"What?"

"I said I will join the x-men."

"Why?" Why the hell did she change her mind?

"Because i want more opportunities kick your ass" She smiled this little half smile. Suddenly she spoke in german "Your accent is it...west germany?"

"You speak german?"

"Yes I've lived there since I was eighteen and the moved here"

"Oh"

She switched back to english suddenly. Her voice was no longer hard "The anti mutant act is worse there."

"I know its awful" Kurt realized how understanding she really was.

"So how did you get here?"

"I drove a car thats twice as old as I am." Kurt joked.

"Jinx" she muttered.

"Its already at the institute now lets go." she said authoritatively. "Now grab on"

"Ok then"

Kurt grabbed Artemis's arm. With a flash of red light, they outside the institute. She brushed her robes and then muttered jinx. they turned into a black jumpsuit.

"That was over a thousand miles!" Kurt yelped "I can only go two!"

"Thats too bad then---"

"nightcrawler your back!"

Shadowcat ran through the walls and embraced Kurt "You must be the new recruit"

"Yes thats me" Artemis said coldly.

"Oh your going to love it here!" Kitty said.

"Um Kitty?" Nightcrawler interjected.

"What?"

"Did Logan let you drink COFFEE before bed?"

"Yeah why?"

"thats all I wanted to know"

Atemis laughed. It was strange and unnatural.

"Lets show her around then!"

Kitty led Artemis to Logan first.

"So this is our little loner?"

"Who are you calling little?"

Artemis shifted into a sort of oversized dog almost hitting her head on the tall ceiling.

"Easy there I was just joking." Logan backed up.

Artemis returned to her original form. I am Five foot 10 and your calling me little? "Its fine"

"Kurt will you show her to the room we prepared for her?" Logan asked.

"Yes"

Artemis followed not knowing what else to do.

"Zat was the kichen"

"I kind of figured that"

"Oh" he paused "have you always worked alone.

"Yes I have worked alone since I was sixteen, before then however I had two sisters" her voice was guarded so he didn't press the subject.

"Here's your room"

"Oh"

The room was modren but with a classical feel to it. Sadly it looked almost pure white.

"I can make a few changes starting with... Jinx!" the walls turned black. "Much better"

"Wow you seem to be a fan of black." Kurt observed.

"Yeah black blue, red and silver are my favourite colours"

Kurt suddenly felt uncomfortable "Um I vill just leave you here to get comfortable"

"Ok" Artemis went and sat on the bed as he left.

"Maybe it won't be too bad being in a group. New people? Me never having to rely entirely on myself? No I don't trust them" she thought to herself.

Kurt ran into Logan on the way out. "Pretty eh?" Logan asked.

"Um, yes" Kurt looked at the Logan in surprise.

"In my opinion, she's prettier looking than the scarlet witch and alot more fierce"

Kurt felt slight anger rise in him but pushed it down.

"So how easy was it to recruit her?"

"She knocked me out" Logan chuckled at Kurt's response, "That was after I told her why I was there and then when I woke up she said I had been out for an hour and that she would join because--"

"Because?"

"Because she said she liked the thought of having more opportunities to quote kick my ass"

Logan started laughing really hard. "T-thats w-why she decided to join she liked the thought of you being knocked out!"

Emma walked in at that point "I think that's the closest to being friendly she's ever gotten"

"So what is she going to be called" Kitty asked walking into the hall.

"I'd say we'll just call her loner for now" Emma said "It suits her well."

Loner sat on her bed making certain things from her house appear. Clothes check, in drawers. Laptop check, Sally check. Sally ran up and jump on Loner's lap. Loner petted the little dog happily. Thirteen, Ladder and Blackie were three black cats she brought back. Even if they didn't allow pets here she would keep them. She ate some chocolate to relieve the exhaustion from all of that work. That was one good thing about her mutant powers; she had to eat chocolate to revive them, and she loved chocolate.

She decided to play a music at a low setting. And just lay on the bed, that was something she was good at being lazy.