crack_van | Not Fade Away by Chya (PG-13)

Fandom: MUTANT X
Characters: All
Author on LJ:

chya
Author website: Chya's fanfic page
Why this must be read:

chya is a wonderful writer and writes well-balanced stories. She writes mostly about Jesse and this story has enough angst to live of!

Not Fade Away is such a story, it's an AU from a Mutant X episode (Power Play) and it deals with... "What if"

You see, in the episode, Jesse gets a whiff of gas that destabilizes his molecular structure when he phases. What if Brennan couldn't help Jesse pull himself together?

This story tells us about the fear the rest of the Mutant X team has, and there are also brilliant pieces of other characters describing Jesse's situation.

Sound and light brutally smashed into his consciousness, smell and taste so strong and acrid he had to fight against throwing up, skin prickling and itching. Magnolia paint and steel bars spinning, he had to get away, find peace and solitude, somewhere to get a grip. Because here, wherever here was, was far, far too much.

So he ran without knowing where he was running from or to, strangely nothing getting in his way. Too busy minding their own business, no one noticed him running through bars and desks and walls. He ran straight through screechingly loud traffic that never knew he was there, through shops selling food whose aromas burnt his nose and throat.

Slowly, things started to make sense, but as his mind started to assimilate his surroundings, his body started oscillating, phasing and solidifying with alarming frequency. Instinct now kept him away from the traffic, away from people, using side roads and back alleys to lose himself. Keeping to the sidewalks where possible, he ran straight through a newsstand, yet in the next instant barrelled over and crushed a fire hydrant. Water gushed upwards and the down flow sprayed his over sensitised skin with needles that forced him to cry out loud. Frightened and confused, and desperately looking for shelter, he kept going, phasing through a cyclist to hit a brick wall face first with shocking pain rocketing through skull and shoulders.

But he picked himself up and kept going until, after phasing through a ladder and a scaffolding support pole, he crashed straight through the next two support poles and was brought up short by blood curdling cries. Almost in slow motion, he watched first one, then a second workman crash to the ground in moaning heaps. Then after a heartbeat, an eternity, the third workman thumped to the ground and laying unmoving, a crimson pool growing about his head.

People started yelling, for an ambulance, at him, at each other, and his continued disorientation froze him to the spot until someone pushed him out of the way. He’d killed an innocent with his fucking stupid powers.

So he ran again, until he couldn’t run any more and collapsed exhausted to the ground.

Not Fade Away

Not Fade Away by Chya (PG-13)

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