A discussion to have

Connor didn't knew he was gonna do this, this seems kind of weird even, just, standing here in his room with Cerdic sitting on his bed, looking, not scared of him but just angry?

He didn't know he couldn't really read emotions on faces, but he could let his mutation answer that for hi-

No.

His mutation caused him enough trouble today, even though it saved his life.

"Are you going to tell me what the fuck was that?" Cedric sounded beyond pissed

"I'm" Connor found his words stuck in his mouth.

"I mean it was bloody awesome but the fuck was that"

Could Connor really tell him, it would mean a lot of things first off, Cedric could tell others, or worse, someone could read his mind and find out, but he thought there was a solution to the second one but to the first.

Cedric was his first friend, and has been with him everyday even when he was moody, so if he couldn't trust him, he couldn't trust anyone.

"Cedric, I'm a mutant"

Connor closed his eyes, he knew he should be proud of being someone with powers but right now, it looked like a curse.

"That's" Connor could already hear the insults coming his way.

"That's bloody awesome" Connor opened his eyes to look at Cedric who was now looking excited. "Does that mean you have more powers than blowing things up? I mean it was cool but also kind of gross."

"Yeah actually I need to do something with my powers too" Now comes the hard part. 

"What happened?"

"I need to lock the memory of what happened and until now so no one but you knows I'm a mutant" 

"That's" Cedric paused "Understandable I think, I have some occlumency but i now it's far from perfect, so do it"

"Ok just close your eyes and relax"

Gathering his mutation he began slowly ejecting his power into Cedric's mind, and found it a little bit harder than usual, guess that means occlumency affects his powers too.

It took him just under three minutes to completely seal the memory, or what he thought was sealing.

What he did was put a whole lot of his mutation around those memories and did the same trick he did with the hat, maybe that way he wouldn't get outed for being a mutant.

Very slowly Connor took his hand out and sat down on the bed next to Cedric, both staring at the wall, in complete silence.

"Thank you" Said Cedric "You kind of saved my life" 

Connor wanted to appreciate the thanks but he wanted to know something first.

"Why?"

"Why? What? I don't understand." Cedric asked

"Why did you come for me?"

Cedric let his silence speak first before he did. "I notice you weren't on the hall, and when I heard that there was a troll" A few tears went down Cedric's face "I don't know I just assumed the worst, and, my legs just kind of move on their own"

Connor smiled a little on the inside but his curiosity was yet to be settled.

"Why did you not fight it? you just ran." Connor said, trying to sound warm, as to make the question not be so cold or degrading.

Cedric looked up to the ceiling "I was scared."

Connor made his way to speak but he was beaten to it

"I just, couldn't you know, I was too panicked, too scared, it was nothing like I have ever lived before and I just panicked"

"It's natural." Connor tried to comfort.

"No it's not" Cedric said "You weren't afraid, at all, you just turned around and throw something that made it's head explode"

They both stayed in silence for a second.

"You know, I was also scared." Connor started "Shitless" He paused again "Never saw a creature so big coming at us with such speed, I just reacted on instinct."

The silence returned to the room for a few minutes.

"We should start training" Connor said to Cedric in the most honest tone he could mutter.

"Sure"

The professors gathered around the troll that Connor had fought and looked at the corpse.

"Merlin, what happened to it?" Sprout said in shock.

"It must have been black magic" Snape spoke as he cast a diagnostic charm on the dead body "There seems to be trauma at the front and the skull explode from inside out, that is a dark curse if I ever saw one"

"Goodness" Mcgonagall said with utmost seriousness "First the troll that Hermione encounters and now this, should we close school?"

Albus was quick to speak "No that won't be necessary there must have been an error with the wards, I will get to it quickly, I will ask of each of you to look in the students for any sign of black magic residue, this is serious, someone casting that kind of curse in school even in this situation is unacceptable."

"Albus it was kill or be killed situation" Snape said as he knew that most practitioners of the dark arts end up in his house "I think we should be a little more lenient"

"Maybe you are right my friend, maybe you are right."