X-men: Evolution : "Smarter than you think"

By Ryoken

Legal/copyright: Me owns nothing! Me is inocent of not showing the brotherhood more!

A/N: I havent seen "Hex Factor" , but i know what happened , so ill try and write this.

Everything was upside down at the Brotherhood house.

Pietro , Lance , and Fred were cleaning and repairing the house , while Mistyque was busy fixing her room , which was a disaster zone.

Nobody said anything when Todd hopped away , without saying a word.

Somebody did say something when he wasnt there anymore...

"What is that idiot doing?"-Wanda asked , like she deserved to know.

"Why would you care?"-Lance asked.

"Just curious , Maybe that loser is hiding something."-Wanda answered coldly.

"Why dont you follow him?"-Pietro said , without looking at her.

"Maybe i will..."-Wanda said as he leaved the place.

Somewhere else at bayville.....

Wanda had followed Todd all over town , when he finally entered a park like place....

"Bayville Cemetary"-Wanda readed on the gate.

She kept following him , and watched how he stopped at a pair of tombstones , and sitted in front of it.

Wanda just watched him , for almost half an hour as Todd just stayed there , looking at the tombstone.

She decided to talk to him.....

She walked silently , but...

"Come on , Scarlet , i know you are there"-Todd said , giving Wanda a scare.

"Waht are you doing here , loserboy?"-Wanda asked.

"Visiting my folks.."-Todd pointed at the grave. The name Tolansky was clear on both stones.

"They are dead , why you came here?"-Wanda asked.

"To remember , to try to not forget them"-Todd said , his voice very different.

"How it happened?"-Wanda asked.

"Mom died when i was little , sending Dad mad , he started drinking , and he sometimes hitted me.

Then , almost two years ago , the house got on fire, and he helped me escape trought a window.

He didnt came out , neither survive"-Todd was talking without an emotion.

"Sorry to hear that"-Wanda answered , surprised at tis side of Todd.

"If i were you , I`ll be sorry for myself"-Todd said.

"What?"-Wanda screamed , furious.

"There it is.The rage aginst everything , the rage that makes you so unhappy , yet you keep it with you , even as it is that rage the one giving you such pain"-Todd said.

Wanda just fell silent.

"You say your life sucks , and hate everyone, even Pietro , who was always worried of you , and is trying to recover what Magneto did to you both.

You hate your father because he locked you up , and you think that gives the right to be such a bitch?.

I never got a chance to love my mother and knew i did , i never got a chance to knew if my father really loved me , i never got to knew if he sacrificed himself for me because he loved me , or because he just wanted to do the right thing once in his life.

I never got a brother , one who would be unable to keep my father from bringing us apart , nd i will never have the chance to get the one oportunity to recover what i lost , to realise my brother loves me and cares for me , and just wants to make thing right.

I have experience the worst life can strike you with , but i dont go angry at life , because i know it wasnt my choice.

Im smart , smart enough to realise i have friends now , and happiness , not completely , but it is far away from being bad.

Im smart enough to know i got to play dumb , so i wont get used more than i could be , im smart to know that my life could been way worse , and be thankfull for it , evading me from that mask that is hate and anger.

You are still in a cage , you know Wanda?.

And the worst of this is that you have the key , but you dont want to use it , you dont want to be free".

Wanda stared at Todd , without moving a muscle.

"Im smarter than you , than Mistyque and than Xavier and Magneto , you know why?"-Todd said.

"Because i wasnt afraid to use the key , and get out of my cell , and face how terrible and beautyfull the world is , even when its against me as a person , as a teen , and as a mutant"-Todd said , and dissapered , hoping away , leaving Wanda in the field.

Wanda just stood there , unaware of her tears .

"Im not ready to open my cell yet , Todd , but now i know i must do it"- Wanda thought , as she standed there , looking at the tombs , and thinking how much they remembered of her cell.

END.

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Ryoken.