Chapter 1 - The Intruductions and an Email
Submitted June 6, 2006 Updated June 6, 2006 Status Incomplete | is is probably does not follow the plot of the films or the comicsor anything so I probably have done a hell of a lot wrong. This is just arandom fan-fic that I wanted to write. So yeah, I’m sorry if you don’t like itand correct me if you want to but |
Chapter 1 - The Intruductions and an Email
Chapter 1 - The Intruductions and an Email
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Chapter 1
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“You know what the best thing about this place is?”
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I thought for a second. “The wireless internet connection?” I took my fingers out of my mouth while I answered the question but then replaced them straight again and continued to bit them.
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The girl sitting next to me hit my around the head and the head her knees to her chest again. “No, I guess that it's because we are all protected, you know, away from normal people.” Serina said and I nodded.
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“Yeah, but I don't really know anything apart from the Institute.” I said.
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“Well, you probably know the Internet more than anyone else, you have seen all the sites dedicated to hating mutants.”
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I looked down; I had deleted all the images of them from my memory. “I keep away from them now…” I mumbled as I fiddled with the glove that I wore on my left hand. I had cut off the finger of it so that it only covered my palm. That was the only thing that I wanted covered by it.
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We went quiet for a few moments. We were sitting on the sofa in one of the lounge rooms, the window in front of us poured sunlight into the room making it so hot. But the wind that the window brought was just perfect to cool us down. I pulled my shirt around me, moving it to parts of my skin that I felt were getting too exposed to the sunlight. My skin was so pale that it burnt very easily.
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I still felt uneasy going outside, I got scared of wide places, they seemed strange to me, made me uncomfortable. But I was glad to look at the scenery from the safety of the Institute.
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“Hey, Eskil is online.” I said as I felt it happen in my mind. <i>Heya</i> <i>Ez</i> I said to him.
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“Are you online <i>all</i> the time?” The friend beside me asked.
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<i>Are you online *all* the time?</i> The boy that I was talking to asked.
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“Yes.” I answered both of their questions.
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<i>You know, if you shouted I'd be able to hear you </i>Ez informed me.
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<i>I know, your in your bedroom on your laptop</i> I replied.
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“Tell Ez I say hi.” Reni said.
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<i>Rena says hi</i>
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<i>I say hi back</i>
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“Ez says hi back.” I informed her.
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<i>Damn, you type too fast ><</i>
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<i>I don't type ^^</i>
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<i>Urrr am I going to get all your thoughts again, it takes me ages to read when you do that…</i>
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<i>Hmm… all my thoughts eh?</i> I grinned and thought about the expression on the boy's face when his whole screen was filled with computer codes that he would have no idea about.
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“Farasha, I'll kill you!” A voice above where I sat shouted so that we could hear.
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“What did you do now?” Reni asked.
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“Um… I think that I overloaded his computer with umm… stuff…” I went back to thinking and let my mind travel into Eskil's computer. I deleted all that I had out there and allowed it to restart.
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“Thank you.” The same voice called down to us.
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<i>I'm still going to kill you</i> the boy said to me.
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<i>Hmm that so?</i>
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<i>Yes, very very soon</i><i>…</i>
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<i>Ok then</i><i></i>
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<i>…Hey Fara?</i>
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<i>Yeah, Ez</i>
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<i>Can you get into the Institute files?</i>
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<i>Yes</i>
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<i>Have you ever tried?</i>
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<i>I did once and then promised myself and Xavier that I never would again</i>
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<i>Why?</i>
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<i>Urr… there was a really nasty virus protecting it</i>
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<i>And you got it?</i>
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<i>Yeah, made me sick for weeks! ><</i>
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<i>Lol!</i>
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<i>Don't laugh, it really wasn't funny, it was the first time that I had ever got a virus, I don't know what I would have done if I didn't have a backup memory.</i>
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<i>How many times have you ever gotten a virus?</i>
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<i>14 times so far.</i>
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<i>Wow</i>
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<i>Yeah, I keep getting them because I am always putting on sites that I support mutants, and so people send them to my inbox.</i>
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<i>Doesn't the school have virus scans?</i>
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<i>Yes, I would never go on the internet if it didn't have a really good fire wall.</i>
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<i>Hmm… </i>
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“I'm getting burnt.” I informed the girl next to me and stood up.
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“Ok.” She mumbled at my leaving.
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I walked out and immediately I felt someone take my hand. I looked down at the small girls that stood there.
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“Heya.” I said.
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“We wanna play with your skin.” The little girl said. The girls didn't have their powers yet, but their mother was a mutant and so there a lot of chance that they would both be mutants too.
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I sighed and crouched down so that they could look at the patterns that my skin made whenever they touched me. I raised both arms and the two girls started to play. One of the two started to undo the glove on my left hand but I placed my other hand on hers to stop her.
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“Not the left hand.” I said to her gently and the girl went back to poking at my arm. “Hey, not so hard.” I said to the other girl who giggled. “Do you want me to get a brose?” I asked her.
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Then from under where I had rolled up my white sleeves can another black figure on my arm along with the rest. Though this one was not a pattern, this one was a butterfly. It flew down to where the girl was making my skin change. The girl promptly pocked the butterfly but it only burst into three smaller ones that flew away and disappeared.
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“Ez!” I said, standing up and turning around giving the boy behind me the closest thing that I could do to an icy glare.
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“What? Wasn't me.” He said innocently.
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“Hmm, I see, your offline.” I said, reconnecting myself to the internet in my mind.
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“How observant.” He joked as he walked past.
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The girls started giggling and I looked down at them. “What?” I asked.
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“Nothing.” One of them lied as they kept laughing.
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I sighed. “Eskil, I'll kill you next time you do this.” I called after him as he walked on, knowing perfectly well that he had put the word “Idiot” on my forehead like he always did. I looked at my hands, they were covered with the markings again, I got them from just shouting. I looked down at the girls again. “Is it gone.”
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They nodded, and this time I believed them.
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“You still can't control the markings?” A voice behind me asked, but it was more of a statement having just seen that.
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“Sorry, Professor.” I said. “It's just that Eskil wrote idiot on my forehead again.”
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“Oh, I see.”
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“Nah, but I can control it, look.” I held my hand, now clear of markings since I was calm, to him.
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The man touched the skin of my palm and no markings came up. Then he looked up to my face. “But you concentrate so much that they appear on your face.” He started.
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“They do? Damn, I thought that I got it that time.” I laughed.
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“Keep trying, Devon.” Xavier said and wheeled on.
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I walked down the corridor to find a mirror to make sure that the work idiot really was off my forehead, remember once when Ez kept it on my face for almost a week, after that time I didn't let his computer turn on until he took it off. That had made him sorry.
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Suddenly in my ears rang with someone singing “HELLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO!” as if she was right next to me but I knew that she wasn't and I knew that everyone else had heard it just the same as me. And that could only mean one thing. That Song was back.
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I walked in any direction hoping that it was the right one to see the guys that had returned and then, just by chance, I did walk into the group.
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They were in the main part of the mansion but still wearing their suits from the mission that they were on.
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“Hey guys.” I said to the three of them. “Had fun?” I asked.
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“Yes, it was a lot of fun.” Songbreeze said smiling, flicking her blond platted hair behind her.
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“What do you mean?”<font color="Black"> Moonshadow mumbled, her arms folded.</font> “We didn't do anything.”
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“Whatever, see ya'll.” Arch Angel said, walking off.
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“Urr, he is such a pretty-boy.” Moonshadow mumbled, using the term as an insult.
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“Yeah, don't get much more prettier than Warren.” Song joked.
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“Am I not pretty?” I asked them.
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They turned to me. “We're talking about boys, hun.” Song informed me.
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“Oh.” I said.
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“Awww you guys are back, you left and I didn't know where you were and… and…” A voice behind us said. “And I don't know.”
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I looked around and saw a girl with her head down but looking through messy copper hair with faded green eyes.
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“Oh, sorry Maeve.” Song apologised to the girl knowing how easy it was to set her off. “We were called out on the mission really early.” She said as her excuse.
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“Oh, I see.” The girl said and walked off.
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Song and I sighed in relief. “Hmm… food must be ready soon.” I said walking to follow Maeve. “See ya guys.”
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“See ya Farasha.” Song said waving and Moonshadow mumbled that she'll see me later.
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I waved behind me and kept walking, logging back onto the internet at the same time. It seemed that my email address had a new email, but the sender was unknown. I walked in the kitchen where lots of the others were starting to gather and sat down on one of the bench chairs.
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The email said “for mutant supporters” and I eyed it for a few moments before I opened it. It said “Hey, please join the rest” and there was a picture file. I downloaded the jpeg and made sure that I didn't carry any viruses. It seemed safe, so I opened it and looked at it in my mind.
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The picture was a woman. Her hair was pail purple and her eyes were orange and the pupil a slit like a cats. She was obviously a mutant, I could see that for sure. But that was not the thing about the picture. No, the fact was that there was only the head. A man's blood covered hand held the hand tightly, almost ripping it off the scalp. The woman's eyes were half closed and her mouth was lolling open, her skin was covered in broses, she had suffered a lot before who ever it was had killed her.
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I fell off the chair that I was sitting on and fell to the floor. I shut my eyes but the image file just would not go, even after I had closed the window the image stayed just below my eyes. I cried out and felt the marking that started to burn away at my skin me as I crawled on the floor, the other students around me not knowing what to do.
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I gasped for breath and then felt some gentle hands on my head. I blacked out, seeing nothing, feeling nothing.
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When I woke up I was in my bed in my bedroom. I felt so weak. I knew that that image had no virus on it but it still made my body feel sick. I raised a hand and felt my face. Just on the side of my right eye a wire was connected to the skin. I looked and saw that it was leading to a laptop.
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I ripped the wire off my skin and then felt my left hand out to my bedside table were I knew were a pile of cables. I took one and put it on my left temple, I immediately felt the power surge into my body from the mains that the wire was plugged into. I sighed in relief when I had plugged the other one onto the skin just under my collar bone on that side.
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I closed my eyes and let my mind drift away with the calming feeling of charging. He body storing that electrical energy for whenever I would need it.
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I was so zoned out that I didn't notice when someone came into the room. Only when she rested a hand on my forehead that reacted with marks, she knew that I was awake.
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I let my eyes go back to being blue so that I could see her. “Heya Jean.” I said weakly. “Did you delete the file?” I asked.
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The woman nodded. “I'm sorry that you had to see that.” She said, trying to smile.
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“Did… did you see it?”
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The woman nodded again. “I just wish that I could forget things like you so easily.” She said, brushing my messy hair out of my face, not caring that black marks flickered across my skin where she touched it. “You should stop opening files when you don't know who sent them.”
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I smiled. “I know. Curiosity killed the cat, I guess.”
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“Yeah, just don't get killed.” Jean said, getting up and walking out of the room. “And say thanks to Ez next time you see him, he leant us his laptop cos it was the closest.”
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I closed my eyes. “Yeah, that was nice of him.” I agreed.
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Chapter 1
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“You know what the best thing about this place is?”
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I thought for a second. “The wireless internet connection?” I took my fingers out of my mouth while I answered the question but then replaced them straight again and continued to bit them.
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The girl sitting next to me hit my around the head and the head her knees to her chest again. “No, I guess that it's because we are all protected, you know, away from normal people.” Serina said and I nodded.
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“Yeah, but I don't really know anything apart from the Institute.” I said.
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“Well, you probably know the Internet more than anyone else, you have seen all the sites dedicated to hating mutants.”
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I looked down; I had deleted all the images of them from my memory. “I keep away from them now…” I mumbled as I fiddled with the glove that I wore on my left hand. I had cut off the finger of it so that it only covered my palm. That was the only thing that I wanted covered by it.
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We went quiet for a few moments. We were sitting on the sofa in one of the lounge rooms, the window in front of us poured sunlight into the room making it so hot. But the wind that the window brought was just perfect to cool us down. I pulled my shirt around me, moving it to parts of my skin that I felt were getting too exposed to the sunlight. My skin was so pale that it burnt very easily.
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I still felt uneasy going outside, I got scared of wide places, they seemed strange to me, made me uncomfortable. But I was glad to look at the scenery from the safety of the Institute.
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“Hey, Eskil is online.” I said as I felt it happen in my mind. <i>Heya</i> <i>Ez</i> I said to him.
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“Are you online <i>all</i> the time?” The friend beside me asked.
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<i>Are you online *all* the time?</i> The boy that I was talking to asked.
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“Yes.” I answered both of their questions.
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<i>You know, if you shouted I'd be able to hear you </i>Ez informed me.
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<i>I know, your in your bedroom on your laptop</i> I replied.
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“Tell Ez I say hi.” Reni said.
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<i>Rena says hi</i>
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<i>I say hi back</i>
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“Ez says hi back.” I informed her.
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<i>Damn, you type too fast ><</i>
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<i>I don't type ^^</i>
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<i>Urrr am I going to get all your thoughts again, it takes me ages to read when you do that…</i>
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<i>Hmm… all my thoughts eh?</i> I grinned and thought about the expression on the boy's face when his whole screen was filled with computer codes that he would have no idea about.
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“Farasha, I'll kill you!” A voice above where I sat shouted so that we could hear.
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“What did you do now?” Reni asked.
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“Um… I think that I overloaded his computer with umm… stuff…” I went back to thinking and let my mind travel into Eskil's computer. I deleted all that I had out there and allowed it to restart.
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“Thank you.” The same voice called down to us.
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<i>I'm still going to kill you</i> the boy said to me.
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<i>Hmm that so?</i>
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<i>Yes, very very soon</i><i>…</i>
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<i>Ok then</i><i></i>
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<i>…Hey Fara?</i>
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<i>Yeah, Ez</i>
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<i>Can you get into the Institute files?</i>
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<i>Yes</i>
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<i>Have you ever tried?</i>
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<i>I did once and then promised myself and Xavier that I never would again</i>
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<i>Why?</i>
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<i>Urr… there was a really nasty virus protecting it</i>
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<i>And you got it?</i>
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<i>Yeah, made me sick for weeks! ><</i>
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<i>Lol!</i>
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<i>Don't laugh, it really wasn't funny, it was the first time that I had ever got a virus, I don't know what I would have done if I didn't have a backup memory.</i>
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<i>How many times have you ever gotten a virus?</i>
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<i>14 times so far.</i>
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<i>Wow</i>
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<i>Yeah, I keep getting them because I am always putting on sites that I support mutants, and so people send them to my inbox.</i>
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<i>Doesn't the school have virus scans?</i>
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<i>Yes, I would never go on the internet if it didn't have a really good fire wall.</i>
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<i>Hmm… </i>
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“I'm getting burnt.” I informed the girl next to me and stood up.
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“Ok.” She mumbled at my leaving.
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I walked out and immediately I felt someone take my hand. I looked down at the small girls that stood there.
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“Heya.” I said.
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“We wanna play with your skin.” The little girl said. The girls didn't have their powers yet, but their mother was a mutant and so there a lot of chance that they would both be mutants too.
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I sighed and crouched down so that they could look at the patterns that my skin made whenever they touched me. I raised both arms and the two girls started to play. One of the two started to undo the glove on my left hand but I placed my other hand on hers to stop her.
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“Not the left hand.” I said to her gently and the girl went back to poking at my arm. “Hey, not so hard.” I said to the other girl who giggled. “Do you want me to get a brose?” I asked her.
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Then from under where I had rolled up my white sleeves can another black figure on my arm along with the rest. Though this one was not a pattern, this one was a butterfly. It flew down to where the girl was making my skin change. The girl promptly pocked the butterfly but it only burst into three smaller ones that flew away and disappeared.
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“Ez!” I said, standing up and turning around giving the boy behind me the closest thing that I could do to an icy glare.
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“What? Wasn't me.” He said innocently.
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“Hmm, I see, your offline.” I said, reconnecting myself to the internet in my mind.
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“How observant.” He joked as he walked past.
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The girls started giggling and I looked down at them. “What?” I asked.
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“Nothing.” One of them lied as they kept laughing.
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I sighed. “Eskil, I'll kill you next time you do this.” I called after him as he walked on, knowing perfectly well that he had put the word “Idiot” on my forehead like he always did. I looked at my hands, they were covered with the markings again, I got them from just shouting. I looked down at the girls again. “Is it gone.”
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They nodded, and this time I believed them.
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“You still can't control the markings?” A voice behind me asked, but it was more of a statement having just seen that.
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“Sorry, Professor.” I said. “It's just that Eskil wrote idiot on my forehead again.”
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“Oh, I see.”
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“Nah, but I can control it, look.” I held my hand, now clear of markings since I was calm, to him.
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The man touched the skin of my palm and no markings came up. Then he looked up to my face. “But you concentrate so much that they appear on your face.” He started.
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“They do? Damn, I thought that I got it that time.” I laughed.
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“Keep trying, Devon.” Xavier said and wheeled on.
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I walked down the corridor to find a mirror to make sure that the work idiot really was off my forehead, remember once when Ez kept it on my face for almost a week, after that time I didn't let his computer turn on until he took it off. That had made him sorry.
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Suddenly in my ears rang with someone singing “HELLLLLOOOOOOOOOOO!” as if she was right next to me but I knew that she wasn't and I knew that everyone else had heard it just the same as me. And that could only mean one thing. That Song was back.
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I walked in any direction hoping that it was the right one to see the guys that had returned and then, just by chance, I did walk into the group.
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They were in the main part of the mansion but still wearing their suits from the mission that they were on.
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“Hey guys.” I said to the three of them. “Had fun?” I asked.
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“Yes, it was a lot of fun.” Songbreeze said smiling, flicking her blond platted hair behind her.
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“What do you mean?”<font color="Black"> Moonshadow mumbled, her arms folded.</font> “We didn't do anything.”
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“Whatever, see ya'll.” Arch Angel said, walking off.
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“Urr, he is such a pretty-boy.” Moonshadow mumbled, using the term as an insult.
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“Yeah, don't get much more prettier than Warren.” Song joked.
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“Am I not pretty?” I asked them.
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They turned to me. “We're talking about boys, hun.” Song informed me.
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“Oh.” I said.
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“Awww you guys are back, you left and I didn't know where you were and… and…” A voice behind us said. “And I don't know.”
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I looked around and saw a girl with her head down but looking through messy copper hair with faded green eyes.
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“Oh, sorry Maeve.” Song apologised to the girl knowing how easy it was to set her off. “We were called out on the mission really early.” She said as her excuse.
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“Oh, I see.” The girl said and walked off.
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Song and I sighed in relief. “Hmm… food must be ready soon.” I said walking to follow Maeve. “See ya guys.”
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“See ya Farasha.” Song said waving and Moonshadow mumbled that she'll see me later.
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I waved behind me and kept walking, logging back onto the internet at the same time. It seemed that my email address had a new email, but the sender was unknown. I walked in the kitchen where lots of the others were starting to gather and sat down on one of the bench chairs.
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The email said “for mutant supporters” and I eyed it for a few moments before I opened it. It said “Hey, please join the rest” and there was a picture file. I downloaded the jpeg and made sure that I didn't carry any viruses. It seemed safe, so I opened it and looked at it in my mind.
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The picture was a woman. Her hair was pail purple and her eyes were orange and the pupil a slit like a cats. She was obviously a mutant, I could see that for sure. But that was not the thing about the picture. No, the fact was that there was only the head. A man's blood covered hand held the hand tightly, almost ripping it off the scalp. The woman's eyes were half closed and her mouth was lolling open, her skin was covered in broses, she had suffered a lot before who ever it was had killed her.
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I fell off the chair that I was sitting on and fell to the floor. I shut my eyes but the image file just would not go, even after I had closed the window the image stayed just below my eyes. I cried out and felt the marking that started to burn away at my skin me as I crawled on the floor, the other students around me not knowing what to do.
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I gasped for breath and then felt some gentle hands on my head. I blacked out, seeing nothing, feeling nothing.
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When I woke up I was in my bed in my bedroom. I felt so weak. I knew that that image had no virus on it but it still made my body feel sick. I raised a hand and felt my face. Just on the side of my right eye a wire was connected to the skin. I looked and saw that it was leading to a laptop.
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I ripped the wire off my skin and then felt my left hand out to my bedside table were I knew were a pile of cables. I took one and put it on my left temple, I immediately felt the power surge into my body from the mains that the wire was plugged into. I sighed in relief when I had plugged the other one onto the skin just under my collar bone on that side.
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I closed my eyes and let my mind drift away with the calming feeling of charging. He body storing that electrical energy for whenever I would need it.
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I was so zoned out that I didn't notice when someone came into the room. Only when she rested a hand on my forehead that reacted with marks, she knew that I was awake.
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I let my eyes go back to being blue so that I could see her. “Heya Jean.” I said weakly. “Did you delete the file?” I asked.
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The woman nodded. “I'm sorry that you had to see that.” She said, trying to smile.
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“Did… did you see it?”
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The woman nodded again. “I just wish that I could forget things like you so easily.” She said, brushing my messy hair out of my face, not caring that black marks flickered across my skin where she touched it. “You should stop opening files when you don't know who sent them.”
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I smiled. “I know. Curiosity killed the cat, I guess.”
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“Yeah, just don't get killed.” Jean said, getting up and walking out of the room. “And say thanks to Ez next time you see him, he leant us his laptop cos it was the closest.”
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I closed my eyes. “Yeah, that was nice of him.” I agreed.
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Horrible people, sending nasty emails *grumble grumble grumble*
BUT YOU PUT SERINA IN IT! YAYAYAYAYAYAYYAYAYA!!! She says thank you!
Serina: Thank you so much! ^^
Wheeee, and the others too! YAY! ARCH-ANGEL IS THE BEST! HE'S SO PRETTY! *grabs Warren and hugs*
Warren: Get. Off. Now.
:D
Waaa, getting up early makes me feel hyper.
Henyway, GREAT CHAPTER DUDE! Put more up soon!!!