Beginnings and Endings. ~ James only ~

[James Carter]

"Thank you."  He says to his mom... almost choking on the words.  Waking up, James was overcome with emotions.  The thought of leaving home for a school of mutants, the head teacher being able to communicate into your mind!  Leaving his mom, the person who took care of him his entire life, while not new, he knew something was different about this...  There was no going back, his relationship with his parents would forever be changed.  What if he liked living with fellow mutants, what if he didn't?  James moved throughout the day in a robotic way, in disbelief of his impending reality.

All of the sudden he's getting looks from his dad.  Mom was stressed, dad's reading the papers, trying to pretend everything is normal.  But things are not normal, they never will be, James thinks... I'm not normal, I'm different and that's okay.... The Professor is different, like me, and all those kids are like me, but different in their own way...  James slowly begins to accept his new reality.  He was always a clever boy, if naive at times.

"Mom, Dad, I love you."