An: this story takes place between the first and second movie. It is a bit AU because Beast and Angel are already at the school.

Disclaimer: I only attempt to honor Stan Lee's brilliance. All I own is the sisters and other OCs that will come I later. There are also a few characters from the original comics. They look the same and have the same abilities but that's the only similarity that I guarantee.

Storm was having a terrible day. She was wakened by the sound of fighting at 2 in the morning. Two fire-starters who roomed with each other were fighting over who started a fire in their sleep. The fire had burned half of both of their clothes. She was lucky that the girls had the sense to put the fire out before they tried to figure out what had happened. The girls had caused such a commotion that the entire hall had woken up as well. Storm had reprimanded both girls heavily assigning them double chores for the week and promised to place them in separate rooms as soon as possible. In the meantime, she had to figure out who was in charge of rooming choices and fire them. Two pyromaniacs in the same room, really.

She hadn't gotten back to bed until 6 in the morning. Just in time for her alarm to sound and she had to go to work. After she showered, ate and got herself ready the first thing that she had to deal with was a scared parent who had come to the school to see their kid. Said parent had no idea that their child was a mutant and was alarmed to see one of the kids shape shifting into a cat. The parent had run into her office, in a fury, claiming that his young boy would never return to this institution. Storm had to calm the parent and bring the child, who happened to be a physic to have him explain. Storm listened to the family scream for five minutes before breaking into the room. She tried to calmly tell the parent to leave or he would be forcibly removed. She tried hard to control her temper but eventually had to send a strong gust of wind blowing the man out of the school. Even after that she had to calm down the child. He was only 12 and his father had told him he would never be her son again. It also didn't help that as a physic, he could hear all of his father's hatred to the point where there was no lying to him that his father really did love him. Eventually, she sent him to talk to Beast.

She sat down to rub her temples trying to relieve the sudden headache that was throbbing in her head. She spent the next two hours, working on mindless paperwork. Even though it exhausted her, she enjoyed the mindlessness of it. Just as she was about to take a break for lunch the police came in. Two girls followed them in silently. The police told her that the girls had been caught shoplifting and the girls claimed that they had been headed to this school. Storm glanced at the girls briefly. The smaller one glanced at her and her eyes turned bright blue. Storm immediately understood and begun explaining the cops away paying for the things they had stolen. The cops left begrudgingly, but not before glancing suspiciously at the girls.

Storm then turned to look at the two girls. The older one was thin and awkward. She had straight brown hair down to the small of her back and was wearing a thin ragged blue shirt and kakis. She smiled warmly under Storm's gaze. Storm felt reassured by that even if the smile seemed slightly forced. She seemed like a nice respectable girl even if she was ragged and dirty. That was nothing a good shower and a shopping spree couldn't fix. The other girl was a different matter entirely. She had dyed hair. It was black with bright blue highlights. Storm guessed it had to do with her abilities. Her eyes had turned that exact color. She had three earrings in both of her ears. She was wearing ratted jeans that were obviously a few sizes too small. She had on a once white t-shirt with a leather vest over top. She was also wearing black gloves that reached up to her elbows. Strom was about to mention them but the girl interrupted her in a low rasping voice. "The gloves have nothing to do with my powers. I just like them." The other girl looked as if she was about to say something, but the younger one elbowed her lightly. Storm felt her headache flaring up again. The younger girl introduced them. The older one was Robin and the younger was Chatty. Both of them went by the surname Smith even though they weren't related. Storm asked what their powers were and the Robin answered.

"Well, that's a bit complicated. I mean I'm sure that Chatty could show you easily, not that she'd want to even though I'm sure you'd force her I guess you'd have rules about that but you see I can't really control my abilities and there really hard to explain at least it's hard to explain for me I have filtering issues so I tend to ramble on. You can ignore me if you want everyone else does just ask Chatty she never listen past the first few words I say which might be considered a good thing to somebody you know there was this one time…"

Robin's mouth continued moving but no sound came out. She realized this and shut her mouth. Storm glanced at Chatty and noticed that her eyes were back to their electric blue. The blue faded to black and Chatty shrugged. The older woman gestured for her to explain. Chatty explained "in essence I can manipulate sound and Robin if she ever bothers to use her abilities can manipulate other people's abilities".

"What do you mean she controls other people's abilities?" Storm asked concerned.

Robin began to answer but Chatty shushed her again "she doesn't control them as in possession or anything like that. It's more like she controls the power levels. She can make some one more powerful and sometimes she can even take someone's powers away even though she's hardly that powerful".

Strom nodded, she would have to watch Robin. A weak power, but it could be potentially very dangerous. "That's fine… Actually I have a way you guys can help me. There are two girls that have to switch rooms. If you don't mind-"

Robin cut in happily "O, don't worry about us. Trust me when I say that there will be no trouble with us separating. Not that I don't like Chatty but when you live with someone for five years it's good to take a break. The thing I'd worry about is what the other girls think about us. We're hardly the sociable people. Well I am but I really annoy everyone I know and some people I don't blame them but trust me two rooms is 100% fine".

Robin rambled one for a while after that but Storm had stopped listening. Strom was quite impressed with robin's ability to talk without hesitating to think or breath. She walked over to her computer and started to change the rooming list. Looking up when Robin stopped talking she asked "how old are you guys again?"

Chatty answered this time. "I'm 16 and Robin is 21."

Strom nodded "Ok then Chatty, you'll be in a room with Alison Blaire. She can manipulate light and some other stuff. Lately, she has learned how to start fires. She is a singer so you guys might have something in common", chatty snorted derisively but stayed silent, "Robin, you'll be with Leyu Yoshida, she can throw fire as well".

"Does everyone in this school have a fire based power?" Chatty joked.

"Of course not, the person who assigned roommates just made the mistake of sticking two alike powers in the same room", Storm fired back.

Angel POV

Warren wasn't used to being called to the principal's office. He'd never gotten in trouble while he was in school. Of course he probably wasn't in trouble now. Storm was probably just in desperate need of help. The Professor, Jean and Cyclops had all gone on recruiting trips, and Angel knew that he would never be able to deal with half the things she had to do. He wandered down the hallway, pausing briefly before entering the office.

He poked his head around the door, grinning warily. "Everything OK?"

Storm gave him a look, "You can enter Warren, I'm not about to explode and hit you with a bolt of lightning".

Angel shrugged and entered watching the two new girls. The one with blue highlights ignored him. The other girl turned around and smiled warmly at him. He had to admit she was beautiful. Her eyes were a combination of all normal eye colors forming an intriguing hazel. He grinned and she smiled back quickly before looking away. Storm told him that they were new and needed to be shown to their rooms. She introduced them to each other. She told Warren to show them to their room and tell them about the school. They moved silently to Chatty's new room. Her roommate was in there waiting for her. She immediately started talking to the short girl. "Oh you're the new girl. I'm so excited. I've only been here a month or so and I love meeting new people". Chatty looked scared of the tall blond girl. Alison was very pretty and bubbly which Angel could already tell Chatty didn't like. However, Alison didn't seem to care. She convinced Angle to let her show her "new roomy" around.

Angel nodded and started to leave, but turned around right before she closed the door, "By the way, any luck with figuring out your power."

She shook her head, "No sorry, I know how to control the light I produce but not how I create it"

Robin looked at the blond girl strangely before speaking up, "You absorb sonic vibration and convert them the light."

The others looked at her strangely. Alison suddenly yelled, "Of course, that's what happens. It makes perfect sense know that you say it. How did you know?"

Robin looked confused and was about to speak, but Chatty interrupted her, "Probably just a side effect of your ability. After all, you have always been able to tell when someone's human or mutant just by looking at them. Knowing their abilities as well isn't that farfetched". Chatty sounded nervous and happy to get off the subject.

Chatty closed the door and Robin shrugged and gestured for them to head to her room. Angel watched her interested. "You know you can talk to me right. I won't bite."

Robin hesitated, very briefly, "I not worried that you'll bite. I just have an issue talking. Or more of an issue of not being able to stop talking. Not that it's really that bad. I eventually stop talking it just takes a while. Usually a few minutes when someone doesn't shut me up. I also will say any and everything I think when I start talking. Oddly enough though, I don't say everything I think if I never start talking if that makes any sense. Of course it doesn't make any sense I'm completely insane but what the hey I'm enjoying any minute of it. By the way what's your power? O I don't really need to ask do I. you have wings that's so cool. I wish I could fly. It's a bit of a stupid dream I had when I was a kid. I guess most people have that dream. It's hardly the most original dream. I had other dreams to, like going to college and becoming a psychiatrist, but I don't think that they'd accept and crazy person. Did you go to college? You look that age. How old are you anyway? I'm 21. Just had my birthday a month ago. There wasn't a party or anything. The closest thing I got to a celebration was Chatty shoplifting a new jacket for me. It was a really nice present though. Especially for her. But sometimes I was I could have a normal…".

They'd finally arrived at the room. Warren put his finger on Robin's lips. She backed into the wall surprised, breathing heavily. Angel thought that it was probably she hadn't taken a breath since she started talking. He felt the heat rising in her face and saw her turn bright red. Any train of thought she'd had died in throat. They were standing close and Warren smiled sweetly and whispered, "We're here".

Robin nodded, silently. The entered the barren room. Angel sat down one of the beds. He watched the girl before speaking up, "your roommate should be here by dinnertime. You can just unpack for now. Do you want a tour of the school?" She nodded as if she suddenly couldn't talk. She finished in about a minute, because her luggage consisted of a backpack full of old ratted clothes. When she finished, Angel stood up and moved right behind her. She turned around and let out a high-pitched squeak and then covered her mouth in horror. Angel laughed warmly, "Don't worry. I was even more jumpy when I first came here. You'll settle down sooner than you think.

Robin laughed nevorusaly, "I'm not jumpy. I am really used to moving around. It's just…that I've never been anywhere without Chatty in at least 5 years. I mean we practically slept in the same bad. Well actually we did do that a lot. Not that we slept together…we just slept together." Angel shushed her again by outing his finger to her lips. It was an effective way to stop her talking.

"Let's start this tour" she smiled brightly and nodded. He smiled back and offered her his hand. She took it, and they walked out together.

AN: sorry it got a little fluffy at the end but could you please review anyway.