Chapter 2- The Fight's Reward

As the bell rang for school to let out two boys dashed for the doors to freedom. As the exited to building and made their way to their rides the ran into each other. As this happened two more boys watched and realized a fight was on the way. Sure enough as soon as they recovered Pietro and Evan began yelling insults at each other. Knowing punches and powers would be used soon Scott and Freddy made their way towards the boys. While heading towards the boys Scott and Freddy crossed paths and Scott tripped over a rut in the ground and almost knocked his ruby quartz glasses off. Seeing this Freddy began to laugh as he pulled Evan away from his teammate and shoved him off toward Scott. Evan too tripped over the rut in the ground and Pietro wasted no time in heading over and laughing. By this time Scott realized that the rut was not really a rut, but an object buried in the ground. He motioned for Evan to help and eventually dug the object free.

When Pietro saw what they found he snatched it from Scott's hands and started shaking it. This began another argument, this time including Scott and Freddy. In the end the boys decided to take the box they'd found to the BoM house and use Toad's collections of lock picks to open it.

When they arrived at the house they headed upstairs and eventually pried the box open. They all leaned over and looked inside. Each one of them pulled out a smaller box, and when they opened these they found a necklace for each box and the necklaces reminded them of someone close to them.

Evan's necklace charm was a small lightning bolt on a silver chain. The charm itself was a light blue color and shined silver. It almost seemed to glow a blue-gray color. He immediately thought of his Auntie O and decided to give it to her as a thank you present for taking care of him at the Institute.

Scott's necklace charm was a small eye that looked like the sixth sense symbol. It was on a silver chain as well and was purple. It shined a blackish color and seemed to glow purple. He immediately thought of Jean and her telepathy and telekinesis. He decided to give it to her as present to show his long time love to her, but then reconsidered the matter and decided to give it to her as a friendship present.

Pietro's necklace charm was a small circular shape that looked like something flowing. It was on a silver chain and glowed a dark green. The charm shined a silverfish color and was blue-green. He thought of Rogue and her deadly power of sucking out people's life force and powers. He decided that this would be a good present to show that he wasn't mad that she left the BoM and that he cared deeply for her.

Freddy held the last charm and it reminded him of Tabby, who he thought of as his little sister. It was a small orange "explosion" and shined reddish yellow. It seemed to glow orange and unlike the rest of the charms it was on a gold chain.

As they admired their finds, the boys didn't realize that the box contained one more small box just as interesting as the first four and they dumped the box outside of Lance's room.



When Scott had taken off with Pietro, Evan, and Freddy he completely forgot that he was supposed to take some of the other members of the X-men home after school. As Kitty, Kurt, Bobby, Rahne, and Rogue stood outside looking for Scott two cars pulled up in front of them. One held Jean and Duncan and the other held Lance and Todd.

Jean wasn't sure why they were still there so she questioned them, "Why are you still here? Isn't Scott supposed to take you home?"

Rogue filled her in on the reason and Jean sighed. Duncan offered to take three of them home when he took Jean, and at the same time Lance offered Kitty a ride. With her taken care of Kurt offered up the seats in Duncan's car to the other three and asked to go with Lance. Lance thought for a minute and allowed it. As Duncan pulled out of the parking lot Lance let Kurt and Kitty know that he had to take Todd home first, but if that was a problem he'd take them home first. They didn't mind.

When Lance reached the BoM house and let off Todd he noticed Summer's car sitting there and ran inside to find out why. As he reached the top of the stairs he heard voices in Pietro's room and noticed the box outside his door. He looked inside and found the last small box. Inside was another necklace, this one different form the rest. It was a choker made of black velvet and on the front was a small diamond cat. He realized that it was a perfect gift for Kitty and completely forgot about Summers. He ran back out to his jeep and took the two X-men home.

When they arrived Kurt bamfed into the house and Lance asked Kitty to talk for a second. He showed her the necklace and asked her to be his girlfriend. Kitty was thrilled, they'd been good friends, but it wasn't really final. She accepted and he put the necklace on her. It was a perfect fit. Just as they were about to seal it with their first kiss Scott and Evan arrived home. The immediately broke things up and sent Lance home.

Then they head inside with Kitty, still not realizing the reason Lance had brought her home. No sooner than the stepped into the house than they heard Jean's angry voice.

"Scott, Evan, we need to talk to you."