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"Kurt, wait up.", Rogue called down the busy school hall.
The image turned to cover Kurt as he met her. "Oh. Hi, Rogue."
Rogue walked up and matched his slow pace. "I need to ask some brotherly advice."
Wagner frowned. "I...This is new to me."
"It's new to me too.", she countered. "On the other hand, what's the use of calling ourselves...you know. Because of Mystique. If we never/"
"No, I get it.", the boy nodded. "It's alright. Ask away."
"Ask Blue what?", Tabitha interjected as she sauntered down the hall from the other direction.
The image's smile lit up. "Just some sibling advice. I'll catch up with you later."
"Later better be sooner rather than later.", the blonde objected. "'Cause I'm feeling naughty. And if I do something naughty you're gonna hafta punish me. And you wouldn't want to do that, would you Blue?"
Rogue furrowed her brows as Tabitha sashayed off.
"Now as I was sayin'/"
"Hey, Fuzzy Elf!", Kitty exclaimed as she hugged him out of seemingly no where. "How's your day been?"
"It's going vell, fraulien.", he responded.
Rogue huffed. "Can you excuse me a moment, Kitty? Rogue and I were about to have a sibling moment."
"Like, say no more.", Pryde told him. "This cat doesn't have to mark her territory because of a sister."
The teen bounced down the hall, wagging her ponytail in time with her own beat.
"Like I was/"
Amanda pealed herself from the sea of students in the hall. Her lips wrapped around the image's ear while her teeth caught a much more pointed one. "You comin' over to help me, heh, heh, study Swashbuckler?"
Rogue frowned. "Swashbuckler?"
The image had the good grace to display a chastised expression. Kurt gently guided Amanda off of him. "I'll make vhat time I can, 'manda. I promise."
Amanda let go of his ear and patted his butt. "You better."
Rogue crossed her arms over her notebook and text. She then raised her eyebrow.
"That's the last of them.", Kurt assured her. "I think.
"What did you want?"
"I want know how to do that.", Rogue stated.
Kurt nodded.
"To Toad."
The image inducer couldn't contain the glow of his eyes for a fraction of a second.
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Lance, as usual, was pushing the tip of his finger into the lunch room table attempting to make some much felt little thought point. Pietro, as usual, was draped over Wanda's shoulder who, as usual, was playing with his snow white hair. Fred, as usual, tried to eat everyone else' meals now that they were distracted.
Todd blinked at what the girl had told him.
That was not usual at all.
Toad glanced left and right really quickly. Ignoring the faces that the Brotherhood made at him, he saw that the flatscan...er, normie...er, human...not-X-gene-positive were ignoring him. He tried to clean out an ear with the finger of one hand while reaching for a napkin with another. He quickly wiped the finger on the napkin dissolving it. He then spit an antisceptic on his hands and rubbed them clean.
"What now?", Toad replied.
Rogue took in the spectacle she had been witnessed to and decided to forge ahead anyway.
"Would you like to go to the mall with me on Saturday?", Rogue repeated.
Todd turned back to his team. Blank stares and the occasional blink met him.
"What's in it for me?", he demanded.
Pietro's hand didn't seem to leave Wanda despite slapping the back of his head.
"I mean, really?", Todd adapted.
"I can do this all day, Toad.", Pietro warned.
"I mean, sure, I'd love to, walk you from the mansion?", Todd offered.
Lance finally found the where with all to speak. "You serious about this Rogue?"
Rogue set her shoulders and nodded firmly.
Lance sat back in his chair and slumped his shoulders in defeat. "Then he won't walk, he'll drive."
Rogue nodded again. Then she made her way back to X-Men clique space.
Toad contemplated this turn of events. It was as if he was forgetting something but could not figure out what.
The others leaned in conspiratorially. "Now that we have an in, we need to...