From Child to Chylde, Illyana's Return? Open to All

[Illyana Rasputin]

A sliver of golden light sliced through the daylit summer sky, forming the shape of a circular flat disk a few feet directly above the pool. A flaxen haired young girl seemed to emerge from the disc as though she were just poking her head out of a window. First her blond-haired head was visible, then her chest covered by brown shreds of clothing similar in look to a torn potato sack almost. Followed by her hips and legs where the potato sack outfit ended with a piece of cloth still hanging further, until at last her feet appeared from out of the light. The moment her feet had left the light however, the young teleporter found herself dropping straight into the water below.

Illyana gasped for a breath of air as she rose back up to the surface of the pool water after dropping a few feet down into the pool depths. Her hands ran over her face and head to wipe away the blond strands of hair covering her sky blue eyes. The young sorceress's legs were kicking violently below the surface of the water in all directions, pushing for the side of the pool as fast as she could make it. The slight disadvantage to having grown up for half her life within a dimension without large bodies of water everywhere, was she had to rely on the little amount of swimming lessons she received and remembered when she was still in this dimension.

The blue eyed mutant managed just enough to grip onto the pool ledge closest to the mansion, before yanking her drenched self out of the water. Streams of liquid poured off of any part of the young sorceress's body that it could escape from as her bare and drenched feet hit the cobble around the pool. Illyana stood motionless outside the pool with her head, and soaked hair around it, draped down to look at the floor. She wasn't sure if this was the right place to be, but she was hardly just going to hang around in her dimension of Limbo when she now had a means, a clunky means, but a means nonetheless, to return to the world she once knew.

To the young sorceress it had been eight years since she had last seen the mansion she now stood near, but to everyone else, hardly a year had even passed. Things had likely changed around the school for mutants but it was unlikely anyone or anything had changed as much as she had. Changing from seven years old to sixteen years old in the course of about a years time, wasn't exactly normal, and that was just her physical age; far more sinister changes had occurred to the young Russian mutant. Illyana's hand brushed across her hair and down the medallion that hung around her neck before crossing the broken stitching and tears in the light brown fabric she wore to cover her now teenage body, and finally resting at her sides as she huffed a few breaths to keep herself conscious.

"What do I do now..." Illyana sighed, she hadn't thought about what she would do after she escaped from limbo. Who exactly would she go to, she couldn't exactly tell her parents. What would she even mention? She was having enough trouble keeping herself together, keeping her heart locked up. She hardly had the energy to concentrate on who might be at the mansion now, that could help her, or even how she planned to convince anyone she knew that she was in fact the tiny girl they knew only so little ago. It only made it worse that she wanted to avoid having to talk about her endeavors in limbo, her magic, or even her mutant power. Although that might be the best way to at least get an audience with someone, after all the only thing Illyana did know about the Xavier Institute her brother had taken her to, so many years ago in her past, was it existed for people just like her brother, and now just like her, mutants.

A cold and dark presence seemed to emanate all around the young mutant girl while she left her head tilted to the ground, as she tried to get a hold of herself and keep her mind from falling apart at the poorly sewn seams. The most she knew about her power was the ability to teleport through space and even time, but it was hardly controlled at all, evident by her spectacular entrance back into the dimension of humans and mutants. She actually did pretty well though, ending up at least on the facility of the mutant institute. She couldn't exactly show someone her power, if she even got anyone to come near her in the first place. At the moment she probably seemed like some evil villain come to lay waste to the school with the demonic aura she showed in just a natural stance she had developed in her years of growth away from human society. Her light blue eyes told far worse though, eyes looking much older and more sinister than the outside appearance of a small innocent blond girl.

[Piotr Rasputin]

It was a particularly sunny day and what better way to spend the day than to go swimming. At least, Calvin kept on insisting since the morning for them to go. He was almost like one of those Chihuahuas who needed attention at every moment and corner. Such need from one particular person was very difficult for Piotr to understand. It wasn’t everyday he had someone to wake up to anyway. But things have definitely been different since he had Calvin in his life as a boyfriend. Not that it was all too bad to have around. Almost for every sneeze that escaped Piotr’s nose, there was a bless you to follow right after it. After every cough, he’d feel his comforting hands tapping gently against his back. It was a pretty nice relationship that they had going on.

It did get superfluous after awhile though. Piotr was always used to being alone, and in the most non-depressing form. Painting was one of the things he did on his own, and it became very difficult to do it when Calvin was around. He trusted the guy with his life, it was that sort of bond. But he really didn’t understand how Calvin could have such interest in him to just sit there and watch. Piotr wasn’t that determined to express, at least not in that way. He needed his space, and unfortunately, he hadn’t been getting much of that since it all began. Where was he now?

Piotr was checking his phone for messages…even though he expected nobody to call him. He never really held conversations too long anyway. What was the point to just talk when there wasn’t much to say? Calvin had already told him to head down to the pool, where they would meet up, and why he was waiting…well, he didn’t really know half the things he did lately. So quickly, Piotr got up and headed down the hall to the elevator that led to the great hall. The tall Russian was wearing an olive green tank top, bottomed with his black swimming trunks, embroidered with camouflage designs. It was a swimsuit that Calvin had bought him, and to please him, he decided to wear them today.

Before long, he had finally arrived at the bottom of the elevator, and finally arrived at the pool. He figured he’d just jump into the water and get a couple of laps in the water before Calvin came right along. It took him quite a while to get used to water in general, so this was the perfect opportunity to do so. But then his attempts were caught off short as he realized who was already wading around in the water.

"Illyana?" He asked, knowing well enough that it would be sooner or later that he'd run into her. He had invited her to stay at the campus since he'd been around and she began to manifest her powers. But throughout the whole thing, he never had let her know who he was actually in the midst of dating. It was a very painful secret to keep away from his little sister, but he wasn't nearly ready to come out fully. Most of the x-men team knew about Piotr, but regardless...he was absolutely terrified of trying to see what his sister would say. He quickly dropped his towel on a beach chair nearby, and crouched down around the side of the pool to where Illyana was floating about. "How you liking the mansion so far?" He asked, curious on how she was feeling about the whole experience.

He knew exactly how he felt when he first got here. He was first of all, absolutely perplexed because of the sudden language change. However, the whole idea of a sanctuary for people like him, it was a blessing. Illyana had some time to grow into the language also, so maybe she wasn't have as much of a rough time as he originally did.

[Calvin Rankin]

The day had started out exactly like most of the days did for the young mimicker, it rolled right from the next one. Ever since he mimicked Logan the young blond has had difficulty going to sleep due to the enhanced stamina and amounts of energy he now had. Normal people would just wait to get tired but Mimic didn't get tired at least not often enough now. He had been able to clock the times between when he actually slept and given on how active he was during the day it would be anywhere between three of four days before he got tried enough to actually need sleep. Sure he was able to force himself to take a nap every now and then but it wasn't at all the same way that it was before he came to the Institute. Of all things he didn't honestly think that sleep would be one of the things that he'd miss.

Instead of greeting the morning sun behind his curtains and in bed, Calvin had seen it from his balcony as he sat on the stone railing dangling his feet over the edge as if dancing to some imaginary beat. He was able to hold the position for much longer than one would expect from someone with a sometimes serious case of ADHD but after while he couldn't himself and pushed off the edge falling to the ground below. Before hitting the ground however a swift BAMF sound triggered and disappearing in a cloud of smoke Mimic reappeared within the Danger Room's control room and used his telekinetic abilities to slow his fall. The one good thing with using Kurt's ability is being able to go anywhere in a two mile range for the small price of a minor headache or motion sickness for Calvin at least. The bad thing was the any motion or inertia he was experiencing came with him but luckily one of his other abilities could handle that for him. Setting the Danger Room to run a scenario he had gotten used to that made him use all his abilities Mimic set the configuration a little bit higher than normal and made the Danger Room lock itself for two hours which was when the rest of the school started to wake up.

When the time passed Calvin had already made his way up to Piotr room and greeted the Russian in his torn to completely ruined shirt, jeans and soot covering parts of his body. He didn't want to to upset the older mutant so he made sure not to touch anything in his room so as not to dirty it up even the teddy bear that he had gotten attached to on the bed. It toke a while but he was able to convince the big guy to take a swim with him in a few minutes when he got ready. No doubt Piotr just needed to change but Calvin needed to take a quick shower then change into his swim gear. Giving his boyfriend a one of his good kisses Calvin BAMFed back into his own room and toke a shower at the same time that Piotr was already heading down to the pool.

Changing into a light blue tank top and an a pair of white swim trunks with a Hawaiian design that Piotr had bought for him. Grabbed an other towel and made his way down to the pool the old fashion way. Once then Calvin noticed that Piotr had already been talking to someone and upon further investigation he realizes just who that person was. "Oh, well, I guess you two have some catching up to do so I'll just leave you two to it then." Walking over to one of the chairs poolside Calvin toke off his tank top and placed it and his towel on the chair before diving into the pool. No doubt those two would be more interested in catching up than swimming but he could at least get in a few laps or something.

[Illyana Rasputin]

Illyana's eyes flickered up as she realized someone was approaching her, it was the last person she had expected to see so suddenly. Sure, she had plans to go see him, but it was like he knew she would be out here at this very moment. She heard her name called out before she could say anything herself, and her body turned to her big brother but still remained unchanged or even unflustered at the sight of someone she felt like she hadn't seen in quite some time. She still knew how to hug her brother, at least she hope she did, with her arms around his neck almost instantly she gave him a hug with what little feeling the young sorceress could muster at her exhausted state. She cried out with perfect English, "Big Bro," but no tears came with her voice.

Illyana wasn't sure how to really respond to her brother, she hadn't exactly been back long enough to really observe anything, other than the place she had dropped into. The way he had simply spoken to her, seemed as though they had just talked a few days ago. Which only made it that much harder for the young mutant to keep her emotions from bursting open. As far as Piotr was concerned she had just arrived from Russia and her parents, and Illyana was quite content with trying to keep it that way. Even if it did mean lying to her brother in some degree, it was better off she kept things a secret though... at least for now. She pulled her arms away from her brother's neck while still keeping her eyes on him. "I... sorta just got here. But I like the pool area now that you are here!"

She tried to force a smile upon her lips, which only came out rather sinister looking with none of her teeth showing. Illyana dropped her hands to her side, brushing against the rag of an outfit she wore as she was about to ask further about the mansion now that he had brought it up so perfectly for her. However the soft intrusion of another individual who merely commented briefly before disappearing into the pool, left the young sorceress to wonder who the person was. Her eyes briefly darted after the other man before she shook her head gently and returned to gazing at her brother. She figured it was best not to side-track herself at the moment and use her brother's opening so she didn't have to ask awkwardly. Even though it still came out of the young girl in a low pitch as if she was ashamed of saying it. "I was wondering if I could stay here... home just.. isn't the same without you! And... I am a mutant... and, you said I could..."

"If I wanted to... I just needed some place different.." Illyana was hardly considering the fact that she was speaking her English, to some degree, better than she knew her big brother did. Considering she hardly knew English last time, other than a few words here and there thanks to Kitty. She just hoped he didn't ask, as the best excuse she had was, she was simply a fast learner. Being a fast learner couldn't exactly explain the disappearance of her Russian accent from her English words though. "So... maybe you could show me around again... I didn't really pay attention last time!"