They were playing
I could see them playing in their room when they were supposed to be training, the Mister won't be happy when I tell.
My brothers and sisters dislike me because I look up to the Mister, I tell the Mister everything that goes on in the house. He took me off the streets, and my 'siblings' and raise us here in this house.
I think I'm the Mister's favorite, not even big brother gains his favor like I do.
He said we can finally celebrate my 7th birthday in a week.
I woke with a start at the dream I grabbed at my head because I've never had a dream like that one before. It was really strange because I felt so different through the eyes of that child, I felt so obedient and less like my usual sarcastic self, I could only wonder who the Mister was.
I looked out the window and saw the few slips of sunlight stream through the blinds, it was somewhere around seven in the morning and I guess that not a lot of people were awake right now. Because I could detect little to no movement around the house, which was also one of my powers, I owned the darkness so I could detect any movement around or in it. The only person who was moving right now would be professor Xavier, I could believe it since he seemed like the kinda guy who'd be up before anyone else.
'You'd be correct in your assumption, could you come see me in my office?'
I laughed lightly, 'You got to warn me when you start listening in on my thoughts professor, never know when I could be thinking naughty things.' I really had no boundaries when I talk to people, I know there are somethings I probably shouldn't say but I just love the reactions on people's faces.
'Nothing you think of could possibly surprise me more than the things people scream when they're dreaming.'
I shook my head at the old man, 'Gasp, you're not invading people's privacy, are you professor?' I thought sarcastically as I began to put on the clothes I've worn for the past few months.
'Not at all, I just find it more difficult to keep up my mental barrier because people shout when they dream.'
I rolled my eyes, 'Right,' I looked at a snoring Bobby then at the other guy, Evan, who I hadn't met yet. I suddenly realized that these two would be my roommates upon my stay here, there would actually be someone sleeping in the same room as me but not sleeping with me.
Huh, go figure
I zipped up my hoodie and I honestly contemplated leaving my sword in the room, I never leave my sword anywhere which makes it kind of weird walking in to fast food restaurants. My body was telling me not to but my instinct was quiet so I opened the door and walked out. The halls were so big in the school, I've ever actually been somewhere so extravagant, the richest looking place I've been in was probably a motel 6.
The office door came into sight and I knocked on the door, professor Xavier verbally telling me it was ok to come inside. The old man was wearing pajamas himself, blue with white stripes button up shirt and pants.
"You wanted to see me?" I shrugged
He sat in his chair behind his desk and looked more relaxed then I thought he should be, "I asked you down because I would like us to start your memory recovery."
My head tilted curiously, "Right now? You trying to get rid of me or something, professor?" I asked half sarcastic, half serious, maybe he didn't want a whore in his school after all.
The professor smiled at me, "Not at all, I have another individual here whose memory is missing a few key parts, I am working on him today as well but since his memory is particularly dense it is tiring and I wouldn't want you to feel as if I'm not trying my hardest." He gestured for me to sit down in the seat across from his table and I did
"I guess so," He rolled in front of me and I turned to face him, "So how's this going to work, you're going to hold my hand and we're going to start humming?"
"First I need permission to enter your mind, which you already gave, what I'm going to do next is going to feel intrusive but I implore you to try your hardest not to resist me." The professor gave me a serious look
I gave him a shrug in return, "I'll try Prof but I can guarantee anything, no other mutant has ever tried to crack my head." I gave him an honest answer, I've had little to no interaction with other mutants I don't know why but I felt they were trying to stay away from me.
He held my head with both of his hands, "I'll try to make the intrusion as delicate as possible," He closed his eyes and I got the impression I was supposed to close mine as well.
I could feel him, it didn't hurt like he promised but the feeling wasn't completely invisible. It was soothing almost, like a gentle caress on my brain. I could then see everything the professor could see and I was surprised to see that the layout of my brain was a cave of all things.
"The inner mind reflects places of comfort to us, it can change from time to time depending on our feelings on the old or new environment."
I was looking at the inner realm of my head through the Professor's eyes so I could feel the movements he made through it, "And my inner mind is a cave, man I wonder what happened in my past to make me favor this place." All around I could see holes in the cave, big enough for a person to walk through but it was pitch black so I could see nothing.
"These indents would usually being the memory's but since your memory's are locked away you won't be able to view them."
"You say locked away, can they not be lost?"
"One can never truly lose his memories, they're always there if you can't see them. Normal memory loss is simple to unlock if you know what you're doing." We soon reached a indent that was a lot larger than the others, "I believe this is the place where all your memories are stored, all we have to do is simply experience them."
He took a step forward into the indent but we couldn't pass through due to the burning experience of a barrier. The professor cried out in pain, as did I because I could feel it too.
"What the hell was that?" I half asked half shouted
The professor merely grimaced, "Your memories weren't locked away on an accident this was deliberately done by someone, someone very powerful I might add." He touched the barrier again before bringing his hand back in pain
The purple fire barrier suddenly lit up and we learned that it wasn't just one barrier keeping my memories at bay, there were barriers all the way down the indent which seemed endless.
"I'm rather surprised, I've never seen work done like this before, whoever did this did not wish for you to have your memories back."
Only another tidbit to add in the eternal crap that is my life, "Is there anyway to break through it?" I asked trying not to sound too hopeful but I'm pretty sure the Professor's picked up on it anyway.
"It will take a very long time, even with my help," I could feel his arm changing, it sharpened into an actual blade, a psi-blade I guess, "I am going to require your assistance in this endeavor." He then launched at the barrier and stabbed it with his blade, I could feel the pain that came with the blow but the Professor held strong though his blade was making no progress, "Help me, Clark!"
I could feel it, my memories were so close that I could almost remember the happiness from them. I just had to break this barrier and the barriers after and I would be whole I know it!
I handed the Professor some of my power, the blade turning black and waves of darkness flying from it. We pushed together as one, the barrier started to crack and with a shout worthy of battle we pushed straight through.
It was dark and wet, though I had no reason to complain since this was basically everyday of my life. He had gone out for food again since I refused to eat rats for dinner for the third time this week, he was lazy though so he might be out to get a rabbit instead.
I felt a breeze come from the cave opening and looked outside towards the sky and sighed watching a bird fly past. What it must feel like, being able to go anywhere you wished, fly as high towards the light in the sky as possible.
He never even let me out of the cave.
From the sounds of footsteps I could tell that he was home.
My eyes shot open with a start, the first thing I noticed that Jean and some burly manish guy (pretty freaking attractive) was in the room along with the professor.
"How long was I out?" Somehow my voice was raspy, the first thing I noticed was that not only was the Professor still in the room, but Jean and some huge sexy as fuck looking guy had entered the room as well.
"We've been in your mind for quite some time, Clark, it's almost 11 in the afternoon." The professor told me
I looked at him surprised, "And what are they doing here?" I gestured to the two of them
"We got scared when the Professor didn't greet the students over the announcements, Logan here would have pulled you two apart and severed your mind link if I hadn't stopped him." Jean answered, I had to thank her but I also wanted to throttle her, why would I not want this adonis to touch me.
'Oh my god,' I glared straight at her then gave the loudest mind scream that I could to keep her out of my head.
"Logan is also the man who brought you here," The professor filled in for me
He looked straight at me and it was like I could smell the musk from him, he gave a smirk, "You crashed in front of my bike and you were bleeding pretty badly, I thought about leaving you but I would have felt a little bad afterward."
Oh his voice, shivers down my back.
I very rarely get attracted to someone, I can notice someone is attractive but I have no desire for them but this man, this man is a walking aphrodisiac, the things that I wanted him to do to me.
'What's a cleveland-'
'Finish that sentence and I will stab you with my sword,'
"We've missed a good portion of the day but I would still like for you to go to class, here's your schedule," The professor handed me a slip of paper that had my school schedule on it, huh me going to an actual school, well a mutant school.
The first class I had was History, then languages (I got assigned German for some reason), Genetics with my frienemy Jean, english, physics, self defense, then mathematics. I whistled at my schedule, "Do normal more kids have this many classes?"
The Professor smiled at my joke but didn't answer, "Since you missed the first three periods due to our excursion, I will excuse you and Logan will guide you to your english class." I shook hands with the professor, thanked him for more things than one, then left the room with a passing look from Jean.
He looked at me and I looked at him, "So Logan," I elongated the 'So', "You seem a little old to be a student here, what do you teach?" I asked as we started to walk, I could smell his scent from here, there was a hint of sweat mixed in with musk and I really just wanted to lick all over his body, "Is it self-defense?" Yeah I'm really not letting on to my attraction here.
He smirked at me again, "I teach self defense on some days but Psylocke teaches it on others."
Guess I'll be looking forward to those few days I get him, wow gym teacher and student fantasy. I hadn't had one of those in about a year, gym teacher with a crazy fetish for his students but that's a story for another time. "If ya don't mind me askin," Oh god, the southern drawl, "How did ya end up bloody in front of my bike?"
I shrugged, "One of my potential John's turned out to not be a John and long story short he shot me."
He gave me a sideways look, "John? As in customer John? So that would mean that you're a prostitute," I didn't see any judgement in his gaze, nor pity, it was just pure curiosity.
I shrugged again not really caring how he looked at me anyway, I liked him but not that much, "Well was a prostitute, I lost my memories almost a decade ago, didn't have any skills at age 10 so I decided to learn the tricks of the easy trade." I told him, it was something I was accustomed to telling though I left out the prostitute part sometimes, don't know how the professor would feel about having one in the skill.
"I'm not going to judge you if that's what you're thinking,"
I shook my head, "It's not, I couldn't care less if you judged me, I did what I did because I had to and I'm not ashamed," I shrugged once more, I tend to shrug a lot. He stopped in front of a classroom.
"Well here's our stop, kid, teacher's name is Mr. Gibney, he's not so bad just don't get on his bad side." Logan knocked on the door, "Be seein ya around, kid," He held out his hand for me to shake.
I grasped the huge appendage (not the one that I wanted to grasp) and shook it, involuntarily I gave the sauciest look I could and I could tell it threw him off, "Be seein you too, hopefully," I usually only save that for John or Janes but this man brings out the whore in me I swear. I walked inside the classroom and saw a bunch of students staring at me, the supposed teacher was crouching on top of the desk with a copy of Grendel in his hands.
"Ohayo," I greeted everyone with two fingers, I wonder if I should make an effort to get friends or should I go the lone route. I saw Bobby waving at me to come sit with him in the back.
The teacher, Mr. Gibney, smiled at me, "Good morning, you must be our newest students, Mister-?"
"Well up until yesterday I went by 'Kid with the sword,' but now I just go by 'Clark Odell,"
He didn't laugh but I could tell he was amused, "Clark, wonderful name, why don't you go sit next to the awkward boy waving at you in the back." He handed me a copy of the book and that's when I realized that I didn't have a backpack
I sat next to Bobby and he scooted his desk a little closer to mine, he actually looked cuter when he wasn't ? asleep.
"You ran out so quick this morning that I wasn't even able to greet you properly," Bobby said to me.
"Well I had to leave because I couldn't bear your sleep farts anymore," He laughed at my little joke but I was completely serious this guy let it loose during the night, I have no idea how Evan can bear through it.
This guy who was sitting in front of Bobby turned around, "I know exactly what you mean, icehead's surprisingly very gassy." He had a south american accent and he was also very attractive with dark skin, large shoulders, and curly hair. Jesus was everyone at this school attractive?
"Clark this is my idiot friend, Roberto, but we just call him sunspot," He punched Roberto in the arm playfully, I guess by 'we' he meant his group of friends, "If there's anyone that's got a lot of hot air it's this guy."
I instantly became curious, "What's your power?" I asked, in my stump I forgot to ask what Logan's power was.
"Let's just say it's sun related," Sunspot gave me a wink.
I forgot Bobby's power as well, "I'm sorry I didn't even ask your power Bobby?" The guy's my roommate so I should probably know these things.
Bobby shrugged, "I can control Ice and turn my body into it among other things," He knew he jus wasn't letting on for some reason, maybe he didn't trust me, "Jean didn't tell us your powers,"
I shrugged while still paying attention to the lesson, "Darkness manipulation, I can control everything in the darkness as well as the darkness itself, I can even create it, if I wanted I could cause a solar eclipse right now."
Why did I say that?
They looked at each with wide eyes before looking back at me, "Do it!" Both of them hissed at me.
I rolledy eyes and gave a sigh, I tapped my finger against desk and in an instant the room started to darken until it was at a low level hue. Mr. Gibney stopped his lesson and when he did that everyone got out their chairs to look out the windows.
"I didn't know there was supposed to be an eclipse today," Mr. Gibney said confused as everyone wished to suddenly be outside experiencing that like the astronomy class was doing.
"Cool!" Both Roberto and Bobby said at the same time, "How long can you keep this going?" Bobby asked
I looked out the window and saw the eclipse, I forgot how beautiful they were in appearance, I suddenly felt very romantic in the presence of darkness, well I would if I was into that sort of thing, "A While but if I keep it up too long the temperature will drop and people will start to notice." I let made the eclipse recede slowly to give it that natural feel, last thing I need is to set my species a step back.
"Okay everyone, return to your seats, nothing to see here,"
Roberto put an arm around my shoulder, "I have a feeling we're gonna be great friends," When he wouldn't get off I creased my brow
"He loses energy when the sun's not out, give em a minute," Bobby explained
Class was over soon after that and I guess it was lunchtime now, this really beautiful lady was handing out the best looking lunches. At the moment my stomach rumbled and I realized I hadn't in close to two days. I was all all ready to eat by myself at a table by the wall because there seemed to be no one in the lunchroom but my ever friendly roommate pulled me outside in the light to eat with all the other children.