Scott wakes up to the sound of a gunshot, he then sees Trinity running away from Sabretooth. He gets up and follows. He sees the rifle was discarded and continues to follow them up the hill. He stopped at the crest just in time to see he was overlooking a cliff. He also sees Trinity fall.

Cyclops quickly jumps off the cliff after her. He reaches out and caught Trinity in his arms. He then releases a steady laser from his visor at the ground below, and the force slowed their fall to the ground. Trinity clung to him as they hit the ground. Cyclops stumbled onto his knees, but he managed to hold onto Trinity. He lets her go and examines her bloodied leg. "How's your leg?" He stood up and looked around and saw the steaming patch of earth he created from his laser.

Trinity was staring at him with wide eyes in amazement, but manages to say. "It's alright…th-thank you Scott."

Before Cyclops could respond, he heard someone moving behind a cluster of trees—crunching through the brush toward them. He wasted no time as he swung Trinity behind him and placed a hand on his visor to fire.

Sabretooth limped out from behind a tree as he pulled a branch from his arm. His cuts and bruises from the fall healed slowly. He even popped his shoulder back in with only a grimace. His brown eyes were now red as he focused on Trinity and Scott. Trinity couldn't breathe when she felt Victor's fury and pain…his obsessed need for blood. Cyclops kept her behind him as he waited.

Sabretooth groaned. "Do you think I won't kill you too Cyclops—that girl is dead! Do ya' hear me X-Man!"

Cyclops remains silent as Trinity choked out a small whimper; she was so scared—why the hell did this stuff keep happening to her?

Sabretooth growled as he started running toward the two mutants; arms outstretched and ebony claws out.

Scott stood his ground and waited. Trinity felt like everything was moving slowly as Sabretooth leapt into the air before them—ready to claw them to shreds. Cyclops lifted his free arm to block Trinity's view as his other hand pressed the release mechanism on his visor to unleash a large laser ray. The red energy blasted into Sabretooth's entire body—covering him in ruby light and throwing the feral mutant into the air while melting his skin and clothes. Sabretooth howled as he flew over the forest—a mass of burning and steaming flesh.

Scott moved his arm out of Trinity's face. She stood there—frozen in shock. Scott turns to her and kneels down while holding her shoulders. "Trinity?" He thought he blocked her vision so she didn't have to see what happened…then he realized…she still felt what happened.

She doesn't answer as she stared at the space where Victor was.

Scott felt nervous and gives her shake. "Trinity?"

"It burned…" She finally muttered. "We're not so different huh?"

He frowned as he stood up. "What do you mean Trinity?"

"Sabretooth…he's not so different from Creed." Scott suddenly realized Graydon Creed and Victor…no, it had to be a coincidence…hopefully. She continues. "Their bloodlust…it's no different from mine."

Scott gripped her shoulders tightly and told her. "Hey, you're not Sabretooth, do you understand?"

Trinity shut her eyes. "You don't get it—their emotions were no different from mine when I tried to kill Creed…no different—"

Cyclops sighed and tells her. "I get it. But there is a difference between them and you."

Trinity opens her eyes and peers at him questionably.

He explains. "Creed, Sabretooth—they don't see the evil in their ways—there's no guilt in them. You know right from wrong. If you were like them; you wouldn't have tried to save us."

Trinity scrutinizes him and realized he wasn't lying to make her feel better; he was telling the truth.

Scott wasn't much of a talker; that was more of Jean and Kurt's thing…he hoped that he was getting through to her. "I'm sorry. I'm sorry you had to go through this again."

He sends a thought out to Jean. Marvel, I got Trinity, we're at the bottom of the cliff we could use some help.

She looks passed his visor and answers. "You're not the only who's sorry…" Her face crumpled into a frown and she wraps her arms around him. Cyclops hesitates and then picks her up, and realized how similar this mission was compared to when they first found her. He looks up at the cliff and wonders how he was going to get her up there.

There was a "BAMF" and Cyclops felt relieved when he saw Nightcrawler. Kurt sees Scott was carrying Trinity as well as her bloody leg and panics. "What happened! Is she—"

"I'm fine." Trinity answered. She turns her head to peer at Nightcrawler with a guilty expression. "But…I kinda' broke my promise…"

Kurt blinks for a moment and then his lip curls into a wry grin. "Ja, I can see that."

He goes over and teleports them to the X-Van. Logan was leaning on the bike—healing, while Jean was sitting on the edge of the X-Van with an icepack on her head. She sees them and closed her eyes in relief. Logan smelt the blood and stood up; blue eyes focused on Trinity. Scott sets her down next to Jean who had brought the medical equipment over with her telekinesis. The team was silent as Scott cleaned up the five long scratches that ran down Trinity's left leg. She winced as the disinfectant was applied.

Jean keeps an eye on her emotions and was surprised, as well as glad, that they weren't overwhelming her. Scott finally spoke up. "We'll have to show Moira and your mom these scratches to make sure they aren't infected. Luckily, they're pretty shallow."

Trinity nods and takes a deep breath. "I'm in a lot of trouble."

"That's putting it lightly." Scott tells her.

Trinity looks at all of the X-Men. "I'm so sorry—I was only trying to protect everyone at the Institute—I didn't want what happened at the mall and alleys…to happen to you all. Thank you…for saving me again…"

Jean helps her up. "We understand Trinity, now let's get you home."

Trinity felt herself grow anxious for home, until she realized Jean was talking about the Institute.

Wolverine brings the bike over to the van and Scott raised a brow. "You're riding with us?"

Logan loads the bike into the van and grunts. "Yeah, I ain't letting the kid out of my sight till we get back."

Trinity sat beside Kurt as she clasped her hands together and was pondering everything that's happened. She was done with this—being a damsel—sure, it only happened twice, but being so helpless was frightening. She peers at Kurt who was also watching her in concern; not even realizing his tail was wrapping around her legs, but she didn't care. She looks away and glanced at Logan who was also watching her closely with a frown on his face. She then peeked at Scott, who was driving, and Jean up front. She realized they all had the magenta energy around their foreheads from Jean. She thought about the stories and everything the X-Men have done for her. She finally made her decision.

Jean talks to her team telepathically about the information she gathered from Sabretooth:

Sabretooth was on an assassination mission.

Who sent him? Scott asked her.

Magneto.

She can see Wolverine and Nightcrawler stare at Trinity. Kurt asks. Why does Magneto want Trinity dead?

Jean explains. I'm not sure. All I know is that Magneto wanted Mystique to kill Trinity…but he took her off the mission for failing, and assigned it to Sabretooth. She telepathically tells Logan. His 'payment', was a chance to get to you.

Logan frowns. She was lucky we got there in time…Sabretooth would've killed her without any mercy…

Kurt's tail subconsciously wraps around Trinity's legs in an act of protection. But why kill her? Why does Magneto want this?

Logan thinks toward Scott. What are you thinking about Summers? You and Jean know Magneto better than I do; he was yer trainer along with Prof.

Jean shook her head. Since Magneto left the X-Men—he'd change…besides, if you want to know about him…you should ask Leon or Meg.

We'll talk to the Professor. Scott answers. Meg wouldn't be able to understand why Erik would try to kill her daughter. Leon would never talk about Erik without flaming up.

Leon's still worked up about Magneto? Logan asked. He needs to move on.

Jean defends Leon. Erik Lensherr was a father Leon and Meg never had…a surrogate for their father who was too busy running the Worthington Industry in Arizona to take care of his children. When Magneto went against the X-Men…Leon and Meg were crushed, but Leon grieved differently. You remember when he tried to kill Magneto—he was almost unstoppable.

Jean's right. Scott communicates. We need to talk to the Professor about this, and we can't mention to anyone that Trinity is a target; especially Trinity. She is already has enough to worry about. We also need to investigate Graydon Creed more.

Logan bristles. There's no f***** way that they're related Scott.

We need to be sure. Scott responds. We can't ignore these coincidences people. Also, we need to keep a closer eye on Trinity and her siblings.

Lorna hated begging, and pleaded with her roommate again. "Come on Sofia, please just sleep in the guest room for one more night."

Sofia rolled her eyes. "No! I'm not doing that again, besides when everyone else moves in I won't be able to sleep in a room so you and Bobby could mess around." Sofia represses the urge to gag. "Can't you go to his room?"

"No, John's always there—you know that." She suddenly smiled. "But who knows how long John would be there—"

"No." Her roommate makes a face. "I just can't see Trinity going out with John—"

"Well, John is pretty nice and charming with her—"

"She's not for him—John isn't a sensitive guy that she would need—"

"Because you know Trinity so well?"

"No, but I do know John." Sofia finally finds her jacket in the closet and puts it on. "Now, if you need me—I'll be enjoying a nice flight around the school."

Lorna sighs. "Trinity isn't the only one who needs a boyfriend."

Sofia scoffs. "I don't need a boyfriend to be happy Lorna."

She laughs. "Ouch."

Sofia opens the door only to see Bobby. "Ugh, don't worry I'm leaving—"

Bobby shakes his head. "Hilarious Sof." He walks in and tells them. "Trinity ran away."

"What!" The girls exclaim.

Bobby explains. "I ran into Mr. Cassidy and Forge—they said her powers went berserk and she left. Scott, Jean, Kurt, and Logan went to go get her—"

"Poor Trinity." Sofia sighed.

Lorna asked. "What made her powers go crazy?"

"They didn't say—I was eavesdropping—but there's more."

The girls listen closely as Bobby says. "Sabretooth is after her."

Sofia gasped as Lorna cursed.

Sofia speaks up. "Does her brother and sister know?"

Lorna asks. "Did anyone call the Professor?"

Bobby shrugged. "I have no clue—"

They suddenly hear Dom's voice: "What do mean she ran away!"

They run into the hall where they see Miss Munroe talking to Dom and Allie. Dominic looked angry and worried, and Allie looked incredibly confused and scared. Miss Munroe was busy explaining everything that happened and reassuring them Trinity would be brought back safe and sound.

"There's your answer." Bobby tells Sofia.

Leon got the call as they were driving to Salem Center from the city. He listened patiently as Sean explained the situation to him. He peers at Mansi, who was watching him closely; brow knit in concern. The silence in the backseat told him that the twins were also listening. Leon finally tells Sean. "We're almost there. Keep an eye on Dominic and Allie; make sure they don't try to run off after her. As you know, running off runs in the family." Leon enjoyed making redundant jokes to calm himself.

Sean chuckles in agreement. "You mean they get it from you?"

Leon smirks dryly. "Yeah." He had to keep a brave face—panic never does any good in these situations. "See you soon Sean, and let the kids know that I'm almost there."

"Ororo told them about what happened."

"She didn't tell them about Victor; did she?"

"No."

"Good, where's Charles?"

"He's taking the Worthington jet back here as we speak. He's not happy about what happened—"

"Can't blame him. I have a few choice words for everyone."

"Leon, it was an accident—"

"Mistakes are accidents Sean, and when it comes to the kids—we can't afford to make those mistakes. Don't worry, I won't injure anyone."

"Well that's a relief." Sean mutters. "See you soon boyo."

"See you Sean." Leon hangs up the phone and Mansi asked:

"What happened this time?"

Leon continues driving and answers. "Trinity ran away. The X-Men are handing it though; I know you guys are about to ask me a thousand questions, but hold on; I need to drive." At this he jumps from 55 to 75—speeding along back roads as his family held onto their chairs; too surprised and worried to say anything, except for Fleur who said: "Vroom-vroom!" as she played with her toy car—oblivious to the tension.

Trinity felt the van stop and opened her eyes to see they were back. Logan loads the bike out of the van as Jean helped. Kurt teleports Trinity out and as the smoke cleared, he says. "Uh-oh."

Trinity suddenly felt a presence…it was someone she knew…someone she was close to…navy blue aura with a red edge…Leon? She steps away from Kurt and sees uncle Leon standing before them. He had his lean arms crossed as he surveyed the group. His dark brown eyes were keen and grave. He holds out his arms. "What? No hug for your tio?"

Trinity limps over to him and wraps her arms around him as he picks her up.

"I missed you." She tells him.

"I missed you too Trin,"

There were shouts and Trinity sees her twin cousins, aunt Mansi carrying Fleur, and her siblings race over to her.

"Trin!" Allie tackles her into a hug. "Why'd you runaway!"

Trinity almost trips as Allie hugged her tightly, but Leon steadies her. "Careful Allie, you'll mess up the bandages."

Allie notices the bandages. "Oh my God! What happened? Are you okay?" She turns on the X-Men and snapped. "Miss Munroe said she'd be okay! What happened!"

Dominic pulls Allie off Trinity, and tells her. "Later Allie."

Kenneth embraces Trinity. "Hey cous', you okay?"

Trinity lies. "Just a scrape—I tripped on a headstone in the cemetery. God Kenny—did you go through a growth spurt?"

Kenneth laughs and picks her up to spin her around. "Yep."

Kendra complains. "Kenneth be careful with her." Kenneth puts Trinity down and Kendra gently hugs her cousin. "You really gave everyone a scare."

"I'm okay." Trinity hugs her back. She noticed Dom was glowering at her, and she felt his disappointment and sadness. Before Trinity could ask what's wrong, Kendra moved aside to let Mansi hug her niece.

Mansi gives Fleur to Kenneth to hold and she placed her hands on each side of Trinity's head. "Are you alright hon?"

"Yes tia." Trinity tells her.

Mansi kisses her forehead. "Good, now let's get you inside, and I'll cook you up a nice dinner—what're you hungry for?"

"Um—you're famous carnitas?"

Mansi grins, and takes Fleur from Kenneth and hands her to Trinity. "Fleur, this your cousin Trini."

Trinity holds Fleur; a little nervous, until she saw the baby's cheerful lavender and pink aura. The baby giggled as she played with the locket around Trinity's neck.

They all went inside, but Leon stayed outside with the X-Men. He turns to them, placed his hands on his hips, and asked. "What the hell happened?"

Scott notices Leon and remembered all the times Leon took that stance during Danger Room training, but now his brow was lined with age, he had grown an anchor goatee and thick moustache, and his head of hair was lined with a few silver hairs.

Scott tells him. "I know you're mad—"

"I'm pissed, and I just got off the phone with Meg; she's terrified. So I'm going to ask nicely; what the hell is going on around here?"

Leon listens as they explain what happened.

When Magneto was mentioned his eyes flashed, but he remained still. He raised an eyebrow at Logan. "I don't like hearing Sabretooth tried to use Trinity as bartering chip in your fights—"

Logan narrowed his eyes. "Just spit it out Leon."

Leon tells him. "Keep your shit out of here Logan."

Wolverine marches up to him; seething. "You haven't changed a bit you old smart-ass."

Leon tells them. "Meg entrusted her kids to be under my guidance—"

"You mean the Professor's—" Scott argued.

Leon glared at him. "Sit tight boy scout." Scott sighed—there's the old nickname.

Leon explains. "I can't be the nice, chill uncle with these kids—Now, I'm their protector assigned by their mother. We'll be working together to protect and teach these kids—but don't think for a minute that anyone's judgment or decisions about Trin, Dom, and Allie outranks mine. You don't like it—deal with it." He looks into Logan's eyes last.

Logan curled his lip into a scowl, which turned into a grin. "Welcome back you son-of-a-bitch." He claps Leon's shoulder and leaves.

Leon smirked at everyone else. "Don't worry, you're not the only ones I lectured today, and you won't be the last."

Jean smiled and shook her head as she hugged Leon. "Some things never change."

Leon goes over to Kurt and placed a hand on his shoulder. "How are you son?"

Kurt smirked. "I'm black and blue all over—but that's normal. It's gutt to have you back Leon."

Leon nods and goes over to Scott; holding out his hand. "No hard feelings boy scout?"

Cyclops scoffs. "No, but will you ever stop calling me that?"

Leon laughs. "Nope." He then tells him. "How is the team?"

Cyclops tells him. "Everything's going well, the new students are getting better with controlling their powers, and we have a couple new members. You know, there's still an opening for you."

Leon's face darkens. "I'm not here to be an X-Man, Scott."

Scott answers. "You were a great leader—"

"Now you're leader, there's a reason why I passed it on to you." Leon remembers his last mission as a leader…Petra and Armando. "I'm just here to teach and train."

Scott nods. "I understand, but you once told me: 'once an X-Man—"

'"Always an X-Man."' Leon sighed.

He tells him. "I'm not asking you to take my job; I'm just letting you know you're always welcome to fight on the team."

Leon thinks as he stares at the Xavier Mansion. "I hear you."

Trinity sat in the kitchen with her family and held Fleur on her lap. She shut her eyes and held the little girl close; letting the baby's happiness wrap around her like a warm blanket. She listened as her cousins and siblings talked:

Allie exclaims. "I can create huge bubble force fields—in any shape!"

"That's really cool Allie." Kenneth tells her.

Trinity opens her eyes to see Allie had created a bunch of small force field cubes, which were revolving around the room. She grinned as Kendra created a silver orb of light, and the force fields floated over to it and spun around it. Allie pulled the cubes back to herself and giggled. "How did you do that Kendra?"

Kendra smiled shyly. "Just like how you create your fields. I can also control water with my light."

Dominic raised his eyebrows. "It's like a gravitational pull."

Kendra nods. "Tio said my powers are similar to lunar properties, and Kenneth's are similar to solar energy."

Kenneth adds. "I'm the sun and Kendra is the moon."

Mansi tells them. "Go set the table twins." The twins get up and go, while Allie chases after them. "I'll help!"

Dominic is about to follow, but Trinity caught his sleeve. "Dom."

He peers down at her. "Yeah?"

Trinity could feel his hurt and anger. "I'm sorry—I left because I wanted to protect you all from my powers—I was scared."

"So were we."

"I'm sorry." Trinity tells him.

"If you really are sorry Trin, then don't do it again. Okay?" He tells her, and Trinity saw how much he looked like their dad with his brow all furrowed and eyes serious.

"Don't worry Dom, I won't."

He scrutinizes her and finally nods; feeling relieved.

Leon walks into the kitchen and says. "Trin, let's go for a walk."

Trinity could feel his grim attitude and puts Fleur in her chair and follows him out. They walk around the Institute, until they were in the library. Leon sits down at a table that held a chessboard. Trinity sits across from him. "You remember the rules?" He asked her.

Trinity sets up the board. "Yeah, uncle Hank taught Dom and me how to play. Dom's better at it though."

Leon nods. "Hank and I used to play all the time. I also played with Charles and Erik—" He stops and moves his pawn.

"Charles is the professor." She realized. "Who's Erik?" Trinity moved a pawn two spaces.

Leon shook his head. "Someone who died a long time ago."

"I'm sorry…how?"

"Magneto." He states, and the feelings of sadness, betrayal, and anger made Trinity fall silent. She'll have to ask Jean what Magneto was. She moves another pawn.

Leon responds. "That stunt you pulled today is the reason I dragged you down here."

Trinity knew there had to be a reason. She moved another pawn. "Running away?"

"Yeah. You need to understand that the Institute is the safest place for you. Running away from your problems never solves them."

She moves another pawn to make room for her bishop. "Yes sir—"

"Don't 'yes sir' me. Listen." He tells her as he moved his knight to take out a pawn. "You're mother asked me to come here to help you and your siblings. You don't understand how your actions affect them. Your instructors can teach you all they want, but it won't make a difference unless you're willing to learn. I don't want this incident to happen again Trinitia."

Trinity stares at him and answers. "I'm trying to control these powers tio…these powers scare me so much…I'm afraid I might hurt someone…and I'm afraid of other people hurting me because of my powers."

"That's a lot to be afraid of. I hear you're afraid of fire too?"

Trinity paled. "Who told you?" She moves her bishop and finishes off the knight.

"No one had to tell me. It's understandable that you would be after what happened." He moves his other bishop into a corner.

Trinity lowers her eyes and moves her rook to take out a pawn.

Leon hold out his hand. "Hold my hand."

Trinity stares at his hand and shook her head. "No." She knew how he could create fire.

Leon leans forward. "Are you afraid of me Trin?"

Trinity glowered at him. "No."

"Would I ever hurt you?"

"No."

"Then go ahead."

Trinity slowly takes his hand. Leon grasped her hand tightly. "Stay calm." His hand is suddenly surrounded with a strange orange energy, which started to cover Trinity's hand as well. It was warm as it remained over her skin and flowing and pulsing. She stopped breathing when fire started forming over his hand. She tried to pull away, but he holds onto her. "If you let go, then the energy can't protect you from the fire."

Trinity cried. "I can't do this!"

"You can." He tells her. "As long as you control your abilities as I am controlling mine."

She whimpered as the fire danced over her hand, heat tickling her skin, but Leon's energy kept her safe. She gripped his hand like a vice and tried not to scream as the fire flickered over her skin slowly. Then, the fire went out and the orange energy moved off her and onto Leon and soon disappeared. Leon lets go of her hand and she slumped back into her chair. Leon watches her and tells her gently. "You're stronger than you think." He moves his queen in front of her king. "Check."

Dinner was ready early and everyone gathered in the dining room eagerly for Mansi's cooking, except for Logan and John. Everyone acted as though Trinity's accident in the danger room never happened, and when Forge was passing her the salsa he asked. "Are we okay?"

Trinity gives him a grin. "Yeah, don't worry about it."

Forge smiled in relief and gives her the salsa. Leon was reminiscing with Sean and Ororo about the old days. Mansi was talking to Kurt, Bobby, and Lorna as Xi'an was holding Fleur on her lap and feeding her. Kenneth was listening to Hernando as Kendra was conversing with Rahne and Allie. Jean and Scott ate together in silence, but were telepathically thinking to each other through their rapport. Sofia was busy asking Master Shiro about her powers, and Dom was chatting with Amara and Sammy. Psylocke, Moira, and the Professor were still on the jet and wouldn't be at the school until an hour. Trinity turns to Forge and asked. "Forge?"

"Yeah?"

"Can I ask you something?"

"Shoot."

"What does a student have to do to become a X-Man?"

Forge almost chokes on his drink. "Say what?"

"Well, I want to know what I have to do to become a X-Man."

"You want to be a X-Man!" Forge exclaimed loudly in excitement.

The entire room went silent and Trinity sees everyone was staring at her. There were mixtures of total surprise, confusion, and concern. Trinity quickly grabs her plate and rushed out of the room.

Trinity cleaned her plate and wished Forge didn't freak out about her question—now everyone knew she wanted to be an X-Man. She could feel Logan was close…she goes into the garage. Logan was in the garage facing off with a worn-out punching bag. Trinity watched each punch he delivered with wide eyes; imagining (and remembering) the damage he could inflict on a person.

"What is it kid?" Logan grunted; continuing to punch the bag.

Trinity took a deep breath. "I came to apologize. I'm sorry about losing control and my powers possessing you—" There was a loud punch when she said this and she felt Logan's feelings of frustration. "I hope you can forgive me sir."

Logan stopped punching and held the bag still. "You're kidding me; right kid?"

"No." Trinity answered nervously.

"You screwed up that doesn't mean it's the end of the world. You're acting like you attacked me or somethin'." He starts to hit the bag again.

Trinity scoffed. "But I did attack you! And I knocked out everyone in the Danger Room—"

He peers into her eyes. "Just don't do it again. You're smart enough to learn from your mistakes."

Trinity looked down at her feet in shame.

Logan snorts. "Look, I'll forgive you when you stop moping around. Take it from someone who knows; you just need to train until you can control your emotions. Once you can control that—you're unstoppable." At this, Logan lets out his claws and slices the chain that held the punching bag. The rusted chain broke and the old punching bag fell to the ground with a loud "thump".

"Sorry—" Trinity began, but Logan gave her a glare. "I mean—I'll train harder to control my powers—goodnight—" She almost rushed back inside, but stopped. "And thank you for saving me again…" She finally leaves, and Logan watches her and finally drags the old punching bag over to the trash cans to be thrown out.

Allie helps Kendra unpack and was bouncing around the room; excited her cousin was her roommate. "Ken, we can stay up late and you can tell me ghost stories—we can play truth or dare—"

Kendra smiled as she listened to Allie. She carefully unpacks a framed photo of her parents and their friends at the Institute. She placed it on her dresser ceremoniously. She painted the frame herself, and the photo was from her tio and tia. Allie stopped talking and stared at the photo; it was of the old X-Students and they were in the library. "Aunt Marisol looks just like you, and uncle John looks like Kenneth only with brown eyes."

Kendra shook her head. "No, mama's prettier."

Allie rolled her eyes. "You're both pretty—" she sees a girl that looks like Trinity except the hair and eye color was different. "Hey…I think that's my mom." She points to a teenage girl who was sitting beside a big guy around her age with glasses.

"That's uncle Hank next to her." Kendra explains. She then points to a thin young man with thick hair sitting beside Hank. "And there's Leon."

Allie tilts her head. "He looks a little like Dom…"

Kendra giggled. "Yes," She points to a young girl with red hair sitting beside a boy with red sunglasses and messy hair. "There's Jean and Scott."

Allie sees a girl around her age with white hair. "It's Miss Munroe!"

Kendra nods. "Yep and you see that girl with the short hair and the skinny guy with the long hair next to her?"

"Is that Xi'an and Forge?" Allie suddenly recognized them. "It is!" She notices a girl with blonde hair and green eyes sitting at Leon's feet and a tall, dark guy standing next to Leon with a girl who had fly-like wings. "Who're they?"

"Oh, the tall guy is Leon's old friend Armondo Munoz and the girl next to him was his girlfriend…I think her name was Angel something. The girl sitting down is Petra."

Allie states at the photo. "Yeah…Storm told me about them." She then notices in the back of the photo there were some more people. She sees a young man with gold curls and knew it was Mr. Cassidy. She also saw a young woman with long auburn hair, obviously Moira, standing and talking to a man with thinning brown hair and familiar grey eyes. He stood tall and his hand held a chess piece he was moving. There was an old man sitting at the chess board; his dark green eyes watching and lips smiling wryly. Behind them was a teenage girl with platinum hair and striking blue eyes. Allie looks back at the grey-eyed man and gasped. "Is that Professor X?"

Kendra notices. "Yes, this picture was taken a couple months before…the accident."

"The accident?"

"Tia Mansi told me there was an accident where the Professor was paralyzed."

"Oh." Allie points to the blonde teenager. "Who's that?"

"Uh...Leon said her name was Emma Frost, but she wasn't at the school long."

Allie wonders. "Who's the old guy playing chess?"

Kendra tilts her head. "Good question, whenever I ask Leon who it is he ignores me…I don't know who he is…maybe a friend of the Professor's?"

Allie looks at the photo once more. "Yeah; probably."

Trinity turns on her computer and turns on her Skype—as soon as she did, Allison was calling her for a video chat. Trinity hesitated and finally answered. Soon she saw Allison staring at her with anxious blue eyes. "TRIN!" She squealed loudly.

Trinity jumped in surprise and smiled. "Hey Dazzler."

Allison was grinning from ear to ear and laughed. "Holy shit—I was wondering when you'd answer. I've been calling you like crazy, and Collette went to your house and no one was there. We both went to your grandparents' restaurant and found out that you guys were sent to a school in New York—Trin, what happened?"

Trinity wondered how much she should tell Allison and answered. "Well…you know my…accident at school…well…"

"You're a mutant!" Allison's face was delighted. "I knew it! I knew it!"

Trinity blinked in surprise. "You knew?"

"I mean what else could it be?" Allison then bit her lip. "There's something I have to tell—" She stops and looked off screen. "Collette! Trin is on Skype!"

Collette's face fills the screen beside Allison and she cried. "Trinity! Where have you been!"

Trinity smiled at her. "I'm in New York."

Collette gawked. "So you really are going to a new school…Allison said it's because you're a mutant. Is it true?"

Trinity stared at the screen and nodded.

Collette's eyes became sympathetic. "I see. We still love you—I mean—being mutant doesn't change anything—being a mutant isn't bad—" Collette rambled.

Trinity felt her eyes water; she was so relieved she still had Collette and Allison, and missed them. "Thank guys."

Allison nudge Collette who was started to tear up too. "So Trin, how's your new school? Are there any cute guys there?"

Trinity smirked at Allison. "There are quite a few cute guys—"

"Any single ones I'd like?" Allison asked mischiviously.

Collette peered at her. "Don't you have a boyfriend Allison?"

"That's temporary."

"He's your agent."

"That's why he's temporary." She asks Trin. "Come on tell us."

Trinity tells them. "There's a cute guy named Hernando—a huge flirt, but he's really nice."

"Aw!" Allison cooed. "You like him."

Trinity blushed. "Not like that!"

Allison laughs as Collette shook her head. "Anyone else?"

"Well…there is this one guy…he's from Australia."

"Ooh." Allison wags her eyebrows and Collette looked uncomfortable.

Trinity made sure her door was shut before continuing. "We actually went out for a walk a couple nights ago…he thinks I'm his girlfriend."

Allison asked. "What do you think though?"

Trinity bit her lip. "Well…I do like him…"

Allison cheers. "You go girl!" Someone suddenly calls her off-screen. Allison sighed and shouted. "Coming dad! Alright Trin, love ya' and I miss you—I'll call you tomorrow." She leaves.

Collette smiled at Trinity. "So what do they teach you at this school?"

Trinity thought about the mutant training, Danger Room, and advance lab work on mutant genetics. "Um…you know…the basics."

Collette nods. "I'm glad you found a school that could help you out. How're Allie and Dominic?"

"Good; they love it here."

"What about you?"

Trinity thought a moment. "I love it here…the students are nice…the teachers are great…" She thought about the trauma and her fears. "But I miss home…how's my Mami and Cara?" She wasn't able to call them today due to the chaos.

Collette tells her. "I haven't seen your mom a lot, but Cara is always at the restaurant—coloring pictures at the booth. A lot of them are of you and Dominic and Allie. She misses you."

Trinity sees the Bamf doll on her pillow and picks it up to hold. "Yeah…how's Jamie?"

Collette frowns. "He still isn't home…he called yesterday to let us know he's okay…he asked about you. He wanted me to tell you that he misses you and hopes everything is okay."

Trinity felt a lump in her throat. "I miss him too—Collette, just because I broke up with Jamie—that doesn't mean I stopped caring about him."

"Don't worry, he knows that…he just misses you a lot…" Collette gives her a small smile. "I got to go, bye Trin—"

The Skype turns off. Trinity sighs and shuts her laptop. She hugs her doll tightly, but puts him down when her phone goes off. She sees it's her mom and grimaces—well, she had to face her some time.

She answers. "Mami?"

"TRINITIA MARIE LEONARDO!" Her mom's voice breaks through hysterically. "Are you alright mija?"

"I'm fine Mami."

"You are in so much trouble—do you have any idea how worried I've been!" Her mom rants on for five more minutes and Trinity listens; happy to hear her mom's voice again. Her mom finishes and sighed. "Mija…I'm so glad you're safe. You have no idea."

Trinity smiled sadly. "I love you too Mami."

Dominic was watching the news on Sammy's laptop with Sammy. Apparently, Spiderman had struck again! The Daily Bugle said he was working beside the Green Goblin to rob a prestigious bank. But witnesses claimed Spiderman actually saved them from the Green Goblin. The Green Goblin on the screen looked like a skinny Hulk reject who wore high-tech silver and violet armor, threw round orange grenades, and rode a wicked-looking glider.

Sammy asked Dom. "So what do you think of Spiderman; friend or foe?"

Dominic replays the footage of Spiderman saving a couple of bystanders from a grenade blast. "Friend—J. Jonah is a prick."

Sammy nods as he closed the window. "Yeah, he bags on the X-Men all the time too—"

The door bursts open, and Hernando and Kenneth rush in. Hernando smiles. "Hey." He then goes over to the small bookshelf and pushes it to the right.

Sammy shuts the laptop and hops off the bed to help him.

Dominic gets up and looks at his cousin. "What's going on?"

Kenneth explains. "The Professor and the others are back and called the X-Men and Leon to his office."

"So…why are we moving the bookshelf—"

"Shh!" Hernando shushed him and whispered. "When I came here Bobby showed me this vent—" He motions to the vent they uncovered. "And it connects to the Professor's office—it's so old that it isn't used for heating the place—but it carries sound better than Banshee's voice."

Dominic sits next to Hernando as Kenneth shuts the door, and a moment later they hear a door open and people's footsteps. Soon they heard a voice echo:

"I would like to know how this incident occurred." The Professor's voice resonated through the vent.

Dominic gaped at Sammy, who put a webbed finger up for silence.

Cyclops's voice answers. "There was an accident, and I know that this isn't the best answer—"

"Yes, as you've said: 'That's putting it lightly'." The Professor sounded cross. "Trinity being able to runaway into danger is even more upsetting."

Forge speaks. "It's my fault Prof.—if I paid more attention—this wouldn't have happened."

The Professor replies sternly. "There is enough blame to go around Forge—we are fortunate that Trinity is safe and that you all made in time to save her from Sabretooth."

Sammy and Hernando's eyes widen in shock, and Dominic felt confused at looked at his cousin who was deathly pale. Dominic felt sick and wondered who Sabretooth was and heard the Professor continue:

"Jean, could you please show us what you found?"

Jean answers. "Of course."

There was a moment of silence, and a couple of audible gasps.

Ororo gasped. "Goddess…Sabretooth was on an assassination?"

"And he won't stop until the job's done." Logan's voice growled.

Dominic felt really sick now.

"Magneto sent him after her; he's not going to stop—" Leon's voice was dark and grim.

Jean interrupts. "We're not going to send a strike team to take out Magneto, Leon."

Leon snorts. "Then send one man—I volunteer."

Kenneth's jaw dropped as he mouthed: "Shit."

"You won't last a minute against him." Shiro speaks up.

"You'd be surprised." Leon tells him.

Logan answers. "I agree with Leon here; we need to take the fight to Magneto—"

"We aren't the Brotherhood Logan." Scott's voice clipped. "The X-Men aren't murderers."

Sean's voice echoes clearly; like he was in the room with the boys. "I agree, but if we don't do something—what would stop Magneto or Sabretooth from coming back here?"

"Enough." Professor Xavier commands. "Scott is right. We cannot afford to strike against Magneto—it is too dangerous. We need to protect Trinity—we need to set up better security to protect her as well as the other students. None of this should be mentioned to the students. Also, I also find the Creed business curious; I will be sure to further investigate this…" There was a pause. "Now, remember what I've said, Trinity has just come in to speak to us."

A minute later there was a knock.

"Come in Trinity." The professor called.

The door opened and there were small footsteps.

They hear Kurt ask. "How's your leg liebchen?"

Trinity answered. "Better. Moira checked it out and said I should be fine…there's something I want to tell you…you probably already know."

Miss Braddock speaks. "Don't keep us in suspense Trinity."

The boys lean in around the vent.

Trinity tells them. "I thought about it and…and I want to be an X-Man."

The room was silent, and the boys look at each other; Trinity really was serious about this.

The silence continued, and Logan broke it. "Well what do you know…"

Author: "Yays! Trinity is alive and well...wellish."

Brother: "And now she wants to b a X-Man...there goes the team."

"Haha. BTW, I was actually going to have Nightcrawler and Jean save Trin from the fall, but my awesome co-creator thought of using Scott instead."

"I thought it would be interesting to use someone you didn't suspect; I also wanted Scott to be awesome-"

"In our version; Scott is a bad-ass!"

"You're not cool enough to use that language."

"Sorryz. Yay the Lafayettes are finally there! Leon is freakin amazing...I don't why...but if I had to choose a voice actor for him...it would be Hugh Laurie..."

"Hugh Laurie's American dialect?"

"Yes."

"Ok."

"...DUN...DUN...DUH! Magneto is causing trouble, Trinity wants to be an X-Man, and the boys got more than they bargained for!"

"Did you tell them updates will be slow?"

"Yes..." Author sniffs. "My laptop crashed...my poor laptop-luckily all my stories are safe on my precious flashdrive and my awesome bro/co-creator is letting me use his laptop."

"Against my will."

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