OH MY GOD! ANOTHER DOUBLE DIGIT! CHAPTER 10 IS UP AND LOADED! I rule! Ok, I really hope you enjoy this chappie and that all you readers out there are proud of me; my second CHAPTER 10! (The first was in The Temptations of Evil!)

Key:

"…" Speech

'…' Thoughts

(…) Extra information

Songs are in bold

"Telepathic thoughts are in italic and speech marks"

/…/ This shows a change of scene

# '…' This is when one of Rogue's psyche talks to her, when it's more then one #…# that will say who it is

Chapter 10

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Just as the simulation had started however the simulation suddenly stopped, and everyone looked around at the empty danger room wandering what had happened. Rogue frowned in disappointment and released Jean from the headlock she had her in, ignoring Jean as she began to cough and splutter, and instead Rogue looked around at the confused teens with a roll of her eyes. Lexa retracted her claws, pulling them out of Logan's stomach and paying no attention to him as his stomach healed over and he snarled behind her back. Rahne transformed back into a human, ignoring Scott as he shuddered at how close her razor-sharp teeth had been to him whilst Danielle helped Roberto up after trying to send a kick to his stomach that had unfortunately gone lower than she thought. Ray rubbed the bruise that Sam had accidentally given him and as he rubbed it, sparks flew menacingly out of his hands, whilst Sam began to cautiously back off. Bobby rubbed his neck, trying to wish away the hand marks around it whilst he shook his fist in Jamie's direction as ten of Jamie's multiples restrained another multiple, that still had his hands outstretched in Bobby's direction. Kitty watched the multiples and Bobby cautiously, and hid behind Kurt who patted her gently on the back with her tail, not noticing as Kitty squealed in fright and ran backwards, he was too busy laughing in Roberto's direction as Roberto moaned again in pain. Most of the x-kids attention was caught however when Bobby began to yell and curse loudly, stomping his foot in anger as he looked down at his monitor.

"DAMN IT! I FUCKING GET STRANGLED BY THAT ARSE OF A MULTIPLE AND I STILL FUCKING LOSE!"

"Bobby please never use language like that again or I will have to inform the Professor," everyone looked up as Ororo's voice filled the danger room and Bobby stopped cursing and began to blush. "I am sorry for interrupting your danger room lesson," Ororo paused as Jean's voice telepathically rang loudly through everyone's head, "Jean I am sure Rogue didn't mean to hurt you that much, but I must advise you not to speak about fellow pupils in that manner. Anyway, the Professor wishes to see you all as he has a new student arriving very soon, so he wants you all changed and in the entrance hall to great your new X-man." Everyone looked at each other as this was announced and began to make their way to the doors, moaning as Logan announced that the session wasn't forgotten.

Rogue pushed past Jean on her way out and as Jean opened her mouth to object Rogue scowled, "ah wouldn't say anything if ah was you red. One word could be all tha difference as ta whethah ah forget this whole incident or not, even ah don't like being called 'a bitchy, vicious cow,' even if it is a lame insult." Jean blushed and moved behind Scott as Rogue glared at her before sighing as soon as Rogue was out of sight.

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As soon as they had entered the privacy of their room, Rogue and Kitty both began to talk at once, "ah just hope if they're a gah he'll leave meh alone, othahwise he'll have ta receive his welcoming party in a hospital bed."

"Ooh! I can't, like, wait!" Kitty disappeared into the walk-in-wardrobe and Rogue heard her throwing things around as she sat in front of the desk and sighed. "What should I wear? Pink, blue, yellow, purple?" Kitty poked her head out of the door as Rogue ignored her and huffed indignantly, "ROGUE!"

Rogue looked up as Kitty shrieked and glared daggers at her, sighing again as Kitty disappeared around the door with a 'sheesh!'

"OH MY GOD! THAT'S, LIKE, SOOOOO PERFECT!" Rogue listened for a while; hearing lots of murmuring, shuffles and occasional curses before Kitty reappeared again. "What d'ya think!" Kitty twirled for Rogue to get a better view and Rogue shrugged.

Kitty had tied her hair up in a baby blue ribbon that matched perfectly with her knee-long, baby blue skirt that had lavender butterflies printed on it, and long, winding flowers crawling up the skirt. Her top was a pastel-pink and was long sleeved, with one of the sleeves hanging off Kitty's shoulder, with an average bust height that showed the pale, soft skin around her neck, and the top reaching down to the hemline of her skirt, blending perfectly with the baby blue. Kitty wore her usual necklace but also put on several bright pink bangles, which jingled as Kitty raised her arms as she twirled in her pastel pink, flat sandals laughing happily.

"Ya looked nahce Kit, reallah nahce," Kitty squealed as Rogue said this and threw her arms around Rogue's neck before dragging the poor Goth into the wardrobe to change.

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The x-girls all giggled and compared outfits and perfume as they stood in the girl's corridor, all excited about the new arrival and waiting expectantly for the Professor to call them so they could finally see whether their new X-man was a boy or girl. As all the girls apart form Rogue and Rahne giggled delightedly and squealed in excitement Lexa opened her door a crack and hissed to Rogue who followed Lexa's beckoning, nodding to Rahne who looked pleadingly at her.

"What do ya want Lex?" Rogue rolled her eyes at Lexa and then frowned at her outfit.

"For you to check out my outfit, anyways how come you aren't 'celebrating' with the others," Lexa rolled her eyes as she said 'celebrating' and then looked inquisitively at Rahne.

"Well…I always stick with Danny you know, but she's a bit to 'boy obsessive' for my liking…besides, I don't like all the squealing coz of my wolf-hearing and I know that your room is sound-proof coz of your sensitive hearing."

Rahne smiled at Lexa and she smiled back before giving the girls a twirl, "so, over the top or not enough to impress."

Lexa's skirt was midnight-blue, reaching just below her knee with a long slit running up the side of it, running all the way up to her mid-thigh, with fake-diamonds sparkling up the lines of it and at the hem. Lexa's top was black and hung off both her shoulders, reaching down to her elbows with silver trimming at the end and silver trimming on the low bust, which revealed more than it left to the imagination. Her hair was silky smooth and soft, caressing her back and looking so perfect to touch, with a black hair piece sparkling to the side if her parting, in the shape of a dagger. But that wasn't the only thing sparkling, Lexa's tanned navel sparkled with a black bellybutton-ring shaped the same; as a dagger, and it was at this that Rogue gasped and Rahne mouthed a small 'wow.'

"Tha Professor will kill ya! But then again…it looks gorgeous!" Rogue bent down to Lexa's navel and admired the piercing as Rahne gasped.

"It is soooooo you! You really suit navel piercings!"

"You think?" Lexa smirked satisfactorily as Rahne nodded, then she started laughing, "I did it myself!"

"You what!" Rogue and Lexa began to laugh loudly whilst Rahne simply admired the piercing till a thought came to mind.

"Uh…Lex, why aren't you healing over it?"

Lexa blinked confusedly and then smirked, "what…oh that! Yeh…my powers can't heal over this thing…well, actually they can, and are…but every time I heal the ring just pierces again so until I take the ring out I'll just keep healing and getting pierced, healing and getting pierced, repeatedly, and it doesn't even hurt."

"Cool!"

"Nahce ahdea Lex!" Rogue gave Lexa a high five and was about to say more when the Professor's voice rang through the girls' heads and they began to make their way to the door, Lexa grabbing a pair of black, knee high, high heeled boots on the way. The girls all followed after the rest of the crowd, and were the last ones to descend the stairs meaning that the entrance hall was crowded so they got the best view from higher up the stairs, and also the best view to be spotted from. After a while of looking around Kitty phased through people to join them, ignoring Kurt as he shouted after her.

"Do you mind? You're invading my personal space!"

"Heya guys, I, like, spotted you up here and, like, thought I could join you, that ok?" As the girls nodded Kitty noticed Lexa and her outfit and gasped, "wow! You look so totally hot Lex! And I, like, so love the ring and hair piece; they are so you, I mean, with, like, the design and colour and, like, all."

Lexa smirked and flashed her belly button ring, "yeh, did it myself."

"Wow! Like, that is so totally the bomb (i.e. great) but doesn't it, like, heal."

"Yeh…it heals but then the ring pierces it again, so it's cool. Besides, your outfit is cool."

Kitty smiled and gave Lexa a twirl, "yeh, it is so totally cute isn't it!" she smiled and turned, missing Rogue and Lexa's shudders at the word 'cute.' Instead she joined Amara, Jubilee and Danny on a debate about the advantages of another girl in the house and another boy, being followed by Rahne who gave a quick hug to Danny who apologised for leaving her out and squealing too loudly.

But suddenly all chatter ceased as the front door opened and Tabby walked in, wearing her x-men outfit having been on a mission to recruit the new recruit (hehe, couldn't resist). "Heya, watcha all doing here?" Tabby looked at everyone with genuine confusion until she heard a small cough behind her and her face suddenly lit up again with a smile as she worked it out, "oh! Right, well I'll just get him." A few murmurs and stifled squeals were met with this announcement and the girls, except Rogue, all checked their outfits or patted down their hair. Then, with a quick peep inside, Tabby appeared in the entrance hall, tugging on a hand as there were quiet murmurs form the other side of the front doors and she disappeared again only to come back in rolling her eyes and muttering, 'shy' under her breath repeatedly in disbelief. She tugged on the hand again and finally an arm appeared, leading up to an elbow until eventually Tabby managed to coax the newest member of the x-men into the room.

He was tall, towering about two inches over Tabby with a sheepish grin on his face as he examined everyone, and was examined in return, running a hand through his short, gorgeous blond hair making Amara sigh quietly. His deep blue eyes ranged over the crowd of mutants, the ocean blue capturing several of the girls and entrancing them, with his perfect lips smiling softly and looking so kissable that Jubilee sighed too, not noticing the look Ray shot at her before he glared at the teenager. The boy wore a dark blue shirt, which clung to his well-defined abdominal muscles, showing off his obvious muscular definition, and his dark brown trousers made him look the perfect guy; cool, casual and slightly classy. The way he stood gave off a classy attitude, standing tall with his shoulders back with a perfect posture and as he said 'hello' shyly to the crowd they heard a slight posh note in the single word, showing a definite classy background. As his eyes roamed they never stayed on one person for longer than a split second, until he reached the back row of girls; he smiled at Kitty's outfit, loving the pastel colours that made her look so sweet and innocent. Then he looked to Lexa, admiring the bust line and what it showed, capturing his eyes for a second until he roamed lower, following the split in her skirt up to her mid-thigh, stopping where the split did wistfully. But then as he turned to face the last person in the room who he hadn't laid eyes on, his smile softened more as he took in the beauty standing next to Lexa. She wore a pair of plain black jeans, simple and casual apart from the slits in both knees revealing pale, soft skin, her top was a light shade of purple, hanging off the shoulders in a 'I'm not bothered way.' It showed more of the perfectly smooth skin, whilst some was covered up by a tank top underneath the purple one, yet only the straps were shown in a stylish manner that made the boy contemplate it for a while before his attention turned to the girl's face. His eyes widened a fraction, taking in the beauty before him; a perfect face, covered in gothic make-up, giving the girl an entrancing appeal, yet one that spoke danger all around as if she gave off an aura of danger, which she did. Her perfect auburn hair was so smooth, tantalisingly so and the boy wanted nothing more than to run his hands through those soft strands and then enter the realm of her white bangs that stood out so much, the white bangs that made Rogue, Rogue. Rogue noticed the boys gaze and frowned slightly which caused the boy to smirk in an amused fashion, and everyone in the room, apart from Professor X, Storm, Logan and Tabby, gasped.

Two beautiful, snowy white wings stretched slowly from the boy's back, lazily flapping, softly up and down, beating perfectly in time together and with every breath the boy took. He smiled at Rogue's shocked expression and the wings slowed down, folding perfectly behind the boy and as the boy swung a clean, brown trench coat around himself and put it on, the wings disappeared, blending neatly with the back of the coat. "My name's Warren Worthington, but my friends all call me Angel," he turned away from Rogue and his eyes roamed once again over the crowd and he smiled politely again before turning to the Professor, "where can I put my things, please Professor?"

The Professor smiled at Warren's politeness and gestured to the group of girls, who all hushed up, waiting expectantly, "Rogue will show you to your room, the rest of you will go to the living room so I may talk with you."

Rogue's mouth opened as she was informed this and she was about to protest when the Professor's voice echoed in her head, "please Rogue, make him welcome." Rogue sighed and nodded to herself as Warren walked towards her, "thank you, he will be sharing a room with Kurt." As the Professor's head disappeared so did nearly all of the x-men, until the only ones left in the room were Warren and Rogue who sighed as Warren stood next to her, waiting expectantly.

"Follow meh," Rogue rolled her eyes and began to walk off, Warren following respectfully behind her.

He managed to catch up with her after a little while and smiled as he walked next to her, "hey, I'm Warren." Rogue snarled as Warren outstretched his hand towards her and ignored it, "so you must be the girl Tabby warned me about; the Gothic girl who keeps to herself; Rogue? Is that your name?" When Warren received no reply he tried to carry on the conversation, "Tabby said you keep away because you can't touch…is that true?"

"Ma name is Rogue, and ma powah is a curse; ah absorb any living thing with skin contact, if ya were ta touch ma skin then ya would probably faint…depending on how long you held on, if ya held on fohr ta long ah could kill ya." Rogue smirked as Warren paused and then carried on as he caught up with her again, "of course, the effects would be twahce as bad fohr meh; ah'd get all ya memories and ah'd probably get yahre wings."

"I wouldn't wish this curse on anyone," Warren removed his coat and sighed but as his wings began to flutter gently he smiled softly, "well…apart from myself of course; it's like I was born with them."

Rogue stopped walking and stared at Warren, who turned to stare back at her, "ya weren't born with them?"

"No, when I was younger some scientists abducted me and experimented on me…they created these wings and attached them to me; to my mind…nerves, you name it, it's part of it."

"Even yahre heart?"

"Yeh…I just hope they won't go too berserk when I meet my soul-mate," Warren laughed loudly, but then he became serious, "that's how I came to be here; I managed to escape and I've been on the run. The Professor found out about me and managed to get someone to me…guess he sent the right person really, some guys had found out about my wings - a feather probably fell out of my coat - so they came after me. Tabby managed to scare them off with a couple of bombs, though I'm quite sure she would of done more damage then scaring them if I hadn't of stopped her to thank her." Warren laughed again, and Rogue smiled slightly before she began to walk again.

"When were ya abducted?"

"When I was ten years old…don't know why they picked me really, but they did. They managed to keep me locked up for three years until finally I escaped…they let me out every now and then for exercise, but they had made the fatal mistake of leaving a window open so I took my chance. Was on the run for a year until Xavier found me, and I'm glad he did; I'm safe here." Warren smiled as he looked around the boys' corridor, before he turned back to Rogue, "how old are you by the way? I'm fourteen."

"Ah'm not stupid ya know, ah worked that out," Rogue snarled at the way Warren laughed, "and if y'all stop laughing at meh ah'll tell ya how old ah am." Warren shut up immediately and smiled at Rogue whilst muttering a quick 'sorry.' "Ya should be, and yahre lucky ah didn't take ya out fohr that…ah'm fourteen years old, and…" Rogue gestured to a door that she opened, "here's yahre room."

Warren stepped in and smiled, even though Rogue apologised for Kurt's 'obvious liking to not tahdy things up,' but Warren liked it still, with the homely feel the mess gave and soon enough he had dumped his suitcase on a bed, sitting on it and looking around at the room. "It's perfect, real homely."

"Good, well we should get down ta tha kitchen, it's about tea tahme," Warren nodded and smiled at Rogue again, "ya know…it's kahnda weird yahre sharing rooms with Kurt."

"Why's that?"

"Well, firstly; he's ma half brothah, and don't even think about pestering him fohr more information about meh, and secondly; well…yahre and Angel, sharing rooms with a demon."

Warren laughed, "so is Kurt the one that Tabby thinks is cute with all his blue fur, even though she thinks he looks like a demon with the pointy tail and ears?"

"Ya, that's him. But he has an image inducer so that he can change his appearance to that of a normal human, he's the one wearing all tha retro shirts and bright, colourful things…and tha one with tha German accent." Warren and Rogue smiled at each other as they walked down the corridors, laughing as Rogue gave her own personal explanation of each member of the x-men, Warren's favourite being; 'Lex is tha one with tha massive claws, tha midnahght blue hair…basically tha one that gives tha most surprises. She's egotistical, loves being flirtatious but then turning the guy down, she's harsh, a bitch, a Goth lahke meh and a rathah gory and vicious one at that; and one thing ta remembah about Lex is that she will always play dirty, no matter what she's doing!' (Rather like a certain Brotherhood member I will not mention…ok I can't help it; PIETRO! Apart from the Goth business, and the claws…hehe.)

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She stood with her arms folded, slouching slightly and scowling to the side at nothing in particular. But as a bright light suddenly flashed she changed, turning her head to face forwards, her hands on her hips looking inquisitively in front of herself. But as another light flashed she changed again; crossing her arms behind her head as she looked to the left with a bored look on her face. This lasted a while; changing position and expression as each light flashed across her and the canvas behind her, the camera taking in the strapless, black bikini she wore and the beach setting behind her. After about five minutes of the flashing and posing the camera stopped flashing and the photographer smiled at her, "thank you darlin' I think that's all for today."

The girl sighed, "blimey and I thought yesterday's four hours was long, but five hours today, I'm starting to wonder if you're trying to kill me with these long hours."

"Don't be ridiculous darlin', why would we want to kill off our newest model when we've only had you for three days, I mean this agency only comes across suitable models every few months!"

The girl laughed as she stepped off the stage, "yeh, aren't you lucky I missed my train and had to take the later one, otherwise you would never have found me." Her British accent stood out from the photographers substantially.

The photographer nodded before she turned to the girl who was putting a pair of baggy, black jeans over the bikini bottoms and a dark purple tank top over the bikini top. "You never told anyone why you moved over here, why did you?"

"Oh…well I got this business proposition you see, and I've never known my parents you know, so I was never stuck down and could go wherever I wanted…so I decided to take it. It's better than staying at that crappy motel working 12 hours a day for hardly anything at all." The girl scowled and the photographer stepped back slightly with her heart beating furiously.

"Oh…uh, yes, well…good for you," she laughed nervously and tried but failed to smile as the girl waved and walked through the door.

The girl flicked a strand of her long, purple hair over her shoulder as she walked down the corridor, still frowning furiously and ignoring the people who drew back as she walked past them. She was still frowning as she left the corridor through some double doors and entered the main building; seven stories up it was incredibly high, with people flowing from floor to floor on the escalators and in the lifts. They flooded from other corridors, moving in a mass; mainly adults, looking serious as they walked with briefcases and expensive handbags, frowning at the young girl and her clothing sense as she ignored them all, her brows still furrowed moodily.

But as she went down the escalator she spotted someone, looking around curiously, staring at the people who frowned at him and his clothes. He was young, about her age and dressed quite similar to her; a bright orange shirt with flames rising up it, dark black baggy jeans, but hers had zips and pockets decorating the sides, whereas his jeans had flame-balls decorating them. His hair stood out and caught the most glares, flopping around his face cutely, framing it with bright orange bangs. He turned to his side and she saw him speaking to someone and that's when she noticed the girl he was next to.

The girl frowned as he laughed, catching them both even more attention, brushing a strand of her black hair away from her face, tucking the red tips behind her ear as she sighed. As she turned around to look behind herself, the girl's black cross earrings swung around with the black cross that hung from her scarlet, velvet choker. She sighed as she turned back to the boy and put a hand into the pocket of her scarlet trench coat, admiring the scarlet nail polish on her other hand and then counting her numerous scarlet and black bracelets and rings, obviously bored. She wore a scarlet top that looked like a tank top but with three buttons shaped like X's (not the X-men symbol) running down the middle of it, it stopped above her navel in a upwards V-shape. Her trousers were black, gripping to her legs and flaring slightly at the bottom, with a scarlet ribbon tied through the belt-buckles like a belt, with the ends hanging down to her lower thigh. She wore dark gothic make-up, which made her pale skin look even paler in contrast and, as the other girl moved closer to Wanda, she thought of Wanda and John looked like her kind of people.

Wanda admired her scarlet painted nails before she put her hand into her coat pocket and sighed again, watching John as he looked around himself excitedly, staring up at the ceiling, thinking just how far it looked away from him. "John would you quit it already, you've been looking round this place for the best part of ten minutes, just stand still already."

"Awww, but Sheila, this place is so awesome!"

"Whatever, just quit it would you?" Wanda turned away from John and looked towards the escalator, pausing as she noticed someone heading towards them both.

"K, whatever you say Sheila," John shrugged and turned to see what Wanda was looking at and tilted his head as he watched the girl come towards them both. "Nice hair," he looked at Wanda as he spoke and Wanda looked at him with a shrug.

The girl walked up to them both, running a hand through her violently purple hair as she did and smiled innocently, "hi, can I help either of you?"

Wanda frowned, "yeh…look, we're looking for someone, we were told to come and fetch them for our boss." Wanda ignored John as he muttered 'your father' and carried on, after shooting him a glare, "you don't happen to know…" Wanda looked around and lowered her voice, "anyone who goes by the name Psylocke do you?"

The girl frowned at them both before she looked around and muttered quietly, "you with Magneto?" Both John and Wanda nodded and the girl stuck out her hand to them both, "pleased ta meetcha Luvs, the names Betsy Braddock, at your service."

Betsy smiled at them both and to her surprise, Wanda found herself smiling back and offering her hand, which Betsy took, "Wanda Maximoff and this is St. John Allerdyce."

John rolled his eyes at Wanda and shook Betsy's hand; "jus' call me John."

Betsy smiled at them both, "nice ta meetcha, am I going with you guys?"

"Yeh, you've already met Mags so you know the deal right?" John turned as he spoke and the three of the headed out of the buildings, ignoring the glares they received inside it and the curious glance they received as they stepped through the entrance doors.

"Yup, done the dirty Luv," Betsy laughed as she realised what she had just said, "but not that kind of dirty; a bit to old for me."

Wanda smirked, "you have no idea." The three of them laughed and joked all the way to the Brotherhood house as Wanda and John told Betsy all about the other occupants.

They all stopped in front of the house and Betsy peered curiously up at it and then smiled, "finally I'm home!"

End of Chapter

Oooooooooooooooh! Told you there were newbies! I just hope you like them that's all, and I hope you liked their introductions, I was very pleased with Betsy's, so, yup; cool! Next chappie you CAN expect ANLOCKE, hints of LANCITTY, ROMY and JONDA ignorance and sexual X-IETRO! Love Thrills, xxx