Well...it is the first time that I made a X-men fanfic so please tell me if I did something wrong or if I got the name wrong...It would really help if you would also tell me what you think about the story...Anyway please enjoy! ^_^

Part One: THE PAST

"Hurry up," a voice rung in the nearly deserted forest. A girl who was about 12 years old whipped around as she heard the voice. It seemed like there were people running away again. She looked around as her small feet padded softly on the leaf-covered floor of the forest. They're getting nearer, she thought. Quickly looking around, she tried to pinpoint the direction of where they were coming from. When she turned, she heard a voice inside her head.

"Can we get away from these jerks?"

The girl moved west, where she thought the sound was getting louder. She was wondering who would be running away, and during winter in the dead of the night. She smiled when she realized that the runaways were two young boys that were brothers. As she continued walking, she caught a glimpse of two boys running as fast as they could. The smaller one was wearing a red robe. He looked sick. The other one, the taller boy, was pulling the younger one.

"In that kind of situation, they will easily get caught by their hunters," she said to herself. "Well, it doesn't hurt to help them."

She got out of her hiding place and followed the siblings. The two boys stopped in a corner so that they could catch their breath.

"Do you think we lost them?" asked the younger one.

The bigger one shook his head. "I don't think so. I think we better continue running or else the dogs might catch our scent and be able to track us down."

"I think that the two of you can't run anymore," said the young girl, letting her form be seen by the two brothers.

The older one hovered over his smaller brother as soon as they saw her. "W-who are you?" he asked.

The girl smiled. "My name is not important right now. The most important thing is for the two of you not to get caught. Just follow me."

She turned around and jogged towards the same path she used everyday. She didn't look back to check if the two boys followed her. It was up to them to decide if they want to trust her, and besides, she could always read their thoughts.

The two boys looked at each other. "Should we follow her," asked the younger one.

The older one looked at him and then to the girl. "Well, I think we could trust her and besides, we don't have a choice, do we?"

The younger one put on a determined look and nodded his head. Within some seconds, they caught up with the girl.

"Glad you caught up with me," she said with a smirk.

"As if we have any choice," the older one said, glaring at her. He was not letting his guard down to this mysterious girl, but still there was something from her that made you feel like everything will be all right.

She stopped and looked around. She spotted a small wooden cottage made out of logs. "Let us hide in there," she said to them.

The two brothers looked at each other, unsure if they were making the right decision. "I think we better follow her. We don't have any choice," the older one whispered. The younger one just nodded his head. They entered the cottage where the girl quickly locked the door.

The cottage as a whole was only one room, but had all the necessities. There was a sofa facing a fireplace in the middle of the room, and the sofa's back faced two windows that were on either side of the front door. On the right side was a cot; while on the left side was the kitchen, with a table and a chair.

"Well, I think we will be safer in here," she said with a friendly smile. "By the way, I am Piper."

The older boy glanced at her cautiously, he was not yet sure if the girl was someone to be trusted. After giving her one more curious look, he finally relaxed a little. "I am Victor, and this is my younger brother Logan."

Logan gave Piper a small smile. Piper smiled back. It seemed like Logan and her were almost the same age. "Nice to meet the two of you," she said. A gunshot echoed in the forest. It seemed like the people who were following Victor and Logan were not giving up, yet.

Piper took a peek outside one of the windows. Sure enough, she could hear the violent thoughts of other people. "We better hide. They might see us if they look inside."

Victor and Logan looked at each other and nodded. Logan hid under the cot since he was small enough to get under it. Piper hid behind the sofa with Victor. Everything was silent and still as they waited for their predator to come to them. Everyone held their breath.

Victor silently peeked over the sofa to see if someone was looking inside the windows. There was no one checking the place. He looked at Piper and kept his deep voice low, "I think they are gone now," he whispered. When he was about to get out of his hiding place Piper stopped him.

"Wait, someone is coming over here," she hissed pulling him back into hiding. They waited until they saw a shadow of a man looming on the hard wood floor. It was a good thing the moon was full and bright, serving as light for the three children.

"They're not here," the man said. Judging by how he said it, it seemed like his companions were far away from the cottage.

As their predator went away, Logan began to cough. His throat was dry and the dust seemed cloud around him under the cot and stick in his throat. Victor quickly went to his brother and helped him out of his hiding place. "You alright?" He asked the pale boy.

Logan smiled at him. "Yeah."

Piper looked at them with an amused expression. She had seen one of Logan's memories, and this had made her intrigued. "Are the two of you mutants?" she asked out of the blue.

The two boys looked at her with a weird expression. "What do you mean?" asked Victor, raising an eyebrow.

Piper smirked. "I mean do you have a special ability?"

Logan looked at his brother. The boy didn't know if he should trust this girl or not. He was confused since she was surrounded by a calm aura, and people weren't usually calm around mutants, especially ones like his brother Victor. He waited for his older brother to decide whether to tell her or not.

"What if we say yes? Will you surrender us to those men?" Victor said with great disdain coating his voice.

"What if I say I am also a mutant?" Piper asked playfully. She just loved to play tricks on people.

The two of them held eye contact for a moment. Logan was baffled. What was going on in their heads?

Victor looked at her, as if he was trying to figure out who she was and what she was by simply staring her down. Normally, he would easily read the personality of a person by just looking at their eyes, but this girl didn't seem to be normal. She was mysterious and hard to read.

Piper chuckled under her breath. "The two of you are very amusing. Your thoughts are really interesting," she said.

The two brothers looked at each other. They were clearly confused about what she had said, but then everything seemed to click inside Victor's head. "You can read minds?" he asked, keeping his voice from slipping away. Sometimes little things tended to excite him.

Piper smiled playfully. "What if I tell you I don't?"

Victor rolled his eyes. "Stop fooling around, will you? We're tired and hungry since we had been running for hours and it's freezing outside." He looked at his pale little brother; Logan was surely exhausted by now. His eyes seemed to be drooping as if he couldn't keep them open any longer.

Piper looked down at her feet guiltily. The girl knew how they were feeling. She could read it in their thoughts, and because she also had experienced a similar situation and couldn't help but sympathize with the boys. Although she wasn't lucky enough to find anyone who could help her escape the bad guys. She had run as fast as she could for almost a whole day, but the men that were chasing her hadn't given up until she hid herself under a burrow. "Well, I could at least give you some food," she said with a sheepish smile.

Logan's face lit up as he heard the word food. It seemed like it had been weeks since he had last eaten his supper. He looked at Victor with a hopeful expression, waiting for his response. Victor looked at Piper, trying to see if she was trustworthy, but still she was hard to understand. "Sure, why not?" Victor said with a little smirk.

Piper smiled and went to the kitchen to open the refrigerator, revealing a stack of food. "We're lucky that there is food in here," she said cheerfully. Looking back at them, she asked conversationally, "What would you like to eat? Steak or turkey?"

Victor and Logan looked at each other surprised. What was she talking about? How could a girl that age be able to cook something like that? This was not even their house. What if the owner returned and saw them? They would be dead meat.

Piper laughed. "Don't worry. This house had been abandoned last month. The old man who used to be living in here was captured. He was a friend of mine so he told me that I could use his house anytime." She gave them an assuring smile. "The two of you just take a rest. Just leave everything to me."

Logan and Victor gave her one last look, making sure she was occupied with cooking, before they turned their backs to her and huddled close. "Do you think she could be trusted?" Logan whispered as they headed towards the cot.

"Sh, remember she can hear what we think, so we better just put that out of our minds," Victor said, looking cautiously at Piper. She was trying to stifle a giggle. Guess she read our minds, he thought, quickly becoming frustrated with the girl's power. "Well lay down on the bed, I will just sit on the sofa," Victor offered. Logan gratefully agreed with him without a word. The small boy laid himself down on the makeshift bed and immediately closed his eyes. Just as he realized that he hadn't bothered to take off his shoes, fatigue took over him and he forgot about it, quickly falling to sleep.

Victor sighed and sat down on the sofa. It was cold inside since the fireplace wasn't lit. Still feeling indecisive about the mutant girl, Victor resolved to try and stay awake. He looked at Piper as she stood watching food flying around the small kitchen area. He suddenly became alert. What was happening? Why wasn't she doing anything? It was as if she was controlling everything with her mind.

Piper turned around as she felt the surprised thoughts of Victor, "Why?" she inquired.

"H-how did you do that?" he asked, a little shaken from what he was seeing.

Piper laughed and moved to sit beside the older boy. The steak continued cooking itself. "I can control things with my mind as long as it's inanimate."

Victor's jaw dropped opened. How come she has all those cool abilities? It seemed unfair. The older boy was about to say something, but nothing came out. He didn't know what he was feeling. Is he feeling angry? Afraid? Surprised? Shocked? Or…excited?

Piper frowned at him, "I can't understand what you are feeling," she said with frustration. It was obvious that she was trying to read his blurred thoughts. But he was thinking too quickly for her to focus on anything going on in his mind, it was as if Victor couldn't decide what to think for himself. "Me neither," he said.

Suddenly Piper jumped up and announced, "Food is served." She rushed toward the kitchen where the table was arranged with three plates of mouth-watering steak and tall glasses of milk.

"How so fast?" Victor asked.

Piper winked at him. "I've been taking care of myself for a while now, I'm an expert. Now, go wake your brother." She sat in one of the chairs and politely waited for them, smiling cheerfully.

Victor tried hard not to laugh at her actions, although he still was not yet sure if he could trust her. The boy stood up and went over the bed where Logan lay asleep. He reached out one clawed hand and shook his brothers shoulder gently. "Wake up," he spoke softly.

Logan just stirred and didn't wake up. He muttered something about not being able to drink his medicine at the right time.

"Jimmy, wake up. The food is cooked," Victor said, this time a bit louder. He shook Logan's shoulder more roughly.

Piper smiled, she didn't need to ask who Jimmy was. It was obvious that Jimmy was Logan, since Victor's mind was now easier to read. She went over the two brothers and murmured quietly to Victor, "He's dreaming something good."

He looked at her, puzzled. "What did you say?"

"I said, Logan is dreaming something that is good and he doesn't want it to stop."

The older boy suddenly got pale. "Does that mean he's dying?" He looked at Logan who was sleeping very peacefully. He grasped both his shoulders this time, unconsciously extending his claws enough to bite into the fabric of Logan's shirt, and started to shake his shoulders roughly…very roughly.

Piper laughed, "That is not what I meant, idiot. What I mean is, he wanted some more time to sleep, not that he will never wake up again."

Victor's color returned to his face, glad to hear that he was just okay. "Well, what do I do?"

"Why don't I try waking him up?"

Victor hesitated to say yes.

Piper noticed how he didn't seem comfortable and said with assurance, "I will not hurt him."

Victor sighed, it didn't seem like he had a choice again. He reluctantly moved away from the cot. Piper stayed in her place and closed her eyes to concentrate; she needed to focus her mind on Logan's. Wake up.

Suddenly, the boy opened his eyes, startled to hear a voice inside his head. "W-who's that?"

Piper smirked before opening her eyes to see Victor staring at her with his wide ones. He just couldn't believe what he was seeing. She just closed her eyes, and Logan woke up. Looking at his brother he asked, "What are you talking about Jimmy?" This was to check if Piper really was the one who woke him up.

Logan looked at him with large blue eyes, "I heard someone say wake up. It was a girl's voice." He looked at Piper who was still smirking and continued, "The voice reminded me of you, since it sounded familiar."

Victor redirected his gaze to Piper, so she really was the one who woke him up, he thought with awe. Clearing his throat, he wondered why this girl who seemed so helpless and weak could do such amazing things with her ability. "How did you do that?" he asked.

"I can send my thoughts to other people if I concentrate hard. But I can only send a word or two to someone, it's difficult."

Victor and Logan looked at each other. The both of them were thinking the same thing. Piper was amazing. Her ability just suited her well. Victor was a little envious of her strange mutant talent, but he shrugged the thought away as quickly as it had formed. He just didn't have to have that kind of ability. He was satisfied with his power. Almost.

"Well, let's eat," Piper said cheerfully, pulling Logan and Victor towards the table. Logan and Victor looked at their dinner, it was steak bathed in gravy. Even if there were no side dishes, they were already content with steak that looked a hundred more times tasty than any other steak they have had. Piper smiled at them in triumph, "Well, bon appetite."

The two brothers didn't hesitate digging in to their meal. It was tasty. The meat was cooked perfectly and the gravy was a creamy compliment to the steak. All in all, their dinner was perfect for the two carnivores.

After they had finished eating, Logan and Victor leaned back in their chairs with a happy sigh. They were full, the dinner they ate had been very delicious. Piper looked at them with interest as she started reading their memories.

"So, how come you are here and not in your house?" Victor asked out of the blue.

Piper looked at him and replied, "Well, I ran away from home, just like the two of you. I have also experienced being chased by the townspeople you once thought to be kind neighbors into the forest, but I wasn't fortunate enough to meet anyone to help me escape."

"Why did you run away?" Logan asked.

Piper looked down at her hands. She had been afraid that they were going to ask that, "I accidentally killed somebody."

Victor looked at Logan and all the blood seemed to drain away from his childish face. It was obvious that he still hadn't recovered from what had happened between him and they're father.

"Why?" Logan asked. If he was honest with himself, he felt relieved to learn that he was not the only kid who had killed someone, but she was still burdened by the act. He never knew he could be such an animal, killing someone with his own hands.

"Because my power was awakened at a bad time. Before I knew what was happening to stop it, I lifted a knife with my mind and stabbed a person. I was just so angry at them that I wished she would just die and my power was born."

"Since when did that happen?" Victor asked. Things were getting interesting.

"Maybe when I was just eight or nine years old," she answered.

Logan felt sorry for her, being at such an incredibly young age but still having to keep that burden within herself. What made it worse was that she didn't have anyone to stand by her. He looked at Piper with sudden determination, as if what he was going to say would take every ounce of his courage. "Would you like to be with us?" he asked.

Victor shot him a look. He was shocked to hear that his brother was inviting this stranger to join them. What made him even more unhappy to hear was that because he will be the oldest and that meant he had to guide the two of them when he, himself, didn't have any idea of what they will do.

Piper looked unsure. "I don't know if your brother would like that. Besides, I'm fine being alone."

Logan looked at Victor pleadingly, "You wouldn't mind, would you?" he asked.

Victor looked at him doubtfully before glancing at Piper. He didn't want to have someone tag along with them since it will just make him worry more, but when he looked at Piper, he was struck with the gravity of her situation. She still needed somebody to look after her since she was still a kid, but she had survived in the woods by herself this whole time. Well, if she knew how to live alone in this kind of place, then it will never hurt to bring her along with us, he thought.

Victor looked at Logan and then to Piper, smiling just enough to reveal two sharp canines, "Sure. Why don't you tag along with us?"

Logan's face lit up with a huge grin. His expression was priceless. The boy was really happy to have a friend like Piper join them in their journey.

Piper gave Victor and Logan a shy smile and said, "Thanks." She felt like her heart had been freed from a small cage within her. Nothing but gratitude shone in eyes as she looked towards the two brothers, they just made her feel as if she was as free as a bird. She was really thankful to the two of them. For the past few years, she had been alone. Before, she thought she would never remember what it felt like to be happy again, but as Victor let her join their company, she instantly knew that she would find happiness with them. She just couldn't stop smiling.

"You don't have to thank us," Logan said.

Victor just smirked. The older boy felt satisfied once he let Piper join them, he couldn't explain it, but he felt as if now things will eventually get better as long as she was there with them…

Well what do you think?....is it interesting?.....or does it sucks?

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