Fan Fiction ❯ Who am I ❯ surgery ( Chapter 4 )

Disclaimer: I don't own X men or Harry Potter because if I did I would be richer than the Queen of England

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Harry and Maggie were walking behind the buildings that lined the back street where Harry escaped. The journey was silent because Harry spent the time trying as hard as he could to remember himself, but the only result was a headache that got worse the more he tried. But Maggie was trying to find out who he was by the items he had on him, the only thing he had was an empty knife handle without a blade and the polished stick he was clutching in his hand. Finally Harry gave up trying to remember and asked, "What kind of power did you see me use?"

Maggie seemed to come out deep thought and answered "you pointed at the person chasing you and yelled `Ruducto' and the street in front of the guy exploded, why don't you try it on that car." And she pointed to a parked car that was visible from the alleyway they were passing.

Harry pointed at the car and, feeling silly, yelled "Ruducto" but nothing happened and Harry turned to Maggie and asked, "did I do anything else, that you could see?"

Maggie didn't answer right away and was staring into space and seemed not to have heard him then she seemed to snap back to reality and asked, "Say again?"

Harry sighed and repeated, "I asked did you see me do anything else?"

Maggie shook her head and said "all I saw was you point at the guy, I couldn't see much detail but… wait you were holding this when you started gathering memories again?" she held up the polished stick.

"Yea" Harry nodded catching on to what she was thinking.

"So try it with this" and she shoved the stick into his hands.

Harry again pointed at the car with the stick and yelled "Ruducto!" this time the car exploded in a blazing fireball sending debris in all direction and heat filled the street. Harry stepped back in shock and awe and stared at the stick but it hadn't changed in appearance and still looked like a harmless piece of wood.

"Let me see that" Maggie exclaimed and snatched the stick from Harry and pointed it at a wall and yelled "Ruducto" but nothing happened and Maggie looked at the stick, then at Harry and said, "no fair, it looks like only you can use it, must be a focuser of some sort, but you power activates it." She nodded to no one and handed it back and continued walking but she looked deep in thought.

They walked for about 15 minutes when Maggie suddenly crouched down besides a part of the wall of a building and moved a trashcan, reveling a hole barley large enough for them to drop down. She swiftly jumped down the hole and then called up "come on down, nothing will hurt you."

Harry dropped down to a cavern that they had to crouch down to move in. it was grimy and dark and looked like Maggie had dug it out with her claws because of the jagged quality of the walls. Maggie crouched over in a corner and was lighting a kerosene lamp that lit the rest of the cavern. It was empty except for a few threadbare blankets and a ragged and dusty backpack that looked empty. Maggie then reached into a small hole in the wall that was barley big enough for her hand and pulled out a handmade trap that had a small rat trapped inside. She smiled and opened the cage and muttered "dinner" then grabbed the rat and broke it's neck with two fingers.

She smiled and devoured the rat in one bite when Harry asked, "so what do we exactly do here?"

Maggie pulled the bones out of her mouth and threw them in a pile and answered "we wait until after sundown tomorrow then we go back to that building you escaped from and see if we can find anything more about you their. Maybe they kept records and left them or something you never know. After that we move a bit more north and out of town for a while. I never stay anywhere to long it causes to many rumors and I don't meet good welcoming committees when I'm found so I don't stay anywhere long. For now you can help me with something."

"What?" Harry asked wanting to repay her for helping him.

"You can help me with this" she said and pulled up her pants leg to revel a dirty rag tied over her calf that was almost completely soaked in blood. "You need to pull the bullet out, I've seen hospital shows, shouldn't be to hard, here use these." And she handed him a pair of tweezers and started to remove the bandage.

Harry held the tweezers and felt very nervous about doing surgery on someone who could hurt him if he didn't do it right. So he asked apprehensively "do you need me to help you, can't you do it yourself?"

But Maggie shook her head and answered "if I did it myself I would probably bust a vein, my leg needs to be relaxed and it can't be relaxed if I'm doing it, so your the doctor" and she pulled the last loop of the bandage off reveling a swollen area covered in congealed blood and puss. Harry's hands shook as he found the actual bullet hole and removed the scab causing it to start to bleed again. He took a deep breath and plunged the tweezers into the wound. Maggie tensed and he could see her jaw was clenched tightly in an effort not to move, and Harry gently moved the tweezers downward until he felt them hit something hard and asked, "Is that it?"

"Yes that's it" Maggie gasped "now pull it out quick!"

"Oh, yea, right" Harry stuttered and opened the tweezers and grasped the bullet and slowly began to work it back out. Then the tweezers lost the grasp on the bullet and Harry's hand jerked out and Maggie made a noise between a snarl and a scream of pain, Harry was breathing heavily and shaking all over and felt like just giving up but took a very deep breath and put the tweezers to retrieve the bullet. It was just out of sight and he felt it almost instantly. He grabbed it again and this time he removed the bullet and Maggie sighed in relief and Harry smiled but was still shaking, then they both started laughing at Harry's nervousness

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`Very interesting' thought Professor Xavier thought as he watched the pair of beings through the advanced computer Cerebro and sat back after scanning the east coast check up on a mutant he had been following for about 5 months now. The mutant often came in contact with people that always ended with hostility and he had been considering picking up this mutant before she harmed a normal person. But what was making him curious was the presence of another mind near the mutant that appeared abruptly since the last time he checked, he was having trouble determining whether it was another mutant or not because it showed powers no normal humans held, but it was unlike anything he had encountered before. And when he tried to pinpoint it he was thrown back by a mild mind defense that surrounded the new subject. It was as if he had a mind block but it wasn't functioning properly. He pondered this as he turned off Cerebro and wheeled back to the upper floors of the institute for dinner "curious" he said out loud to himself as he wheeled into the kitchen.

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