Reliving The Time
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Bry
Chapter 7
Jumping Off the Edge
"Jump" The German accented voice called up to Tina.
Tina shook as she stood on the solid branch. She urged herself not to look down at Nighty but her curiosity forced her to. She gulped in a breath of air. Climbing up to the top of one of the mansion's huge oak trees had been easy, but now Nightcrawler was suggesting that she leapt of her one source of "solid" ground, just so she could practice transporting in the air. She just wished he meant trampoline instead of a tree. She nervously fiddled with her skintight aerobatic suit. Not only was Nightcrawler teaching her how to transport, but also he decided her limber nature should not be ignored, and she should learn some of his old trapeze tricks.
"I don't think I can" she said as her stomach began jumping around inside her body.
Nightcrawler shook his head. "You are ready, Tina. Has the last 3 weeks been in vain? I have faith in your ability." He walked closer to the base of the tree. "I want you to jump and do a summersault, and mid summersault I want you to hold your breath and let go. And since this is only your first time, you should land over in that clearing." He pointed south to the fields Cissy and she had landed the first day.
The feeling of missing her friend along with the nervousness that she was going to smash herself into the ground caused her to shake her head no.
Nightcrawler shook his head in fake disgust. "Do you have such little faith in me, Tina?"
Tina tightened her grip on the tree bark as she became shocked. "Of course I have faith in you, Nighty. Why would you say that?"
His yellow eyes filled with pain looked up at her. "You don't believe that I have the ability to catch you if something happened. And not trusting me hurts."
"But I didn't mean that! I trust you, I just don't trust myself."
"Have faith, little one. I would not put you in a circumstance that would hurt yourself if I did not believe in you. You can do it. Just tell your head that."
Tina nodded as she pushed all her emotions down. She took a careful step away from the trunk and lifter her hands in the air like Nightcrawler taught her. Forming a perfect V, she tightened her grip on the branch with bare feet before she bended her knees and launched out apposed to just diving down. As if in slow motion her legs went over her head, and all she saw was the grass below. It took all the training she learned from Nightcrawler not to panic, and to instead in less than a second hold her breath and let go of her molecules.
For a split second Tina disappeared into a type of limbo. It was full of black sulfur smoke and as cold as an ancient tomb. Just being in this place for such a short time made Tina feel like her body was turned inside out, but she had the natural instinct to know when she should emerge from that limbo into the correct spot.
She felt the rush of her molecules form together to make her again. The sun shined at her upturned face, her hands back up in a V, content that she made it. She heard a clapping behind her, but before she turned around she made a check to make sure her skin was still white. With relief she turned around and smiled at her big brother. He clapped his hands merrily and rushed up to her and gave her a huge hug. For once she felt happy, for once she felt free, and for once she felt at home.
Ororo Munroe looked out the window inside her classroom. At this vantage point she had the perfect spot to whiteness what happened out in the trees. She knew Kurt Wagner was a happy soul, but over the last month after he requested Tina Walkers as his new apprentice, he glowed all the time. Whenever she went to speak with him, all he could talk about were his sessions with her, his ambitions for her, and what techniques he designed just for her.
Storm was happy that Kurt found something to feel useful at the school, but an apart of her felt jealous. The way he talked to Tina, spoke of her, and reacted toward her made Storm think maybe he was falling in love with her. She knew it wasn't romantically, but Storm knew it was true. And she just wanted to make sure he didn't get hurt. The professor was keeping the two girls' past lives under lock and key. No one knew where they came from or what they did. And that worried Storm. Worried her too much for comfort.
Tina walked towards her room filled with accomplishment. She did what she never thought she could do. And she had her brother back to teach her. Now that Tina had experienced this life, she just wanted to forget the horrible future. But something inside her nagged her. It kept on telling her if she didn't act soon, everything would be lost. But she ignored it because she knew both the professor and Cissy were working on it. The real reason Ice sent her back into the past was to give her a better future. Little did she know she played a bigger part than that. Without her help the future would stay the same.
AN/ So what do you think? Next chapter confrontations. How will Tina react to Cissy telling John? What roll does Tina play in the events? And how will Rogue react when she finds out the truth about the new students? Keep on reading and please review!
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Bry
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