disclaiimer/I dont own x-men and if i did it would be alot more dark, and angsty

ella/renegade is my own madeup character, so is nightshade

Ella stared at the reflection in the mirror. She was no stranger to loss, and in no way felt regret about

the way she felt. She recalled the argument in full, as she brushed the knots out of her long black hair.

She'd been in many arguments with her father but not one like this. Her silouette seemed to fill the

space, but that wasn't her-it was someone else. "Nightshade stop it, I'm not in the mood right now for

these games of yours." He didn't argue as the light began to flood the room, and his figure appeared

beside Ella. "What is wrong my love?" he whispered into her ear, as he took the brush from her and

gently brushed her hair, just the way she used to have it brushed when she was a child. She sighed

deeply and whimpered almost pathetically, her tears and anger flooding her senses."He says my ideals

are senseless, that I might as well send the mutant race to another Genosha. But.." "No, don't think

you are foolish." "oh my sweet," she said turning to face him, "My sweet wonderful Nightshade. You

are only making his point more poignant with every word you say..and don't say." She whispered as

she touched his forehead. "He says that my foolish heart leads this endeavor and that I am unable to

see past this dark veil I willingly look towards. " "Are you not a creature of dark thoughts with a light

heart though?" his words though cryptic, made sense to her. She had her good and her bad- noone

was expecting perfection in her path she chose, only honesty.

But am I being honest with myself? She wondered to herself carefully shielding her thoughts from him.

Several hours earlier Professor Xaviers office

"The land is ripe and alive with vegitation, and the UN is practically offering it to me on a silver platter.

I know the risk is worth it..it would be another Genosha before the rest of the world was unable to

deal with themselves. Everything would be different, professor…Dad. But please I need

your..approval, I need to know you will stand with me, side by side without flinching when the critics

start talking crap.."

He stood with his head resting in his hand, he was disturbed by this. He had watched genosha's

struggle and its fall. He had watched the world and knew even now, not connected with cerebro that

they, they being the world would never accept this.

He spoke now, his voice rising with a fever pitch…

She held onto Nightshade holding her sobs in. he must not know what he'd said, or how much it had

broken her to hear him call her a failure, a science experiment gone wrong. But he heard all too

well.."He will pay as well as his team of flukies, don't you worry my little dark angel, my Renegade

warrior…all will work itself out." A fearful smile played on her face as he spoke, and now she replied

with more anger then before, but yet so calmly, "Yes, he will suffer, as I have suffered, he will pay as

noone else has ever had to pay before in the history of human or mutantkind…he will be..my

experiment."

End chapter 1