave the other blond a smile, caving in.
"Fine, but please, don't make this a habit." Raven grinned back at her as Noah picked up a red dress with a flared skirt before walking over to her closet to change.
"So, Noah, do you like it here so far?" the sound of ruffling clothes told raven the smaller girl was having some trouble. "It's really big, and I'm not used to having so much space." Raven laughed.
"I can imagine, the way you described a dorm room to me, I think I'd feel the same." The door to the closet opened again and Noah motioned her over, "I need help with the zipper." Raven obliged and zipped the back of the dress up.
"this dress makes you look…"
"Stunning…" He really needed to stop doing that "Charles!" Noah looked down at her clothes and then back at him, before sprinting off to the closet.
"She's a shy one, isn't she?" Raven smacked him in the arm.
"We were bonding. Did you know how small dorm rooms were?" Charles laughed. "I did. Noah you don't need to hide; my intent was to compliment." The small blonde peaked her head out of the door, both of her guests could now see she was changing, due to the lack of top she wore.
"Oh my…put some clothes on, Noah." She seemed to have forgotten in the midst of glaring at the brunette. Her face looked slightly pale and she suddenly slammed the door again.
"Like what you saw, Charles?" Raven teased, nudging him with her elbow and grinning.
"What's with all the clothes, Raven?" he tried to play her comment off. "It's all too small for me to wear, I figured I'd pass it down to Noah, she doesn't have much now that the base is gone." Charles smiled at his adopted sister.
"That's very kind of you, Raven." The door opened once again and Noah stepped out in her former attire. She didn't look Charles in the eyes.
"Oh come on now, I only came to tell you both, lunch will be in about an hour."
"Alright, sounds good. Thanks Charles." He stood and headed for the door, pausing, he looked back. "Noah, don't forget, we start training you right after dinner. Wear something comfortable." And with that he was gone.
"well…that wasn't odd at all."
"which part, the you almost flashing him or the after dinner thing?" her face felt warm again and she hid her face in her hands, "Oh my god…he came very close to seeing me naked."
"somehow, I don't think he'd mind. I think Charles likes you, Noah." Noah shook her head, flopping down onto the bed.
"What makes you so sure?" Noah was genuinely curious.
"well, he always throws compliments to girls he finds attractive, for example; there was this girl named Amy at this bar we went to a few months back and he tried to pick her up by commented on her heterochromia."
"Oh, really? Let me guess, she wasn't too interested."
"Oh no, she was into it, he told her it was a 'groovy mutation' it was really funny."
"A groovy mutation?" Noah tried to bite back laughter, "Who says things like that?"
"Charles." Noah cracked, a small fit of giggles erupting from her chest.
"That's so corny!" Noah picked up the next dress and went to try it on.
"Are you ready?" Charles stood across the garden from her,
"I don't know, are you ready to see a Groovy Mutation, Charles?" Charles gave her a look, as if frozen.
"Where did you get that?" he looked slightly irked now as she grinned back at him.
"Oh, Raven regaled me of your pick up lines earlier, said you were really into this blond with heterochromia a few months back." Charles dragged a hand down his face, Noah continued to grin.
"My dating life aside, Noah, I need you to use your power to trap me, I need you to think of me as an enemy." Noah nodded, closing her eyes and feeling the pull of energy from the trees around her.
"Whoa!" Noah's eyes shot open to see Charles hanging about twenty feet in the air, upside down.
"Fantastic! now, get me down." Noah grinned, "Well, I could do that but you're kind of adorable upside down." She looked up at him from the base of the tree.
"Not funny, Noah, get me down!"
"Alright, don't get your boxers in a twist!" she forced the tree to set him down, however, just as he was about to be placed on the ground, the branch let go to soon causing Charles to land on Noah, taking them both down. Charles straddling her waist.
"Smart ass little—hello…" Noah stared up into blue eyes, they were like the ocean, one could get lost.
"I'm so sorry…" Noah watched his face carefully, he made no attempt to move yet as he stared back.
"Stunning… you have small flecks of gold and silver in your eyes, did you know?" Noah stared at him confused.
"It must have something to do with the half sun half-moon mark on your wrist." Charles climbed off the smaller mutant and offered a hand up. Noah smiled. "Come now, Charles, surely you've seen more interesting eyes, like the girl with heterochromia?"
"While Amy was beautiful in her own way, I've never seen eyes like yours." Noah stood, brushing her clothes off.
"Do you mind if we try something?" she gave him a perplexed look, "Depends on what it is."
"Well, I've noticed that you seem to…glow, depending on your emotions. So I want to try something. Do you mind?" she stared at him like he had two heads, "Do I mind, what?"
"If I read your…"
"My thoughts? Charles, go right ahead, I've nothing to hide." Charles gave her a friendly smile and placed his index and forefinger to the temple of his forehead, sifting through her memories, smiling at some.
"Momma, look!" Noah was likely seven or eight at the time of the memory, the smaller blond held a single white lily in the palm of her hand.
"Noah, where did you get that?" the much taller brunette woman looked at her daughter, curiously.
"I grew it, see?" she tried to show her mother but nothing happened, the little girl looked sad.
"I promise, I really did grow it, mommy?" The brunette smiled down, taking her daughter into her arms.
"I believe you, come on, we'll put it into some water." The two walked back into the house.
Noah's eyes had started to glow silver as she smiled at the memory, feeling his presence leave her mind.
"That was a lovely memory, Noah." He took notice of her eyes and smiled "Look. It seems I was correct." As he took her hand, and lead her to the small pond, not noticing, as he did this, the rest of her lit up. They stopped a few feet away from the ledge of the water and she looked at her reflection, "How did you do that?"
"I didn't do anything, Noah, not really. I just helped you unlock it." She felt his hand still holding hers and blushed, "Um, Charles?" she glanced down, his eyes followed. "Oh, My apologies." The two laughed about the situation, that's when she noticed a single silver orb float out of the hand he was just holding.
"That's…new." Another one floated out, landing on Charles' shoulder,
"it would appear the name you were given is quite fitting, My little Nymph." She watched as more and more of the little balls of light drifted around them.
"I think they like you, Charles." Noah grinned, reaching out to poke one of the orbs.
Across the way Raven watched with a smile as the two of them continued to work on Noah's abilities.
"You really think so?" Noah gave a nod, turning to look back at her reflection, "It's like something out of a cheesy romance novel." She laughed.
"You know the ones, where out of the blue, fireflies surround the couple, telling the readers that the two were meant to be." She felt Charles watch her.
"How simple life would be, if it were like in novels, Noah. Should we get back to practicing?"
They must have worked with one another for an hour, Charles had figured out when he made her mad her body would glow orange, but when the blond was happy she would glow silver, though he hadn't figured out her eyes just yet, but there was still 5 days left.
"Good work tonight, Noah." The blond smiled, staring over at him from her place on the ground.
"I didn't know I could make the gold orbs explode, that's really cool!"
"I believe you kids would say 'radical'" Noah shot him an odd look, "Charles?"
"Yeah?"
"No one says radical, by the way you're only like a year or two older than me." She laughed, taking in his sudden change of expression.
"Really? Well, my mistake then, also, really? You look so young." She smiled, turning her eyes back up to the sky. "I've been told often enough; I look like a high schooler at best."
"I knew you had to be at least seventeen or eighteen, but I'd have never guessed twenty-two."
"The fact I came back to the dorms partially drunk really didn't tip you off?" it seemed to have finally dawned on him.
"In my defense, most girls who look like you, party regardless of age." Her eyes flashed gold for a second, "Girls who look like me? What does that mean?" he knew he had screwed up with that comment.
"I didn't mean it that way, I just meant that—"
"I get it now…I think we're done here, Charles." Nah pushed herself off the ground and went back towards the mansion.
"Noah, wait!" Raven came out of her hiding spot as Noah left.
"Way to go, Romeo. You really messed up this time."
"Good evening, raven." He sighed, watching the smaller blond retreating form.
"She likes you, you know?" Charles looked at his sister, "I think you're mistaken, we're only friends."
"The way you two watch each other, it says very differently, Charles."
"Exactly how does she look at me, Raven?" The blonde smacked him upside the head, standing in front of him now.
"For a someone with a college degree in human genetics, you're sure an idiot. She's happiest when around you, but you're so blinded by training and this war that you can't even see it." Something must have clicked because Charles ran a hand through is messy brown hair.
"I've really messed up."
"Oh yeah, but I bet if you're quick about it, you can make up with her." Charles placed gentle hand on Ravens shoulder before taking off.
Noah hugged the pillow to her chest, she had changed into a pair of the Pajama's that Raven had left for her. A pair of shorts and a slightly loose tank top that hung off the petit girl's frame, the strap halfway down her shoulder.
"Noah, are you there?" Charles' voice rang on the other side of her door.
"Go away, Charles!" a sudden voice in her mind startled her.
'Noah, I'm truly sorry, I didn't know how you felt.' Noah gave him no reply, getting off her bed she walked over and opened the door, he was still in his track suit.
"You're a real asshole, you know that? You think that just because you come here and you apologize, I'll go weak in the knees and forgive you? I've spent my whole life with guys like that, Charles. I've been Abused and treated exactly the same as you treated me out there, why should I forgive you?!" Charles stared back at her, his expression was wounded.
"Noah, I never meant to hurt you, Honestly." Noah tried to shut the door but Charles stuck his foot in the way. "Please, just hear me out. I didn't know."
"Didn't know what, Charles?" she opened the door again, slightly.
"I didn't know you felt that way, about me I mean." Noah made a mental note to smack Raven the next time the two of them were alone.
"I'm going to kill her…" The blonde sighed, opening the door the rest of the way.
"So it's true?" She stared at him. "What's true?"
"That you like me, romantically?" She stared at him with wide eyes, "I thought you said you knew."
"Well, Raven told me, but I had to confirm." Noah smacked his arm. "Ouch!"
"Dammit Charles!" she went to smack him again but he caught her arm mid swing, forcing her to stop and stare at him.
"They're gold, you must be really angry right now." Noah tried to tug her arm free.
"Charles, let me go." Her tone held a warning.
"and if I refuse?" he forced her backwards, his hand still firmly around her wrist, forcing her back another few steps, her eyes watched him warily now, bringing her other hands up to try and pry his off, he caught that one too.
"I said let go!" Chares gave her a stern look, grasping both of her small wrist in one hand, he brought his now free hand up to touch her face. Noah stood stock still.
"What are you—?" he moved closer to her face, staring straight into her eyes. "Charles?" she felt his warm breath on her face, it smelled like spearmint toothpaste.
"Don't move." Now silver, Noah's eyes watched him as he closed the space between them, placing a soft kiss to her cheek.
"I am truly…sorry, if my words hurt you. That was never my intention, Noah" he finally let go of her wrists and she continued to watch him, her eyes still glowing, only slightly brighter.
"Raven was right."
"right about what? Me liking you? Of course I like you! Anyone with eyes can see how attractive you are, Charles"
"I'm attractive now?" she felt her face heat up
"Y-You know what I meant!" he smirked and pulled away from her, heading for the door.
"Good night, Noah." She huffed.
"this is far from over, Charles! Get back here!" she chased after him, hopping onto his back before he could leave the room, taking him down to the floor.
"Kinky…" Erik happened to be passing by the open door. "I didn't know you two were into that." With that he walked away.
"Erik! This isn't what it looks like!" the much larger man continued walking away.
"it does look really bad, more so because you're still sitting on me." Noah scrambled off of him and ran into her closet, slamming the door. Charles laughed, his hand on her bedroom door.
"Goodnight, Noah." and with that, he was gone.
So. Chapter three I thought was kind of cute. Let me know what you all think in the reviews, PLEASE!?
