Flicker
Chapter One: New Arrivals

Disclaimer: I own nothing but my original characters.
AN: I'm attempting to keep as close to the character's portrayed characteristics from the movies. Forgive me if I stray from the path. The Story will focus on the PyroxOC pair mainly but there will be a BobbyxOC pairing as well. And I'll probably put LoganxRogue in there too for good measure. If you don't like it, please don't read it. I try to be funny, to keep people interested. I don't always succeed. Things will be a little cliche with the whole "everything-is-totally-opposite" thing or whatever. I have a thing for polar opposites and exact pairs. Just a forwarning. Some of it, ok alot of it, will make you think "Well who didn't see that coming?". I happen to love cliche things. So deal. My language can be utterly deplorable, and is not suitable for younger people. I curse like a sailor, hence the Mature rating.
Let me know if the formatting is weird for you to read. I'll gladly fix it.

Summary: This story is set about a year or so after the events of X3. Its slightly AU. Professor X is alive, in the body of the vegitable guy. (I cannot remember for the life of me if they gave him a name) Jean is still dead, as is Scott. Pyro has been taken back into the X-men (reasons explained later), Rogue never took the cure, Magneto does not have his full powers back but Mystique is once again her awesome blue-scaly self.
A pair of fraternal twins come from Finland to join the X-men. One of them is to take the place of resident Doctor to the institute, the other is still mostly undecided upon her career. They're sign is Gemini, and pretty much polar opposites from one another, but of course they are twins, so they're alike in many ways as well.

I'm horrible at summarys, so please forgive that as well.

Enjoy.

"I can't believe we're doing this, Sinikka."

"Well...believe it." Aurora sighed deeply, tossing her long black hair haughtily behind her shoulder. Gravely, her whiskey colored eyes roamed the airport around of her.

"American Homo-sapiens are such... pigs." Her sisters throaty laugh drew a smirk from Auroras serious face. "You know its true Sini, don't laugh like you had no idea." The last lazy rays of the sun began to slip in through the windows to tint her eyes a blazing orange color as it started to dip down below the horizon. Sini allowed herself to shake her head with a small smile.

"Whatever you say sister. I like the normal people. They're so adorable." Sini allowed her own cobalt blue eyes to wander and meet the momentarily orange ones of her fraternal twin. "not all of them are...disgusting." This time it was Aurora who laughed heartily.

"Oh my. You really think so? When you find one, please do point them out."

"Well...At least they're not as bad as the french."

"Hey! The french were pretty awesome, thank you very much." Sini smirked and snatched up her luggage as it came around, Aurora doing the same. "lets just find the car." With a nod and a roll of her eyes Sini motioned exaggeratedly for her sister to lead the way.

It didn't take them very long at all to find the one and only driver holding a sign containing their last name, Vuori. Even despite the sign though, he stood out like a sore thumb to say the least. The duo of car and driver before them was quite an interesting one. The car itself was incredibly unique, giving the impression that it was definitely one of a kind, and painted brightly with ice-blue almost matching the snow surrounding them. Aurora raised an eyebrow and took a quick peek over at her twin, who's mouth was hanging open. The driver of the car had the prettiest blonde hair Sini had ever seen, other than her own, and blue eyes to rival her own as well. Her breath had caught in her chest as she dragged her eyes from the driver to the car. She approached it like a wild animal, cautiously, and completely engrossed with it. Aurora took into account the fact that the car was compact, and only had two seats. She voiced her concerns to the person from Xavier's Academy as Sinnika made her way around the piece of machinery .

"How do you expect to get both of us there in...that? I'm not fucking sitting in anyone's lap for 6 hours. And no one is sitting in mine." The guy still hadn't said anything, but he looked deep in thought, staring right at her. "hey. Dude." Aurora snapped her fingers impatiently while her sister continued her awed inspection of the car. Bobby snapped out of his worried gaze but didn't stop staring at the woman before him.

"Well if you hadn't chosen an airport 6 hours away then we wouldn't have that problem now would we?." He quipped, giving her a look that would have frozen anyone else in their tracks. Aurora smirked haughtily.

"You can thank your professor for that one, dickwad. It wasn't my choice.." He just huffed.

"You will be riding with Logan." Bobby jerked his head to his right with a smirk, motioning to the car parked behind his. This evoked a real smile from her. She wondered why she hadn't noticed it before, it was an amazing piece of work, even better than the blue one, but once again, she had the strangest feeling that there was no car like it in the world. It was the color of fire. No distinct red, yellow, or orange, it just was. The still fading sunlight flickered in her eyes again and quickly returning to normal, making Bobby blink twice, wondering if her eyes actually had done what he thought. Logan finally stepped out of the car, a lit cigar hanging from his lips. It reminded her that she hadn't had a cigarette in the longest time, so she reached into her purse and pulled one out of the pack. After placing it between her lips and putting the pack back in her purse, she snapped her fingers. A small flame appeared above her closed digits and she used it to light the cancer stick. Bobby watched with a smile as she opened her fingers and it disappeared. Suddenly Sinikka popped up beside Bobby with a wide grin.

"I fucking love this car."

"I think it sucks. This car however, is orgasmic." Logan growled as Aurora leaned against the side of the fire-car and ran her hands behind her lovingly over the hood. Identical smirks appeared on the two girls faces as they both said the same thing to Bobby.

"Pop the trunk." Bobby and Logan rolled their eyes, praying that the twin moments didn't happen often.

"I'm not lugging this crap in my lap all the way to the house-thing."

"Its actually a mansion." Sini's head whipped around to look at Bobby with wide eyes as she shoved her stuff into his trunk and her sister did the same.

"What?" Aurora giggled at her sisters cluelessness.

"Duh. Didn't you look at the brochure X sent us?"

"Not really...I was too busy."

"Doing what? Fucking around?"

"yeah, pretty much." the girls shrugged and stood next to their respective rides.

"Ok, as much as I love small talk, We're leaving now." Logan said gruffly, turning and getting into the driver side. Before Bobby even register what was happening, everyone was in their respective vehicles except him. With a groan, he walked around to his own driver side and tossed the sign behind his seat.

Aurora was on her fourth cigarette a half hour into the ride when Logan finally spoke. She hadn't minded the silence, it wasn't awkward. But then again it hadn't been companionable either. It just was silent.

"So kid. Whatcha in for?" Her eyebrow raised, and even in the dark he could see how much she resembled another fire-manipulator he knew. She continued to stare outside as she took a leisurely drag from her cigarette, and blew the smoke out the open window.

"Sinikka wants to be a doctor" Her accent slipped out, making her voice thick. Her eyes looked over to him. "She wouldn't leave without me, and I wouldn't let her go without me, so of course I had to come." Logan raised a characteristic eyebrow.

"She could have gone to any college and practiced at any medical facility...Why Xavier's?" Aurora shrugged.

"Its her dream to work exclusively with people like us. She finds Homo-sapien DNA too boring, so she prefers mutants for patients. She's already been to school, she was just looking for a job." Her voice got lower as she spoke. "It's the perfect opportunity for her."

"What about you?"

"What do you mean?"

"Well...You don't seem very happy to be here." The girl smirked and turned her full attention to him, looking away from the window and at his...different...hairstyle..

"How observant of you...You're right though. I'd rather be back home."

"Where is back home, by the way. You accent is...interesting."

"Finland.."

"That's pretty far away..."

"No shit Sherlock." Logan ignored her obvious need to smart off and continued.

"You speak English better than most foreigners. You've even got the fuckin slang down pact."

"English has been my second language since I was five. I prefer Finnish, its my mother tongue but English is the language of business, is it not?" Logan snorted.

" Yeah, I guess it is. So what are you going to do while you're here, if the only reason you've got to even be here is because of your sister?" She shrugged and looked back out the window at all the cars and landscape.

"I'll probably teach Finnish to some of the older students. Its pretty much the only thing I'm qualified for."

"At least its better than sitting around doing nothing constantly."

"Why? Is that what you do?" That familiar smirk appeared again and he couldn't help but imagine how this girl was going to get along with the firefly.

"Not exactly. I get to rough up the little punks."

"Ah. The punisher." Logan couldn't help but genuinely laugh at the comparison.

"Yeah you could say that."

"So what can you do, Big man?" He took his right hand off the wheel and held his fist near her face. When she raised an eyebrow, his claws extended with an almost inaudible 'snickt'. "Fucking Christ." She didn't flinch when they retracted just as quickly and he placed his hand back on the wheel. "Is that it?"

"No, but you'll see the rest when I kick your ass in the danger room." She snorted. The "special" brochure Professor X had sent her mentioned something about a unique training facility but she hadn't read much into it.

"We'll see. What's your name, by the way?"

"Logan, Icebreath told you that earlier."

"No, What's your real name, Logan?" The sentence reminded him eerily of Magneto. It was the same thing the old man had asked John that day on the jet, on the way to Alkali Lake. He ignored it and answered her, knowing what she meant.

"Wolverine. What's yours?" She smiled eerily and held a fist in front of his face, much as he had done to her, only she just held it and watched him drive for a second. He never moved his concentration from the road, but she knew he was watching. A slick smile graced her features as she quickly snapped that fist open. Her longish, bright blue painted nails scraped across the skin of her palm before her fingers opened completely to create a claw. Within the claw of her hand, there was a flame. He smirked and watched. Oh yeah, he mused silently. They're gonna get along just fine. She flattened out her hand and brought it closer to her face. The fire sitting on her hand touched her skin, but did not burn it. The small light emanating from her palm reflected in her eyes, making them a blazing orange again.

"Inferno." her voice was no more than a whisper but it was spoken with such resonance it was impossible to mistake the fact that indeed, she believed it to be her real name, if not a sacred one. The flame morphed into five smaller balls of flame when she held her hand up, one over each finger. She tilted her head slightly, as if completely entranced while she watched the fire slowly engulf her hand like a glove. It reached down to her wrist before it stopped moving. She looked over at Logan with a real smile as she snapped her flaming fingers and her hand returned to normal. All traces of fire gone. "Does it fit?" Her eyes went back to normal with the disappearance of the light source. He didn't look at her, just shook his head slightly.

"I'd have to say yes." She nodded her head once with a satisfied smile and looked back out the window.

The ride was silent for the next Five hours. She slept for most of the ride, her feet clutched up to her chest and the window as her pillow. Her jacket had been put over her to protect her from the cold even though the heater was on. He listened as the sound of her deep breathing changed, became shallower signifying that she was waking up. With a yawn and a quick stretch she popped her eyes open and immediately reached for her purse and a cigarette. After taking a few drags and rolling the window down a bit she looked at him gravely, her hair falling into her face a little. "What's this place like?" She sounded worried, but just barely. Logan shrugged.

"Well...its usually pretty loud. There's a fuckin assload of kids. There's even more than usual, now that they know the cure isn't permanent. " Her eyes darkened when he spoke of the cure but she didn't say anything about it. "Dinner is usually the worst...and between classes. Other than that its not so bad." She nodded gravely again and was silent for another ten minutes.

"They're going to drive me nuts aren't they?"

"The kids? Hell yeah. Its what they do. How old are you anyway?" She snorted.

"Its not polite to ask a lady's age."

"But if I don't know how old you are how'm I supposed to know if you're a lady or a girl?" Aurora let out a laugh and shook her head.

"Smartass. I'm Nineteen." Logan let out a whistle.

"Damn, you're a fuckin baby. Your sister is the same age, right?" She nodded.

"Yeah, dick. We're fraternal twins."

"Really? I thought you guys were identical, other than the hair."

"Nope."

"How has she already been though school and all that bullshit?" They pulled up to the mansion gates earlier than expected and drove on through behind Bobby's car.

"She went to majorly advanced classes all through highschool, and went to college two years early. And she just graduated like three months ago. We actually turn twenty in a month or so." They were both silent again as Logan pulled the car into the huge garage and parked it next to Bobby's. Aurora got out quickly and stretched, her body moving languidly as she adjusted the dark jeans on her legs and pulled down the tight long sleeved black shirt she was wearing that read "poke me". Slowly she walked around the car, taking in every little detail in the dim light. As she rounded the end of the vehicle, she looked down and noticed the licence plate. It simply read "Pyro". With a raised eyebrow she walked to where Sinnika was standing with Bobby. They were standing next to a door that obviously led into the house. As Sinnika handed Aurora her bags, Aurora looked over to the ice-maker, since Logan had already gone inside.

"Who's car is that? Its obviously not Wolverine's." She motioned to the one she had ridden in. Bobby smirked, his icy gaze meeting her heated one.

"That's Pyro's car. He's not gonna be too happy that Logan...borrowed..it. He has quite a temper."

"Pyro? As in "the terrorist" Pyro?" She actually used her fingers as best she could to make the quotation marks.

"Yeah. That one." Bobby looked uneasy for a second but she just smirked.

"Well. This should be interesting."

"Play nice." Sinnika gave her sister a stern look as she spoke but Aurora could see the twinkling mischief behind Sinnika's blue orbs.

"Oh yes, I'll play very nice." She gave a thick laugh and caught at her bottom lip with her teeth as Bobby gave them both a strange look and led them into the mansion.

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