Power practise

[nixnight]

*I wanted to go first *

Nix stood by the door of the English teacher and sighed and lifted a hand and ran it through her hair. She liked english, she liked writing stories and poem and she loved reading, so English was one of her favourite classes aside being in the danger room. She looked up and down the corridor and then leaned up against office wall and slid down so she was sitting on the floor and rested her head on her knees. She'd found out that he did extra one on one classes by accident ,one of the teleporters she'd seen in the halls of the institute had discussed it with a freind of his as he'd walked past. Nix didn't have many freinds and she didn't get on well with many of the teachers due to her sharp tounge and habit of being too honest. But she liked mr fletcher, he was nice and freindly, she disnt know how he'd take to her just turning up and asking for help with her powers, but she hoped he'd try and help her.

She heard movement up the corridor and rocked forwards onto the balls of her feet and jumped up and dusted off her dark combats and then her coat sleves and looked around again. It had just been some of the new students running around, she sighed and ran her hand through her hair again.

[liobit]

Grading papers.

Terry had never actually gone to school himself. Things had...well, happened in such a way for him that traditional schooling was impossible. It had been private tutoring for him, and that was when he had had the time. More recently he'd had the time to catch up on reading all the classics, and...well, perhaps he'd been treating his class as more of a book club. Maybe a little.

It was simply ironic, when he allowed himself the time to think on it, that he was sitting in a room with his name on it grading students' papers. If anyone from his old life saw him now, they probably wouldn't believe what they were seeing.

A certain stiffness in his shoulders suddenly worked its way into the forefront of his mind, and he let loose a yawn as he leaned back from his desk to stretch. Glancing briefly at his watch, he realized he'd been at this for the past three hours. Definitely time for a walk to stretch his legs.

He put down his pen and rose to his feet, pausing to stretch again before walking to the door and gently pulling it open. He was surprised to find a girl standing in front of the door, as if she was waiting for something. Immediately he froze, wondering how long she'd been there.

Then he recognized her: she was in one of his English classes. "Nix," he greeted. "You need something?"

[nixnight]

Nix heard the door of the office open and she sighed and nodded her head, "erm, hello sir" she mumbled and then lifted a hand and ran it through her hair and looked down at her feet. She gave a small sigh and then looked back at her teacher ,"I heard from some of the teleporters that you did extra one on one classes , I wondered I'd you could help me with something" she said in a low voice and then shook her head and tensed her hands into fists at her side ,"they said you could help with powers, no matter who it was and what they could do" she said and then smiled weakly at her teacher ,"and I haven't got a roommate or any freinds I can really ask for help or ideas, what with my attitude" she said with a weak grin and then leaned back on one of her legs and looked up at her teacher again ,"if your busy I can go though, I don't want to be a nuisance or anything ,if your busy with class stuff then I can always just go to my room and try again on my own" she said quickly as she noticed a pile of papers on her teachers desk behind him in his office

[liobit]

Terry waited for Nix to finish speaking before saying anything, a gentle light in his eye bringing the rest of him into a more relaxed stance. It was good to know his reputation was spreading around the school like this; he had been afraid that kids might be too distrustful or frightened to take him up on his ever standing offer to help with their powers. What good was trying to be helpful if no one ever asked him for help?

Following Nix's gaze into his room, he looked back at the stack of papers on his desk. Busy with class stuff? He chuckled, turning back to his student. "Helping out with powers is class stuff," he assured her, "and arguably more important than grading papers. Come on in." He stepped aside and gestured for Nix to enter, giving her another one of his warm smiles.

On second thought, was his room the right place? He couldn't remember what her power was, or even whether he had ever been told what it was. Students here were judged by who they were instead of simply what they could do, and while that was something he did truly like about this place, it also tended to make it harder to keep track of which students could accidentally hurt someone and which ones might need more help than the rest.

"Now, remind me, what is your power? And how can I help?"

[nixnight]

Nix felt her face go a little warm and her fingers tingled ,"I convert other people's negative energy into shadows that I can control" she said and then held up her hand and closed it and opens it again, a small bubble of dark purple shadow wrapped itself round her hand and she nodded to it. "I had an idea that I might be able to use them to cover others but of course no-one knows me, let alone trusts me to try and wrap them in a dark cloud of shadows" she said quietly and then flicked her hand and the shadows were gone in a second.

She tucked her hands in the pockets of her dark combats and then looked In to her teachers office ,"I don't want to mess up your room though" she said and then paused and though for a second before smiling ,"but I'm good Krause, there's nothing I can really break or mess up out there, so it would be safer" she said and then tilted her head to the right a little ,"if that is ok with you of course sir" she finished and then dipped her head in respect

[liobit]

Terry reached up to rub his neck as he listed to Nix explain her power, and then demonstrate with a little bubble of shadow in her hand. He didn't really know what to think. Honestly, he hadn't really been sure when he started this job what it would be like to help kids learn about their powers, but he had thought it would be easier. Or, he had thought he'd had all the hard parts down already: he could literally survive anything one of these kids did to him by accident, he thought of them as actual people rather than freaks of nature or weapons, and he did actually know a lot about supernatural abilities.

Problem was, he was more used to trying to figure out how to survive fighting against mutants. Helping them was...well, challenging. Clearly.

Because he wasn't really getting all the physics stuff. He taught English for a reason. "Alright, by negative energy, do you mean negative emotions? Can you use everyone's? Are there any side effects, besides the shadow itself?"

He paused. He also had an idea as to what these shadows were made of. "What do the shadows do? Are they tangible?" He wanted to get an idea of what he was dealing with before he decided where to go to practice, but it wasn't like she was a pyrokinetic or something; so far her power sounded benign, or at the very least as if she could fairly easily keep it from reeking havoc on the classroom.

"If you'd rather go outside, it's not a problem. Wherever you feel more comfortable."

[nixnight]

Nix nodded quickly and then smiled ,"yea, it's emtions and thoughts, but I don't actually pick them up, but brain seems to just do it on auto pilot and then they are stored in me until I want to use them, at which point they are converted in my shadows" she explained and then paused and thought over the second question. She had really thought about what they really where, it was true that they existed and were solid when she wanted them to be but they also did other things at other times, they could slice through wood and caused a fair bit of pain if thrown at someone, she knew that as she'd had to try it on herself. But they also made bubbles that so far no-one had been able to break into in the danger room, "as for the second question, I really don't know" she answered truthfully and then nodded again. "I think outside would be good, but it's a little late and I should really be getting on with school work according to the rules, would you walk first ,so the other teachers can see your giving me an extra class?" she asked, her face going a little warm again, she'd already done all her school work ,she normally did it in lessons

[liobit]

Terry absorbed the new information while she spoke, and then smiled when she finished. "No problem. But I doubt anyone would stop us no matter how we walked." It was an odd request, for him to walk in front of her, one that normally would have set off something in his mind, but he figured as long as he was careful, it was safe to just accept one little girl's idiosyncrasies.

"Just let me grab my coat." The day was getting colder as the sun went down, but it was for the useful things in its pockets that he chose to grab his coat. He left the door open as he strode back across his room to pull his coat off the back of his chair, and then returned pulling a key out of one of the coat's pockets. Closing the door behind him and then locking it, Terry slipped the key back into his coat and then pulled his arms through the sleeves. "Alright, let's go.

"Anywhere in particular on the grounds you'd like to do our thing?" He asked, starting down the hallway. He still didn't know much about her power, so she'd have to be the judge of how much space she required, and...well, everything else.

"What do you hope to learn today?"

[nixnight]

Nix tilted her head to one side and then thought for a moment and smiled ,"could go to the edge of the forest do you think? I always find it nice in there at night" she said and then considered his second question. She knew her powers could do more than what she knew to do now, she could feel when she used them something's that there was more they wanted to do but couldn't ,that was what after all hand lead her to believe she could do this today but it was better to take things in small steps and only one at a time. "I already know I can surround myself with a bubble that will deflect most things throw at it, but I'm almost certain that I can do the same for other people too, that way I could help people and fight at the same time and expand my powers" she explained to her teacher as they walked through the schools empty corridors.

She love walking around the school at night or when no on else was, it made her feel powerful, as if only she was allowed to. She liked being in the forest better of course because of her love simply for being around nature but the school at night or late evening was defiantly second best