"Hey sleepyhead its time to wake up!" a cheerful voice called and Harry blinked as he found himself looking up into the upside down eyes Kitty. She was leaning over him slightly and Harry sat up before turning to face.

"Yeah?" he asked.

"Its time to go eat lunch and Logan sent me to wake you." Kitty said as she offered a hand. Harry took it and slid off the bed. Then he found his too old trainers and put them on. He didn't want to walk around barefoot in someone else's house. Kitty frowned down at his trainers and Harry blushed. These were Dudley's old trainers. They had been faded and torn before they had been given to Harry. Afterwards they had only gotten worse with everything he did (chores, running from Dudley, Hogwarts classes, protecting Hogwarts from Voldemort). Kitty turned around abruptly and started off. Harry quickly followed as she lead him back into the hallway. Harry glanced around. Before he had been too tired to notice but now that Harry was looking around he realized that this place was nothing to spit at. Fancy decorations and beautiful paintings adorned the halls and Harry briefly wondered how much they cost before Kitty was pulling him along.

"Hurry up! If we're late Bobby will eat all the good stuff!" Kitty said as she dragged Harry along. A moment later they were entering a well stocked kitchen. Bobby, Logan, and the blonde lady sat around a brown table. Bobby had his silverware in his hands and was in a position that bespoke of banging them on the table. He grinned at them and abruptly let his silverware fall with a clatter.

"Finally! I was about to starve! Sit down and fill your plate. There's plenty to go around." Harry nodded and took his seat. Immediately after Bobby picked up his fallen silverware and dove in. Harry blinked in surprise. The only other person he had ever seen eating like that was Ron. Maybe they were related?

"So is there anyone else living here or is it just you guys? And while I'm at it where is here?" Harry asked as he looked around the room at the different faces.

"This place is called the Xavier institute for gifted children. My name is Emma Frost, I'm a teacher here. These are our two most prominent alumni, Robert Drake and Kitty Pryde. They help out and will probably be hired as professional teachers soon. Logan Birch, your father is current interim headmaster pending the return of Charles Xavier, headmaster and founder of the Xavier institute. We also have one other staff member but he is… indisposed at the moment." The blonde lady gazed at him and Harry wilted under her icy gaze. She was kinda… cold. And hard. Like diamond. Her lips quirked and Harry wondered fleetingly if she could read his mind before he turned to Logan.

"If this is a school then why is no one else here? Where are the students?" Harry asked.

"Its during summer break so all of them have returned home to their families." Bobby said with a shrug. "Though Warren sometimes shows up to visit. He likes company that's not all 'hey lets go kill half the population 'cuz they're a little bit different'. I don't blame him," Bobby said. It was slightly muffled though due to the food in his mouth. Kitty frowned as Bobby waved his fork in front of her face to demonstrate. Harry blinked at that. Did Bobby just allude to…?

"Wonderful Bobby. Good explanation. Next time why don't you try it when your mouth's not full and people can actually understand you." Kitty growled as she batted away his fork.

"I can understand him. My friend Ron also speaks Foodish when in the presence of food." Harry said with a little grin. Bobby and Kitty actually reminded him of Hermione and Ron.

"Really? Does he look disgusting doing it too?" Kitty asked in feigned curiosity; her eyes widening just that extra bit.

"Hmmm… No, I think Ron's Foodish is a bit more pronounced and he normally has food in his hair too… no I think Bobby's Foodish is less disgusting by about a third." Harry said. He placed his hand on his chin as though deep in thought and pretended to contemplate Bobby who sat looking between the two with something akin to horror.

"No!" He cried, spraying bits of food everywhere. "You've corrupted him!" Kitty burst out laughing and Harry joined her. Even Frost looked amused.

"Oh yeah! Another one to the cult! Kitty shouted as she raised her fist high in victory. Harry grinned at the friendship the two seemed to share and was surprised when a sense of longing struck him. Harry's smile dimmed a little as he thought of his friends. What were they doing right now? Were they okay? How did they feel about…

"Penny for your thoughts?" Logan asked from the other side of the table next to Bobby. Harry flushed.

"Erm, its nothing. I was just thinking about my friends. I didn't get to say good bye to them because Uncle Vernon was afraid to miss the flight over. I attend a boarding school in Scotland and don't normally get to see them over the summer." Harry mumbled as he took a bite of his mashed potatoes. There, now he wouldn't have to talk as much. Harry looked down the table at Frost. She was at her food in crisp bites and Harry briefly wondered if she was in a race with Bobby but quickly dismissed that thought. He didn't think it held much weight. Harry turned his head to glance at Logan before turning his attention back to his food. He needed to send Hedwig out with a letter to Sirius. Harry had heard stories of how awful social services are and had no intention of going with them, even if it would take a few days for them to get here.

"They must be pretty good friends if you're this distracted about them. What are they like?"

"Well, their names are Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Ron's kinda play first work later but he's got a wicked mind for strategy. Hermione's normally pretty uptight about studying so its hard to get her to relax and have fun but we manage. She's really smart though; she's one of the best students in the school, nobody can beat her average grade. She's probably the reason Ron and I haven't flunked yet or been expelled."

"They sound cool, what do you guys do for fun?" Kitty asked as she wiped her face daintily on her napkin. Bobby might like having a food mask but Kitty doubted they had the same cleansing quality as mud masks. Those really got rid of acne.

"Well, mostly we goof around I guess. Classes are pretty intense so we spend a lot of our time studying and the rest of it… I don't know, we do lots of things I guess. Ron and I play chess. I'm on our house team to play our school sport so I practice a lot…" Harry trailed off with a shrug. What could he tell them? That they spent their time brewing illegal potions and fighting werewolves? Or maybe the part where he had faced off against a freaking basilisk and lived?

Yeah, that would go over real well.

"You play a sport? What is it?" Bobby asked. Internally Harry winced. How could he make flying hundreds of feet in the air on pieces of wood and twigs normal sounding?

"Its called Quidditch. Its a sport only played at a select few schools around the world so its not really all that well known." Harry said. "What do you guys do for fun?" There, switch the topic and all would be well… hopefully.

"Us… well we do lots of things. We play board games, watch TV, you know normal stuff like that. When the students get here we'll probably have Saturdays for soccer or football though so they can have some physical exercise. Its actually pretty fun. I can even remember when Logan joined in a few times. He was amazing at it." Bobby said. Kitty promptly kicked him under the table, he knew they weren't going to be having an students this year. This year was for the X-men to get to work. The school was just a cover story, nothing more. Before the Incident, things may have been that way, but right now they were at war. They didn't have time for students. Unfortunately Harry didn't know that and his face lit up on hearing Bobby's words.

"Really? Logan participated?" He asked.

"Yep, He was totally cool at it. He was like a one man army with the ball. One time he actually jumped over a player just to get to the goal. It was super cool." Bobby gushed. Harry blinked.

"He jumped over a player?" Incredulity echoed in his tone and Harry slid his eyes to the hulking man calmly eating his mashed potatoes at the other end of the table.

"Yep! When Logan gets into a sport he doesn't do it to lose," Bobby smiled.

"Oi, Popsicle, that's enough. Wouldn't want to spread any rumors now, would we?" Logan interrupted from the other end of the table. Bobby glanced over before nodding quickly.

"Sir, yes, sir! Nor rumor spreading over here," He said. Kitty snorted and leaned over to whisper into Harry's ear.

"Bobby's terrified of Logan because he knows Logan isn't above pranking him for revenge."

Harry blinked and allowed a brief smile to wash over his face.

"Really?" He asked Kitty. Kitty nodded happily. "Cool."

HI, I just finished this and wanted to send it out. On this story I'm probably going to update a bit less and write a bit more if you get what I mean. Sometimes the scenes I write will be better alone and I'll write a short chapter like this. Other times I'll have really long chapters of awesomeness for you to look through. Also, I've deleted story about Rina Niwa. Don't worry though its not going away forever. I'll probably rewrite it one day, though not soon. It'll also be better prepared plot wise. ANyway I had written an omake for thanksgiving but... I'll have it next year instead. Late Merry Christmas!