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"What have I done?"

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Stamford, New York

1904

Natalie was 5 years old when she discovered her ability, and from that day on, everything went downhill.

Natalie was in the garden, in her back yard, her mother was inside, baking cookies, while her father was at work. Natalie was sitting down, playing in the grass and she grabbed a handful of dirt and looked at it and tiny green vines started growing out then a small beautiful daisy appeared as the dirt fell through her fingers. She didn't understand what that meant, and it didn't bother Natalie, only made her more curious.

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Natalie always thought she was different growing up. She was born with brown hair with a green streak that never went away. When Natalie turned 6, her hair slowly turned to an ice blue, and her green streak faded slightly, Natalie's mother and father took her to as many doctors as they could afford but no one understood what was happening and presumed it was a genetic abnormality. That's when she discovered she could control and create water, ice and snow. When Natalie turned 10, her hair went to silver white, the green streak faded a bit more to a green-blue, that's when she started to discover that she could control the air and weather. Natalie's father and mother grew frightened of Natalie. When she turned 15, her hair went fiery red, and the green streak went to a yellowy-green. This is when she could control and create fire, to manipulate it. Natalie's father died in a house fire which she didn't know she started. Natalie's mother hated her? blamed her for everything. That's when Natalie found comfort in a close friend.

Natalie's hair returned to brown when she turned 20, that's when Natalie ran away with her fiancée and they eloped. His name was Chester White, he knew very well about her ability, he loved Natalie anyway, and they were married for 20 years. They had 2 children, Hayden and Nadia. Nadia was 12 and Hayden was 9. Natalie realised that at least one of their children would develop mutations, and one did. Nadia, she was 7 at the time and she had the ability to create and manipulate force fields.

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One day, Hayden was at his school camp, Nadia confronted Natalie with some information which any parent would dread to hear. Natalie's son was being abused by a teacher at camp. Natalie was sceptical at first, she was sure that Hayden would tell her, but then again, any kid would be embarrassed to tell anyone or even terrified of traumatised.

Natalie drove to his camp, it was a large bush campsite, there were children playing games, there were cabins and tents set up in various locations. She found the office and asked to see the teacher that was being accused of abusing her son.

They directed Natalie to his class, and she pulled him to the side, but she looked around to see if Hayden was there, he wasn't. The teacher was a male, about 40 or so. He was bald and had a bushy moustache. He looked harmless, but there was something off about him.

Natalie questioned him about the accusations and of course, he denied them all in quite a quick and almost disgusted way. But she didn't give up. Natalie asked to see her son, and he just shrugged and denied his whereabouts. Then Natalie started to get frustrated, her hair went ice blue, it started to emit cold air, and her fist clenched and the ground below her went cold. He looked startled and frightened. He gave in and began to make his way over to Hayden's cabin.

He was nowhere to be found. Every step Natalie took, the ground grew colder, sticks froze, leaves crushed to dust, grass forming icicles. The teacher formed sweat on his brow, he was nervous, and so frightened.

"Why are you scared?" Natalie asked with concern.

He gulped and his hands were trembling. That's when she knew.

"What did you do to him?"

He looked down.

"He didn't cry. He didn't say no. He didn't flinch. He felt no pain. I made sure of it. I'm sure he enjoyed it." He spoke slowly.

Every word Natalie grew more tense and furious. Her hair went fiery red. Flames were emitted off of it. Her eyes went dark and her iris' went crimson red. Every drop of blood in her body was boiling.

Natalie wrapped her hand around his throat.

"Where is he?" Natalie spat.

"I didn't mean to" He struggled to breathe.

The ground below her caught a light. The earth was shaking, the wind was strong and forceful.

"What are you?" he choked.

"Your worst nightmare," Natalie spoke coldly.

Natalie dropped him to the ground, he started screaming as his legs started to burn.

Natalie ran everywhere. Screaming out for Hayden.

Then she stopped. she saw a river, there was a body. Natalie's heart went cold. Her hair returned to its natural brown. Natalie walked over to the body and rested her hand on him and her fingers trembled as she feared only the worst. She turned him over and her heart sank and she covered her mouth and she let out a blood-curdling scream.

It was Hayden.

He had bruises all over his arms and a cracked skull on his temple like he was hit by a rock.

Natalie held him close as she cried out and every bone in her body filled with hatred. She let Hayden go and stood up.

Natalie's body started to emit flames and the wind started to cause her to be lifted to the air.
She screamed and and emited descrution 20 miles wide. Bush fire. Earthquakes. Tsunamis. Tornadoes.

9,354 people died that day.

No warning.

That was the day Natalie went into hiding.
Natalie was the highest priority on every wanted list.

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Natalie's husband and daughter never saw her again. They only assumed that she died in the destruction with their son.

16 years went on, and the CIA finally found Natalie. But they didn't want her dead, or incarcerated, they wanted to hide her. A man in a black suit named Jordan, had a facility that he built, only very few people know about it and she could only stay and if she helped him.

A few years later and a man named Hank came by, he was an extremely smart man, but he had a secret, one which he confined in Natalie. He was a mutant, and he was very ashamed of it. His mutation was that his feet were hands.

Hank and Natalie became very close friends, he helped the CIA build incredible things, he had a lot of plans for the future. But then one day, a group of four came by.

Charles Xavier.

Eric Lehnsherr.

Moira MacTaggert.

And Raven.

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