Disclaimer: I don't own the X-Men but I do own Sydney Porinsa.

The New Hellfire Club: Prolouge

The room flooded with light as a man walked through the door. He looked like he was in his mid-forties. His head was balding and his face seemed to have grown some wrinkles over the years. He carried a three files under his arm and a paper pad in his other hand. He sat down to an empty table and slapped the files on the surface. "Ms. Frost," he started, "Why are we here?" The White Queen, Emma Frost, sat in a metal chair facing the desk.

"Don't you already have that answer?" she answered looking annoyed. "I asked to speak with you hoping you could help me but instead you sit there and question me like some sort of criminal."

"Your past offenses claim that you were a criminal," he answered looking at her.

"Are you not aware that were is past tense?" she asked her eyes burning with anger. "Do I need to give you a lesson on grammar Mr. Crammer? I thought speaking to the Head of Intelligence I would be speaking to some one who had intelligence. I am here to ask you for permission to reform the New York cell of the Hellfire Club?"

"Why would you want to do that?" Mr. Crammer asked.

"So we could protect this country from mutant terrorist such as M.L.F. and the X-Men," She answered.

"I understand you used to be an X-Man. Why did you leave?"

"Because Charles Xavier lied to me and all the other X-Men. He told us that he was trying to restore mutant/human peace. But he hid his real agenda from us. He used us."

"For what?"

"Mutant rights." Emma answered plainly.

"So, you don't want rights?"

"I don't think killing the people that could give it to me is the right way to go."

Mr. Crammer looked down and read something from one of the files and looked up, "But you don't have a problem shooting your own sister?"

"It was self defense," Emma lied, "And that has nothing to do with this."

"Sorry," he said holding up his hands. "How do you know that he lied to you?"

"He admitted it."

"So he just told you?"

"No, Lucas Bishop found evidence and confronted Xavier about it. Then he gathered all of us together and gave us a speech about his justification. Then we left."

"Who is 'we'?"

"Sean Cassidy, Elizabeth Braddock, Remy Lebeau, Ora Monroe, Kurt Wagner, Forge, Lucas Bishop, Jean-Paul Beaubier, Robert Drake, Danielle Moonstar, Lorna Dane, Samuel Guthrie, Mystique, Neal Sharra, James Proudstar, Theresa Cassidy, Tessa Niles, Rahne Sinclair, Sofia Barret, Josh Foley, Sydney Porinsa, and myself." she answered as she counted the mutants on her fingers.

"So, why did you come to me to ask permission?"

"It was really permission. A formallity really. I would do it regardless. our the fact that the possessions of the Hellfire Club belong to me anyway. The mansion. The money. The supplies..."

"I get the picture Ms. Frost," Crammer interrupted. "I would like to question some of the new members though. If that's OK."

"I suppose so. We have nothing to hide," and with that the White Queen stood and left the metallic room. After going through layers of security she walked down the front steps of the Pentagon. A white limo waited in the front and the back door opened. Sean Cassidy stepped out and motioned for her to get in. She did so and he stepped in behind her. Then she noticed that there was a bottle of champaign and glasses setting on a silver tray. When she looked at him she realized that he was wearing a tuxedo. "What's all this for?" she asked.

"We my dear are going out tonight," answered taking her coat from her.

"But Sean..." she started but was cut off.

"Emma. The others can do without us tonight."

"Well if we're going out I expect you to hold up a good converstion... say... how my meeting went."

"OK then. How did your meeting go?" he asked.

"I would hardly call it a meeting. It was more like an interrogation," she started, "The idiot kept questioning me like I was a convict or something. But I think he got the picture that I know what I'm doing." The car stopped and a man outside opened the door. The two had arrived at D.C.s most highly respected restaurant, Neptune's Palace. Banshee stepped out and held out his hand to help Emma.

Emma got out of the limo and smiled at Sean, "Would you like to join me for dinner?"

That was just the beginning!!! More "meetings" to come.