Chapter 2: The Mansion

Bang, bang , bang! Someone was knocking on the door. Logan couldn't imagine who it could be this early.

"Logan! It's Rogue! Come down stairs, Beast and Angel are back!"

"Alright! Stop screaming, I'll be down in a minute." replied Logan.

He put some clothes on, and then brushed his teeth. Still tired from everything, just like everyone else. Still trying to recover from the death of Jean, Scott, and the Professor. But getting better, just like everyone else too. Everyone is settling down. Or so he thought.

Logan left his room and walked down stairs were everybody was gathering around someone. A young man he didn't notice. That must be the new recruit.

"Logan!" Storm called out. "This Is Alex…"

"….Or Havoc." said Alex finishing Storms sentence, while stepping out of the crowd. " Nice to meet you."

"You too, you can call Logan or Wolverine." said Logan

"Well then, I think we should introduce you to the rest of the team." interrupted Storm.

Nearly ten minutes later Storm had gathered up the rest of the X- Men in Professor X's old office. Logan sat behind the desk, Storm was sitting on it. Bobby, Rogue, and Kitty sat on the couch. While Beast, Angel, and Colossus just stood, and of course Alex was the center of attention in the middle of the room.

"Well then Alex, this is it." Storm said excitedly. "You've met me and Logan, and of course Beast and Angel. That's Colossus, Bobby, Kitty, and Rogue." she said as she pointed to each of them.

Each of them told Alex about their selves, telling about their powers. But Alex noticed Rogue was being quit, so he to the attempt to make conversation with her.

"What about you? What's your story?" Alex asked Rogue.

"Logan saved me, brought me here. I thought this would help but I was wrong. I got the cure." she answered.

"The cure? What was so bad about you powers?" he asked

"I couldn't even touch someone without sucking the life out of them! That's what was wrong with me!" she replied.

"I'm sorry I asked." Alex told her.

"Well then, now that this is over, why don't you take Alex on a tour of the mansion Bobby?" Storm asked.

Bobby and Alex left the room first, then everyone else. Bobby took Alex on a tour of the whole thing, it took about twenty minutes. He finally took him to his new bedroom. Scotts old one.

"Well this is your new room." he said.

"It looks like someone is still living here?"

Bobby kind of stuttered, "This is Scotts old room, before he was killed? They didn't tell you?"

Alex had tears running down his face, " No! They kind of left that part out! So I'm supposed to be a replacement?" he said as he slammed the door in Bobbies face.

Alex spent the next couple hours thinking in his room. It was dark now. He was thinking about how he wanted to leave. He finally made a decision that he would. He packed his bag and cracked his door open to see if anyone was wandering the halls. No one was there. Alex quietly walked down the hall to the stairs, down to the main door. He put his hand up about to touch the door knob, but was stopped when he herd a voice.

"Alex, where you going?" she whispered.

"Rogue, I was just a replacement for my brother. I'm leaving here!" he answered.

"That's not true, Scott was supposed to go get you but he died. It's not his fault."

Alex started crying again, " Why would I want to stay here?" he asked.

"Because there's no where else to go. Please stay Alex. I want you to stay!" Rogue said.

"Alright Rogue, just for you though, that's my reason." he said.

" That's a good enough reason." Rogue finished.