A/n: pls. excuse any spelling/grammer errors you find in this chapt, or better yet, gently point them out as so I can fix them. I am using a comp w/o spell check for now... srry, I'll fix it and repost asap, but for now, just deal and don't flame
Abby was confused as she woke, the last place she remembered being was her lab. She also remembered a vividly realistic dream containing a fatherly bald man in a wheelchair.
'What is going on?' She wondered somehow knowing that her dream wasn't normal.
Once she could get back to her lab she started an electronic scetch of the man she saw.
"Abby, who is that?" Gibbs asked
"I don't know, I saw him in a dream I just had. The hinky part, I just know he is real." Abby replied
Meanwhile a wheelchair bound man entered the bull pin with an African woman that had dark skin and white hair.
"Hello, Agent Ziva David..."
Ziva looked up at hearing her name
"May I help you?" she asked unsure what else to say.
"I was wondering if you could tell me where I might find Abigail Sciuto?"
"She is in her lab" Ziva replied tring to hide her confusion. Most came looking for Jethro Gibbs not Abigail Sciuto, and those that do come looking for Gibbs often mistake Anthony DiNozzo for Jethro Gibbs, but not Xavier.
" I will call her" Ziva picked up her phone to call the lab, but Gibbs got there before she could place the call.
"If you are calling Abby don't bother, she's right behind me." Gibbs said
"Okay" Ziva put the phone down as the spunky goth came into her line of sight.
"Hello, I'm Abigail Sciuto, forensic scientist extrodinar, and you are?"
"I am Professor Charles Xavier, and this is my friend Ororo Munroe"
Ororo was speaking to Ziva, mostly explaining how Charles knew Ziva's name having never met her before this point. Just then Dr. Donald Mallard came in
"Charles Xavier is that you?"
"Well I'll be... Ducky, I didn't expect to see you here old friend" Charles looked genuinely surprised
"Ducky, care to explain?" Gibbs asked
"Of course Jethro, Charles and I met on a volunteer job years ago, of course back then he could walk" Ducky turned back to Charles "How is Megan?"
A sorrowful look crossed Charles' face
"She was murdered Ducky, eleven years ago"
"Oh dear, what a waste, she was such a beautiful soul, and how is Katherine?"
"Vibrant as ever, and looking more like her mother every day"
"Excuse me, Mr. Xavier, would you mind explaining why you wanted to see Abby" Gibbs asked
"Oh, of course, I believe that Miss Sciuto has developed the power of foresight, that is, she can see into the future via dreams."
"How is that possible, I thought mutant powers manifested in puberty." Timothy McGee said finally putting his two cents into the conversation.
"Under normal circumstances, Timothy, you would be correct, but these are not normal circumstances." Ducky said "There was a broken vial in Abigail's lab containing a mutigen"
"Big Bang, so called due to an accident in Dakota two years ago that created an unknown amount of mutants and killed no one" Abby continued
"Okay, one question, why turn Abby into a mutant?" Gibbs asked
"Mutants are normally shuned by sociaty, maybe they thought that would have a negative effect on her self asteem and the way we looked at her" Ziva said, knowing all to well that she was grasping at straws with that theory.
"Can't someone look at me and telll I don't really care what the world thinks of me?" Abby wondered
"Abby, you have to remember not everyone is going to tolerate your powers, here they will be helpful... even if they cannot be used as evidence in court." Charles paused and turned to Gibbs
"Gibbs may I speak with you in private" Charles asked
Charles and GIbbs went to a private room.
"When are you going to tell them, Jethro?" Charles asked
"About what?"
"Don't play dumb, Jethro, you know very well what I'm talking about"
"How do you know that I haven't told them already?"
"The look in Abigail's eyes told me she didn't know the truth, she lied, she does care, she cares what you think of her. She looks up to you, Jethro, like she would a father, and she's afraid that you won't treat her the same, or worse, that you will think of the way the agency looks more than what a good job she has done and fire her?"
"I could never fire Abby, she's too valuable to this team... I could never find a forensic scientist like her."
"A forensic scientist, or daughter, Jethro, admit it, you look at her like your own child" Charles said "and a family, like a team, should have no secrets."
Gibbs sighed, Charles was right and not afraid to call him out on the truth
Charles rejoined the rest and Gibbs soon followed, but instead of stopping, grabbed Abby's arm and guided her to a private room
"Abby I need to tell you something" he said
"What is it, Gibbs?" she asked slightly nervous
"It's something about myself I've never told you before... but first" he gave her a light head slap, "that's for lying to me."
"Gibbs... I didn't..."
"Abigail, what I wanted to tell you is I can tell when people lie to me... you could call it my power"
"You're kidding..." Abby said
Gibbs just shook his head
"You aren't kidding... you have some form of telepathy that let's you know when people lie to you"
"Correct, and I could tell that there are some in this world that you do care what they think about you, and Abby, I don't give a damn what the higher ups say, you are a part of this team and your job is safe..."
"How did you know i was worried about that?"
"The look in your eyes... I know you Abby"
To Be Continued