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Chapter 3

Bobby was following Andrew around and found himself liking the little guy; he was open, friendly and always asking questions, he was even asking him about his powers.

"Here Andrew, I'll show you," as Bobby put his hands together and concentrated and created a crude ice figurine.

"Cool," Andrew babbled as he held the ice figure in his hand and he ignored Bobby's look when he said that, Andrew smiled and said, "John can control fire, he can't make it but he controls it pretty good."

As they walked Bobby listened to Andrew babble on and on about his brother, he couldn't help but smile; his brother wasn't that good and he wished he had a little brother like Andrew as it was obvious that he idolized his older brother.

"Hey," Andrew shouted, "There's John," and pulled Bobby to him, as John looked him over Andrew said, "This is Bobby, our new roommate."

John looked at him and said, "Nice to meet you. That's Andrew as I'm sure he introduced himself to you but if you hurt him I hurt you."

Bobby looked shocked; 'A minute into meeting him and he was already threatening me?' But he could understand why. He didn't know why but he found himself liking the little guy and said, "No way would I hurt your little brother, he's different isn't he?"

"Yeah, he is," John agreed, "And he's never said a bad thing about mutants, he thinks we're cool, though some of the others hate him."

"Why?" Bobby asked, "I mean, sure he's normal but that's no reason."

"At first that's what I thought," John said, "And it is true for some of them but Bobby, I got a reputation at this school when Andrew was in the coma."

"Whoa! What the hell happened?" Bobby asked angrily, "Who put Andrew in a coma?"

John laughed bitterly, shook his head and said, "Our father apparently; after I left he and the rest of our fucking family made Andy miserable and one night, I'm not sure what happened as Andy doesn't like talking about it, my dad put him into a damn coma."

Bobby froze, he looked at Andrew and shook his head and said, "He seems to be remarkably strong."

"Yeah, but like I said," John growled, "You hurt him and they're going to find pieces of you everywhere."

After the introductions where made Andrew was still doing his best to show Bobby around, when Jean saw Andrew trying to show Mr Drake around she laughed slightly; he was quickly one of her favourite students and Hank had told her that he had a keen mind and, with the proper type of encouragement, he could become a very good doctor or scientist.

Andrew smiled brightly at Bobby as he walked over to the kitchen and was making something to eat for them; John sighed and said, "He likes to cook."

Bobby shrugged, "Nothing wrong with that is there?"

"Nothing," John said with his own shrug, "But some of the students who hate him say he's weak and a hanger on, that he should be with his own kind."

"Why," Bobby said confused, "He's like the only human being here and, from what I've seen, he treats people alright."

"Yeah but these same students are the ones who believe that we shouldn't mix with humans and," John said, "They've been looking for an excuse to get rid of Andrew."

Bobby looked at Andrew, who was pulling out some bread and lunch meat and wondered what was those students problem with Andrew?

"It's because they were hurt by their families," Andrew said, "They can be mean to me all they want but I'm not going give them any more reason to hate me John."

John nodded and whispered, "They tend to stay away from him because I made some threats and I've taken their leader behind the mansion and explained to them why they shouldn't hurt Andrew."

It slowly dawned on Bobby why John had a bad reputation amongst the students and that they were trying to make him sound worse than he was.

"So," John said, "I don't think Andrew's exactly told me what your unique gifts are."

"Gifts!" Bobby laughed, "I thought it was supposed to be curses, or at least that's what my health teacher refers to it."

"Its gifts," John said with certainty, "I mean we can do things that most regular humans can't do and for the most part we're hunted, spat on and worse."

"Well anyways," Bobby said, "My gifts are ice but I still don't have much control over it yet," while John snorted.

Andrew interrupted them by placing some sandwiches in front of them and began to eat his own, he sat there eating his own sandwich while he listened to them talk about things they might have in common.

They spent the day trying to get to know each other; John asked questions about his family while Bobby asked about where they came from.

"Where we came from?" John snorted in disgust, "It's a shithole of a town north LA and if I had my way; I'd have burned it down already and poured cement over the ruins."

"It isn't that bad," Andrew said softly, I mean you had friends there, right?"

"Not really," John said, "I had a couple of people I liked but once their parents found out about me they kept them away from me."

Andrew hugged John while Bobby looked like he was about to laugh, John held his hand up and said, "One word, just one word and you're going to be flambé."

Bobby shook his head and said, "No way would I laugh at you, though it is pretty cute the way he's always hugging you."

"He thinks it calms me down and, while it does, remember Andrew, not in public," John said as Andrew gave him a pout and he sighed and returned the hug.

Andrew smiled at his brother, 'Always pretending he didn't need anyone but that wasn't true; he was always so strong and yet he always insisted on trying to be both my dad and big brother, he didn't need to be that, I just want my big brother.'

Andrew ran out of the kitchen as he wanted to catch up on his homework and Bobby smiled, "Like I said; your brother is pretty nice."

"Yeah, too nice," John said, "I think he has to be a bit meaner, I think."

Bobby shook his head and thought, 'That kid shouldn't be mean at all, it didn't really suit his personality,' and listened to John talk about things to do in the town nearby.

A year after Bobby came in; Jean was doing some research on Andrew as the Professor wanted to find out if Andrew had the mutant gene. As Andrew lay upon the diagnostic bed watching the machines work on him Jean felt the chances were good; John was a mutant and there was a good chance Andrew could be a mutant too.

As he lay on the bed Andrew smiled to himself, 'There's no way that I could be a mutant, no way could my life be that awesome.'

Charles was there observing and read Andrew's mind and chuckled inwardly 'Being a mutant would be awesome, if only more people had Andrew's mindset,' he rolled behind Jean and smiled, "So, what's the prognosis?"

"We won't have the results for a couple of hours," she said as they let Andrew up and he walked out to do his homework.

Jean and Charles sat there discussing about the possibility of Andrew being a mutant, Charles nodded and said, "I agree with you Jean; the chances of Mr Wells being a mutant are actually quite strong."

Andrew ran upstairs to go talk to John and Bobby, they had known about the tests and had doubts but Ms Grey said it was possible.

"So," John said, "You a mutant like the rest of us?"

Andrew shrugged and said, "They said it'd be a couple of hours."

Bobby watched Andrew go back to reading his comics again and thought, 'It'd be kind of cool that he could be a mutant like them, it would help his case against some of the other students here.'

John secretly hoped that Andrew was a mutant; maybe a budding fire starter like himself, then they could go and seek a bit burning retribution from the Wells's. He wanted Andrew to change his last name to Allerdyce too but he seemed to like the Wells.

"Oh, come on," Andrew said, "Our whole family aren't all bastards, I mean we have some pretty cool Uncles, right?"

"Hmmph," John snorted, "We haven't seen any of them in years. Fact is, after what dad did to you in Sunnydale, I wouldn't be surprised if they just told them that I went psycho and killed you and ran off into the night

Andrew laughed, "You think that they'd have listened to dad? I mean our family was the black sheep of the family and you know Grandpa Wells hated how dad gave all of his attention to Tucker."

John remembered their grandfather and began to laugh, "He was pretty hard nosed about things and he did like to give presents," he pulled out his favourite lighter which was a gift from grandpa and muttered, "I miss grandpa."

"So do I," Andrew said softly, "He always gave us the best presents and I love what he gave you the Christmas before you left."

"I suppose we could look them up and hope they wouldn't be complete asses to us," John said as he tried to remember.

"You're old enough to drive, right?" Bobby said to John, "I mean if you two go I wouldn't mind going with you for a bit."

Andrew nodded, "But anyways, before we go I'd like to finish our school year here."

As they were talking Jean came rushing in and said, "Sorry guys but the Professor and I need to talk to Andrew for a bit," and rushed him back into the lab.

Charles looked at him and said, "Now Andrew, our tests prove that you do have the mutant gene."

"Really?" Andrew babbled, "Will I get powers like John or Bobby?"

Charles shook his head and said, "We cannot be sure but I doubt that you will receive the same gifts as your brother or Mr Drake have received and in fact I cannot be sure if your powers have even manifested yet."

Andrew simply frowned, 'I wouldn't have minded powers like Bobby or John but as long as it was nothing useless; like turning leaves purple then I will be happy.'

Again Charles laughed inwardly, Andrew can be such a breath of fresh air to him, he patted Andrew's hair and said, "I am sure that whatever your gift is, it shall be as you say, 'cool.'"

TBC

A/N: Andrew is going to be a mutant but I haven't figured out what his power will be so any more suggestions will be appreciated.

Poll question: Should Andrew, John and Bobby go on the road trip?

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