THREE WEEKS LATER

The team had won their first match against the Corsairs. Evolution was on par with where Wolverine wanted them to be. They'd only had to do one running session, which made the rest of the team happy, but made Kishi feel as though they needed to do some running. She had taken to trying to get the team to run about a mile every night, but so far, only Laura had been running with her. Laura however, thought it was unfair that Kishi was a trained track runner from back at her high school. And occasionally, Kishi would transform into the wolf creature and run the mile in just a few minutes. Which was what had Laura pissed off today.

"C'mon, Laura. I only do it to see if you can keep up with me!" Kishi whined, putting her arm across Laura's shoulder.

Laura shrugged off Kishi's arm, and growled. "I don't care. You know I can't, I hate it when you do that." she snapped.

Kishi stopped walking and just stared at Laura's back, as the shorter girl kept walking. Betsy came up from behind her and put her arm around Kishi's shoulders. "Don't worry about it. She's just got something on her mind." she chuckled.

Kishi looked up at the taller Betsy, but shrugged and nodded. "I guess. You're the psychic." she chuckled.

Betsy laughed. "Yup. But I'm a good psychic. I don't go around spilling everyone's secrets..." she murmured to no one in particular.

Kishi gave her a funny look, but the group moved on to the cafeteria. Laura was already in line, getting her food. The three girls followed Laura, then all four girls went to the table where Forge and Bobby were already sitting. They sat down and started talking, but after a few moments, Bobby went quiet. Kishi was the first to notice, since she was sitting next to him.

Nudging him with an elbow, she looked at him sideways. "You ok?" she asked, grinning at him.

He blinked furiously at her, Kishi noticing a small blush on his cheeks. "Ye... yeah. Are you wearing a new perfume?"

She cocked her head at him and then frowned slightly. "No... just the regular stuff, why?"

He grinned sheepishly and shook his head. "Just... uh... you smell good."

Kishi quirked an eyebrow at him, but just then Laura's growl cut off the conversation. She was glaring at Bobby as though he'd done something wrong.

"What?" Bobby squeaked, not meeting Laura's eyes.

"Oh, why don't you just jump her right here!" Laura snapped, her green eyes like fire on Bobby's blue ones.

Kishi stared at her room mate, with shock plain on her face. "Laura, what's wrong?" she said quietly.

"Nothing. He's just drooling all over you like a dog." she snapped back, then looked at Kishi with an apologetic look. "Sorry. Didn't mean it like that." she said sheepishly.

Kishi shook her head and looked between Bobby and Laura again and again, but was interrupted as Wolverine walked slowly over to the table. He stood behind Laura's chair, just staring at Kishi for a long moment before he finally cleared his throat.

"Everything ok here?" he said hesitantly.

Kishi could see that he too had a soft redness to his cheeks, and she could see his nostrils flaring as though he was smelling something he liked. Kishi grinned at him and nodded, something about him was making her feel like she shouldn't, like she should be kissing someone, or doing things that required a bed with someone.

"Yeah, we're... fine." she said softly.

Laura suddenly looked up at her father with a shocked look on her face. He took his eyes away from Kishi's long enough to look back at his daughter with that same sheepish look on his face that Bobby had. Her expression turned quickly from shock to anger and a low growl started in her throat. Wolverine took a step back, clearing his throat and excusing himself quickly, then turned and moved quickly away from the table, shaking his head as if to clear it of something. Kishi watched him walk away, confused by what had just happened between father and daughter. She looked at Laura for the answers, but the dark haired girl had turned back to her food. After a few moments though, Kishi caught her, both looking at her, and noticing the same nostril flare on Laura that she'd seen on Wolverine. Laura looked away quickly but not before Kishi noticed the blush on her normally pale skin.

Kishi finished her food quickly, then looked at Laura, her mind racing with what she was about to do. "Laura, you need to finish your English history assignment for Professor McCoy, lemme help you with it, Ok?"

Laura sighed. "I really don't want to do that right now, can we do it later?" she whined, that blush still on her cheeks.

"Well it's the best time. Here's this, if we get it done, I'll let you spend the rest of the night watching movies."

Laura sighed again, her eyes rolling in her head. "Fine." she growled.

"C'mon then," Kishi said, picking up her tray and taking it to be dumped.

Laura followed the taller girl, doing the same with her tray, and then following Kishi in silence to their dorm room. As the two girls entered, Kishi held the door open for Laura who promptly wandered in and started finding her books. Kishi closed the door behind Laura, then stood there, leaning on the closed door for a long moment before clearing her throat. Laura paused, then slowly turned her head to look at Kishi, and Kishi watched as Laura's nostrils flared again, breathing in deeply and the blush was once again on Laura's cheeks. Laura finally met eyes with Kishi, but then promptly looked away.

"Laura, what's wrong with you?" Kishi said softly, pushing herself off of the door and moving slowly across the room to Laura's bed, where the smaller girl was sitting.

Laura shook her head. "Like I said, nothing really." She seemed to flinch at Kishi's closeness, and scooted further back on her bed, pulling her book and her knees up to her chest.

"I don't believe you." Kishi said softly as she sat down on the end of Laura's bed. "Something's bothering you, you've never been so hateful towards Bobby, and Professor Logan just about got his head ripped off by you. I saw your claws come out, you were pissed at something he was doing."

Laura trembled and shook her head. "I... I don't... I don't know. Something's in the air. There's like this scent..." Laura looked up at Kishi with wide eyes. "It's coming from you."

Kishi looked at Laura with one eyebrow up and a confused frown on her face. "What do you mean?"

Laura trembled again. "I... it's some smell, coming from you that is making me... possessive."

"Possessive? What the hell does that mean?" Kishi said, still confused.

"I don't know!" Laura snapped, then lowered her tone. "I don't know... It just makes me... want..." she trailed off and trembled even harder than before.

Kishi moved closer still to Laura, placing a hand on her ankle, then looked at Laura with pleading eyes. "Please. Just tell me. I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but everyone's acting weird today. And I feel weird... I feel like... Like I want someone to take me and just take me... but that's weird right?" Kishi shook her head and then stopped. "Wait... What do I smell like? How does it make you feel?" she asked again.

Laura finally squeezed her eyes closed and then opened them slowly to look at Kishi. "It makes me want you... Like I smell the scent of fresh cut grass, and trees, and a hint of the wolf, and the smell you give off when you're asleep, when you're peaceful."

Kishi looked away from Laura after hearing this and then stood quickly, moving back. "Oh, my, god..." she whispered, suddenly putting her hands to her face in shock. "I'm... I'm.. a.. oh my god..." she said as she slumped to the side, falling half on her bed and then half on the floor. Tears started to pour from her eyes as she realized what was going on. She sobbed quietly into the bed for a moment as Laura stared on in shock.

Laura recovered quickly though and moved from her curled up position on her own bed, to move onto the floor next to Kishi, putting one arm around her friend's shoulders. "What? What is it, Kishi?"

Kishi shook her head and tried to bury it further in the blanket on her bed, but a gentle shake from Laura got her to lift her head. "I'm... I'm an animal..." she sobbed, falling into Laura's arms, as the shocked girl simply sat there.

"Wh... what do you mean?" Laura asked after a long moment of inhaling the scent coming from the girl in her arms.

"I'm... I'm in heat! I'm an animal!"

That explained it.

"Oh, baby, you're not an animal..." Laura whispered, burying her nose in Kishi's hair and breathing deeply, knowing now what the feelings she was having were from.

"Y-y-yes I am!" Kishi squeaked, her voice harsh from the tears pouring down her face. "I... I'mmm in h-h-he-heat just like an animal, I'm an animal!"

Laura rubbed her friend's back, and rocked her gently back and forth. "No, you're just a mutant. It's not something you can help. It's ok. I promise." she whispered to her upset friend.

Kishi finally looked up at Laura, her eyes blood shot from the tears. "You mean it?" she whispered, still leaning heavily on the smaller girl.

Laura nodded, moving a hand to brush the long black bangs out of Kishi's eyes and then brush away a tear. "Of course, I think you're perfect, so I might be biased." she chuckled softly.

It was Kishi's turn to blush as the soft touch of her room mate made her shiver and close her eyes. Laura however, didn't pull her hand away, she simply let Kishi rub her cheek into her palm, the desire to kiss the slightly larger girl almost too strong for her to bear. But she didn't have to make the first move.

As Kishi's eyes opened back up, she locked eyes with Laura, and ever so slowly moved in to where the two girl's lips were almost touching. Laura started to pull back, sure that Kishi wouldn't want to do this if she wasn't under the affects of her heat, but Kishi suddenly closed the distance, and the two girls found themselves kissing passionately. Laura gave into the kiss instantly, her convictions gone in the split second passion of the kiss that she was being subjected to. Kishi moaned softly into the kiss, opening her mouth and licking firmly across Laura's lips until the smaller girl opened her own mouth, then Kishi moaned again as their two tongues met, little jolts of electricity coursing down her spine as she kissed her best friend. Laura entangled her fingers in Kishi's hair, pressing their lips more firmly together, and controlling Kishi's head movements. Her other hand she drug around to run her fingers down Kishi's neck, then to her chest to grab firmly onto her breast, squeezing firmly the round mound. Kishi's back arched, but at this point Laura was so wrapped up in the scent of Kishi's heat, that she was being aggressive with the larger, but weaker girl. Kishi might be able to out run Laura, but Laura was stronger than the slightly taller girl by quite a bit.

Kishi submitted quickly to the movements of Laura, letting the stronger girl move them upwards to the bed without protesting. They never broke the kiss however, and Laura moved on top of Kishi, letting her hands roam all over the thinner girl's body. Kishi simply moaned louder, her hands reaching up finally to touch Laura's face gently, but Laura wasn't having any of the gentleness. She roughly kissed Kishi, making the girl squeak slightly, then moved her lips down to nip and bite at first Kishi's jaw, then the thinner girl's neck, her hands still squeezing parts of Kishi's body, making the girl moan again. As Laura broke the kiss, Kishi found herself biting her own lip to keep from making too much noise as the smaller girl roamed all over her body. Laura paused for a moment and sat up, pulling Kishi up and kissing her again as she pulled Kishi's shirt up, and then broke the kiss for a second to pull the shirt off of her, kissing her again to reach around and undo the thin girl's bra. Once it was undone, Laura roughly pushed Kishi back to the bed, making her squeak in indignation. But the squeak was soon turned back into another moan as Laura leaned down to kiss Kishi's chest and then slowly work her way down to where she was nibbling at the girl's small nipples. Moving back up to Kishi's upper chest, Laura bit down in one place particularly hard and sucked firmly, pulling back after a second, to admire her handy work.

"Mine..." she whispered, admiring the small but firmly purple hickey that she had just placed on her room mate's chest.

Kishi nodded in response, too breathless to say anything in response. Just as Laura was getting ready to lean back down again, there was a knock at the door.

"Go away!" Laura snapped at the door.

"Really now. Your thoughts are so loud that I can hear them downstairs and you two are making so much racket that Nightcrawler can hear you! Let me in!" Betsy snapped.

Laura growled, but Kishi put her finger to Laura's lips. "Ok, just a second." she called to the door, grabbing her shirt and throwing it on as Laura let her sit up.

Laura looked at Kishi pleadingly, but sighed and ran her fingers through Kishi's hair, trying to make the thick locks sit down from where she had messed them up. Kishi smiled at Laura and kissed her softly again, giving her wink after breaking the short kiss.

"Later, I promise." she whispered, getting up off the bed and moving quickly to the door. "Betsy! So glad you could-"

"Cut the crap." Betsy said as she shut the door behind her. "What the hell is going on here?" she snapped as she grabbed for Kishi's shirt. Pulling it back far enough to see the purple hickey on Kishi's chest, she shook her head. "Wow... I didn't realize that it was that bad Laura."

"It is, you're interrupting, go away." Laura said, pointedly.

"I don't know if it's right or wrong, but you need someone to keep you two quiet. And to give you cover. I'll start a movie." Betsy said, letting go of Kishi's shirt with a final touch of the girl's neck, and moving through the room to the DVD player in the corner.

Kishi blinked a few times at the touch that Betsy gave her, but decided to ignore it. She grinned at Laura then raced back to the bed, wrapping herself firmly around Laura as she sat down next to her on the bed. The pair started kissing again as Betsy started the movie, though Betsy had no plans to watch the movie either. She simply sat down on Laura's bed, and stared at the pair as they made out. Kishi felt the eyes on her as she kissed Laura, and it made every kiss sweeter.

The pair made out as Betsy continued to act like she was watching the movie. After about 30 more minutes, Betsy sighed heavily.

"Is that all you two are going to do?" She asked with irritation.

Laura growled from her place biting Kishi's neck, but mumbled something from around the skin clasped between her teeth.

"What?" Kishi sighed.

"Nothing!" Laura snapped. "Just... forget it." Laura let go of Kishi, spinning around on the bed and facing the TV.

"Laura? I didn't mean to intrude." Betsy said quietly. "I'm sorry. If you want, I can go be in the bathroom."

Kishi shook her head, but Laura looked at Betsy as though that was the best thing she'd said all night. Kishi shoved Laura, who rolled her eyes and sighed. "Fine. Just sit there." she pouted.

Betsy giggled slightly, but stifled it quickly. Kishi looked at Laura with pleading eyes, and Laura finally sighed heavily, but nodded. Kishi giggled like a small child and clapped her hands, then got up off of her bed, rushing across the room to where Betsy was sitting. Betsy tried to hide her smile from Laura, but as Kishi wrapped her arms around Betsy's neck and began to kiss her softly, she couldn't help but grin at the very attractive girl that she was now making out with. Kishi kissed Betsy for a long moment, before grabbing her hand and dragging her over to the other bed, where she kissed Laura again, the pair wrapping themselves around each other again. Betsy simply began to kiss on Kishi's neck and ran her hands all over the shorter girl's body. As the three began their love triangle, they all knew that this night was the first of many to come.