Charles was in his office with Scott, Jean, Ororo, and Kurt. He saw that they managed to catch up on their sleep, so he decided they were ready for their next mission. He tells them. "As you know, we have taken on three new students under some strenuous circumstances."

The X-Men nod in agreement as Xavier continued. "And we are about to receive two new students and a pair of instructors to help with this transition. But we need to reach out to the children and let them know we are here for them."

"Of course Professor," Scott agreed. "What do you have in mind?"

The Professor answered. "I want each of you to take the children on a personal tour through the Institute and its grounds. Let them know the rules and build a rapport."

"Who's with who then?" Kurt inquired as he was perched on the edge of the mantle.

The Professor thought a moment. "Scott, I would like for you to guide Dominic around the Institute—show him the danger room and hanger—he would enjoy that. Ororo, if you could please show Allie around and perhaps take her to the lake that would be most helpful. And Kurt, I wish for you to take Trinity on a tour, but be sure to take it slow with her—she is still shaken from her experience."

"Ja Professor, don't worry." Kurt answers.

Ororo nods. "I would be happy to show Allie around."

Scott also agrees. "Yeah, I'll be sure to show Dominic the danger room."

Jean asks. "Do you want me to talk to the students about the children?"

"No Jean, I would like your help here to keep an eye on Trinity, also, Shiro has that covered."

Shiro stands in front of all the students and barks. "You are to respect the Leonardos—you are not to make them feel uncomfortable in the least—you will not insult them—they have been through a traumatic experience and deserve to feel welcome here. Anyone who fails to do this will have extra danger room sessions with Wolverine and me. Do you understand?"

The students nod nervously.

Dominic walks in with Allie and they are greeted by Scott and Ororo.

"Hey guys." Dom mutters.

Scott nods and takes Dom's suitcase. "Here, I'll show you around."

Ororo picks up Allie's suitcase. "And I'll show you to your room Allie."

The siblings peer at each, but finally follow the adults to their separate quarters.

Scott placed Dominic's suitcase in the boy's new room. Dominic sees that he was sharing the room with someone who had a Canadian flag pinned to the wall on his side. Scott tells him. "Your roommate's name is Sammy Pierre."

"What're his powers?" Dominic asked.

"His mutation altered his body to be fish-like and breathe under water. Come on," Scott leads him through the Institute as he told him all of the rules, which Dom was sure he was going to forget in a couple days…or at the end of the tour. They suddenly go to the elevator and Dominic asks. "Where are we going?"

Scott tells him. "We are going to my favorite room: The Danger Room."

"Sounds…dangerous." Dominic sarcastically answers.

"Well, we can skip it if you want—"

"Hey, just because it's dangerous doesn't mean I'm afraid." The boy argued.

Scott tried to hide his smirk. "Yep, Jean's right." He steps into the elevator as the boy followed.

"Right about what?"

"You're a lot like Leon."

Dom grinned. "Really? My mom told me he was always a smart-ass." He froze anxiously when he realized he cussed in front of an instructor.

Scott nods. "Yeah, but that's a bit of an understatement."

Dominic laughs. "I'll be sure to tell him that."

The elevator stops and they walk into a hallway. Dominic followed his instructor to a large vaulted door. He stared at it in astonishment as Scott placed a hand on a sensor to open it. They walked into a large room—no this room made 'large' look miniscule. Dominic's jaw dropped as he gazed at the metal paneled room that started to shimmer…and they were suddenly standing in the middle of a desert…well he thought they were in a desert. He sees a cactus and touches it, but instead of being pricked by needles he received a tiny electric shock. "Hey!"

Scott explains. "Don't worry, it's all hologram technology that our mechanic Forge invented. That cactus is just a metal dome that gives static shocks. This room can create laser cannons, elevate floors, create life-like projections, and different obstacles to train us for battle."

Dominic smiled. He was like a chocoholic in a Willy Wonka's factory. "Wow."

"Wow?" A new voice echoed through the room from speakers. "That's all I get for creating this masterpiece—not even Tony Stark has tech like this—and he's Ironman for crying out loud!"

Cyclops points to ceiling. "That's Forge."

Dominic sees a room that was connected to the ceiling, and sees a man with a moustache and a bandana tied around his forehead looking down at them.

Dominic yells. "Sorry, but this is all so freaking awesome—I can't form the words for it."

Forge stays silent and then answers. "I like you kid, hold on, I'll be down there in a minute."

Dominic peers at Scott. "He built all of this?"

"Yeah, among other things."

Forge walks out from a doorway that appeared in the wall in front of them. Dominic saw that Forge's right arm and leg were gone and in place were metal prosthetics that looked like it belonged in the year 3000. He walks over while cleaning his hands, which were covered in oil. "So this is Meg's son?"

Scott nods. "Yeah, can't you see the resemblance?"

Forge tilts his head. "Nope," He gives Dominic his hand. "Hey, I'm Forge, I was good friends with your mom, Leon, and Marisol."

Dom takes his hand. "Hey."

"Man of few words? You'll fit in with Logan." Forge then spreads out his hands. "So Dominic how do you like Mutant High?"

The boy shrugs. "It's pretty incredible."

Forge. "Yep. If you have any questions, just ask. Like—what's the security like? Or—does the Danger Room have electric coils that tackle anyone unfortunate enough not to pay attention during action sequences? The first is—the security is damn good. And yes, yes we do have electrical coils."

Dominic grinned. "Cool. Did you invent hologram tech.?"

"Yes. And with it, I helped Tony create image inducers."

"Image inducers?"

"Hologram projections that are cast over a person who has an image inducer. A lot of security/secret agencies use them. You should know all about that from S.H.—"
Scott clears his throat and shook his head, and Forge changes the subject:

"SH—Stark—Tony Stark—Tony was fun to work with—always a babe and beer nearby his workshop…"

"Seriously?"

"Yeah, those women were—"

"No, you worked with Tony Stark?"

"Oh yeah, I got a monthly check to prove it. I get money from Stark Industries as payment for helping Tony create image inducers. It's my monthly allowance…I would've gotten an allowance for my laser pellets if I didn't sell out…"

"You invented laser guns!"

"Sorta', it's a long story—well, I tried to steal some tech from Stark Tower as a kid…I was caught…and Howard Stark paid me a visit before the police came, so I cut him a deal. I gave him blueprints for laser pellet and gun tech.—I wrote it on a napkin from my pocket—and Stark was so impressed he let me go and gave me a couple grand to keep my mouth shut…I don't know why I even tried, it took him years to develop laser pellets correctly even with the blueprints I made. So I created them into my prosthetic arm." His arm transforms into a laser gun.

Dominic laughs. "Sweet! What type of energy source does it run on?"

"A tech. man! A knew there was a reason I liked you." He glances at Scott. "Has he seen the Blackbird yet?"

"No. You want to show him?"

The two men lead Dominic to 'the hanger'. At first the room was dark, but then lights flicker on and Dominic hoots. "You own a jet!"

He's sees a beautiful, sleek jet; its black wings spread from the sharp body gracefully like a bird's…I'm in love. Dominic thought.

Allie follows Ororo as the woman tells her. "We eat breakfast at seven, lunch at twelve, and dinner at six. But feel free to get snacks whenever you are hungry."

The girl nods as she follows her outside. Storm shows her all of the great fields, forest, pool, and finally, they made it to the cliff. Allie looks down and gasped when she saw the beautiful lake. "Ms. Munroe—we can go down there, right?"

Ororo nods. "Of course little one, as long as you have someone with you and permission from an instructor."

"Okay—can we go down now?"

Storm smiles. "Of course—hold onto me." She picks up Allie and steps closer to the edge. "Ready to fly?"

Allie's eyes widen. "Yes!"

Ororo laughs as she jumps off the cliff and wind surrounded them as they flew down. Allie gasped as she felt her body lift from the wind. They floated to the ground and Ororo puts the girl down. Allie stumbles and giggles. "That was so cool!"

Storm watches as the girl skips over, picks up a stone, and threw it. The stone skipped over the still waters twice until it sunk underneath the shallow lake. Ororo picks up a stone as well and throws it as the rock skipped five times.

Allie asks. "How long have you lived here Ms. Munroe?"

Ororo remembers. "I came here when I was around your age…I've lived here for seventeen years."

"Wow. You knew my mom? And Leon? And Marisol too?"

Ororo skips another stone and answers. "Yes. Your mother was an amazing teacher…even though she was a student. She was very caring and patient."

"She still is." Allie skips a stone and it skipped thrice. "Did she hang out with you a lot?"

"Yes, but she tended to hang out with Xi'an, Moira, and Hank even more. She was always in the clinic with Hank to learn about mutant genetics from Moira, and was best friends with Xi'an. I spent a lot of my time with Marisol and Jean."

"What was Leon like?"

Storm smiled. "Rebellious…but smart and protective. He actually took me shopping for winter clothes when Professor Xavier brought me here." She chuckled. "He was just as confused as I was to find the right outfits for me. He was really protective over me, Petra, and Marisol. He was always with Armondo and Hank…with Scott and Forge constantly tagging along."

Allie skips her third stone, which only hit the waters twice. "Who's Petra and Armondo? Leon never told us stories about them."

Ororo was about to skip a stone, but stops. "They…they were good friends with your uncle…they passed away years ago."

Allie turns to her. "Oh. What were they like?"

"Petra was quiet…she followed Leon around a lot…he was her 'big brother'…she could manipulate stone like it was putty and lift rocks with an invisible force. Armondo Munoz was Leon and Hank's best friend. He was a sweet man…funny and intelligent—that was the focus of their friendship. His body can transform to adapt to anything…"

"They sound pretty cool." Allie comments.

"Yes, they were."

"Ororo, do you think I'll make any friends here?"

Storm smiled as she sat down; she took off her shoes and placed her feet into the water. "Yes."

"Really?" Allie sits down next to her and copies her as she placed her tiny feet into the lake.

Ororo stared at the light blue sky and the fluffly clouds started to swirl into different shapes on her command. "Yes, really, you don't have to worry about not fitting in, Allie."

"Why?"

She peers at the girl. "You ask many questions. But here's the answer; because all of the students asked me this question, and I gave the same answer—and it was right."

Allie grinned. "That's good. Ororo, do you think I can be an X-Man?"

The older woman blinks in surprise and gazes at the girl; her black curls trembling from the wind as her light green eyes stared at the lake. "Do you want to be an X-Man?"

"Yes!" Allie looks up at her. "I can right?"

Storm doesn't answer as she looks back at the lake and picks up a stone. "Maybe one day." She threw the stone, which skipped four times until it splashed back into the water.

Trinity saw the Professor waiting in the foyer for her. "Professor Xavier."

He nods. "Follow me my dear, and be sure to bring your luggage with you."

Trinity sees her suitcase and picks it up as she follows the professor. After going through a few hallways, they made it to a room. The professor went in with Trinity trailing behind him closely. She saw they were in a bedroom that was twice the size of her old room and even had a window. There were two beds and dressers, along with a small closet.

The professor explains. "This will be your room Trinity, you do not have to share with anyone until you're comfortable enough to do so."

Trinity nods silently as she placed her suitcase on her bed.

The professor explains. "Monday through Friday we have classes to prep students for school as well as individual training courses. For your training, Ms. Grey and I will teach you. If you need anything don't be afraid to ask."

"Thank you Professor." Trinity whispered as he left.

Trinity shut the door and went over to her suitcase and unpacked. Her mom packed her all of her winter clothes, t-shirts, and jeans. She also packed a couple skirts and dresses…don't know why—she wasn't going out. She put all of her clothes away, and saw that her mom also packed her books and movies: from her favorite Golden age cinemas to Shakespearian plays. She stacked the books and movies on her dresser and then picked up Bamf and sat on her bed to stare at the soft doll. Cara did a great job stitching the Bamf—it looked a lot like Nightcrawler.

There was a knock on her door, and Trinity puts down the doll. "Yes?" She opens her door to see Nightcrawler standing before her, "speak of the devil", but he wasn't in his red and black spandex uniform. Kurt was actually wearing black and purple pin-striped pants and a white button-up shirt. He smiled at her. "Hallo Trinity, may I come in?"

Trinity nodded. "Yeah, sure."

Kurt walks in and looks around the room thoughtfully and turns around to gaze at Trinity with the cheerful smile he still wore. Trinity stared back; not really bothered by the silence. He tilts his head at her and his tail swished behind him like a cat's. "It surprises me how quickly you're used to seeing me. Most people stare at my tail or hands."

Trinity peered at Kurt's hands and sees that his nails were freshly filed down. She then answers. "I guess I'm different…"

Kurt grinned. "I'm glad you're not afraid of me."

"Why would I be?" Trinity asked; sure the tail and fur were a shock, but he didn't seem frightening.

Kurt walks around her as he inspects the room. "I remember the first time you saw me…at the window?"

Trinity suddenly remembered the gold eyes. "That was you!"

Kurt turned around and answered enthusiastically. "Ja."

"You scared me—I mean not you—but I didn't think I'd see a person staring at me—I'm sorry." She told him in a rush as she reddened in embarrassment.

Kurt chuckled. "Macht nichts," He then playfully bows to Trinity. "I will be your tour guide for today, liebchen."

She looks at her feet and asks. "Can I just stay in here?"

Kurt teleports so he is next to the window and opens it. "Why stay in when you have the best weather in New York; free of acid rain and frigid cold?"

She peers out the window curiously, but keeps her distance.

He notices and jokes. "Don't worry fraulein; I don't bite."

She edges closer to him, but keeps away from the window. He notices and closes it. She must be afraid of heights.

Kurt smiled at Trinity and holds out his hand. Trinity slowly takes it. Kurt pulled her into an embrace, while telling her. "Hold on."

They teleport out of the room in a burst of purple and black smoke. Trinity coughs as Kurt waves the smoke away from her. "I know; I should come with a warning sign, or an air freshener."

"It's not—" She coughs. "Too bad."

"Very convincing fraulein, I almost believed you." He teases her. Trinity smirks and he cheers. "Aha! I finally managed to get a smile out of you."

Trinity couldn't help but smile more as she agrees. "Your enthusiasm is contagious."

"Gutt." He tells her as he takes her arm to lead her through the mansion. "The boys' rooms are usually on the left side of the mansion and girls are on the right." He peers at her with a wry grin. "I don't think I have to tell you which side of the institute your room is on?"

"The right?"

"Ja, for some reason the boys have a hard time understanding this." Kurt shakes his head in pseudo-frustration, making Trinity giggle.

"Do the teachers stay in the halls too?"

"Yes, except for the Professor, he has a room behind the office, and me. I live in the attic, trust me, it's nicer than it sounds. Plenty of room and it has a great view."

"Doesn't it get cold?"

Kurt runs a hand through his black curls. "The bonus of having fur is that it's harder to get cold. Also, when you live in New York, you have to get used to it."

Trinity nods as she absorbs this. Kurt explains. "Each hall has a main bathroom for the boys and girls; be sure you don't make the mistake of leaving the door unlocked."

He leads her downstairs and down more halls. "The living room, dining room, and kitchen. Be sure to stay away from the beers in the refrigerator or Logan will hunt you down for them." He motions to the upstairs. "The main house 2nd floor is the Professor's study, reception area, and chamber. The library is downstairs on the girls' side and the laundry room is on the boys' side. Below, is where our clinic, lab, jet hanger, Cerebro, danger room, and computer rooms are. Any questions?"

Trinity looked out a window. "Can we go outside please?"

Kurt grins as they teleported.

In a puff of smoke, they disappear. Trinity opened her eyes to see that they were in the garden. She steps away from Kurt as she looks around in amazement. It was filled with different plants; from colorful flowers to leafy ferns. She walks through the garden and sits at the fountain in its center. She looks up at Kurt with a huge smile. "I love it! Who designed this garden?"

"Ororo and…your aunt." Kurt tells her as he sits beside her.

Trinity's smile wavers. "Marisol…she designed this place?"

Kurt nods and stands. "Come on, I have something to show you." He wasn't in his cheerful mood now, he was more thoughtful as he gently lead Trinity around the fountain. They came to a patch of marigolds; their bright petals of orange and gold swaying in the breeze. In the middle of the patch, there was a marble plaque that read:

In honor of Marisol Lafayette Proudstar: A loving sister and friend, a brave X-Man and Xavier Institute Graduate, and an amazing wife and mother.

"Ororo and I designed this garden to be a personal Eden to anyone who needs its beauty and serenity. When I'm gone, I hope this garden will continue to flourish by new and different hands of the X- family." ~Marisol

Trinity read the plaque and rubbed her eyes to keep tears from escaping.

Kurt sees and tells her. "She loved it here. She would always bring your cousins with her to visit Thunderbird…they were happy here…I think you'll be too."

Trinity looks up at him in surprise as her lip trembled. "She…always told me about her school…about mutant powers…she was always wanted to talk to me about anything…she would tell me that she would always be there for me…and she was…even in the hospital…" Trinity felt the tears run down her face. "I miss her…everyone does…she was great…"

Kurt nods in agreement. "Yes."

Trinity covered her face in embarrassment as she took shaky breaths to calm herself.

Kurt reminisces about when he came to the institute at 14… He was a mess. Marisol was one of the people who managed to make him feel welcomed—like he belonged. He remembered how his teenage angst was no match for her cheerful persona and he chuckled to himself. Trinity looked over at him in surprise.

Kurt frowns for forgetting himself and explains. "Sorry, you know, when I came here I was a mess too." He gets a pack of tissues out of his pocket with his tail and gives them to her. "Luckily, I came prepared."

Trinity took the tissues and her shoulders shook. Kurt instantly felt terrible; thinking she was going to cry again. Great jod Wagner, He thought to himself. Instead of crying, she began laughing; teary eyed while giggling out hiccups. "Y-you're right; I am a mess!" She starts wiping up her face. "Thanks, I can't believe I cried like that." She mops up her face.

Kurt smirked. "Don't worry about it Trinity."

Trinity sniffs and nods. "Thank you. I'm glad you showed me the plaque…I never understood why Mami—my mom, never told me about this. This place—it's amazing."

Kurt looks up at the sky as he slowly explained. "Sometimes, it's easier for people to distance themselves to deal with losing someone…for others, talking about them helps."

"It does?" Trinity asked. "Does it help you?" She instantly regretted asking him such a personal question.

Kurt blinks, but looks at her with a grin. "Sometimes, but I'm a very complicated person—sometimes I'm quiet, and sometimes, you can't shut me up."

Trinity chuckled at the joke. Kurt offers her his arm. "Do you want to see the rest of the Institute?"

"Yeah," Trinity says as she takes his arm. Kurt walks with her slowly and points out the pool, tennis courts, basketball court, the field, and the track.

"There's also a trail through the woods." Kurt motions to the forest behind and left of the institute that was passed the track.

Trinity peers at the woods. "Looks creepy,"

"That's why we aren't allowed in there unless we have a partner to watch our backs."

Trinity starts and looks up at Kurt questionably. He notices and snorts. "Don't worry, the only thing dangerous about is that it connects to the road that leads here. Also, people tend to get lost. The only scary thing is Logan, he goes hunting in the woods when he's bored—ah, here he is now." They see Logan walking out of the woods with fishing poles and something large and tan flung over his bare shoulder. He was shirtless and only wore jeans, but this didn't bother the rugged mutant as he approached. "Ach! Logan, it's not deer season yet!" Kurt exclaimed.

Trinity realized that Logan was carrying a deer corpse over his shoulder. She watched as Logan smirked. "Tell that to Bambi here." He drops the deer onto the ground and she saw it had a three-point gash in its chest and blood on its large antlers. "I was fishing when he came charging at me, I guess I was on the buck's territory. Well, tell Moira that we're having deer tonight. I'll carve it for her." He notices Trinity and nods. "Hey kid."

"Hi." Trinity squeaked as she tried not to stare.

Logan snorts in amusement as he picks up the buck by its hind legs and dragged it behind him to the garage.

"Make sure you put its parts in trash bag this time!" Kurt called after him. "Lorna is still having nightmares about finding 'bambi' in the garage."

Trinity blinked—still surprised, until she snorted out a laugh. "Does he usually hunt?"

"He enjoys it, but he doesn't really do it here often. He'll disappear for days on end and come back with some game from Canada. Sometimes I tag along, but I prefer getting my food from a fridge instead of the forest." Kurt winks.

"Let me guess, he doesn't use a gun?"

"Nein, he uses his hands. Logan is much more…what's the word?"

"Bad-ass?"

"Ja, that's the word." Kurt agreed.

Dominic walks to his room and sees the door was open. When he stepped inside he stopped. A tall, skinny boy was sitting in a chair playing on a laptop. That didn't make Dominic stare; the boy had scaly orange-red skin with red markings on his face and a large, frilled dorsal fin growing from his head like a Mohawk. His webbed fingers were attached to the keyboard as he played. He looked up with large, pupil-less grey eyes and greeted. "Hello, you must be Dominic. I'm Sammy; your new roommate." Dominic noticed that Sammy didn't have a nose…but two pinpoint holes were in its place…and his neck had slits in them like gills. Scott was right—he was fish-like…he thought it was an exaggeration, but apparently not. "Uh—Hey…I'm Dominic."

Sammy analyzes Dominic and says. "Yeah, I get that a lot."

Dominic frowned. "Sorry, I'm still getting used to—stuff. What're you playing?"

"Slenderman—AH!" Sammy almost dropped his laptop. "He got me again!"

Dominic looks over his shoulder. "Yeah, I played that—you might as well stop now."

"Why?"

"Because he still gets to you when you live."

"No!"

"Yeah,"

Sammy shuts his laptop. "Crap."

Dominic sits on his bed. "So—you're from Canada?"

Sammy smirked and nodded to the flag. "What gave me away? I heard that you're from the Jersey shore."

"Huh? Oh, nah, I live near Morris county."

"Cool." Sammy nods and stays silent, until he asks. "Is it true that your mom went here?"

"Yeah, and my aunt and uncle." Dominic tells him. "Speaking of that, my cousins should be coming here soon."

"That's awesome; I'm the first mutant in my family."

"Really? Did the Professor tell your parents about the Institute?"

"Yeah, he told my mom about it, and she decided it would be good to send me down here."

"That's cool. My family told me how great this place is."

"Hey, is it true you faced the Brotherhood?"

Dominic peers at him and nods. "Yeah…"

"Seriously? Did you fight the Blob?"

Dom remembers his embarrassing feat and answers. "Sort of—"

"Sweet! So tell me; cause Bobby always tell us how hot Mystique is, is it true?"

Dom grinned. "Yeah, she's pretty hot,"

Sammy smiles. "Not as hot as Storm though, right?"

He chortles. "Yeah—I saved her life."

"You saved Storm?"

"Yeah, there was an avalanche and I pushed her out of the way—by the way, my mutant power is being invulnerable and I can create these sonic blasts from my hands and feet."

"So, wait, you're invincible?"

Dom grinned and hopped up. "Yeah," He walks over to the window and opens it. He looks down: one story up. "Watch this."

"Uh…Dominic, what're you doing?"

"Gonna show you my powers." He gets onto the windowsill.

"Hold on, this isn't funny, just don't—"

Dominic jumps out of the window with a hoot.

Sammy shouts as he watches Dominic fall toward the ground, and suddenly fly off the ground as an invisible force "BOOMED" from his feet. Sammy's jaw dropped as he watched Dominic fly through the air. He then ran out of his room, down the stairs, and out the door where he ran into Dominic. "You did it! You jumped out a window and freaking survived!" He laughed as Dominic shrugged his shoulders.

They continued walking around the grounds, which Trinity enjoyed the most. She watched as a few kids her age were playing some sort of soccer game. One girl with long brown hair was flying around with wind swirling around her, while one guy was throwing snowballs at her…wait, where did he get those? Kurt peered at her and wondered if she was going to go play, but the girl held onto his arm tighter and looked frightened. Kurt frowned, the girl was a lot like he was; too scared to be around people…afraid of doing something wrong. One guy noticed her and smirked. Kurt recognized it was one of the newer students who transferred from Australia: John Allerdyce. Kurt sighed, he and John weren't the "best of friends" so to speak and he constantly got on Nightcrawler's bad side…which was difficult for anyone to do. John was serious, aggressive, and crass in class and could care less about Kurt's authority; claiming that Kurt "had no right to be an instructor, let alone a mutant". Kurt didn't do anything when John said this, and tried to laugh it off…unfortunately, Scott heard what happened and reprimanded John to 'lay off' and respect Kurt. Even though Nightcrawler was grateful to Cyclops, sending a man to tell off a boy was embarrassing and it gave John more confidence when facing others; like he knew he could get to both the students and teachers.

John walked over to them and Nightcrawler took a breath and greeted him. "Hallo John, having a nice day?"

John quirked a brow as he peered at Trinity. "Apparently you are Nightcrawler, who's this?"

Kurt repressed the urge to roll his eyes; there was no way in hell he'd give John the satisfaction, especially in front of Trinity who became glued to Kurt. "This is Trinitia Leonardo."

John smirked at her. "Hey,"

Trinity smiled. "Hello." She glanced at the guy as her pulse quickened and Kurt felt incredibly uncomfortable.

John nods at the field. "Want to play a few games?"

Trinity blanched and shook her head. "No thanks."

"Come on girl," John took a step toward her. "Who knows, you might have some fun. I'll let you win a few rounds."

Kurt raised his eyebrows. John hitting on a girl; this was new.

Kurt felt Trinity grow nervous and he decided to intervene. "Nein, John, I have to show her around more." Trinity instantly relaxed and nodded.

John shrugs. "Alright then," He was about to walk off when he turns to tell her. "If you want me to show you around sweets, I'm in room 6." He runs off to get back into the game as Kurt teleported Trinity elsewhere.

Allie walks beside Ororo as they head toward the school. They hear barking and Allie squealed. "You guys own dogs!" She runs over to the group of canines that were bounding around the field. Ororo laughed as Extreme, Hernando's Great Dane, started licking Allie's face and knocked her over. Allie laughed as more dogs trotted over and sniffed her with curiosity. Allie sat up as a Golden Retriever was nibbling on her hair. A Collie starts tugging on her sleeve as a Airedale Terrier sat on her lap. She petted the animals around her as she sees a reddish-brown wolfish dog sitting beside her patiently. Allie goes over to her and rubs her ears as she coos. "Who's the pretty puppy! Who's the pretty doggy—your fur is so silky soft—yes, it is!"

"Um Allie," Storm explained. "That's not a dog."

The girl raised a thick eyebrow in confusion, and when she turned back to the dog—a girl with the same color hair sat in front of her. Allie gaped as the girl greeted:

"Hello! I'm Rahne McTaggart. Nice to meet you Allie."

Allie looked around for the dog, until she realized that this was for real. "Uh—Hi. Sorry about petting you and talking to you like you were a…"

"Dog? Nah, I'm a werewolf—well I can turn into a wolf and some kind of in-between wolf-human."

Allie nods. "That's awesome."

Rahne laughs. "Do ya' want to play a game?"

"Sure."

"Alright—tag!" Rahne taps her arm and jumps away while turning back into a wolf. Allie jumps up and chases Rahne as the other dogs follow them.

Trinity took a deep breath as she walks out of her room. Hoping she'd run into Kurt and eat with him instead of ending up alone at dinner. She saw that no one else was in the hallway, and knew they were probably already downstairs eating. She jumped when someone slammed a door open down the hall. Allie ran out and saw her sister. "Trin!"

She grabs her sister's arm and started dragging her along. "I had the best day today—I got to fly to the lake with Ms. Munroe, skipped stones, and played with Rahne!"

Trinity listened to her sister and smiled.

"Did you go out today Trin?"

She tells her. "Yeah, I got to walk around with Kurt."

"Really! That's great, he's really nice and like totally cool—he can juggle and he calls me 'haschen' whenever he sees me—I don't what that means, but it's like a pet name you know?"

Her older sister listens to her rabbling, but froze when they made it downstairs. Trinity could hear the voices and feel the people in the dining room. She felt her chest tighten in fear as she stayed still. Allie notices. "Hey, it's okay, Rahne tells me they're nice. They get it."

Trinity stares at the door and shook her head. "I don't know…I can't—"

Allie pulls her in. "Come in!"

Trinity stumbles with her sister and felt sick when everyone turned to stare at her. She resisted the urge to bolt as Allie pulled her along to sit down. Dominic was sitting next to a red fish-boy and waved them over. Trinity stared at her feet as she sat down. She could smell the curiosity in the room. A boy suddenly sits in the chair next to her. Trinity looks up nervously as she greeted by a boy her age with dark skin and curly dark brown hair. "Hey." He smiled.

Trinity saw his aura—it was a nice and warm green color—like a emerald shade. "Hey."

The boy grins wider as he holds out his hand. "Me llamo Hernando. Y tu?"

"Uh…me llamo Trinitia Leonardo." She takes his hand.

"Your Spanish is pretty good."

"Not really, my mami taught me that." She told him.

He lets go of her hand it strangely felt like she was peeling herself off from flypaper.

He puts his chin on his hands as he gazed at her. "You are gorgeous Trinitia."

Trinity blushed in embarrassment and shook her head.

He laughs. "I'm not lying; you're muy Hermosa."

Someone scolds. "Stop scaring her Hernando." The girl Trinity saw flying in the field sat in front of her and told her. "He's a terrible flirt, but is harmlessly earnest."

Hernando shrugs and wraps an arm around Trinity like she was an old friend. "How do you like the Xavier Institute?" Dominic glared at the boy's arm, but Trinity didn't really mind—it felt nice having someone kind and calm next to her.

"It's really nice here…" She tells them.

The girl smiled at her. "I'm Sofia Mantega by the way."

"Aka rich girl." Hernando whispered to Trinity.

Sofia scowled. "And he's aka rich boy of the Institute. He's jealous because my father makes more money than his."

"I respectfully disagree Sofia." Hernando cheerfully sniffed. "The Reyes family is making good money from our chain of hotels—my cousin is actually being sent to medical school with my dad's money."

"And what are you doing with you allowance, Hernando?" A girl with curly green hair asks from down the table.

"Hopefully, spending it on this lovely lady here?" He peers at Trinity suavely.

A boy with brown spikey hair nods. "That's my boy."

A girl with red hair sits next to Allie and says. "No flirting Hernando."

"Trinitia, this is my amazing girlfriend Rahne." Hernando introduces Rahne.

"I'm not his girlfriend." She answers.

"Future wife then?" He begged.

"Never." She told him.

"Secret lover?"

Rahne throws a roll at him and he catches it while mouthing "I love you!"

The girl with green hair calls down the table. "Hi! I'm Lorna Dane," She motions to the boy with the spikey hair. "And this is my boyfriend Bobby Drake."

"Hey!" Bobby waves.

Trinity waves back. "Uh—hi."

Dominic nods to the fish-boy. "This is Sammy; he's my new roommate."

"Hi Sammy."

"Hi. Hope you like it here." Sammy greets.

"Thanks."

Dominic points to Allie. "That's my little sister Allie."

Allie waves at Sammy. "Hello, I love your fin!"

Sammy blinks in surprise. "Uh thanks."

A girl with honey-colored curls sits next to Sammy. She had tan skin and brown eyes which glanced at Allie and Trinity. "Hello, I'm Amara." She reaches over and shakes their hands. She was tiny, and looked like she was younger than Dominic, but older than Allie.

Trinity felt more comfortable as she ate. Hernando was really friendly and asked her lots of questions as Sofia kept him in check. Dominic was busy talking to Sammy and Amara, while Allie chatted with Rahne.

Hernando asked. "What's your favorite color?"

"Um…purple."

"What's your favorite food?"

"Spaghetti."

"Who do you think is the sexiest man here?"

"Hernando—" Sofia warned.

"Okay." Hernando sighed, but then whispered. "Is it me?"

Trinity smirked and whispered back. "Sure."

Hernando laughed. "I like her—she lets me flirt with her." He then turns thoughtful. "What's your mutant power?"

Trinity dropped her fork onto her plate of deer meat and vegetables as the whole room became silent. Hernando notices the tension and says. "You don't have to tell us."

She looked up at Dominic who stared back at her. She finally says. "I can see, feel, and control other people's emotions."

Everyone murmured in excitement as Bobby asked. "How do you see emotions?"

"Well…I can see auras around people…like yours is a bright silvery blue with green edge."

Bobby raised his eyebrows in interest and Lorna asked. "What about me?"

Trinity concentrated and saw her aura. "Yours is a red violet shade with red edges." Lorna grinned as she whispered to Bobby excitedly.

Soon everyone wanted to know what colors their auras were: Sofia's was a light green with blue edges, Amara's was a bright red with pink edges, Allie had a rose aura, Sammy's was blue with yellow edges, and Dominic's was a dark green with orange edges. Everyone was now gathered around Trinity as they asked more questions.

Lorna asked her. "So, your aunt was a telepath too?"

"Yeah, my aunt Marisol could read both thoughts and emotions."

Bobby nods. "Yeah, and your mom can heal people?"

"Yes. She can heal anything, but when she does it—it feels like your reliving the pain of the injury. She works at the hospital secretly curing patients."

Sammy nods. "You should see Dominic—he's completely invulnerable."

Dominic smirked as he picked up his fork for everyone to see and jabs it into his hand as hard as he could. Everyone exclaimed when he showed them a bent up fork and an unmarked hand.

Amara turns to Allie. "What's your power Alicia?"

The girl lifts up her hands and three pink orbs flickered into the air and floated above them. Sofia stood up and touched one of the spheres, which bounced off her finger and floated away until all three orbs disappeared. Everyone clapped as Allie stood on her chair and bowed.

Trinity started to laugh at her sister's antics.

Outside the door Jean and Scott were listening in. Jean smiled. "Sounds like everything's going well."

Scott smirked. "Yeah." He reminisces. "Remember your first dinner here?"

"How could I forget, you spilt milk all over me."

"Well, not all over you; just your shirt."

"And then you tried to clean it off my shirt."

"Yeah, I wasn't really thinking."

"It was still sweet though," She kissed him. "That's why I stayed."

"Because I spilt my drink on you?" He teased.

"No, because you wanted me to stay, and I wanted to know the real Scott Summers."

He smiled down at her. "Really?"

"Yeah really, I wouldn't be marrying you if this wasn't true."

Scott smiled as he warps a arm around her and they walked upstairs to their room.

Trinity walked into the kitchen with her plate and sees the boy—John—sitting on the counter eating an apple. She paused and gazed at him; he was cute…messy gold hair and blue-green eyes—and the Australian accent was hot—she always had a thing for foreign guys—well, that's what Allison told her. He gave her a lopsided grin. "Hey."

Trinity nods to him. "Hi…" She goes over to the sink and rinses her plate; wishing for someone else to show up.

She heard him hop off the counter and stand beside her, while leaning against the sink beside her. "So, do you go by Trinitia?"

She peers at him as he bit into the apple. "I go by Trinity…or Trin."

"Trin…I'll call you Trinity." He grins at her. "You're not much of a talker are you?"

She reddened in embarrassment. "Um—uh." I used to be...

"Not a big deal, the best kind of girl is one that doesn't have to talk 24/7 to make a point. So Trinity," He leans toward her with a grin. "What do you think of Xavier's?"

Trinity leaned back as she stammered. "It's—uh—pretty amazing." She stared at his aura and notices how it was reddish orange…but the edge was strange…it was a greyish color that was dulled.

John raised an eyebrow. "Ever had a tour of New York city?"

"No."

"Want one? I can take you out tomorrow night."

Trinity gaped. Yes! I would love to go! Yes! Yes! But she knew better. "I'm sorry John. I can't; I have to stay at the Institute until I can control my powers…"

"We can sneak out if you want." He tosses the core of his apple into the trash.

"I'm sorry; I can't…but…I would like another tour of the grounds." Trinity stopped leaning back and stood tall as she gave him a small smile.

John smirked. "Alright, I'll meet you here tomorrow night." He leaves, but not before getting another apple from the bowl and tossing it to her. "Apple?"

Trinity barely caught it and shook her head. "Thanks, but I'm full." She tosses it back and he catches it and takes a bite out of it. He leaves and she stood there with a smile plastered on her face. I think I just got myself a date…

Brother: "This chapter is so long!"

"I know! It took forever to write..."

"Really?"

"No, I was drinking tea and I was typing like crazy!"

"This makes no sense."

"Yes. So whatcha' think?"

"Trinity is very emotional..."

"Again, you would be too if you have emotional power overload!"

"I don't like John."

"Yes, you've told that eversince I introduced him into the story."

"Hernando makes me smile, but where's Betsy!"

"She'll be there in the next chappie. Btw readers-I know my German is not good-"

"Ja. Kurt keeps on saying "Ja" and "fraulein". I thought the modern term is 'frau'."

"It is, and liebchen is old fashioned too, but I always saw Kurt as an old-fashioned guy. I'll try to dial it down with the German."

"Remember when you spelled "Was?" as "Vas?"-"

"It was a typo and I'm sorry!"

"'Macht nichts?'"

"It means "No worries".'

'"For the rest of your days!"

"No singing!"

"Ok...Allie's adorable...(snicker) Dom jumping out of the window made my day..."

"He is a show off."

"Nein!"

"Ugh, you're never letting that go." :{0

"What is that? A moustache face?"

"Yes. Btw- Me llamo _. Means "My name is _" in Spanish. Yeah, my langauges suck, but I'm trying."

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