Chapter 3

All telepath conversation is in italic

"A year after my powers manifested my family had taken a family vacation to New York. It was in fact a surprise trip for me, you see that year I was to start college." As some raised eyebrows from the group, Lisa went on. "You see I was starting college a few years early. My parent thought it was a reward to go New York specially the Salem area. See they saw I was studying the area. For different reason I even thought about going there a couple of times, but each time something came up. Lastly it was getting into Columbia early. My parents were so proud. You see I was always the odd man out in my family, just little bit out of sync with my brother and sister. So this trip was extra special, it was just for me. However, I also did not want to go. This was the X-men territory. It took three day before I ran into an X-man. That when I ran into Jean Gray"

Flashback

I was just sitting there on a park bench waiting on my family, my mom and sister were in a store shopping for shoes and dad and my brother were looking at fishing lines we were all going fishing tomorrow. I had told my mom I was just going outside to the park beside the shops for some air. You see I was a bit nervous being so close and my control had been slipping all vacation. That was when she walked up she was so mad. She set right beside me. And I was a bundle of nervous because I knew just you had just sit beside me.

"What Hell do you think you are doing to yourself?"

Not only was she speaking straight to my mind but and anger than was direct towards me was too much.

"Please stop"

"No"

"Why?"

"Why did you do this yourself? You can control what you receive from other people"

"What?"

"Your way to control your powers was to shut them off. There was no need to do that. You can control them"

This was the first time that Jean had actually spoken to me. But the damage was done I notice after her presence left my mind. My shields were not what they were. I was receive emotion from everywhere, the couple that just walked by were giving each other the silent treatment and the anger rolling off them was like a tidal wave, behind me I felt love so strong a man had just propose to the women he loved, and worse was I felt my family so happy my brother was getting bored. I learned that my sister was against this vacation she wanted to go to the beach. Each time I turned it was like a whirl wind of emotion they were overwhelming. It seem like I was in that tornado for hours. It was the first time my eyes flamed green. I did not notice it at first, but after a while it like to world had turned green.

"Lisa, listen to me you can control it. Calm down. You can control what information you get and what you do not want. Use your telepathic abilities to enforce your mind. But most important you need to remain calm" Jean mentally said at ease with a gentle nudge to calm myself. It seem like another hour had gone by before I gained the calm that I need. "Now rebuild your wall but like before, but do not shut your emotion down. Just build the walls to keep the emotion out."

"What. Is. The. Difference." Lisa said between gritted teeth.

"When your powers manifest you shut off your empathically abilities and your higher emotion to lessen the stress of the impact. Also when you did that you impacted your telepathically abilities. They may never be as strong as they should, but what has been done cannot be undone. Now the wall should be just that not a vault were you forgot were the key was." The last part mentally slammed into me.

"Please"

"Sorry you just make me so mad you have a gift. You could be very powerful if you want to be. You still could be if you wanted."

"A wall"

"Yes"

"Ok"

They set there in the quiet of the park waiting for the wall to go up. At first nothing happened, then slowly the voice and emotion decrease and then stopped.

"Now slowly drop one of your the walls"

"What"

"Good, your voice carried very well to me. You can slowly drop your wall then raise it back up"

"Ok, I will try"

Slowly Lisa dropped the wall and focused on the women beside her. "You are not as mad at me as were before"

"No, now raise it back up"

A moment went by before the emotion went away again.

"Good, now what do we do with you"

"What? And how am I doing this?"

"You are telepath, dear. You could be a powerful one to. Not Xavier strength but very powerful. You need to practice just like any other muscle."

"But my family… Wait where is my family at? We have been here for hours"

"Actually it has only been a little over forty minutes"

"What, forty minutes! But even that they should be out by now"

"Well I have each group looking over the same items a second time"

"Oh, you can do that… Wait what did you mean by do with me"

"You need to train to reach your full ability."

"I am about to start college."

"You are how old?"

"I am sixteen"

"You can train, become more powerful and get more control. You can wait a semester then start."

"But my family, I cannot leave them."

"I am not asking you to"

"My family will not understand. They do not hate mutant. It is like out of sight out of mind there no mutants where I live not even in the area. Just give me some time to tell them."

"Lisa, I can give you a week. I will give you the time to tell your family. Finish your vacation, but I will be back for you in a week. In that is a promise. And, you better not have done to yourself what you did before."

"Thank you, Jean"

"Lisa, I will do you one better. To give the week I will hide you from celebro, for the week to give you the time. See you in one week, Lisa be ready."

And with that Jean Gray was gone. And my family was back ready to go to diner. And I was mentally preparing to tell them that their daughter had been lying to them, I figured that it could wait until after vacation. However, with Jean promise I could enjoy my vacation without being discovered. I even thought I could practice after my family went to sleep. I discovered that dream where easier to handle. Well most of them. There nightmares that made me put my walls back up.

I was still worried that Jean was coming for me in a week, but I was actually for the first time having missed feeling about joining the mutant community. A part of me was looking forward to it. It was nice to talk to Jean mentally to practice my abilities. Even though she scared me at first.

But it never happened, I came home one day from spending some time with some friends. Which I had Jean to think for she let me be me again. When I got home it was on the news a mutant battle was going on, and one mutant was dead.

Jean Gray was dead.