Ariel: congratz for your dibs o/
Well, it´s a raindrop race indeed ^^ I do that a lot during road trips, it´s kinda funny ^^
I´m glad you liked this piece, I usually jump in the characters´ head and sometimes I think is a bit confusing.. Let me know your thoughts, ok ^^
I always thought that Faith would think of 'slutbomb' as a compliment. XD
Thanks for your comment ^^
Alex: Hey Alex o/ I´m glad you liked it! I was nursing this idea for a while and you gave me the push I needed to write it ^^
ha, I had to reread some of my comic books to write this piece. And I don´t like Emma Frost either (but Danielle? She´s awesome o/)
Yeah, I love Tara´s mom. We didn´t know her in the show, but I always liked her ^^
Don´t worry, I choose a few songs for Tara ^^
SMGOVAN: I´m glad you liked ^^ thanks for your comment.
zampsa19752001: I´m afraid you´ll have to wait a few chapters for Willow/Tara snuggles.. Keep reading ^^
wolfsbane: I hope to do a good job with this ^^ I´m a huge X-men fan too (I think Rahne is really cute ^^) o/ thanks for reading.
nightmask: hey, what´s up? Well, you´ll see Tara´s powers ^^ I hope you like it
Promthea128: Well, I love X-men, but I´m still thinking about spoilers. (Although, Messiah Complex was really awesome!)
Finey_McFine: ha I love AU too and I hope I´m doing this right ^^
KnightlyLove: Tara´s the new girl, it´s hard for her… but I assure you, this piece’s angsty level is really low ^^
Dead_Ducky: Hey Ducky ^^ I´ll have a mocha and my cookies now, please ^^ I´m glad you like it ^^ Mutants are AWESOME!!!
Laragh: I wanted this piece was accessible to all who like W / T, not only to comics fans (My girlfriend, for example XD). I'm glad you liked it ^^
TITLE: “A Crazy Little Thing Called Mutation"
AUTHOR: Nue
RATING: R
DISCLAIMER: I don´t own any of these characters… they belong to Joss Whedon, ME, FOX and Marvel.
SUMMARY: a new girl arrives at the Academy.
SETTINGS: X-men über
EMAIL:
nuetsukiyono@hotmail.com
FEEDBACK: I´d like to ^^
AUTHOR´S NOTE: Sorry for the delay in updating this story, but life happened and left me totally out of time. I'm writing in my tiny spare time and I hope to post the next chapter next Sunday ^ ^ thanks for reading ^^
Chapter 2
Danielle imagined that she would have some difficulty with her squad. Her girls had such strong and distinct personalities. It was very hard not to have conflicts between them.
Today, she thought it would be different. At least today, her girls could remember that they were civilized and they wouldn´t let their new member had a bad impression about them.
Danielle seemed to forget to combine this with the girls. Buffy and Faith were arguing fiercely about who would start the game, so scary. They never got along, especially after Buffy found that Faith had slept with Riley, now Buffy´s ex-boyfriend.
Danielle glanced about the girls. As always, Anya didn´t seem to care about the fight, Willow was trying to convince Buffy to leave Faith alone, and Tara was watching them, trying to understand what was going on.
That´s why her squad was so small. Students requesting transfer after few days. Danielle thought it would be better that way, she could focus better on her girls´ needs. But everything seemed test from the Headmistress to test her ability in dealing with teenager girls. Emma Frost could be very demanding when she wanted.
She was used to this interaction. She took a deep breath and she was about to open her mouth when she saw Anya approaching her teammates and touching their foreheads with her well-manicured fingertips.
"Enough, okay?" Danielle heard the girl say, watching the two girls scream and cringe in terror. Willow stepped back and stood next to Tara, who didn´t understand anything.
"Don´t worry, they'll stay like that for few minutes, depending how angry Anya feels..." The redhead said, reaching out to Tara "Hi, I'm Willow Rosenberg," she introduced herself, a broad smile on her face. Tara didn´t take her eyes off Buffy and Faith, they looked so scared, she could see tears on Buffy´s eyes
"Anya! I already told you, don´t do this, okay? " Danielle said to her, who shrugged. Anya wasn´t famous for her excellence in social interaction, but she hated discussions.
"What she did with Buffy and Faith??" Tara said as she held hands with Willow. Touching that hot hand, Tara felt a tingling on her spine, like every time her powers manifested. Stared at the smiling girl, she felt panic invading her like a wave, the warmth of Willow´s touch only increasing.
A rose arose between their palms, leaving Willow impressed. "Wow, are you a reality warper?" She said, feeling the flower´s sweet aroma.
Tara didn´t know what to say. It was the first time since she found out about her powers, she hadn´t destroyed anything or hurt anyone.
Without anybody staring at her and calling her a freak.
She turned and looked at Danielle, her tutor had a smile on her face,
Tara was home ...
***
After Buffy and Faith have recovered, Danielle decided to try a new approach. She sat with the girls in a circle in the middle of the basketball court. Each of them should say something about themselves.
It was very simple to understand about the squads, it wasn´t just training to improve skills. And Danielle wanted her students to understand that.
"So can we start? This is an easy exercise, just say your name and something about you, okay?" the woman looked around and said. "I'm Danielle Moonstar and I teach American History. Tara?"
Seated between Faith and Willow, Tara felt so tiny under her teammates´ gaze, she never liked being in the spotlight. Willow put her hand on her leg and smiled, getting a shy half-smile back.
The girl took a deep breath "I-I'm Tara .. Tara M-Maclay ... and .. I'm pretty confused about everything ... " she confessed, lowering her flushed face.
"It's okay, Tara ... It's normal to feel this way, but now you don´t have to worry, cause we take care of each other ... I mean, it´s kinda dangerous you being in the same room as Faith, cause I think she is a psychopathic insane, but we´re just next door and it´s a bit tight for three people, but we can do a sleepover and I think it'll be alright ...".
Willow stopped talking when she realized the group's attention turned to her.. "Sorry ... I have babbling tendencies ..." She said, getting a beautiful smile from Tara, who made her heart miss a beat.
Willow stared at the rose that Tara had created and she couldn´t understand why someone could do something so beautiful and be so scared ...
And for a second, she wanted to take Tara in her arms, caressing her hair and say that everything would be fine...
"Red? The next time you call me psychopathic insane, I'll break all your bones and make a necklace with your teeth, okay?" Faith threatened with an almost friendly smile on her lips.
***
“I´m Anya Christina Emmanuela Jenkins and I´M BORED!” Anya started, to general laughter. She hated when she had to attend these social interactions, everybody knew she had the same social skills of a turtle at sea. It wasn´t her fault, she just didn´t understand it .. Being a daughter of a couple of behaviorists psychiatrists, she didn´t inherit her parents´ ability to read and understand nonverbal language.
Anya was another huge challenge for Danielle.. Since that call by Emma, to teach at the Academy, she knew she would be on probation, because of her past in New Mutants...
She sighed. Danielle loved her girls. She thought she was doing a good job. And she liked to see the girls interacting well. It was a newly formed group, which was still adjusting to each other.
Tara seemed less shy and confused, and Danielle knew she would get used to the Academy. She was gonna be okay.
The Indian woman stood up, clearing her paints and sighed. "Girls, the Headmistress just make an appointment." She said, pressing her nose bridge and trying to not sound irritated. She hated when Emma invaded the privacy of her thoughts to summon her to her office. "We´ll meet at dinner, ok? And that goes for you too, Faith”
***
The girls remained seated, talking about everything like animated fools. Tara was quiet, just watching. She never had a group of friends in her former school, she was more reserved, shy and her 'new girl' status didn´t help.
The girls had a little confusing group dynamic. Sometimes Faith and Buffy were ready to head off each other, now their provocations were limited to indirect irony. Willow always talking too fast, her mouth trying to follow her thoughts and Anya dropping phrases out of context and stupidly straightforward.
"I'm sorry, ladies .. But I'm sure we made plans for the basketball court today. "A male voice was heard. The group turned and saw two boys and a giant stone creature with a basketball in his hands, so small compared to his enormous fingers. The boy who caught their attention, a tall, black haired guy with dark eyes, had a hint of superiority on his eyes. The three dressed in gym clothes and didn´t seem willing to share space.
Buffy and Faith stood up without taking their eyes from the boys. The court was a popular place at school, hard to be empty.
“Julian, Julian... your mother never taught you to share?" Buffy asked, trying to be diplomatic. She was the squad leader, in Danielle´s absence of Danielle, those girls were her responsibility. "There are three of you and five of us and this court is big enough for all of us..."
"I don´t think you understood me, Slayer..." Julian said with disdain. "Out, now."
"You know, Hellion ..." Faith crossed her arms, bored. "for someone with a tiny dick, you're too full of yourself. Trying to compensate something?"
The black skinned guy beside Julian hid a laugh, getting a dirty look from him and the giant stone assumed a threatening posture. "You want me to bring this to our tutor?"
"Mrs. Frost is their Squadron´s tutor, the Hellions" Willow said to Tara, who stared at that strange creature.. she had never seen anything like this before.
"I don´t remember talking to you, Rosenberg." Julian fire an angry look at the redhead and Buffy came out in her friend´s defense. "Could you at least be polite?" She didn´t want any confusion, mediate conflict was a characteristic of leadership and even her instincts screamed for her to beat Julian down, she knew she shouldn´t do that. "Why don´t we solve this with a match?"
The girls saw Faith snapping her fingers, excited. Anya let a disinterested sigh escape and Willow took Tara to the bleachers. As much as she wanted to help, she knew that physical activity wasn´t her best quality.
Faith took the ball from the giant and threw it a little harder to Julian.
"It's on, bitch."
***
If Tara was confused before, she'd have to invent a new word for what she was feeling now. Willow´s hot hand led her to the highest seat in the bleachers and that hand was the only thing she could focus now..
how long someone looked at her like she was a normal girl and not a freak? A terrible abomination? Willow seemed to understand what she was feeling… and she seemed ...
No.. willow seemed like a good girl, period. What the odds of a pretty and smart girl like Willow to be like Tara? especially at a certain point in her life, that Tara didn´t like to bring out.
The redhead sat and watched the game, pulling Tara to sit beside her. "Please, don´t think we're troublemakers or anything..." Willow began, looking at the court, watching Faith steal the ball with ease and scoring. "We are a small squad, we have our differences but we care for each other ..." she finished, before yelling at Anya to pay attention to Julian.
Anya, still with a bored expression, approached the boy and reached out, touching his forehead with her fingertips... Julian dropped the ball and yelled, cowering on the floor in a fetal position. Faith and Buffy high five each other and the boy's friends ran to help him.
Anya got the ball and threw it, scoring. "What did she do?" Tara asked curiously. What this girl could do that left everyone so terrified?
Willow screamed excitedly about what happened. "Normally I'm not in favor of using our powers when it isn´t necessary, even when they tell us to practice so that we may understand what we're capable of, but Julian is a douche, he deserves to people to do this to him. and you didn´t hear it from me, I am totally against violence and anything like that” .
She's adorable... Tara thought, smiling.
"I'm babbling, right? This usually happens a lot, you have to stop me when I start doing this... " Willow took a deep breath, also smiling. "Anya is a magician... I mean, I think she's an illusionist. she can get into your brain, find your worst fears and create a very real illusion. It´s really frightening! once she got angry with me and covered me with frogs of all species and sizes ... It was so terrifying…"
Tara closed her eyes, Willow´s voice was so pleasant to her ears, she spoke so fast and she seemed so excited. Tara stared at those big green eyes and found herself lost in them...
When was the last time she looked at a girl and felt goose bumps?
"And now you're staring at me and I'm getting embarrassed..." Willow said, looking down. Tara also blushed and lowered her head, murmuring an apology.
The stone giant collected Julian on his arms and they were gone, angry. Buffy knew that wasn´t the end of history. Faith put her arm around Tara and smiled. "Red is a good girl.. kinda annoying, actually. But she's nice..." she said, making Tara's face get even redder.
***
The girls were sitting at a table in the cafeteria, listening to Faith recount what happened at the basketball court. Every time Julian Keller was humiliated in some way, she was happy, that boy had an annoying attitude, like he was better than everyone else, just for being leader of the headmistress´ squad. Faith loved to put him in his place.
Tara watched the interaction between them.. Those girls were completely different, but they acted like a tsunami when they were confronted.. It was kinda scary...
She was silent, playing with her food. Tara was so tired and she wasn´t hungry. Willow noticed and put a hand on her leg. "Tara? Is everything okay? "
The blonde trembled, feeling her touch...
And again she felt that familiar tingling ... no no no, she couldn´t do anything now!
Tara spent almost an entire day without an incident, apart from the rose, of course, that was really interesting to..
Stop thinking and focus, Tara!
She put her hands on the table, feeling the wood soften under her hand. the blonde felt dizzy for a couple of seconds, her teammates looking at her.
Tara felt Willow touching her, her warm hand on her own. She couldn´t hear what the others girls said, everything was spinning.
The dining table has acquired a pasty consistency and melted, turning into a brown and disgusting puddle between the two banks.
Tara was breathing fast, her hands were shaking ... This couldn´t have happened again, would they get rid of her like her old school had done? Tara couldn´t leave, where would she go, if she was expelled from a school for mutants?
The blonde girl heard clapping and she could hear Faith´s voice over her thoughts.
“Ok, it´s just me or what just happened was unbelievably awesome?”
See you next chapter...
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