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The Brotherhood house was dark at two in the afternoon. The power bill wasn't paid again, in favor of food and water. Without the power of the stove or microwave, they were stuck eating frozen waffles, cold cereal without milk and stale bread. The money that they had been pick pocketing for the few past weeks began to run out earlier this week and no one was able to steal any more.
"Uh-hu, there is no way that I am going to be examined by the bald-headed leader of the X-geeks himself. He might try to alter my mind." Lance held his palms up and took a step back, as if to highlight his point about not going to the X-mansion and getting the help of Xavier.
"Why would he do that, yo?" Todd hopped around and caught himself lunch--a fly.
"Relax, Lance. There's not much of ya mind ta alter, now is there?" Rogue tried to pacify him as she looked over the top of the magazine she was reading by the open window. There was little sun with the clouds in the sky. They thought it might be Storm, giving them a hard time, but they were just paranoid.
Pietro gave Lance his patented puppy-dog-eyes look with the addition of fluttering his eyelashes. He hoped it would have an added effect on the heart of Lance. Surely he could overcome his hatred of the X-geeks and Scott for him. Surely.
"C'mon Lance, there is no one else who can help ya. And don't tell us that this is just AIDS. There's no such thing as 'Just AIDS' ya rock-head. You need a doctor who knows about your mutation."
"You guys don't get it!" Lance screamed as he threw a couch cushion at the puppy-dog eyed Pietro. "I don't want to be in debt to those guys, this is nothing that we can't handle!"
The house began to shake, things fell off shelves from where they were.
"Cool it, Lance," Pietro took his boyfriend in his arms and the shaking stopped. "Now let's go see the X-geek captain himself. Should be a piece of cake. I'll let you bring down their house after."
Lance shoved him away. "We can take care of ourselves."
"Uh, no we can't. We have no food, no water and no power anymore." Pietro rushed around the house, opening bare cupboards, opening water taps and turning on power switches to emphasise his point. "We wouldn't have had any of those things this month if it wasn't for Todd and Rogue stealing wallets for us."
"I'm hungry, when do we get to eat?" Fred asked, as he ate a chocolate bar.
"The doctors don't know what's going on, Lance. Xavier might be your last chance." Rogue said. She put down her magazine and stood up, walking over to be standing next to Pietro. She and the speed demon cornered Lance into the far right side of the living room. The house began to shake again. Rogue removed a glove. "Don't make me zap you and take you by force, rock-boy." she threatened.
Lance's eyes rolled up in his head and the house shook more violently, the ground becoming uneven beneath them. It knocked Rogue off of her feet. Pietro zoomed out of the way and tried to grab Lance to get him to stop wrecking their house. Lance tripped him with a small earthquake and he staggered into Rogue. Her hand accidentally fell over his cheek and she tried to steady herself. A sudden zap of energy and memories ran from the speed demon to Rogue.
"I'm outta here!" With Pietro and Rogue down, Lance left. He slammed the door and it fell off its hinges.
Rogue stared at Pietro, startled as she got a very vivid memory.
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"I can't believe those jerks!" Lance yelled as he kicked the ground. "That goth bitch had no right to talk to the X-geeks about this, I can handle it by myself. I've been handling everything by myself! And that high-strung speed demon going along with it! How could he!?"
A little voice in his mind said, 'didn't you and Pietro promise to be together, no matter what? Isn't he just trying to help you?' Lance silenced the voice with an earthquake directed at a park bench, shattering it into a million pieces.
Suddenly, Lance felt very lightheaded and nauseated. He staggered, tripped over his feet, and fell to the ground. The world around him spun rapidly. He scrapped his chin against a rock, felt it crack open and bleed, and was thinking about how it would leave a mark in the morning, when he fell unconscious.
Around him, people screamed as a strong earthquake rumbled through the ground. It brought buildings down and trapped people beneath the fallen rubble. The ground opened up and swallowed innocent bystanders who were just trying to get away from this seemingly natural disaster.
