DAYS OF FUTURE PAST, Issue #1

[Synchronicity]

Gabriel 'Gabe' Adams, HP 2/2

Finally, what had just happened began to sink in and, slowly, it began to build again. Eleyna started to brood over her guilt at bringing Gabe into the spotlight. Her abdomen was becoming painful and her headache worsened. She removed her hand from Gabe's and clutched her stomach to ease some of the pain. Tears began to well up in her eyes and she hoped that they were close, biting her lip to keep herself from crying. Don't cry, Eleyna. Don't start crying. Solve the problem, you can figure everything out if you just focus on the problem. "Gabe... oh, god, Gabe, I'm so sorry! This... this is all my f-fault! I tried to g-get you away from the school... the gen-scan, and now th-they've seen you use your... y-your powers! Gabe, I'm sorry... I won't let them find you! I promise!"

"Eleyna! Eleyna, it..it isn't your fault! I...I know you won't...won't let them find me, but...Eleyna...Eleyna, stop the car a moment. There...there's something else. Something..something I *have* to....please. Stop the car just here."

Gabe looked incredibly worried, Eleyna's words seeming to add to whatever was troubling him. Tears formed in his eyes as he looked at her.
'I...I *have* to tell her what really happened back there! I can't keep it to myself! She deserves...no, she doesn't, she deserves a happy, good life. But she needs...she needs to know the truth...'

As the car stopped, Gabe reached out for Eleyna, gripping her by the shoulders and turning her to face him. He looked very serious, and there was fear..for her?..in his eyes.

"E..Eleyna...what happened back there...it..."

Gabe broke off for a moment, struggling with his emotions.

"You see there isn't a single piece of glass inside the car? It came from in this car...but...but...Eleyna, it wasn't me. I'd *know*. And...and if it wasn't me..."

Gabe broke off again, looking at Eleyna pleadingly.

"Oh, God...Eleyna...I'm so sorry I have to...hurt you like this...but...but Eleyna...I think that was you. Listen to me! I..before it happened, did you..did you feel anything? A...a release, inside? Like something in your head suddenly clicked? Like something inside you was suddenly..freed? Please...try to think back..."

Frustration appeared on Gabe's face as he tried to explain the nebulous feeling he himself had only experienced once himself. But the frustration didn't linger. The look on Gabe's face was heartbreaking, worry, guilt and pain mingled on his face. Tears were rolling down his face now as he spoke, his words and their effect on Eleyna obviously hurting him.

"Eleyna...I...I wish I could be wrong...but inside, I...I know I'm not. That wasn't me. Which means...Eleyna, I think you're like me. I think you...you have abilities too."

Gabe clung to Eleyna, praying that his words weren't going to shatter the bond they'd built up only that day. This is so hard...why does it have to be so hard?'

(OOC: kid A, hope you don't mind me assuming Eleyna would stop the car when asked. Otherwise I wouldn't have been able to make much of a post..if it's not alright, tell me and I'll edit..)

 

[Velmont]

Now the teacher laugh at me... The coach have better a good reason to ask me that. Would Cathy's parents say the truth, that med-scan is to find mutant? Would my performance in my last training be some kind of mutation? I hope I am wrong. Good thing I just stick to the match planning and didn't try to do all myself with my new talents, they could have suspect something. But we wouldn't have lost, at least, not that badly. What am I saying? I am no mutant, I am just a great athlete.

Andrew sits down and start to looks at the field. He try to get all those thought away from his mind and concentrate on the last game, try, where in the team play, he can find some weakness.

 

[KaintheSeeker]

The Allen Home
After Lorenzo's question, Kyle started looking at the data closer. There was no doubt it had been changed but no way to know who did it. Jennifer was a bit tense that Kyle was going to end up pointing an electronic finger at her. She did not want that. But he really seemed to have done his homework on the whole mutant thing, even if his information was slightly biased.

While Kyle tried to retrieve the original records, something he had his doubts about but he had to know, Jennifer heard the familiar sound of the garage door opener lifting the door open.

Kyle (assuming he didn't hear) keeps typing, frowning as he goes from the school records to the system logs to see who else has had access to these files of late, making note of his need to delete the evidence of his own meddling. "So, that was a big zero..."

 

[kid A]

Eleyna Robertson

"Eleyna! Eleyna, it..it isn't your fault! I...I know you won't...won't let them find me, but...Eleyna...Eleyna, stop the car a moment. There...there's something else. Something..something I *have* to....please. Stop the car just here."

At first, she thought they had arrived at a decent place to stow the car. She pulled off the road, and waited a moment for Gabe to direct her where to park. When he didn't, when he reached for her instead, she pushed the transmission into park and looked at him. "What is it? Why are you looking at me like that?"

"Oh, God...Eleyna...I'm so sorry I have to...hurt you like this...but...but Eleyna...I think that was you. Listen to me! I..before it happened, did you..did you feel anything? A...a release, inside? Like something in your head suddenly clicked? Like something inside you was suddenly..freed? Please...try to think back..."

"Gabe, I... what are you talking about?" Memories of about 15 minutes ago came flooding back to her, clearer than they had been in the moments immediately following the incident. Eleyna remembered... what? She remembered hurting. My head and my abdomen. It had been gone when they were observing the accident. They were trying to decide what to do when... the officer! He knocked on the window - scared the hell out of us. Slowly, things came back into focus... She and Gabe had both screamed... glass shattered, the officer flew backwards (like he was hit by an oncoming car!)... Her mind searched itself until... there it was. She remembered. Her pain had disappeared. I felt better. Healthier than I have since before the hospital. I felt... relief? "Release."

But what did it mean?

"Eleyna...I...I wish I could be wrong...but inside, I...I know I'm not. That wasn't me. Which means...Eleyna, I think you're like me. I think you...you have abilities too."

Words. They were just words. They may as well have been bubbles, stones, butterflies. Gabe was talking and Eleyna couldn't understand... what was he saying. "Gabe, I..." It was like trying to put together pieces from different puzzles. Nothing seemed to fit. "What? No... I... No... I can't be..."

And then, all of a sudden, it hit her. Someone had... it was Gabe... like he had punched her in the stomach. It hurt. Her head, her stomach. Her pain (the nosbleeds, the headaches, the abdominal pain, the hemorrhaging) all of it... it all made sense. She had read a great deal of books about mutants - how their powers manifested, how to spot a manifestation, how to report a mutant - and it all finally added up. The tires on the truck. 18 freaking tires - all blown out! The windows - they had exploded outward. Away from she and Gabe. Not a single shard of glass touched us. She was a mutant. Her powers, whatever the hell they were, they were manifesting. Her world was falling apart. She was a mutant - she was going to be hunted down, and if she was lucky she'd be killed. She and Gabe... Gabe... mutants... both of them... it all made sense. Oh god.

Eleyna went as pale as a ghost. A single word left her lips before she stopped responding to the world around her. "No."

(OOC: synch, no worries! i just worked it in. nice post by the way!! good luck with this one!!!)

 

[Synchronicity]

Gabriel 'Gabe' Adams, HP 2/2

Words. They were just words. They may as well have been bubbles, stones, butterflies. Gabe was talking and Eleyna couldn't understand... what was he saying. "Gabe, I..." It was like trying to put together pieces from different puzzles. Nothing seemed to fit. "What? No... I... No... I can't be..."

And then, all of a sudden, it hit her. Someone had... it was Gabe... he had punched her in the stomach. It hurt. Her head, her stomach. Her pain (the nosbleeds, the headaches, the abdominal pain, the hemorrhaging) all of it... it all made sense. She had read a great deal of books about mutants - how their powers manifested, how to spot a manifestation, how to report a mutant - and it all finally added up. The tires on the truck. 18 freaking tires - all blown out! The windows - they had blown outward. Not a single shard of glass touched us. She was a mutant. Her powers, whatever the hell they were, they were manifesting. Her world was falling apart. She was a mutant - she was going to be hunted down, and if she was lucky she'd be killed. She and Gabe... Gabe... mutants... both of them... it all made sense. Oh god.

Eleyna went as pale as a ghost. A single word left her lips before she stopped responding to the world around her. "No."

'God...Eleyna! I shouldn't have done this. I shouldn't have...'

Gabe gripped Eleyna tighter, locking gazes with her.

"Come on, Eleyna! Please...don't...Eleyna! Look at me!"

Gabe's hands moved from Eleyna's shoulders to her face, as he leant in so close that their faces were almost touching. He spoke quietly, exhaustion, guilt and desperation underlying his words.

"Eleyna. Please. Focus. Stay with me, Eleyna. Eleyna...we...it...I'm still here, Eleyna. I know how hard it is. You..you know I do. But..but you're not alone, Eleyna. You...you're not...this..don't let it control you, Eleyna. The fear. The shock. I know what it feels like. You can't let them control you, not now. They...you're still you. You're still Eleyna. You..."

Gabe bent his head, touching his forehead to Eleyna's, and continued talking.

"I'm still here. This isn't the end. Fight, Eleyna! Don't give in! You..you deserve...you deserve a life, a good life. Don't let this...I'm here. I'll..do whatever I need to...they aren't going to take you. We...we can run...w...we can hide...we can escape. We can..."

Gabe barely knew what he was saying, his thoughts spilling out into disjointed sentences. All he knew was that he had to help Eleyna, be there for Eleyna, protect Eleyna. She'd been there for him; now it was his turn.
'But...what can I do?! What can I say?! How..what...' Gabe's body shook with the intensity of his emotions. Brokenly, he spoke his innermost thoughts.

"E..Eleyna...I don't have...I don't have the right to ask..ask you to...but please...trust me. Trust that...we can survive this..and that I will protect you, no matter what happens...please...trust me.."

 

[kid A]

Eleyna Robertson

"E..Eleyna...I don't have...I don't have the right to ask..ask you to...but please...trust me. Trust that...we can survive this..and that I will protect you, no matter what happens...please...trust me.."

The shock consumed her. Slumped in her seat, facing the windshield, she didn't respond to him. She couldn't hear Gabe. She wanted to see him. Hear him. Feel his embrace again. Eleyna wanted Gabe to hold her, to tell her that it was a story, a dream, a lie. Anything but this. She just wanted him to tell her that everything was going to be okay.

But Eleyna just stared straight ahead.

 

[Synchronicity]

Gabriel 'Gabe' Adams, HP 2/2

The shock consumed her. Slumped in her seat, facing the windshield, she didn't respond to him. She couldn't hear Gabe. She wanted to see him. Hear him. Feel his embrace again. Eleyna wanted Gabe to hold her, to tell her that it was a story, a dream, a lie. Anything but this. She just wanted him to tell her that everything was going to be okay.

But Eleyna just stared straight ahead.

Gabe moved back for a moment, his eyes wide. 'It's like she doesn't even see me. She's in shock? I...what do I do?'

Gabe reached over and pulled Eleyna into a fierce embrace, crying as he did.

"Eleyna..don't...please don't...leave me to do this by myself...I can't do this without you! I need you!"

'What do I DO?! This is all my fault!'

Gabe sat there, holding Eleyna, crying, entirely at the end of his endurance. His trembling right hand gently stroked her cheek as he whispered brokenly into her hair.

"Eleyna...please..I need you...don't...God...Eleyna...I'm so sorry...this is...this is..all my fault! Please..speak to me...please...smile again..I just want to see your smile..I'm..I'm so sorry...that…that…"

‘That you have to go through this. That there’s nothing I can do. That this is all my fault…’

The guilt and pain weighed down on Gabe so much that he could barely breathe, helplessly clinging to the silent form of Eleyna.

 

[Unicron818]

Sammy Donaldson

Sammy standing there in all his glory, takes a moment out and thinks to himself... if i was twenty-one I would so be THE MAN!! (not that I'm not aready)

Sammy quickly takes a couple of large double steps to catch up with the women and Corey..

Yeah Corey, these lovely ladies wanted to say hello and wish you well and condolences with the death of your parents and that LARGE trust inheretence and all....wasn't that nice of these two single beautiful MODEL TYPE women?...Almost like your former MODEL TYPE MOTHER...HUH, Sammy says. Hoping Corey will relax the rest of the way since he seems so cool and natural with his greeting, (you almost wouldn't be able to tell he was really shy at all) and pick up on the story lines as Sammy widens his eyes and locks eyes with Corey as if to say...Yeah...this is the story buddy!!!

 

[Kangaxx]

Corey Vinyard

As the women approach, the chaos insdie or Corey's head condenses into a single thought. What do I say? For a second, he stands there silent and unmoving... then, as if he's hearing someone else's voic in his head; It's just like when dad introduces me to a new waitressat the restaurant. Just say hi. "Hi. I'm Corey." That was easy. Nothing to it. In the back of his mind, Sammy's normal thoughts, the ones that keep him away from Dennis and older women, are trying to tell him about something important, but it barely registers to him.

Sammy quickly takes a couple of large double steps to catch up with the women and Corey..

Yeah Corey, these lovely ladies wanted to say hello and wish you well and condolences with the death of your parents and that LARGE trust inheretence and all....wasn't that nice of these two single beautiful MODEL TYPE women?...Almost like your former MODEL TYPE MOTHER...HUH, Sammy says. Hoping Corey will relax the rest of the way since he seems so cool and natural with his greeting, (you almost wouldn't be able to tell he was really shy at all) and pick up on the story lines as Sammy widens his eyes and locks eyes with Corey as if to say...Yeah...this is the story buddy!!!

Corey smiles a little at Sammy's exuberance, and tries to copy it. "T-they do look like models."

 

[Radiant]

Jennifer Allen

Jeb lounges on the couch, reasonably sure that Kyle won't risk agitating her again even if he finds something about her attendance. She doesn't mind of he thinks she is a mutant as long as he doesn't say it.
Then she hears the sound she stands up startled.

"Guys, we've got a problem. Shut down that thing right about now!"

She looks at the table and the rests of breakfast, realizing there is no chance she can get it all in order and out before her mom or dad bust in.
But then panick is not like her. With fast but efficient moves she rearanges the rests on the table to make them look like she just took a huge breakfast herself. Explaining that she left later wouldn't be too bad. She would just have to explain why she skipped the first class and something would come up soon enough. Together with an apology for letting the stuff in the living room everything should be fine.
Of course that whole plan depended on them being gone and that fast.

"Get moving we an get out right through the front door if they enter from the carage."

Lacking any idea what to do with the additional two classes and no way to get into the kitchen and back in time she simply takes them with her and stuffs them into the side pocket of her coat then she pulls it over.