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The next morning, Virginia and LoAna were sleeping in their room.
Waking up, Virginia sat up and looked at the clock.
"Come on, Lo," she said waking LoAna, "Time to get up."
"Five more minutes?" LoAna mumbled pulling her pillow over her head.
"You have to, it's already noon. Kieran you too…" Virginia began, but stopped when she glanced over at Kieran's empty, fully made bed.
"LoAna, did you hear Kieran come to bed last night?" Virginia asked.
LoAna threw the pillow off her face and sat up rubbing her eyes.
"Nope, why?" she answered.
"I don't think she came to bed last night," Virginia replied.
She got out of bed and walked to the door.
"Come on, LoAna, why don't you go see Jamie or something," she said.
"No, I'll stay with you," LoAna looked shyly at the ground.
"Why? You always want to go see him and the other New Mutants, so go," Virginia said.
"I ca…can't," she studdered standing up next to her bed.
"What did you do?" Virginia asked suspiciously.
"Nothing, I…I did something…Don't yell, please. I got my punishment enough," LoAna begged.
"What happened?"
"The…the New Mutants were treating me differently last night because of Logan being my daddy and they weren't liking me..." she began.
"LoAna, it doesn't matter who likes you or not. If they don't like you, then it's their problem, not yours," Virginia stated.
"To get them to like me, I told them stuff. I let them ask me something about the future, but I made sure it wasn't much. Nothing that could change it," LoAna said, "Are you upset?"
"Yes, but I can get over it. I told you not to, but..." she sighed, "as long as nothing will change."
"It won't," she assured her, "...but now they like me again." She smiled.
"Then just go play with them now, I have to do something," Virignia instructed.
"I can't,"
"Why not? I told you it was okay,"
"That's not the reason I don't want to go play," LoAna said, "It's Jamie and what I told him or didn't tell him...Virginia I really like him."
Virginia sighed.
"Lo, you know it can't work," she said.
"But if we're never going back to our time, it could work. I'm only a year younger here,"
"That's not why it won't work and you know it," she gave her a warning look.
"Is it that big of a change if it doesn't happen?" she asked.
"I'm not gonna tell you what you should or shouldn't think or tell him, but just think of one thing," Virginia said as she walked out the door, "You're not only changing his life, you're changing hers, too."
Virginia closed the door behind herself. LoAna stared at the closed door and sighed.
Julien and Nick were asleep in their beds. The door opened and Virginia walked in, waking them up.
"Wha?" Julien asked sitting up in his bed, "Can't a guy get some sleep round 'ere."
"Have you seen Kieran since she ran off yesterday?" Virginia asked.
"Nah," Julien said laying back down, "ba tat's prob'ly cause ah was sleepin."
"You?" she turned towards Nick.
"No," he answered, not moving from under his covers, "Why? She's gone?"
"She didn't come to bed last night," she said, "And she was in a really bad mood yesterday."
Nick sat up and smirked at Julien, "Not to mention that she wouldn't like be the first of us to disappear."
"Shut up," Julien replied, throwing a pillow at him.
"I don't think she was kidnapped," Virginia said, "I think she ran away."
"She would," Nick nodded, "Either that or conquer the world and kill us all. She already stranded us in the past."
"That wasn't her fault," Virginia hissed.
" 't wouldn't ba de firs' time someone in 'er famly went nuts," Julien said.
Virginia sighed.
"Can you guys be some help?" she asked.
"It's too early to be help," Nick layed back down.
"Listen, we ain't seen 'er, ba we sorry we can't help. Ya gonna go look for 'er?" Julien asked.
"I don't know, I've already tried sensing her, but she's not in the mansion," she looked at the two boys and shook her head, "And since you two are so helpful, I'm gonna go try Cerebro."
"Goo'd luck," Julien smirked.
Virginia rolled her eyes and walked out the door, "You're so useless."
Professor X was in Cerebro scanning for mutant activity.
Virginia walked in.
"Hello?" she asked.
"Virginia, what brings you here?" Professor X turned towards her.
"I wanted to ask you something?" she walked towards the machine.
"Okay," he replied. He looked back at the screen, "May I first ask you a question?"
"Okay," Virginia replied.
"Is the mutant population as growing in the future?" he asked, "With this growth rate it would seem that it would take over humanity."
"It…it slows a lot in the future," Virginia answered biting her tongue, "Um, can I ask you for a favor?"
"Sure," he nodded.
"Can I use Cerebro?"
"May I ask why?"
Virginia looked him in the eyes.
"Kieran's not here," she said.
"You think she's been kidnapped?" Professor X asked.
"Not exactly, you see if there's one thing I know about Kieran, it's that the only way she gets taken is if she wants to be," Virginia said.
"So she's run away?" he asked.
"Possibly," she answered, "So can I look for her?"
"Be my guest. You know how to use it?"
"Used it plenty in the future,"
Professor X moved aside and let Virginia put on the headgear and use it.
"Come on, Kieran, where are you?" she thought using Cerebro, "Where are you at…Come on, be in radar…There."
"I found her," she announced. She looked at the machine, "That's odd."
"Where is she?" Professor X asked.
"The middle of nowhere," Virginia declared, "Far away from here."
"Let me see," Professor X said taking a look at Cerebro. His eyes went wide, "That's can't be, that's Magneto's base."
Virginia smacked her palm to her forehead, "Kieran!" she mumbled.
"Virginia, I believe we best go get her," Professor X stated.
"Yeah, yeah, I know. I'll go tell my team," she said and walked out Cerebro.
Kieran was on the floor in a cell. She was standing up and banging on the cell's door.
"Let me out!" she yelled.
"Can't do dat, pet'ite," Gambit said from the chair on the other side of the cell bars, "Mags says ya got ta stay in dere, shame really. Don't ya think?"
"Let me talk to him, I can explain everything if I can talk to him," she begged.
"Explain?" Gambit asked, "Wha's ta explain? Ah don't even know, ba 'e wants ya a lot. Remy'd lose 'is job if 'e did ya a favor."
"Just go get him. Tell him I'll do whatever he says, just I need to talk to him. Now!"
Gambit shook his head and shuffled the cards in his hand.
"Like father like son," Kieran mumbled aggravatingly.
"Huh?" Gambit, raised an eyebrow.
"Nothing," she shook her head and leaned back against the cell door. She slid to the floor.
"Magneto!" she screamed, "Get your lazy butt in here, Erik Lehnsherr!"
A metal door opened and Magneto walked in angrily. He stared at Kieran.
"Finally," Kieran huffed.
"If I were you, I wouldn't be so happy to see me," Magneto said.
"Trust me, you don't scare me," she said.
"I should," Magneto grinned sinisterly.
"Funny," she said sarcastically, "Can I go?"
"Why would I let you go?" he asked.
Kieran stood up and looked him in the eyes and said, "Cause you don't really need me and you'll be nice and just let me go on my merrily way." Kieran smiled, "I'm not an idiot, just let me out of here and we can talk."
Magneto raised an eyebrow at her.
"Pet'ite's a crazy," Gambit said shuffling his cards again.
"Will you stop that!" Kieran yelled.
Gambit smirked and kept on shuffling.
"I promise I won't escape, Magnus," Kieran said, "besides I need you to help me with something that only you have."
Magneto gave her a strange look.
"Why would I help you when I gave the orders for your kidnapping?" he asked.
"Cause I can help you out. I could help you defeat the X-men or even get let's say…Genosha off the ground," Kieran said, "Yeah I know how to do it?"
"Why would you help me?" Magneto asked.
"Let's just say that one day you'll return the favor and I really am sick of the X-men and their assumptions about people, like what they think of you," Kieran said, "So is it a deal?"
Magneto stared at her. He moved his hand and the metal bars opened.
"Watch her," he told Gambit.
Gambit nodded.
Kieran walked out the cell.
"What is it that you want in return?" Magneto asked.
"The mutant advancing machine," Kieran said bluntly.
"I don't have it," Magneto said, "It was destroyed a while ago."
Kieran stared him down.
"I know you still have the machine," she said, "you salvaged it. I want access."
"Let's say I do have it. What use would it be to you?" he asked, "You want to get bluer?"
"That's just a physical mutant attribute. It's kind of inheritant. My real power's ten times the fold. I am stronger than you could imagine with it, but I can't use it without damaging myself. I want you to increase my level's so that I can access it without it killing me or even having any effect on my body," she said, "Can you do that?"
"We'll see," Magneto said, "Come along."
Kieran smiled sinisterly.
