13 Anna aka Rogue
Xavier did a mind wipe in this reality. No one knows about mutants. Shield obviously knows about 'Enhanced' people, which in my opinion, is a way better name than Mutant. Anyhow, Shield does not know about Xavier or his school. I realize a spy organization on the level of Shield will know just about everything but go with it.
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X-Mansion…
Anna POV…
Last night when everyone got home, Xavier told Hank to look over the bracelet that I had gotten from Andy, and reluctantly I turned it over. I loved that I did not need to wear those sweaty ass gloves anymore, and I loved the bracelet I was given. To me, someone had taken their precious time and money and made something that changed my life for the better. Words could not even describe how I felt about it.
At first, I was awed by the fact that I could touch Andy. The lack of human contact over the years made my mind go down a horrible path. I felt unwanted and always left out. Even everyday things that others were able to do, I was left out of. Seeing Andy and feeling the skin-on-skin contact that he could provide lit my world. It did not do any harm either that he was handsome as well. I found myself lost in his strikingly bright blue eyes when we were still on the bus and could barely hold myself together to form a coherent sentence. Who says, 'you can touch me as the first thing to someone? I am surprised he did not just think I was some crazy person and allowed me to follow him to the pizza parlor.
Getting to know him was a bit interesting as well. He never gave a last name but was honest about everything. At least that is the feeling I got. He also just allowed me to hold and caress his hands. Normally, I would think that he is the crazy one for allowing this, but I was happy to have that human contact again, given the circumstances. I am not sure why I was able to touch him, but I was sure that he had some Mutant ability, and from what I had heard around the house, it had to have been activated as well.
Whatever the reason, I did not really care. His hands felt soft yet strong at the same time. I felt at peace being around him. Like a curtain of comfort was enveloping me from all sides. I could not really describe what was happening, but I let myself get lost in it as he talked. A few times, he had snapped his fingers in front of me to get my attention, and that just made me blush a bit. When we had left the pizzeria, I tried to think of a way to get him to stay with me, but instead, we just exchanged numbers, and that's when I told myself we had to meet again at any cost.
Explaining the situation to everyone after arriving home and getting mixed reactions from them all, I was a little pissed off. Here I had someone I could touch and did not mind it, and was also handsome and seemed a bit interested in me, but all they saw was another 'mutant' 'get him to come in 'I will let you go out, but you will be accompanied' all these things being said irritated me. I did not mind the accompaniment if I got to see him again, though.
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Arriving at the movies, I saw him leaning against the wall, and he perked up upon seeing Logan. 'Weird,' I had thought, but I just played it off as my mind playing tricks on me. When we got out, and I saw the interaction between him and Logan, I felt I had to intervene, but when he pulled out the bracelet and told us what it did and how he had made it, I almost just broke down right there.
I honestly did not care that it might not even work. Just the fact that someone had gone out of their way to do something for me was enough. No one has done anything for me in a while. Hank had tried creating something to help me like he did Kurt but was never successful. Yet here this boy was saying that he made something just for me and it could help with the most annoying thing in my life.
After Logan tried on the bracelet and felt that nothing was wrong, he turned to me with it. I held out my arm for him, still trying to hold back my tears, and when he went to put it on, he caressed my hand, and I felt butterflies in my stomach. He had said that everything was good, but I was extremely hesitant when Logan reached for me. I did not want to hurt him again as I did before, but I eventually allowed him to grab my hand. When nothing happened, I let the tears fall and immediately jumped into his embrace.
'Hugs felt nice like this.' I had thought, and I turned around and jumped at Andy as well. I did not even realize I kissed him until afterward when Jean asked about it. That was the best night of my life, and I do not think I will ever forget the boy who changed it.
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Currently, Xavier had all of us that met Andy sitting in the mansion's living room. He wanted to go over everything that happened last night. Hank had come in about ten minutes ago with my bracelet and gave it to Xavier.
"Can I get that back, please? It does belong to me, you know." I said, a little miffed that they took it in the first place.
"Ah yes, it seems there is nothing wrong with this. It does exactly as he had said, and even Hank here was praising the ingenuity." Xavier said, passing me back the bracelet, which I quickly put back on.
"You are telling me that some teenager created something that even Hank could not? He is barely 16. I doubt he could be smarter than you." Scott said. You could tell he was irritated cause he got turned down yet again by Anna.
"Oh, fuck off, Scott. Just because you got denied, yet again, does not give you the right to try and belittle someone better than you." I snapped back at him
"Better than me? I could end that prick quite easily if I wanted. He would not stand a chance if we were to fight. Just because he is smarter does not mean he is better. What is the point in being a man if he cannot even protect you?" Scott said, sounding even more furious
"Who says I need protection?" I shot him a look saying, try me.
"Enough, guys. Let us get down to business. Logan, did you find out anything particular about the boy?" Xavier asked Logan
"Nothing really at all. The dude is strong, and I am talking at least my level of strength strong. He was not even phased when I tried to pressure him with my handshake. In fact, he matched me pound for pound." Logan said, and that seemed to surprise the professor.
"Yeah, you were not the only one that tested him. How did you feel afterward, Scott? I saw you shaking your hand out. Someone talking about how he could 'end that prick' was not overpowered, was he?" I said and laughed when Scott growled at me, which cause him to be more irritated.
"Rogue, that is enough. Stop teasing little Cyclops." Logan said, which made Scott stand up and walk out of the room.
"I think the guy was pretty nice. Jean said something about him being there and not being there, which kind of made my head spin a bit, but the bloke was cool all night. Even with Scott hot on his heels." Kurt said
"Yeah, I could not get a read on him at all. As Kurt said, I can see him with my eyes, but not with my mind's eye. Scott said something about him being a cyborg. Some machine. That is what it felt like to me. Although, he is definitely human. The same thing happened with Anna when she put on the bracelet; it seemed to dull my senses towards her. Not to the degree, he has, but just a bit that I noticed it. I think he used his own ability and somehow gave it to Anna, just some diluted form of it." Jean said as she looked back between Xavier and the bracelet.
"Hank, did you notice what the bracelet was doing? How did it work? Anything of the sort?" Xavier asked Hank
"It uses the wearer's own bioelectricity. It is simply genius, honestly. He found a way to turn one's own 'inner force,' so to speak, into a defensive shield that covers the wearer's skin. I know how hard that should be. The man must be smart to come up with something like this. I would have never thought it possible had I not seen it with my own eyes." Hank answered
"So, we still know nothing about him. Great! Did the meeting adjourn, yeah? I am going to go have a beer." Logan said as he walked out of the room.
"Anna, do you think you could get close enough for him to open up to you?" Xavier asked nonchalantly
"I am not some spy you can send to do some missions. I actually like this guy, and I am hoping for him to open up to me at some point, but I will not fulfill some mission like this for you." I said heatedly as I got up and walked towards my room.
'The audacity of that asshole.' I thought
