Disclaimer in chapter one.
Brief authors note: Thanks to Tay my Beta for all her help with this chapter, and thanks to all the people that reviewed so far :)
CHAPTER THREE.
Scott sat in the car in silence on the journey back to his new house, he was still so confused, he couldn't see. He was going to live at a new house with 2 strangers, and he was so hungry and so tired.
"When you get back to the mansion, you will meet another newcomer to our household. His name is Henry McCoy and he's a doctor and a scientist." Charles said happily, he had heard of Henry McCoy several years ago and he had offered him a job designing software for his computer firm, the man had made Charles millions with his grasp of technology and he was also a mutant, he was a big man, who was agile and strong.
However Henry had tried to rid himself of his mutation, using his knowledge of chemicals – unfortunately his calculations had been off and Henry hadn't changed the molecules on the inside of his body, he had changed the molecules on the outside, covering his skin in blue fur and gave him the appearance of a beast.
Henry had gone in to hiding, but Charles had found him and offered him a job at his mansion, and Henry had happily accepted.
When they arrived at the mansion, Henry was at the door waiting for them.
"Nice to meet ya Hank." James said immediately not even taking a double-take at the man covered in blue fur.
"The pleasure is all mine good man." Henry said in a well-educated voice, shaking James' hand.
"Names James Logan, feel free to call me Logan." James said with a nod.
"Certainly." Henry said with a smile, he was happy that he had been immediately accepted and that the man hadn't shown any signs of apprehension upon meeting him.
"And you, my young charge, must be Scott." Hank said looking at the slightly scrawny tall young man, who was scrunching his eyes closed.
When Charles had approached Henry with this job at the mansion three days ago, Henry had been working on finding something to help Scott immediately.
"Yeah." Scott said a little defensively.
"Well it is a pleasure to make your acquaintance, if you would be so kind, as to follow me, I would like to assess you to see if I can determine the reason for your inability to control your powers." Henry said gently and put his arm on Scott's arm to lead him away.
"Ok." Scott said relaxing marginally; the promise of him being able to control his powers was a huge relief.
"Chuck, you sure as hell move quickly!" James said impressed with the fact they had a scientist now to help them as well.
"Logan I have already wasted too much of my life, now I have purpose I do not wish to waste time, the last time I checked your job was complete. But I must say James, I was hoping that you would join here full time, I will be hoping to gain more students and I know that I will need you again, I would like to offer you a job here and a home." Charles stated.
"Chuck, don't get me wrong, that is a very generous offer, but I'm not going to be living here, period. But I would like to take you up on your job offer, you need me you call me." James said, he was too much of a wanderer to stay in one place.
"Understood, thank you Logan, I do appreciate this." Charles said earnestly.
"You're welcome Chuck; you're doing a good thing here." James said honestly and collected his cheque and left the mansion.
Scott sat with Henry McCoy in a small room.
It was one of the small rooms in the basement, Henry had converted it into a temporary doctors surgery, Charles had hired people to covert the basement into a state of the art accommodation, there was to be a medical lab, a holding cell, and 2 huge metal rooms that were empty but Charles was going to convert them in his own time.
"Ok, Scott, did you ever suffer head trauma?" Henry asked seriously.
"Yes, when I was younger I was in a plane crash, my mother, brother and father was killed, I was left in a coma." Scott said with no emotion, years of repression at work.
"Well Scott, I do believe that you sustained a form of brain damage that was not picked up until now, that is why you can't control your powers." Henry said and then became silent, he was thinking over ways to change this.
"Ok Scott, we're going to go on a little trip." Hank said with a smile, he had some ideas he'd like to try out.
Hank took Scott out into some of the land surrounding the mansion.
"Ok, now Scott, what I need you to do is quickly open your eyes, allowing a blast out then close your eyes again." Hank said.
Scott trusted the man and opened his eyes, for the first time in four days he opened his eyes and saw shapes, all in red but shapes not the less. Scott closed his eyes again.
Hank looked at the damage one brief optic blast had created and he was shocked.
He then went over to his pile of materials and picked up a sheet of plastic and an adamantium holding frame – adamantium was an indestructible metal and very expensive, he stood it in front of Scott and asked him to open his eyes again, Scott did and within a couple of milliseconds the plastic had melted down to nothing.
Hank frowned then made his way over he picked up a large square of crystal and carried it over to the adamantium holding frame, he secured the crystal and asked Scott to open his eyes. Scott did and the crystal quickly shattered.
Hank tried Rose quartz next, he was happy to note that this lasted far longer than the other materials before shattering.
"Ok Scott, last time." Hank said, he could barely contain his excitement, he thought that this might really work.
Hank walked over to the pile and picked up the Ruby Quartz quite a rare gemstone, he secured it to the adamantium holding frame and told Scott to open his eyes, the blast lashed out, but this time the Ruby Quartz blocked the red energy from spreading, it created a barrier.
"By Jove Mr. Summers – I do believe I've got it!"
Authors note part 2: Well here's another chapter, I am going to be trying to update a new chapter everyday, I am so far a chapter ahead of myself so yay!
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