Raven looked up and saw the couple, "Anna Marie." She released Logan and walked up to the girl and examined her from head to toe, "Are you okay?"
Anna looked at her adoptive-mother skeptically, "Yes of course." Pietro began inspecting his nails out of boredom.
Raven genuinely smiled, "That's good." Suddenly her features became much darker and she leapt and tackled Pietro to the floor only to put him in a headlock, "How dare you endanger the life of my Rogue!"
Pietro began to gasp for air. Anna was shocked and literally pulled them apart, "How do ya know what happened?"
Surprised by her new strength Raven temporarily forgot about Pietro, until a gust of wind flew past her, "I have informants everywhere." Both mother and daughter made to follow the speedster.
-Meanwhile in the Brotherhood room-
Lance and Todd sat on the couch, while Freddy sat on the love seat. The boys were talking about current relationships.
"And she just keeps following me around and she tries to do stuff for me yo," Todd stated before pegging a fly out of the air with his tongue.
Lance crossed his arms, "Well at least yours likes who you are. Kitty wants me to start wearing better clothes, get a hair cut, and throw out all of my heavy metal albums."
Freddy looked over at his leader, "So you having second thoughts about marrying her?"
Lance looked at Freddy in confusion, "How'd you know?"
Freddy smiled, "Pietro saw you propose to her one night and he told us."
Lance scratched his chin, "Yeah I'm starting to think that maybe this wasn't such a good idea."
Suddenly Pietro seemed to materialize in front of the other Brotherhood boys, "Oh man are we screwed. The blue bitch is back."
The other Brotherhood boys immediately stood up, "No way yo, I thought she was long gone."
Freddy rubbed the back of his head, "Why do you think she's back?"
Lance gulped, "She found out I pawned all her stuff to buy that ring for Kitty."
Freddy shook his head, "Nope she found out I entered her car in a demolition derby… and won."
Lance peeked an eyebrow in interest, "Well if you won why is that bad?"
Freddy rubbed the back of his neck, "They kinda light the winner's car on fire." Unbeknownst to the boys Raven and Anna walked into the room.
Todd chuckled, "Hate to tell you this but she's after me yo. I'm the one that stole her birth control pills and replaced them with sweet tarts."
Pietro crossed his arms, "That may be true but, she's finally found out that I'm the one that gave her crabs."
"You did what!" Anna and Raven simultaneously yelled out.
Anna then turned to her mother and glared at her, "You slept with mah boyfriend?" Anna then turned back to Pietro, "And you! You just slept with Mama?"
Pietro leaned close to Lance and whispered, "See here's where I'm dead."
Lance shook his head, "I do not envy you."
Pietro tried to smile innocently, "She was sad and lonely and I said 'hey what's wrong?' and one thing led to another…"
Raven inspected her nails, "He was pretty good for a boy, but his sister…"
Pietro immediately covered his ears, "I'm not listening!"
Anna pinched the bridge of her nose and walked to the Brotherhood couch, "I need to sit down."
Raven had an evil glint in her eye, "Fred come here."
Freddy looked to Lance who suddenly found the floor very interesting, "What… what did I do?"
Raven gave him a sinister smile, "Nothing. I know you're the only one that will tell me the truth."
-Several seconds later-
Freddy was sent flying into the Brotherhood boys knocking them down as if they were bowling pins.
Pietro slammed his fists on the ground, "My legs. My beautiful legs, I can't feel them anymore. Oh wait here they are."
Lance shoved him, "Quit touching my legs."
Raven glared at the pile that was once proudly known as the Brotherhood, "Where's Xavier?"
-Several minutes later in the kitchen-
Raven produced a briefcase full of government documents, and placed them in front of Xavier. She glared at the bald man, "Sign here, here, and here."
Logan watched with interest, "You sure this is a good idea Chuck?"
Xavier wrote his name as elegantly as he could, "Of course Logan, they deserve a fresh start."
Raven smiled and began signing the papers herself, "There, now they're your problem."
Xavier smiled at the blue woman, "Won't you stay a while? I'm sure once Kurt returns from his outing he would be more than happy to spend time with you."
Raven sighed, "As much as I'd love to spend time with my son, I have a few loose ends to tie up before I officially return." She began walking through the hallway towards the door, followed by both Logan and Xavier. "Do tell Kurt that I love him," She stopped just before exiting the mansion, "And tell Pietro that if he breaks Anna Marie's heart I'll break his neck."
Logan smiled, "Will do."
Xavier sighed, "I think it's time to tell the boys the news."
-Several minutes later in the Brotherhood room-
Xavier wheeled into the room followed by Logan. Lance peeked out from behind the couch while one by one the other Brotherhood boys peeked out as well. Each boy was wearing a pot on his head and was holding some sort of 'weapon' ranging from the remote to a spatula.
Lance looked around the room, "Is she gone?"
Pietro shoved Lance, "She could be one of them. What's the password?"
Logan smirked, "That's a trick question, you kids didn't remember to come up with a password."
The Brotherhood boys ducked behind the couch and began whispering, "Okay I guess we can trust you."
Xavier smiled, "I have wonderful news for you."
Todd sighed, "We don't care how much you saved on your car insurance."
Logan unsheathed his claws and Todd dove behind the couch, "Of course not. Raven has signed custody over the six of you to me."
Lance stood up, "What do you mean by six? She only had three of our papers."
Xavier looked at the young man, "Well it seems that Eric signed custody of Pietro over to her and when he came to live with the five of you he signed St. John over to her as well."
Lance nodded, "That still doesn't explain Wanda."
Xavier smiled at the boy's deductive reasoning, "After Raven released Wanda from the asylum, she returned disguised as Eric and had her officially released and placed in the custody of one Raven Darkholme."
Freddy peeked an eyebrow, "So what does that make you our new dad?"
At that very moment St. John and Wanda walked in, "Who's our new father?"
Pietro sped over to his sister, "Xavier's our new daddy."
St. John smirked and turned towards Xavier holding out her hand, "Can oih borrow the car tonoihght Dad? 'Mara and oih are toihred of doin' it in Wolvie's closet."
Pietro hugged Xavier and kissed him on his baldhead, "You leave our new daddy alone. He works hard all day doing something we never quite figured out to put a roof over our heads and food in Freddy's stomach."
Xavier peeked an eyebrow in confusion, "Yes well… Nothing will change dramatically, everything is just official now."
He began wheeling himself out of the room followed closely by Logan, "I'm gonna kill that kid Chuck."
After waiting a minute or two, Lance turned to Pietro, "What the hell was that all about?"
Pietro only smirked and held a card in his hand for the other Brotherhood members to see, "Stole his platinum card."
Todd's eyes went wide in amazement, "Wow those have no limits."
Pietro nodded, "Exactly, and I was thinking that the Brotherhood could use a vacation to Vegas." The other Brotherhood members cheered, "Calm down. Go pack some stuff we have to leave before they figure it all out."
-A few days later Anna and Kitty's room-
Anna was stomping around her room, she walked to her closet and began throwing clothes out of her way, "Damn where did ah leave it?"
Kitty sat on her bed reading a book, "Hey do you know where Lance and his loser friends went?"
Anna walked over to her bed and lifted it with one hand, "First I'm dating Pietro," Kitty blushed, "and second ah think Pietro said they were going to Vegas." She set the bed down and walked over to Kitty's bed.
Anna lifted it with one hand and looked at the floor, "Well looks you've adjusted to your new powers."
Anna set the bed down gently and turned to lift up her dresser, "Yeah the Professor got rid of that other psahche too."
Kitty looked up from her book, "Like, aren't there a lot of sluts there?"
Anna set down her dresser, "Oh no you're right… Pietro loves sluts! Ah'm gonna kill that man-whore."
Kitty lied down on her bed and looked at the ceiling, "Is that what you're looking for?" she pointed towards the ceiling fan.
Anna looked up and smiled, "Yeah thanks," She floated up and grabbed her bra off the ceiling fan blade.
Kitty peeked an eyebrow, "How'd it get up there?"
Anna blushed, "Well Pietro and ah were… and then Logan knocked so ah had to throw him out the window." Kitty stared at her with her mouth opened in surprise, "What? He's no use to me dead."
Kitty shook her head, "So you'd rather have him, like, injured?"
Anna smirked, "Better with a pulse than without."
