Disclaimer: I do not own X-men Evolution, or any of the characters from the X-men. Kaitlyn is my own invention.

Phoenix Rising Prevention Squad

"Teaching and Detectives"

Remy sat cross legged on the floor with Kaitlyn in front of him, and a stack of colorful animal drawings in his lap. Kaitlyn was clearly beginning to grow moody, as was Remy, as he held up the drawing of a cat.

"Okay Kaitie, tell Daddy, What do cats say?" Remy asked patiently.

"Moo." Kaitlyn replied.

"No cherie, cats say meow, cows say moo." Remy replied, before holding up a drawing of a dog. "C'mon, what do dogs say?"

"...Moo." Kaitlyn replied. " Ti, doggy!"

"That's right Kaitie, Tiny is a doggie, and what does Tiny say?" Remy replied, hoping she would answer correctly this time.

"Moo." Kaitlyn replied.

Sighing heavily, and suspecting his two year old may be messing with him at this point, Remy held up a bird, while asking what birds say. His daughter frowned at the bird for a few minutes, before replying with her now frequent "Moo."

Remy then dug in the pile for a minute determined to get a right answer out of her, even if he had to cheat, eventually he laughed triumphantly, and held up a cow while saying. "Now, Kaitie, this is a cow. What do cows say?"

Kaitie stared at the cow for a minute, before staring straight at her father and repling. " Woof."

Remy groaned, not certain his child was messing with him, this was just like something he, or Rogue, would have done as kids, when they didn't want to do something. Years worth of curses from Jean-Luc,Tante Mattie, and Mercy came rushing back to him. Prior to today, he didn't believe any one of them actually possesd any magic, but clearly he had been cursed as often threatened, Because his child was just like him.

"She's teasing you." Rogue said from the doorway, having watched the exchange for the last few minutes, Oliver sitting on her hip. " She knows the answers to all of em, she was showing them to Logan this morning."

"I know. That's why it's frustrating." Remy said, before sighing and admitting defeat. " I guess we can try again later."

"Yeah I'm about to take them over and drop them off with Logan anyway. We're supposed to be downstairs in a few minutes."

Remy nodded, with excitement. It was time for Rogue's six month check up, and they were going to find out for certain today what the baby was. Hank had suggested last time that he thought it was a girl, and promised to confirm it today.

~o~O~o~

Logan happily took the LeBeau children with him on his rounds of the mansion, in the two months since the salesmen incident, and temporary suspension of the Book no one had caused much trouble, which just put Logan on edge. They never went long with out trouble, it was the nature of running a school full of teenage students. Especially teenage students who were mutants and who's teachers were students themselves less than two years ago.

As Logan pondered what trouble would occur next he walked slowly down the hall, Kaitie holding his hand and Oliver on his hip, when the doorbell rang. Grumbling to himself about lax security, Logan yanked open the door, to find two men in dark suits.

"Whatever you're selling I'll take two, then get off the property! Your kind are allowed here." Logan stated.

"I'm sorry sir but-" One of the men began.

"LOGAN!" Wanda yelled, waddling down the hall. She normally would have stomped, but pregnancy prevented stomping. "No. Shopping! Don't make us stage another intervention."

"No we're no-" The second man attempted.

"Wanda, I'm NOT shopping, I was telling them to leave!" Logan replied, ignoring the men.

"Sir you misunderstand." The sir man tried again.

"Logan, I clearly heard you say you would take two." Wanda said, crossing her arms just over her enlarged stomach.

"I did not. " Logan replied, as the second man said. "We're detectives, not."

"I heard you Logan, these men can leave without getting any money out of us." Wanda replied, both of them ignoring the men.

"Kaitie, darlin. Tell Auntie Wanda what I said. "Logan asked the child.

"Takes Two." Kaitie replied.

"That doesn't prove anything! She said cats go moo earlier." Logan defended, as one of the men pulled a badge out of his pocket, and shoved it at Logan and Wanda.

"We are here to see Ms. Grey." One of the men stated.

Wanda stared at the badge for a moment, while Logan frowned at the interruption. "Right this way sirs." Wanda finally stated, leading them toward the front parlor where all outsiders were entertained.

Logan trailed behind, now certain this would be the impending doom he had sensed coming. This was either about that tie accident of Violator's or about the damage to the mall last week when Jean flipped out over the prices of something or another. Logan wasn't sure of the details, he avoided malls, thanks to his last intervention he no longer even went to grocery stores.

Wanda invited the men to sit, and then went in search of Jean, while Logan and the LeBeau children sat on the other couch. An awkward silence fell on the room for a few minutes, before Logan cleared his throat and said. "So, you're sure you're not here to sell something?"

"No sir, we are not." said the first man.

"If you were, you wouldn't say you were. You'd want to lull us into a false sense of security, before striking. Therefore making the maximum commission and ruining all of my hard work since my intervention." Logan said, though he was still not convinced he actually needed the mentioned intervention.

"I assure you sir we are not in sales. We are detectives." said the second man.

"If you say so. Just know, we won't buy more than two, no matter how lulled we become...unless it's those baby food prosessors I saw on TV last night. You're not selling those are you?Because I really think we could use a few but Remy and John took my credit cards at the intervention and I don't know where they hid them." Logan said.

"Sir. We're here to arrest Ms Grey, not sell you anything." said the first man.

"Oh,okay then. Wait!Arrest her for what?" Logan replied, as Kaitie started squirming.

Before the man could answer Kaitie announced she needed to go potty, and with an alarmed expression, Logan ran from the room carrying both children.

~o~O~o~

Wanda went in search of Jean, who had been in the kitchen with Nathan and William when Wanda went to see who was at the door. As Wanda walked into the kitchen, she saw William still in his highchair, but Nathan and Jean were no where to be seen.

Sighing in frustration, Wanda picked up her son, then went looking for the other woman. She passed Logan as he ran by screaming to move out of the way, and shook her head. It was his reaction everytime Kaitie said potty while in his care. All of them agreed the child probably enjoyed the wild dash through the halls though, because she changed her mind about half the time when he got her to the bathroom.

Wanda saw the LeBeaus on her way past the parlor, and pointed in the direction of the bathroom stating. " Kaitie had to go, you haven't seen Jean anywhere have you?"

Remy shook his head while Rogue replied. "No, you can ask Emma though, Nathan is with her and Megan downstairs."

Wanda nodded and with a sigh, made her way to the elevator. She really wanted to take a nap, not search all over for someone. However she also really wanted to know why the detectives wanted Jean. However, the search turned out to be pointless, when she found Emma, who informed her that Jean suddenly remembered an appointment and asked Emma to watch Nathan for her, with no real indication of how long she would be.

Wanda then made her way back to the parlor, where the now irritated looking detectives waited, while Pyro kept them company.

"John, are you annoying these men?" Wanda asked.

"No, I was explaining to them the best uses of fire sculpturing while in the woods, but they didn't want to come see a demonstration for some reason." John replied.

"William needs a nap, would you mind?" She replied, she had learned long ago the only way to get John not to burn something was to distract him, and that only worked half the time.

John left with the baby, and Wanda turned to the men. "Sorry about that, anyway, I looked everywhere, and apparently Ms Grey isn't here at the moment. I could take a message for you."

"How long ago did she leave?" Asked the first man.

"I don't know. This is a big place, I can't keep track of everyone here! My job is to monitor the students, not the staff." Wanda said. "Don't tell me how to do my job!"

"Ma'am, we really need to talk to her, if you could please see if anyone knows where she went-"

"No one knows where she is, she asked Emma to watch her son, stating she forgot an appointment. She's a grown woman, and doesn't have to answer to anyone but Logan...well maybe Wade...possibly the LeBeaus, I'm still not clear on their reach of duties. Certainly not me though." Wanda replied.

"Well, can we speak to Logan,Wade, or the LeBeaus?" asked the second detective.

"Logan won't know anything, you just saw him anyway, he answered the door to you...here let me see if any of the other's are available." Wanda said leaving the room.

The two men shrugged to each other, as the first man wondered if the 'institute' referred to a mental hospital. They then sat back to wait.