A/N: This jus' came ta me!! Heh, it's weird, I know… but hell! I think it's cool!!

Ok… ta make this work, yo… I made it an AU kinda. Scott, Jean, Pietro, Wanda, Kitty, Rogue, Amanda, Kurt, Todd and Lance are all in their 3rd or 4th year in college… Everythin' else is the same, kays? The only reason why I didn't include more of da charas is cause then the story would be WAY too big!!! Oh Yeah!! And no one knows bout the mutants yet, alrighty?? Ok.. so I changed a few more things.. butcha have ta read on!

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Chapter 1: Day Of Reckoning

1st period came around at the University of Bayville. The class of 10 students came into their class of 'Juvenile care'. Only 10 students in their junior or Senior year had made the grades to be in the second semester: Jean Grey, Scott Summers, Rogue, Pietro Maximoff, Wanda Maximoff, Todd Tolensky, Amanda Sefton, Kurt Wagner, Lance Alvers and Kitty Pryde. Funny how they were divided in half and disliked each other… And it was also funny that most of these students had secret powers that they had to hide from the world… but what was funnier, was the assignment that they were about to get on this Day of Reckoning.

"Alright, class! Welcome to your second semester! I'm glad all of you made the cuts… but I have a very special assignment for all of you that I will tell you all about near the end of class." Mrs. Cory said before she began her lecture. She assigned them class work that took about a 30 minutes to finish so then they had 20 minutes left in the 2-hour class. Mrs. Cory told them to clear their desks and she began to explain the assignment that would change their lives...

"Since all of you have proven that you are all trust worthy and responsible adults… This assignment is very important and crucial to your grades! I am aware of the professions that you are interested in going into like Therapy, Pediatric career any kind of medical care, foster agents. And there are a few in here that just want to learn more about becoming a 'stay at home' mom. But... there is, of course, the one who just needed the extra credit to graduate." Mrs. Cory said and glanced over at Pietro, who looked up and acted innocent.

"I want all of you to understand how it is in the real world with your careers that have to deal with children. So that's why, I have asked for extra funds from the generous man, Charles Xavier, the one who backs this university and supplies us with more than half of our funds... The principle also agreed with Professor Xavier and my ideas... so now we have 5 houses where the lot behind the school was." The students looked at each other… well, the brotherhood looked at members of the brotherhood and X-Men looked at the other X-Men members… while Amanda Sefton, the girl who knew nothing of any of the others in the class just gave the teacher a blank look. She raised her hand.

"But, Mrs. Cory, There are 10 of us…." Amanda said timidly.

"I know that, Ms. Sefton. I was getting to that. All of you will be paired up boy and girl. You two will be living with each other for the remainder of the semester. It will be like a pretend marriage. You and your 'spouse' will have to learn to live together peacefully… since I have noticed the majority of you don't get along, this shall be interesting… and you will be moving in tonight from your dorm rooms." Mrs. Cory said. "I will be assigning you spouses and you two will have to get along… your grade depends on it. Oh, yes… and you all, who are adults now, will have to learn to look after one another in your family. You all will also be adopting a child from the local orphanage..." Every jaw in the class dropped but it was unnoted by Mrs. Cory seeing as she continued to talk, "well, it is more like a 'big brother' type program... you will be getting the child ready to their new parents when they are adopted."

"I will now be assigning you to your partner. Remember that both of your grades depend on how your 'marriage' works out." Mrs. Cory got out her notebook and looked through it. "Alright. Lance Alvers, you'll be with…"

The college senior's eyes went from out the window to his teacher. 'Kitty Pryde, Kitty Pryde, please be Kitty Pryde.' Lance thought to himself. He knew that Kitty was on the opposite side of the 'good fight', but he had strong feelings for her. He really liked that energetic 'valley girl' junior. But… he was very disappointed and horror struck when he heard the teacher call out someone else's name. He looked in the direction that the teacher was pointing and he nearly fell over in his chair. "ROGUE??" Lance yelled. Rogue glared at him and rolled her eyes.

Rogue, who was a junior, had been hoping that she would get Scott Summers… He was the guy that she had been after ever since she had joined the X-Men. She sighed and put her head down on her desk as if she was ready to die. 'This is going to be very hard.' Rogue thought to herself.

"Jean Grey and… Scott Summers." Jean and Scott looked at each other as their names where called. Scott had deep feelings for Jean that went beyond friendship, but he would never admit it… that went for Jean, also, but she had been dating the star of the college foot ball team, Duncan Mathers, for quite a while now since she had given up almost all hope on Scott since he had gotten together with the cheer leader, Terrain Fujika. This was a godsend… and a curse for them both.

"Pietro Maximoff and Kitty Pryde." Pietro, the fast talking womanizer, looked over at Kitty with a stunned glance; he couldn't believe this! The college senior smirked to himself, with the knowledge that he was going to have so much fun making Lance jealous… even though Kitty wasn't really his type. Kitty, who was hoping to get Kurt, slumped down in her chair. 'Great! I got Speedy…' she thought to herself and groaned.

"Wanda Maximoff and Todd Tolensky." Todd smiled widely when this was announced! He looked over at Wanda, who was sitting right next to him.

"We're gonna have lots o' fun, babe cakes!" Todd said.

"Drop dead." Wanda said as she looked over at the toad-boy who was one class under her… but that wasn't the reason why she always got so irritated with him. They were both members of the brotherhood, they were kind of friends, but Todd was head over heels for Wanda… and she didn't like the way he expressed his feelings for her. The thought of spending the next 4 months LIVING with him wasn't a thrill, either.

"Ahem!" Mrs. Cory said as she looked at the few people talking… "And that leaves Amanda Sefton and Kurt Wagner. I'm giving you the rest of the class period to talk to your partner and come get your papers. Both or one of you will have to pick up your adopted child tonight after school." The teacher said and sat down. The students looked at each other…

Kurt walked over to Amanda… sure, he had hoped to be with Kitty, but he knew Amanda from his math class. They were both juniors and kind of friends! But unbeknownst to Kurt, Amanda has a huge crush on him! Kurt smiled at Amanda, got up, and walked over to her desk. She stood up also.

"Umm... Hi, Kurt… let's get our papers!" Amanda said as she walked over to the teacher's desk. Kurt followed her. He took the papers from the teacher and handed half of them to Amanda as he looked through them.

"Vell, uh... Amanda, I'm Kurt Wagner," Kurt said, trying to figure out what to say to this very pretty girl. Kurt and Amanda were both in their 3rd year in college, but they were very shy around each other.

Amanda laughed softly. "I'm Amanda... but I guess you already know that…" Amanda said and smiled at Kurt and blushed. Kurt blushed also. "Umm... I'm really looking forward to this, Kurt…" Amanda said softly.

"Vat? You are? Really? I mean, I am too..." Kurt said and smiled at Amanda again… but at the same time, he was panicking. Sooner or later she was going to realized WHAT he was! And what about the child? This was going to be hard…

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The students TRIED to get along for the rest of the class period, but they mostly stayed away from each other. "What have I done…?" Mrs. Cory thought to her self then smiled as all of the students filed out. "They will learn to live among each other… I know it." Mrs. Cory thought aloud and went back to doing to her paper work.

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After School, Kitty, Jean and Rogue were waiting out front for their partners.

"Like, I can NOT believe I got Pietro Maximoff! He'll be bringing girls home and running in and out of the house! He'll leave me to do everything! I know it!" Kitty said as she watched the entrance of the school for Pietro. "Like, plus he's Magneto's son! I am NOT going to survive this!"

"Ya think you have it bad? Ah got the rock-tumbler…" Rogue mumbled and rolled her eyes.

"Well, like, I would totally rather have Lance than Pietro!" Kitty said.

"I guess I kind of lucked out… I mean, Scott and I have always been good friends…" Jean said. "But I still need to talk to Duncan about it… he isn't here today." Jean said and Rogue sighed, irritated.

"I'm happy for you, Jean! You totally lucked out!" Kitty said and smiled at her friend.

"Yeah, ah'm sure that you and Scott will have a grand time. Ah gotta go." Rogue said as she stormed off to where she saw Lance was. She was jealous of Jean; VERY jealous of her… and that jealousy seemed to be emitted from the 21 year old's body. Lance, sensing that Rogue was angry by the way she was walking towards him, got in his jeep and waited for Rogue, who, soon after, got in and buckled herself in. "Les go…." Rogue mumbled. Lance rolled his eyes and drove towards the orphanage.

"What's wrong? Did you touch a bug or something?" Lance asked. He didn't like Rogue and Rogue didn't like him so there was no use in pretending to be civil with each other.

"Hmph. Jus' get us there with out causin' a tremor, shake-foot." Rogue said.

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"What's her problem?" Jean asked softly to Kitty, who shrugged.

"I dunno… I don't think she was happy about getting Lance, not that I blame her!" Kitty said and shook her head. "But you are so lucky, Jean! I bet Scott's going to help you out! Unlike Pietro.." Kitty said as she

looked over at where she had last seen Pietro… he was in the middle of a group of girls.. STILL! Kitty knew that even though she was one year younger than the 22 year old pretty boy, she was much more mature than him.

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"Oh man! Scott! Vat do I do? I mean, if Amanda touches my hand even she'll know somezing iz up!" Kurt said as he and Scott walked out of the school. "An' vat if she finds blue fuzz in ze bath room?? I am toast!"

"Kurt, hey, calm down! Just keep your cool and watch yourself. I'm sure that you'll do just fine. Hey, there's Jean, I'll see you later, Kurt! Good Luck!" Scott said and ran over to where Jean and Kitty were, leaving Kurt alone.

"Oh man! Vat am I gonna do?"

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"Toad, leave me alone!" Wanda said as she walked towards her car. Todd followed and let himself in her car.

"But snookums! We have to go pick up our little kid! I hope it's a boy…" Todd said and buckled himself in. Wanda rolled her eyes and got inside her car. She remained silent, but turned up her music so loud that she couldn't hear Todd talk if he did.

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A/N: Hehehehehehe!!!! This is gonna be fun ta write!

--AJ