Morning in the X-mansion

[ihearyouthink]

He'd not had a good night last night. The extra minds in the house made it difficult to shut down completely. Or perhaps the fact he may have been hit by lightning before arriving here might have something to do with that.

In any case, Charles found himself very awake early morning and hunting in the kitchen for fixings to make a decent cup of tea. And not having much luck.

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[kitty_phase]

"Well... I see you're still here." Kitty had just come in for breakfast. It was almost time for her to head out to school. "No mysterious disappearing in the middle of the night, huh?" Because mysterious appearing in the middle of the night sometimes ended with the opposite occurrence in movies.

"Have any idea what's planned today?"

[ihearyouthink]

He is still opening cabinets. "So it would seem," Charles says distractedly. How difficult was it to find one thing in his own kitchen? He pauses to look at Kitty for a moment, searching her mind to see if she knew and sighing. "Trying to find the tea in this place." It wasn't exactly a teenager kind of food item. He has found plenty of sugary cereals in the process.

[kitty_phase]

"Oh... um." She looked around for a moment and then pointed at a particular cabinet. "That one, I think. Not a lot of us drink it. Sorry." She gave him a sheepish look and small shrug as she poured herself a bowl of said sugary cereal. "Are you going to come with us to the school? Or, is that something that might happen later?"

He looked to be not much older than Scott, really. He could probably pass as either an older student or a younger teacher.

[ihearyouthink]

Being that he already had earned his degree and did not need more schooling...and that his older self was already teaching what he would teach, it did not leave much to do but observe. He would have to play the role of a student to try and keep his identity a secret from the others.

"I may have to. If only to see how the place has fared over the years." He'll have to find a way back eventually too. "What classes do you have today, Kitty?" Aha! A mug. That was progress.

[kitty_phase]

"Well, for every day learning, we all head over to Bayville High." She shrugged, not sounding thrilled about it. It was hard to be excited about school when you had to worry about falling through your chair in the middle of class, or you had your rivals running around as the school bullies... and one just happened to be the target of your crushing. "But, we come back here afterwards for the other 'classes'." She said that last bit with a small smirk, twirling her spoon around and through her hand with a combination of dexterity and phasing to get the point across.

"It's a balance."

[ihearyouthink]

He hums approval, mixing the real world with the special classes, it was a nice balance. "Then that is where I will blend in." Finally all the way in a cupboard in the back, the tea is found.

[kitty_phase]

"Yeah?"

She looked impressed.

"Well, you could either be the really cool younger teacher, or... you could be an older student with your special accent." She giggled a little. "The girls might find that hot."

[ihearyouthink]

The microwave receives a stare that says I have no idea what to do with you before he starts heating water on the stove in a teapot.

A smirk flitting across his face. "Yes...it usually does." That's something she won't hear from older Professor X, how much he realizes his accent affects the ladies.

[kitty_phase]

"You sound like you have experience with that."

This was so cool. She would never have guessed that the Professor had been a total fox and something of a ladies man when he was younger!!

[ihearyouthink]

Yes, after this, she will have her fair share of stories for blackmail. Especially if he relates the many times he was out in the pub after receiving his degree and....well, stories for later.

"Let's just say I have had my fair share of dates." The teapot is whistling and he takes it off quickly to steep the tea. That is one thing that has not changed, his love of tea.

"What are you currently studying?" He should get up to speed if he was going to fit in.

And probably find a different outfit.

[kitty_phase]

That got another small giggle.

"So secretive."

She went back to her cereal for now, and started listing off some rather typical sounding high school courses from Bayville. As far as the school here at the mansion, she was studying typical stuff the would be X-Men related... team building, combat skills, controlling her powers, interfacing with non-Mutants... His future self had set up a pretty full curriculum to cover a lot of different situations.

"It's been pretty cool, actually. My parents were nervous at first, but they came around after they saw that I could use my powers for good."

[ihearyouthink]

He sipped his tea, listening and feeling quite proud of how the school has turned out. At last, a future he could look forward to. Not like the other future he had seen.

"And the other mutants, what of them? How are they fairing? The same?"

[kitty_phase]

"Mostly." Kitty leaned her elbows on the counter and rested her chin on her hands. "For some, it's an adjustment depending on where they came from. I was lucky back home. My parents only wanted to hide what I could do, but they didn't treat me badly for it. For me, the adjustment was being able to openly use my ability." She looked down. "The other adjustment was getting used to the more visible mutant changes in people. I hadn't been exposed to that before, and I felt bad when people would show up and I'd get freaked out." She looked almost embarrassed by it. "I'm better about it now, but I definitely had to learn." After all, Kurt was one of her best friends now, and his blue fur didn't bother her anymore. In fact, they often joked together about how he was fuzzy and cute.

[ihearyouthink]

"Mmm...some are not so lucky," he says thoughtfully. However, he does sympathize. Mutations were difficult to deal with, from within and on the outside.

"And there will be more and more as time goes on." His theory of mutations in practice.

[kitty_phase]

"You really think so?"

Kitty looked interested in that.

"That idea scares a lot of people." There was a reason their school was more of a group home to outsiders.

[ihearyouthink]

"Yes, it does," he says in agreement. "People fear what they do not understand." But that did not mean they couldn't win them over.

[kitty_phase]

At that point, a few of the other students went racing by, yelling about getting to school.

"I should get going," she said. "You'll probably have to get all the paperwork settled with some backstory for the principal." She put her bowl away in the dishwasher for later.

"I'll see you later?"