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Did he know her? He didn’t know. There wasn’t really anyone mentioned about Evelyn at least not from the files he saw it had all the access to his old teammates maybe some other people he knew were in there. If she was thirty and he was thirty though there was a good chance they knew each other. Better chance they dated. Sam doubted his older self would have not hit on a woman. He wouldn’t. ”That is a lot of time.” Sam agreed. He thought it was rough being under the legal drinking age and owning a bar. If he was de-aged that far back, he’d be hopeless.

Sam crouched down a bit so he was eye level with Evelyn and he covered one eye with his free hand. ”Well Evee, we could have. I used to live here too. Apparently I had an eye patch, still have it. Don’t need it.” that wasn’t who he was just like he was sure the girl wasn’t who she was. If so she would have been on the old soul side.

”But, we know each other now and now you get to learn everything for the first time. Kinda cool for someone who doesn’t forget things. I always love learning something new.” Sam stood up, ”Like yesterday, apparently my cat doesn’t like my dirty socks being left out. She piled them up for me.” Sam snapped his fingers, ”I also learned the mansion’s fridge is always full.” Sam nodded his head, ”Kinda cool.”

Sam heard the curse and started to laugh as he dodged a mermaid this time with a knife made of sharks teeth. Again, old Sam was creative. When he looked over to see the woman struggling towards him in the water he debated not even going to help it was after all a simulation then again, the water felt real. Maybe drowning was a simulation as well.

Sam’s feet still frozen to the door he bent down and willed some propellers to form on the back of the door. He directed the door to the woman hoping not to hit her with said door. When he got close the propellers fell off the door and into the water. His feet unfroze and he reached for the woman’s hand. ”Everyone else just calls me Sam. Hurry up!”

Behind a woman a large fin erupted from the water, Sam thought instantly of the jaws theme. Even he had seen the move. ”Double time!” Sam said blasting a beam of cold behind the woman trying to slow what looked like a big shark.

Shirtless Sam scowled at the response. Wasn’t there a light or something telling people the danger room was in use? Now he had only been here… he only remembered the past few days everything was still pretty new. ”Think they want to be called merfolk.” Sam corrected her. She might have not been able to see the faces but there wasn’t snake hair so to Sam they were merfolk.

”Well I didn’t know I needed to. Still new here. Sorry.” it wasn’t really an apology more of a sarcastic one. Young Sam was very sarcastic more so than older Sam. Sam turned back to the simulation and then added, ”You can join if you want but you should probably start heading this way. I think the door is important.” Sam said as he added, ”Danger Room start.”

The room cracked back into motion as Sam sidestepped the merman who poked his flesh. A little blood running down his side he shot a beam of ice and froze the creature. He bobbed up on the surface of the water as another wave threatened to capsize the door. His feet froze to the door as it rolled. Covered in water Sam surfaced to see where the new comer was.

”Me!” Sam turning from the now stopped simulation towards the source of the voice. Yup, his ears didn’t stir him wrong. ”Assuming we met before...” Sam got out of his fighting stance and walked closer to the woman. Ex-girlfriend? If not could I buy you a coffee?”

Sam shrugged, ”No clue, but I’ve been using the same codes most of my life. I was worried I got creative with some numbers or letters. You know putting you and I next to each other or something.” the sword dissipated from his hand.

”Didn’t see there was anyone scheduled to be in here. Been here a bit already I can leave if you want me to. Or you could join me on some fun?” Sam put his hands on his hips and then asked with a smirk, ”you are? Other than beautiful.”

He was older but still easily recognized, it’s the same way you can tell of a photo of yourself from taken from a surveillance video. Older Sam looked rougher, beard shaggier hair and look in his eye he didn’t like seeing. Older Sam had given up, there was no fire in his eye. Also he had one eye. That explained the eye patch. Young Sam looked over to the eye patch and made a small scoff. There was no way he had lost an eye, he was too good for that. However something young Sam was surprised about was the fact he was able to see an older version of himself. He honestly thought he wouldn’t have lived that long.

”If you are watching this then I’m dead. Like screwed dead, dead dead…” Old Sam smirked and started to laugh, ”Naw, just kidding. That’s another tape. I did fake my death, though.” Old Sam said pointing to the screw off in a corner. It wasn’t directed to him, it was directed to whoever gave the person the video. ”Mirror, thank you for being a good friend and not watching this before giving the drive to me. New me.” he paused again, ”and if you watched this before that time then, screw you ***hat.” he shook his head and looked serious again.

”New Sam, I don’t know if it had to do with something Amanda did or another telepath or someone who can alter memories but congrats. You got a knew lease on life.” Old Sam’s motions started to become a little wobbly as his hand rose up and there was a bottle of cheap whiskey. He was drunk. Older Sam was a drunk. Young Sam looked to Gawain and frowned. ”Black eye.” he warned.

Older Sam took a swig and then added his composure back to serious as if he was trying to steady himself older Sam stood up yelled and then threw the bottle. The glass shattered in the background and the video cut out. ”Okay.” young Sam said not moving from where he was. ”Right or left eye?”

Young Sam was about to bolt when the audio started back up, the screen lit back up. ”Sorry about that.” older Sam said his voice sounding like he just woke up, ”I remembered why I was doing this.” Old Sam sniffed and wiped a tear from his eye.

”You hit a knew low, well me. Old you. Anyways, there is a good chance that I did this to you. We had a rough go when we were young and things got good at the mansion. Great even, you found friends, you became a teacher.” Old Sam leaned back smiling as if he was proud. ”The best teacher if I do say so myself. Self defense for kids, yeah kids. You ended up getting a lot of them out of trouble. You might have also caused a few to get into it as well. Isn’t that right Mirror?” Old Sam leaned back into his slouched posture his hands holding each other.

”Probably the best thing to happen to you. Ever. Taught you that you had a lot to learn as well, you even learned to love and more importantly be loved. Then Amanda decided to resurface.”
Old Sam leaned over and cracked a beer and let out a loud sigh. ”She’s stronger, more capable of ****ing our life up. She hit us where it hurt, at home. The mansion. You end up getting controlled, kidnapping a few students, the ones you are meant to protect and just like that.” Sam snapped.

The Icemancer took a long swig of the beer and shook his head, ”Worst is, when she controls you, man. You got the world. She gave you a wife and kids. It was paradise. Then, well you being you started to fight the control. When she figured out she couldn’t control you.” Sam finished the can and crushed it in his hands. ”The family you came to love and worship, one violent end after another and when everyone was dead you get to start over again” older Sam put his head in his hands and started to sob. ”You killed them.”

Young Sam watched as his older self started to openly weep, he found it weird for two reasons. One, Gawain was here and watching an older version of himself break down. Two, older Sam decided to film said break down and then trust no one would watch it until the intended party arrived. Meaning older Sam seemed to trust Gawain a great deal.

Older Sam sniffed again and leaned back in the chair his one eye red and cheek striped with tears. ”Even when you were rescued it wasn’t the same. Started when you slept, memories and visions of your family butchered. Eventually you don’t sleep, then you start getting angry, drinking. Even tried to kill yourself. Some hypocrite we are. Preach how there is always another option and then.”

Sam snapped, ”in this drive are files and accounts of most of what we did. I don’t know how long the time gap was but at least there is enough for you to get started. Build something for yourself and if you decide to stick around I know there are enough people here. Good people. They might be able to help. The reason we came to the mansion in the first place was to be better. Make up for the **** we did. I don’t know what you remember but I’m a fighter. Always was. Why I’m able to tell you this.”

”I’m sure it’s confusing but I couldn’t go on living like I was. Too much” older Sam waved his hands around his head and shook his head. ”I did what I had to so we could survive. You’d thank me trust me. Live you life.”

Young Sam watched as the screen went back to the folder after the video cut out. His nostrils flared. ”So… I got rid of my memories?” Sam’s mutation kicked up the cold to express his irritation.

”And there is my new not best bud.” Sam said spotting the dog before he spotted the woman giving Bruno all the pets. What a lucky dog, instant attention where ever he wanted and no one tried to kill him. ”Yo, sorry if you aren’t a dog person.” Sam said smiling with a slight wave, ”I’m finding he doesn’t understand that people don’t like dogs.”

Sam formed a ball of ice which immediately grabbed Bruno’s attention away from the woman. Bruno sat as he was apparently taught to when there was a snowball, ice ball or any kind of ball about to be thrown. The ice doubled as a treat, which only made it look like the dog had a drooling problem as said ice melted after it was caught.

”You don’t know where we are in the mansion do you? I gather by the stairs and by some classrooms” Sam pointed to one then the other, ”I don’t think I’ve ever been this far back of the mansion before.” Sam said looking for some kind of map. ”I could just leave through a window but, “ Sam shrugged, ”Not to that point yet.”